WEALTH OF THE GERMANS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10579, 7 October 1910, Page 6

WEALTH OF THE GERMANS.

That the Germans have been getting rich more or less quickly is obvious from the throngs of. money-spend m;/ tourists of that nationality seen evcijwliere in Europe. Fifteen ■ years ago the majority of -tourists were -English and American. Now they are German. Monte Carlo and the resorts on the Riviera are thronged with moneyspending Germans in the wmtei. Monte Carlo seems especially to appeal to wealthy Germans and the majority of players at the Casino tables m the season not infrequently are German. Like the American, the German spends his money easily, although perhaps he has' hot yet acquired that distinctly American trait- of lavishly overtipping servants. ' Switzerland this summer lias been thronged with Germans; They outnumbered the Americans aud English. •Paris too has had as many Germans as English and American's and] German is heard on the boulevards quite as much as English. . The German is a better dressed tourist to-day than he was fifteen, years ago. Then lie' affected Tyrolean clothes and hats. Now he is got up to look like a sporting Englishman, wearing knickerbockers. and the caps of English cut.. His spectacles and Baedeker prevent him from being mistaken for ail Englishman. The Germans do not yet seem to have discovered the fact that they have, inanj beautiful mountain and seashore resorts of their .own. The tourists you meet in the.Hartz Mountains are more often- than not English and Americans, with an occasional Frenchman and his family. • ■ Like all other rich peqple the Germans have succumbed to the automobile craze, andy German automobiles are as abundant on the highroads of Europe as American and English machines. It is estimated that the number of Germans who go abroad for ..their .summer and winter vacations incieases each vear bv 75 per cent. German economists, however, have not yet begun to complain- that Germans spend too much money in foreign climes. That may come in time. . . :