The record-union., 1892-09-21
COLONEL CREED RAYMOND.
Return of the WeII-known Lawyer
From Europe.
He Says That Workingmen Here Live
Better Than Noblemen in the
Old World.

Colonel Greed Raymond, so widely
known throughout the country, and who
spent many years of his life in Sacra-
mento. returned yesterday from a sojourn
Of several months in Europe. He left
California last February in the hope that
he might recover his failing health.
He went direct through to San Fran
cisco, where he was interviewed yester-
day by Post reporter. He said that be-
fore leaving last winter he had asked the
Southern Pacific Company to appoint
some one in his place as head of the law
department. 81 shall never again en-
gage in active work, as my physicians
have warned me against it," said the
Colonel.
NEITHER HOTELS NOR NEWSPAPERS.
while in Europe this time l travelled
through France, Italy, Germany, SwitZer-
land and England. ! should like to live
III Europe. but there are two things there
that they haven't got-hotels and news
papers. They are both necessary to my
existence, and consequently | am not
| comfortable in Europe.
The nearest approach to decent hotel
! that found was at Stockholm. But one
cannot live forever in Stockholm. In
| England it is impossible TO find comfort
at any of the hotels. Why, man earn
! ing s. or S. a day in California can live, and
does live, better than any king in Eu-
rope. There they simply cannot get for
money what is here cheap and plentiful.
Ii you want peach i'll London you will
| pay from % TO 81 cents for it, and then it
! VIII he scrawny, Withered thing that
would be thrown to the pigs in this
! country. Tomatoes are II cents q pound,
and very scarce, and grapes, an insipid
! hothOuSe production at that, sell from 81
! to 81 so pound.
The effort made TO introduce Cali
/ fornia fruit in England has thus far
proved failure, for the reason that
every business in that country is handled
! by mOnopolists. and, of course, the fruit
that was sent there from here was sold to
the few men who have a monopoly OF
| that product, as no one else could bid for
| 1t. Those who We're in the ring, of course,
gave whatever they chose, and fixed
their own prices at such figure that the
common people couldn't even look at it.
HUNTINGToN's IDEA.
''Mr. Huntington has been considering
q proposition TO introduce California fruit
in England SO that the growers here can
make money, and still place it in the
English market within the reach of all.
His idea is TO reduce some of the heavy
grades on tho Southern Pacific, and have
d HIS VI lOspjO-lOu SJCdblCiS run ul1ScIlN
TO either Southampton or Liverpool.
When this is done the fruit and vege-
tables can be shipped directly and
quickly. If it is necessary he will estab-
llsh his own agencies in England, and
combat the monopolies there with his
own capital.
There is no chance for man of mod
crate means to do anything in England.
Every line of trade Is owned and con-
| trolled by one great firm. Spears Il Pond
own very nearly every hotel and reStau-
rant in Great Britain, and it is the same
with everything else. There is store in
London where you can buy
DIAMONDS OR Triple.
| They will sell you mutton chops or
sausage or a $4,000 necklace, grand pi-
ano or a locomotive. You can buy a
StiltOn cheese there or an elephant. You
can have your house insured, your car
pets cleaned or your draying done, and
SO it goes. There is the United Tea Com
pany there that OWNS and controls 300
tea stores. The small dealers are the
mere serfs Of these great corporations.
''IG is impossible TO live well in London.
1t can't be done. There are no vegetables
there. Potatoes they have; yes, but no
butter to eat on them"
Don't they have butter in England p"
the reporter asked in some astonish-
ment.
BUTTER A LUXURY.
NO" said the Colonel, with dis
gusted look. Occasionally they will
give you crackers and cheese and butter
for dessert, and il is considered a great
luxury.
IF the Palace Hotel were to be run
here for one day as the best hotel in Eng
land is conducted they would lose every
boarder they have. There such thing
as a suite of rooms with bath and hot
and cold water is an unheard of luxury.
The biggest hotel hasn't more than three
bathrooms in the whole establishment,
and bell boys don't exist. Girls do all
the work of answering bells, and bring
hot and cold water to the rooms in Jugs
You can easily spend SIS day there and
not live as well as you can in San Fran
cisco for So"