New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Paderewski Begins New Onus1

glimpse of a great man:
81 don't like furnished apartments This
was Clemenceau's reply to an intimate
friend who asked him why he did not use
the apartments prepared for his use at the
Ministry.
Formerly, when he was for three years
and four months at the Ministry in the
Place Beauveau, part of the time as Min
lister of the Interior in the Sarrien Cabinet
and part of the time as Premier, he would
not change his habits, but went every night
to his ground floor apartment at No. rue
Franklin, Passy.
1t is nearly twenty-five years since Glenn
enceau installed himself in this pretty part
OF Paris, only few steps from the Troca-
dero. The building is an unfurnished
apartment house, of which there are so
many in Paris. There is big entrance for
carriages, but only one leaf of the double
doors is ever opened, as there are neither
stables nor wagon sheds At the other end
OF a short passage there is 3 glass door
opening on q courtyard, on the far side Of
which one sees large bay window with
greensh-yellow curtains. These are the
windows of the workroom of the President
of the Council, which is naturally the
largest and most important room in the
apartment 1t is, in fact, library, for
from each side of the wide white chimney,
with a portrait of Rodin set in the marble
and its forged iron andirons radate shelves
filled with books and aliases.
Scattered over the tables are art objects
of oil kinds tpc1u9ipC
bronzes (for Clemenceau was one of the
first to become interested in japanese art)
and pieces of pottery. magnificent Rem
brandt portrait testifes to his taste in
painting. Recently Daumier's "Don Qui-
chotte ct Sancho Panza," given to Clemen-
ceau by his Cabinet on the anniversary of
his coming to power, occupies the place of
honor among his pictures. The work table,
a monumental horseshoe desk Of the Louis
XIV period, occupies the centre of the room.
1t is there that the polemist writes his ar
tices. 1t is there the head of the govern
ment prepares his vibrant proclamations.
In a vase near the inllwell there is a fan
shaped collection of goose quills. Glenn
enceau detests writing with a metal pen, and
will never trust any to shape his quilts.
When he expects to have to sign some inn
portant paper away from his own house he
carries quill in his pocket.
short fight of stone steps leads to the
garden and its single vine, overlooking the
Boulevard Delessert, some distance below.
Formerly, in the midst of his berry bushes,
which lent somewhat the appearance of
the country to his city garden, the journal
ist loved to come here for little rest.
This is the frame that the Premier would
not quit for the gilded decorations Of the
Rue Saint Dominique. Much has been writ
ten about his way of living. 1t has been
said that he had the habit of rising at
o'clock in the morning to write his articles,
when the truth was that he was seen at that
time returning from the Office of his news
paper in the city to go to bed.
Now the President of the Council rises
every morning, summer and winter, at 6
o'clock. That is early enough for man Of
his age who works as he does. When his
valet knocks at his door to bring him the
papers NJ. Clemenceau is already awake.
The bell of the school adjoining his house
has awakened him. And while he reads his
cook brings his breakfast, which usually in
cludes eggs.