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' - -CHAPTER L '". ' . .
The population of America la sixty mfjllons
mostly colonels. . , te. ; , , . .;
... If the earth is small, America Is large, and
the Americans are Immense! .
Yes, sixty millions! all alive and kicking!
- From east to west, America stretches over
a breadth" of more than ' 8,000 .miles, ' Here
it is well to put soma readers on their guard,
In cage an American ahooid one day put -to
tnem one of his favorite questions: "Where
is the center of America f" I myself imagined
that, starting from New York and pushing
westward, onsl. .would reach the extremity of
America on arriving at San Francisco. Not
so, and here Jonathan has yon. He knows
you are going to answer wrongly, and if yon
want to please him. you must let yourself be
caught in this little trap, because it will give
him such satisfaction : to put you right. At
San Francisco, it appears you are not quite
half way, and the center of America Is really
In the PacWo ocean. Jonathan more than
doubled the width of his continent in 1807, -
when for the sum of $7,000,000 be purchased
Alaska, of aeBussiana . 1 '!
Is America, everything is on an immense
scale: the Just pride, of the citizens of the
xoung ttepublio is fed by the grnndeor or its
ivars, mountains, deeerta, cataracts. Its sus
pension bridges, its bogs cities, eta
Jonathan passes his life In admiration of
all thai is' American,; fie cannot get over it
I have been through part of the country,
ted I caqnot; get over it either. Tarn out of
breath, turned topsy-turvy. B, is pure con
juring; It Is Robert ' Houdih over again
occasionally perhaps Robert Macaire too-
but let us not anticipate. Give me time to
recover my breath, and set my ideas in order.
These Americans are reeking with unheard-i
'of-iieas, I con tell you' that to begin witlt
not forgive an Englishman for coming to his
dinner table in a tweed suit.
- Jteparatorii, practical ors. Finishing -fa I My fdoas ar ail jostling in mypqorl pld
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thing impossible, and the fairy tales
child's play compared to what one may see
:eVery day. Everything is 'prodigious, done
by steam,: by -electricity 1 It is dazzling, and
I no longer wonder that the Americans only
ss their adjectives in the superlative.
As an illustration of what I advance, here
is a letter' that I received from an American,
in tas month of Kay, 1897, and which finally
decided me'tjj'go and: see- America.' Ills
"Diiab Bt&zf wotthpoiit of - hiking
the boat at 13 today, to go and have a talk
with you about an idea which occurred to me
yesterday; but as I have already been across
three times, and in a month or six weeks
shall have to set out for St Petersburg and
Japan, I am desirous, if, passible, of arrang
ing the matter I have at heart by corre
spondence."-
"Uood heaven r I exclaimed, "this Is a
man 1 must make the acquaintance of; 1
. must -go. and see Jonathan at home one of
thesfcdays."
And as soon as circumstances allowed, I
packed my trunks, took a cabin on board one
of the brave ''White Star" liners, and set out
to see Jonathan and his continent.
. CHAPTER VL
When, a man of average intelligence re-
turns home after having made a voyage to
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JJUrnam r.iarOie WOrnSj foreign land; hecanAot help having formed
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Certain number; of impressions, and Uie has
a right to eommunlcato them to his frienda.
They are but impressions, notes taken by the
wayside, and, if there is an error committed
by any one. It is by the critic or the reader,
when either of these looks for perfect pict
ure oT the' rhanflors andf1 lnstiurtiotis 'of th
people the author . has vuited, iostoad of
simple Impressions 4e voyages Certainly, if
there is a country In the world that it would
be Impossible to Judge in six months, that
country is America, and the author who, in
soch a little spaoe of time, allowed himself to
(all into the error of -sitting in 'Judgment
upon her would write himself down aa ass.
To form a really exact idea of America one
would need to live twenty years in the coun
try, nay, to be an American, for I may add
that, hi my opinion, the best books that exist
Upon the different countries of the world
have, been written by natives of thoseeoun-
triea Never baa an author written of the
English like Thackeray: never have the
Bocccb bean painted with snob fidelity as by
Ramsay( nil to describe Tartarin it needed
not only a Frenchman but a Provencal, ai-
most a Tarneoonnais. ' . :'' , .
, It must be allowed that Jonathan has good
reason to mistrust his critics, ' Uost books on
America hare bean written by Englishmen.
