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THE EVENING WORLD, MO NDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922, ~TIRER” LUNCHES |‘‘The Tiger of France’? Pen-Portrayed on His New York Visit; WITH JOURNALISTS AS WORLD'S GUEST Ralph Pulitzer Host to Cle- menceau and Newspaper and Magazine Men. RISES {hom WORK AT 5. Doctor Pronounce es Him “Man of Fifty” After Physical Examination. Georges Clemenceau, Frances" and one “The Tiger of of the most distin- guished statesmen of his country, was the guest this afternoon at a luncheon given by the New York World at the “ t = Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Ralph Pulitzer, tha laeed HOM hag only woute President of the Press Publishing i . Company, was host at the luncheon. Gathered about Clemenceau were “The Maharajah invited me to hunt the tiger, but it is the anar- chists who hunted the Tiger.’ Clemenceau’s Wit, Courage and Fixity of Purpose Described| “While clothes are so expen- sive Iam not going to indulge in a new coat just because a foor shot a few holes in my old one." “Tt will be harder to win peace than to win the war." “It is the country that can en- dure the last quarter of an hour that wins."* am a doctor, but not lucky, I always missed my, patients. many of the most prominent figures of the newspaper and magazine world. Though Clemenceau had been up and doing since 5 o'clock this morn- ing, had written five letters to Frane visited a physician and paid another visit before going to the Juncheon, he appeared at the hotel as bright and vigorous as if he had idled away the hard-boiled eggs and bread. th less Frenchman went to the G library and sat himself to the task of preparing the speech he is to deliver at the Metropolitan Opera House to- morrow night. Aiding him in this ing data for work by collect- the address are Col. E. entire forenoon, The capacity of] M. House, Frank L. Polk and Col Clemenceau for physical and mental] Stephen Bonsal, who have volunteered exertion is proverbial in France. He] their services. Melville E, Stone of is eighty-one years old, but, as his|the Associated Press also has pro physician said this afternoon, he has] Yided Clemenceau with certain pollti- the heartiness of a man of fif eal information which he desired, When Clemenceau arrived at the] Already the American women seems Ritz, there was quite <2 gathering of|to have made a marked impression persons fn the hotel lobby. Among|upon the distinguished visitor. He them was Mlle. Cecile Sorel, noted] spoke of them this morning, saying French actress. As soon as Ciemen-| to Col. Honsal: ceau was near enough to her she “I've been thinking that American vanced and threw botl neck and gave him rms about his a most affection- betutiful than here fifty s At that time I didn't think there women were are more when I was ye: ate kiss. ago. Clemenceau was taken a bit aback]eould ever be any improvement on by the unexpectedness of this. ‘‘I} their beauty.” didn't know you lived here,’ he ex Whitney Warren, the architect claimed. “If I thought I'd get a re-| was among the carly morning visitors veption like this I'd call on you every] who called to pay respects to the day.”" former Premier With this slight interruption of his} Mr, Warren presented to Clemen progress, Clemenceau was then es-|ceau a French flag, which was hur corted to an elevator dining room and taken fo the reserved for luncheon from an upper window of the Gibson home, ping over the hooded en ‘There had already gathered the news- | trance to the house. The visit of Mr paper and magazihe representatives. | Warren lasted about half an hour Melville E. Stone and Frederic ented oy and upon leaving the house he sai Martin repre: the ociated that Clemenceau. had spoken of his Press; Adopih Ochs, Carr V. Van] mission-as ‘something to say to th Anda, Rollo Ogden, Dr. John H. Fin-| American people.’ The architect ey and Louis Wiley, the Times;}added that he had spoken to the Frank A. Munse: P. Mitehcll.| statesmen as looking “very young.” Ervin Wardman and Keats Speed, the] to which "The Tiger’ replied, “Well New York Herald, the Sun and the] you're nothing but a cub,’ though Fvening Telegram; Arthur Brisbane} Mr, Warren is about sixty years 01) and Bradford Merrill, the Evening at the Gibson home nother visitor was a newspap' Journal and the New York American; man on the staff of ee ee SE ce La Presse, a Montreal publication, a Simeon Strunsky, tt 3yenin:. | Who came with an official invitation Post: Charles Irwin, the ( H. _| to Clemenceau to visit Canada the Wright, the Glo! H. L. Stoddart, | suest of its newspapers, Clemenceau the Evening Ma W. W. Hawkins, | declined the invitation with much re- the United P: and F. Guego, th gret “LT have my time so mapped Courier des Etats-Unis. out,” he explain “that it will be W. E. Lewis, the Morning Tele-| absplutely impossible for me to go to graph; Loring Pickering, (. BE. L.