New-York tribune., 1903-01-19

the Pope Bismarck and half a dozen kings, ana
nine-tenths of EurOpes notables
He was a dipomatist of the first order, and as
the correspondent of "T'he Times" at the French
cantaI for years sent to his paper more news than
the British Ambassador himself sent to the Foreign
Office.
It was in De BIowitz's dispatch that Lord Sails
b,r,- first read of the Franco-Egyptan CONVEX
sior, scheme and it was De Blowitz who beat the
nress OF the entire world by publishing the COM
pete text of the treaty Of Berlin IN ls'o-a leat
which the man himself described as the crown
ing achievement of my life
Having been present at private readlhs oi 'i'e
treaty at Berlin Blowitz at once took the tram
for Holland. knowing that 1t would be lhlpoSsiuie
tn telegraph the terms from Germany. On 'ie
twelve hours journey he kept repeating to hlh4seii
the articles of agreement, and by rehlaI hf~ple
feat of memory able to transmit to ms paper
verbatim the entire instrument.
fau- months before this De Biowitz claimed to
have nrevented war between France and Germany.
The military party in the empire had decIueo
on Won Moltke's phrase that from every point
view-military. political. philosophical and even
Cbristan-an immediate war with France was d
necessity The republic was becoming TOO strong
Therefore there must be new invasion; faIis
was to be reoccupied. and for twenty years trie-
,+e of sOn COO 900 a year be paid TO Germany
Prince Bismarck. who had opposed the scheme III
vain remembered N. de Blowltz. whose helP Iie
could evoke in the interests of peace NJ de f1ano-
wiz on the authorization of Bismarck, revealed
.ocrs+l,, 70 NJ de Ciontaut Biron the plan OF the
military party In all its details Biron sent II AT
once in cipher TO the Duke Decazes, ana the duhe
sent for De Blowitz. He at once undertook 10
deliver France by publishing the whole plot III
.rThe Times" and Won Motke and his men OF "ar
so Rms the story saw their portentous scheme
collapse like pricked windbag
NJ de Blowitz played a prominent part III tue
suppression of the Commune at Marseilles ana
revealed the history of Ismail Pacha's special
train thereby defeating De Lesseps in the elecuoh
of 1869.
He was the inventor of what is now a recognized
feature of the modern newspaper the interview
NJ de Blowftz was decorated with the RIBBON OIL
tfe 6 the aef2a esoD 1f in SaSr s Beside his
he was tine agRor d 81 became Convert to the
h9r'jt ON Ta1aarV ! NJ de Bowtz resigned the Paris
correspondence Of Shs III retrRg M6T6D 5T Fner
hrSt In s he married Anne Amee Arrand dAaue
a visitor Vs to his sanctum in Paris thus wrote OF
him of his personal 4tb Sa high forehead and
bushy whiskers. his loose jacket and big French
reSo1ng bookcases We'll filled and within con
ent Of r the ne 1Tmha IaS svenT Ttn IT'S ses tell
more especially of an intimate acqnanance ar ind Witd
modern @omnfte tfenSh in eSman also
Didon's Life of Christ and TAmanaeh ma Gath
of NJ. de Blowtz are a statue OF falth ana Il
Another friend has written of him: 1T would
be difficult accomplish what NJ de BloWltz dnes
ments that begin at the Champs Elysees and end
somewhere the other end of the b9uleya,Tus.
the morning calls have ended NJ de Blowitzs day
begins like the day of all properly consul uted
Parisians with a seance of therapeutics. Then IL
is deieuner town; calls. eNpositions, the Cham
ing either one of the numerous dinners at his own
house or a diner vile. followed by the theatre
or an offical reception. But after all this. night
ever passes without visit to the office III me
Rue Vivienne from where dispatches are sent of
the news of the day-entirely from memory; Tor
NJ de BloWitz never carries notebook never takes
that he for ornament -
There a story current In Paris that NJ de
BIowitz said when Bismarck died. Yesterday
there were two men in Europe-the Iron Chan
celor and myself. To-day there is only one. True
or false. the anecdoe aptly illustrates the absolute
sef-confidence of a man who for himself such
a place that time and again he has been spoken
of as DE BowitZ of Europe.