Now the Engl Wj are, of all pr'o. those
who csti the im-Tt easily got rid ot t rpreju-
di Li rfxwking of America. TL.y arS
obliged to admit that the Americans have
made ebesrway pretty weli sines they have
been their own mat era; but John Bull baa
always a rankling remembrance, when he
looks at America, of the day that theAmerV
eans sent him about hi busioaas, and bis look
to say to Jonathan! "Yes, yes, yon
hare not duo at all badly for yon, bst joat
think wast the country would aave been by
this time if tt bad remained bs my ttaaeV -
The Cr-ntmaa, o bis side, has na antip
athy whatever to the Americana For that
matter the Fngliahmsa has no antipathy for
anyone, Be despisaa, but he doss not bate,
a fact which Is Irritating to the last degree
to the objects of his sanation. Wnen a man
feels that be has some worth, he likes to be
loved or bated; to be treated with hxSLStt
nee is falling. Jcha Boll looks on the Ameri
can aa s parvenu, and amilee with Incredulity
whan yon asy that American aoeisty Is not
on-'y brC'.iant and wltry, but quite ee polished
t ; . t t European society.
It is tL is haughty disdain which exasperates
Amiraiia
Jonathan has forgotten that the Eng'ith
wore once or -- ; b forrfres Uwm
tW the war of IHV2; ni-.hoct tyrgt'j:g tt,
ha furr!e tlwn f rart ?, d-iri.- j thacira
CHAPTER HX -
A nation, scarcely' more than a hundred
years old, and composed of many widely dif
ferent elements, cannot, In the, nature of
things, possess very .marked characteristic
tralia.;; , ,v'.
There are Americans la plenty, but the
American does not yet exist. , .' - .
- The inhabitant of the northeast states, the
Yankee, differs as much from the western
man and the southerner ss the Englishman
differs from the German or the Spaniard.
: Ear example, call n Yankee "a cad," and
he will get out of the . room, remarking:
"You say so, sir, but that proves nothing.1
Call a Pennsylvania man "a cad" and he win
get out of temper and knock you down. . Call
area! westerner a cad" and he will get out
bis revolver and shoot you dead on the spot
Should a minister indulge in unorthodox
theories in the , pulpit, the eastern man will
content himself with shaking his head, and
going to another church to perform bis de
votions tbe Sunday after. The Pennsylvania
will open a violent polemic In tbe newspapers
of the locality. The Kansas man will wait
for the minister at tbe church door and give
him a sound thrashing. , -
. On board the steamer we had five Ameri
cana who passed tbe eight days of the voyage
tn playing poker. The smoking room rang
from morning to night with the oaths that
they uttered every time they laid a card on
the table, They were so fluent with them
that they hardly used the same twice in an
hour, i Their stock seemed inexhaustible. On
Sunday after breakfast a young "lady sat
down to the piano, and began playing hymnn
What happened then! Our five poker play
ers gathered round tbe lady and, for two
hours, sang psalms and holy hymns to tbe
edification of the -other , occupants of the
saloon. ' " '-'", '"
: I was dumfoundod. . ' - . - ..
In France we have men who wear, and
men who sing hymna The Anglo-Saxon race
alone can furnish men who do-both with
equal gusto. r; , :., w: -.:A-:
; In what other country than America could
such an anecdote as the following be toldl It
is the most typically American anecdote I
heard in th United Statea ' It came from
Mr.-. Chaunoey Depew, it is said. ; But, for
that matter,' when n good ' story goes the
round of. tbe states, It Is always put down to
Mr. Depew, Mark Twain, or the late Artemus-
Ward. . I
A new minister had been appointed In
little Kentucky town. . No sooner had be
taken possession of bis cure than be set about
ornamenting the church with stained glass
windows of gorgeous huea This proceeding
aroused the suspicions of several parishioners,
who imagined that their new pastor was In
clined to lead them, to Rome, A meeting
was called, and It was decided to send a depu
tation to tbe minister to ask bun to explain
his conduct, and beg him to have the offend
ing windows removed. ... .',..
The bead of the deputation was an old man
of Presbyterian proclivities, whose austerity
was well known hi the town. ' He opened Are
by addressing the reverend gentleman thus:
"We have waited upon you, air, to beg that
you will remove those painted windows from
our church as soon as possible. We are sim
ple folks, God's own light is good enough for
us, and we doo't want to have it shut out by
all those Images"-- - ;'.
' The worthy man bad prepared a fine har
angue, and was' going to give the- minister
the benefit of it all; but the latter, loslqg
patience, thus Interrupted hlmr '
"Excuse me, yon seem to be taking high
ground; who are you, may I sskf
"Who am IT repeated tbe good old spokes
man. Tm a meek and humble follower of
Jesus, that's what I am, and, d n you,
who are you I" , ,
Without traveling Tory far, without even
quitting the eastern coast of America, you
will see a complete difference in tbe spirit of
towns that are almost neighbors.
