Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-25

NO." answered tho editor; let those
trousers hang just where they are. / may
start daily paper some day, and rhsn will
need them sure"
New York SUM-
A New Yorker who has Just returned from
q five-years' sojourn at an English university
said recently:
Il doubt very much if people who have
been living here for the last few years real
ize the woderiul strides Anglomania has
taken in New York Of late. The hansoms
are the latest and the most conspicuous ex-
amples Of it, but they are only one
feature. What strikes me as being the mos.
curious element Of it is the way the crass
has slipped into trade. Every tailor o.
any consequence in New York seems to
think it necessary to get the word English
on his sign in one way or lother, and the
shops that succeed in establishing a reputa
tion for following the English fashions most
carefully have apparently the most trade.
The juxtaposition Of words is often odd over
the tailor5' shops; for instance, 'O'Shaughn-
essy, English Tailor One never sees sign
which announces that the owner Of t., shop
Is an Irish tailor. Besides this, there are
thousands of men in New York who boast
enough to say that they are the worst dressed
men in New York, as English tailors do not
compare in fitting with the tailors here"
3That reminds me, by the way, that an
continually startled at the appearance men,
who profess to be professional, present in the
streets of New York They are apparently,
in fact palpabiy, endeavoring to look Eng
lish, and yet Assure you that nowhere in
will ind hn oil
semble the society and club men of New
York in the way Of attire. The other day
was on Fifth avenue and three members
of the Knickerbocker club, confessedly the
most fashionable one in New Yorx, swung
out Of the club house and started up Fifth
avenue. They were almost precisely similar
in the matter OF dress; each wore mixed
trousers with big squares dimly outlined in
texture; their coats were long-tailed and
spade shaped, which was the fashion among
cockneys in England sew sral years ago; they
walked with the curious and affected gait
which is characteristic Of dude, and to the
practicei eye they were q very meagre and
unsatisfactory imitation Of the genuine ar
ticle.
1Many Of the tailors in London have agen-
cies here, and it is a saying among them
New York That is one reason why men
who pay heavy prices for their clothes are
seldom fashionably dressed according to the
English standard By the way, the climax
has been reached in the sign of a tailor in
upper Broadway, who announces that he has
the distinguished honor Of being pstronized
by his royal highness the prince Outside
OF the tailoring business find that trades
men are using the royal arms of the ruling
house in England on their bills with quite as
much JUNCTION as their English brethren The
other day cana across a dancing masters
bill which was headed by the coat of arms of
Queen Victoria 1t was a note explaining
that the dancing master had once taught
under the patronage of the Princess Louise,
when her husband, the marquis of Lorne,
was the governor general of Canada,
md he thus considered himself patronized by
the queen-if not personally, at least by
proxy-and held that he was entitled to place
her arms at the head of his circular /
wonder, by the way, if he succeeded in get
ting any pupils by this little devicel Prob
ably, for Anglomania in New York is very
widespread
"Only few days ago amused myself by
reading the signs on the windows of wine-
sellers place in Fifth avenue, near the
Brunswick hotel One Of them was embla-
zoned 'Purveyor to her Majesty the Queen
On all the windows were set forth the fact
that the wine-Seiler's goods were purchased
by Englishmen Of title The names of nearly
all che members Of Queen Victoria's
immediate family, and even the remote
branches Of her family, appeared in big
gilt letters. This is nice state of
affairs for a Democratic city and Demo-
cratic country, isn't iti There is grocery
shop on the avenue little further up which
has its own crest over the door, under which
hangs tiny gilt sign bearing the words,
'Patronized by Royalty 1t is worth noting
that on none Of these signs is it stated that
it is the queen of England or the prince of
Wales; it is assumed at once that the only
queen and prince that one knows Of are those
of England.
Il have been living at hotel since my re-
turn, and have had nothing to do but to
wander around the streets, SO am tolerably
familiar with the spread Of Anglomania,
and see it creeping in everywhere, from
the shops which advertise that they are
English Haberdashers to Gentlemen all
the way up or down to Her Naiesty's
Opera company"