Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-07-26
ENGLISH FLAGS from AMERICA.

| ENGLISH EIJGS FKOH AhERfCi.
We Make the Best Ones at the Cheapest
Price, So Said a Briton.
London Leader.
Millions of flags have been used ID
London's and the nations rsjuiciugsl
hardly yet over. Millions mors, neat
bound in bundles of a dozen or a grus
| are in the warehouses of the wholeslAI
importers. Other millions are stacss
| In the depots at the docks, as they aid
unloaded from the trading liners. Ys
other millions are on the way irOa
| America or in tie course of nlanuI
facture at New York workshops, who's
stock is well-nigh exhausted by th]
recent demands.
A representative found out all Ibid
quite by accident when he made th3
round of the dealers to ask whetba
after the lavish purchase of huntiu3
for the relief Of Mafeking, there vs3
any loft
Outside shop in ALTERNATING
stood van being loaded with UnioS
Jacks bound like the old Roman iaCd7
of old. 4
"Where do they come from? AIN
American" said the merchant tMrl +
Guitermanl in reply to a query Of tht
reporter.
Germany? The Germans can { touca
the Yankees nor make goods of th&
quality at the price. The fact is thai
in America they arc quite accustomedd
what with elections, war fetes and bis
political demonstrations, to making
flags Of all sorts marvelously quick
but how did you get all thesf
Union Jacks at such short notice."
We'll, the States do big business
with Canada, supplying her with th8
national flag and the Royal Standard
for great public occasions. So whel'
we ordered they sent from what wai
probably large stock 10 hand"
| All this while our inquirer was look4
ing at cute Yankee devices in called
and paper-huge fans that fold up to n
solid roll Is inches or so long, and
festooned yards Of evergreens and papef
flowers that you can carry in YOU'D
waistcoat pocket.
Down in the basement where MID
Guiterman took the reporter, it 4
flags, flags, all sort of flags, from thd'
size OF scrap OF note paper to sli
feet or more square. Theirs they aIf
packed in rows Of enormous cases, win,
the words New York; outside them
SO that there shall be no mistake about
their place of origin, and just as they
came from the docks, where rnws moro
Of similar cases are waiting to u
fetched as soon as there is loom Y
shelter them.
Upstairs Mr.. Gulterman pointed "
walls of cardboard boxes about N
inches long.
Each of these contains Thousand
puttons,n he remarks. The boxes NUM-
her several hundred at least, so that u
this one room there are enough tl1y
circular enamel devices to provide
something like u million patriots with
eiiigies OF the famous B. p, of Lord
Roberts, Of Her Majesty, of the British
Lion holding the unfoitu nate Cronls
suspended by the seat Of his trousers,
and Of the same remarkable animal
watching cage where crouch two
figures labeled " Kruger" and Steyn. :
All tastes can be suited, from that o
rabid seeker of Boer blood to that o
the respectable citizen genuinel!
pleased at the SUCCESS of British arms
1T ia only by having machinery of th
most absolute perfection" he said
that the States are able to turn GU
such neat little things at the price
From Birmingham manufacturer
could not get even an estimate or
supply of similar things They haven
the machines, and they won't buy
make Them
| why not?"
| Mr.. Guiterman shrugged his shou
ders. You can't change the habit
of a nation all nj onoe -