The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-24
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.

Editor ot The Tribune
Sir: the new United State. Steamship com
pany. capital sj.0O0,oOO will put fourteen OF thc
vcs,cs tu Ill" West Indian and south American
trade. This i much needed line aS onl,
selling these fifty millions Of people about tel
PEI cent. "i the goods they huy.
THE nicd States stands at the head of th,
nations today BECAUSE OF lis transport a, ion il
c!itics. Locomotives made in the United Sta,c.
are used all over he world. At the coronat iul
of the present czrr oi Russia. the trains thl
carried the people 80 the capitol to witness til,
ceremonies were hauled there ny American G.,
locomotives George II. DaniclS)
Considering out gigantic engagements and de-
\"!opmrnI, nur efforts 10 secure foreign tla ie
our much larger 'onntly and population, Sec
i"lary Cages expenditures estimate fnr 1902 o
SGl6,oNG.OOO, is far smaller in proportion thar
Germany'o >j50.O0O.ODu
''ln ten ycJlS more the hungarian farmer vii
be cutting all his grain with an American reaper
and the Italian Nincrald,t will not he able lc
ill his vines without an American cultiyator il
he desires 10 compete with hir neelhorS." (r ~
Timcs)
rwo American BANKS Ia hr established in
China, 10 hardlc ON star" oi the Chinese in.
d"mnly, and to take care OF the inln'
'iAl end Of our Chinese hu4nc,, generally.
Til, Is one oi the way. ii not the chirl Nay,
by which Germany has 80 rapidly built mp hcl io,.
ci2n trade in South America and elsewhere.
Ncw south Walr,, Australasia. is IN the mar,
hc, for 1000 tons If "m steel rails and lhirty'
siN al our locomotives.
Maine shipyLrds have contributed 14d2l luils
nj new vc,,clS TO uu merchant fleet This year.
mainly iom, hv" a"d ,i> masri scoonc',--,o
nuch is good, hui We need hundreds "i large
steel ships tor our az foreign trade
\nercan architectural iron is in great lie.
mand abroad, We are now loading ,wo vessels
with i'll one Tor south America and III" other i"r
Yokohama,
Reading Coz, shipments from rot Reading TOR
November broke all records, being 22,, Isl tons,
.san-t .lo,0IO tons Tor October, We are now
Ilrd IN The list nj coal exporters, AMI are in a
Mir way 10 oU>l Germany lrum second place.
GlrJt Britain ipa, largely. The figures for last
hs'al wear were, Great Britain, 5i,n0O,O0O: Ger,
many, lSGoO,0O0; United States sOoo,OoO, our
5,ooOo0o,ona tons ol Pennsylvania anthracite will
come in handy yet.
The Troy Times reports heavy foreign de,
mJnd iur American wire, One vessel has Just
taken 2o,UDO tons luv telegraph use in Australia
and New Zealand
onr exports ut iIrm machinery 10 Turkey in
iulopc have inclca,ed 200 pcI cent in tmcr
years.
All onr foreign b,,inc,, i, not done 4; the old
stand" We have Il branch house in the riil,
ippinIs whlch is not doing badly. having in.
creased its exports in the 1901 tscal year Ia So.
sli,3is IIon, Hlo,,i5,0iS in 1900, an increase of
II per cent
mcricm made electrical appararu. i, to he
used IN the conversion ol London. underground
rIiiway--tha is the decision OF The arbitrator
appointed by the London board of trade. None
work Tor our busy factories.
Petroleum shipments nom the Port of Phila.
dcpha since January l, Were more 'hln GG,Dop
00O Gallons aver ihr same period OF last wear
Very truly yours
--Naltrr-a Ballad
schenectady, y, y, Dee. -.