New-York tribune., 1922-11-18
to Pass Up 5th Ave.
as American and French
Flags Fly; Official We'll
come at the City Hall
Only Speech Here
On Tuesday Night
Former Pre- mier of
France Will Visit Wilson
and Harding at Capital

IeorgeS Ciemenceau, citizen of
France, will land here to-day for a
months visit in the United States. He
is bringing a message, perhaps an ap-
peal. to the American people, but
seemingly he has taken no one into
his confidence, so that his full purpose
will not be known until he speaks on
Tuesday night at the Metropolitan
Opera House to an audience recruited
by the Council on Foreign Relations.
In 1856, when the battlefelds of the
Civil War were still smoldering, M.
lie DR.. Clemenceau came to this coun-
try and moved about restlessly until he
found wife in the person of Miss
Mary Plummer, who was one of his
pupils at young ladies' finishing
school in Stamford, Conn.,, where he
was the professor of French and rid
ing instructor Nine. Clemenceau is
but tender memory now. The young
doctor has carved his name into the
history Of the world as the Premier
of France, who conducted the govern
ment through the final years of the
"aA anu uuriHS ING peace conference
at Versailles. At eighty one he is a
marvellous left-handed swordsman, an
amazing pistol shot, shrewd states
man, a cunning politician, trenchant
writer and a great orator. Only by
years may he be measured as an old
man. His pilgrimage, or expedition to
the United States, is prompted by love,
love Of country. M. Clemenceau is
coming as a super-patriot Of France.
To Be Received Officially
effect on American public opinion in a
serias Of speeches to be delivered in
New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, St. Louis and Baltimore. The
first Of those speeches has been writer
during the days he has been travelling
toward America on the steamship Paris
Though he comes unofficially he will
be received officially. a5
At T:30 o'clock this morning the
steamer Mason will leave Pier A, a
the Battery Her company will include
the French Ambassador, Jules J
Jusserand; Assistant Secretary of State
Robert Woods Bliss, representing the
United States government; commit
tee on arrangements, including Frank
L. Polk, formerly Assistant Secretary
of State in the Wilson Cabinet; former
Attorney General George w. Wicker
sham, Otto Kahn, the banker, and Ham
ilton Fish Armstrong.
Besides these there will be Alfred
Meehan, of the Department of Plant
and Structures, representing the City
of New York, and NJ. Clemenceau's per-
sonal friends, Colonel Edward M. House
and Bernard M. Baruch, both of whom
had notable parts in the making of the
Treaty of Versailles, and Colonel Ste
phen Bonsal, who will accompany M
Clemenceau on his trips in this country.
The Macon will meet the Paris at
Quarantine, and it is planned to have
M. Clemenceau transfer to the smaller
boat, which will then return with him
to the Battery. A mounted police es-
cort will lead the way up Broadway
to City Hall, where the distinguished ed
Frenchman is to be saluted by a de-
tachment of soldiers who are sent from
Governors Island by Major General
Robert Lee Bullard.
The party is expected to arrive at
City Hall about 10 o'clock The cere-
monies will be in the Aldermanic cham
Der, where, after M. Clemenceau has
been introduced by George w. Wicker
sham, he will be formally welcomed to
New York by Acting Mayor Murray
Hubert the President of the Board OF
Aldermen.
To Stop at Gibson Home
Immediately after these ceremonies
M. Clemenceau and members of his
party will proceed in automobiles tt
the home of Charles Dana Gibson
which will be his until he sails back
to France, if he keeps to his schedule
on December 13. The route from City
Hall to the Gibson home will be north
on Lafayette Street to Ninth, west or
Ninth Street to Fifth Avenue and ther
north to Seventy-third Street The
Fifth Avenue Association and other
organizations have arranged to have
the shops and dwellings along the way
gay with French and American flags.
Always animated, it is believed the
eyes of M. Clemenceau will shine with
more than a normal glow to-day as
he is driven along Ninth Street. There
the houses are the same as in the sos
when NJ. lie Dr. Clemeuceau frequently
found kindred spirits in the Hotel La
fayette and the Hotel Brevoort.
The Tigers stay in New York is in
tended to be unmarked by ostenta
tion. In fact. he has been insisten
that his simple regimen of early ris
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