The sun., 1916-08-27
METCHNIKOFF AS
HIS STAFF SAW HIM
Once a Week lie Revealed to
Them His Power as an
Entertainer.
HIS VIEW OF NJ
Tells Of "Mcan Spirit" in
Koch and Behring-His
Devotion to Music.
his VIEW OF GERMAN
Social Correspondence 10 Tus suS.


s,,ciai Correspondence to Tus SIS.
PANS. Aue. 10-The late Prof. Metch.
,,to0 1be was not a professor hut the
name stuck TO him all his ufe) wal one
~ ths most interesting persons in Eu.
rooe.
Phvsica,ly he meritcd whitmap's su.
,erb conception Of q splendid and saw
sss, Gid man. and socially he preserved
. noble courtesy and plea "a only
too rare in boorish learning. He was
a hard. like Whitman or Rodin. and ne
cultivated almost until his death the
smIable practice Of receiving one after.
MON A week at his laboratory in the
pasteur Institnte such curious guests
A hs large stan Of assistants saw NJ to
bring 10 him.
Silence and intelligence were the only
requisites for a presentation. for the
AIRED seer had a fine prediction for dis
interestedness in his auditors. He had
mora than once, for example. expressed
an irritation bordering upon horror for
Journalists. for these creatures had ex-
acted no end Of suffering out OF him
in connection with the commercial aide
Of the sour milk business, an adventure
accompanied by many cruel foxes.
Objected - "Pumplur,v
.
""s sv"ei"' a"u se".'e
."u 9 va po''.'els no puInp'ns'
pl u ss.",aN"s M.fneu .he'r seiecte0
sues's ,na ," Sra saNa"t eouIu NOT
~ suVye.seu .ne sor, OF scrutlny
.m." - '" 's''oi .he wise. i. was
We .ne svou lot.une OF your CORE
~, =" " tnese ue''sn
"e 'Ss. ".ne ON.
nuout ~ yCdI dkb, Uot lbIK DtIoTe u
~. ,e Hle.c,''Ho" u
=. 80 i'osp',"I.
- ,.snp.". We" ,sp'."' one' a
80" a.. ~: ~ '"e .ns'i.u.e III
.n'e ''a'S JUS, vi from work lot the
'" -. ~. moo''Aeo ~coI'easues on
prominent physicians and surgeons from
the military hospitals and the faculty o.
Paris. a few curious Young Russian
students. a distinguished foreign scien-
the visitor or two and a solitary "pro-
fame" whose occupation and nationality
required that he Ice vouched for in ad-
vance by half the laboratory.
The professor was in a fine humor
FOR talk. the audience was Discreet In
ito questions and the conversation con-
,inued long after the usual hour. The
accident that NJ. Metchnikorr had ius,
finished reading a stack OF German sci.
entihc reviews which a clever foreign
assistant had succeeded in bringing To
him through Switzerland turned the ,a,k
first TO the current absurdities Of hatred
observable in popular expression. The
newspapers came in for some singing
remarks from the "profesSr." who had
high incapac!ty for appreciating the
habits OF mind Of the vulgar.
His conclusion. TO bring "a disa gree.
able a topic 10 n close. was ,ba, IRIS ,or,
Of silly passion would soon smother itself
because it would receive no supnor, from
the intelligent spirits in any OF he com.
nunit!ts involved.
Talked AbOut C-,m.,.
n.
A." sAp'esSen himse!f very freely that
way anout we whom he knew
sn, non ,'c'ohg association in worE
r"rion. e"asn'P' re round IN them a
uh,os mean 'mec~hancete"-
,ros, I've ""a observed even IN their
nervonn, eia'eu spiri,s' Inc case or the
,sv"ai spires n bitterness existing
!" ."e nishes, spheres OF German science
a'""Es impressed MIN az an incon-
r-s, a.omaiy, lie ecounte his own
~ .st 10 the great laboratory Of
m Inc INDUSTRIOUS Behring and sew
inence we're n, ,ha Will p.onn
the same laboratorv IN" y"
After the usuaI Hr,o,
young unknown but nromisina racr,;,
10 the Laboratory .tar a., oband 49,,
Metchnikor was led of nv pshrin. nc
This masters own Ia bora,orv rhs con-.
versatIon which ,h.v ha1 S -
gard TO some dc,au % .ci.n,iao i,,ar.s,
was immediately dronnad
you knew Tho, H., ,., A.. ..,
Koch. didn', wous" ostaJ n,hn.
We'll, Young NAV 7 80, 80,
against him. He is n cr,m,,,i oa,
criminal, the yrea, crir;mai Tha, 10
wha, makes him rrsa,'.his cr,r,inau,.
He is unoies,innah,,, a. 49,
.nal alive Nh" W s'.s.' ..nn
from me this morping ~ ~
Il had inoculated them with d,nh-
iberia and had them nice,v under oh
servation when he sneaked down s,oIe
them out Of the pen, secreted them in
his own pen. and inoculated them over
e6ain with tuberculosis He comes here
~ night and enters my workroom and
unes TO pry open my desk drawers to steal
NY data from experiments which he Is
incapable OF understanding.
advised" About Koch.
tive cau.b, hiu ~. ia,
keep everything m,, "r 20 ",
locks There isn,t a,y,hing Tho, mo,
man would s,on a, Us'u .,non Va ..
hing, Don't Won 10 an naiveIv w ~ =,
away here for him He'll merely oil
you. the way he does win Mi the young
a blur and - fr "d h ~ N''"' a""
An hour later Metchnikon. bewildered
py al nat the eminent Behring mad
oeeh pouring into his unwilling ears,