Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-28
HONE looks GOOD
D MR.. MCFARLAND
United States Consul Returns o
Find City Has Gained Some
Valuable Assets
AusTRiANs
UNPREJUDlcEp
Antagonist to American Products
Lacking and Admiration and Won
der Prevail-Refrains From Talking
Politics - The couchmans, Miss
Woodbury. and Others.

I After hobnobbing with potentates
and studying the commercial and po-
litical problems of the old world for q
number of years, Mr.. S. C, Mcfarland
| United States consular representative
at Reichenberg, Austria, is back to
Marshalltown and Iowa for brief So
journ, with the feeling stronger than
ever that there's no place like home
Friday he forsook the welcome OF
/ friends here for brief visit to his sis
4 ter at Cedar Falls, but before his de-
parture he consented to give his i'm
pressions of this and other countries
and to tell Of his trip home He said:
We had long and rather unevent-
full trip, excluding the hot weather,
which we struck in the gulf stream and
! which followed us here Living for
| several years in a mountain region,
where summer temperature is consid-
cred warm at 10 degrees, is not the
best preparation for sudden plunge
into 81 degrees, as found it at WASH
ington. We left Reichenberg on the glo-
rious Fourth and sailed from Ham
burg on the slow Patricia, July Z. Mr..
and Mrs. w. V. Couchman, who hope
to cross in August or September. We're
| north in Sweden, but we saw Mr. Percy
Eames; and his bride, a beautiful and
accomplished kentucky girl, crossed on
the same boat with US, called by the
illness of her father. Was it good to
| catch sight of Liberty in New York
harbor? Live across for five unbroken
years, with your Americanism growing
and strengthening every month-then
you wonder why the six weeks tour
lists shout and clap their hands and
weep on each others shoulders, while
you only feel "a great calm of thankful
ness. Thirteen days on the boat, stops
in New York, Washington and Chica-
go-all this only preliminary to arrival
in Marshalltown, still the best town in
the best state In the only country for
us. Yes, Marshalltown has improved
but not changed much. Some good old
faces are missing, and there are a
wholly abnormal number of strange
yOuiiS HiSII dlIu pISlly girls. GU nave
taken on, in addition to your fine paw
Ing, your new postoffice, library and
other buildings, a sort of assured and
satisfied air that tells of a good fight
we'll won. hear also that you have
mayor and, credit at the banks-both
good assets-and that you are now
looking. not for a boom, but towards
the creation of beautiful home town.
No place could be prettier than our
post at Reichenberg, arG no foreign
city could have treated Americans bet
ter than we have been treated by the
warm hearted Austrians. But all this
does not make it home and to say
that this visit to our old friends here
has been the dream Of years fairly ex-
presses our pleasure at getting back.
"Reichenberg is the commercial
center of North Bohemia. Some $4.-
100000 of the textiles, glass and famous
Gablonz goods, pass thru the consult
ate yearly for America larger bus
mess than is done at any consulate in
the empire, not excepting Vienna,
Prague or Budapest the three impor-
tant capitals Under the new consular
bill Reichenberg was therefore raised
in rank next to the consulate general
at Vienna. AT present an exposition
of the manufactures of this section is
being held in Reichenberg, and in it's
setting is picturesque departure from
any other such exposition ever given.
It's exhibits are confined to the prod
ucts of the Austrians-the German
speaking element-and Bohemian and
competitive foreign products are ex-
cluded. The. well-loved emperor,
Franz Josef. Arch-Duke Ferdinand
Karl, the king Of sSaxony, and other
notables, not excluding our own Buffa-
10 Bill, have already paid visits, each
being marked by the military and other
splendors SO dear to the people on the
other side. Reichenberg is also one of
the gates to the beautiful Saxon
Switzerland so-called, and the whole
region, with it's bathing and mountain
resorts, while somewhat off the main
line of English or American travel, is
sorted to by thousands of tourists an
nually.
NO; there is no prejudice against
American goods or novelties-none
of that commercial and somewhat bit
ter jealousy which sticks out so plain
ly in England and Germany. Each
year witnesses a wider introduction
of American goods and specialties, and
among the lower classes, especially, our
land is looked. upon as the mecca of
all that is wonderful to see, desirable
to have and good to eat. From my
district, too, you get only good class
of nmigrants-skilled workmen and
young men of ambition.
ASK me anything you want later,
except about what you call politics, and
I'll be glad to answer, but have no
time now. Yes, Miss Mabel Woodbury.
is still at Prague, and expects to re-
main at least another year. She likes
it there and except for spell of sick
ness has had an enjoyable experience.
Report has it, also. that she is de-
into violinist of remarkable
promise"