New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-24
FRESH TRADE DEVELOPMENTS.

V,-~,,,,g from Ciudad .nlarez United states Con
su Kindrick says that there is no article OF COM
man use so much needed In Northern Mexico ~
hard pun,ns The soil Is arid and the rainfall is
49,, I,+b, 70 arord good supply TO cisterns. Wells
are a necessity therefore. and so are hand pumps
and wndmNls a windmill or mana punp II ~
tove The hest way 70 introduce an article cf tills
kind says Mr.. Kndrick. IS TO nave AM
commercial traveller visit Northern MeAIDo'. ""'
he nonst understand the language Of the country
Al cane Town. South Africa, there is An annual
fnnortation Of stationery. including bottns paper
amounting 10 about 81 5001 40. and England supphes
nine.tonihs Of H. Germany and the United states Is
each furnish about one-twentieth me aeIna'u -, Il
SO good that properly packed Inc rc1nTfed further
nat American printing materials INK ana n ppeSseT
are asked for hut AZ present the 'dPe '0"" nv
chant cannot supply them
II is also reported from Cape Town that Ameri-
can makers OF shoes are somewhat negligent dpou'
marking goods as buyers request Ihis ollieIence
between American and English shoes Is mentioned:
The American maker cuts the channel on the soles
too wide After the shoe Is sewed he turns down
mo Zap thus left and pastes It. When the shoe
wears the flap comes loose and grows ragged. leaV-
ing a fringe. This is never seen on the English
shoe
var,ous devices have been invented and intro
duced 10 prevent the delay which comes from stop
ping loom TO put fresh hohhin In the shuttle
II is said that Cromptop Knowles have now a
four shuttles and when one shuttle Is exhausted
fho rnagaZine makes quarter turn and brings a
fresh shuttle into position. The rotation is effected
b automatically.
Not many weeks ago the firm Of Daniel Scotch
& Co. II Detroit sold out It's tohacco-manufactur-
ing plar 10 one Of the trusfs-the Continental To-
becco COMPANY The members Of the former con-
| Germ however. are about 20 embark I'm the same
business again. their contract evidently not having
precuded any such proceeding.
When the American Navy wanted a lot Of shells
FOR 6-pounder rapid-fre guns few months ago
/ and advertised for bids a Hartford mechanic and
contractor Clement NJ BrOderick, entered the lists
and carried off the order for 100 900 shells. Various
councillors tried 70 freeze him or buy him out but
ne stuck to contract. and has started factory
of his TO make the proJecules. lie mas also
found a way make fuses for these smells al a
lower rate than all previous contractors. lie mas a
contract for furnishing 10000 Of these fuses to
Uncle Sam
4 map recently issued. designed 10 show the troll
ley roads OF New England indicates that one may
20 almost the whole way from Boston 10 New
York by these lines. The chain Is practically com
| ulete after one gets about fifty miles away from
Boston. 4 new line about TO ne opened IN Nlchl-
gan. under one management, Will run from Lansing
TO Ann Arbor. a distance OF about sixty miles
A new iron-rolllng mill IS about 10 he erected and
operated at Beevile. ont. by a company formed
/ by the Mitchells Of Norwich Conn and William
/ Abbott of Montreal The Mitchells have been en-
/ gagged in the business for many years. They VIII
/ probably launch out into smelling. too, now. and
/ help to develop some OF the Canadian iron mines.