Show LONDON ROBS THE TOURISTS I ElL I I iJ When Americans Begin to I Arrive Prices Go Up and When They Leave the Prices Drop Again f fI I LONDON I Sept 2 With I. With the exO exodus of the th American tourists from rom rein London tho the prices In the hie various stores store that thal cater to their wants want are beginning to fall A It may not bo be generally general known n but hut Jt It I Is never thel's a R fact that with the Inrush h of or the American visitors to the British h lis hIi price are watered to an extent ct nt that thai would make an to date American trust magnate blush and with their the bottom drops out so reo to speak and tho the pried marks marka once more moro assume a normal f face There was wall a time not nol man many years ago o. o when tho the average s American would conic come to London and fool 1001 himself lf into belle believing Ins th- thai l it i was M saving the thO cost of his passage on his purchases o or four suits emIts ten pairs of gloves and a dozen neckties were racked packed ked awa away in a trunk marked marke Not Wanted on on Voyage and md he ho was the proud and happy poss possessor sor of ot a wardrobe wl that he was as sure could not bo be duplicated t for twice tho the money In his homeland But all that has s been changed There Thero was a time wh when 11 a good suit could bo bl ob In London for 15 Today luring during the Arn American season on the came rame cult euit Is ticketed 20 O and arid unblushingly lY offered to the easy tIIS open open-h open handed American tour tour- let N Neckties which worn formerly 20 n cents cent are no now priced d 6 60 50 ce cents t n and d kid gloves glo although still cheaper than In the tho united States always s advance ad RO M r per er r c cent nt during the late ej summer r when the rubes i from Crom rein the other othor eldo ore are hero in full tull force torce As a 3 matter of fact it is an exceptional store that has R J fixed price o ou on an article In the th majority of or cases caes the Que question of o price Is left to tho the salesman He has a minimum scale below which he In is not allowed to go but tho the nearer the sky ky he gets with his actu actual l sales fillies the bet ter h ho he is liked b by his employer or Th The Tha writer has hils frequently y had experIences expert expert- such as on onA which occurred to him quito quite recently lie IIo entered a Strand shop und and Inquired the price of a n certain article Two shillings answered the clerk How much pretending not to hear Two and six Again he has entered a n. shop to buy nn en umbrella which nun hunK hung In lii the tho window to 00 find tho the case which It removed remo when it was as wrapped up for him Upon Inquiring the why and nd the wherefore of this thle he has hu been bee told that if It he wanted tho the case cae It would cost him a n tra shilling ex ox ex- Now NoVo thello methods are rather r raw V II and the merchant who practiced them in In the United States would starve tar for want of customers customer Americans American are considered ene easy by this class of or merchants and they are aro ea easy y because the they have been used to the tho price one-price system tem and nr are not on the tho loi lookout out for tor exceptions of this kind tho the The fact tact American hll has hns himself t tt to blame for tor or that prices go IrO up as IU soon loon as the papers rs announce that tho the rush rUih for England Eng Eng- land has begun In the United States In past p years ears and even en today the American tourists and specially especially the tho folk tolk find it Impossible to make moke a n purchase In London shops without making an audible remark hout Us Its cheapness Wh Why Shy these gloves cost tOt me three times as much In New tent York she exclaims exclaim In Intent In- In intent upon Impressing her nationality upon the tho shopkeeper who b by b- tho the way was perfectly aware of It from the time she darkened the tho doorway o of his hla store These repeated oft remarks hay ha hall hail tho the natural na na- an- an tural effect upon ubon the tho English storekeeper p r and Americans act upon London prices like clear weather on a n barometer |