New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-14
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

The big crop of strawberries and the fine
yield OF early vegetables with good prices mas relieved
the stringcncy OF the times in New Jersey.
The Burlington glass works at Hamilton,
Canada, mas been closed account Of the competition
from the United saes and there is now free held Tor
American glassware in Canada. fTz
In France, the methods employed for dryiIxl
fruits and vegetables fifty years behind the times.
They the slow processes Of our fathers. Lately,
the attention Of heavy fruit and vegetable dryers in the
south of France has been turned toward the improved
methods in use in the United States, where
machines have been Invented to desccate 3oo
OF s cony dy Re Sn% S hs just
been teegraphcd TO, 10 bring over one OF ms machines
determined y, to-day by the Adriatc.
Whether this demand for rapid methods 81 drying Is
large scale supposed To be in progress, and OF
which something has been seen In New-fork and chl-
United States by the in Turkey is
not yet certainly known. hut is probably the latter
1t is estimated by Mr. Charles II. Marshall,
whose house Is one of the oldest shipping
of This port that 10000 tons Of shipping are
lying idle in the of New York Mr.. Marshall is
weknown as free trader. He believes tnat enterprise
should be- free air, and thai sound currency ana
free trade would the country TO prosperity at
once Ii is therefore teicstng to find that he tanks
repeal navigation laws would not at this time he
beuott 10 American Shipping. Navigation languShes,
lie says because trade dui, and To repeal the shipping
laws would simply bring foreign vessels here III Nets,
"a
OF OWNERSHIP aud to subject our own shipping houses Ia
a and uuItfid competition. Should trade revive,
the night b. buy snISOrcs free oil duy,
England, ana relieving vessels from our hcdNN
rXdCtiuis abroad would be an important an IN
putting the American master ON an equality with ms
foreign Competitions, but III his view greater one won
be abIty 10 bay iron shiVs equally as cheap ~
.rchauis nations. For the present. however,
sap II the United States are best Oh with lhc
laws rs tnet are al present.
An investigation into the management of the
Bureau Statistics at Washington s now in progress
object which is SAID to be to discover II there oug,
to any change in the character of the statistical re-
ports published by the Bureau. 1t is to be hoped That
the gentlemen prosecuting this important inquiry have
entered upon without precoucevcd IDEAS to the ne
cessiy dispensing with OF these reports on the
score of economy. While examination may show That
some OF those in the annual volumes may possibly
Of them sacrificed to save a few thousand dollars
a wear unless they are clearly useless and unde-
srable The ls Is douotu whether any of these
reports can spared without largely increasing the
clerical force Of The Bureau statistics TIE facts they
contain TeSOred 10 day by merchants, puDc
imeu and journalists IL is impossible TO discuss any
OF national policy III ic-aFi 10 commerce H.
dusty shipping and population, without Tie ana ol these
tables OI and OF them discontinued
number OF personal applications 10 the bureau rom
ali paris country and Congress for tue nlOI
found in the annual Volumes womb require
the EN- lOymCt of large force OF clerks SIMPLY 10 al
tend TO IrTcnt demands upon tLe Bureau Tie sti-
reports Of the government are among IT'S most
valuable publications AMI there Held Tor the usidN
wise AID >atcsmaDike spirit Ia making rccOlinel-
datiOns IN regard TO item.