Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-06
A GRAND RUSH HOMEWARD.
An Hegira of Summer Travellers
From the Continent.
WANDERERS FROM ALL LANDS.
Americans and English People
Largely in the Majority-Filtb
to BE Seen Ev rywhere in
Sunny Italy's Cities.
BACK From Continental Jaunt.

Back From Continental Jaunt
iCopwtght 1889 bu JAMS Gori)u Bsn1n.l
LONDON, Oct. 5-lNe York Herald
CRhle-Special TO THE BEE I-Wanderers
frt oil lands are now making their way
homewards, and, among them, citizens of the
United States must be counted by thousands.
In the course of long rambe on the conti-
nent nave met them everywhere, But for
them and the English it seems TO me that
half the hotels and shows in Europe would
have to shut up. The native population or
travellers from other nations could never
keep them going. This year they have
turned stream of gold through all the great
cities Of the continent from Paris to st.
Petersburg. Frenchmen go about
more than they used to do and
tho Germans were always inclined to
travel, but the two Thoroughly enterprising
and exploring nations are the Americans and
English. They alone understand the art of
travel, and in their own landse they have
brought it to a degree of perfection which
leaves all other countries in state of COM
parative barbarism II the hotels are more
comfortable aud cIeanly than they used to be.
it is chiefly owing to their influence. As for
cleanliness, the English or Americans un-
derstand where it is to be looked for on the
cOntinent
Here we are towards the close of 1889, and
the Italians have not got so far as to pay re-
gard to common deccncy They think
nothing of sullylng aud deflipg their streets
or buildings. Even the churches are
not spared. The other day, in St
Marks, at Venice, l detected that
IL was only too easy TO do 1t. There is an
odious nuisance not far from the nigh altar
ar1 the interior Of the campanile is rendered
absolutely revolving by some sort of abomi-
nations. Is it not about time that the
Italians, with all their cultivation, art, poetry
and all the rest. of It, abandoned the manners
and customs of the Fiji islanders. They are
30 polite, all these foreigners, but ther po-
iiteness does not prevent them from acting
in the presence of women in way that
savage of decent instincts would feel
ashamed of. The other day, in going from
Bologna TO Venice, the train broke down at
Wayside station. In a minute or two each
side of the line was covered with passen-
gers, who seemed to think they
were in campanile at Locarno.
, saw crowd of women
going up hill to an old church. Tho men
almost blocked the way IN some places, un
conscious apparently that there was any
r., Improperly in their habits. There is
scarcely street to be found in Italy which
.loes not roek with disgusting smells. Nor
is that all The poison which is spread on
all the newspaper and book stands ire
sistibly suggested that there must be some-
ching radically wrong in the moral sense of
.he people, Publications of the vilest kind,
With outrageous pictures, are thrust before
you at every corner. The Milan cathedral
Ia surrounded by little shops or kiasques for
? the ale OF these wares. Continental writer's
used to have the cooluess to tell US that
it was only English or Americans
who scribbled their names on statues or pub
J lie buildings. That legand is pretty well ex
pleaded. but the authors in question try to
keep it going. We, none of US seem to bo
able to look at home when we arc pointing a
moral at a neIghbors expense. The beauti.
full marble of the Milan Cathedral is covered
gherevcr IL can be reached with Italian
names. Italian Harry seems TO greatly pre-
fer n hammer and chisel TO pencil The
y2ucifixes are not spared. The pictures of
the Virgin and the Saviour are disfgure ed in
like manner.
'here is Que thing certain, and that is that
continental people generally have cause to
bless the Saints in the calendar forahe love
of travel which seizes the English and
Americans In The summer. 1t Is very
likely that the Paris exhibition
would have done we'll without
theLi, reasonably we'll, for the French have
tlockcd to it from all parts, but the English
ST saking nations have not only supplied an
immense contingent in point of numbers,
but they have spent money at arate which
has at least astounded even those whose ex-
,,oct..tions OF Us were most cxtrayagant. The
French came to SEQ fine things, but they do
I,t buy many Of them any more than they
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shops OF the Doulovards. John and iona.
thar perform that indispensable part of the
business.
Woll, their turn may come next and at
les st they must return 10 their homes this
year acknowledging that the French have
managed their exhibition with consummate
taste and skill; that everything about 1t,
from the tower of Eifel to the smallest
Siilding, is more beautiful and wonderful
tpun any printed description or any picture
ar. have lod the visitor to anticipate. Moth
ilg equal to it has ever been seen before
There is something there that may teach
every nation lesson. The arrangement OF
,iPDa classes and departments, the grouping OF
81 countless objects exhibited, the decora
rat!on OF the building outside and
{" in the superb array of the finest
mo'nctons of human ingenuity which the
40 dd has 10 show-all this could scarcely
ha, been so we'll done by any people as II
has been done by the French. OF course We
have yet to see what the United States car
accomplish, but they can scarcely hope Il
fad any more striking center ana ofowninl
glory FOR their exhibition than that wond.
q 'ous tower, which alone would make th'
French exhibition memorable.
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
A Youthful Desperate Killed.