New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-20
TRADE AND FINANCE ABROAD.

While sensational runlors about an approaching
revolution in Hayu are circulated in few Ameri-
can papers the Haytian Government Is publishing
the report addressed 10 1t by technical commission
sent by President Hyppolite to Investigate the
curative properties and value of the mineral springs
in the Northern Department OF the Black Republic
The report demonstrates that the thermal waters
suphurous waters already known The "aieIs are
represented as equal and In some cases superior
famous thermal sources of MISUNDERSTANDING AK
and Bareges In France.
The success Of the Milan Exposition is repre-
scented by Italian papers as above all expectations
At any rate the enterprise is we'll represented and
Exhibitiors of Milan 1894" published BY the we'll
known editor. Signor +. Sonzogno. Two numbers
of 1t have already been issued.
A native syndicate OF Chinese merchants in the
province Of SEE Tchouan has obtained from the
authorities the permission to work the petroleum
oil wells which have been discovered In the pre-
lecture Of Tchoung King: It Is said that ne OIL Is
Of excellent quality. The implements necessary were
TO De pGr r 1nsn where the petroleum in.
dustry has been known for long while
The administration Of the Havana Custom House
passed on May % last into the hands Of a new
official. Senior don Anibal Arrieie.
According TO the Memorial Dipomatiquc," Of
Paris, which has added recently 20 It's well-Enown
and authorized diplomatic information weekly
review OF the financial ana cOumcrcidi CONDITION OF
Europe the silk industry in Switzerland is passing
through a crisis. This is due especially to The fact
that the United States, which was the most i'm
siderably It's purchases. Moreover. there were IN
%bch su6ststed sans r six bbons
From Mexico II is reported that within two years
at the most railroad line VIII be in actual opera
ton between the cities OF Campcche and Merida
The Peninsular Company Of Railways Is pushing
the work actively. and has ready at hand all the
necessary elements, financial and material. 20 com
plete within the lapse OF time above mentioned
In Ecuador the difficult problem OF uniting by
railroad the Andes provinces with the Pacific Coast
is actively discussed at present. The mountains be-
tween the two points excessively high and the
engineers are studying which will be the easiest
road sehor Cristobal Thnl has been exploring
constantly on the move between Quito and Gaia
bama. A technical study Of the r9aJ via Paha-
tanga was made. for II Is confidered by many per
sons the most favorable for the construction Of
the railway.
On January J. 1884, the official statistics show that
the total length OF the railroads in France was
S6OO2 kilometres. That OF the concessions already
granted on the same date. and 10 be built was
% ass kilometres The length Of the tramways In
operation was l,GGi kilometres, and OF those TO be
built. according 10 concessions already granted
27l5 kilometres.
The "F,strela" OF Panama states that a municipal
law has been promulgated In that city TO tho effect
that all drivers Of hackney cooches and Of carts,
all hotel runners ana load carriers must IN future
wear a number and cabmen 90 In decent attire.
etc This is says the Isthnus paper. merely the re-
calling ana putting in force, Of ancient regulations
which observed. But now the Law says
they must be Obeyed. The numbers have arrived
from Ncw-YoTk and very soon Will be put In use.
American travellers TO and from Continental
Europe, via England. directly interested In the
competition pending between Boulogne and
Calais to secure the passenger traffic across the
English channel Both cities anxious to secure
the advantages TO be derived from the decision Of
the French Government. In regard to the postal
line II Will adopt; for the passengers would mostly
patronize that line. The BOulogne people say that
their port Ia thirty kilometres nearer 10 Paris
than Calais But the people OF the latter city argue
that this difference Is made up by the shorter DIS
lance between Calais and Dover than between
BouoRne and FOkestOne They AID. In their
petition 10 the French Government That the best
evidence in favor OF the Calais-DO route, which
nearly hour OF sea sickness upon the
choppy seas Of the channel. IS that In 1893.
235 2S passengers have chosen that route. against
1s296l who crossed the channel Via Bouiogne-
Fokcstone.