Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-15

on cans become moist n fall on, leav-
ing a most unsfghtly stock OF timed
meats and vegetables or the shelf OF
the native merchant. The Germans
/ cover all cans with shellac, which pre-
serves the labels and keeps the stock
looking bright, new and attractive.
| Our hardware is shipped in plain
brown paper; the Germans ship theirs
in ozokerite paper, which is impervious
to moisture.
For the Interiors.
Mr.. Aubrey, who is an extensive
/ traveller. has watched the progress OF
American goods after arrival at a tor
| rid seaport city for transportation to
some interior town. In Brazil, for ex-
ample, nearly all American packages
have to be broken open and their
| contents repacked in small parcels,
so that they can be handled the more
easily by the poems, who ever at this
late day are the real freight lines
of the greater part of the republic.
This is a source of trouble and ex-
pense, and much valuable time is con-
| sumed. Trade cannot be maintained
under these conditions when importa-
lions from other countries arrive prop
| erly packed. Our mail trade with
China is extensive, yet nearly all reg
| istered packages addressed to Shanghai
reach that ~postoffice broken. Most are
in paper boxes, some in wooden. They
are burst by reckless slowing in ships
holds. One shipment of a gross OF
valuable eyeglasses, packed in O. fimsy
wooden box, was utterly destroyed, the
small particles of glass being scat
tered all through the mail pouch. Care
lessness!
Packing for Venezuela.
We are fighting for the trade OF
Venezuela, yet our merchants, appar-
emily in ignorance Of the fact that
the customs duty is collected on gross
weight, persist in using enormously
heavy but weak packing cases. I'M
mense clumsy crates are employed,
which fall apart before the tax is paid.
An American resident in a foreign city
obtained an order for a bicycle, and es-
pecially instructed the firm in the
United States to ship the wheel securely
boxed. Instead of needing the instruc-
lions, the merchant shipped 1t in a
crate, the result being that all the
tools were stolen in transit, which cost
a delay of six weeks and another set
of tools. What might have been the
beginning of a profitable trade was thus
destroyed.
Bureau of Foreign Commerce.
Congress refuses to appropriate $780,
900 for the Charleston Exposition, but
the show will proceed. Governor Odell
has kept his promise, and New York's
SIS, 900 appropriation is assured. Mas
| sachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hamp-
| shire, Pennsylvania, all the Southern
and many Of the Western States have
fallen in line with the Empire State.
In others, the Legislatures having adj
| journed, nothing can be done. There is
one branch of the federal government
that can be of much assistance ever
without an appropriation, and that is
. the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, De-
partment of State.
Daily Consular Reports.
Did you know that the United States
government publishes a daily trade pa
per of large circulation? 1t is just
three years old, and getting better
every day. The editor in chief is oul
old friend Frederic Emory, of the De
partment of State, who has had charge
of Consular REPORTS" for seven years
These reports originally were published
only monthly, but on Mr.. Emory's rec
concentration a daily, entitled FAC
vance Sheets of Consular Reports" was
authorized by John Sherman, then Sec.
rotary of State, and thus we were pro-
vided with a means of disseminating
information concerning foreign trade
requirements not possessed by any 9th
er country in the world. Mr.. Emory
modestly submits that such success as
he may have achieved is largely due
to some twenty years previous exper.
fence in various branches of newspaper
work. He has been through the mill
reporter, travelling correspondent, edi-
torial writer and copy fiend.
Rebellious Consuls.
At first the great increase of ques-
lions from merchants to consular off
GERS, for which Mr.. Emory was mainly
responsible Tin his desire to improve
the service and encourage trade), caus.
ed a rebellious sentiment among the
pampered pets of the service, and many
informed the Department of State that
they were embarrassed by the extra