The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-20
Our Manufactures
Sold Everywhere
Special Correspondence of The Tribune.

Special Correspondence of TIE Tribune.
Washington, May 10.
TliE RAPID growth in the expectation OF
manufactures from the United states is
u explained in part by some recent stuh!cs
of the treasury bureau of statistics regard
ing the proportion which manufactures form OF
the imports of the great countries and grand di'
visions OF the world. These calculations show in
brief that but about % per cent of the impor'
taioiis OF Europe manufactures; OF Occania,
20 per cent; OF Asia. 81 per cent; of America
exclusive Of the United States, A per cent. ami
of Africa 81 per cent When it is considered
that tho grand divisions in which manufactures
form the largest per cent. OF imports are those
in which the commerce OF the tmtcd states
shows the largest relative increase III exports. 1t
i, apparent that the growth in exports OF manu-
features is ncaltbful and promises 10 lie pcrman-
ent.
10 Europe, whose imports OF manufactures
form hut about 20 per cent. Of the total 'mpor.
tations. tho exports from the United States IN
creased 81 per ccnt. from lSp3 to 1900; 10 Asia
and Occana. whose imports of manufactures form
from 80 TO !, per cent ni the total 1lnportatiotS,
our exports increased 2ol per cent during the
period named and TO Africa. OF Whose imports
manufactures form 81 per cont, our exports H.
creased 2:ii per cent. during the period under
manufactures form the largest share OF the I'M
ports that the European nations are struggling
+" increase their commerce" Africa, South
America, Asia aud Orcania are tho fields OF their
greatest activity. and it is in those grand d''i-
sons South America cNccptcd-that the com.
mc!rc of the United States shows a larger per.
crntagc OF growth than elsewhere. Naturally the
growth in onr exports 10 Europe shows larger
sum in millions of dollars. by reason Of the
;uch greater consuming power Of that grand Iii
,i,ion hut very Large proportion OF our ca
ports to Europe consists nf natural products,
chiefly ioocstuifS while manufactures const,in'e
the lulL oi expectations TO other parts Of
tho world.
This disposition of the continents. counties
and islands situated far from the United States,
and possessed Of limited facilities for even re-
pairing machinery. 20 purchase costly and deli
catcly adjusted machinery from the United States
may hc Justly considered tribute to the skill
and faithfulncSs Of the American workman. Such
complicated and dclicacIy adjusted machines as
clocks and watches, scientific instruments, sew
ing machines. ,ypcwrtcrs, electrical machinery
shoe machinery, engines ami locomotives arc l''f
chased with confidence and transported 10 coun-
tries and islands of the thousands OF miles
from tho workshops AMI repair shops in which
they were produced TO be handled by conpala
lively uliskicd operatives, and with confidence
that they may be relied upon TO continuously and
permanently perform the duties for which they
are intended. The click of the American ''!c-
graph instrument, The whir oi its sewing ma
chimes, the rattle of its tyucwrcrs, and the
scream of its locomotives are heard in the III
terror of Asia, Africa, South America and in the
most distant islands of the sea. In the last
fiscal wear exported more than Sl2J0n0 worth
of typcwriting machines To oceania; nearly $50