The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-25
AMERICANS IN LONDON.
They Have Taken the Town and are
 Well Received.


 The New York Suns London cores pondent sends this interesting cable dispatch to his paper about the aggres- siveness of Americans in London:
 The summer Americanizatien of Lon don this year is intensified beyond anything ever before known in the British metropolis. It Is monopolizing society, business, the turf and other sports. and even the hotels, places of amusement and the streets.
 It is a small blame to the average Englishman if he confesses that Amer ican successes are becoming monoto- nous and American ideas surfeit the appetite. It Is surprising that he has not begun to resent the daily lash of his Journalistic mentors, who tell him every morning that he is played ou: as a factor in the worlds race and ad- wise him to start afresh after learning the A B c of commerce and industry from his American cousins.
 The spirit of pessimism is so strong in the land that the tonic of consola- tion offered by Andrew Carnegie and Robert P. Porter was really necessary to prevent a natural revulSion of feel ing which would make the very word American an anathema in English ears.
 I am far from intimating that suce sentiment already exists. On the con trary, Americans have never received such genuine, unrestricted hospitality in England as the great army of in- vaders is now experiencing. This is more marked because although the great social functions among the Eng fish themselves are omitted this year on account oe the court mourning, the season. so far as outward appearances go, is as brilliant as ever. London is even more crowded than usual. Two or three great new hotels have recently been completed, but all of them, as well as the old ones. have turned away scores daily all this week, and it has simply been impossible to secure first class accommodations in London with out engaging them in advance. Many Americans who have landed at Liver. pool and Southampton have been put to great inconvenience on this account
 In ordinary summers it has sufficed to telegraph to London on landing fol these accommodations, but many oi those who arrived recently found themselves compelled to drive with their baggage to hotel after hotel fir ally contenting themselves with s | cot in a bath room or a bed in lodg ing house.
 The ShOpkeeperS or the west CnC are of course delighted. Their fears O. bad season have already been dis sipated by the arrival of the army o Americans with money in thSir purses There is also more private entertaining than ever before. It has been physi caly impossible for the representa- lives of the New York Chamber O Commerce to accept tithe of the pri vate hospitality urged upon them Many others who are here in a prlvat, capacity have also been overwhelmed with invitations.
 One could almost wish that the gen eral rivalries in which the two coun tries have been engaged were less one sided in results than they have recent lv been. It would contribute vastly t the gayety of nations and mutual goot will. for instance, if Sir Thomas Lip tons challenger, which has had st much bad luck. might at last lift. th Americas cup. As 1t is, the Britisl public is absolutely hopeless on thi point. with the result that 1t does no take the slightest interest in the com ing races.