Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — HAPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Many Americans Abroad This Season

LONDON.— 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 well-to-do Americans, who are spending money with the traditional lavishness that pleases the hotelkeepers and shopkeepers everywhere. Europe has learned that not all Americans are millionaires, and so it is that less is heard each year of extortion and attempted extortion. American tourists, too, seem to have learned the ropes and they know lust where to So to get the most for their money. 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 appeal to the wealthier visitors have suites with baths that are as modernly luxurious 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 traveling in Europe nowadays

much more simple and comfortable than it was 15 -years ago. London holds itself rigidly * aloof from rivalry with the great cities of the continent.' It permits Berlin and Paris to boast of their attractions in order to lure the American tourist; for itself, it seems content to say: “Here I am, the greatest city in the world, with unrivaled museums and picture galleries, not to mention tailors and dressmakers. Come and see me ii you want to, but if you don’t want to —well, I dare say I’ll get along without :pu.” " Berlin and Paris now are in open competition. Berlin thinks it 1b a more fascinating city than Paris and it intimates that its night life is far and away more alluring than Paris’. Paris, despite the moderness of Berlin and its nocturnal brilliancy, continues to be the Mecca of Americans, men and women. The season, both in London and Paris, this year has been marred by almost constant 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 shopkeepers and restaurant keepers complain bitterly of the effects of the cold upon their trade. ' Thanks to the American invasion with its train of gold, Parisians have reason to be fairly glad they are alive.