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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

I wished it explained that although Pierre
Lott had many good friends in ltaiy
and would be panied 10 hurt their feel
! ings. vet as a matter of fact, NJ. Lofts
| sympathies in the present argument were
| entirely with the Turks who he felt
| had been outraSeously treated throughout
/ the whole affair.
| I'm his book Les Desenchantees" he
| prays as follows for the continuance and
preservation of the Ottoman Empire and
| the Turkish people
! Religious and visionary, loyal and
| good. one Of the noblest nations of the
world capable of terrible energy and sub
| lime heroism on the field of battle when
/ their faith or their country is at stake,
may Allah defend you"
| Asked his views of the woman move
ment Pierre Lott said:
They are happier in the harem. The
women of Turkey think they are happier
now than they were In the classic harem
DAYS. but IL is not so. 1t Is mistake.
Women have lost their happiness in
Turkey. | believe in the seclusion of
women"
|
Moosers and others who do not keep them
selves secluded. but he said he did not
| understand.
! He wanted to correct the impression
that prevailed that he was a Mahometan.
| From an artistic point Of view he liked the
! Mahometan religion.
But myself. | never pray" he added.
ITO say | am Mahometan is to make
what you call joke with me-
Byron, he said, was one of his favorite
English authors. because of that poets
pronounced Eastern sympathes. And
Byron put it this way. speaking of the
seclusion of Turkish women:
Here woman's voice is never heard; apart.
And scarce permitted, guarded veird, to
NOV,
She Yields TO one ncr person and her heart.
Tanned to her cage, nor feels wish TO
| For. not unhappy in her masters love. -
And joyful In mothers gentlest cares.
BEST cares! All other feelings far above,
! HerSelf more swcetly rears the babe she
bears,
who never quits the breast no meaner
passion shares. -
| Asked the nation whose sympathy tow
ards his writings It was the most difficult
| for him to obtain. he replied:
THE English. The English people have
never been very good scholars of the
| Oriental mind They have never mixed
like me- you know. The English ideals
are TO me very difficult. English first
and Italian ideals next. But in the mat
ter of my personal sympsthies. | have
more liking for England than for the
| Italian nation. | have great veneration
| for Queen Alexandra"
Winifred stephens writes of this side
of LOTS character as follows:
Lott is essentially a Latin, always at
tracted by the people of the South. but
utterly out of sympathy with the North
ern races He Is hostile to England and
America indeed, to the whole Anglo
| Saxon race.
"'During the Spanish-American War he
| journeyed to Spain to express in a per-
| sonal interview with the Queen Regent
his sympathy with the Spanish cause. and
his dislike of the American shopkeepers.
He Is In his ship off the coast Of Japan.
when the funeral firing Is heard which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
MISCELLANY.
NJ Lott F]nches Before Charge of the Reporters Brigade

announces the death of Queen Victoria.
A grandmother full of days reflected
Lott, has passed away over there IN that
island of fogs no human oe'hs
ever appealed to me less
His love of the Orient goes only to the
Turk.
: Whether Lott will live longer than
Queen Victoria may be regarded by some
as open to argument.
When asked IL he would care to estao-
lish parallel between the oriental ana
Occidental civilizations, NJ. Lott replied:
"An economic library of countless vol
umes has been written upon this subject
Another might be written and still leave
the question unanswered. Should | make
answer in phrase? 1t would be IKE
comparing the Infinite with the frog.
Kipling and Lafcadio Hearn being men
toned the Frenchman said promptly:
"Lafcadio Hearn has made very pene-
trating study-very right. But Hearn Is
less penetrating than Kipling. Hearn IS
more artistic; Kipling more penetrating.
From Hearn the conversation naturally
turned TO Japan. VI Lofts views concern
ing that country and its people are IN
terpreted as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

