THE SUNDAY OBEGOXIA, PORTLMD, .TUNE 1 1902.
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FRANK CARPENTER WRITES
FROM LONDON TELLING HOW YANKEES
HAVE PUT IN THEIR HOOKS
AMEK167VN lWASION OF.. EfCTROPE
LONDON, England, May 17. Special
correspondence.) I have come
across the great Atlantic ferry to
tell sou what the Yankees are doing: In
Europe. The subject Is attracting more
attention here than at home. The Ger
mans call It "The Great American Peril"
and it is said, that pnraso originated -with
the Emperor himself. The English have
dubbed it the "Yankee Invasion," and the
London papers are publishing long series
of articles upon it. The subject is so lm
5ortant that it has a place in the discus
sions of the Parliaments of the various
countries, and both capitalists and work
lngmen are thoroughly alarmed.
Even the monarchs are worried. It was
to win the affection of our Yankee, trades
men that the Kaiser sent his brother to j
America, and -whenever one of the Ameri
can Princes of our big trusts comes over j
here the nobility bow down to him as the !
Idolatrous Israelites did to the golden calf. I
Pierpont Morgan Is as -well known here aa
fce is at home, and Mr. Schwab, during his
recent visit to England and the Continent
hobnobbed with, Kings, and. Edward of
England, the most particular of them all
In matters of etiquette, gave him aa audi
ence in a. vain endeavor to leara "how"
America, does it."
But -what is all tha iuss about? It is
labout 52,000,000 a day. Only a little mat
ter of JS3.0Q0 an hour, a bagatelle of J140Q
a. minute. This la round numbers is about
-what our trade balance "with. Europe has
been and not far from what it is now. la
these letters I will not give exact figures.
If you want them you can get them of the
statistical bureau of the Treasury Depart
iment at Washington, -where Mr. O. P. Aus
in will be glad to oblige you. In round
numbers, then, our trade balance witn
'Etfirope Is $600,000,000 or about $2,000,000 for
every "working day from. January to De
cember, Inclusive. That Is, we are cell
ing these people- that much more than we
Ifcuy. The gold is flowing la a great yellow
river across the Atlantic, and it bids fair
to be the biggest gulf stream known to
commerce. Do you "wonder that the peo
Iple are frightened? I don't.
1 A. Toar of Investigation.
Before I begfn. to describe the situation
ilNvant to give & ehort outline of my pro
posed tour. I am at this writing in Lon
don. I shall remain here for soma weeks,
after which I shall visit some of the in
dustrial centers of the United Kingdom
and then go to the Continent.
jn England I -want to show, you the
gneatest markets of the world and how
our American goods are flowing into them,
to look into the enormous electrical pos
sibilities above and below ground and
.anions other things describe the famous
Tuppenny Tub Electric line, which is
equipped with electrical machinery and
which cost about $3,000,000 a mile. I shall
describe the place that America has la
these London markets and by pen pictures
of this greatest city of the "world show
where and how our position may become
greater still.
Outside the English metropolis I shall
visit the great industrial centers to tell
2iow some of our raw materials are turned
Into the manufactures -which have made
John Bun so wealths'. I want to picture
the new American factories now being
built on Elngllsh soil, and to compare the
labor of this country with ours. I may
get to the coal mines which are so- deep
chat John Bull will from now on have
to rely largely on the supplies of 'Uncle
6am to keep him warm and his -factories
working'.
Leaving England I shall visit our biggest
customers on the Continent. I want to
spend a while in Russia. At St. Peters
burg I shall give a letter on the young
Czar and tell of the vast Internal im
provements he is making on the greatest
empire of the globe. I shall visit Moscow
i and other great manufacturing centers
rand show how It is from the Russians
that we hanre much to fear in our trade
I competition of the future. Russia is the
pfarm population in the whole world and
rche extent to which, we are selling it farm
(machinery will be interesting.
Germany will be next visited. This coun
try is the giant of modern times. It is one
U)f the "best manufacturers and the shrewd
jest 'trader of all the European countries
i&nd it Is doing more in comparison with
I what God has given it than any other.
The Berlin of 1902, the technical schools,
bow Germany is capturing the oceans,
iSthe mighty ports, the American hog and
how it goes into eausage for German stom
achs and American trade on he Rhine
will be among the subjects of my inves
tigation. From Germany I will go to Holland and
(Belglirm, and. then to France. Each of
these countries will be treated along the
same and other lines, the only aim being
to get news matter interesting to Ameri
cans. On. an American Cruiser.