|¢ ja. I cannot go beyond the lim Wingate an dRobert MeLean. the | its of my prearranged program, which North Amreican Newspaper Alliance; | is going to be hard for me to follow, Mr. Pulitzer, Frank I. Cobb, Herbert | though I have determined to follow it Bayard Swope, John O'Hara Co: ave, | to the | t detail.” Walter Lippmann, John esna I i; nevis Le Clerq of Morris jan, John H, Tennant and H Pol-] town, N. J.. an old friend of the for lard, The World and The Evening|mer Premier, visited Rim this fore World; Norman Hapgo Hearst's | noon for a brief time. When the vis.- International; E. 8. Martin, Harper's|tor inquired about —Clemencean's Magazine; John M. Siddall, American | health \t provoked an explosive Magazine; Ray Long, Cosmopolitan] from “The Tiger Magazine; Glenn Frank, the Century;| “Don't talk to me about health and Oswald G. Villard, the Nation; Charles} medicine.” he said. “If you do Vl Dena Gibson, Lif nd R. J. Cud-]| shoot yo dihy, Literary Dig Two traffic patrolmen were detailed The inexhs Ne ener Goorzen|to the front of the Gibson hom: Clemenceau, ch got him out of tly before noon and these merely bed this morning in time for a 6 to it that the curious persons v'clock breakfast at the home 0] Who passed afdot or in motor cars dil Charles Dana Gibson, is a matter of | not tarry too long. There was a police unending amazement to thoge in his} Sergeant on duty In the house. entourage. The years jhat have Accompanied by Dr, Le Clereq and frosted the hair of the venerable] Col. Bonsal, Clemenceau left the Gib- French statesman seem to have left]son home a little after 11 o'clock and lis vigor quite untouched, Those in] was driven to the offve of Dr. Fred courteous attendance upon — him [erick M. Allen, diabetes specialist, No duying his visit to this city ave in a[660 Park Avenue. Both Dr. Le air way to be worn out det Clerea, also a specialist in this dis Clemenceau's breath even | tole and Dr, Allen are warm p: quicken sonal friends and the purpose of the When Clemenceau’s room was en-]trip was to have Dr. Allen make tered at 5 o'clock this morning by his| thorough physical examination of the valet, Albert, who once saved Y master’s life, he found Tiger Although the former Premier has busy writing letters, Five com-|been suffering from diabetes for a pleted and started on their way to number of years, the visit to the doc- France before bre st tor’s offi it was explained, had no After a breakfast’ of onion soup, special significance in regard ta that PANTOMIME Man With a ‘Life Mission To Prove His Devotion to His Own Beloved France Revealed as One With a Fighting Chin and a Tongue as Sharp and Skin-Penetrating as Any Rapier— obody Who Stands in Way of Caustic, but Spares His Critical Shafts—A True Patriot. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. oiing IE YEARS G7) and looking sixty; a stocky, sturdy fig- ure of moderate height, with an X hi any hair, vy white penthouse of his brows: but an extra-size white mustache; cheeks firm, but ceep -ray glance from unger the a fla, Japanese nose; hardly par- enthetical creases cut from nose to lips and a criss-cross of small wrinkles around the eyes; tudinal lines that are the h: in the broad forehead those quiz: adwriting often left by the ye cal longi- rs, during which the heavy brows below lifted in morda:* irony and scepticism; the fighter’s chin and Jaw—thet his word for {t—fifty-seven years. He looks the brave, bitter, quarter - given - or - asked soldier that he is, There are not many of the softer qualities perceptible in that face, but th e cour- age, stubborn fixity of purpose, a keen intelligence, a wicked wit, a great strength of offense and de- fense, Somebody has described Georges Clemenceau as an old man who | no illusions, but who loves France, He comes to us as a friend,’ we welcome him as a friend—yet the keynote of no- his first utterance is militant and military he defense of his country “je fais la guerre” gain he makes war of France, The stories told of Clemenceau Again Clemen —in defen: is us are many, and the best of them Mlustrate his particularly Gallic sense of humor—a humor not marked by tender consideration for the feclings of others, or by reverence. Neverthetes: it is a delight to the sophisticated mind. Clemenceau's tongue often seems to have been touched with lunar caustic. There is, for example, his swift comment on Former President Wilson's ‘Fourteen Points," when these first were made public “Mourteen points!"’ barked Cle menceau. ‘That's too many. The good Lord has only ten.'