New-York tribune., 1901-07-18
TRADE AND FINANCE ABROAD.

The troubles In Albania and the hostility Of the
Turkish mountaineers to the Servians may delay
the building Of railroad. and consequently the
civilizing of those semi-barbaric countries. The
'Sebskoe Glass" Servian paper. says that the
chiefs OF the Albanian tribes have lately held a
meeting at Inek TO find out whether not, in the
face Of Austrian threats of an occupation of AL
bania 1t would be proper to permit the construc-
tion Of a railroad across the district of Novi
Bazar. The congress of the Albanian chiefs re-
solved that in shall it be permitted 10
extend the Bosnia railroad across the Sandyak of
Novi Bazaar and that the people will oppose IT
by arms If necessary. The projected railroad
would have been a boon TO the isolated territories
near the Adriatic Sea It's construction cannot be
long, delayed, for Austria will need It when she
pToclaims herself the sovereign of Bosnia and
Herzegovps He ego, "a and then begins her march toward
A national exposition Of a special and highly
utilitarian character has been recently opened at
Asuncion. the capital of the Republic of Paraguay
The exposition reported a success. II was a
domestic household exposition, revealing the apti-
tude of the Paraguayan women in manual work
belonging 10 their sex. especially in sewing.
nnfian etc The prncipa organ5er Of the ex
SUI SUI at Asuncion. and secretary 10 the Centro-
and official attendants at the opening ceremonies
letter ts from President Romano of Peru reassert
Paraguayan and Peruvian nations.
Genoa and Antwerp are rapidly becoming the
heads with Hamburg, Of the maritime trade of
Continental Europe at the expense of the French
seaports Of Havre and Marseilles The latest
report of the Chamber Of Commerce of Antwerp
showed that sixty years ago Marseilles occupied
the third rank in the ports the world after
London and Liverpool. Genoa only the eighth
port. and Antwerp the twentieth In 1887 the gen
eral conditions OF shipping and trade having been
teenth. Now Hamburg and even Antwerp have
o-erstepped Marseilles, and Genoa is following
The progress OF Rotterdam in the shipping trade
has been remarkable, but II is not be compared
with the trade of Genoa, and especially of Ant
place in Europe after London and Hamburg and
before Liverpool and Rotterdam.
The diminution in the export duty raised in
IIayti on coffee, and which is advocated by Mr.
Fame Minister OF Finances in the general report
he has prepared for the Chambers at Port-au-
Prince is demanded with renewed vigor by the
press of the capital 1t recalls that the dutv on
coffee has suppressed in the neighborina Re-
public of San Domingo and that in Venezuela the
probability that the progressive movement which
Is felt everywhere in Hayti will be accelerated still
staple which makes the bulk of Haytian export
products.
IT is learned that there will soon be between Mos
COW and ST Petersburg railroad with electrical
traction or power The trains will run at the rate
of 2aD versts hour. It is said. The verst is equal
to about one mile The whole distance between tha
two cities will be covered in three-quarters of an
hour The above mentioned railroad is based upon
the principle of that between Berlin and HAMBURG
the project adopted by the German Government and
enfars Of the new system Te two German me tin a
are separated by 260 versts, and the price of the
tickets will three times lower than that of the
steam railroad Another electrical line as they call
| N there will be constructed between Finland and
! ST. Petersburg by the Stofla Company.