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DICKENS' "OLD CURIOSITY SHOP," WHERE AMERICAN LEAD PENCILS ARE SOLD.
8T. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LIGHTED WITH AMERICAN ELECTRIC LAMPS.
Mary Johnston and other well known magnate. Pierpont Morgan has furnishod
American writers are as popular here as at the money which enables the English to see
home and their books are sold by the thou- the glories of their greatest church, whether
sands. the city in which It stands Is shrouded in
I find the American Invasion not only In fog or not.
the books, but In the materials of which I can't describe the beauty of the church
they are made. I dropped Into one of the under the soft lights of these lamps. It
places Immortalized by Dickens the other looks far better than In the brightest sun
day to buy a lead pencil and notebook. It shine. The church authorities told Mr.
was. In fact, the old "Curiosity Shop" about Morgan that they could not afford to put In
which the great novelist wove the story of this electricity and he thereupon offered to
"Little Nell." The sign over the door Is do it for them. He took $45,000 out of his
that of a stationer named Poole. I asked left breeches pocket and planked It down
Copyright, 1902. by Frank Q. Carpenter.)
T LONDON, June 19. (Special Corre
I . I spondence of The Dee.) A merry
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Ish ImpiTlal Tobacco combina-
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It seems to me there are more cigar chops
than grocery stores In London
tlon and the American TODacco mem on every corner auu in every uiucn.
i,.i vnr vpurs the Britishers have They are different from our American es
tnimnnollzed the tobacco sales of the United tabllshments. The shops are small and
,, . . . him for his best lead pencils and he showed on the pulpit and told them to go ahead. 0VKI1
pub lie with Cigarette, .nd Tobacco made wh wefe u Jugt aUk P P e 10 upon he
so ely by means of British Labor and Capl- fcut one'of whlch cofit t,ce M much the Urt CMl century
tal, etc., etc. nther. The noenalve lead Dencll was made mu. paid $50
Tommy," and still Goldsmith wrote some of
the best selling books of the English lan
guage. It Is said that he was the author
of "Goody Two Shoes" and a large part of
the original "Mother Goose," which were
published by John Newbery, whose shops
were just outside St. Paul's churchyard.
Newbery was the first publisher of books
for children and thereby the father of the
enormous business which Is now done In
such books in the Anglo-Saxon world.
What Morgan Could Not Buy.
Speaking of Pierpont Morgan, he Is looked
here as the Croesus of the twentietn
The old painting for which he
00,000 Is now on view in the national
He will leave it there and give the
Vou And " . " . . nai lamps aesignea oy &ir unrisiopner wren nDnnia a rhno to see It before he takes It
rh:.r.rV,h: "n! la pe!feCtJ,"mony.tb e. The London papers are full of
- I .V.. i .a. v.. urrouuuiugB. come oi me moei Deauurui Btories 0f his wealth and power. He Is
Penci, compVny'of 7o7k. TToner "T! i!0'... supposed to have so much that he can buy
Kingdom. They have made the greater me mosi oi me goous are m iue wiuuuw.. - - . B.cw i Bnything or do anytning. put l neara just
part of the clgar. cigarettes and tobacco Little taste Is shown in display and box especlalirso of trchea h.anf'ng 'f0 tbe T0l wh,ch ,s nun(lr yesterday of one bargain which he failed
used, and there are today about 600 tobacco after box of cigar, and cigarettes, with the A "lc?Le' 1 nepers belne ,f 'eet hlgher Up' Each chan3eIler "as to make. It was for the services of a mld-
factorie. n operation in different part, cover, off and the tobacco .howlng, are J'J?' p 5iJde . wood lamps but the ray. are altered through dle.aKei Englishman, and a poor one at
f th. eountrv The American Tobacco piled one on top of th other until the win- te 00 I8Per male of American wood frogted gla8S and they g,ye tne effect of a f me
Tr... n,.. um flrat invasion some years dow Is full
ago It began by attempting to purchase Every tobacconist sell. pipe, and to
the biggest of the British tobacco firm., bacco pouche.. There are different brand,
but failed ao It took the .econd. Thl. wa of fine cut and plug and all .orU of mok
known a. Ogden's. a tobacco combination, Ing tobaccos. More smoking Is done by
with .lock selling at a market value of a mean, of pipe, than cigars, and every other
llttls over $3 000,000. Tbe trust paid man you meet ha. a .hort brlarwood pipe In
premium of $900,000 to get control of the his mouth. This Is "Pally so of the
business and at once began to push the poorer classes The Brltleh are great
iale. of Yankee-made tobacco afte? Amerl- .mokers. They consumed $25 000 000 worth
sa.es ,, maVnlr raold Inroad of tobacco last year and nine-tenths or the
uponh, Tus.ne.:" The' BrltSerwhen product came from the United States,
the Imperial Tobacco company was formed lilt of Tobacco HUtory.
to oppose It. This company now consists They have aiwayt gotten the most of
of a trust comprising thirteen of tbe chief tnejr tobacco from us. The weed was first
firms In the British tobacco trade and cov- imporle(j by Sir Walter Raleigh In 1586, and
crlng all part, of the country. ater on it became one of the chief article.
