The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17

pockets were quick to discover the Pare
Monceau, and now you hear all over the
neishborhood a great deal more of Amer
lean" than of any other language. The
trades-people are rejoicing. Never did
they let out more horses and carriages
and automobiles, and never did they ca
ter for more splendid banquets. Half of
them will be setting up automobiles for
their own pleasure next year as the di-
rect result of this years lavish outpour-
ing of American money.
At the cafes and "Anglisch and Ameri-
cain bars" which have sprung up over
the city, and where you see painted as
surances that they spoken Anglisch,"
shrewd Germans and Italians are draw
ing double the usual walters salaries, be-
cause they know how 90 say Yes! Good
morning, milor. Yes! You have coax
tahee?" 1t is hardly necessary to say
that "coak-tahee" means cocktail De-
spite the many warnings our countrymen
have had against american bars" these
institutions are prospecting enormously.
willing and Able to Pay the Price.
Partisan cabbies welcome Americans
with a special smile. For Americans are
probably the only people on the earth who
ind nothing extraordinary in the high
fares the Jehus are eXtorting this eXpos-
ton season. Parisians have almost given
ly have TO fight if they offered the ordi-
nary fare of so cents for a course" or
- cents per hour. Americans. used TO
other standards, accept the cabbies most
imaginative terms as quite natural, oonsid-
eEing them cheap rather than otherwise.
Possibly, though, there might be trouble,
IL spirited American were to catch the
parting wink which the Jehu frequently
throws in his customers direction after
pocketing the fair
Inside the greet show the American per-
vades everything. You find him in every
side show, spending his money freely bur
expressing his opinion freely, too. when.
| as sometimes happens, he thinks he
hasn't got his moneys worth He is the
terror Of the petty ofiicialism which com,
mands so much respect in France HIS
Independent spirit has led to good many
laughable scenes in the exposition grounds
the men clothed In a little brief authority
holding out for the observance of petty
rules invented, apparently. out of a sheer
spirit of contradictoriness. the American
in the widest French imaginable trying to
get substantial reason for the regula-
ton. The French people themselves
never dream of dsputing the
fiat OF policemen or even
of "a responsible looking man with hood:
but their laughing applause frequently
encourages rebelious strangers in their
efforts to storm forbidden gate or take
a tempting, barred of short cut. II is
the same spirit, by the way, displayed
much more freely in Paris than in Amer.
lea, that makes 1t impossible to make
che average transatlantic visitor under
stand that ne is not at liberty to board
a street car just whenever he feels like
| II. He does not see the sense of stand
! ing at the corner of the block with his
| number in his hand and waiting some
! times half an hour for his turn He Just
! jumps on when the car comes up. In
vain the agitated conductor explains that
| he must wait his turn or that all the seats
are occupied All right, he'd just as soon
| stand. The conductors, horribly shocked
/ try TO make the cool intruder understand
that IT was never known from the be-
ginning of the world that a car buit for
torty people should be made to hold forty
one. Generally. the American stands his
ground sometimes he is put off by force.
In either case the natives have a very
good time and tell each other that ices