The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27
TOUR MID
J; TEARS AND GOOD LUCK.
Women and Fortune Attended Him Over
s All America. and He Carried
Away $4,000 - His
Plans for Summer.

M N II close OF his recent Ameri-
A\A\N can tour, sailed on the
AY\v Oceanic from New York,
he left a shore that had
been hospitable to the ex-
tent OF possible s2so.oo0 and he rode on
salt sea waves swollen with feminine
tears. Still the grief did not assume the
appalling proportions of the grief Of
yester-year. The women have learned
that there is always a probability OF the
loved ones return. Some OF them have
even developed robust suspicion that
there are others. This is Paderewski's
fourth American tour, and feminine
alteration rarely burns brightly upon one
altar for nine years. Add to the loss Of
wealth the taking of wife. and the
fact that the Polish pianist maintains his
ascendency in the feminine heart seems
little short OF a miracle.
y Heroic Rescue From Feminine Admirers.
This last tour has been marked by the
same success that attended the other
three, and the stageward charge of the
women at the end OF a Paderewsk pro-
gramme has lost none Of its fervor and
force. In Detroit. so the story goes. the
pianist was saved from perlshing in the
Wild stampede only by the heroic efforts
OF Hugo Gorlitz. whose many duties
Include that OF rescuing the genius when
too hard pressed. When Paderewski finds
that, singehanded and alone. he cannot
repulse the onslaught. he presumably
shouts for help, and the brave Goriitz,
throwing caution and fear TO the winds.
plunges into the crowd and fights his way
10 his friends side at risk Of life and
limb. No mere man OF brains could sue
cessfully conduct Paderewski tour.
One must have both brains and Drawn
for the task
II anywhere in the country there was
less enthusiasm over the pianist than
formerly. California was the place: and
even there, with the single exception Of
Sacramento the towns included In the
tour fulfilled financial expectations,
Paderewski ard his party travelled in a
private car, and only once during the trip
forsook the car for a hotel Nine. Pader-
ewskf accompanied him, and amiably in
sists that she has found America charm
Ing. She certainly has had an opportu-
nifty of forming an opinion; for the tour
has pretty well covered the United States
from New York to San Francisco and
from Seattle to New Orleans.
rsoverbial Good Fortune Does Not Desert Him.
From first TO last. the pIanist's proven
bal good luck stayed with him. His
managers have always said that Pader-
ewski's guardian angel was the busiest
" u. i,
railway trains. all uncertain quantities,
have been well regulated. and on this
trip he has not met even the mi dsst ms
hap. though disaster followed close upon
his heels. He has gone rushing over the
continent with ruin and wrath In his
wake: but Ill luck neven overlook him.
He went to Tacomr by an earlier train
than the one planned The train OF the
original plan was hele up by robbers and
-
seems almost a pity that fate interviewed
would have been so fine for journalist:
illustration. Genius, with It's aureola
standing on end. facing a masked and
muffied rufhan whose pistol presses
against the pale and noble brow. How
evcr romance was sacrificed to the good
luck OF the genius Paderewski left Austin.
Tex. barely In time to escape the hood
His visit TO San Antonio was followed by
And 20 the story goes. supersti-
tiosN persons might be tempted to believe
that there's a touch OF the jettatnra about
but the chances are that he
carries a rabbits foot. Perhaps the fact
that disaster has been dogging his steps
and clutching vainly at him accounts for
the fact that he IL trihe thin and worn.
Under the circumstances 1t Is odd that he
dared wear his hair at its usual length.
Overwhelmed BY Autograph Fierds
In every town visited autograph fiends
and Polish populations besieged the artist.
and invitations showered upon him Pad
erewski IL courteous on the autograph sub
tcct but without abandoning his profession
nc couldn't have time to satisfy all the
demands One autograph episode has as
sumed tragic character just before
leaving New York the pianist received an
autograph book with u name In It, Through
mistake the album was not returned but
was left, under lock and key with other
Last week the owners lawyer
notified the artist that II the bcos was not
returned within twenty-fou hours he would
begin legal proceedings. Assuming that
the threat would move even the artistic
TO hasty restitution. he In
closed 70 cents for, messenger service
I. 3usy With Musicales and Fish Ponds.
After his farewell recitals In New York
and Newark Paderewski has gone TO En-
gland where he win investigate the subject
cs fsh culture with view to stocking the
FISH ponds on his new Polish estate. and
viii play NJ the London Philharmonics and
nj two muslcalea given by William Wal
dort Astor From London he goes 10 Paris
md win remain there occupied with con-
cert work during the greater part OF he
summer Ordinarily his summers are spent
at his home IN Switzerland but this season
he will make only a short visit there, end
he will hurry on 10 HIS new Polish estate
which IL at present his pc, hobby. The
place In Switzerland includes sixty acres
OF forcH and meadowland on the shore q
lake Geneva. near Lausanne The chateau
"a a rambling and picturesque building. fac
Ing the lake and In II NJ. Paierewski has
been accustomed to entertain large par
tioa OF his intimate friends. but the estate
a. Tor utility as well as pleasure aud the
artist II "a earnest in hts gardening as in
his music There are thousands ot cherry
trcce on the land. and from their fruit il
made an uncomfnoniy fine quality 81
kirsch, while the VINEYARDS produce able
grapes that ripcn before any others in the
country round, amt also Furnish grapes for
thousands 81 gallons Of Wino. Other fruit
Is raised In large quantities. and. when the
owner ot the estate is at home. he attends
personally to all the practical details q
management
Equippins Model Farm in Poland.
The Polish estate IS A much more ambl-
tious affair. including thousands Of acres
and, though incomplete already represents
a Largo amount of the earnings of the