The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-08
IMPRESSIONS OF EUROPE
Mr.. GuStave Metz1er Chats
Pleasantly About France,
Germany and Ireland.

Proprietor Gustave Metzler, of the Bos-
ton One Price Clothing Store. returned
on Tuesday last from a nine weeks so
journ in Europe. Both he and Mrs.
Metzler came home in excellent health.
In conversation last evening with q re-
porter of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS, Mr..
Metzler gave ONE of his impressions OF
the Old World.
w spent three weeks in Germany
he said. II found traces of the milliards
Germany got from France. There were
responding depreciation of property was
observable in France. 1t is easy TO see
where some of Germany's improvements
come from. The Rhine is all and more
than it has been pictured, but l think
that the scenery along the Maize Thai
surpasses that OF the Rhine. 1t is pref
tier than any scenery the eye can gaze
| upon. / saw beautiful hills and
dales in Ireland, but they We're
barren. Along the Maize Thai they
are covered with vineyards. The land is
divided up into small strips, and es-
pecially on the mountain sides the va
rious colors of the shrubbery, foliage and
fields of corn and oats, give it the ap-
pearance of a mammoth crazy quilt. 1t
is here h most delicious wines are man
ufactured. They never get into the mar
kets. but are all bought up by connois-
seurs and medical men. No one who
visits Europe in search of beautiful
scenery should fail totake a trip through
this region.
PARIS A BUTTERFLY.
paris is a regular butterfly. People
there pay attention to nothing else but
living up to the top notch. The Parisians
are extremists, socially, politically, and
even morally. But they do not conduct
business there as honorably as Ameri-
cans do. Everybody is on the make.
They are rude, and are anything but
square and practical.
while in London / visited the House
OF Commons n the House of Lords. /
was shown through them by Mr.. Stage,
"a member of Parliament from Ireland,
and / found they resembled anything else
but what l had pictured them to be. The
members of the House of Commons sat
around on benches, facing each other.
All wore their hats and barred their heads
only when addressing the speaker, who
sat at the head OF the wide centre aisle.
VISIT TO IRELAND.
81 found Ireland a beautiful ountrv
| would like all Americans to see the
Irish on their own soil. They are kind
and h~ospitable to a fault. I visited Bray,
he Coney Island of Ireland, and Kings
town. Both are much f%requented by
VI SOCleby. l WAS COTulally re-
ceived in Dublin by Peter Wright, presi-
dent of the Irish Wooden Mills OF Dublin,
and afterward | met Michael Davitt, the
great Irish leader, who is one of the
directors of the mill. The latter is about
to found q newspaper in London. in the
interest Of Home Rule in Ireland. Ireland
is a unit o. this question. Mr.. Davitt is
wise. London is the place to agitate the
matter. While in Dublin | visited the
spot in Phoenix Park where Burke and
Lord Edward Cavendish were murdered.
1t is only marked by strokes of canes, and
represents a cross. The House of Com
mons was asked to erect a monument
here, but refused.
II found Europe away behind us in
many things. A man occupies a position
filed by his grandfather before him.
Their ways are impracticable. An Amer
lean will make seventeen where he makes
one. Even in the matter of sight seeing
they are slow. An American will see
more in a day than a European tourist
will see in q week. Take it all in all we
have the finest country on the face of the
globe. Americans go to Europe for
health. Europeans come to America for
health and wealth.
Il found everything o. K. on my return
to the store" continued Nh. Metzler.
"Mr. Henry Bernstein managed the store
excellently during my absence, and Mrs.
Marvin looked after the office as we'll as /
could have done myself. I am glad to be
home and back at my old round Of life,
however,"