The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-26
Our Machinery
Crows in Favor

llNl expressed by the demand being
made upon them by the world for
high grade instruments and machinery.
Coarse heavy goods which show their
quality upon their face and which are not
subjected to special strain or breakage
of their parts, are purchased in any MAJ
ket but those who purchase complicated
and deliCately constructed machinery
which must be handled and operated by
persons thousands of miles from the place
of construction and unfamiliar with its
details show confidence in the quality
of material and faithfuness in construc-
tion which is a compliment to those who
make and tho those who sell these artt-
Cles.
That the people of the world have con-
idence i'm American goo ds of this charac-
ter and therefore in the people who make
and sell them is shown by the large or
ders which our manufacturers of fine and
complicated machinery have received in
the fiscal year just ended. Telephones,
telegraph instruments, typewriters, bicy-
Cles, steam engines fire engines, railway
engines, metal working machinery, shoe
manufacturing machinery, electrical ma
Chinery sewing machines, printing
presses, instruments for scientific pur-
poses, clocks, watches, pianos, organs,
and other articles of this delicate and
complicated character, the production of
American workmen and American manu-
facturers, amounting in value to fifty
million dollars have been purchased from
us by other parts of the world in the year
just ended A million dollars worth a
week has been taken from the people of
the United States by the people of dis
tant nations as a practical evidence of
their admiration for and confidence in .he
American workman and the American
manufacturer. From the great manufac-
ri tEtn Of vNVaTrl laa
| and France, from Japan, China and In
da, where generations of skillful men
| lived, f1ourished and passed away before a
wheel was turned or a factory estab-
lshed in America, from the forests of
Africa and the islands of Oceanica, from
Turkey, from Persia, from Siam, from
Korea, from Alden, the Azores Auckland
Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Madagascar, Tripoli
German Africa, Spanish Oceanica, British
Australasia. Dutch East Indies, French
Guiana. Portuguese Africa, Asiatic Rus
sia, and countries of Central and South
America come orders for the product of
American workmen and American fac
tories Japanese fingers manipulate our
| typewriters, Chinese feet and hands give
motion and life to our sewing machines,
skilled operators In the great European
| centers communicate with others in dis
| tant parts of the world with our tele-
graph instruments. and the natives of
|
| selves on our bicycles, Complicated in
| struments from our workshops are car
ried to the opposite side of the globe and
| to inaccessible and sparsely populated
| parts of the earth in a calm confidence
| that in inexperienced hands they will per-
| form and continue to perform the duties
| for which they are constructed.
| o
| That this confidence is fully justified by
| experience is shown by the steadily in
| creasing demand for our machinery. For
| years We have exported from two to three
million dollars worth per annum of sew
| ing machines, sending them to all parts
| of the earth, and the figures for the past
year range far above the average of the
| decade. From the time that typewriters
and bicycles came into use there has been
| a demand upon us for them, and now
| their expectation ranges into the mill
ions, and their purchasers are found in
! every part of the globe.
|
| The following table shows the exporta-
| ton of typewriters, bicycles. sewing ma
| chimes and instruments for scientific pur-
poses from the United States during the
| past year by countries as reported in the
official figures of the Treasury Bureau of
| Statistics: