Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-29


 By the latest mail steamer Afr. " r. Burns of New York and Colonel Hunsiker of Pittsburg arrived. The latter represents the Carnegie iron concern, and it is his intention to try for some steel armor plate. contracts. The former represents the new Standard Telephone company. He will endeavor to introduce his improved tele= phone here. The Japanese have taken very kindly to the telephone. Tokyo is fairly netted with telephone wires. Fhe machines are all made in Japan, and those who have wrestled wearily with them will testify that they arc not by any means up to concert pitch. The Japanese make some telephone wire themselves, but the bulk is imported. find upon inquiry that during the year 1894 tho number of telephone messages handled in the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe was 13 497,- s04, realizing 12S, 5SS yen. This was de- eided increase over the preceding year. There is so called long distance tele- phone between Tokyo and Yokohama, but as the distance is only Is miles q man with good resonant voice can climb upon the observation tower here and start his message to Yokohama through a paper horn with about as much assurance of be- ing heard as he would have if he wasted Q quarter of an hour profanely around the end of a telephone wire. The introduction of the improved Standard here would bo a blessing but if new apparatus is brought out the Japanese will appropriate the ideas and say no more about it. There is no process by which foreign patent can be protected in Japan unless the patentee controls essential foreign materials
 There is an American machine here for weaving matting-the article which is in such demand all over the world 1t could be worked here with enormous profit. but unless set up in q compound, surrounded by a wall 50 feet high and operated with the secrecy with which counterfeiters of coin surround their labofs 1t would be duplicated inside of three months. For this reason nothing has been done. When Japan governs herself independently Of foreigners, perhaps she will join the inter. national patent league The Mr. Burns referred to will also endeavor while here to find a sale for the Pabst beer lnanufae- tured ill Milwaukee. If he does, the beer will have to be shipped by way of Europe. There is good brewery i'll San Jose, Cal, the bottled product of which is sold to some extent in Japan, but tho manager of the Grand hotel, i'll Yokohama, tells me that he can import beer from Vienna, by the way of the Suez canal, sell it here at the same price demanded by the California brewers-25 sen per bottle-and make q better profit than the California beer yields him. And yet California is but 1, 900 miles distant and we have three rival steamship lines on the north Pacific, all touching at Yokohama. Expensive la bor and high freights practically exclude 4 T..sa T .Fs. While here Mr. Burns will endeavor 10 K the attention of the Japanese public upon . new American bicycle, the Meriden Britannia companys wares, a perfected date stamp, a safety razor, cottonseed products and various other gems of Yan- kee inventive genius, to say nothing of the Edison kinetescope, which the Japanese have not seen and which they are certain to be tickled with. He proposes to push trade ill Japan on The HeraIds advice John NJ. Cockerill in New York Herald