New Britain herald., 1922-11-18

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 with the Paris Temps, for which hs subsequently, wrote series Of bril, liant letters describing conditions in
 America, Ttia correspondence bol' stored up his Income to a certain ex- tent. but the remittances from home had stopped in the meantime. hence he still was in the meshes Of poverty
 A Different Tack.
 Forced to strike out on q different tack. he obtained position in a li- | brary. where he remained for two years, the happiest ones of his life, he said not long ago, Librarians were not used much in those days. and the young Frenehman had ample time 10 seclude himself among the books. reading the best philosophers and historians while he perfected his English.
 ."There my mind acquired what it lacked, and my intellect completed it's formation" he wrote years after ward.
 In the evenings the young student would invariably be found at Pfaff's, famous old German restaurant in Lower Broadway, where in the early sixties met the little group of celebri- ties presided over by Henry Clapp. The days of Fritz James o'Brien, Walt Whitman, George Arnold and Charles Dawson Shanley at Pfaff's were gone. but there still was an atmosphere of romance about the place that attracted younger gem eration of intellectuals, and to this coterie Georges Clemenceau was in- troduced.
 A few months before he had writ ten to the Temps that Americans had no general ideas and no good cof- fec" But now all this was changed. The chef at Pfaff's was the most mar velous cook extant, he wrote, and the coffee brewed there was sublime. Ideas, too, he found aplenty. He grew to love New York, and even applied for citizenship papers.
 Some Travelling.
 Once he was tempted to do little travelling in the New World. He went to the middle west and journeyed as far south as Richmond, Va, but did not penetrate farther into Dixie. The state of the country, he said, just re- covering from defeat in the Civil War, was so deplorable that 1t filled him with sadness.
 Upon his return from the south he was introduced to Miss Aiken. who had just started school for girls at Stamford, Conn. She offered him position as professor Of French which was too tempting to refuse, and for more than year he was absorbed in what he found to be delightful oc- cupation.
 It was here that his brilliant schol- arship was of the greatest benefit, for in addition to teaching conversation French, he did a prodigious amount of work for the school, giving lectures on literary history, both French and and translating several works of John Stuart Mills into French.
 In connection with his work, he did | some more travelling, going frequent | ly to Washington. where he was often seen in the legislative halls, silent observer of government in the mak- ing. He was particularly interested in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, which he hoped some day to see duplicated in France.
 Expert Horseman.
 Miss Aiken, who was practical | soul, discovered that Clemenceau was an expert horseman. and upon her suggestion a course in horsemanship | was added to the curriculum, with | the professor of French at it's head.
 Married Two Times
 Among his pupils was Miss Mary E. Hummer, a very pretty young girl, whose father was prominent phy- 'ician of Springfield, Mass. He had to Wisconsin, where he died. md his daughter was placed in Miss Atkins school by her guardian
 Clemenceau had fallen in love with Hiss Hummer almost at first sight he refrained from deciar- ng himself until after she had com- ,leted her studies and gone to New York to reside with an uncle.
 The young professor followed her here, pressed his suit with all the .ourtliness of a French grandee, and inally was accepted. As Clemenceau vas thinker, and had received no religious training in lis boyhood, he desired a civil mar iage. Miss Hummer likewise had 10 inclinations toward any religious ect, therefore the religious cere- nony was omitted. Several Tam many aldermen witnessed the we'd