* He still jecring at the Famous Fourteen when he went to Egypt for his vacation, after the termination of the Pea Conference. “T have fourteen different mal- adies,"" he told the correspond- iiment or to his present condition Members of the party said Dr, Allen examined lis distinguished visit thoroughly and declared his present condition was that of a man of fifty While in Dr. Allen's office they took a samjle of blood for future examination © the physician's office he was vis ted by Miss Anne Morgan and Mrs \. M. Dyke, representing the Ameri- can Committee for the Restoration of Devastated France. When the party left the house for the doctor's office istaking Miss Morgan's car for th Gibson automobile, the ‘Tiger’ and a escort entered just as Miss Morgan came out of th ise to leek hed own conveyance ie Frenchman soon discgvered his mistake and told F 1 he wanted to leave the automobile and give it to Miss Morgan. This attempt was de feated by her, she refusing to allow the tiger to leave his seut Mt what are we going to do with the ladies?" Clemenceau asked “Oh never mind the ladies,’ replied Miss Morgan, "We'll take a taxi ome."" “But if you take a taxi,"' said the tiger "I insist on paying for it Later this afternoon Clemenceau will attend a reception of the Franco- American Society. The 106th Infantry will be reviewed by Clemenceau at 2.45 o'clock Wednes- day afternoon in its armory in Brook- lyn, He will attend there a luncheon to which 450 prominent residents of the borough have been invited, School children to the number of about 300,- 000 will line the streets from Manhat- tan Bridge to the armory, according to the reception plans as now ar- ranged is Georges Clemenc France, as New York sees him to-day for the first time in uu, Tiger of —we have ents, “just as Wilson had four- teen points. One malady, ~ me point. Everybody has what he can!"* It was a well known fact that, during the Peace Conferenc Clemenceau was not, to put it conservatively, as ardent an ad- vocate of the League of Nations as President Wilson. To flus- trate his state of mina, the fol- lowing story was told:s ery morning Paris de. clared, “before he gets out hed, the Premier repeats to him- self twenty times the formu? you DO i: ‘Georges Clemenceau, lieve in the Le > of Nations! Another even naughtier tale is reported by Col. Revington in ui First World V The French capital, he writes, wis convulsed by the report t Clemenceau said he found goat diMeulty in conducting peace n gotiations, when, of two impsr- tant delegates, one thought he s Napoleon, while the otner considered he was Christ. This story, of course, may ,be purely hypothetical After the conference, on the way to Cairo, Clemenceau seid that he was going to look rubber, and “my doctor—he | going to chase crocodiles. I shall love to watch him, It will mind me of what I had to do the Peace Conferen: As all the world knows young man attempted to ass nate the French Premier dt the meetings of the Peace ference, although he was meicl wounded a# a consequences He took this occurrence with 2; tomary vo! humor Maharajah of Biken' * he d shortly a ceiving his wound, “invited me hunt the tiger in his countr Well, it is the anarchists who have hunted the tiger, but Ul missed him,” And he continued to wea clothes pierced by bullet which he had on when his w be murderer, Emile Cottin, st him down “While clothes are 6o expens Iam not g luxury of a xing to indulge in new overcoat jur cause a fool shot a few holes in my old coat,” he is reported to have said He was made Prime Minis 1917, and to him credit belongs f checking the defeatist mover which might have lost the war f the Allies, He himself spent mu time in the trenches, amon poilus, risking his life hund of times and then rushing bac Paris to hearten the It was then that most famous phrase guerre’’—"'I make war Governin But one of his finest, simp and unquestionably most n nrases was uttered wher Chamber of Deputies hailed as the “Father of Victory.” Then replied the man without illusions but who loves France “What I hax is F that has done it. I hay made the best use L could « instruments France has * me Vive Clemenceau, Tiger—o? France FIRES ENDANGER 39 FAMILIES | TENEMENT HOUSES Police Looking for Incendiary in Two Suspicious Morning Blaz Two tenement this at No. the Street, tarted under cireumstances that the the neighborhood for fires early 170 West Hous- other No, 228 so much alik suspi- police morning ton Street, Bleecker and cious one at we were such are searching an incendiary The first blaze was in the Houston Street tenement, a six-story building housing twenty-four families. A milk- man passing at 3 o'clock in the morn- ing saw smoke coming from the front door. He went in and found a pile of rubbish burning behind the stairs. If the discovery had been delayed a few the flames probably would the and minutes hgve swept up stairway efcape would have been difficult. The milkman calle’ Patroiman Finn of the Charles Street Station, the he alarm, whil policeman roused the occupants. then turned in the fire was quickly and the dan was slight Two hours later Patrolman Crocker of the Charles Street Station discov put out, however, ered an almost exactly similar fire back of the s in the Bleecker Street tenement, a smaller building housing fifteen families, Here also prompt work prevented serious dam- he Houston Street building i owned by Sarah Barnett, 328 West Ninth Street, the other tene- ment by John Di Martini GINO ¢ XICO CIT D jated Press).