Show RETURNED FROM EUROPE MRAND M SPIRO BACK PROM WEDDING TOUR Tho Happy Groom Talks of Condi The ot tions in the Old World Afraid of American Competition Solon Spiro secretary and general manager of the Aschheim Mercantile company of Park City with his bride arrived from the East yesterday and took apartments at the Knutsford Mr Spiro left J Utah early last October and was rnarriod to Miss Ida May Marks of Walnut Hills Cincinnati Inlha city on October iCth and a few days later started iTn tour abroad passing about two months In England and on the continent Mr Spiro says that the business men on the continent are awakening to thp I fact that America Is working well in the lead In the commercial world In Germany especially he says Is this I feeling manifest The manager of the largest l mercantile business In southern Germany told me said Mr Spiro that his country now realizes that we are today thelr heaviest competitor in export trade In Berlin was shown me what when completed will be one of the finest commercial structures in that city and I was told that it was designed de-signed wholly by American architects and was being built under the direction of American builders Ainerlca Is beginning be-ginning to Invade the old country In a manner that Is causing the foreigners I much alarm There was much war talk on the I continent and tho sentiment generally seemed to bo In favor of the Boers as against England I saw what has been done In preparation prepa-ration for the Paris exposition While the fair will be greater than our Worlds all in point oC size I do not believe It will l a vc the lasting Impressions Impres-sions our show did as It has not such I advantages of location The French seem to rely for their outside attendance attend-ance mainly on America The effect of the Dreyfus trial on thy attendance at the exposition will not be felt I I think as Dreyfus Is already about forgotten Jn Europe and It Is thought will be here by the time the fair opens Europe Is not to be composed with our country in any respect unless it he they have more history than w t have They are noticeably behind us In tho matter of travel accommodations and in hotels Americans ought to feel proud They never realize what their country Is J until they go abroad I they would spend as much In seeing their own country as they do for foreign for-eign travel they would be better repaid re-paid Mr Spiro says that business generally general-ly I throughout the East Is splendid but the Wall street people are a little uneasy un-easy just at prcsentowlng to the financial finan-cial flurry Mr and Mrs Spiro will be at home at the Knutsford for l time |