The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-18
CLEMENCAULANDS IN NEW YORK
THIS MORNING ON SECOND VISIT
French Tiger Swings His
Hat About Head When Wei
coined by Fleet in Harbor.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Georges Glenn
enceau today again set foot on
American soil.
clemenceau "Tiger OF France"
stood on the bridge OF the Paris,
steamlng up New York Bay this
morning his face a flow with
smiles as he watched the approach
Of colortul welcoming fleet. In
acknowledgment of the frs.
noisy greeting he dotted his pic
turesque hat and swung 1t about
his head
Then as the towering skyscrap-
er peaks Of Manhattan's skyline
came into View on one sIdo AID
the statue. OF sLiberty-un' the
other oiameanCeai's interestiih,
creased. He was not awed but Sill
enced for the moment by a won
der Of progress. a different scers
was unfolded for him vixen hs
came up the bay on his last visit,
more than half a century ago. 1t
was his first view OF the status
and he was amazed by the chang }
in the sky line.
To Start Lecture Tour
The French Tiger" who came
to this country for the first time
more than fifty years ago to "see
what republic really looks like"
Is back in town again.
He dropped in on New York
from Paris today, ready to start
out on a lecture tour Of America,
but he will remain here little
while. first, for he has q number
Of old metropolitan acQuaintances
to renew-soIne OF them with per.
sons. but more, perhaps, with
streets and places, and familiar
old landmarks which he learned
to know and to revere while yet
a boy.
The maker and breaker OF min.
isteries, as Clemenceau has come
to be known because OF the trem-
eudous power he once held In the
political afafirs Of his country, is
here on his own hook and unoffi-
cially to present the case OF France
to the American people, and this
he will do in the languages Of the
masses, for not only does he speak
English, but he speaks real Amer.
lean Engllsh-flawlessly and with
out effort He is master of our
idiom and has kept up with Amer
lean slang for more than five de.
cades.
1t was back in 1866 that young
DR.. Clemenceau, just turned 20,
first stepped ashore in New York.
His meagre wardrobe spoke elo-
Quently OF his poverty, but the
case OF sidney new surgical instru.
ments, his only other possession,
held his future-or SO he thought
at the time.
Served Term In Prison
Back Of him, he believed, lay his
political career, which was not
much to boast OF. He has served a
short term In prison for activities
in behalf OF the republic, and had
been invited to leave France for
failing to resist further tempta.
tons along the same line upon
gaining his freedom. After all, he
concluded, the medical profession,
which had supported six genera.
lions OF Clemenceaus before him,
was superior TO politics.
Promised a small monthly remit.
TANGO from his father, the future
war premier Of France establish.
ed himself In what is now the
Greenwich Village section Of New
York and begun to practice med.
ictne. His field was the large
French population then living
around Washington Square. and
while te succeeded lndifterently.
we'll in obtaining patients, his col.
lectlons fell hopclesly below his
needs.
This prompted him to commun.
icate with the Paris TEMPS, for
which he subsequently wrote a ser.
les OF brilliant letters describing
conditions in America. This cor.
respondence bolstered up his in.
come to a certain extent, but the
remittauces from home had stop.
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