The sun., 1908-07-10
4 PAUSEE VIEW OF AMERICA
iuPOLITE THE GUARDS, BUT
UONDERFUL THE COCKTAILS.
Dr. Patel and Mr. Dinshaw Confide TO "The
SUM- Their Impressi ons of the Country
Next 70 the Cocktails. Chicago 10
as Impressive as Anything American.


From, an Oriental point OF view the two
,raatest things in America are Bronx cock
,.ils Manhattan style) and Chicago. These
ar. the opinions of DIX. Patel, NJ. D.. o,
pombay, and E. U. Dnshaw of Karachi
slso Of India, both OF whom are Parsees
wbo have come from the Orient TO toul
America and have toured IL during the
last few weeks from Manhattan az fal
ws,t a. Halsted street, Chicago.
Yesterday they went back to India, DR.
Patel again to take up his extensive medical
rra,tlre in Bombay and Mr.. Dinshaw 10
resume his labors as a merchant and ship
agent Of Karachi.
Kip,in9 doesn't know anything about
t,dia. From the educated East Indian
standpoint Kiplng Is regular dub who
has only superficial knowledge Of India.
Ed,cated Orientals read George Meredith
and Thomas Hardy and Punch with joy
and eusto but this Kipling person is to
laugh American women are the most
beautrul women In the world. Motormen
and conductors OF Manhattan subways, ele-
vnted lines and trans are the most ex-
tren,est rudest eervants that the great god
Ormuzd and the Prophet Zarathustra
and angels and archangels OF the Parsee
fire worshpper ever let live. Sooner
would Dr. Patel and e. U. Dinshaw blow
out A light or quenoh the fame Of a gas
ranae than they would call q Manhattan
railway guard gentleman.
Nowadays 30 our two distinguished
Oriental visitors admit, the Parsees have
become modern enough and practical
enough 10 permit fire worshipping 2oross-
TRANS 10 serve in the Bombay fire depart
ment but when it comes to upholding
the good breeding of New York tram con-
d,ctors-no! Only in Toronto are the
tram conductors gentlemen. as gentlemanly
"a in England. But this is the most won
t,erful country in the world.
And as for the cocktails-ah! And
again, ah
up at the Broadway Central the other
afternoon Mr.. Dinshaw and Dr. Patel did
not wear the sudrah and the kusti. which
are the sacred shirt and girils that the
Parsees have worn since the days Of the
Avesta They just wore regular clothes aud
buttonei on collars while they told Of all the
wonderful things that they have seen in this
our most wondrous country. And when
they had finished talking Or. Patel resumed
his reading of a reprint of the Avesta and
Mr. Dinshaw again took up an edition Of Pah-
iavi text against the hour that one felt the
call for an Occidental cocktail.
We, the Parsees," began Mr.. Dinshaw,
ruled in Persia When was that? All, it
ras just 1900 years ago. This is indeed a
Sonderful country. Who told THE Sun.
for instance that we had come to be of
yCur company? marvel.
My friend Patel, who is the physician
H1d graluate-was graduated from the
{; rant Medical College Of Bombay. and /,
who am of the merchant business. decided
70 c one to this grand country. I am from
very C lose to Bombay, at place called
Karachi, which you do not know. 1t 10
next door to Bombay-only 500 miles away.
and so we are neighbors and friends. Many
ines Of railroads there are between the two,
and by boat II is but thirtv-six hours. which
is an infnitesimal in our great country.
"in London we were one month. and then
we came to the Hudson River stepping
ashore. You are not as far advanced as
lordor From the superficial observation
vcu are not Of the greatest importance
r,"lpared to London In business or In popu-
,r'ion. so it looks.
Greatest Of all in this your city are sky
cIapers first of all. Then the elevated
tIalGs and then the subway. But the sub
way is not 30 deep as in London, where 1t
goes down perhaps $50 feet. And the cock
tails We like very much. Mr. Bridgman,
TO whom we had letters, showed US home
life in Brooklyn and it Is very beautiful.
20, l mean not the cocktails but the home
lie Of Brooklyn. But the cocktails are
beautiful"
And the drink called the mint jnlep."
Inerpoated DR.. Patel. signing.
shaw. But. my word! The guards on your
trans and on the elevated and subway are
most most impolite. Even they are insulting.
Ony Yesterday we were in the subway
and unhappily were carried beyond our
subway station at the end Of your city
aud taken far out into the country of Brook
Hn' under the river unknowingly.
We wish to stop at the South Ferry,
having boarded this train at Forty second
street said with gentleness and inquiry
to the subway guard
Then what the hell are you doing over
hereF the person asked me in reply without
answering my question. He seemed not
MN Z gentlemanly question. but asked me
one n return and in manner most rude.
And he slammed the door and the train
went even further onward. And after a
IoIs ume the train, being incapable of
gong further, 80 far az my friend and
could see, 1t came to stop. Again this
person came to me. Beat it, he said.
ana we came back in another train and
aller while we again were at Forty-second
street, from which we had begun So we
got out without seeing the South Ferry.
:, Vne week we were here when we first
anded and then we went by the boat to
Aoany. ltisnot much. the city Of Albany is
not. The scenery on the way IL most beauti-
llil and the Capitol building by your great
architect Richardson Ia very wonderful,
nut the city is what you here would cali
Iotlen. There too the tram conductors
we're most rude, but mo- 30 rude as the Man
natlan .sn conductors, or guards, as we call
them in England
In Albany We would ask OF geographical
POINTS Out upon you' these guards
moula answer. Out upon youF and
quickly make way and Out upon you,'
again and Forget It, 1t was most dis
we're repulsed.
am sorry to speak Of this. DR.. Patel,
nearing you we're coming, warned me not
10 say impolite things Of America, fearing
lhat your country would show concern,
especially after we have been accepted
nere oy our friends so beautifully and
usye lave been so pleasantly entertained in
brooklyn and Chicago.
well, 10 Buffalo we went one day. Tbere
IA IA IN al cities we have seen. the roads were
beautiful and the residential environments
we're beautiful and the boulevards were
RtNHa L. l..