In New York, for Instance I am not speak
ing now of tbe literary society, of which I
shall speak later m New York, tt is your
money that will open aO doors to yen; la
Boston, It is your learning; in Philadelphia
and Virginia, it is your genealogy, Tbare
f ore, If yon wish to be a sneress, parade your
dollars in Hew York, your talents In Boston,
ad your ancestors In Philadelphia and IUch
mond. Scarcely has a foreigner est foot in the
foiled States before they ask him-what be
thinks of the country. Nine persons out of
every tea yon speak to put these three ques
tions toyoni
di "Is thn your Srst visit to Americar
& -How long bare yon been orerf"
(9 "llow do yon like our countryf
There are even some who push curiosity
further, and do not wait nntll yon, have ar
rived to aak for your opinion on America,
I had only Just embarked on board the
Germanic, at livsrpool, when, the purser
banded me n letter front New York, I
opened tt and reed:
Dub 8m Could yon, during your rcy
age, write me aa article on the United StaUaf
I should be happy to have year preconceived
notions of America and the Americans, so as
to publish tnent m my Journal aa aoon as yon
arrive." ' - ,
An Englishman or a Frenchman will never
aak yon what yon think of England or France.
The Frenchman doss not doubt that hiseona
try la beyond cornpatirion. If he enter into
fhesoLJect at all, it is to eccgramlate the
stranger upon coming to visit it,
The Fng'tihmaa is perfectly persuaded
that hie England is the firs country in the
world and that everybody admits It, and the
idaaof asking aa otronder for Ids camion of
It would nerar eoter hia bead. He would
thick it so rUiculooa, so amusing, so' gro
tesque, that any one should tell hlxa England
eras a. 4 at the ko-a I of s3 aatkoa, that he
I tt,t tii-S tidj trmi' ; to Wnt It, !e
would pity the person, and Uie matter would
go so further.
. CHAPTER Tvi i j- .!
The American men art generally thin.
Their . facet glow -with Intelligence and
energy, and In this ' mainly consists their
handsomeness. The features are bony, tbe
forehead straight, the nose sharp and often
pinched looking tn Its thinness, At times one
seems to recognize tn the faces something of
the Indian type, tbe temples indented, the
cheek bones rjremment, the eyes small, keen
and deep seti .
As for the women, I do not hesitate to say
that hi the east, hi New ; York especially.
they might ' perfectly well be taken for
French women. It b the same type, the
gait, the same vivacity, the same petulance,
the same amplitude of proportions.
. The beauty of the American women, like
that of the men, is due much more to the ani
mation of the face than to form or. coloring
The average of good looks b very high, In
deed." I do not remember to have seen' one
hopelessly plain woman during ' my six
months ramble through the states,
' .' American women 'generally enjoy ' that
second youtlf. which nature bestows also on
numbers of French , women. At 40 they
bloom out Into a more majestic beauty. . The
eyes retain their Ore and luster, the skin does
not wrinkle, the hands, neck and arms re
main firm and white. It b frite that ha
America hair turns gray early, but, so far
from detracting from 4be woman's charms, ft
gives her an air of distincfioq, and b often
positively an attraction. - .
The New Yorkers and Bostonlans will have
It to be that Chicago women hare enormous
feet and hands, I was willing to believe this
up to tbe day I went to Chicago. -1 found
the Chicago wometv and those of the west
generally, pretty, with more color than their
eastern sisters, only, as a rule, quite slight, not
to say thin.':, : V; ' ,'.:;' '.;.':;'-V."
'.' That which b lacking In the pretty Ameri
can faces of tbe east b color and -freshnesa
The complexion is pale, and It bonly their .
plumpness which comes to their rescue after
8) and prevents them from looking faded.
Those who remain thin generally fade quickly;
the complexion becomes the color of wbity
brown paper, and wrinkles freely. .' , :
, tf American women went in for more out
door exercise; if they let the outer air pene
trate constantly' into , their rooms; if they
gave up living tn hothouses, they would have
some color, and their, beauty need perhaps
fear no competition in Europe. - ,
CHAPTER V.. -' "
Jonathan admires all that glitters,
that which b not gold. In hia eyes tbe suc
cess of a thing answers for Its quality, and
the charlatanism that succeeds b superior to
tbe merit that vegetatea The dollar is not
only tbe unit of the monetary system; it is
also the unit of the metrical system.
