Evening star., 1902-01-02
M. DE BlOWITZ RETlRES
HE WAS PARIS CORRESPONDENT OF
LONDON TIMES.
Enjoyed a Worldwide Reputation as
Writer His Egotism
Was Uubounded.

A dispatch from London yesterday says:
| The Candid Friend" says that NJ de Blow
itz has resigned as Paris correspondent OF
the London Times. and retired to private
/ life. and that he has been succeeded by
| Arthur Fullerton. an American.
The Philadelphia Press publishes the fol-
lowing sketch of NJ. de Blowitz:
There is story current In Paris that
NJ. de Blowitz said when Bismarck died
Yesterday there were two men in Eu-
rope-the iron chancellor and myself. To-
| day there is only one"
True or false, the anecdote aptly Illus
trates the absolute self-confidence of a man
who has won for himself such a place that
time and again he has been spoken OF as
| DE Blowitz of Europe F."
Henry Georgas Stephan Adolphe Opper
dc Blowitz was born I'm the district of Pilsen
| In 1S2o. He is, therefore, Austro Slav by
| birth. but decided to naturalize himself as
a French citizen in the midst of tie Franco
German war. Ii was bold stroke and
ELECTED from the minister of justice this
| purr of surprise and satisfaction: "A couu-
| try which in the midst of such catastrophes
| recruits citizens like yourself is not TO be
despaired off,
The implied compliment of the phrase
citizens like yourself was promptly justi-
| fled by the applicant whose unique personal
| force and attachments soon won for him
the place as the most picturesque but also
one of the most capable figures in public
| life on the continent AS cosmopolite he
has met and known the sultan and the
pope, Bismarck and half dozen kings, and
nine-tenths of Europe's notables.
He is a diplomatist of the first order, and
as the correspondent of the London Times
at the French capital has for years been
sending TO his paper more news than the
British ambassador himself sent to the for
eign office.
1t was in De Blowitz's dispatch that
Lord Salisbury first read of the Franco
Egyptian conversion scheme, and 1t was
De BlowitZ who beat the press of the on
tire world by publishing the complete text
Of the treaty of Berlin in lsI5-a feat which
the man himself has described as the
crowning achievement of my life"
A few months before this De Rowitz had
prevented war between France and Ger
many The military party in the empire
had decided on Won Moltke's phrase that
from every point of view, military. polit-
| ical, philosophical and even Christian, an
immediate war with France was neces-
Sity." The republic becoming too
strong Therefore there must be a new
invasion; Paris was TO be reoccupied and
for twenty years Germany was to be paid
a tribute OF S1o0,0oooo0 per annum.
Prince Bismarck, who had opposed the
scheme in vain, remembered NJ. de Blow
itz, whose help he could evoke In the in
terests of peace NJ de Radowitz on the
authorization of Bismarck. revealed secret
ly to NJ. de Gontaut Biron the plan OF the
military party in all its details. Biron sent
| 1t at once in cipher to the Due Decazes, and
the due sent for De Blowitz He at once
undertook to deliver France by publishing
the whole plot in the Times.
For a brief season the powers in Printing
House square refused to believe the story,
but faced with proofs of the correctness OF
his. information the opposition collapsed,
the fateful news was published, and Won
Moltke and his men of war saw their por-
tentous scheme collapse like pricked
windbag.
M de Blowitz played a prominent part
in the suppression Of the commune at Mar
-seilles and revealed the history OF Ismail
Pasha's special train, thereby defeating De
Lesseps in the election of 1869.
He has been at journalism long time.
He began in 1866, when Sae prepared for his
task by setting apart four hours every day
for reading up modern political history. he
| told an interviewer once:
Il have been living only as a journalist.
and l have published everything that L
have experienced. / have not led any pr1-
vate life at all, L may say, since the last
twenty years. i consider that everything
hear is told to me as to journalist. l do
not hear condolences, and do not want TO
hear them: for nothing is Of interest to me
| except from the point Of view OF my pro-
fesion."
1t is usually said that he was Jewish by
birth, but he is now Christian by profess
sion. A recent visitor to his sanctum in
Paris says: 'Of his personal appearance
his diminutiye stature. but wide gtrth, his
high forehead and bushy whiskers, his
know all that is to be known. Several
volying bookcases. well filled and within
convenient reach of the armchair with its
back to the fire, which NJ. de Blow1tz evil
IDENTIFY uses, tell more especially of an inti-
mate acquaintance with modern French
literature. In one may be noticed a COM
plete Shakespeare in German, also Pere
Didon's Life of Christ and 'EAlmanaon
Catholique;' on the mantlepiece beneath
the portrait of NJ. de Biowitz are a statue
| of Faith and a cruciix."
Another friend has written of him: 1T
would be difficult to accomplish what NJ
de BlowitZ does with less apparent effort
Despite a list of engagements that begin
at the Champs Elysees and the end some
where at the other end Of the boulevards.
he has time for everything that merits It
When the morning calls have ended, M. de
Blowitz's day begins, like the day of all
properly constituted Parisians. with q
seance of therapeutics. Then IL is de-
jeuner in town: calls, eXpositions, the
chamber of deputies in the afternoon: and
in the evening, either one OF the numerous
dinners at his own house, a dinner en-
vile followed by the theater, official
reception. But after all this, no night ever
passes without a visit to the office in the
Rue Vivienne, from where dispatches are
sent of the news of the day-entirely from
memory. For NJ. de Blowitz never carries
a note book, never takes a single note. and
his only pencil is gold one that he wears
for ornament.