ARK TWAIN once said He
MI wouldn't give 10 cents to hear one
IVA of Colonel Robert G. lngersolI
iconoclastic outbursts against Moses out
that ne would cheerfully pay $40 TO listen
70 Moses on Ingersoll 1t would probably
no worth at least twice the latter sum 10
read what Pierre Lott, VINO comes TO inns
country to help rehearse his play The
Daughter Of Heaven" could write on the
subject Of the American interview.
Pierre Lofts plots are frequently de-
scrjbed as vague and sometimes untrace-
able. but no one among his critics has
ever denied that he is a word painter. 80
that il is reasonable to assume that his
opinion Of the American interview would
b. a work of consummate art
Hitherto. for Lott the sailor the sea has
beeu "A thing 10 b- feared. IT has attract
ed him always but me has always mis-
trusted IT, To him the sea has been d foe
ever mighty and inyincible.
Now that boo has experienced the Ameri-
can interview he knows there is some
lining els, 20 make ones life sad and 10
fll one with alarm.
Hitherto ne has summed up the true
evils Of life as being illness, ug,iness and
old age. These prejudices were formed
before the boys from the morning, noon
ana night newspapers called on him, a
few days ago. at the Hotel Marie Antoi-
nette upon his first visit to New York IN
thirty-uiue years.
tie would doubtless include them under
the caption true evils, in a revised
uniform edition of all his books, for Pierre
Loti has been described as "a mere sponge
for the sensations" Of which sensations
h. gathered many on the occasion afore-
said
Many Of his best books" says one
critic. are long sobs Of remorseful MEM
DRY. so personal. 50 intimate, that an Eng
fish reader is amazed to find such depth
Of feeling compatible with the power of
mnutely and publicly recording what is
felt"
That is just it That power Of Pierre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

ment. of exile. Thus | and the sea re-
NAMED face to face.
To ar Anglo-Saxon mind there Is MOTH
ing shrinking in the summary.
When he was eight years old he an
nounced to his parents who were Prot
estants. his intention of becoming MIN
lister. much TO their amusement at the
time. The ambition was probably an
error of youth. Paul Bourget has this to
say OF him.
The most delicate visionary of our
time, at once the most primitive and the
most complex of being. with the senses OF
a primitive savage and soul as de-
cadent as the most decadent among mod
ems.
Asked by The Tribune man what Tor
eign nation was most sympathetic to him,
Pierre Lott replied:
Turkey Because the Turks are very
brave They are like me in that they.
too. are contemplative and mystic. | like
their art"
A friend of the author who accom-
panied him to America. explained that NJ
Lott was much interested on La Savoie to
learn each day Of the progress of the war
between Turkey and Italy. The friend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

I lie fed his love OF coIor on short ratlons
the day he received a reporter for the
Sunday section of The Tribune. an old
gold satin tie pierced by scarf pin Of
/ brilliant green satisfying as well as at
| tracing attention. There was only
! hint Of double breasted waistcoat OF
MORE satin
/ His shoes were too small for any other
man. living or dead. and there is just a
| suspicion abroad that NJ. Lott knows it.
The author was born on January H.
| 1880, in Rochefort. which, of all the seaport
towns OF France, is certainly the least
| like Broadway The only thing In the
] town that moves Is the river La Charente.
I but as IL flows far from the centre OF the
village even this activity is scarcely per-
ceived by the visitor.
The chief place Of amusement is the
municipal museum in which repose plants
and shells To remind one of the lost isles
Of the Pacific. and sculptured wooden
idols and heather ornaments from
| Oceania and Africa brought by sailors
that are no more Pierre Lott lives In
Rochefort Broadway, even on Sunday,
when NJ Lott received the Tribune man.
Is an ugly transition to a man who has
spent so much of his time
| In marble paved pavilion, where spring
| OF living water from the centre rose,
| Whose bubbling DID genial freshness fling.
| And soft voIptuous couches breathed
| repose
| Broadway at any time must be Gehenna
to NJ Lott. His eternal and infinitely
melancholy resignation to the perpetual
passing on of things is believed to be the
! chief point about his character.
| Il am incapable of ranging you i'm
! class OF ordinary writer's. You are so
personally you. and nobody could ever
give you a name and 1t would be mis-
/ take 10 give you an appellation, at least
| so long as the doctors, alienists, paleon-
tologists. and the veterinaries who look
after sick whales in the pillows of the
south, do not turn literary critics"
This pleasantly put by Lott into the
mouth of his friend Plumkett in the
'Fleus dEnnui" doubtless is intended
rightly to affirm the originality of the
author OF "Pecheur d'Islande' as he
views 1t.
He was destined for the navy, and at
the age OF seventeen he entered the naval
school, lie Borda, gradually rising In his
profession TO the rank of captain, which
he acquired in 1906. In January, 1910, he
was placed on the reserve list. His pseu-
donyme Is due to his alleged shyness In
early life. lie Lott Is an Indian flower
which loves to blush unseen.
Writing of the sea, he once expressed
his feelings thus:
Il had a presentment that one day the
sea would take me. | felt In its presence
not fear merely, but a nameless sadness,
an impression Of solitude. Of abandon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

