Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23
NEW WORK LAID OUT.
Prominent Pittsburg Firms Reaching
for South American Trade.
MIR. ABEL LEAVING TOMORROW
For a Six Months Business Trip Among
Our Southern NelghbOrS.
EXCELLENT PROSPECTS OF SUCCESS

A project is on foot, and for that matter
in the saddle, that is of interest to everyone
whose bread and butter is bound up in the
prosperity of Pittsburg. Tomorrow even
ing Mr.. Charles Abel will start for Brazil,
as representative of six of the most promi-
nent manufacturing firms of the city and
correspondent of The DISPATCH. The
firms are Parke Bros. & Co., Oliver B Rob
erts, the National Tube Works, George
Macbeth & Co., James Gallery & Co. and
the Hostetter Company.
Mr.. Abel's mission is the cultivation Of
closer commercial relations with South
America and wide field for the commerce
of the United States generally. In this
project Pittsburg naturally occupies
larger space than any other city In the
country, regardless of population, as her
chief interests are manufacturing, and
South America being almost exclusively
agricultural, she will naturally want to
trade more for manufactures than for
products of the soil. We want her coffee,
rubber, spices, etc., and she wants our handi-
craft, and each will be benefited by ex-
change, each receiving what is equal to cash
articles of prime necessity which represent
money and are sometimes of more value
than lucre ITSELF
GOING WELL ARMED.
Mr.. Abel carries with him letters from
Secretary of State Blaine, Congressman
Dalzell and other officials, and in addition
has credentials of the same kind from the
Pan-American delegates, who, of all South
Americans, have had the best facilities for
measuring the capacity of the United States
and whose testimonials will have the added
force of acquaintance with the trans-equa-
torial people to whom they are addressed.
These letters are directed to the Presidents
of the principal States of South America.
Mr.. Abel will reach Brazil, if all goes
well, about April and will consequently
enter another siege OF winter, but in the
latitude of Brazil it will not be severe, and
had he left before the last cold wave flag
was hoisted he would have scarcely noticed
any change. He will remain some
weeks in Brazil and will then push
on to Chilli, reaching it just in time
to strike summer in comfortable
fates be propitious, Mr.. Abel, when his
mission is performed in Chill, will move
northward and invest Peru, and when his
work is concluded in the land of Nance
Capsc and the Lion of Peru is perfectly
placated, Mr.. Abel will push on up to
Bolivia, to Ecuador and Colombia, and
complete his task In Central America.
INTERESTED IN THE WORK.
President Caamano, of Ecuador, is taking
great interest in the enterprise, and it was
he who secured for Mr.. Abel the interest of
the Pan-American delegates lately in the
United States.
Mr.. Abel's route will be from Pittsburg to
New York by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. He will 60 from New York on the
steamer Finance, which sails on Wednesday
next stopping at the various ports between
that city and Rio. The trip to Rio will take
about four weeks. The Finance belongs to
the United States and Brazil Mail Steam.
ship Company, the only American line be-
tween the United States and Brazil. He will
look after the personal interest of the firms
named, as well as those of The DISPATCH.
Mr.. Abel has been interested in this busi-
ness for several years and the impetus given
the work by the visit of the Pan-Americans
will be great help to him. He speaks
fuently all the languages with whom he
will come in contact, in fact is a regular
is matter of prime Importance in the mis-
sion.
NO REASON FOR IT.
There is no good reason why the United
States should much longer send to the
Orient, to Ormus ard the Ind for her
coffee, spices, gums, cocoanuts, figs, palms,
dates, pomegranates, tea, and thous-
and other things that help to makelife en-
durable when all these things may be had
on our own continent after few years cul
tivation, nor is there any good reason why
we should send our gold and silver to India
and China to be boarded, while between
Mason and Dixon's line and Patagonia
might be produced everything to be found
in the eastern hemisphere and gotten
in exchange for our manufactures. The
proposition to build the ''Three Americas
Railway" from Behring Strait to Terre del
Fuego, is doubtless chimerical in the pres
ent state of the worlds finances and civiliza-
tion, but there is no good reason why the
United States should long remain uncon-
nected with the principal South American
Republics. Such railroad would not long
remain a single-tracker either, as the ma
hogany forests and coffee plantations of
Mexico will in 20 years yield enough freight
to keep such route fully employed The
completion of a railway would fuse the
nations of the American Continent into
homogeneity that would forever prevent
Euronean meddlinp.