—Col, Regino Goi pnd command to Juan Carrasco, who wa rerently Killed in battle, was found eullty of rebellion by # eSurt-martial at vzatlan, and executed last night Gonzales was captured several days oat Acap Durango. Death Denied to Deformed Baby; Doctors Deaf to Father’s Pleas “May Be Genius,” They Tell Parent of Legless and Arm- less Girl, “So We Can’t Act.” CHICAGO, Nov. 20-—A father’s plea tnat his two-day-old deformed baby girl be scientifically put to death was overruled by physicians to- day. The child, James C surgeons, normal mentally, has neither arms nor leg Lebrasca, begged that she “be allowed not to live, The father, according to The case of Baby Bollinger, scien-@ tifleally allowed to die seven yoars)appeal ago after the late Dr. Har Haisel “The child's brain is norn it may = become a mental genlue—we have no Jen, attending physician, refused to Pell deste at ight to cause its death," he said. perform an operation, Baby Lebrasea was born Saturday Dr, Benjamin H, Breakstone, attend- ing physician ‘ter @ consultation with his colleagues, Drs, Mandel and Brownstein, ruled against the father's was recalled the bea The deciding point is wheth child, if permitted to live, will burden on the community. “Society should be required to step in and care for such a baby, attend to its wants and educate it." Hattie Dies in Elephant House As Little Girl Playmate Cries Al Smith First of Thousands Inquiring to Learn Pet of Zoo Has Gone. ‘The death of Hattie, the much-petted Indian elephant of the Central Park Zoo, has brought unhappiness to thousands of persons who made as- siduous inquiries as to her condition during the last days of her life. It became known to-day that Governor-elect Al Smith was among those who called at the Zoo yesterday to ask about her Though she died on Saturday afternoon, news of her death was not given to those who made the pilgramage to the elephant house by thou- sands yesterday, until Al Smith came along. Then Head Keeper James Coyle whispered the sad tidings into Al's ear, It was not until thts morn- ing that the elephant's death was generally known Hattie died of azoturia, according? o to Dr. Harry Nimphius, the veter 2 t iu the yard of the elephant house and inarian who attended her du ie her : for a week lay there, covered with illness, making two calls a day on canvas and hay and as comfortable her, The disease took the form of a 4 a 9 as Coyle could make her Last Fri- paralysis of Hattie’s hind legs and . day it was determined to take her was due, Dr. Numphius said, to to0lints the house so sho might be made heavy eating and lack of exercise mI babe angle warmer. A derrick and chains were Arrangements were made to-day for Didn’t Know English, Pleaded mounting the great body so that skin he, pasary, 40 (gether up ang carry and skeleton might be given to the °" 1 American Museum Natural Mis AW during her illness, her next- tory. In fis hall already are the|400r neighbor, Jewel, was convinced mounted bodies and bony structures] that something was wrong and at in- of Jumbo and Tip, both noted ele.| tervals throughout the day thrust « phatite inctheik AAs trunk into Hattte’s cage in an effort The last illness of Hattio began on}? "nd her. Sho kept the trunk there Friday a week ago. Sho collapsed in| Most of Friday and Saturday last. Now, Coyle #a owel knows that Hattie has gone and is wretchedly downacst about it Coyle said to-day that at least 5,000 persons asked yesterday about 66 99 Hattie and a large number who did uilty”’; pen ‘ear's Bd Cedp fest vise te oo" nants ination by elophone ents One of those with Hattie when she 8 jnawail ; . <p, . [died was Frances Rogers, No. 12 Innocent, but Unaware How to Say So, Prisoner, | Wen “Loo street, « thirieen-year- Sent Back to Prison, Claims. old girl, who is known as tho god- cc is mother of the Zoo, She spends part So you took the plea of guilty because you didn't know the meaning] of every day at the Zoo and wan one of the word?” “Yes sir,” Frank Cappello told County Judge Bleakley in| ©! Hattie’s closest friends, She was White Plains to-day : with Hatt for two hours before the Frank said that in 1911 he had only Stepan eed) ea Ste ae aa ) seant knowledge of English and 8 rather handicapped him when be s thrown into jail charged with at king and shooting a young 1 lrank said all the prisoners around min county jail advised him say “Guilty’ when he was led be & man