The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-17
TnE AMERIcIN AnROAp.
The Old issue BETWEEN the Fastidl 1us
sOJOurncr and the Voc'ferOus Tr.pprr.

IN Fridays SUN about sojouruers Ia foreign
lands scornlnR the tourists who come on
lying visits during tho summer season, 70
disturb the foreign atmosphere and 20 crowd
the picturesque and peaceful byways:' ana
/ ain pained N note that Mr.. johnson Is al
most violent In his language against the fas-
tdlous sojourner. lie states that he declined
10 read book OF European travel because the
author had written himself down a snob-
on tho first page by referring 70 some OF these
touch and go tourists as "Cookites,- That
author must have been something worse than
snob 20 call them Cookies. They call
themselves Cookies Al least, q good many
whom know do, and they are not snobs by
great deal. Mr. johnson further says:
The fact Is that some Of the most apprecia-
tive, and therefore most desirable visitors
70 tho great galleries and historic places OF
Europe are 70 be found among those whose
tours are necessarily short and hurried-as
know from talking with them at both ends
OF the journey Good enough, and true
as gospel; and he has saved himself by uGinS
the restrictive phrase some Of the.
l think l am about as democratic as any
Am erican citizen Of my acquaintance who II
decently democratic. To me the snob IL the
ultimate atom Of social degeneration, and
more especially 50 when he reaches the Limit
from humble BEGINNINGS And yet l am
inclined 10 think that the sojourner abroad
has some rights that should be respected.
This inclination IL the result Of experience.
Several years GEo / went 70 Europe. not
as rich SojournsT. but as an observer who
paid his way by writing his observations at 30
much per column. was one Of those whom Mr..
johnson is kind enou gh 20 defend had never
been over before. and was with an American
who had been there. Naturally, he kept
busy telling me how 70 deport myself. Going
up TO London from Plymouth, we fell into
conversation with several Engllshmen In our
second class compartment, ono OF whom
was Sir Somebody-or-other. My American
friend was absolute devotion 10 the titled
gentleman The baronet, In the course Of the
conversation, asked who was President Of
tho United States. We knew and told him,
and later. whom rather shifted at tho ignor-
ance Of the nobility, got a TakinE for my
treyerence. At London my friend called
my attention 20 q coronet on q cab tab, and
told me the Duke OF Something owned half
the cabs In London. j lnnocently inquired
II his Dukeness was In the livery business,
and my friend said didn't appreciate those
things whatever they were. and refused
! 70 tel me anything more.
He was one kind Of American There
| were otherA There was a whole bunch Of
them. We met them at the American EI-
| change In London. They had come over to
assist at some sort OF a commercial eIposi-
the Strand 70 the CharinE Cross station and
| -lubricate.- A bar In an English railway
| station goes with the rest OF II, and there are
no screens, and green blinds. and side doors
! and such American accessories. These
| Americans lined up along the counter and
| began 10 Jolly" the bRrmRlds. which no
gentleman ever does when he Is sober. The
maids resented the familiarity. and our Ameri-
cans being sober, shut up. Then they be-
| Ca 10 In lnrA a
! cocktails Star spanEled Banner toddies.
| Fourth OF July hzzes.- and similar silies,
| until all the railway passengers waiting for
| their trains began TO look our way. By this
time had begun 10 understand why IL was
| the rapid-hrng American was held In such
had taken a glass Of bitter not sbltters, :
| ! told a pardonsbe lie about an engagement
and got out. leaving thA gang 70 gurgle as Il
title loving friend felt as did about the COM
pany we were In. This happened within
three hours after our arrival In town;
| The next evening, coming out OF Craven
street into the strand, We met United States
| Senator, y good fellow and breezy American
| lie was so glad TO see us that he said he wss
IN the newt block. Then be told US what he
| thought OF foreign people and foreign man
| ners. gathered 10 the three or four days since
bis arrival at Liverpool, and be ripped out
WSs sgad some bobSS or other mlSSt hear
him aud nun him in Everybody who passed
heard him, and some stopped 20 SEQ what
able. l wasn't particularly stuck on the
country myself, but ! didn't say 90 quite 90
P Eg6ak91 bad p sS such an edFe on Rs perve'
that the night before he had heard a mar
talking at boat landing on the Thames en-.
thing, and he had waited for him 20 come
TO the street. III asked him n he we're ar
AMERICAN, and the. stranger blurted out
bosom that he forthwith fen on his fellow
gethsr and got a drink. i had been meetinI
several Of my fellow citizens before met th'
senator. and when, he told me Of this Than
Up my mind that the Thank God am
style OF Americans was the kind most didn'
rom Nav 10 SoTem6Sr stPepStbensd "a t6i,
When went on 70 he Cont lnent left my hrs
friend In England. and had quite a diheren
sort OF American as a substitute. He hac
/ a certain amount OF money 70 spend, anC
9'td s fq So Sh oo Sa %e SSSuss
own party Of two. This chap told ever
foreigner he met how much greater America
foreigners we're polite enough not 70 disput,
The statement Coming Coming o TO- Geneva irSn
told a coupls OF English youth who had beer
Alpine climbing that the only mountains e
climb were the Rockies. and they said u o.
I tNOuRDL OF coming over 10 hem. III
kept on footing for American advsntage
| until. Just before We reached Geneva, a big
fat, old Englishman turned 70 me smiling
! and whispered. IF Geneva were only a fev
miles further Oh your friend would tell IN,
boys 40 much about America that they
wouldn't have 70 go there at all This SAM
American paralyzed a clerk In a ParislaI
shop by saying he wanted a pair Of Giants
gloves He had seen "GRntsS In big letter
| In the window and that was enough for him
| lie Was in continual rows with porteTs anC
I one day when ! put up a dime 20 ouell an In
| Cipient riot he wanted 70 lick me Instead o
the porters Half q steamboat load Of anu SCI
aud wondering foreigners watched the per
t Torrance. When ] told him what a fgurt
| he was making Of our glorious land and IL
| people for these foreigners 70 desCAn upon
/ he said the lot Of them could 20 70 H
/ they didn't like HE way Of doing things. II
/ didn't whisper Il, either.
/ In Paris the Cookies. were out IN force
They owned the town. One day we ran int,
a whole drove OF them driven through tn
Pantheon. and as we were going their wa,
we fell In with the crowd What we rot va
| quite sufficient It's chief virtue VAS tina
Il didn't last long, They did the Pantheon
IN about seven minutes. There was q Kan
sas Congressman In the crowd who was
sight. He had on a straw hat that locke
as N he bad been using II 20 hatch populis
votes In; his pants-I use the term advised,
were OF loud check, three Inches too ahor
and rumpled from stem 70 EudReon; his Goa
was a linen duster down 10 his ankles, tina
| looked az n he had been working II overtlm
n DiuhfiRs his shoes vera vellOW aud n