Show J America Americ rTh The Land of the Colossal flu By y Max ORel ORell ORely o ReI I Ifa t k kc s c fa O O ERE I am in the United ft I 1 States for the sev seventh I illE euth time My first Scat I visit wa said paid did four fourteen I tees teen years yean ago in 1887 Since that I Iday day tia what changes c what fairylike i F transformations J JIt 1 It is like In i the he I population of America was vas I now DOW it tt is over In fifty yet years Ts i it lt will wil be lie b OO Yea the land landof I erf ot the t Mo lo sal al the land of c 4 tHo u c e In they th y will ill ISO Si w CC IVI tise he light gh In the hc lK tJ east they t will wUl have it from the west wesl As before be I find all eli the tile Americans at the wheel almost recovered from a tragedy that shocked the world and obtained for them the deepest sym sympathy pathy patsy of ot the most mO t exalted in the land landas as welt well as the lowest lowe t But America cannot stop atop for the inane crime of a lunatic ehe eit has baa her ker to ful tul fulfill fill AlI forward O must go frO on Rich and poor yoUng young and old yes all aU with the exception perhaps of a few Angl maniacs whom the old world call gen gentlemen tiemen and a nd the new nev one loafers I On my first fust visit Uit the Amen had all bun bull ml 1 U bio k of fifteen J Jo JI o l I i and aud sixteen et i io tOft I 1 find some In Nsw New N w York with thirty and nd thirty two If It they jo go a lUll higher up still the Americans will have only a astep astep astep step to walk into the sojourn of the Seraphim For Far that matter atter J all aU things are explained New York is built ona narrow island having bavins the shape of 4 n tongue from south to north norf It Is rS impossible to get et extension toward th tb the eaSt cast or west o in the business quarters they spread n the only region of space which Is s that is toward the firma m mn nt Of or Hurst urse sf I cannot say that tUat America it o J interests ta me use now as much a J d I J I merly merfy The novelty has worn worn off otT a bit bitI bitI I am beginning to see Bee things Ameri Amen American can with eyes almost American In Instead Instead instead I stead of ot seeing them with those of the intelligent ent foreigner I no longer I w want ant to be guided and I no longer long r run the risk of being guyed 1 During my first visits I rc r Ived ed I light Impressions Impression which me I and Interested me and which also seemed seamed to entertain the Americans I who were kind enough to allow me meto meI 1 to ti them to them tiem t em Today 1 I i have ha w opinions and a fairly irlY good i fi of the country and the I i is of a foreigner on the nations j 1 he be visits have hae much less les value than titan I thOle of the natives Impressions and opinions are ver very vel different things I The impressions of a and fairly intelligent foreigner ate afe always interesting ting and the fresher they are the tb more they read When fourteen years ago I was be beholding beholding holding bold in men walking wA ng in jn Broadway frowning careworn tired looking I r remember that T 1 exclaimed Poor dev devils Us ils they are on a round of calls cans on friends who live East street treet West street and md maybe 2354 2351 Wet West W t 16 nd street suert B Ey By George so 50 o would I wok D frowning rio W I and aid aM careworn if I had to remember all tJ e combinations of I figures ll That was as an impression Now when I I lOOK looH at the same men I say S to my myself myself i self So many men who do not know whether they will be ruined or will be millionaires today at 4 by the side elde of all aU those preoccupied copied faces I see sue pass paSas as ss before cheerful smiling smart women reg Ng regular Ngul titer ular ul r in gait pit and elegance wearing all the latest fashions of i beautiful Paris handsome well made supple with eyes dazzling d with intel l J beautifully corseted gloved 0 and shod the whole crowned C ned with magnificent hats hata proudly planted Plante on the top of the most beautiful heads in inthe inthe inthe the world Was it not only the other day that Mr Andrew Carnegie Carne e gave cave to found scholarships In the t e four uni universities ver of Scotland This Thill great Am American Ameri enitan eri n million mil ure pl hob hobby hobby hobby by is 18 to found Iree free libraries He es cc establishes them everywhere in Amer America America m ica lea and especially in his dear native nil tive lanci lanu of Scotland 1 I have ha t yet vet to di tr i ite tte belore my death he said onh be he i other day He evidently intends t ta 1 1 I I c C I start the next world as aa he started this 02 1 oni with little or nothing 4 The urd millionaire of course COUr can cannot cannot not riot now floW convey an exact idea of af the fortune of American We p must invent a w rd tj and say billion billionaire 1 air aire a i r The oil aU kits king of af America pos poll possesses esse as aa mane as would have haTe aI the war indemnity imposed ed on OR Trance france by Germany ia In I 1870 1810 and probably probably ably more Ie re reTe Tit Te papers papera announce the amalgamation tion lion of af two great railroad lines linea In ut re the new ew company will wiD control over mi mIles mUe lea The financier who wI brought about this amalgamation is 18 t a aman aman aman man who buy if it L were on Oft onale OftIe ale lale Ie the Louvre Museum and an the Arc de I And bow do thee t Millionaires live Dve I Well every ever ore OTe in this world lives ac cc according 1 cording to his hIa own awn fancy tancy Some lead leada Jeada a life that might be envied by the Eu European European sovereign v Others Othen prefer preL r liv Uv living lug log like little bourgeois retired from business SOAK SollIe have trains and aDd steam steamers ers are of their t own others the street streetcar car p ne me pay their cooks cooka 18 a year tern eat eaLa a chop for tor luncheon But for far the colossal give me Amer American Amerlean Amerlean lean ican journalistic enterprise Give me newspaper proprietors who from New NewYork York run ron papers in Chicago and San Francisco Francieco and aDd who in order to do so co have private p telegraphic wires stretch stretching IDa ing in from one OM end to the other either of this huge h continent at a yearly cost cast of ot On the 1st ef f t November the Paris Figaro ro published an article cf ct mine entitled A New Education to Start iX Three days d sn aD o I received a Butte Montana paper of the next day the Zd 4 of or November containing an m n edi editorial edicT cT of o a whole column on that Fi Fl Figaro FIgaro garo Sam article k n one une diOs Frost From such inch an in thing as asan asan asan an article of mine judge what Amer ican journalism can do in ir the pres presence pr ence Cf f great creat events I have y heard of ot otoo cablegrams costing oo tens of if d thousands of dollar doUaN j TIle The Tb Americans AmerIcana are well served The earth is Ii theirs Ah Ala the they lack Jack yet to is a bit Mt of at ivy on old walls But Birt this if it 4 nery they will manufacture as an asas I easily as cobwebs are manufactured for tor wine wille Merchants and hotel keepers k pers MAX ORELL |