Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05

are as plainly marked as the footprints
which Robinson Crusoe found On the sand
Of his desert island. The big hotel in
the heart Of the boulevardes where / am
writing is filled with Americans, and I am
surrounded by American signs. Our CON
sui general has his Offices just over the
way with the American flag flying from a
pole out Of one OF the windows; Spauld-
ing, the Chicago jeweler, is just below, and
Tiffany & Co. are on the opposite side of
the street. In the same direction I can
see the sign OF the Equitable Life Insur-
ance company, which has recently bought
a lot under the shadow of the opera
house, where it expects to build an Ameri-
can building, and around the corner Is the
office Of the American Express company,
with reading rooms containing the leading
American papers. There are American
newspaper correspondents scattered
throughout the buildings nearby, and
within a stones throw of here are a score
Of our manufacturer and others who are
here pushing American goods. l am
debating this letter to an American ma
chine, at which sits a pretty French
typewriter girl who writes English, and
were / fond Of American drinks | might
stimulate my tongue with a jigger of Ken
lucky whisky at The American bar In this
very hotel.
Speaking Of typewritcrs, all of the chief
American makes are being sold throughout
France and the French typewriter girl Is
already an institution in Paris. She is as
bright as her American sister and is often
as pretty and more stylishly dressed. She
appreciates how to charge for her work
and when she catches a wandering Ameri-
can she makes him pay well. The usual
rates for transient work Of this kind in
paFig Is r francs or 81 Dpr hour. For
long jobs there is a considerable reduction
and for steady work the prices are about
the same as at home. The Remingtons
have a typewriting school which they ad-
vertise as Ecole de Stenographie and their
machines are here called Machines a
Ecrire. The Smith Premier, the Yost, the
Caligraph, the Bar-Lock, the oliver, the
Densmore, the Jewett and the Williams
are American machines which l have seen
and most OF these have offices on the
boulevards. In the same locality may
be found the Columbia Photographs and
graphcphones offered for sale or talking
or singing in French at fixed prices.
There are ave different brands of Amer
lean bicycles for sale in one shop near the
Madeleine, and American sewing machines
are advertised on the kiosks and other
stands throughout the city. The French
have no typewriters of their own worth
mentioning and at this writing the Amer
lean sewing machine is considered by far
the best and 1t gets the trade.
Our American foods are slowly but surely
pushing their way into the markets OF
Paris. Not a few OF the largest grocery es-
Establishments advertise American goods and
some Of them make such goods a specially
visited today the grocery Of Felix Potin
at the junction of the Boulevards Hauss-
man and MaleshCrbes. 1t is the greatest
establishment Of the kind in Paris and per
haps the finest grocery OF the world. !
found the windows piled high with Amer
lean goods and placards hung up here and
there advertising American soups, Califor-
mia fruits and other delicacies. Among the
curious things were little neck clans in
tins and Goldfish balls from Boston. There
were also tins Of potted ham, tongue, tur-
key and chicken, silver spray succotash and
cans Of corn on the cob. Among the soups
we're oxtail, mock turtle, hare soup and clam
chowder each OF which sells for % cents
per can, green turtle and terrapin soups
at 40 cents per can and mulligatawney and
others at lower rates, ! talked with the
manager. He says that American goods are
steadily increasing in popularity and that
they are making their way among the
French.
heard the same from another grocer
close to the Place Nehuonle' III the heaIt VI
the Rue de la Prix, where the leading
French dressmakers are situated. This
man is handling American cereals, Amer
lean whiskies, crackers and biscuits from
New York, as well as the various goods !
saw at Potin's.
At all the grocery stores our goods are
well displayed. The French are the most
artistic of all window dressers and they
can give as many points on preparing mer-
chandise so that It will catch the custom
er's eye. l spent some time looking over
the fruits, vegetables and meats at Potin's
Among the fruits were ripe strawberries
each strawberry lying half wrapped in q
rreen leaf and in regular rows in fiat boxes
The boxes appear to be covered with glass