The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-05-20
HOMEWARD BOUND.
CONTINUED FROM LAST FRIDAY


We are off Newfoundland banks in q
he avy fog and the fog whistle is blow
ing almost continuously, but we havehad
fine weather and made excellent time,
on average of All miles per day, and
barring accidents or heavy fogs near
New York, will be sighted of Sandy
Hook, Saturday noon. Everybody is
hoping we will be able to disembark on
Saturday.
This is slow steamer compared to
some of the ocean grey hounds, but she
is being crowded TO reach port on Sat
urday, the extra coal consumed being
more than offset by the food supplies
saved.
And now everybody is dreading the
New York Custom house. We have
successfully passed a half dozen Gus
the real thing, and there is consterna-
tion among the ladies, because they
have discovered female detective on
board. and many have cOnfided in her
iewelry and other effects gathered on
the tour. For all along the trip there
has been a mutual exchange of inform
alton as to prices, and q comparison of
bargains have been the order after ev-
cry port we leave. Now all is changed.
Everybody is closed up like q clam.
Nobody bought anything. "Just few
understanding of any value-csn do
better in New York." are the exclama-
tiOns you can hear now.
Trunks are being repacked and valu-
ables concealed to elude the lynx eyes
of the Custom officials, and from prep
arations going on many passengers are
going to take on weight during the
next few days.
In little short review of our trip
we want to give London the credit OF
having the finest police in the world.
Great big, strapping fellows they are,
and possessed of intelligence, for they
must all come through the Scotland
Yard agency, where merit wins, for nc
political pull will avail there. They
were very courteous, polite, and inval.
liable to us in seeing London. There
was not anything else within our OBJ
servation, that America need look tG
England or Europe for improvement
American supremacy in shoes is al
ready established. Any Of the stylish
stores on Regent street, quote Ameri
lean shoes as the best in the world
And prominent among those showI
were Hanan & Sons, and the prices
asked are from "A to % shillings, which
is 81 90 per pair more than we sell tn,
same shoe for, in Bellefontaine. w,
pre- dict great market for American
foot wear in Europe, for they are jus
beginning to use them. We could al
ways tell at the hotels at Rome ant
Cairo by the shoes that always wer,
left outside the doors for Boots Z,
to care for in the morning, what room
were occupied by foreigners. Th
pointed toes and tan cOlors bore evi
dence that no Americans were within
J There we saw American stoves adver
tised and down on the Strand we saw
watches advertised as having genuin
American movements.
England realizes that over her Bir
mingh am rises the shadow of Pitts
burg. reaching out for the worlds mar
kets in iron and steel. An English rec
tor who occupied q compartment witt
us while passing Birmingham, com
mented on the extra expense entaile
ev very year in mining coal and iron, an
admitted that it was only a questiO
of short time until Americ
would take their markets. And no,
English papers are sounding the alarm
Atlantic steamship companies by tn
Morgan Syndicate, peril to their cal
rying trade, in which they have reigne
supreme. Already the Yerkes Syndi
cate and the Morgan Syndicate riva
American money interests, are fight
for control of London's undergroun
railroad systems.
The English are slow thinkers, the
continue old ways, old machinery, an
2 methods that have been superseded fO
. improvements years ago in Americs
The newsboy gets around to the holel
with papers about $50 a. M; and
you want shine, you hunt up corne
D and wake up the ybootblack If befor
that hour. And the shines you ge
all over Europe would be sneered at b
an American bootblack. And its th
: same with shsves. The way they shaw
e you anywhere in Europe would brin
II tears to the eyes OF the half-hearted.
ri Who ever heard of a man walkiD
u two squares in the heart of an Amer
+ can city at 8 o'clock in the mornin,
u vainly looking for morning paper.
g 1t is this up-to-date progressi,
y Americanism that is going to ultimat
d ly win English markets.
Is May Sd. This is the last day at 81
h and everybody is up early looking f
the first glimpse of land. We leal
that we have exchaged signals wi
Nantucket Signal station at about =.
IN. and while we are breakfasting Mo
70 tauk Point at the extreme eastern Ell
n of Long Island is sighted. At 1l:3O
10 IN. Fire Island is passed, and at p. |
De the harbor plot comes on board al
Id steers us by circuitous route over Z
To bar at Sandy Hook. The pilot
brought out in sailbOat, transferr
hx.., h..l Aala air,. /.