The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-07
AMERICANS COME"
WITH OPEN PURSES,
ENGLISH ARMS OPEN
BY MARY HENkE.

LONDON, May 26.-'The Americans
come is being chanted in Europe with
as glad voice as ever it was during
tie war. 1t is almost touching to see
the glad welcome given to Yankee
tourists, until one hears murmurs of
'millionares' and making up for the
exchange rate and that sort Of thing.
Europe appreciates the Americans and
all that, but il is hard up, and the pur-
chasing power Of the Yankee dollar is
great.
ne best news any paper can publish
Just now is the announcement that
many thousand Americans, nearly all
OF them rich, are now somewhere on
the Atlantic, on their way to visit
Shakespeare's home and the battle
fields and spend lot of money.
Equally welcome with the tourists
are the American business men and
buyers who have come with the inten-
ton of buying foreign goods. A special
service has been opened in London to
help American buyers get in touch
with English manufacturers.
Merchants in the States are showing
great eagerness to get English clothes
and this demand is expected to be
good for industry. Pessimists, how
ever, hold that it will probably prove
another excuse to put the prices up.
Get Axe Ready for EN-.
All of London is bustling about and
rubbing it's hands like an old time inn
Keeper getting ready to receive a
wealthy guest. The papers are full
CT advertisements addressed to Amer
leans
A young lady wants to conduct
Americans about London; another
lady of established position would in
troduce them into society; a man who
owns q fiat in Chelsea has fitted it all
up with a valet for some American
bachelor able to pay; a decayed gentle
woman would look after and teach the
proper English accent to a select num-
her Of yourful Americans. Books are
written Wholesale for Americans, tell
ing them how to dress, what to see
where the best public houses
are.
ut let not the prospective visitor
he deceived. All this is not being
done for nothing. People have so got
in the habit Of seeing Uncle Sam pay
the bills that they feel he must expect
it. And they are putting on the
prices.
Put Prices Up Quickly.
AS soon as Americans began going
to Stratford-on-Avon again up went the
prices there, until decent-minded
Englishmen protested that it was a
breach of hospitality and practical
men who saw a way Of paying off the
war tax declared that Americans
ought to be forced to pay a poll tax
for making the prices go up.
The way the cost of tours to the
hattlefelds went up as soon as the
tourists began coming across was too
noticeable to be ignored. Last winter
one could cross to Belgium, spend
several days there and see all that
was desired for s25 or $50. Now you
can't do it for less than SIS, if you go
as a member of a tourist party.
The governments have hand in the
Profits as well by requiring a quantity
of passports and vouchers costing
from 81 to 50 each, before one can
cross the channel.
Railroad fares may go up again, too,
it is predicted. Already they are so
per cent above the pre-war cost and
the new increase is expected to make
them just 100 per cent higher.
This because the engine drivers are