The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20

are sunk in ignorance and superstition
just now. are the mainstay Of the ma
tion. Frugal, hard working, well
built, kindly and courteous by instinct.
there is good basic stun upon which to
build. They have an innate sense of
equality, and bear themselves like no
blemen (caballeros). In buying fruit in
the market place at Burgos and again
at the Escorial, / noticed no especial
Difference either to me or to any other
buyer. Here are our things; buy
them If you wish; but. whether you
purchase or not. it makes no differ
ence to me-" This seems to word
their method of acting.
] should say that the average Span
lard, take him by and large, Is good
natured. Servants. conductors. trades
people, teamsters, all those with whom
I came in contact, were smiling and
kindly disposed-more SO, yes, much
more so. than in France. At Barcelona
there may be some slight feeling
against Americans, although we did
not find it, and purposely proclaimed
ourselves Americans in order to see
what effect the announcement would
have. went into a store in Barcelo-
ma, and bought large may of the
Philippines. saying: 'I am an Ameri-
can, and want to study this may" I
watched the effect of these words upon
the three men who were in the store
at the time, but there was no change of
countenance, not even the customary
shrug of the shoulders.
Modern Spain can best be apprecia-
ted in Barcelona. When ono is in To-
ledo, walking through tortuous streets
and winding passageways and looking
at medieval bridges and fortresses, he
feels that the best of Spain is in the
past. "It has no future he says to
himself. at is decaying-dead." Ar
irving in Barcelona in the evening, see
ing the rush Of the Thomson Houston
electric cars, witnessing the crowds on
the Rambla, noting the warehouses,
factories and vast shipping interests in
the spacious harbor, he begins to mod
ify his opinion. Is this Spain? Here
is a city with more yigor than Bor-
deaux, with a commerce as great as
Marseilles, with factories as modern
and extensive as some north English
center. Yes, this is the new Spain.
English are here Germans, with their
cheap goods; Americans. with their
typewriting machines, cash registers,
Singer, sewing machines. The New
York Life and the Mutual have large
offices, and the hustling promoter is in
evidence at the hotels. While at the
Inglaterra we met a Californian who
had a contract for building one of the
latest American traction engines to
haul great loads over the billy road
ways. At the same totel we made the
acquaintance of an American engineer
sent to Barcelona to erect and place in
position the needed machinery for a
large Portland cement mill. Another
American was going. to build a narrow
gauge railway to southern Spain.
Then there is Mrs Gulick's school to be
opened here in Madrid-an American
school for Spanish girls; but that de-
serves fuller notice than a. brief para
graph. ~ s:.f-t
The impressions Of summer are SUI
perficial, I know; yet, taking them for
what they are worth, believe that a
new era is dawning for Spain. Not the
church is to bring salvation, not the
king or the government, not a fine ed
vocational system, but industrialism,
twentieth century cornmercialism. The
desire for the dollar-not the most no.
BILE re-nevertheless, this, desire go
ing out through trade and industrialism
will work slow Can all too Slow but
q sure regeneration in a land where
nature has done so much, and which
only needs the intelligent cooperation
of man to make it one of the noblest
lands in Europe. 5'ss@* j..