Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, March 3, 1900 - page 8 A Hawkesbury Native Abroad. Mr. C. Fiaschi, who went away over 12 months ago, to study dentistry in New York, returned recently, looking remarkable well. On the way back from London he put on 27lbs. which speaks well for the contentedness of mind, and the cuisine of the vessel on which he journeyed. Mr. Fiaschi visited Tizzana last week, and until to remain there until the vintage (which promises to be one of a splendid character) is over, when he returns to the States to put in three more years in his profession. Speaking of America, he was loud in his praises of the industry of its people, and the general go-ahead character of its institutions. During his twelve months' stay he travelled a good deal and saw much of the country. The Americans, he says, are taking a keen interest in the progress of the war in the Transvaal - as well they might, seeing that they have been reaping big harvests by reason of the circumstance that Great Britain has of late been a big purchaser of horseflesh and "embal! med" beef (as the canned article is called) since the trouble began. As a matter of fact, Mr. Fiaschi thinks that the colonies have just reason to fee aggrieved because they were passed over until the eleventh hour, the largest orders for supplies (which they were quite competent to meet satisfactorily) being sent to the States for horses and beef. The war in the Phillipines has created no little amount of difference of opinion throughout America, and there is a strong feeling permeating a large proportion of the people to the effect that it should never have been engaged in and should not be continued. In fact, the forthcoming Presidential election in March will practically be fought out on this question, between McKinley and Bryan ("the silver-tongued orator," as he is called) - the latter opposing the present war policy of the country. And still there is no talk of condemning opponents as "disloyalists" and "pre-Phillipines" - the order would be far too large. Mr. B! ryan, by the way, ran against McKinley at the last Presidential contes t, and made some of the most eloquent addresses heard in the States. Mr. Fiaschi visited London, and saw most of its lions ; but he still holds to the convention that whilst the "world's metropolis" is by far the greater city, New York has infinitely more life and "snap" in it - much more comfort, and more ready means of locomotion. He is "down" upon the underground railway-system of London, and its sleepy methods generally, and warm in his approval of the dash which characterises the chide city of the New World. Talking of American journalism, he remarked upon the unreliable nature of the news ladled out by "The Yellow Press," the "New York Journal," and others of that ilk,- to secure whose very existence and circulation it is absolutely essential that sensational news, no matter how untrue or libelous, must be printed. The great New York Press, with two or three exceptions, are of the type of journals which contain some little truth, but dash'd and brewed with lies, to! please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. They print anything, and libel the highest and the lowest men and women in the community with impunity - except on such rare occasions as when the infuriated victim gets hold of the editor, or an unfortunate reporter, and cowhides him within an inch of his life, or drives a hole through his thick hide with a bullet from a shot gun. Such is Yankee journalism of the worst class and type ; but it sells like hot cakes ; and no doubt exercises a wide and pernicious influence in moulding the opinions of readers in a fashion not altogether advantageous to the best interests on the community. But "nuff sed" - Mr. Fiaschi comes back for a brief time to Australia with his vision of things generally enlarged, and with a very high conception of the good qualities of head and heart possessed by our American cousins over the pond. Referring to our railway system, Mr. Fiaschi wondered at the circumstance that N.S.W. trains were so slow, especially upon the Richmond line. He pointed out! that in the States trains ran at the rate of from 40 to 50 miles per hour over lines laid carelessly down, without ballast, just upon sleepers of pine. There they managed to get good pace out of their trains without any trouble at all. It is interesting to note that he volunteered for service in the Transvaal, but did not get a show - and now he comes back to our peaceful Arcadian shores to help to secure the vintage at Tizzana, whilst his father, Dr. Fiaschi, and his brother Carlo, are fighting at the front in South Africa.