The Portland daily press., 1897-07-30
AMERICA, NOT VICTORIA.
1t Was Uncle Sam Who Impressed For
eigners at the Jubilee.

| eigneTS at the JuDllees
Yankee Arillionaires Spent Money, While
British Aristocrats Let Windows-Some
Comparisons of Sixty Years Progress
Unhappy Ireland-A Frenchmans
Observations.
| (From LIE Figaro.)
It has been spectacle of extreme inter-
est to watch the taking possession OF the
great days of the Queens Jubilee by
phalanx of American archmillionalres,
the descendants of poor colonlsts IN the
British possessions, kings from beyond
the sea, magi from the West, who assem-
bled to offer their presents to their gra-
cious cousin. the Queen of the seas, to
lavish feasts and entertainments on her
royal family and on her subjects ABOUT
thirty of them appeared, with fortunes
amounting, when added together, 10
$500, o0O, 900, or four billion francs; Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt, king of railroads, ana
his brother George, representing between
them $500, 100000; Carnegie, king OF iron,
S75, 100000; Fiagler, one of the kings OF
oil, SIS, 600 600; Chauncey Depew, Presl-
dent of the Vanderbilt railroads, orator,
statesman, the most conspicuous person
in the United States; George Gould,
brother of the Comtesse de Castellane,
$25, 000, 900; Levi Morton and Whitelaw
Reid, both former Ambassadors to France,
the former $40, 100000 the latter S4,OOo,-
000i Mrs. Bradley Martin, who gave the
famous costume ball at the Hotel Waldorf
last spring, $10,0O0,000; and others whose
names are less known in France; finally,
William Waldorf Aston. whose $500 ,000,-
900, as every one knows, have had their
principal abode in England for four years
past.
To receive these majesties the English
aristocracy has made arrangements on a
grand scale; it has offered them its own
palaces; it has shown SO broad a hospi
to cite only one case, considered that they
were not paying too dearly for it at the
rate of s12, 900 for two-months stay at
Wimborne House. The English gentry.
however, had taken their measures early.
| They had for long time past made use
of the advertising columns of Americn
newspapers to announce that they had on
the route of the Jubilee procession houses,
suites and windows to let at prices never
before known. Without haggling over
| it's little profits with the British aristoc-
racy, the American princes paid in adj
vance whatever it asked. and not to be
deficient in politeness, gave to it in it's
| own homes an unbrOken succession of
banquets and festivals.
The Prince of Waleg, comprehending
that in the eyes of the Anglo-American
aristocracy any entertainment without
his presence would lack distinction. ac-
| cepted in the most gracious manner every
4 invitation coming from these noble dem
ocrats Her Gracious Majesty's more re-
cent subjects were the first to add to the
| splendor of her Jubilee Consuelo Van
derbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, decorated
1 with the new Victorian order, William
Waldorf Astor, always on the lookout for
unpublished wonders, which by keeping
| steadily bring him closer to the steps of
the throne on which he aims to sit, have
| thrown open their castles and palaces to
all the fairy spectacles that night and day
could hold the attention, while those
newly landed from America strove with
them in rivalry to turn dollars into
| pounds sterling to the sound of fddles.
1t was an original and by no means un-
pleasant manoeuvre to shout into John
Bulls ears: "This is what we are; this
| is what has become of your colonies in
Brother Jonathan's hands; what would
have become of them in your own2 Will
you let us compare Uncle Sans jubilee
with her Majesty'sf Would you like to
run over our accounts with us! 1t is all
the better for us that they are sixty years
behind hand the length of the period
will bring out more clearly how much
greater is our share of the profits in the
inventory"
The first census of Victoria reign was
taken in 1S41; the United Kingdom had
then population of q, 900, 0U0?. The CEN
slls of 1891 gave SO, 00n,0 900, and in addition
about nine million British subjects who
had emigrated, half of whom went to the
4 United States. The increase of popula.
ton in sixty years has therefore been
about 90, O00, 900 souls.
Il In 1910 the United States had II, 000, 0O0
citizens; in 1897 they number "a, 900, 600,
an increase in sixty-one years of $1,000
600. On this first point, consequently,
the republic has an immense advantage
over the United Kingdom.
/. When the Queen came to the throne the
total wealth OF England was estimated at
$12, 500, 900, 600; it was four times that in
1921, GILL III g0O, UoO,UOO,OOU. III 1o7V uiiS
figures given for the wealth of America
were 81 COO, 09O, coo; in 1897 they rose to
SIS, OO0, 900 ZOO; that is, they had increased
eighteen fold The increase of wealth
has therefore been four times more rapid
in America than in England, if we take
the period of sixty years as a basis; but
as the increase in America was $40, 900,
600, COO between 1860 and 1850, it is clear
that in the last thirty years the Amer
lean s seven league boots have well dis
tanced the Britishers giant strides.
The exports and imports of England
amount today to So, 500, 900, 900; they were
S70O, 900, 900 in 1887 The foreign trade Of
the United States is no more than 81 800,
600, 900, but as in 1887 it was only $500,
100000 the American may console himself
for his inferiority by considering that the
ratio of increase of his commerce IN COM
parison with that of England is as to s.
In railroads Uncle Sam easily trlumphs.
He has 144, 900 miles of track to England
81 900. A fine system indeed, and one OF
/ which he may we'll be proud; but it would
be wrong of him to taunt the United
! Kinpdom with not having such an extern
siye one. If it did there would be SC
MANY means of communication in Eng.