, 1885-01-23
ANGLOMANIA.
WHAT a NEW YORKER SAYS OF ITS
INCREASE


New York SUM-
A New Yorker who has Just returned from
a fveSears' sojourn at an English university
said recently:
Il doubt very much IL people who have
been living here for tho last few years real
izs the woderful strides Anglomania has
taken in New York OF late The hansoms
nre the latest and the most conspicuous ex-
Rmplcs Of II, but they are only ono
foature- What strikes mo as being tho most
curious element OF IL Is tho way the craze
has slipped into trade. Every tailor Of
any consequence In New York seems 10
think il necessary to Get the word English
ON his sign in one way or another, mud tho
shops that succeed in establishing u reputa-
ton for following tho English fashions most
carefully have apparently tho most trade.
The juxtaposition Of words Is often odd over
the tailors' shops; for instance, 'O'Shaughn-
essy, English Tailor One never sees.a sign
which announces that the owner Of the shop
Is an Irish tailor. Besides this. there are
thousands Of men In New York who boast
that their clothes coms from England. IL Is
enough to say that they ara the worst dressed
men In New York, us English tnilors do not
compare in fitting with the tailors here.p '
THAT reminds me, by the way, that / am
continually startled at tho appearance men,
who profess to be professional, present in the
streets of New York. They arr apparently,
in fnct p~alpably, endeav oring to look Eng
1ish. and yet | assure you that nowhere in
England viii you find men who at all re-
a,mbls the society and club men OF New
York in the way Of attire. Tho other day
/ was on Fifth avenue aud three members
Of the Knickerbocker club. confessedly the
most fashionable one In Now York, swung
out Of the clubhouse and started up Fifth
avenue. They were almost precisely similar
in the matter Of dress; each wore mixed
trousers with big squares dimiy outlined in
texture; their coats were long-tailed and
spade shaped, which was the fashion among
cockneys in England several years ago; they
walked with the curious and affected gait
which Is characteristic OF a dude, and to the
prncticed eye they were a very meagre and
Unsatisfactory imitation Of the genuine ar
ticle.
"Maiiy Of tho tailon in London have agen-
cies here, and IL Is a saying among them
ncroas the water that anything will do for
Now York. That is one reason why men
whO pay heavy prices for their clothes are
seldom fnshionably dressed according to the
English standard. By tho way, the climax
has boon reached in the sign Of a tailor in
upper Broadway, who announces that he has
the distinguished honor OF being patronizsd
by his royal highness tho prince Outside
OF tue tNuoImk Du,tno59 4 ma tuuI LF1do6-
men are using the royal arms Of the ruling
house in England on their bills with quito as
much JUNCTION as their English brethren. Tho
other day Lcame across a dancing masters
bill which was headed by the coat OF arms Of
Queen Victoria IL 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,
and be 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. 1
wonder. by the way, il no succeeded in get
ting any pupils by this little devicel Prob
ably, for A~nglomania in New York Is very
widespread.
~Only a few days ago l amused myself by
reading the signs on the windows of a wine
soller's place In Fifth avenue, near the
Brunswick hotel Ono OF them was embln-
zoned 'Purveyor - her Majesty the Queen. ,
On all the windows were set forth tho fact
that the wine-seiler's goods were purchased
by Englishmen OF title. The names OF nearly
all tho members OF Queen Victories
immediate family, and even the remote
branches OF her family, appeared in big
gilt letters. This is a nice state OF
affairs for a Democratic city and a Demo
cratic country, isn't ~ There Is a grocery
shop on the avenue a little further up which
has it, own crest over the door, under which
hangs Il tiny gilt sign bearing the words,
'Pntronized by Royalty. 1t is worth noting
that on none OF these signs Is 1t stated that
It is the queen OF England or the prince Of
Wales. 1t Il assumed at once that the only
queen and prince that one knows of are those
OF England.
Il have been living at a hotel since my re-
turn, andlhave had nothing TO do but to
wander around the streets, so l am tolerably
familiar with the spread OF Anglomania,
and I soc ii creeping in every where, from
the shops which advertise that they are
English Haberdashers TO Gentlemen,' all
the way up or down to Her Majesty's
Opera company"