The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-25
$50 ENGLISH, YOU KNOW"
The Way I1ondoners Snub Americans Whol
They Have known on This Side.

$50 ENGLISH, YOU KNOW"
The Way Londoners Snub Americans Whom
They Have known on This Side.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The blackballing of Mr.. Bradley Martin, Mr..
Sands and Dir. Winthrop, of this city, by the
managing mint of the Bachelors Club of
London. is a matter Of some comment IN this
city, although club men assert that the action
was neither unexpected nor difficult to explain.
The three gentlemen named are well-known
members of various clubs here. and the rebuke
they received will, it is said, 90 far toward
making a visit of any members of the offending
clubs to this city unpleasant.
A member of the Union Club said this morn
ing: The whole matter hinges on the thread
bare aphorism, DO a man q favor, and you will
make him your enemy Martin, Sands and
Winthrop are as well known in Lsndon as they
are here. When home they receive, and are
extremely friendly with visiting Englishmen.
Martin, l believe, is connected by marriage with
some excellent families on the other side. Sands
and Winthrop having entertained many English
men, naturally thought they might get an abid-
ing place III London. They probably suggested
the matter to one of their English friends, the
Bachel rs Club was selected, and then all their
other friends worked like beavers to get them'
blackballed. How they were received you can
determine by the cable dispatch.
The English are decidedly a commercial ma
ton. That's. they enGeavor to secure all they
can at the smallest expense to themselves. If
one has a title he is their be all and end all of
perfection. III he has not, there may be some
good IN him II he has money and was born in
England, but let the unfortunate sutton for ia
vors be an American or from the colonies, and
there is no good in him.. These hon
CRADLES. right honorables, baronets,
barons, lcrds, vlscounts, earls and what
not, come to this country and are set
upon a pedestal like gilded calves, and all Israel
falls down and w%orships. They are feted and
wined and dined at unlimited expense. All the
American has to do is simply to play poodle to
his serenity In fact it has now become nee
essary so to treat these visitors, Or they will
insult you or your wife and daughters by their
lntoleraole boorishneSs. A few years ago it was
a pleasure to meet an Englishman gentleman,
but since professional athletics and an affected
disGain for women have been cultivated, some
Englishmen of good birth are mere prigs and
DULLES. They never think of returning a favor,
whatever it may be. They accept everything
for granted as though it was simply their due.
In fact they have received so many courtesies
over here that they regard any diminution of the
salness an outrage and a injury.
This case is not unique by any means. 1t
re occurs every season. The only reason why
the public hears of it SO seldom is because the
victims are more anxious to keep their mouths
shut than to cry their shame from the housetops.
1t isn't pleasant to tell your friends that YOU
have been blackballed by a respectable club.
They always ask why, and the answer is never
pleasant to give. There is a Jolly good fellow. a
"y SHUD AN NeS ulhluE
some titled snob at the clubhouse. He was
something Of a snob himself, perhaps, but that
foible was not obtrusive. He was an excellent
companion, and one of the best fellows l knew.
Well, he went over to London about five years
ago, and tried, in an unlucky moment, to get
into the Reform Club. His name was proposed,
and was promptly blackballed with the explara-
ton: We don't want any id Yankees in
this set The lad took the rebuff somewhat un-
kindly, and told some Of his American friends in
London about it. They wrote home, and when
Jack got back he was chaffed to such a degree
that he left the city and is now r~anching in Col
orado. He was simply a fool to expect anything
else from such men, and was perhaps correctly
paid for his folly.
Even when men marry their daughters to
the brothers of dukes, they have the same re-
ward. One instance is well known Of q club
man here whose daughter became the wife of
one of the sons of a ducal house. The fond
daughter plead to have her father included in
the family, but the bridegroom remarked that
though willing to marry her, he didn't intend ito
bolt the whole family" This playfulness of dis
position is common on the other side. Men there
will not return ~civ1lities.
"Rather an amusing instance was stated to me
by one of the sufferers a year or so ago. The
victim was a young American club man who had
married AN exceedingly charming wife. 1t was
an elopement. They sailed for England and
Immediately managed to inform their English
friends that they were in town. They waited
for some days, and then went to work and waited
SONIC more udSS- Inetr EnSllSn acQualDlanceS
had seer them driving on several occasions. but
never indicated in any way that they were
aware OF their existence. Finally the bride and
groom bid a farewell to London, somewhat in
the spirit of Pope, and went to Paris. But after
a few months the sequel came. The turtle
doves came back to the natural nest and settled
down after they had related their experience
to the edification of their friends. In a
little while two sons of the family who
had treated them in such an abomina-
BILE manner in London, arrived in this
the Rockies. They called on the newly married
pair, but, strange to relate, the latter were out
every time. At last, wearied with unrequited
attentions. the visitors made a confdant of a
common friend of the two families. The conf
dant related the casus belli, and then came the
ingenious reply: why are they offended at that2
Some persons think because we know them in
New York we must know them in London. No
one knows Mr.. and Mrs. Blank in London
This explanation was so refreshing that the com
mon friend whispered quietly into the ears of
the youths that it was a shame to Withdraw such
sparkling naivette out of London fog.
1.-THE moral of this tale is obvious. England
is governed much more than we are by that
Procrustean rule of theirs, the set. If a man or
woman is not known to the other members of
ones set, then its all up with the novice. 1t is
so in society, it is so in politics, in clubs, in fam
lily relations, even in business.
A Bitter Reflection.
New York Tribune.