who sat upon # high 1 d Frank, “aod ow I go to take « ride and back another jail. There 1 Then 1 get picked ui Judge he send me to anc Th time Frank said he v 1 he penitel ary for one year for having 1 gun 1 swear L no have con tinued Frank ‘and T Ko to }; Nic place and after while I outside Limeby Santa Claus ome: nd 1 wet blue 1 no see much of America n jail most since L land from old untry, so go on little walk 1 walk er two miles and then build fire nm come from jail and | no run ay I stand there like a mar 1 was going to walk back anywa “You were a good walke re marked Judge Bleakley ver time ou have been sent away it was be- u ere innocent I swear to God I no touch girl and no have gun," Frank sobbed. Frank «led back to the penitentiary where ho will serve an additiona! ix months for taking the ‘“innocen! wailk’’ lw Christmas, N. Y. U. STUDENTS ROBBED AS THEY SLEEP; THIEF CAUGHT, FORAYS ENDED Belleve Arrent of Neuro Will Stop Hight Bur wlarte Several recent burglarie the Highbridge section of the Bronx are believed to have been cleared up b the arrest at 3 o'clock this morning of Jack Butler, twenty, a Negro, of No. 470 Lenox Avenue, at Burn and Harrison Avenues, the Bronx while he was carrying a suitcase in one hand and an overe: n the other. In his pockets were found quantity of jewelry and $150 money As the result of a burgiarly last night, a dozen students pf New York University were in Morfisania Court this morning Identifying property which had been stolen from them while they slepts The clothing and the jewelry found in Butler's po: session belonged to them and the $159 comprised the fund of the soccer team Butler gave a convincing demo stration of outraged dignity when ar rested by Policemair Highbridge Station, b changed front. Magistrate McQuade Welss, of the held him in $5,000 ball on a short Tea amMdavit charging burglary and then $5,000 more on an adiliiionn! charg of burglary, — Half of Twenty Are Women, Most of _ Whom Faint. 4," TRAFFIC IS BLOCKED. Cries of Injured and Screams of Panic-Stricken Draw Huge Crowd. One man fs dying, several women were treated for shock, « panic w narrowly averted and trolley services to Manhattan over Brooklyn Bridge was tied up for about forty minutes shortly after 9 o'clock this morning when a Graham Avenue trolley car leaped the tracks on the incline about 100 feet from the Brooklyn approach to the bridge and crashed into the iron work. Reserves had to be called from the Poplar Street Station to take care of the crowds resulting from the acci- dent. Block tickets were issued and thousands of Brooklynites were trans- ferred to the elevated lines to com- plete their trip to Manhattan, The rear trucks of the car Jumped the tracks at a switch and the ro- sultant crash broke nearly every win - dow In the car and pinioned Hermyn Jacobs,’ thirty, of No. 3615 16th Ave- nue, Brooklyn, between the gate ard the rear of tha oar on the rear plat- form. Policeman McKeever of Bridge Precinct No. 8, hearing the crash and the cries of women, rushed to the scene and extricated Jacobs, aftur which he summoned an ambulance from Cumberland Street Hospital. There were twenty passengers ort the car, about half of them women, and several of the latter fainted. Some few were scratched by flying glass. Jacobs was found to have sustained concussion of the brain and internal injuries. It was said he will dies —— WOMAN BURGLAR GETS 10-YEAR TERM FLAYED BY COURT “You Richly Deserve Heavi- est Penalty,” Judge Tells Mrs. Katherine Flynn. In a severe tenced Mrs. lecture when he sen« Katherine Flynn, forty< two years old, of No, 125 West 85th Street, Manhattan, to Auburn Prison. for ten years on a grand larceny, charge, County Judge J. Gratton Me- Mahon in Brooklyn told her that ‘it was a merciful Providence that did not allow her to have children,” “Although you are a woman,” said the Judge, ‘you have shown yourself a cool, hardened, cruel criminal. I was a merciful providence that did not allow you to have children, for they would have started life under » terrible handicap. But your sins, ap- parently a matter of no concern t you, have fallen on the shoulders of your excellent family. You richly de serve the heaviest penalty the law In your case will allow, and to my mind the punishment does not fit your crimes, elther in themselves or in the pain they Rave indirectly forced upon , those for whose sake, at least, you should have remained regpectable.”’ Although only one indictment was returned against Mra. Flynn, the po- lice said that she has committed more than fifty burglaries and thefts. Sh» was convicted of stealing two diamond rings from Mra, Mary Breen of No. 6806 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. She wns arrested by means of her photograpl obtained by the police when she was sent to the Bedford Reformatory in 1907 S + OL ais