Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-09
FACTS ENCOURAGING TO this CITY
First Result of Board of Trade
Committees Research.
no SERIOUS NUISANC ES

passed a resolution requesting the Secre-
tary of State to secure from the United
States consuls at Paris, Berlin and other
European capitals statistics and informa-
ton relative to the manufa cturirg indus
tries In those cities. The State Department
undertook the task and has received the
following report. first of the series, from
Consul General Frank H. Mason at Berlin,
which forms an important contribution to
the thought on the eve Of the mass meet
ing to be held tonight at Masonic Temple
to consider the prospect of adding to Wash
ington's industrial features.
Consul General Mason writes:
In response to the several heterogeneous
submitted with special instructions No. %
from the Department of State, 1 have to
report follows:
1. ITO what extent is manufacturing
carried on as compared with mercantile
trader" Although Berlin is located in the
midst of vast level. sandy plain, remote
from mines of coal other valuable min
erals, it has become, during the thirty
years since the consolidation of the Ger
man empire, the seat of a varied and i'm
portant manufacturing industry. These
manufac tures are largely of the class that
turn out finished products from materials
which have been more or less completely
prepared in other districts, as, for instance
cloaks and other articles of clothing from
cloths woven at Chemnitz, Crefeld, Bar
men ana Adcnen, machinery from IRON,
steel and other metals produced In West
pllalia, Luxembourg and Silesia; furniture
and vehicles from timber either imported
or brought from forests in distant portions
of the empire. While it is Impossible to
give exact statistics, it would seem that at
least one-third of the business interests of
Berlin and it's outlying suburbs belong to
the class of manufacturing industries.
The Products and Wages.
2. The classes of goods manufactured
here include -four and other mill products
beer, biscuit, bread, chicory, alcohol, es-
sences. perfumery, liquors, cigars and to-
bacco stoves, locomotives and stationery
engines, machine tools, street and railway
cars, electrical machinery. telephones and
fixtures, telegraph instruments. bicycles,
safes printing presses. type and linotype
machines. lamps, heating apparatus gold,
silver and bronze art goods and jewelry,
meters and other apparatus for gas and
acetylene, wagons carriages. automobiles
and parts thereof, bricks and tiles cloaks
and clothing in wool, cotton, silk and linen,
umbrellas and parasols, shoes jute goods
pasSementerie, pianos and other musical
instruments, paper and papfermache goods,
books. and gas for illuminating and heating
purposes.
The general Importance of manufacturing
interests in Berlin-a city of 1879. $50 in
habitants-Will be inferred from the fol-
lowing statistics: There were in operation
in Berlin during the year 1899 ,351 sepa-
rate establishments, in which were en-
ployed 44,339 operatives, to whom We're paid
wages As, 1854 marks or S11 $40, 5U7.
The total number of manufacturing firms
and companies in the whole district of Ber-
lin, which includes the province of Bran
denburg. Pomerania and West Prussia, was
BIG with 93. $50 operatives, who received
during the past year S9,T3 IA marks as
wages. Among these some of the most
notable establishments in and about Ber-
lin are the following:
lot nj HI Jah
Mehler & Behrens, makers of steam en-
gines and boilers, iron bridges, roofing and
structural iron work, turntables and
cranes; A. Borsig, whose works are at
Tegel, near Berlin, maker of locomotives
and railway machinery and supplies; the
Berlin Machine Company engines and ma
chinery; Ludwig Loewe & Co., machine
tools, electrical machinery, automobiles,
cars and everything relating to power and
lighting plants, arms and ammunition, tor
pedoes and war material; the Berlin An
halt Machine Company, gas and water in
stallations; Fleck Sons, saw mills and
woodworking machinery; Arthur Koppel
field and secondary railways; Frister &
Fossman Co, sewing machines, type
writers, bicycles and machine tools; the
Berlin Machine Tool Company, electrical
machinery, tools and cold-drawn steel tub
ing; Max Hasse & Co, ammunition and
war material; Helm, Lehman & Co, iron
construction and galvanized iron works
runway SISIldlS, etc. fTltuFlcn IcDdueT,
maker Of spinning and weaving machinery;
II. +. Eckett, agricultural machinery; Carl
Beerman, agricultural machinery; c.
Hoppe, electrical apparatus. and Steffens &
Noile, structural iron and steel work. The
German Niles Tool Company has in con-
structtOn, now nearly complete, an i'm
mense establishment at er-SchOnWeide,
a northeastern suburb of Berlin, which
will build heavy machine tools and other
machinery Of the class produced by the
Niles Tool Works at Hamilton, Ohio. The
General Electrical Company at Berlin
turned out In 1899 Il 9S7 dynamos and cleo
tro motors. with an aggregate of 147,OOO, 900
watts, or 10000 horsepower, besides vast
quantities Of arc lights and electrical
measuring instruments. Messrs Semens
& Halske, one of the most important firms
of its class in the world, employs several
thousand workmen and builds dynamos
electric motors of all kinds, electrical rail-
way plants, electrOlytic installations, tele-
phones and lighting plants. Another large
firm of this class is the Berlin COMPANY
for Electrical Undertakings which con-
structs electrical railways, lighting and
power plants In Germany and foreign cOun-
tries. The "Chemische Fabrik auf Aktien"
formerly Soldering & Co, has extensive
works in the northern suburb of Berlin and
Is one of the largest manufacturers of
chemicals and pharmaceutical products In
Europe: There are in Berlin and it's vicin-
ity % breweries, which consumed in 1899
GOO pounds of malt and produced
3,S's41l hectoliters Q01 ,399, 1903 gallons) of
beer.
Residential Attrnctfveness Unaffected.
Does the presence of manufacturing
plants lessen the desirability of Berlin as
a place of residence?" Not to any serious
extent. The construction and management
of all establishments are under the abso-
lutte control Of the municipality, which
through the building and sanitary police
exercise a supervision which although In
many cases hampering and annoying to
manufacturers, protects the rights and
comfort of the public and reduces the dirt
and noise of manufacturing processes to a
minimum. Practically all the large ma
chine shops, foundries, chemical works and
other establishments which make a large
use of coal as fuel are located in the
outlying suburbs. All are equipped with
very tall chimneys and furnaces SO skill
fully constructed that very little smoke
is left uncOnsumed. OF the private electro
cal lighting and power plants. a large and
constantly increasing percentage are driven
by gas motors, which use oil, gas, benzine
alcohol as fuel and produce no smoke.
Domestic fuel is mainly limited to hard
COAL coke and especially bricquettes, all
0ti llN oil In