I was chatting one day with an American
about the famous CoL Robert IngersoIL
'He b your greatest orator, I am told," I
said. -
"Yes," be replied, "Ingersoll can fin tbe
Metropolitan opora bouse anjf day, and have
.five thousand dollars in the bouse."
Certainly that b a curious way to speak
of a great orator, a great writer and a great
thinker. ' ; - , ' . '
I need not say that I am now speaking of
the average American not tbe litterateur or
the man of good society.
' It would bo quite possible for an actress to
attract large audiences all through a tour
from New York to San Francisco, not be
cause of Incontestable talent, but because she
traveled In a magnificent palace car of her
own. .. '; ", .-.
1 saw, fat an American paper, the appear
anoeof Hit Minnie Palmer spokeu of in the
following terms: '.s
. "Minnie Palmer will wear all her diamonds
In the third act"
The booking office was besieged all day,-
and, In the evening, money was refused, Aa
amusing detail was the arrival of a good
fourth of tbe audience at 10 o'clock, to as
the diamonds in the third act.
. , . ( . .CHAPTER VT. ;
- Man has been perpetuated to expiate tbe
transgression of his first parent by hard labor.
Jonathan b a proof of It Be labors; he tolls,
and tbe sweat of his brow crystallizea upon the
arms and neck of his beloved womankind in
tbe form of diamond ...'
- To the American woman tbe diamond b
not an object , of luxury, it b an object of
prime necessity , An English old maid would
do without her tea before an American
woman would go without diamonds:
If good style consists in not doing what the
vulgar do, good styb in America ought to
consist for one thing in wearing no diamonds
unless democracy abould demand this sign
of equality. ' ; ' - , '
When yon sec diamonds in the ears of shop
girls and factory girls, they are sham gems
bought with well earned money, or real ones
bought with badly earned money.
Lors of woman, innate in the American, fa
not enough in itself to explain tbe luxury
that man lavishes 0, bar to the United
Btatea America b not the only country
where manb devoted to woman and ready to
aatiafy all her espricee. Tbe Frenchman b
aa keenly alive to ber tn finance as the Ameri
can, if not more.
Tbe luxury of the American women amst
be explained m another way-
Money b easily earned fat tbe United States,
and b freely spent Business savors more of
gambling than of commerce fat the proper
oae of tbe word.
Jonathan, then. Is in a position mack like
that of man whom I saw give a hundred
franc note ton beggar cos day fat the streets
of Monte Carlo, "if I win at trentsetqna
rante," said he to some one who asked him
bow be could do sorb a fooUau thing, "what
are a hundred francs to mef I can afford to
be teuatous to s poor fellow eraatnre out of
it; if 1 Imo, ft Is wTrmrh that the croupier
win not get"'WRaa -Jonathan covers his
wife with diarooodsbf says to bJnwalf, "If 1
win i can Indulge .Bay wife without iaooav
venieocing myaeu; if I loss, it is ao mack
saved from the fray."
Thai fa not aa
Lf the American thirsts after money, It fa
mat tor the love of money, se a rale, bet
for the low of that which money can buy.
In other srorde, avartee b a vice almost un
known fat America. Jonathan does sot
amaas gold for the pleasure of adding pCe to
pile aad conntir.g It Ea purstxa wealth to
iuiprora bis jrmiUaa b life and to aurrouDd
those dinJect efoa him with edraolara 1
and luxuries. He sreode his money as gayly
ss be porks It, 'y wbn it fa s ques
tion ot grably lug-, bis wUe of uaugntars, who
aro the objects of his most assiduous atten
tion.. He b thelrst to;admit that their love
for diamonds b as absurd as it b costly, but
he is good humored, and says: "Since they
Uke them; why should they not have themr'
, ' , -'' : CHAPTER Vtt '.": ' ' .- ' '
' The large cities do- cot constitute the real
America. To gain correct idea of the coun
try one must. go and see thoas hundreds 1
had almost said those thousands' of ourfehr
ing little towns which spring up day by day
on that bnmense continent a ' -. " 'i '
. It b no use looking In- New York for mon
uments in the sense which we attach to the
word fat Europe. There are massive build
bgs, a few handsome churches, but nothing
which arrests your gaze, ' The houses In the
best part of tbe city are built of brown stone
tn the English style. In tbe populous quar
ters many are of red brick, with green shut
ten as tbe outside,, :-: i "-',-' .!..'
