The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-26
AMERICAN PRODUCTS ABROAD.
EXPORTS TO THIS COUNTRY SHOW
A GENERAL, DECREASE.

American Goods Sold Here Cheaper
Than Imported Goods, and Amerf-
can SILK Now Enjoying a Sale in
Lyons-American Cut Glass Con-
coded TO BE Finer Than Any Manu-
featured in EurOpe-BicycIes MAN.
ufactured in This Country, AL
though Higher Priced, Preferred
by Foreign MISUNDERSTANDING
Demand for American Canned
Contamination Cotton More
Largely Used.
Washington, Sept. 26.-The United States
consul at Vienna in a report to the state
department on the trade of Austria-Hun-
gary for 1897 ascribes the general decrease
In exports TO this country to the fact that
the same goods are now manufactured in
the United States and can be sold there
at the same or lower prices than the Aus
trian goods.
The report says that American silk is be-
ing sold in Lyons, the real silk center of
Europe, and the French manufacturers are
buying 1t in large quantities, especially
that used for lining purposes. to take the
place Of that formerly imported from Aus
tria and Germany.
There is a falling off in the demands fol-
pearl goods and for glassware, due to the
popularity and superiority of the Ameri-
can product. 1t is frankly admitted, the
consul says, that the American cut glass
is finer and more elegantly cut than any
manufactured in Europe.
The American bicycle, according to the
consul, is finding favor with the wheel
men, Notwithstanding its higher price, over
those of domestic make. He thinks that if
the United States manufacturers desire to
get their wheels into the foreign market,
they should be satisfied with a little less
profit and try TO make easier terms for
their agents The wheels sent from Amer
lea are generally without mud guards,
brakes and other necessities and the agent
is put to the additional expense and trou-
bic of supplying them.
There is a growing demand for AmerI-
can canned goods, but high prices pre-
vail because the goods go through the
hands of the middle man.
The consul at Antwerp, Belgium, re-
ports that the exports from that country
TO the United States in 1896 were valued
at S9,4377OO an increase of 8 per cent.
over the preceding year, and the imports
valued at S37,504,8O0, an increase of 81 per
cent. over 1895. An important increase in
the consumption of beer is noted, amount
ing to about fifty-one gallons per capita.
Figures are also presented showing large
increases in importatons in a number of
articles from the United States for the
first eight months of the fiscal year 1897
over the corresponding period of 1896, not
ably in starch and non-edibie products,
timber rye, barley, oats, corn, buckwheat.
From the Client consular district a re-
port on the commerce of 1896 says the
cotton mills are employing more and more
American cotton The demand for the
raw material is annually increasing by
reason of the larger number of spindles
set in motion. The importation of Amer
lean hardware on the market shows con-
siderable increase. The Introduction of
American bicycles was also marked dur
ing 1896, and, with present quotations,
United States manufacturers will strong
ly compete with their foreign rivals.