Icamc to England on an American cruls
cn England and Germany have the bulk
tf the s,hlprlng of the Atlantic, so much
so that It Is estimated that we pay Eng
land alone about $75,000,000 a year for car
rying -our freight, although we are begin
ning to acquire lines of our own. It was
onlv last year that Pierpont Morgan and
his associates bousht the Leyland lino
for between $8,000,000 and $3,000,000, and the
International Navigation Company, which
is Simon-pure American, has a fleet of
big steamers which are keeping the At
lantic hot between America and Europe.
It was on the St. Louis of their line that
I crossed. Tho ship is one of 11,629 tons;
it is one of the best on the Atlantic and
one of the fastest on record, and it was
built by an American. It came from
Cramps' shipyard in Philadelphia, and like
the rest of the boats of its line it is now
doing more business than English shltfs of
the same class and tonnage.
Tfao St. Louis is run on the American
plan and in one respect on a plan that
has much to do with making Americans
successful in their present invaslpn. I
mean that the "boat is pushed as far as is
consistent with safety. It makes almost
one-third more trips a year than English
boats of the same class. The English
method is to go slow and let the ships
Test between times, with the belief that
in this way they will last the longer.
The American plan is to work them for
what they aro worth and as soon as they
begin to fall to sell them as freighters or
throw them on the scrap heap.
Modern Yankee Steamship Methods.
Said a leading steamship man to me
lately: "The world moves too fast to at
tempt to keep up with it with any but
the very best and newest machinery.
There are new inventions every month,
and the ship that doesn't have them will
have to take the skim, milk of freight and
passengers. It Isbetter to buy new ships
and get the cream. This is one trouble
with England's shipping over the world
today. Take the P. & O., one of their f
famous lines to the Orient. A generation
ago it had no competitors to speak of; t
today the Germans are getting the most
of its trade. The Germans have the
fastest and the best of the Atlantic
steamers, and thev are buildlntr blircer
nno ttnA VipftAf nnM nvirv venr
The fastest ship now on the ocean Is
the Deutschland, of the Hamburg-American
Line. It registers 16,000 tons, and
its record speed in crossing the Atlantic
was Just about 2 nautical miles an
hour. It went from Sandy Hook to Ply
mouth in flvo days, seven hours and 3S ,
minutes. The record speed of the St. i
Paul, a sister ship of the St Louis, for
lis iasiest voyage uverageo. zi mnes ana
eight minutes to the hour, an average
only surpassed by the Deutschland, the
Kronprinz Wllhelm, of the North German
Lloyd, and the Lucanla, of the Cunard 1
Line. j
A Sample Company of Invaders. j
I had as fellow-passengers a fair sam
ple of the Americans who are leading our
commercial army to lands beyond the
seas. Several were capitalists after In
vestments la England and the Continent.
One was a partner in a great electrical
construction company going abroad to get "
contracts for the new roads that England t
proposes to build, and another was a '
Yankee railway manager, who was going
over to show the British electric rallway
trust how to operate its undertakings af
ter the American fashion. There were I
also the representatives of some of the '
biggest agricultural Implement makers ot '
the United States, two men from the Mil- ,
waukee Harvester Company, going to es
tablish agencies in England and Conti
nental Europe, and a Paterson, N. J., j
man, who Intends to coat Europe Ted with '
his cold water paint. Ho tells me he j
sells it already from the Baltic to the '
Mediterranean, and that the openings for j
all such things are good. i
Eyeglasses and Soli Babies.
Then we had Lubln, the Philadelphia
optician and motion picture man, who told
me that vast quantities of American spec
tacles and eyeglasses are now sold In
Russia, Germany, France and England,
and Collins, another Philadelphlan, an
agent for the sale of photographic card
board and mounts. "We had also Levy, of
New York, an exporter and Importer of
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by machinery In America are now having
a heavy sale In Europq. Even In Ger
many, the great toy-making country of
the world, our Iron and wooden toys are
sold in quantities. They are prettier and
better than the hand-made German ar
ticle and can be sold for half the price.
Mr. Levy Is going ovei to buy dolls for
the American market. He says 3000 differ
ent varieties of dolls are made In Ger
many, and that the latest fashions In
American dresses are sent to the doll
makers in order that our children may
have dolls with dresses as up-to-date as
their mothers.
Another German - American passenger
was on his way to open up 'an ofilce for
American typewriters In Berlin, while a
mining engineer from California was en
route for the South African gold fields,
and a young Indlanlan was on his way to
Southampton and Buenos Ayres to pave
the streets of the Argentine capital with
Trinidad asphalt.
