The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-19
MANY AMERICANS
 ARE IN EUROPE They Are Everywhere, Says
 London Newspaper TAKE THINGS EASY, TOO American Music, Plays and Operas PlentlfuI-Full Dress on the Pl-
 azza at Venice and In
 Mountain Villages.
TAKE THINGS EASY TOO


 The American season Is in full swing, and our transatlantic cousin is overrun- ming the land. London appears to exer- else a somewhat sobering influence on him, and 1t is at Stratford-o that one sees him at his best There he is in class apart. Everywhere In the little town notices refer to Visitors and Amer icans," and at all show places the two insoribe their names in separate books. Through the streets the visitors march staldly the Americans do" the place thoroughly, in couples at least, one car rying camera, the other D guide book. Arrived at any spot mentioned in the book, the camera is brought into play, while the other reads aloud the refer ence in the guide book.
 But 1t is on the continent that one must study the wandering American. There Is more of him and his smartly dressed women kind in Paris than in London. writes M. J. Landa in the London Daily News, and more for the size of the city in Berlin than in Paris. In the French capital an edition of one of his New York newspapers Is published daily; in Berlin the so-called English weekly is devoted almost exclusively to his doings, and several clubs are run for his special benefit
 No matter where you go, you find him before you, amazingly cool, magnihcently confident and sublimely unconscious-to all outward seeming, at any rate--of the off 1a stepped on board the vessel which Is to take you from England when you hear him inquiring about his state cabin no matter how quickly you enter the train on the other side you find his portman- teau, with its mosaic of multicolored ho- tel labels almost completely hiding its original covering on the best seat
 His ubiquity impresses you and conn pels your admiration. His sang froid Is in striking contrast to the manner of the average Englishman abroad. The true Engllshman Is never at home on the con tinent-it is too full of Foreigners" The American is the Bedoun of civilization at home and at ease everywhere; and the more you see of him the moro con genial do you find him.
 Always Friendly.
 I climbed to the top of Notre Dame in Paris and found there party from across the Atlantic enjoying lunch The day was hot and young man in the group of fered me a refreshing drink. At the top of the lace work in marble, which Is the spire of Milan Cathedral, three English speaking men met accidentally-an Amer ican, an English clergyman and myself He who hailed from the land of the Stars and Stripes offered me his field glass; the other did not even return our good morning Salutation. In a beer garden at Lucerne l followed the custom of the continent and asked permission before sitting at a table of those already seat ed there. The only one who did not raise his hat and reply was an English man, and the only one to make excuses for him was a young man who prefxed his words with T guess"
 At Ostend the usual crowd of camersls lodged about between the bathing ma chimes. One of the bathers, with his kodak on his head, to keep 1t dry watched the efforts of others for while to snapshot a darngly attlred French woman, then he coolly asked her to pose on the steps of her bathing machine for him. She did, with the remark: You droll Americans" In the Luxembourg at Paris l could not find Sargents Car mencita," and 1t was a student from Frs- co who told me 1t had been temporarily consigned to the cellar, together with Whistler's portrait of his mother The latter, however, had been hastily dragged out and placed chair when the ar tist died.
 About a half a dozen of us, represent Ing nearly as many nationalites, stood at one of the finest parts of the Giess- bach cascades in Switzerland and ex- pressed a desire to see a huge log go bounding down the torrent. Instantly an American in the party climbed over the parapet and standing on the edge of the precipice took three of the largest logs from the pile kept there for the purpose and tossed them into the seethIng cataract Where he stood the throw had to be careful in the extreme; over balancing would have been fatal.
 Later the same day in the Dantesque Gorge of the Aar, near Meringen, some one wondered how a revolver would sound in that awe inspiring canon. Instantly an American drew his shooting iron from his hip pocket and woke the reverberat- ing echoes
 kankee knockabouts In Brussels.
 The first music hall l ever entered on the continent was at Brussels; the stage was occupied by a couple of Yankee lxnock-abouts. The Moulin Rouge was the first place of entertainment I visited in Paris. The major portion of the pro- gramme was occupied with a French version of "The Belle of New York" without the character of the Salvation assie. and with the polite lunatic trans formed into q fiery Pasha. In Bruges the famous old belfry rang out waltz which heard whistled in the same piece in London. I bought some cheap pirated music in Antwerp. It was published in the land of Sousa. In Amsterdam the walls were placarded with "Zaza"
 In Venice whenever I was in the Piazza San Marco during my stay fair Ameri- cans were busy kodalling one another with half dozen pigeons perched on their arms and shoulders. At night in the cosmopolitan crowd of promenaders around the bandstand in the famous square one beautiful woman wore even Ing dress She came from the land of Edna May. American women wear even ing dress everywhere-even in the noun tain villages of Switzerland, where they find to their cost that the hottest days are followed by cold nights.
 In the Latin Quarter crowd at the mo- torious Bal Bullier in Paris you are sure to see one or two American ladies in elaborate evening toilettes and have seen them so arrayed in the grewsome cabaret "Le Meant" in Montmartre, where the walters are dressed like un- dertakers mutes and the tables are coffns American women do the sights of Paris with startling thoroughness have seen them in the Olympia bar aft