see when he came up the bay because
the weather was not sufficiently thin. he
nevertheless unfolded some pretty com
ments. He said:
What am | to answer? / reply that
| admire them. without. however, wishing
TO see the same architecture transferred
to Paris These great structures repre-
sent to me the concretion of the power
full forces of modern industry. They are
the material manifestation OF the spirit oil
a race that seeks through the most in
genious multiplcations of mechanical de-
vice 20 bring earth nearer to heaven.
Along the countless wires that cross
each other at the peaks of these monster
buildings are flashed the commands that
more and more win your ascendancy over
your competitors in the struggle of life
"All these things lead me far very far
from the subjects of my customary
studies, my travels and silent observa-
tons"
Considering the close quarters. the abb
ruptness of the inquiry, the temperament
of the speaker and the fact that he had
not seen them. NJ Lofts stump speech on
skyscrapers will probably go down in the
history of Park Row as the perfection OF
spontaneous art
| Louis Marie Julien Viaud, to refer to
him once by his real instead Of his pen
name. wore an English suit of oxford
gray and mustachios of d dark reddish
brown with virile twist at each end.
| His nose is distinctly Gallo in its cast.
/ his eyes brown and clear. deep set and
wide apart.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
Dining Ro o m .

Most of the reporters were feet to ,
feet inches tall. They crowded around
Pierre Lott, who is a trile over five feet
high including his French heels and his
military manner of standing erect.
Finally he was in the corner Of the
alcove that opened off the large room In
which the interview theoretically started.
There was, Pierre Lott must have 'een
with lust one OF his penetrating slance5,
no escape
II has been maintained that pain is the
FIRST and more fundamental fact and
Measure nothing but relief from oa'n
Rnt there was no relief in sight for NJ.
| Lott.
Every living creature, 1t Is said, feels,
though II may never do any more. With
| NJ Lott the element Of feeling is always
| AT q maximum. In him feeling predomi-
/ mates.
| NJ Lott could feel. and probably was
| feeling a great deal. but he could not see
| anything but the third vest button of the
reporter nearest him. This reporter was
| from Tottenyille, Staten Island.
But Pierre Lott was game. In response
10 feryid inquiries concerning his opinion
] Of our skyscrapers. which ne could not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
Famous French Writer Rallies, However, and
CameIy Meets an Avalanche of Questions
from the Thronging Coterie His Ad-
vocacy of Seclusion for Women
VIII Cost Him the Favor
of the Suffragettes.

