Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-05-23
THE AMERICAN INVASION
London and Continental Papers
Continue TO Discuss IL.
BRITISH FIND OURFLATs SUPERIOR

WAY of Leasing Apartment Houses
Praised by London PRPer-ameri-
cans Go Teach scotch ship Riveters.
InEenIou. Undertaken Advertises
co Bring Back bodies of Dead
from south Africn.
SO steadily does Americas industrial
invasion OF Europe progress that even
the monotony of American success can.
not dull the keen interest and appre-
henslon with which 1t is viewed on
this side of the Atlantic. says n Lon
don dispatch. For instance. there is
scarcely London daily newspaper to-
day but contains some reference TO the
inroads made by American enterprise.
In n column and half article The
Daily Chronicle discloscs the utter in
adequacy Of English Oats compared
with American apartments.
1--WE are whole encyclopedias behind
the times I'm the science of fiat build
ing" says writer in this paper, land
perhaps no city in the world can show
us our deficiency and their remedy
more effectively than New York"
Continuing. the writer points out
that fats are let in New York on n
years lease, but that none is rented in
London for less than three or five
years. The New York rents, II IL
maintained, though nominally higher,
are really lower than the London rents
owing to the fact that the London
landlords insist on excessive and sense
less repairs being executed by the ten
ants
Nothing will be done of any real
value" the writer concludes, until a
London tenants protection league is
formed. with the double object OF
transporting the landlords and archi-
tects to New York and then forcing
them to live in the fats they palm Off
OH innocent Londoners."
The Daily Mail records the arrival
at Southampton of large party OF
American ship riyeters. imported by a
British firm for the purpose of "show-
| Ing the Scotch workmen how TO do it,"
The labor saving pneumatic riveter
with which the Americans are equip
ped creates considerable uneaSincss in
the minds Of the British uniouist work
men.
Another London paper reprints from
| a Swiss review details of Il plan by
which American coal is supplanting the
cording 10 this authority, large ware
houses will be built nj northern French
ports for the purpose of storing and
sorting American coal and also for the
purpose of manufacturing briqucts
| compressed coal bricks from the vast
age of French and Swiss railroads. 1t
! is also said that an exceptional tariff
of > francs ton for transit between
French ports and the Swiss frontier
has been agreed upon.
This" says the London daily "is an
other example of how the Americans
are oustinG the English from the Eu-
ropean market"
The universal plant is conclsely
voiced by The Evening Standard,
american influences" it says. zap.
pear just now 10 pcrvade the whole
of Europe. If American horses do not
carry all before them yet, American
riding, American trading. American
horse dentistry and, shall we add
American doping seem to have ever
increasing vogue not only in this cOun
try, but in France, Germany. Austria
Russia and wherever else there is an
opportunity on the continent
The Star. commenting on the recent
Windsor races. says:
zone could not fail to notice how
completely the American seat has come
into vogue. so much so that it positive
ly strikes the eye as old when jockey
rides in the old fashioned style"
Judging from the English papers
themselves, American superiority in en-
terprise extends from the cradle TO the
grave. The Morning Leader has Ions
article on the advertisement of al
American undertaken in The Times
He offers to disinter and ship home the
bodies of officers and men killed il
Snuth frina