The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-22
TO SCATTER coin
WITH LAVISH HAND
Annual Invasion of England by
American MilliOnaires
Has Begun.
EXTRAYAGANCES SEEN THAT
0UTD0 ALL OF ROYALTY
Dealers in Antique" Furniture
Made Each Year Are Reap
ing Harvest.

LONDON, May H.-An army OF
accompaniment OF pretty daughters
and open check-books, is sweeping
down on London and creating a record
in lavish expenditure
The keynote of this campaign of eX-
travagance was struck this week by
a man from Philadelphia. who walked
into the Carlton and said he would just
take an entire floor for himself and
his family. Subsequent arrivals were
Informed that there was no more room.
Rush Hardly Begun.
The great West End hotels are al
ready crowded, yet the rush has hardly
begun. Every steamship is fully booked
for the next three months, and so great
is the desire to spend the winters y
profits In Europe that hundreds OF
tourists are chcertuliy paying first
class rates for second class berths
rather than wait until the season IS
over.
More money will be spent by Ameri-
cans in London this summer than ever
before. They are coming prepared to
scatter dollars with reckless hand
for the past year has been one of un-
eXampled prosperity in the United
States. and many men have jumped
from comparative poverty into affu-
ences
Some Of the Magnates.
All the steamships arriving at Brit
ish ports brought well-known Ameri-
can millionaires and their families
Among the Cedric's passengers We're
DR.. Seward Webb. a railway magnate,
whose private car is said to be the
most luxurious in America, Mr.. and
Mrs. j, b. Hanan and Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Carstairs, of Philadelphia all
OF whom are at the Carlton.
Among the other Americans at the
Carlton are Mr.. Rodman Wanamaker
of Philadelphia, who engaged the en-
tire floor aforesaid; Mr., and Mrs.
Hayemeyer whose fortunes represent
the great American sugar interests,
and Mr.. w. B. Henderson Of Boston.
Hotels Are Crowded.
All the great hotels, such as the
Savoy. the Cecil. the Carlton, Clar-
idge's, the Russell and the Great Cen
tral are crowded with Americans,
Many millIonaIres had the fore
thought to engage apartments months
in advance, Others who find them
selves without accommodation are Of
ferlng fabulous sums for suites with
q bath.
Even the Bloomsbury district. where
numberless embryo millionaires lodge,
realizes that this Is to be a record
year for Americans, and hurried prep
arations are being made TO provide eX-
ira sleeping accommodations at most
Of the large boarding-houSes.
Harvest for Dealers.
booksellers see a prosperous season
ahead. The old furniture industry is
already booming, and it is believed
that this years output of antique"
Chippendale chairs for American eX-
port will break all records at the mid
land factories.
Cable Companies Profit.
Even the cable companies viii profit
greatly by the invasion. for all Of these
millionaires. who have made their
money overnight would not consider a
trip to Europe enjoyable unless they
could conduct their financial operations
by cable The American who breaks
into the aristocracy of dollars contin
ues TO think In thousands to the day
OF his death.
Many Tours Planned.
There will be many personally con-
Quoted tours, I'm which the gentle
school -marm' from the New England
States will predominant School,
marms of the pie belt. which is the
old English district of the Northeast,
where the people eat fruit pies for
breakfast, have only one ambition. and
that is to do England" the home of
their ancestors.
Tours are also arranged in every
State in the Union, and many prize
tickets are issued In various ways a
Chicago newspaper is sending the ten
most popular shopgirls-voted for by
their colleague-and a Kansas City
pork packer is paying for the tour of
twenty-five of his employees who have
not been late to work during ten
wears