The evening times., 1898-10-24
GERHANSNEEDOURWARES
Chances Offered American Mer-
chants i'm the Fatherland.
OUR SUPERIOR PRODUCTS
Car Appliances. Railroad Apparatus
of All kfads md American Ma
chIrery Generally CoH1d lie EN-
ported 10 Much Greater Extent.
Initiating Our MacRiRerS.

partment with an important report on
Opportunities fer American Trade in
Germany" The consul says:
.'Excellent opportunities are being of-
fered here for the importation of Amerl-
can tools, electric appliances, and ali
kinds OF articles usel in the construction
and equipment Of railroads, etc. Eve y
where, from one end OF the Empire 10
the other, lines are being opened, ex-
tended, or improved.
This city is just now contracting with
The local electric line 10 extend its pant
in four different directions. The new
lines. when built. win b. as long as. IL
not longer than those now IN use foI
a long time city ownership was discuss
ed: 4 committee Was appointed 10 co..
slider the matter. Siemens * Hal Ike,
the Union, and others made bids out
il was nnaIly deemed best 10 lei me
company make It's o"A cOAtraets am
buila The new lines.
III seems 10 me We might sell mllhohs
of marks worth vi The wooden parts Tor
cars as well as rails, wires, apparatus,
etc III is impossible for consuis TO col--
Srfr,tte themselves active aSeAls OF
l.niled States houses. The best they can
do il 10 watch markets ana point oul
poss,ibiiities 10 AmeI lean meicIlAHls anu
manufacturers. II We worked TINS eiii-
t,ira anG the whole Continent as c~reIu'is
as Germans work the United STATES
from PORTLAND, Me, u Portland, OresoA'
,,,,,. ,.,nnrts Of IooIs anj machinery ne
v-otlla swell within = IeH years 10 aouDle
their present proportions. OL'g e"
of he bench men hno" how mucA peN-
Ter are many OF our tools anu nlac'i'H :
than those made in Germany 4heIe II
n.,.ol, a large house here which u1ts
not take our leading technical pap p-is-
How maay American houses take ger
,,ap technical papers? And yet Detter
technical papers are Pub4lsaeu no" NeI
else in the world.
..Tha sIueriority of many OF our tools
md a.ppil4nces is acknowledged. ENi-
dence of Inis Iact Is found eNergNheie Az
me fairly successful limitations hlaue "
MACHINE builders in Mannheim, MaSHe-
biirs. L.ei,zis, ChemnitZ ana ber4lh,
imitation Is the best natlefy, We i41NS
enough OF IT. Even as l write 4ai &c
TOOL maker, not d mile from Cheililt'N' =
ir,itatiag machines bought, Till quite re
rerrIv IN Philadelphia. Inc machine Is
safd 10 be the best gear cutter IN lhe
world Today they are being sGccessIuiiS
built here If the manufacture or invent
or in America neglected patent rls
here he has no good cause TO cOIhpld4lt,
but / think his sales in this empire "lA
he al an end as soon as the mahuldC'uioA
here can fill orders. ! cannot 100 slrohS-
lv counsel care in patentlng lhNehlioilS-
Eor can l help calling attention TO the
go rbat there are s., 600 pretty Wen
maid people IN the cities and on the Farms
af mis- empire, who live very much as We
live Their dress. food, homes, factories,
farrn life etc. are not very unlike that
of The seventy-Odd millions in the ChlteI
States Energetic and enterpIlslhs e.
forts must make markets in Europe loF
MANY OF our manufactures and producls.
..Knockdown' furniture Tor ornces anu
homes must sell, il the right eHort Is
made l saw a simple oak rocking Sii"i!
advertised for q marks S5.42) that would
cost with US possibly s2 retail. Wood
working machinery. especially for smali
sbons gas engines, the thousand and one
tools and contriyances to sell wnlch
ooents travel all over the United States,
Vould certainly sell here, once i've
agents speaking German or the language
of the country in which they travel come
TO push them. While / have SAID that
the Germans should be met in Asa, Airl-
20 Oceanica and South America, would
deprecate efforts TO establish markets
here. ! mean that markets here are, as
a ruIe precarious while those in other
Darts of the world may be made perma-
nent.
..The German has no hesitation in TAX
ing American machines apart for the pur-
noses OF imitation. Besides, his patent
laws put il out Of the power OF outsiders
to import into the empire for very
long time If the thing is patented mere
II must be made or manufactured here
&c II i not patented. il will be initiated
In either case, unless provided with enor-
nous capital, the American is compelled
to give up a large part of his profits
american shoes have put in an appear
ance in the shoe shop windows OF every
CITY. ] am sure that shoes retailing II
the Tinted States from So to $ would sci
here at the same, or even better prices
Among the masses (so-called) one car
hardly count on long-continued sales II
these lines. for limitations and cheaI
goods will wipe out competition.
Among the many articles that VIII GER
tainly sell are office fixtures and furni-
ture. I saw an imitation Shannon regis
ter sold yesterday for 420 marks (Sl00)
II stood about five or six feet high, was
a nutle more than yard wide, and had
about eighteen to twenty-five drawers Ol
compartments. The price seemed absurd
but the prices of furniture over here arr
high. Plaques for oak, pitch pine ol
other hardwood flooring should pay; fol
hardly a house goes up now-certainll
none of any size or pretensiOn-that doe:
not put in hardwood floors in the form
Of square or obIong tiles
silver and plated ware would sell. IL
my opinion, If properly pushed; and many
other articles Of hardware that lighter
labor to carpenters, smiths and mechan
les in our country. The most successful
this consulate ever recorded were made
by men who shipped woodworking ma
chimes to Hamburg. hired a wagon ant
interpreter, and went from city to city
They were always able by wire or mai
TO keep up their supply. Hammers. hand
saws and vises would surely sell If prop
erly advertised and pushed.
THE books of the United States hotel
are burdened with the names of Ger
mans resident or travelling in the UNITED
States. to sell German goods, while no
tel books in all big German cities ar
burdened with the names of American
who come here to buy. The empire send
us manufactured articles worth hundred
OF millions of marks: IL takes from Ii
the products Of our farms. and burden
these with what seem TO be far-fetche,
restrictions. While writing this report. a.
II TO justify this last assertion, the fol
low letter was received:
The undersigned party carries on a dairy i
Zvickau together with the sale Of Mohr's prod
ucts ] am obliged, under contract with Mr.. A
/. Mohr, Bahrenfeld, TO sell his oleomargarine
as well as him meats, which are of America
origin and which are inspected at Hamburg by
sworn inspector. After being found faultless III
shipment is sealed and a certificate inclosed
The city OF Zwickau passed resolution sane
toned by the government Of the Kingdom q
SaKony that meats shall be admitted for sale
except IL can be proved that the animal was in
I'd before and after killing fannd bcoltl,