; The streets are horribly 01 paved. From
my windows, which looked on Madison square.
tbe carriages appear to rise and fall as If on a
troubled sea. Drunkards have bad to drop
their habits; they could not reach home from
the beer saloons,
Three One squares alone break the roouot-
iy of all these parallelograms of streeter
vaahingtoo square, union square and Madi-
ton square. ' 1 , . 4,;,t
' That which strikes the visitor to New York
b not the' city Itself, but the feverish activity
which reigns there. : ,
Overhead b a network of telegraph and
telephone wires, on the ground a network of
tram 'oar rail " It b estimated that there
are more than 13,000 miles of telegraphic
wires suspended over the beads of the
by; about enough to go half round the world.
The whistles of the boat that ply between
Nov York and Brooklyn on the East river;
and between New York and Jersey City on
the Hudson, keep up, day and, night (until I
tn the morning), a noise which Is Uke the roar
of wild beast It b the cry of Matter under
tbe yoke of Man. You fancy you are living
in a menagerie.
In almost every street tram cars cat every
few minutes, It la an incessant procession.
In Broadway alone there are more than three
hundred. Tbe cara, as they are always called
In .America, are. magical, like', everything
American, Built to carry twenty-four per-
eons inside (there are no seats on tbe top),
they art made to' hold sixty and more. tn
fact, no matter bow full they are, there fa
always room for one more. . Tbe conductor
never refuses to let yon go on board. You
bang on the rail beside the driver or con
ductor, if It b not. possible to equeen your
self Inside and hold on to the 'leather straps
provided for the purpose; yon gasp for
breath; It b all you can do to 'get at your
pocket to extract the five cents which, you
owe to the car company; but the conductor
cries, tn his Imperturbable nasal drawl: "More
forward, make room."
In Third avenue and Sixth avenue, yon find
tbe overhead railway called the "Elevated."
It ia supported on Iron pillars, and the trains
ran ' along on tbe level with the upper win
dows of tbe bouso This company carries
every day the fabulous number of 000,000 pas
sengers, . ... . .. . )
AH the existing means of transit are ac
knowledged to be Insufficient, and an under-
railwav b talked ot There will soon
be travelers underground, on sue gronno,ana
fat the air. Poor Hercules, where are you
with your "Ne plus Ultraf" You had reckoned
without your Yankee, X 1
Tbe streets, ill paved and dirty, are danger
ous in winter. , Coachmen do not check their
horses ' for foot passengers, but neither
do they try to run over them. They strike
the middle course between the London coach-,
man, who avoids them, and the Parisian one,
who alms at them.
Tbe populous quarters, such as 'the Chinese
quarter, tbe Italian quarter, the Jewish
quarter, with their tenement booses, thoas
barracks of the poor which I rial ted one day
In company with a sanitary engineer, remind
one of some of Dante's descriptions! It b
descent, or rather aa aaceut, Into hell. I spore
tbe reader tbe impressions which that day
loft upon me.' Horrible! ' A populace com
posed of theoffsoonruigs of all nations, tbe
..TbelfepitoLVei .teet
marble, with a superb dome and hmjestio
flights of steps, b One of the grandest, most
Imposing looking edifices In the world, ' The
souvenirs, attached ,to It and the treasure
which It contains render it dear to the Ameri
cans; It is a monument which recalls to their
minds tbe glories of the past, and keeps slight
the flame of patriotism,) ; .1! ;
. A general, who served through the great
civil war, told me be hod seen strong meri,
soldiers brought up in remote states, sit down
and weep with strong emotion at seeing the
Capitol for the first tune., ' .H f,
Washington b wholly given over to poli
tic When congress fa not sitting, it ia dead;
when congress b sitting, it b delirtou
Little or no commerce b done.
; Philadelphia, formerly the capital of the
United States, Is a city of eight or nine hun
dred thousand inhabitants, and Is built, like
New York, in parallelogram Its town hall
is, next to the Capitol at Washington, the
finest edifice in America. ' I do not know
anything' to compare to. Its splendid bark,
unless It. be the Delude Boulogne In Pari
Tbe alleys of this park, if put. together, would
cover about sixty miles In length. Seen after
New York or the busy western cities, Phila
delphia strikes one as slow, even moootooou
- except on the Clover club annual banquet
evening.
, This Quaker city of quiet streets and sober
people fa, however, full of all kinds of manu-
factorie . ' - ' .: ( i
On the shorn of take Michigan there stood
a town, built of wood, and peopled by some
hundred thousand ' Inhabitant i, Thta was
called Chicago.