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and grain men. The list Is too long to
be given, and I cannot mention the va
riety of freight, for the purser showed me
that the different articles ran Into the
hundreds. I will only say that we had a
big cargo of machinery, flour and fresh
meat, and that among the fruits there
were 400 boxes and 100 barrels of ripe
apples.
The Invaders in London.
Landing at Southampton, I came directly
to London. There was a special train for
the passengers waiting at the wharf. The
trip took less than two hours, and It was
about the middle of the afternoon when I
reached my hotel. This gave me a couple
of hours before dark for a stroll, during
which I noted somo of the evidences of
the American Invasion. Suppose you take
the walk with me. "We start at the Hotel
Cecil, in the busiest part of the Strand.
The street Is full of hansom3. four-wheelers
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EATTLE, May SO. In this day four
generations on either the mafe or
female side of the family is not
unusual, but it is perhaps rare to find a
lamily In which the four generations aro
represented in both the male and female
tranches, with an unbroken record on the
male side, as well, in the military line.
Indeed, the military record pf the fam
ily runs back five generations. The pres
ent head of this interesting group is Col
onel W. "W. Robinson, now a fairly ac
tive and comparatively liale man of S3,
who is passing the evening of his life
with his consort, who is somewhat more
robust and igorous of mind. Their home,
a beautiful place near Fort Law ton, con
tains many souvenirs of their extensive
travels, including some very rare arti
cles presented to Colonel Robinson by
the Queen of Madagascar, when he "was
acting as United States Consul to that
island.
Colonel and Mrs. Robinson have ''three
children, the oldest, Mrs. Hollen Richard
son, and htr two daughters, living with
thm. There arc two sons. Major Will
lam "W. Robinson, now acting as Chief
Quartermaster in Manila, and Herbert P.,
of this city. A son of Major Robinson,
Edward "W., Is First Lieutenant In a
regiment now stationed In Manila, and a
cable message received a short time ago
announced that his wife had given birth
to a son, making the four generations on
the male side complete. On the female
side of the house there is the wife ot
Colonel Robinson, aged 2: her daughter,
Mrs. Hollen Richardson; Mrs. E. H. Vic
tor, the eldest daughter of Mrs. Rlchard
sot, and Miss Margery Victor, aged 12,
the fi,ldest of sir children In the Victor
family.
Colonel Robinson was born In Vermont,
December 14. 1813. His father was a Lieu
tenant In the "War of 1S12. and fought at
Sackott's Harbor. Plattsburg and Stone
Mill, making the first military hero In the
family. Colonel Robinson was educated
in Rutland and Castleton Academies, In
Vermont, and afterwards In Norwich MP
itnry Academy, in the same state. Afttr
seeral yeRrs of teaching school and
prospecting, he enlisted in the Mexican
"War, and was made Lieutenant In Com
pany G, Third Ohio Infantry, under Col
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Civil "U'ar. He was promoted to Captain
for distinguished service In Mexico. In
1S52 he went to California across the
plains, operating! there In contracting and
gold-digging. He afterwards engaged in
farming In Minnesota, and founded the
Town of Milton. In that state. He was
the latter, his son entering the military
academy In 1S63.
The career of the son has covered a
good deal of service on the frontier
against the Indians, he being attached to
the Third Cavalry. He was Quartermas-
made Colonel of state militia during his tcr n Texas and four years ago was
residence In Minnesota, and removed to s;nt to Seattle as Constructing Quarter
Sparta, Wis., In liS. Whtn the rush to . master. "While here he superintended the
fill the quotas required of "Wisconsin came . building of Fort Lawton, and made it
the Governor appointed him Lieutenant- j an ideal place. He greatly endeared hlm
Colonol of the Seventh Wisconsin, and j &e to the people of Seattle who gave
he went to the front In September, 1SGJ. him a banquet on the eve of h'ls departure
He made the fruitless march In the J for Honolulu, a year ago. On his arrival
Spring of 1S62, under McClellan, towards
Manassas, went through the first cam
paign of the Rappahannock, and en
gaged In small affairs up to Thornburg
and Fredericksburg. He was In the
movement to Fredericks Hall Station, and
went to Cedar Mountain In time to re
treat with Pope and to skirmish at Bev
erly Ford. He was In the first terrific
action in which Wisconsin troop were
engaged, where, at Gainesville, four regi
ments of the famous Iron Brigade held
their ground against 33 regiments of Con
federates. In the Fall of 1S61 he was pro
moted from Lieutenant-Colonel to Col
onel. In the action at Gainesville his
horse was shot from under him. and he
received a bullet in the leg. He was sent
to the hospital In Washington, but re
joined his regiment a few days prior to
the battle of Fredericksburg. In January,
1S63, Colonel Robinson helped pull Burn
side out of the mud. He wa3 with the
Iron Brigade in its various fights and
skirmishes until the battle of the Wil
derness, when he was in command of
the Seventh Wisconsin. He was at Get
tysburgj, Laurel Hill and Spotsylvania.
