The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-13

they have been Obliged to pay three times
ats price for made-to-order footwear here.
American Professional Men in Lon
don.
1t is estimated that 1000 Americans are
In business In I.oi don, aud among these
successful professional men are steadily
Increasing, dentists being in the lead,
numbering about fifty. or these. Or. J.
j. Wedgwood and Or. Davenport are the
leading practitioners, the former having
fine clientele among the English aristoc-
racy, and Dr. Davenport is one of three
brothers practcing In Paris and elsewhere
in Europe. The late DR.. Evans. the Phil
adelphiaA dentist who piled up FORUM,
of SSSOO0,00O In Paris was often the guest
of the Prince of Wales al Mowbray
house when in London. There are a dozen
American attorneys here, the most sue
cessful being II. Newton Crane, Esq.
formerly of the firm of Patdson & Crane,
railroad attorneys. of ST. Louis. Mo. Mr..
Crane is a rising barrister In the Middle
Temple. and wears wig and robes of his
office with all the calm dignity of a genu-
Inc Englishman. There are two American
physicians having a fair practice The
advent OF American practitioners has
aroused considerable professional jealousy
on the part of English medical and dental
men, who have frequently employed de-
tectves in hopes OF discovering some vio-
larion OF the unfair English laws by their
dangerously successful foreign competl-
tors.
Half a hundred American journalists
hold responsible positions on the leading
magazines and daily papers IN London.
and are slowly bringing up the metropoh-
tan press to the standards ruling in the
United States. Illustration Is slowly creep
ing into the daily papers. and the Daily
Mail, which most largely employs this and
other modern means, leads the circulation
lists with 100000 daily, while the Times.
as a representative of the old newspaper
school, has a circuladop Of only 1000,
American Life Insurance.
During the past few years the leading
American life insurance companies have
gained such a hold In this country as TO
seriously threaten the prosperity of the
old-Ane English assurance corporations.
Soliciting agents We're unknown an Eng
land up to recently, and Inc London COM
panies are but beginning TO meet the brisk
competition being given them by the
stirring representatives of the foreign
agencies, which have large Office quar-
ters in the best frontage on Trafalgar
square and other choice locations. The av-
erage Englshman is gradually coming to
forgive the insinuating American life in
surance agent for the impertinence of talk
ing to him In his office about policy on
his life, and the enterprise and liberallty
of the progressive New York companies is
gaining new premium payers every day.
Sir Thomas Upton is The most success
ful English business man OF the day, and
he says his great fortune Is due to his
American methods, having received his
early training in the slaughter houses of
Chicago and Omaha. Ii is encouraging to
note that many of the young men In this
country are following his example in learn
ing how to do business along the most pro-
gressive lines of the surprising advance
being made everywhere by the new world.