On the evening of Oct 8, 1871, a cow that
an old woman was milking In a ban kicked
over s lamp and set lire to tbe struotur The
Somes spread, and on the morrow of that tor.
rible night tbe whole city was level with the
ground. The Chicago people of today show,
as a curiosity to the visitor, the only wooden
house which escaped the name )
At the present time thiadty, the living and
gigantic emblem of tbe phoenix, stands re
built la hewn Stone, and holding 800,000 in
habitant -'v:,:: 1 v
; ; Such b America. ?4 -lot r.r.i fT-
In lea than twenty year Omaha, Denver,
Kansas City, Minneapolis wfll be so many
Chicago Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville
will rival her fat five,
Chicago Is, in my eye, the very type of the
American city," the most striking example of
what Jonathan calls "go-ebeadlsm.'! B n
Tbe streets are twice aa wlde'as tbe Parisian
boulevard; the bouses of business are eight,
ton and twelve stories high. 1 Michigan, ave
nue b seven mOee long; tne numbers ot tn.
houses run up to 8,000 and something Tbe
city bat parks, lovely drive by the lake shore,
statues, including a epleodld on of Abraham
Lincoln, public buildingB imposing ia their
mastlveneas, fine theatre and church, luxu
rious dub, hotel inside' which fouV good
sued rarisian ones couia aance a quadrille,
Michigan aveuuo and' Prairie avenue are
extremely handsome. Picture to yourself the
avenue of the Bob de Boulogne, prolonged
for seven miles In a straight line, and Imagine
tbe effect, the beautiful vista, when this fa lit
up at night, or when the trees, with which
both these grand roads are planted, are in all
their fresh spring beauty.
In these avenues, Americas, eccentricity
has been allowed free play. The bouses are
built in aJ Imaginable sty lea of architecture:
some of them are Florentine, tome English,
others Moorish, others a mixture of all three;
other again look Uke Greek temples, whilst
here and there you oorne across what looks
like a little Oothio church, and Close along
side medfaeval eastle in miniature, or Imita
tion moeqoea; some hare the look of villas In
tbe Pari suburbs, some nay been modeled
upon Swiss chalets, other upon the residence
of some pasha on tbe borders 01 to. Vos
phorua . There are styles for all taste
Tbe American may Be eccentric, or what
you will, but he fa never monotonous.
Enter one of these bouse, and yen arm ace
handsome furniture, not only rich, but in
good tasta.
I waa notastoniabed to Und Chicago society
genial, polished and wall read. Riches beget
Kng, built Of.whiteJ'i IWoeuwr.ul tne board was"
wvsmvu ntvu at Kiuauuu atntM ia uVWWlt
At that
, arum 1111 ea, and heliotrope.
season; lilies were-worth a dollar each, and
all through the winter the price of roeee was
from a quarter to two dollars apiece, accord
ing to kind. The Americans at this feast
estimated the star of flowers at six oresved
thousand dollar, r ; ,
- At a dinner party given recently at Dal
monico's, I beard that each menu hadacbaid
.attached, con'.tb- of pearls and diamonds;
and valued at gl,0ua
In houses, in- clubs, Tn offices pn cannot
help admiring the Ingenious forethought the
the wonderful care' with which, the smallesi
wants and the slightest conveniences of Hfe'
bare been studied; it seems ss if there were'
nothing left to dealre. '
It b impossible, however, in rpeaktngoC
American interior, to naasover in silence at
certain eyesore, which meets your sight ai
everyturn,' -I :-.: . ..
The most nidlsnensable. It appears, ' the
mostcouspicuouaat any rate, piece of furnt
'tare In America b the spittoon. . All rooms'
are provided with thla object of prime neces
sity;' you find one beside your seat in the
trains, under your table In the restaurants'; '
Impossible to . escape the sight of the ugll
utensil. In the hotel corridors there b a spit
toon standing sentinel -outside every Boor. In
public buildings the goofs' are dotted with
them, and 11167 form the line- all up the
stair. -. ' --" ' ; , . -:.-t .
The Americana, used to theae targets from1
the teuderest agev are marveloualy adroit at
the us of them; they never miss their aim.
; I.aw some really striking feats of marksman
ship; but perhaps the best of an at the Ca"
ItoLin Washington. iJ 4 f ..; . I
Ths supreme court of Judicature was sit
ting As I entered an advocateswaa teanch
Ine thunder of aloquenca ' "AH at once he
stopped, looked at a spfttoftn which stood two
yards off, iimed at It, and Kirrron craaahk
ptul right fat the bull's eye; then on he
went with his harangue: I looked to seethe'
even Judge and the public applaud and cry
bravpl ; Not a murmur, the Incident passed1
completely unnoticed. Probably, there waa
not a man in the hall who could not ay to
.himself: There's hothing'fa that I could drf
a much." In-. 1 t --
dirtiest, roughest on can Imagine. , , ; . J tho tost for literature and arts; perhaps one
. . . ......... . m,.l 0 , aa '-. . , U . .-u. MfAJ . ,
Bard by this frightful squalor, Fifth avenue,
with its palaces full of the ricbas of the aarth.