Z divau. twenty-three reporters, including
90 handsome young woman. who said she
was frequently novelist. sometimes an
African explorer and always a socialist
lined the room.
Six correspondents Of Paris and London
newspapers, the Frenchmen self-con-
scious. the Englshmen given to braid on
their frock coats, sat, each fonGiing
cane
a French sailor. who has given up the
sea TO be Pierre Lofts bodyguard on
shore, acted as first mate over a crew OF
bellbOys until chairs were supplied Tor
all.
A. each representative of the press ar
rived. bc he from Dongan Hills or 'Ih,
/ London Times" he was greeted most
politely by the uotcdly sensitive author
who shook tho visitors hand smiled.
bowed and not too eagerly again sought
! his reservation on the divan.
There was no clock. or doubtless it
would have licked with painful distinct
ness and regularity.
As it was. the reporters watched d
French correspondent blush while inter
rogating Mr.. Lott in his favOrite tonguy,
and listened to NJ Lofts responses, said
TO have been delivered in perfect French,
without, however, acquiring ior home
consumption any Of the authors views or
the harem versus the home, the tcrrify-
ing experience of watching storm at
sea the yellow peril, the probable tut
ure Of French literature, or now long he
intended TO stay.
B All became conscious Of a certain strain
and oppressiveness. which gave way 10
momentary relief when at length some
American press agent. the same one prob
ably who is associated with the theatrical
/ producing company responsible for the
, playwrights visit to us suggested that
an Interpreter, who was also present use
his art for the benefit Of Harlem and Ho-
/ boken playgoers.
/ II was unanimously voted an appro-
/ pirate idea. And then, for some uneX-
planned reason, everybody stood up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

I What Lott admIres in the Japanese is
their artistic skill. their sense OF form
and color. which finds such delightful en-
preston in the severely simple decoration
of their houses, where there is always Il
sense of space How different he reflects,
from that called japanese style in Eu-
rope which consists in crowding together
pell-mell ornaments and curioslties in a
manner to give real Japanese the hor-
rors.
The politeness and apparent amiabil-
ity of the japanese do not appeal to Lott
He mistrusts them. suspectinS THAI they
conceal a fundamental hatred of Euro
peans. which will some day declare itself
Unexpectedly.
He believes In the yellow peril, and
regards the Russo-Japanese war as Its
initial manifestation
What advantage have YOU found the
life of a naval officer to be to you in your
writing" he was asked.
1T was for me the love of travelling,
he replied Il love to be an officer. 1t
is one OF my glores. In France they al
ways have tried to give me a chance to
go where | liked ano stay as long as /
liked | am a spoiled child in the navy
why do Anglo-Saxon art and mill
tary life fail to gibe?" he was asked.
II do not know" he said why the An
glo- Saxons fail to follow i'm my steps"
What English literature do you most
enjoy?"
Shakespeare
This seemed conservative, and he was
American literature. he was frank TO
say, he didn't know much of anything
about. favorte attitude OF his is TO
say he doesn't read anything. But he
laughingly acknowledged the other day
that. being an Academician, he really Is
compelled to read very much-forty or
fifty books year-noves, essays. his
torical books art criticisms, etc, submit
ted to the French Academy. In this way,
he added. still smiling. he keeps well
abreast with contemporary thought.
OF Russian writer's he knows, he said,
only Tolstoy. of whom he is a great add
mirer.
Another inquiry concerned his views Oh
Socialism.
II am not sympathetic i'm any way tow
ard Socialism," he replied. Il am quite
hostile to any sort of hostile movement.
| am a lover OF the past and a reac-
| tionary | have strong individualistic ten
denotes. Days and nights of discussion
would not traverse the subject of Social
ism. But the doctrine contains too much
of idealism to succeed
What do you think of the aeroplane as
an instrument I'm war;"
1T will be very useful. but think it
rather cowardly weapon"
Asked about the Eugenlcs Congress
Pierre Lott shrugged his shoulders just a
trife for the first time during the inter-
view, and said:
Il think 1t would be better to kill them
than to sterilize them--is 1t not so?"
He was asked his opinion of the Amer
lean interview and said:
1T Is the first time that | have sub
mitted myself to such an ordeal The
American press representatives. imagine,
believe that in getting the interview they
have-what would you say?-put one over
on me.
In France | rarely receive a journalist
unless | know him very we'll Besides.
the methods OF interviewing In France
are less strenuous than here. On very
rare occasions only the French news
papermen come to hunt me up in my
place of retreat at Rochefort and try to
make me talk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

