The New York herald., 1922-12-10
PHILADELPHIA GIVES
GREETING TO TIGER
Clemenceau Sits in Chair of
Observation-Disclosures
Liberty Bell.
SPEAKS BEFORE 1000
Told by Senator Pepper Our
Withdrawal From France
Was Not Good-by.
LARGE CROWDS SILENT
Guest Meets Descendant of
Benjamin Franklin-At Cres-
son, Pa, To-day.
LARGE CROWDS SILENT

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9.-On his jour-
. ney from Washington to Chicago Gle
xmenceau was this city's guest for five
hours to-day 1t was enough for a
pictorial parade, visit to Independ-
ence Hall and an address to 1000 per-
sons in the Academy of Music.
Clemenceau again expressed his
satisfaction with President Hardings
address to Congress, which he found
Every encouraging" despite it's dis
avowal of Americas intention TO enter
alliances promising armed intervention
in Europe, such as Clemenceau would
like to see us make with France.
He also told the Phiadelphians that
THE United States had dictated the
terms of peace but had not remained
to see them enforced
In Independence Hall the reception
committee, headed by Mayor J. Hamp-
ton Moore. led him, into the room in
which the Declaration OF Independence
was signed Mr. Moore motioned to the
armchair in which Washington sat in
the sessions of the Constitution Cor
gress.
Meets Descendant of Franklin.
"Oh." said Clemenceau. 'I am too
small to do such a thing as that" But
finding tire committee insistent he
mounted the little platform and took
his place. They handed to him the
silver pen with which Joffre. Foch.
Admiral Beatty and other celebrities
rad written their names in the visitors
book.
The solemnity OF the moment was re-
lieved when Clemenceau. dipping the
pen in the inkwell. found it dry. II
am sorry but there is no ink in it," he
said. after sounding the depths. So
some one handed him 4 fountain pen
and he put down his name. &c. Glenn
cnceau."
sAnd now" said Mayor Moore. az
should like to present great-great-
/ granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin"
\ ''Ah," beamed Clemenceau, taking the
! hand Of grayhaired woman, Il have
b a statue of Franklin in my street before
a my house" The woman was Mrs. Ellen
Duane Davis OF Philadelphis. Ds
Puts Hand ON Liberty Bell.
His only other stop in the Cradle of
I Liberty was before the/ Independence
Bell. He read. the inscription and ex-
amined the crack with curiosity. then
placed his hand on the bell
At 1928 o'clock this afternoon Gle
menceaus train moved westward. Some
who met him at the Broad Street Sta
ton were Mayor Moore. Gov. Sproul,
Governor-elect Clifford Pinchot, Edward
T. Stotesbury. Edward Box, Senator
Pepper, Cyrus III. X. Curtis Alba b
. johnson, Samuel NJ. Vauclain, Samuel
Rea, Gen. w. W. Atterbury and Gen.
William G.. Price. Bernard NJ Baruch
or New York, one of the sponsors of
Clemenceau's American tour. also re-
joined him here.
The cavalry escort in the. parade from
the station to the Academy of Music
was the City Troop, the Oldest and
flossiest of military organizations
young men in tight white buckskin
breeches and the epauleted tunics and
tufted helmets of dragoons-riding
matched horses.
The streets were, crowded, but for the
most part silent. good many hats
were lifted as the Tiger" passed. In
front Of independence Hall school chill
dren and others sang the 'Marseillaise"
and The Star Spangled Banner The
American national anthem had not been
sung In other cities Clemenceau visited
except by opera singers.
The Philadelphia Forum had charge
OF the Academy of Music meeting. The
theater was full and there was a crowd
outside Clemenceau Is now so well
trained that he did not move from the
reading desk on which rested the trans
mitter of a voice magnifying apparatus
George Norris. Governor of the Fede raj
Reserve Bank, opened the meeting and
Senator Pepper introduced Clemenceau