It fa the eternal story of large rttie 4
Asm London, hundred of eburcbs and
taverns (called beer saloons), It fa the
ignoble Anglo-Saxon mixture of Bible and
beer, of spiritual and spirituous.
Hew York b probably tbe most eosmopoli-
taoclty lathe world.. To give an. idea of It,
I may tell you that there are newspaper
published there fat English, French, German,
Russian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch,
Hungarian, Chinese and Hebrew,
J received one day a circular of a meeting
of the "Knights of Labor." It was printed
fat stx different language
Nothing b more diverting than to bear th
dwalkraot each great American town criti
cise tbe dweller in th other AH
societies, each almost in it Infancy as yst,
are Jealous one of another. At Boston, for
instance, you will be told that tbe Chicago
people are aO pig stickers and pork packer
In Chicago, yoe wiii bear that rioaton faeom-
poaed of nothing but prig and "petlsnae
ridicule"
The English spoken m Boston b purer than
any to be heard elsewhere t th north. The
voices sr bs harsh and nssal, tbe ngnsg
to be "fun t, vurry Amurracan. If
you think yourself fat England a you walk
along to stiest, tbe fHoetoa becomes com-
you bear the wall bred people
Ail the aneodots told fat America on the
object of Boston are satires upon the pre-
amxfptnoosebevaetsr of to Boston Ian, who
considers Boston the center of the enl vera
Bare b on out of the many nnadrad I
have beard. .
A Boston maa has lost his wife, Assoc
a tslepbonie cwmmnnk-erlon b ustaNlshod
bet wan that eity aad Paradisa, be rings aad
cries: .-
"Hellol" " '
HeUol" from the ofber end.
I that yon, Artsmfaiar '
"Yea, dear."
Well, my love, and bow do yos Ilk it p
tberep
-Oh, -H fa very nice, of eoursa but tt bnl
Boston."
Washlngtoa it the sol American city which
has monuments that can strike the European
with admiraUoa for their beauty. The Cap
itol, th government builJin js, the maseacw,
built tn tbe midst .of haadaoaie gardens, all
the eye of tbe vWu.
day tt will beget the tact for simplicity., . i
You And bars still more warmth and much
lost constraint than fat the east 'You feel
that yon bar quit th Nairn of New Eng
land Puritanism. No frigidity here; people
grrs free play to their sentiment If 1 had
to came tbe most sympathstio of my Ameri
can aodiencea, the wannest and promptest to
sola the significance ot a look or gesture, I
should name the one which I bad tbe boner
of addressing In Chicago.
At 7 fat th morning every man b astir and
at work, whether be be millionaire or poor
clerk. Only the idle are outside th pale of r
poctabillty in Chicago.
I do not think it fa possible for a European
to Imagine tbe activity which reign , fat
Chicago without seeing it , , cl
! "You willeooo be Inventing," I said to a
resident'" machine that will tab a Uve
rabbit at on sod and turn out a chimney pot
bat at the other,"
si, - , CHAPTER IX '
, A word about AmWiraH aristoCTocy to be
gin with.-?; him ytf ,-:y.-. I
; . What, American artetpcracyf ; ,. . I
' Ye eertainlv. . 1
j I assure you that there exists fat America?
social sanctuaries into wflfeb It b tnoredlffl
cult to penetrate than into the most exclusive
mansions of the Faubourg Bamt-Oermaln or
of Mayfalr and Belgravia, ,t I
' There ore fat Philadelphia; fat Beacon street, -
Boston; tn- vrasnmgtou; square marts sue,
New York; hi Virginia; in Canal street ftlght
side). New Orleans, Americans who look upon?
common mortal with, much more pity and
contempt than tho Uontmorcucys of France-
ortb Howards of Engiand,,-4 ,F ,..,.' :
The Americana, .not baring any king to
givs them titles of nobility, hav created an .
aristocracy for tbemsalve Tbbarbtoeracy'
boast a yt no duks, marqnisea, earls, or'
barons, but the blue blood is there, it appears1
Dutch blood a a nil and that b sufficient
When European nobleman arrive faith'
States, tbe American aristocracy leave cards'
upon him at th hotel where he ba alighted! '
He may perhapa be personally knows to none;
but all nobilities are kindred everywhere, it
ban act of international courtesy, as it war-
The European nobleman, who.' often goes to1
America for a dowered wife, la much obliged?