For 30 'days at one time he did not re
move his clothing, although suffering
from many wounds.
After the war Colonel Robinson engaged
In farming, and In 1S75 was appointed
Consul to Madagascar, where he resided
for 12 years. When the Madagascar Am
bassadors were about to visit the United
Col .W."W: "Flobi n5or
Major Wm V.Robmson . Lieut- Edward W. Robeson.
In Manila a few weeks ago he was made
Chief Quartermaster. Major Robinson
was also In charge of the work of fitting
out the transports here during the Ehll
Iplne War. His son, Edward, served In
the war with Spain as Captain of vol
unteers, and when he returned from Cuba
w,as given a Lieutenancy and went to Ma
nila with a detachment of the Regular
Army. Lieutenant Robinson won his first
spurs as a soldier when only 12 years
old. In the campaign of 1SS0-L against the
Indians near Pine Ridge, L. S and at
j the engagement near Wounded Knee, and
' urexei .Mission, a u. a& was at me
side of his father, and growing excited
he finally secured a carbine and volun
tarily took hto place on the skirmish line
with the soldiers and behaved with great
bravery.
The military spirit of this family also
cropped out in another grandson of
Colonel Robinson, a young man now 21,
a son of Herbert Robinson. He was 17
when the war with Spain broke out, and
despite the objections of his parents wrote
to the Secretary of War, relating the rec
ord of his grandfather and uncle, and
obtained the privilege of going as a vol
unteer. After the Cuban strife he was
admitted' to West Point, and recently
passed an extremely hard examination,
being one of seven of his class to get
through.
General Richardson. Colonel Robinson's
son-in-law, now a practicing lawyer here,
States and Europe, In 1ES2. the Queen . y,as thrice breveted for bravery during
made a special request of the President the Civil War.
that Colonel Robinson be allowed to ac-
company them, which he did. He returned
to the United States, and for some time
afterward lived In Wisconsin. He has
been for several years a resident of the
Pacific Coast.
During his service as a soldier. Colonel
The Boundary Line.
A well-known Judge on a Virginia cir
cuit was recently reminded very forcibly
of his approaching baldness by one of his
rural acquaintances. "Jedge," drawled
Robinson was offered the alternative of a the farmer, "It won't be so very long
commission as Brigadier or a scholarship j 'fo you'll hev to tie a -string around yer
at West Point for his son, and he chose I head to tell how fer up to wash yer face."
going on the trot back and forth between
the city and the West End. The 'busses
are heavy two-story affairs, with a dozen
seats on the roof, as well as a dozen seats
within. Their sides, fronts and tops aro
plastered with advertisements. See that
one going by now! It has a black crow
holding up an American liver pill sign
on the steps, and one of our best-known
typewriters displayed just above. Along
the top Is an advertisement of "Ben
Hur," by General Lew Wallace, which
Is now being played at one of the thea
ters, and on the next "bus an announce
ment that Charles Frohman will soon pre
sent "Arizona."
But see the omnibus coming down the
Strand! Notice that great yellow board
adlslng you to buy Bryant &. May's
matches and support home labor. The
'bus behind has a similar sign and there
by hangs a tale. For many years Bryant
& May's matches were the chief ones In
England. Their monopoly was apparently
as safe as that of the Standard Oil Com
pany, and they expected to continue pay
ing dividends out of sulphur until the
Judgment day required all of the raw
material for other purposes. They thought
the same when they were told that the
American Diamond Match Company had
appeared on the scene and proposed to
compete for the trade. They soon
changed their minds, however, and this
is what happened. The English were
using old machinery. The American
company had the best and the newest of
patents. They established factories and
easily undersold their English competitors.
They got to the front and kept there.
The Bryant & May people sent agent3
all over the world seeking for machinery
to withstand the Americans, but it was
not to be found. The result was that they
hrew their hands and were absorbed by
the Diamond Match Company, though
their old name was still held.
American Shoes and Rubbers.
But suppose we start out on our walk.
Look now at the stores. They call them
shops here, but no matter. Here is one
advertising American shoes of the latest
and most popular makes. You will find
them scattered here and there all oer
London. The English can make a good
shoe they call shoes boots but there Is
no style about It and mighty little com
fort. The leather looks as though It wa
chopped out with a hatchet and the toes
are sharp. Their shoes cost more to
make than ours, and the result is we aro
selling them more than ?1,000,000 worth of
shoes every year.
