Evening star., 1915-11-26
All Will Visit France.

"Americans and English Will come
here because they will want to see
what remains of the havoc caused by
war" is the formula most of the
sneakers follow. THE rush which Will
Immediately follow the declaration of
peace will be greater than this coun-
try can handle with her at that time
depleted resources. Every passenger
steamer that sails the seas will be
pressed into action Tourists will get
accommodations in hotels by favor
The prices will be higher than even
Paris hotelkeepers ever before dreamed
Of
This seems probable. No one has ever
been able to estimate the amount or
money left in Europe annually by
tourists When the war is over France
and Belgium will be able almost TO
monopolize this business. NO one VIII
want to go to Italy to see old ruins
while there are fresh ruins right under
ones hands-and the ruins Of Rethei
and Rheims and Ypres, and thousand
other towns are more complete than
those of Pompeii today. .,
The neutrals will all have money;
the observers say. They have all
made money during this war. They
must come here to spend IT..
May Duplicate the Argentine.
The palmy days when the Argentine
invasion was at high tide may be re-
peated Six or seven years ago every
landowner in the Argentine had sold
or leased his land or had interested for
eign capital in some other way. They
came down on Paris like swarm OF
locusts, except that the Argentine To-
Gust carried honey. The tales OF tnelr
money spending are almost incredlble.
Not once, but several times, l have
dn1
to an Argentine planter" said the own
er of a little cane shop on the Rue Du-
phot An Argentinian would buy
gold headed cane for grandpere and
tortoise shell cane for his 1atner. ana
one with an ivory handle for his uncle
and a cana with bejeweled head that
concealed a trick for himself The
rolls of money they carried were CO.
lossal Fifty, one hundred, two hum
dred notes of 1000 francs each were
nothing unusual They threw it away.
Money in Scandinavia.
The return of the Argentine is looked
for, as well as the American-al Amer
leans are presumed to have made mil
lions out of war supplies-while the
Scandinavian for the first time looms up
as a rnoneyed possibility. There is un-
doubt.edIy money in Sweden, Norway
and Denmark, and SO far as the Pa
risian shopkeeper is concerned it is
still there. The calm Skowegian kept
it. But the Scandinavians have made
so much money by this war, because
most of Germany's imports have passed
through their hands, that it is conf
IDENTIFY believed the northerners will
make their first appearance as money
spenders.
1t is certain that this tide of tourist
money is being widely anticipated. l
know an American who has his eye on
a chateau which overlooks one Of the
fields on which the battle OF the Marine
was most fiercely fought. He proposes
to make it into public house for the
accommodation of the weather. tour
lists who come that way. There is the
attra ction of a thousand crosses on the
slope of the opposite hill and three
British officers are buried in the very
dooryard. The chateau walls were
pierced in a dozen places by shell fire.
at seems heartless," some one said
when this plan was made known.
Business, my boy said the Amer
lean. IF i don't get it a Frenchman
will. Is it more heartless for me to
run It as a hotel than for native
SOM"