The two trust, are now fighting each of trade between the colonies and Great
other for all they are worth and the con- uritan- gome tobacco was planted In Eng
test excites great Interest among all classes. ,an(1 jujg the time of James I. Tobacco
The newspapers are full of It. They pub- Bnl0iing bad become general among the up
llBh dally articles concerning Mr. Duke, ppr glasses, and both ladles and gentlemen
the American tobacco king, and his plans, Bmoke(1- Kjng james denounced the cus
and the best displayed advertisements are tom He prohibited It. cultivation In Eng
Ihose of the rival companle.. Yesterday ,an(1 cromwen did the same and ordered
It was said that .tores would be established nls goidler, to tramp down the tobacco
In every village of the United Kingdom for t,ropg wherever ther foun,i them,
the sale of American-made tobacco and Charles II tried to restrict our tobacco
today It Is reported that the American trftde tQ Engian(1 jIe forbade the colonies
syndicate has offered $86,000,000 a year to tQ gh)p the product elsewhere, and the ra
the French government for th monopoly buU wftg the rulnatlon ot tbe Virginia to
of the tobacco business of France, which bacc0 lndugtry and the rebellion of the Vlr
ls now run by the state. The end may be g,nU p!anter, ,n m8i which wa. In reality
that the American, will e.tabllsh enormous he commencenient of the struggle which
factories here under uritisn names
make their cigarettes and cigars with Brit
Ish labor.
Down with Vkee Monopolies.
m.- n-iti.h tnhapronlata are much ex
cited over this feature of the Invasion. They up the exactions of the past,
publlah request, for the people to down the I don't know the amount of capital pos
v.i mnnnnollea and buy English to- sessed by the Imperial Tobacco company.
bacco. and over their
sign, urging all patriotic
smoke clgarettri and cigar.
Speaking of printing, Benjamin Franklin
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Drignt mooniignt. nf ,h tp-din,, hotels here. He stands at
A. I sat under these lights In the mighty tbe front door and greet, the traveler, as
cathedral my mind went back to Its wonder- they come In, looks after their baggage and
ful history and It seemed to me that I give, them all sorts of Information as to
could see the ghosts of its architect, Sir how to get about the city and other things.
Christopher Wren, and of the hundreds of He wears a bright livery, with gold lace
England's dead now buried there hovering on his cap and brass buttons on his coat,
about the lamps in amazed curiosity. St. He Is always ready to accept a fee, and It
Paul's dates back to the days of tbe you don't give him one when you leave he
Romans. Some authorities maintain that a will have bis own opinion of you. There
temple of Diana stood here in pagan time, are such porters at every hotel. The man
and Christopher Wren found the ruins ot a whom Morgan coveted had been head butler
church built by the Christians In the day. to one of the best known of English dukes,
of tbe Romans when he laid the founda- and, as the story goes, Mr. Morgan wanted
tion tor this structure. There was a Chris- him for his American home and offered him
tlan church here as far back as 1000 A. D. the position at a royal salary. To every
and there was a cathedral on this spot one's surprise the offer was declined. The
when the great Ore of London came and porter said he was doing well enough where
wiped It out In 1666. he was and that he did not care to leave
Sir Christopher Wren began his work England. It may be that his receipts from
upon the present structure fifteen year, fees are so large that he cannot afford to
later and he lived to see It completed In exchange them for the butlershlp of even
1710. He watched tbe Job tor twenty-nine so liberal a millionaire as Mr. Morgan,
years and in that time received the munlfl- And this brings mo to the Iniquitous fee
cent salary of $1,000 per annum aa his system which Is in vogue all over Great
architect fee. Nevertheless the cathedral Britain. You can't turn without finding
cost $3,700,000 to build. Had Sir Chrlsto- someone at your elbow ready for a fee.
pher received the fee of 5 per cent which I have not yet met a man who will not
our architects now demand he would have take one, and the more style the official
gotten $185,000 for tbe Job, and after look- puts on tbe more sure he Is of getting his
tog tne building carefully over I am sure fees. I have lately gauged my gifts accord
ing to the yards of gold lace and brass
buttons, the average being something like
It was worth It.