In this store window In which we afe
looking is an advertisement of American
rubbers In the ordinary shop they call
rubbers ''gums," which makes me think
of the English girl who was asked If her
sister was In, and replied, "No. but she
will be 'ere right soon. She Is hout clean
ing her gums on the mat." Speaking of
American rubbers, there ought to be a
good market for them here, if we can edu
cate the people to their use. As far as I
can see, no rubbers at all are worn, and
still it rains here the greater part ot
the time and the streets are muddy, not
withstanding the excellent cleaning ar
rangements. Men and women trot along
through the filth, the ladles holding their
dresses much higher than Is common In
our American towns.
We have left the Strand and are walk
ing along Piccadilly. This is In the swell
parts of London, where the finest shops
are. Let us go Into this one, which has
all sorts of fancy canned fruits and jellies
In the window. The English are noted for
their preserves of all kinds, and London
makes marmalade and jams which are
sold all the world over. Here is one placo
where we are sure to find no American
goods! But let us ask the shop keeper.
He Is a fat beefeater In a white apron,
and he smiles as tell him he has a
beautiful store.
"American goods! Of course I have!" 13
the reDlv to my question. "Here is a fine
thing In brandy peaches just In from New
York. There are about a dozen peaches
In that jar. and we sell It for eight shil
lings, or $2. We have all sorts of Amer
ican pickles, canned corn and tomatoes
and oatmeal. Here Is some tobasco sauce
which came from Louisiana. I have one
customer who calls It 'liquid 'ell.' and so
It Is," concluded the grocer, reflectively.
"But wouldn't jou like to walk below and
see my wine cellar? I do a great trade in
w lnes." t
"No, I believe not," say I, "but hao
you also American wines?"
"No," said the grocer, "but we have
plenty of American brandies and cock
tails In bottles. The English like your
cocktails, and we sell a lot of them."
All Sorts of American Goods.
Going on with our walk American goods
meet us at every turn Here in Regent
street they are selling American candy,
and there Is a store where you can buy
Amerlcan tools and hardware. The chem
ist shops which we know as drug stores
are full of our novelties for the liver and
stomach, and the dry goods stores, which
they call "draper shops," contain shirt
waists made in Massachusetts and cot
tons from the Southern States. The ir
vaslon which has been represented in
our country as one of heavy articles, such
as meat, grains, steel. Iron and heavy
machinery, embraces all sorts of little
things which are rapidly coming Into com
mon use. A good Idea of It was gien
not long ago by Mr. Fred McKenzie In
one of his able letters on this subject to
the London Mall, which has been pub
llsned In a little book entitled "The Am
erican Invaders." It shows:
Hovr the Londoner Leans on -the
Yankee.
Says Mr. McKenzie:
"In the domestic life we have got to
this: The average Londoner rises in the
morning from his New England sheets,
he shaves with American soap and a
Yankee safety razor, pulls on his Boston
boots ove'r his socks from North Caro
lina, fastens his Connecticut braces, slips
his Waltham or Waterbury watch In his
pocket and sits down to breakfast
"There he congratulates his wife on the
way her Illinois straight-front corset setu
off her Massachusetts blouse, and he
tackles his breakfast. He eats bread
made from prairie flour (possibly doc
tored at the special establishments on the
lakes), tinned oysters from Baltimore,
and a little Kansas City bacon, while
his wife plajs with a slice of Chicago
ox-tongue, The children are given
Quaker oats.
"At the same time he reads his morn
ing paper printed by American machines
on American paper wun American hik.,
and possibly edited by a smart Journalist
from New York City.
"He rushes out, catches the electric
tram (New York) to Shepherd's Bush,
where he gets In a Yankee .elevator to
take him on to the American-fitted elec
tric railway to the city.
"At his office, of course, everything is
American. He sits on a Nebraskan swivel
chair, before a Michigan roll-top desk,
writes his letters on a Syracure type
writer, signing thm with a New York
fountain pen and drying them with a
blotting sheet from New England.
"The letter copies -are put away In files
manufactured In Grand Rapids.
"At lunch tim"- he hastily swallows
some cold roast beef that comes from the
mid-west cow, and flavors it with Pitts
burg pickles, followed by a few- Delawaio
tinned peaches and then soothes his mind
with a couple of Virginia cigarettes.
"To follow his course all day would be
wearisome. But when evening comes he
seeks relaxation at the latest American
musical comedy, drink a cocktail or some
California wine, and finishes up with a
couple of 'little liver pills' made in Amer
ica." FRANK G. CARPENTER,
(Copyright, 1902.)