The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-18
Mr.. ClappG Got No Tips
From English
Business Men.
THEIR METHODS ARE VERY CRUDE
Visited Paris During the
Trial of Captain
Dreyfus.,

With a panorama of scenic wonders
and observations in a two months toHr
of England, Ireland and the continent
fresh in his mind, Edward B. Clapp ar
rived in this city last evening at S,55
o'clock. Mr.. Clapp sailed from Havre
Sept. on the steamer Britange of the
Transatlantic line and reached New
York at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Returning on the same steamer and
train were James Logan and son Don
aid of this city
Mr.. Clapp was fatigued after his
journey, but when The Spy man called
at his house last evening a warm well
come was extended. Mr.. Clapp said:
THE fact most permanently impressed
in my memory after sightseeing in Eu-
rope is that America is far ahead of
any foreign country / visited for bust
ness or social life. London is a little
world by itself, but to me it now APP
pears no greater than our own metrop-
oils, New York.
There still clings to London the air
of a sombre, overgrown town. Its wind
ing streets, tottering buildings and an
tiquated public houses suggest the need
of modern methods of government. The
business man who visits London or any
European city with the intention of get
ting pointers in conducting business on
modern lines fails dismally to avail
Anything from such trip. From his
;torical standpoint my tour was most in
teresting.
I'm Ireland, England and Scotland the
scattering Americans are mastering to
shout for the Columbia in the cup
races. 1t is hardly possible to find q
Brittsher who has any doubt as to the
result of the yacht races It is the
Shamrock everywhere, and an Ameri-
can with an idea that the Columbia has
the slightest chance of winning is LOST
in the din Of Shamrock supporters
cries
: THE $4,000 Americans in business il
7 London furnish the only indications o.
: modern ideas. During my visit in thu
: great English city, my attention wa,
: called to the needs of Worcester wher
} | saw the finest illuminated clock evel
: exhibited in my presence. The clocl
7 was on a rather mediocre looking build
! ing, and the hands on the dial were
. made of incandescent lights From
every point of view the hands were Wis
r ible, and, of course, the lights shon,
: with such brillianoy as to make thu
, time seen at a glance.
Il wrote to Mayor Dodge about thi,
S clock, thinking that it might be intro
duced in this city and solve the lightins
: pfobiem, over which local experts hay,
peen puzzllng for so many months.
had no opportunity to get an idea of tn,
, cost of furnishing the incandescen
lighting, but from the exterior appear
ance of the building which it adorned
should not think the system very ex
pensive.
Sept. 8 was in Paris, and the Drey
rus trial had reached the first day q
nearing the arguments. 1 saw none a
TIE principals in the trial but 7 saw
the interior of the building in which tn,
court of cessation sits I viewed III,
PROBES which the judges wear, and tina
was the nearest I came to gazing at tn,
forms which fill them l do not believ,
there was half as much excitement i,
Paris as in any of the larger cities /,
this country during the trial.
considerable interest was manifest
ed by loungers on the street corners
ana sidewalk discussions of the cele
brated case were frequent The bette
class of citizens with whom I take,
= expressed opinions far different to wha
had been led to expect prevailed h,
newspaper reading in this country he
fore l left. The better class of peonl,
believed Dreyfus guilty and did no
hesitate in speaking their belief"
Mr.. Clapp said that the America,
business man, however humble his mar
cantlie career, can give the foreigner al
klnds OF pointers in displaying ant
s selling goods of all kinds.