The New York herald., 1922-12-01

train got here from Chicago. The guide
at the Lincoln home was Mrs. Mary
Brown a grandniece of Mrs. Lincoln.
This is the same floor he walked on
and here is a piece of an old elm tree
lie planted; here is n penholder he used. .
she said. Clemenceau signed his name
in the visitors book and Mrs. Brown
gave him penholder made of a plank
of the floor OF Lincolns bedroom.
There's the sofa he courted his wife
on, and the back has never been re-
newed.' the custodian. went on, point
ing TO a low couch OF black horsehair.
'Ah, an, ah.' said Clemenceau. all
eagerness. There is a picture OF Queen
Victoria on the wall" Mrs. Blown said.
''You know those people better than
We do"
Clemenceau. seeing a photograph of
an old hotel where Lincoln lived before
he set up housekeeping, asked how
much room and board cost in those
days. -Four dollars a week. Mrs.
Brown told him. She told him how
Lincoln built house in 1894 OF oak and
walnut She had him look at a Rogers
group of Lincoln, Grant and--,-rThe other
one is Stanton" said Clemenceau. which
IL was. He inspected closely a photo
graph OF the beardless lawyer of Spring
field
That's the way the people here knew
him." Mrs. Brown confided
He had to view the house full OF
souvenirs hurriedly.
THANK you: this Is great day." he
said to Mrs. Brown, shaking that grail
fled woman's hand at parting. AS he
appeared on the brick steps a Spring
field boy screamed: Hey. Tiger! hey.
Tiger" The townspeople gave him a
real cheer and he started for the ceme-
terry.
Contradicts Snub story.
Clemenceau took occasion this morn
ing to contradict an assertion by a
New York newspaper that Mayor Will
lam Hale Thompson had snubbed him
upon his arrival in Chicago last Mon
day. He said: my reception by Mayor
Thompson was most courteous and as
1t seemed to me. most cordial"
His Thanksgiving breakfast consisted
OF four eggs. boiled five minutes. and
Grueyere cheese, Publicity has ban
ished onion soup for the present. AS
for eggs. Chicago heard that he con-
sumed eight at a sitting. II suppose
said he, that the number VIII be in
creased by two with every city We visit.
i shudder TO think of what it will be
when I return to New York. Eggs? /
hate eggs"
The formal purpose OF his return to
Chicago on December II is~to address
the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Through this. he has been told. he can
speak to 100000 farmers Privately
he Is also enticed by a promised present
of blue blooded collection of seed po-
tatoes These he will take to France
to plant on his little farm and astonish
his nelghbors.
Clenlenceau's Chicago hosts. Mr.. and
Mrs Potter Palmer, were al the Illinois
Central station at 10 o'clock this morn
ing when ne started for Springfield and
s.. i.olls Tonight he is sleeping
aboard his private car. sidetracked at
,Litch sield III. Arriving In st. Louis at
$50 A. NJ tomorrow. he will be the
guest OF Joseph Pulitzer. publisher of
the Post Dispatch. until Saturday eve-
ming On Saturday afternoon he win
speak in the Coliseum.
VIII stop 10 Thank Quakers.
He has no speeches scheduled on his
way East except a five minute one
from the car platform at Richmond,
Ind, Sunday morning Richmond Is a
Quaker town. the seat OF Earlham Col
lege. and Clemenceau wishes - thank
the Friends for their help in restoring
devastated France.
lie will be in Baltimore from A. NJ.
to , =. NJ OH Monday, the guest of a
committee headed by Van LearF Black.
and will talk briefly to the Maryland
Historical Society. -
On Monday afternoon he viii go TO
Washington to stay until December s..
He will call on President Harding srd
Woodrow Wilson and will live at the
home OF Henry White. He will make
two speeches in Washingtoil-one be-
fore the National Chautauqua Associa-
tion, the other at the War College be-
fore a group including officers who
commanded divisions In France. He
will stop at Philadelphia OH his way
from Washington TO Chicago.
Clemenceau had his Thanksgiving
dinner I'm his car, cooked and served
by Charles NJ. Schwab's staff, II con-
sisted of two five minute eggs and half
n prapefruIt