Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-29
OUR R|O N EUROPE
Messrs Balcb, Densel and Cook
Interviewed bya Special
Correspondent.
.Balch Falls in Love With England's
Queen, Densel Talks French
and Cook Buysa Gun.
Reunion Of Marshalltown People In.
Guiding Mcfarland, at the Couch.
man Home in Hamburg.

hamburg, Germany, aug. tIo.--sJNS OIL
the strangest things about travelling is.
that just when you think you are cut
tofeel lonesome and have an aching for
your own and native land, some one
hobs up to dispel the gloom. You meet
old home acquaintance in the most
unexpected places and in the most un-.
expected ways.
OF course about the first thing an
SIowan does here is to call upon MIR. w.
W. Coachman, the manager for Europe
for the McCormicks. which / DID, but
did not expect to find Messrs. A.. II.
Balch, H. P. Densel and G. r. Cook, all
from Marshalltown, sheltered under his
wing. He is never happier than when
doing service for some friend, and
Mrs. Couchman is never more com
posedly at horne than when her beauti-
full place, just across the central lake
from Hamburg's business center, is
packed full of Americans-or 1owans.
Let me say a word about Couchman, ii
i can without violating confidence.
Abouttwo years ago he was sent over
here under big contract-to pick up
the tangled threads of the McCormicks'
big business, straighten them out and
start a web which Should issue from
the business end of a modern American
machine as a product of perfect finish.
When you consider that his territory
extends from Siberia to Turkey; that
he has hundreds of agents, each speak
Ling different tongue and eachopefat-
ing under peculiar local conditions
that as banker, counselor and man
ager he Is Obliged to harmonize all these
raw elements into a smoothly running
whole and at the same time give an
American push to the chief ultimate
/ object-an increased demand for and
use of his own particular machines III
/ competition With the world and thai
| when he came over he didn't know
Isenough German TO order caviar ant
! toast-when these things and the thou
sand and one collateral obstacles arr
considered, you Will not wonder thai
Two years for even the beginning of ac-
cOmplishment have been shorter thar
/ the tabled cycle of Cathay. Yet in this
! time he has simply done wonders-anc
! is doing them every day. He has start
led the web. Disorder has given piace
\ to system and gradually this whole
/ eastern world Is being covered with !;
network OF excellent spinning. Mr.
3Couchman himself is here, there anr
everywhere. He is familiar with Rom,
land the Roman adage and can do bust
ness in any language with any people
gJust now he is nursing a sore toe. Gu
\ in the attempt to take a German bath
4 But altho we can imagine the com
mentss passed upon this by Messrs. Sib
\ hey, Markiey. Lander ct al, we&sSere a
seltishlS glad of it, because it kept hin
I at home.
But this simply brings me back TO ths
starting point comparison Of the ex.
periences and opinions of these Mar
shalltoWn tourists. Messrs Densel ans
/ Cook have put in. most of their time Of
/ the continent: Mr. Balch has giver
mos tot his to England, with a w.nd-ul
lin France and the Rhine valley i
/ seems 10 me that what they tllough
might interest II not instruct heil
1 A1arshalitown friends. and briefly, with
i out trying to do more than express
1 their IDEAS correctly, let me quot:
4 Mr.. "A. f. Batch. If You are going Il
/ put this in the paper, let me- see !t$an,
Think 1t over. because I'm not dead Ger
1 tain that You will get it right or that
want it ali printed. Just write ii gu
4 and send it TO me at tMarshalltoWn ant
4 IN consider it. OF course had lots o
l8experiences and wouldn't have MISE,
i the trip for a good deal, but shall b
4 mighty glad TO get back somewhere s
A that 1 can sleep for a few minutes
4 Shall stop in Vermont for few day
4 and then go direct home sailed by al
i American line boat and the frs man
4 saw on the customs dock at Southamp
ton was Consul Mcfarland. of Natting
i rode up to London on one Of thei
q bumpy little trains that went fas
4 enough. but felt like 1t was going I
perditton, and We're locked in iittf
4 two by four compartment whichahad n
4 connection with anything that | cen!
4 see-not even the necessaries Of LIE
1--WE saw a good deal of London in
4. short time--rather jerky introductio
i to the metropolis of the world but III
i $best we could On, and then went on t
4 Nottingham There | saw the old cas-
4 tie where the government of Englan
4 sdied and was born again several times
4 the duke of NeWcastle's park. whei
4 there are more fine houses in a bunch
4 but with high Walls around them, tina
4 you Will find on summit avenue o
4 Michigan boulevard. Lord Manner s. Is
Il; tate. bricked in With seventeen miles Z
i fence ten feet high; the lace and hos
iery factories, the Trent bridge, the Pi
& and Whistle. the Flying Horse, an
q many other things. From there we tao
q excursions--to Skegness, on the Mort
sea, for over sunday; TO Stratfort
where we worshiped at Shakespeare
q shrine. purchased and kept up b
Americans. and the "Dukeries tina
place where join the estates of the duk
of Portland, the duke of Newcastl,
Earl Manners. Lord Saville. the duke {
Devonshire-all in the old Sherwoo
4 forest. We went for starter 10 IN
old town of Mansfield historic and we
worth a visit in itself
i From there we drove. Pm not go.n
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