Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
AMERICAS GUESTS.
They Visit Wanamaker's Shirt Factories
in PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, November 11th.-The In
ternational Americans started out this
morning on round of sightseeing. The
first point visited was Wanamaker's mani
moth dry goods and notions establishment
The delgates next visited Sellers machine
shops and the Baldwin Locomotive Works,
where luncheon was spread
The first journey of the International
American Tourists being practically ended
here, an Associated Press representative to-
day sought from a number of delegates an
expression of ideas.
Judge Alfonso, the delegate from Chile,
said his attention had been practically
fixed upon the industries which produces
the object necessary to railways, because
there is great deal of railway construction
in his country. He believes the commerce
of this country with Chile will improve if
the American producers make known their
productions by establishing agencies in
that country, and an increase of communi-
cation and the cheapening of prices of
transportation will largely contribute to
the same result. He believes in the prob
ability of a railroad through the three
Americas and thinks its advantages would
be considerable. The great embarrassment
to trade arises from the complicated GUS
toms method of the United States, and he
thinks uniformity of customs regulation
upon the simplest basis should be estab-
lished. The coming conference will con-
tribute powerfully to union of the Ameri-
can nations
General Peraza, of Venezuela, said the
journey of the delegates had found the
practical solution of many commercial
problems between the American countries
1t is the conviction of most of the delegates
l. al
tual trade consists in the lack of good COM
muDications. The trip, said General Pc
raza, proved this much, that all previous
opinions regarding blood and language as
barriers to perfect understanding between
the nations, are discredited by the facts
Minister Romero, of Mexico, who has
resided over twenty years in Washington
and travelled much throughout the country,
spoke of the wonderful progress in the
West and he had also been struck by the
interest displayed everywhere in the sub
iects which the Conference will discuss He
thinks a great deal has been gained by call
ing the attention of the people of the
United States to the resources of the other
countries of this hemisphere, and that the
inter continental railway scheme is feasi-
BILE and VIII before long be undertaken.
Delegate Castellanos, of Salvador, said
that increased communications Tor COM
merce is absolutely necessary, and he
should advocate subsidies. A uniform
standard of money is needful. The Inter-
national Railway would with pleasure be
aided by his country. The opening of the
Nicaragua Canal will be great boom to
Salvador and all the other Republics of the
south.
Delegate Celaya, of Honduras, said be
had been most Impressed by the extra
ordinary energy of the people of the United
States, who never seem to tire of work, and
whose ambition to excel knows no bounds.
He thinks our prosperity is largely due to
the development of the iron industry.
scientifically applied to machinery and
railways, two things in which he thinks the
United States is unquestionably ahead of
all other nations. He strongly favors the
interstate railroad.