The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-11-18

(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Nov. 18.-Clemenceau,
Tiger of France, stood on the bridge
of the Paris, steaming up New York
bay this morning, his face aglow
with smiles as he watched the ap-
proaeh of "a coloEful welcoming
fleet. III acknowledgment Of the
first noisy greeting he DOTTED his
picturesque hat.
Representatives of this country
and his own, went down the bay
this morning to greet "the Tiger Of
France" who has come on self
imposed mission Of winning
America for France.
The grizzled ex-premier sid into
American waters on the Paris short
ly after midnight and was tied up
at quarantine, along with the ether
passengers to await TIC coming of
the customs boat this morning.
Clemenceau, according to reports
from quarantine, was fast asleep in
his state room when the Paris drop
ped anchor. .'
But he was up bright and early
this morning to get his first glimpse
in more than half a century of the
new world, in which he lived for
time as young man.
Police reserves had been detailed
to handle the crowds waiting to
see the Tiger as he rode to the
home Of Charles Dana Gibson, where
he will reside while in New York.
Clemenceau will make his first
effort to interpret France to
America in an address Tuesday
night at the Metropolitan Opera
House. He will go to Boston next
Thursday. The other cities on his
itinerary, are Chicago, Springfield,
ILL.,. St. Louis, Washington, Balti-
more, Annapolis and Philadelphia.
George Clemenceau, the French
"Tiger," who came to this country
for the first time more than so 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 a number of old metropoli-
tan acquaintance to renew-some of
them with persons, but more, per-
haps, with streets and places, and
familiar old landmarks which he
learned to know and to revere while
yet boy. -....
The maker and breaker of minis
teries, as Clemenceau has come to be
known because of the tremendous
power he once held in the political
affairs Of his country, is here on his
own hook and unofficially 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 American English - hawlessly
and without effort. He is master
of our idiom and has kept up with
American slang for more than five
decades.
It was back in 1866 that young DR..
Clemenceau, just turned rs. first
stepped ashore in New York. His
meagre wardrobe spoke eloque:atly of
his poverty, but the case of shiney
new surgical instruments, his only
other possession, held his future
or so he though at the time. !
Practical Medicine.
Back of him, he believed, lay his
political career, which was not much
to boast of. He has served short
term in prison for activities IN be-
half tof the Republic and had been
invited to leave France for failing to
resist further temptations along the
same line upon gaining his freedom.
After all, he concluded, the medical
profession, which had supported six
generations of Clemenceaus before
him, was superior to politics.