New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-24
OUR GOODS IN AFRICA.
BRITISH ALARM OVER THE MENACE TO
THE MOTHER CoUNTRY's TRADE

Washington. Nov. 2S-The Editor OF The Brit
ish and South African Export Gazette has been
stirring up the British and South African public
over the fact that American manufacturers are
making rapid Roadway in the markets Of Africa.
In letter to the leading publication in London
published in The British and South African Ex-
port Gazette" OF November. 1900 just received by
the Treasury Bureau OF Statistics a correspondent
says:
For the informant of your readers. I append
ecuted, or now being executed in America for Cape
etc. but the fact remains that such orders have
oeen' n or are In ,o process OF being. executed
orders for sixty saloon carriages for the equipment
Railway; and in that month six Seton locomotives
were delivered at the Cape Government railway
ham Williams co Of PRade ~ eSS'' u'"
,a In March 1886 six improved Pullman cars were
In July. 1890 several Baldwin locomotives were
6ellvered at Cape Town In part completion OF Cape
Government contracts. In that month. according
railWays there n Of tb dnt 8Enes and
about 10000 worth of trucks and other rolling
engines built BY Messrs t@ Dickson % co of Phil
CURED BY the Cape and Pare are now
ming on the Wynberg branch. S,o.,
IN September 1902 the Union SWITCH ana sigma al
hand a large order for special frogs and switches
side tank engines from et the Baldwin works we're
daily expected to be delivered at Cape Town for
In September 1900. the Pressed Steel Car Com,
pany. Of Pittsburg Penn. L. S A, had In hand
several steel platform of forty tons capacity
Apart from these Items 1t Is signihca nj that for
the year ended June 30. 1899 the United states OF
Africa value $50 O00 against 31CS tons (value
f1314D in the previous year In the estimates OF the
Cape Government for the current year the sum OF
etc, but nothing is. Of course said as 10 "nere
these large orders will be placed
do not altogether blame the cape Colony Tor
thus dvertng large share OF rs or3erS 10 othsr
fOr *
has remarked. that time Is now the essence or
contract, British engineering nrns nave oeen ana
hand being more than they can overtske frlce, 100
is important factor and especially Is this so with
railway material, locomotives and trucks which
the United Kingdom 1t is however, impossible to
overlook the fact that many important orders
have gone 10 America from the Cape mat could
made to this end, and rightly or wrongly, sus-
picion exists In the minds OF manufacturers that
1t is entirely due to the anti-Britsh tendencies or
some OF the Capes officials. Whatever the reason.
the Empire large will agree that II Is disgracefu
that other countries should reap the advantage
OF the unparalleled sacrifices we have made in
the Roer war: and while admitting that govern
ments like individuals. be guided by business
prudence, 1T will certainly be lamentable II every
favor the foreign manufacturer at the expense of
his British competitors.
There is one way whereby the tender system
leads to the diversion OF orders to America. even
despite the good Intentions Of the colonial
ments. This Is in cases where no stipulations are
inserted in the contracts that the material en-
Quite recently an order for rails for Natal munich
pality found Its way the Lorain Steel Company,
Johnstown Penn. In this way-wholly. IL is per-
missible TO believe against the Intentions OF the
municipal authorities, and possibly against the in
tentions of the contractors. who had probably
based their estimate on the lower American cost