The Washington herald., 1910-07-17
AMERICANS FLOOD
EUROPEAN RESORTS
Largest Season in London
and Paris Since 1907.
BERLIN PROVES HOT RIVAL
Attractions are Set Forth by All OF
the Cities in Their Competition
over Gold from This side Which
Fills Their Golfers Every Tourist
SenAon-New HeteIs in Many Cities.

London, July 16-The American season
in London, Paris. and Berlin is the best
since the three golden years preceding
the panic of 1907. The hotels of all the
capitals Of Europe are thronged with
weIl-to-do Americans, who are spending
money with the traditional lavishness
that pleases the hotelkeepers and shop
keepers everywhere
Europe has learned that not all Ameri-
cans are millionaires. and so it is that
less is heard each year of extortion and
attempted extortion. American tourists,
too. seem 10 have learned the ropes and
they know just where to go to get the
most for their money.
New Hotels in Many Capitals.
Comfortable new hotels that charge
reasonable prices have been built in all
the capitals Of Europe within the last
five years. and in Paris, London. Berlin,
Rome, and Vienna new hotels invariably
have many baths, while some that APP
peal 10 the weather. visitors have suites
with baths that are as modernly Sluxuri-
Gus as anything New York can offer.
What with comfortable and reasonable
priced hotels. with express trains with
dining cars attached connecting all the
capitals. Americans find travelling in Eu-
rope nowadays much more simple and
comfortable than it was fifteen years
ago.
London holds itself rigidly aloof from
rivalry with the great cities Of the Con-
tinent. 1t permits Berlin and Paris 10
boast Of their attractions in order 10 lure
the American tourist; for itself 1t seems
content to say:
Galleries and Museums.
Here I am the greatest city in the
world with unrivaled museums and pic
dressmakers. Come and see me if you
want to. but if you don't want lowell.
dare say I'll get along without YOU"
Berlin and Paris now are in open COM
petition Berlin thinks Il is a more fasci-
mating city than Paris and ii intimates
that its night life is far and away more
alluring than Paris's. It boasts that
some Of the all-night restaurants don't
take down the shutters until midnight.
while Paris, excepting q few places on
the Montmartre. are yawning sleepily at
8 in the morning and thinking Of going
TO bed Berlins white light district Is
at that hour just beginning 10 get into
its stride, and its gait shows no sign Of
tagging until long after sunrise.
Paris, despite the modeTnness Of Berlin
and its nocturnal brillianey, continues
to be the mecca of Americans, men and
women. Berlin's shops of course cannot
compare with those Of Paris, although
its restaurants and beer halls are in
many details equal to those of Paris.
Until Berlin ereItes another Rue &c Ia
Paix it viii remain behind Paris in its
attractions for the American woman and
her daughter. Excepting Fifth avenue,
there is no other street in the world that
so appeals to the imagination Of the
American woman.
Berlin short on MOdiStes.
Berlin" said an American woman who
was shopping and aiding her daughter 10
buy an expensive trousseau, why, no
body ever heard the name of a Berlin
dressmakeTi''
That seems to sums up the difference
between Berlin and Paris so far as the
American woman is concerned.
The season both in London and Paris
this year has been marred by almost con-
slant rain. In London a cold rain fell
daily for almost three weeks from the
middle of June. The weather was so
chilly that newly arrived Americans were
compelled TO wear heavy overcoats and
wraps.
Paris, too. has been rainy and cold, and
Americans just over from torrid New
York complain not only of the rain, bat
OF the cold. French meteorological
sharps estimate that Paris got 30 per cent
more than its normal share of rain, while
the mean temperature has been ten de-
grees below normal
Partisan shopkeepers and restaurant
keepers complain bitterly OF the effects
Of the cold spring and early summer upon
their trade. The Open-air theaters in
the Avenue des Champs Elysees, too.
have been hard hit by the weather II
1t were not for the extraordinary num-
Der of Americans in Paris since June l.
the French capital would have suffered
almost irreparable loss.
Thanks 20 the American invasion, with
its train Of gold. Parisians have reason
10 be fairly glad they are alive The cold
wet spring and early summer caused i'm
mense, loss to the dressmakers, for Paris
ians didn't buy fluffy summer gowns be-
cause they couldn't wear them
While London has had more than its
share of rain 1t has not kept Americans
away. because they might be disappoint-
ed If they found it really wasn't "rainin'
in dear old Lunnon."