The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-01
SURE SIGNS OF THRIFT.
LOOKING AFTER THE LITTLE ODDS
AND ENDS OF TRADE.

Transportation Companies Carrying
All Sorts of Stuff Now That Would
Have Gone to Waste Twenty Years
Ago-Ge Sorrel Tells French
Story With Moral for the People OF
the South.
In Paris an abattoir was originally known
as butchering place for animals, but the
term has been extended to places where
dead carcasSeS OF horses are carried out for
sale. AS an exemplifcation of French
thrift, it is related that an abattoir-keeper
once bought dead horse, and he Immediately
set his wits to work to see just how much
Of his purchase he could utilize. He foun
ready sale for the hair, the name, the tale,
the hide and the teeth. The bones were
sold for fertilizing purposes, the tendons
wore an article Of commerce, the hoof was
sold TO be- manufactured into glue, the little
fat that was on it to the soapman, the
intestines were cleaned and were
wanted for various purposes, and SO, piece
by piece, he found that he could dispose Of
everything but the remnant of the poor old
horses flesh. He studied for long time
before he could consent to such an extrava-
CANT waste as TO discard the flesh. A happy
thought struck him. He cut it into small
bits, and distributing it about in heaps in
the abatto!r, exposed to the sun, let it re-
main until it breeded larvae, which he found
ready sale for as feed for pheasants
SIGNS OF THE PEOPLES THRIFT.
This is, in brief, the substance of a story
told to a MORNING NEWS reporter by Gen
G. NJ. Sorrel, General Manager of the
Ocean Steamship Company. Gen. Sorrel
said; while the day is probably distant
when our people will become as thrifty as
tho French, who save everything, | have
related the story only to Sow you that the
French people are a prosperous people,
because they do not permit anything to 60
to waste.
1T was suggested to me too" Gen. Sorrel
added, 'by the fact that our own people
are showing a disposition toward greater
thrift This is seen i'll the many varieties
Of merchandise carried by our steamers, a
good deal of which, twenty years ago, little
or no attention was paid to, but which
with the minimum prices at which freight
can be moved, can be gathered and shipped
and brings margin OF profit. Some arti-
Giles bring a greater profit than others in
proportion, Of course, to the demand and
cost Of production.
What are you carrying now that vessels
did not carry twenty years agop Gen.
Sorrel was asked
I'VE are carrying to the three ports
New York, Philadelphia and Boston-a
great many things that used TO go to waste,
while there are great many other articles
of merchandise, outside of the staples, such
as cotton, lumber, rice and the manufac-
tured products, very largely in excess of
the shipments of the same line of merchan-
dis twenty years ago. The trade issue of
the MORNING NEWS of last September gave
a very fair epitome of our exports, but l
might mention few of the increased and
new shipments.
THE SoUTH's SHIPMENTS NORTH.
'To begin with, there are large shipments
of wool and hides. Then there are paper
and rags, junk waste. by the hundreds OF
tons, that used to be thrown away There
are thousands of pounds of bones gathered
no and shipped away to be manufactured
into fertilizers Last year we carried from
$4,000 to 10000 packages of odds and ends
of merchandise that the people gathered up.
Last year we carried 1900 or 1000 sea
turtles some weighing 500 pounds apiece:
5000 or 5000 barrels and hogsheads Of fish !;
thousands of barrels of eggs, a compare
lively new shipment; hundreds Of hogs
heads of kaolm from the neighborhood of
Augusta, a white clay very valuable in
the manufacture of pottery; tale, a
soapStone from the interior; large
shipments Of oysters in barrels and cans
dri d peaches in large quantities which did
not use to be shipped; rice straw, largely
used in bedding, which twenty years ago
was burned; Georgia melons in largely in
creased shipments, the Georgia melon hav.
ing national reputation and in demand
from Maine to the far West and of which
the people never can get enough of; thous-
ands OF barrels of cotton seed oil, and cot
ton seed cake and moal; 1000 to 5000
refrigerators of Strawberries; largely in
creased shipments of fruits and vegetables.
THE GREAT IRON PRODUCT.
"These are only a few of the articles
can recall now" said Gen. Sorrel, "but they
indicate the growing industry and thrift Of
our people. Then there might be- added
the increase of pig iron shipments, due to
the recent mineral developments in the
South"
In conclusion, Gen. Sorrel said that there
is much to be learned from the thrifty
Frenchman, aud that a great many people
have money in their pockets now, who did
not have it before, because they are keeping
their eyes and ears open and are not per-
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