The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-26
GONG OVER
ID PARIS
People on a Big Ship and
Their Journey.
DUKE BORIS OF RUSSIA
His Opinion of the Activities
of Americans.
DUKE BORIS OF RUSSIA

others played ping-pong like ordinary
mortals. As he mounted into the railway
carriage which had been reserved for him
at Havre a last request was made that he
would stand moment on the step for a
final snapshot from a fellow passen-
ger. He looked TO see who the lady was
and resigned himself good-naturedly
I'm sure she has hundred photographs
of me already
To the surprise of some American bust
ness men, there was no official recogni-
ton of the arrival of the grand duke, al
| though I saw a chief member of the staff
Of the Paris project OF police walking
about the station, IN that impossible civil
ian dress which points out its wearer far
more conspicuously than any uniform
could do. The young grand duke-he is
not yet twenty fye-has always been al
lowed TO so about his pleasures in Paris
without notice from authorities or news
| papers. But American example is conta-
gious. and now the Matin reporter was
waiting for him. What the grand duke
said has been cabled over.
Parisians have been impressed with the
grand dukes opinion of the American
!
and ceaseless production. There are no
useless citizens. Every one works every
one is occupied, milionaires and milliard-
aires sons with the rest. Take Cornelius
Vanderbilt-he is a mechanic and the es-
teemed inventor of things actually in use.
There are hundreds like him..
A Vanderbilt as a mechanic praised by
Tsar's grandson struck the Partisan
mind most of ell. Our own young men.
says the Royalist Gaulois plaintively,
ARE doing nothing in spite of themselves.
With us even lawyer or a merchant
who by his own work makes 10000 francs
a year, thinks only of saving so that hhis
son and heir may be abble to swell round
| the clubs and do nothing. Perhaps there
| is tendency among our aristocracy to
| engage in manufacturing industries with
out first, like. the baron OF the old song,
demanding pardon of his ancestors We
have TO thank Grand Duke Boris for
throwing his imperial weight on this side
of debate in which snobbishness might
have part. and for finding it chic in a
Vanderbilt to be a mechanic"
The grand dukes party had taken up in
New York the alert and entertainin rep
resentative of the European sleeping car
| (wagons-Lits) company on the TRANSIT
berian railway. He had a list of Ameri-
can industrial concerns likely 10 interest
themselves in the opening up Of Manchu-
ria: among them were a nreproOf safe
ard a typewriter firm. San Francisco. he
predicted would have in no remote future
an ocean trade equal TO that of New
York. but from the far east across the
Pacific.
In my journey over TO New York in the
Lorraine had met among the irst-class
passengers a young Alsatian who went
out in the steerage eleven years before.
He had paid the extra price of the fast
boat at a crowded season. and was evil
IDENTIFY dressed by a good New York
tailor He told me he was in the meat
| business" and when I asked him If he
I had done well. answered with an enthusi-
asm which made the American heart
swell at what our country does for so
many like him: well. I should say SOL
/ Next year, he conhded to me- he is TO
marry an American girl and take her TO
Alsace for a wedding trip.
| Coming back on the Lorraine, there was
| in the second cabin another Alsatian,
who. I am afraid. is not so good a sort.
although I dare say his activity viii be
equally great in our republic He brought
| over with him his trade as q noodle
maker" and set himself up to furnish
macaroni. spaghetti and the rest to our
Italian colonies He frankly confessed
( that his first attempts TO get rich did not
succeed. You see I took -four so cheap
i
even the dagoes would not eat them.
But now really use the finest -four and
yellow color. call them 'Four-egg
noodles but you know there are no eggs
: in them
By his own story he was travelling
/ second class 10 save his clothes. and he
was on his way TO Italy where he expect
ed TO hire out SIS workman in a maca-
roni factory. hoping 10 surprise certain
secrets OF the trade which he was sure
would be a gold mine If properly worked
I in America
In the steerage there were some 90 PAS
sengers. mainly Italians who had earned
enough money in the United States for
their simple needs, and were now going
back with it 20 their own poverty
STRICKEN 44ANi4 ~-et~-+N7 NNA1 -4-A
prepossessirg. but I noticed thar they dis
embarked al Havre in garments ~ many
coiors. and apparently determined 10
strike the eyes OF the folks al hsrne il the
Abruzzi or Calabria heard many Of
the children talking. even 20 their parents
in English Of good New York accent. and
I gathered that America VIII see these
families again
Going over TO America, in the cabines
de luxe. there were rich men receiving up
70 the last moment dispatches concerning
the stocks in which they we're interested.
with more dispatches OF Ike purport or
entering New York harbor. They had
been over for their annual visit to wives
and children who PASS the year between
Paris ard Switzerland The burden q
thei- vacatson was over. and they H-esth-
ID in the American air ike the Ts- horse
soenting the battle. " Yawks The
Placer
Coming back. there were carefully
grooned American men talking Of furri-
tare and decoraSsons-such IS eaa snly De