How Americans
Made n Million.
culminated In the American revolution and
our Independence. In those days the Eng
lish bad the monopoly and the profits. Now
LONGFELIiOW'S BIST IN WESTMIN
STER ABBEY.
did some of his first printing in London. Still men of all sorts worked for less In
I came upon his old home In one of the those days than now. Samuel Johnson,
houses ot Craven street this morning. It whose grave I mourned over In the church
Is within a stone's throw of Charing Cross his statue stands not tar from that of the
a penny or a sixpence a button, according
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the Americans are coming to the front, and an ther ,g a marble glab on the wall upon duke of Wellington-made almost nothing
ine pruoauuilj IB uut liu i. ..... . . ..nl.mln KV.nUlin . h, Ji, ... . -I .... .
wuiiu s mo " ""J""-" - ' '"i"i"Ii u luwi rci-eipia ior
nnca lived here." I stumbled across a
statue of George Peabody, our first chari
table millionaire, back ct the Bank ot Eng-
West-
losed
ition,
his work being less than $8,000, the most of
which wa. eaten up by clerical hire. That
dictionary then was a. great an undertaking
in comparison as tbe Encyclopaedia Brltan
nlca is now, and the latter work, which
had already run Its day in England, made
tores you may see but it runs high Into the tens of millions. ye,terday. and when I entered W
otlo Englishmen to The American Tobacco company trarpo- lmier Abbeyi BhorlIy before It was cl
ira mads at home, rated In 1890. had a capital or $25,000,000,
- . w t ..M lii .ml ln 1 ant I had sin Antn I n 1 1 nnlfl I lit? 9 r r ...
I paid a shilling ior a posier uicu j found on a yellow card laid on one ot tne a million dollars for some Americans who
. . . a k.Hs. thl that it nutitftnitfnr apnurlties affffreeated ....
a cigar snop ner lmuuuu - "- . , ," K " " tombs a quotation concerning me neauiy trougnt into Kiig and the Yankee system of
morning. It Is a cigar advertisement $70,000,000. The Con llnental Tobacco com- , f th lace from om,r Wenden Holmes, selling book, through the newspapers,
backed with a British flag and addrea.ed pany. organized In 1898. has a capital .lock l ut Uf poet. corner and wheQ they flrgi propogeJ the ieHln of th
to the British public It read.: and .ecurltle. of about $100 000,000. ana jh up,,n (he mM Jugt next t gtatue encyclopaedia In this way to the London
"American, whose market, are closed by there are other companies which "P"ent cf SnakeBPeare waa a most beautiful marb e journals the publishers laughed at them,
prohibitive tariffs against Brlttah goods minion, more. It Is safe to say that the bugt of ouf poet hoDgfeUoWt wlth an ln. At lagt however. they Interested the Lon-
have declared their Intention ot monopolU- tobacco companies of America altogether gt.rlptlon ,latlDg that It had been erected don Times and through that paper on the
log the Tobacco Trade of this Country. have a capital of at least $150,000,000 and tJje BrtUgn admlrert of ,be American installment plan sold so many books that
"It Is for the British public to decide that most of them are more or less Inter- pQet u ,g gald th-,r profitg wpre ,-0 000i or
whether Brtt;h Labor, Capital and Trade eited In thl. light. You aU hnow .omething of the wonders $1,250,000.
are to be subordinated to the American sys- Aoiereal, Tracks on Old Landmarks of 8t piuVi cathedral. It is oue of tho None of the great authors of the past
Urn of Trust Monopoly and all that 1. lm- Ever here , go ,n London I see ttn largest churches of the world and In many made anything to compare with the authors
plied therein. footsteps of the ubiquitous Yankee. He Is respects the most beautiful. Many of you of the present. Oliver Goldsmith died
The Imperial Tobacco -company Is an 'Pi 7"e ;qw,ln blB oarpe,bBg a.ul have visited it. but I douot If you have deeply In debt at 46, and during the best
amalgamation of I rit l.h -"'i samp e. in the his seen th. vast structure a. I saw It the part of hi. life he did no, make more than
,h:.C h0id th. British Trad, for American tool, or In the book stores, sup- other day. lighted with the wonderful elec $2,000 a year. All hi- literary earning,
termination to hold the British Trade ror a . wUh blg gbar of . ,Uera- trie light. In the beautiful fixtures pre- were hardly as great as the price that
tha BrltUh PeOPlS. v ' . . 11 1- ... th. .knroli hv n A marina truat RiFlhnara r,M H. i-rl. fn. B.tln...l
the British feopis. . . ' ii rhmHUr iiirHi aantxi to tha church by an Amerlcaa trust Scrlbners nald Barrla for
"IU aim U to provide tbe vast .moling tur-. max w... -
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