New-York tribune., 1902-12-26
WH4TLORENZ Has Made
aside From $50, 900 Fee, Received.
Enough Only to PAY Freight. "
SPEAKS IN HIGH PRAISE OF AMERICA

DR.. Adolf Lorenz has returned to this city. He
will spend the last Few days before he sails for
home in seeing Father Knickerbockers social
side and visiting the commercial, industrial and
art institutions of the city He had planned
to arrive here on Wednesday and have his
Christmas dinner with DR.. Wisner R. Townsend.
but engagements kept him in Boston and he
did not get here till 8 p. m. yesterday. He went
at once to the Murray Hill Hotel, and last night,
together with DR.. Townsend and little family
party. attended the performance at the En-
pire Theatre.
1t is DR.. Lorenzs wish that he be permitted
this week to see, without ceremony, American
life as it exists in the metropolis. He wants
to visit business houses and art galleries He
intends to spend day at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. He is interested in the street
railways. and desires to know what means are
used to carry to and from business each day
such vast crowds of people. He would like to
know about the big feats of engineering now
being performed here, the new East River
bridge and the subway.
Aside from several engagements which DR..
Lorenz made last week, no set programme has
been made out for the next few days. To-mor-
row night J. Adriance Bush gives dinner for
him at the Union League Club. The doctor will
hold no public clinics here, but may per-
form several private operations for friends who
nave requested lnelIl he, however COhSlueIS HIS
work finished in America, and thinks the last
few days OF his visit ought to belong to him
ONLY ONE FEE HERE.
There is one thing want to say said DR..
Lorenz, "and that is in regard TO finances.
1t reputed that I have made in this country
S160.000. Now. matter of fact, got one
fee of $4,000 in Chicago. and in the four
months 1 have been here 1 have earned just
$4,000 My practice at home in four months Is
worth that
True, 1 have a number of private
patients I'm each of the cities visited, but, as
you Americans say, in no instance have they
more than paid the freight AS matter of
fact, it has been the physicians of the various
cities who have profted by my visits They are
my colleagues, and 1 am glad they did: but. you
see. 1 remained only two. three. four or perhaps
five days. During that time 1 was working in
the hospitals in the clinics. The private
patients began come in, and they were oper-
ated upon by the local surgeons who had wit
messed my clinics AS a result of my clinics
however, there have been many children cured
of congental hip disease. but the private
patients 1 have personally operated upon, as
said have not more than paid my expenses to
and in those cities
But am glad I came. The trip has been the
crowning success of my life. My trip here has
been successful ethically. but not materially
1 really was due at my home in Vienna on No
vember %, and intended to remain in America
only four weeks Instead have been here now
four months. have seen a great deal of this
wonderful country and 1 going to return
again and see more ! am not satisfied with
what have seen. 1 have seen California, and
1 am told Florida is yet more beautiful. and
must come and see it.
T0Hy
The scenery saw in the extreme West, par
ticuIarly between Denver and Salt Lake, was
beautiful beyond description. There Is nothing
like II in Europe. Yesterday drove throughout
the suburbs of Boston and while Washington
is a beautiful city, 1 think that suburban por-
ton of Boston I saw the most beautiful have
ever seen in any country.
And how do 1 like the Americans? 1 think
they are the greatest people in the world The
hospitality with which 1 have been received ex-
ceeds that even of my own country had no
idea that America anything like 1t is L
knew IT was a great country. but not that you
could board a fast train and travel in one OIL
rection for week. But I did. and l enjoyed
every mile of the trip. l have done the most OF
nv travelling in this country in the daytime
that 1 might it,
0r Torenz was asked about his English,
which he speaks well. and he said that he had
| never spoken it before coming to America he
| uses a great many idioms. and on being asked
how he ACQUIRED them said he had got them
chiefly in the theatres.
..-Tbere is nothing I have enjoyed here ike
.h +baa+resn 8 he continued. Before coming
| here I studied English theoretically, and COM
ing on the steamer 1 mixed in with those talk
! ing only English and permitted no one to talk
| German to me. have listened to those In the
,baa+res The actors speak, rule. clearly
and distinctly and use, Of course, many idio-
| roatic expressions. 1 have watched Tor them'
| and iotted them down in my memory par
/ ,icularlv like that about paying the freight Ii
| is so very expressive
.orhe other evening I visited the grand opera.
| T have heard the opera hundred times put
| Tho naonle-ah. they were grand! The ladies
wore the most exquisite gowns, ana was car
\ ried away with the scene. II was ohe vi 'h'
greatest treats I ever enjoyed
| ..vo,, see in coming TO America had no idea
/ f Going elsewhere than to Chicago and New
! York True, / have lost a number OF pouhuS
| since I came, through the hard work, out the
axneriences 1 have enjoyed and the treatment
| T have received at the hands OF the prolessioh
! throughout the country have more thah repaiu
| 80 And / am told my trip has not been
| .,+bout its good. / may have relieved many
| 1,,tle sufferers, and opened the way for the re-
| - -, MANY more For that l am overjoyed
| on5 il has repaid any hardships L have en-
| dured. - o1
| .1 leave here on Wednesday, December d.
| Cor home I go TO Liverpool, where l am to De
+,e sy,,est of Dr. Robert Jones. the greatest sur
| econ in my line in England L VIII spend le"
davs with him and then go direct to my nome III
.--..-;a where have much work awaiting me.
-n hold NO more clinics here, although 1
| =, aa T an, informed some private patients
| a. .,,a r,ornine. and shall probably operate upon