The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17

that Americans seem to have so far
brought with them fewer children than
any other people. The English drag wag-
onloads of boys and girls about with them
wherever they go. and little dark-eyed
Latin foreigners are very conspicuous
everywhere but It is rare to see small
Americans in the wake of their elders.
Jocose French people explain the curious
fact by the supposition that there are not
any children in the United States; that
Americans, who do everything else so
much more quickly than the other ma
tons, gel through their growing up also
al the same unheard-of rate Perhaps
the true explanation would be worth
looking for.
Our worlSingmen in Evidence.
It must not be thought that It is only
rich Americans who are here for the ex-
position. OF course. considerable num-
Der of American workingmen have been
in the city for some time-many of them
for more than a year-engaged in various
ways about the exposition buildings, put
ting up machinery for their employers
or working like hosts of other foreigners
at whatever kind of work they could get
A colored man, who left New York eight
cen months ago in a spirit of adventure,
determined to see the exposition or die
in the attempt, got work at once as a
kind of general handy man at a good sal
airy He has learned to speak French
quite fuently, and will get himself nat
uralized as French subject as soon as
the law permits. He says that a colored
man in New York is "just a black mig
ger" while here, on account of the
French African colonies, the people treat
him with great respect, and, if he likes,
he car make them believe that he is the
son of n dispossessed native chief.
But, besides those who have been en-
gagged on the great show, there are
American workingmen here who have
lust come over TO enjoy themselves I'M
iii they have spent all their money
And despite all that Is said about the
rise in prices they do not find It too
hard to make out" A group Of four
workiugmen from Denver arrived a week
ago. and the other day they. were tell
ing at one of the United States sub
stations in the exposition how they
managed. They had been saving for
more than a year TO spend a month in
Paris When they arrived they found II
impossible to get hotel accommodation
within their means up to the home stan
dard But they were sharp enough to re-
feet that probably UNFINISHED apart
ments had not gone Up so much In price
They found, just twenty minutes walk
from the exposition gates. a "logement"
OF three large. airy rooms with a kitchen.
I'm the sixth story OF a stylish house Ac-
cording TO the Paris fashion, they were
Obliged TO take IL for a minimum OF three
months. The price was 80 francs, or $50
They bought the strict necessaries OF
furniture for S25 Total result they are
well enough lodged-as well as hundreds
OF students-for three months at The cost
Of S55 in all. or about $i3 per man. Not
bad for strangers in Paris in exposition
tmes-ev though they are only stay
ing a month.
Things have gone up in consequence OF
the exposition. of course, but even now.
with a little gumption. "A man can live
more cheaply in Paris than on the same
scale in the average American city.
There is not single restaurant in Paris
where a man is obliged TO spend for his
dinner anything like the sum he must
necessarily disburse at Sherrys or tho
Waldorf-Astoria. The prices that horrifv
Europeans seem reasonable enough TO
the average American.
stephen MacKenna.