Evening star., 1901-06-21
TOINCREASE EXPORTS
Every Effort Being Made by
Austria.
DETAILS OF PROPOSED EXPEDITION
Samples of Manufactures to Be
Shown in Various Cities.
REPORTS FROM OUR CONSULS

According to Consul General Hurst at
Vienna, Austria Is making every effort to
increase her export trade, and to that end
many radical measures have been consid-
cred and several put into execution. An
export academy has been established, COM
missions and delegations have been sent
abroad to study commercial conditions in
other countries; in the Austro- Hungarian
consular service many honorary consuls
have been replaced by trained and salaried
ones. and the plan of an exposition of Aus
trian manufactures is now being success
fully carried out at the capital Of Den
mark
One of the most important means conSid-
cred was great floating exhibition, which,
going from port to port would introduce
Austro-Hungarian exportable goods in
suitable markets all over the world. The
government voted $120,OOO for the under
taking. which, however, was given up,
owing to a change of ministries. Follow
ing this tentative movement, a private ex-
pedition was fitted out on a small scale
and achieved satisfactory results.
Now, again under unofficial auspices, an
"Austro-Hungarian commercial expedition
to eastern Asia" Is about to be taken
around the world This expedition has been
very carefully organized, and is under the
leadership of an Austrian merchant who
has resided many years in the orient The
expedition receives no governmental or
other subsidy and is undertaken on a busi-
ness basis, calculated to render the enter
prise a financial success. The expedition
will start early in June, stopping on it's
way in New York and San Francisco, and
make exhibits at all places.
The expedition will aim to carry samples
of Austro-Hungarian manufactures, to ex-
n tah MA and tn foI-
orders; to collect samples and price lists
of Salable articles abroad and submit them
to manufacturers in Austria-Hungary in
terested in such articles; to extend the re-
lations with trans oceanic firms begun dur
ing the first Austro-H Hungarian expedition
In 1S@-190O, and possibly to start it's own
commercial establishments.
Among the direct advantages that this
commercial expedition Offers" says Mr..
Hurst, "are the assurance that the sam
pies of Austro-Hungaran manufa ctures
Will be energetically exploited in the proper
markets, and the certainty that the orders
taken on the basis of the exhibited samples
Will reach the manufacturer concerned
and that cash payment will be made upon
presentation of bill of lading by some bank
In Europe, to be designated at the time"
Network of Austrian Canals.
A vast canal scheme is now under con-
sideration before the Austrian house OF
representatives, according to communica-
tion received at the State Department from
United States Consul Mahin at Reichen-
berg. The consul has previously reported
a distinctively Hungarian project which IA
Vored the construction of a. canal joining
the Oder and Danube rivers, with a pro-
longation from The latter stream to the
Adriatic sea, near Fiume, Hungary
The Austrian plan contemplates canal
from the projected Oder-Danube waterway
eastward to the Dniester river, which flows
into the Black sea, another westward to
the Elbe, and still another to join the Dan
ube and Moldau rivers. This would mean
a network of canals covering the principal
provinces of Austria, affording cheap all
water routes to the Adriatic, Black and
Baltic seas, and linking the navgable
streams of the empire.
The new measure at first received
with considerable enthusiasm, the govern
ment evidently fathering the project, and
announcing that the vast sum of $50 OOO,-
900 would be appropriated for it, each in
terested province bearing a share of the
financial burden. But the agrarian ele-
ment in Austria has now begun almost de-
cided opposition to 1t, claiming that by
cheapening of freight rates the canals
would flood Austria with foreign food pro-
ducts. On the other hand, the project, in
it's entirety, is strongly supported by manu-
featuring and commercial interests gener-
ally, and though It's fate is uncertain at
present there are strong hopes for it's ulti-
mate passage.
Horse Meat in Frankfort.
Consul General Guenther Of Frankfort
says that, according to the Frankfort
News. the consumption of horse meat in
that city has increased very slowly. The
first horse-meat dinner was given on Octo-
Der q, 1S4I. at Bornheim, a suburb Of
Frankfort, under the auspices of the So
cety for the Projection of Animals. AS
soon as horse was slaughtered-and at
hot tir,a1 nt-lt bow Lin
the society published the fact, and the
meat was sold at 6 kreutzers (about
cents) a pound The people did not take
kindly to it, however, and it was not until
tifty-four years later that the first horse
meat restaurant was opened. At the pres
ent time about 1000 horses are slaughtered
annually, and separate slaughter house
for this purpose has been built.
Rebate on Exported Steel.
The German iron trust between May 1
and December 81. 1901, will pay rebate Of
10 marks. or $40 per ton, on all exported
puddled steel that is bought from it. ac-
cording to a communication received at
the State Department from Consul General
Guenther at Frankfort. Proof of export
must be produced and the rebate will be
paid on the basis of the actual raw iron
contained in the article exported. 1t is
added that sales to shipyards enjoying the
benefit of free importations will be regard
ed as exports.
American BlOttinE Paper Praised.
United States Consul Kehi, at Stettin, re-
ports to the State Department that Ameri-
can blotting paper has won admiration of
all who have used it, and if proper busi-
ness methods were adopted an extensive
trade in that article could be built up in
Germany. To acquire this market he sug-
gests that instead Of printing American
trade terms on the samples the metric sys-
tenn of weights and measures be used.
Possible Markets Mt Nice.
Consul Van Buren at Nice reports to the
State Department that there have been
indications during the past year of an in
creasing tendency to take up goods of
American manufacture in Nice While
progress in that direction is slow due in
part to the fact that trade is not done dt-
rect with that porD, the consul says he is
convinced that our products are destined to
find remunerative market in that dis