The age-herald., 1901-07-16
Some Amerlcans Abroad.


 not and cannot personally know any thing, is quoted in today's Age-Herald as saying many foolish things about Americans in Europe, a subject Of which he clearly knows nothing" a Birming- ham man who has travelled and resided abroad said yesterday.
 This politician, society writer who knows nothing about society says, while three thousand miles from London, that the Americans are the distinguished foreigners in England, and that mo mat ter what their social status in the United States and provided they are wellbred and presentable, they are welcomed by the greatest people in England on foot ing of social equality
 That Is snobbery of the very worst kind, and moreover there isn't word of truth in 1t, as every honest American who has visited England knows. The simple truth is, Americans are never called foreigners in England; they are universally referred to as Yankees or Tanks Even on the stock exchanges all American securities are Yankees And in America-loving Ireland our country men who visit that island are every where called Tanks and often derisive- ly so The jarvies of Queenstown, Cork, and Dublin see in every once Of or countrymen a 'Yank'
 ''The average individual American makes himself very disagreeable abroad and he is very cordially disliked, partic- ularly in London and Paris, though | ha re he so ostentatiously displays.
 "There is a case of this fawning tolera- ton in point. At Queenstown there is a porter nick-named Tommy Dods.' doubt less remembered by thousands of Ameri- cans who have gone ashore there while the great steamships waited for the mails He has giants head and body and strength, but his legs are as short as those of ten-year-old boy. One day party of four or five Americans, who had evidently been drinking and were very boisterous were at the railway sta tion quay watching the malls transferred from the train to the boat to be taken to the ship down the harbor. As Tommy Dods' rushed back and forth in carrying DdBS or 1ldlf IHc AfHcIlCdii5 DCSdh HI boisterous mirth to kick him in the rear, although a hundred American women were present. Tommy made no protest, but seemed to work all the more energet- ically. In the end the Americans each gave him fifty centsl He got drunk that day, and swore he could lick any Yam kee,' and I believe he could.
 s3.ffa v l,r t...sirs sFNl "The great hotels in London, like the Metropole and the Victoria, adjoining. and the Langham, which are, largely patronized by Americans, are deserted by the English. American patronage keeps these hotels going. The Grand hotel, Trafalgar Square, within a few hundred feet of the Americanized Metropole and Victoria, formerly advertised, No Ameri- cans entertained The reason given for not entertaining our countrymen was, They talk loud, they buy no wine, and they smoke and spit all over the house.
 "Old Donald MacGregor's famous .lotel in Princes street, Edinburgh, The Royal, Is patronized almost exclusively by Amer jeans. You may on any summer day search the hotel regster-The Royal like the London hotels mentioned, Is amongst the few hotels abroad which have regis ters as we know that term-and you won't find the names of six persons who are not from America And this Is a general rule applying ito hotels throughout Europe fre- quented by Americans; and the prices in such hotels are double the prices in simi- lar hotels which do not enjoy American patronage. The Grand hotel in Brussels Is an example. No experienced traveller will put up at the Grand; he will go to the Hotel de Sake.
 "In Amsterdam such traveller would put up at the Bible hotel, and shun the Dutch Grand. The Americans run up the prices. In the London Metropole you pay sixty cents for a dish of strawberries which may be purchased outside for six cents!
 And the average American doing Europe strives to make himself obnoxious On the battlefield of Waterloo I heard a Chicago man, in hot argument with two Englishmen, declare that there were more people In one ward of Chicago than were engaged in that most momentous battle of modern times. Once was re- clining reverently before Rubens' master piece, The Descent From the Cross in Antwrep Cathedral when a party of Mill waukee tourists clattered in and up to the holy altar, and in a moment declared they didn't see much in that picture. Similarly an American declared of the glorious monuments of Rome's temporal we'd mighty quick repair 'em.' Sailing down Loch Lomond one perfect August day, I ventured to direct the attention of an elderly compatriot of mine to the mountain peak of Ben Lomond, and he replied: Yes; t'aint a patch ito Pike's Peak. It Is a common thing to hear in London the American opinion that St, James palace 'ain't a circumstance to Vanderbilts Fifth avenee palace And that is the way the American makes him. self heartily detested in 'Yurup.'
 "Td like to know what we Americans have got to do with Europe or It's great est people, That sort Of rot makes me mighty tired!'
 Cool Freezes at Last.
 Yesterday was the thirty-eighth day of unbroken heat in Birmingham; that is to say that, it was the thirty-eighth day of hot weather as weather goes in Birming- ham, which isn't hot at all compared