Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-26
BRlTlSHGR AND YANKEE.
"Thc EnR1ishmen Works to LiveJ
the American Lives to Work."


"In the first place." says Allen Sangree
in Ainslee's, IAN enterprsng Yankee in
London does not, as common fable re-
ports, dash around distraught, heller
SHELTER, now leaping from bus, again
galloping in a hanson up the Strand.
running, walking, panting-acting, in
short, so that one might point him out
and say: There is an American. See
him hustle!
Not at all. Business Americans In
London are rather type of cool reserve,
content TO open the argument, display
goods and then calmly await develop
mcnts until they can reach out and get
what they are after. Any day in the he
tel Hobbies one may notice clean shaven,
substantial men, who appear to have no
other object in life than to smoke slowly
long black cigars. Reposcful in coun-
tenance, deliberate In movement, non
committal in speech, you might judge
them idlers or mere students OF human
nature: you would scarcely take them for
the clevcrest promoters that ever came
out of America. That is what they are.
ain order to win English patronage an
American is ready to forcgo comfort and
temper and nationality. He speedily
makes for himself a motto, Fight an
Englishman with his own weapons and
he learns the value of q frock coat. One
of his first impulses, therefore, is to hunt
up tailor, and the baneful garment that
at home was associated only with we'd
dings and funerals soon becomes his daily
habit. Sometimes also he struggles with
the broad "a pathetically. But do not con-
clude from this that the American loses
his individuality. Far from it. The coat
and the accent are only part of his work
ing capital. Neither interfercs with his
method of enterprise. The contrast 'twixt
Britain and Yankee is always apparent.
THE Briton rises late. the Yankee be-
times. The Engishmnn dresses leisurely
breakfasts plcntifully, reads his paper
carefully and reaches the Office by &c
o'clock; the American jumps into his
clothes disposes of slight meal, buys d
paper on the way to the station, reads il
on the train, walks briskly to his office
and plunges into correspondence. Type
writer's start clicking, letters are dictated
cables answered, and when the hour ar
rives for the Engishman to begin worl
the American has cleared his desk and /:
ready to 60 out and interview customers.
ping Scotch whisky in a rare old public
house that reeks of tradition the other
sharp faced and dapper, is lodging abou
subscribing shares. When the English
man is engaged in the relish Of a noonda!
chop, the American is walking in Hyd
park talking automobiles to prospective
buyer.
AT p. m, when the Englishman i
on his way to golf links, tennis or tn
river, the American. dust covered ant
soiled, is still busy building electric train
in Kensington, placing elevators in Buck
ingham palace and erecting hotels in Pic
cadilly.
When the Englishman, flushed wit
healthy exercise, returns to make a care
full change of dress for dinner, the Amer
lean is giving hurry orders at his hote
for n party with whom he hopes to
business. and when the Englishman
looking on at the play his Anglo Saxo
cousin is revolving the days work an
planning for the morrow. The English
man works to live; the American lives t
work"