to them, and returns all the visits paid hlmr
1 A New york lady, who b quite aa author
Ity upon such matters, told me on day that -society
In . New York was compond of only ,
four hundred persona. Outside this company
of elect, all rhfllsrine. . ,
Money or celebrity may allow yon to sntar
Into tbi charmed elrde, but you win never'
belong to It You wfll be In it, but not of it
The bdy m question entered also Into vary :
minute details on tbe subject of what she
called the difference between "societr oeonle"
nd "people fat society;" but, In spile of aO'
her explanations, I eoofoas I did not tots tbe
delicate nuance she tried to convey. All r
Clearly understood was' that the aristocracy'
of birth exists fat' America, not only fat' ths
brains' of those who form part of It, but also
b" the eyes oTtbeircompatriota,C , .
The desire to kstabiish an aristocrarv of
some sort was bound to, haunt th breast of
we junencans; u was to oniy toing tost-
their dollars Boomed eatable to procure them.
) Th second aristocracy fa th aristocracy of ,
money, plutocracy. To belong to this it to
not sufficient to be a millionaire you must,
am told, belong to a third generation of mill"
tonairest Of such are tbe Asters, tbe Van
dorbilt and company. .Three quarters of
"nobility" aro U5 necessary key of this little' -
World. Tbe Orat generation nakee the milk
Ion, th second generation b parveeue, th
third b arrives. - Ia the eye of the people' .
to have from thirty'or forty to fifty tbooaanof
dollars a year b to be In decent poverty. To
bar two or three hundred thousand doDarn
year b to be In easy circumstance ,
TbethlidsrbtocracTb th aristocrat v of ,
alreadr," be replied.
And next morning be took me to see the
famous pig killing end park packing premises
of Philip Armour St Co.
Picture to yourself a eerie of room con
necting. Is the first QfiOO pigs a day are
killed; bl the second, they are so-sped
they com oqt of a caldron of boiling water;
to th third, the beads are cut off; and ao on.
and sooau The proceas fa somewhat alcksnlng,
and 1 will not aoter hitoany aaor detail At
tbe end of tbe establishment the poor pigs are
presented to you under the form of bacon.
sausage, gelatine, eta Tbe various prnsia
take place with all th rapidity of conjuring.
' CHAPTER; TOT, ' ' - .
American bosses are furnished very htxuri-1
coaly, and for the most part with sxquMt
to. Hare yon see tbe Influence of woman
ia the smallest details of Ufa; fedeud, at
very step yo take, you as that woman has
pseud that way.
Ths luxury displayed at reception, dinners
sod dances 1 r; same Europeaa Imagination.
At a ball gives in New York la the month
of February, IS-3, tbe walls were covered
with rosea, which did not cost km t-ui
1 10,00a Wbeo oo eonsidon Uat the si: pi -r.
and everything else, was 00 tbe same araia, tt
becomes doubtful wtietoer surb luxury fa to
be admired. I was preset) t one ereri!- ; ct a
dinner given in tbe large dinbg had at
Delmocico'e restaurant, La 5ew York. We
were e!k!.ty-fea e-jet tt aa kamvnse
third aristocracy is incocteatably tho first, if
you win truss the Hibamlanlwm
1 do not think that on could find an
where, or even imagine, a society more re
fined, more affable, more hospitable, Boare
witty or sears brilliant I should like Jusf
here to Indulge In a string of adject! vet after
tbe fashion of Mme, de Sevigse..
On of tbe eorawqueooes of tbe poslttoa
whlcfa -woman taxes fat the United Bute
b, that ia good AntsriceaWrawiug rosmscoa.
versatioofa sever duTi '
'If 1 were onsen," errlalined lljna Ite
eamier one day, "1 woull eoramand Umei
deStael to Ulk to roe aJ d.-y kx.g." One
would Uk to be able to give the same ortW
to plenty of Amaricaa women. Ia their con,
pany eooversatioa never flkgs and alirayi re
mains wltl.lo the dotnnli of rawie. they
gild b'ght'y from one r.'. ; t toa'v:, a
tracting mmnUn'z t "i from pa-w
from th aeriou to I . h iy, even to tbe friro-
lous without be.xxi.ii-g eommo.nj.Ura, soar"
run to lofty be', Vta, but do ntJtdiKi a Ur
eoene down to grm p f jr a nUiiiiie at twn; a3
tUs wi;.'iut s f-vi of arAHaiionk but with
eci-arm of a.-. .s.c&.ia t.' fc fad, hlfu'.'f
aiiini;;g.
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