Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-31

twenty-three and a half nautical miles
hour 1t went from Sandy Hook to Ply
mouth in five days, seven hours and thirty
eight minutes. The record speed of the st.
Paul, a sister ship of the st. Louis, for its
fastest voyage averaged twenty-one miles
and eight minutes to the hour, an average
only surpassed by the Deutschland, the
kronprinz Wilhelm of the North German
Lloyd and the Lucania of the Cunard line.
A Sample Company of Invaders.
1 had as fellow passengers a fair sample
of the Americans who are leading our COM
mercial army to lands beyond the seas.
Several were capitalists after investments
in England and the continent. One was a
partner in a great electrical construction
company going abroad to get contracts for
the roads that England proposes to
build and another was a Yankee railway
manager who was going over to show the
British electric railway trust how to oper-
ate its undertakings after the American
fashion. There were also the representa-
tives of some of the biggest agricultural
implement makers of the United States,
two men from the Milwaukee Harvester
Company, going to establish agencies in
England and continental Europe, and a
Paterson, n. j., man who intends to coat
Europe red with his cold water paint. He
tells me he sells 1t already from the Baltic
to the Mediterranean and that the open
ings for all such things are good.
Eyeglasses and Doll Babies.
Then we had Lubin. the Philadelphia OPP
tician and motion picture man, who told
me that vast quantities of American spec
tacles and eyeglasses are now sold in Rus
STA. Germany, France and England, and
Collins, another Philadelphia, agent
for the sale of Photographic cardboard and
mounts. We had also Levy of New York,
an exporter and importer of toys, who in
forms me that all toys made by machinery
re vi la
in Europe. Even in Germany the great
making country of the world, our iron
and wooden toys are sold in quantity. They
prettier and better than the handmade
German articles and can be sold for half
the price. Mr.. Levy is going over to buy
dolls for the American market. He says
5000 different varieties of dolls are made
in Germany, and that the latest fashions
in American dresses are sent to the doll
makers in order that our children may have
dolls with dresses as up-to-date as their
mothers.
Another German-American passenger was
on his way to open up an office for Amer
lean typewriters In Berlin, while a mining
engineer from California was en- route for
the South African gold fields, and young
lndianian was on his way to Southampton
and Buenos Ayres to pave the streets Of
the Argentine capital with Trinidad as
phalt.
We had also silk men. machinery men
and grain men. The list Is too long to be
given and I cannot mention the variety of
freight, for the purser showed me that the
different articles ran into the hundreds.
Will only say that we had a big cargo of
machinery, flour and fresh meat. and that
among the fruits there were 400 boxes and
100 barrels Of ripe apples.
The Invaders in London.
Landing at Southampton I came directly
to London. There was special train for
the passengers waiting at the wharf. The
trip took less than two hours and it was
about the middle of the afternoon when I
reached my hotel. This gave me couple
of~hours before dark for a STROLL during
which noted some of the evidences Of the
American invasion. Suppose you take the
walk with me. We start at the Hotel Cecil,
in the busiest part of the Strand The
street is full Of hansoms, four-wheelers
and great two-story buses, which are going
on the trot back and forth between the city
and the West End. The 'busses are heavy
two-story affairs, with dozen seats on the
roof. as well as dozen within. Their
sides, fronts and tops are plastered with
advertisements. See that one going by
now! 1t has black crow holding up an
American liver pill sign on the steps and
our best known typewriter displayed Just
Of Ben Hur by General Lew Wallace, which
Is now being played at one Of the theaters,
and on the next bus an announcement that
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Support Home Industries.
But see the omnibus coming down the
Strand! Notice that great yellow board ad-
vising you to buy Bryants and NAYS
Matches and Support Home Labor. The
bus behind has similar sign and thereby
hangs a tale. For many years Bryauts and