Lofts 10 record what was felt by Pierre
Lot during the reception for the report
ets. which various dramatic and arusuc
interests organized, would be guarah-
tee to the reading public that 1t would De
Worth the price
II would not be cheerful readhls' NJ
Lott does not run to the cheerful III
would glow with pathos. II woulo no
doubt cause one TO cry. No melanchoiS'
some one has said, is so bewitchlhs' 90
divine, as Lofts melancholy-not Byron o.
or chateaubriand's or Lamartlnes
He has the gift OF tears. Ana tiere
can hardly be any room for douot Una,
when the American interview was endeu
the great French impressionist was as ~
TO utilize this gift as ever before III "'9
hxty-two years OF suffering with the soui
serses.
The reporters called at p m fierie
Aotl occupied one-third OF a divah' NC
POrters sat on either SIDE OF him OF Wv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29

Continued an seventh page
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-26
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
CORN HAS HIGH RECORD
Price of 81 Cents Per Bushel i
Highest in Chicago For
Many Years.

Chicago, April 25.-Corn sold
here, today, 81 cents bushel, May
delivery, the highest price in Chi
cago for a number of years 1T also
was the first time this season that
the. option had gone above the 80
cent level Short sellers were in
alarm over the small amount of the
cereal not already under contract,
to be shipped away. The close was
firm at an advance of q to 1 W net
Wheat gained " and oats shade
to ".
Violent action In the corn trade
resulted chiefly from stop lass or
ders on the part Of shorts. AT times
the pit was in such n turmoil thai
prices varied as much as full cent
between transactions made at thu
same instant in different parts o!
the crowd. The bulge was said Il
have brought from the country M
aValanche or requests TOT Dids. Salei
to arrive here were reported to ag
gregate 750,000,000 bushels May
prices fluctuated from 7012 TO 81
closing at so.
The unloading of great deal o
wheat by longs took out some o
the orders of the bulls In that grain
The main influence against the bears
came from the strength Of corn. July
ranged between s10913 anC
$1106S, with the close nervous hu
higher at '$1.10t% Me5 '9g 81 Hss
Sentiment regarding oats De
pended in the main on the cb'if'8esU
corn. Upper and lower limits 70
July were h548 and 54Ias tclosin
at 54 II. --''.'-. ''---'-
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-26
TRADING IS BACKWARD
Activity in Last Hours Off Sets Slug
gishneas Of Stocks at Mar
k2t Opening,

New York, April ~ Trading on
the stock exchange, today, was char
actcrized by relative backwardness
in the leading issues, but this was
largely offset by further activity
and higher prices for many special
ties Reading was about the only
one OF the speculative fayorite3 to
show more than a fair degree or
strenethened animation, selling up
to 1704 its highest price since
1910, and leaving all other stocEa
far behind in volume Of dealings.
Over a score of issues embracin&;
the ndustrials, equipment. copper
or metal shares, took part in today s
movement. Foremost OF these was
American Can common, which rose
to 39l& IS against q in The early
part OF the month,
When it became known that the
subcommittee OF the anthracito
presidents had arrived at what prom
ised to be an understanding, tho
higher priced coal shares were
taken up on moderate dealings and
rose from a point to five points.
The rise OF five points in Peoples
Gas, was explained by a decision OF
the Illinois appellate court, favoring
the company. ..........
The final hour was marked by &
revival of activity. in which Read
ing, Lehigh Valley and American
common were carried to higher
| prices and in these increased
strength was shown by such. rea
market factors as Union Pacific ant
| United States Steel.
Bonds were irregular, total sales
par value, $2,179,000, Government
were unchanged.
The Cairo bulletin., 1912-04-26
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