Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-05

land, and a part OF IL Is now on the walls
Of the prince of Wales bed room. Another
roll or so was used in the decoration of
Balmoral castle, Queen Victoria's %favorite
palace in Scotland, and other rolls decorate
the mansions Of lords and dukes galore.
The young Oregonian has already estab-
lished agencies in Norway and Sweden,
Denmark, Germany and Italy, and he is
now making arrangements to paper the
French republic.
It would seem to me that we might sell
more writing paper and pulp paper to
France than we are now doing. The paper
used here is Of two kinds-very good and
very poor. For business letters the French
use a cheaper grade than that used in the
United States, but for social correspondence
they have the best.
The newspapers are printed on the cheap
est of wood pulp, with the exception of the
expensive journals, such as the Figaro.
There are $500 journals and periodicals
published in Paris alone and of these a
large number are dailies. The newspapers
are much smaller thas ours, but some Of
them, such as the Petit Journal and L.
Matin, have enormous Circulations. The
Petit Journal claims the largest circulation
in the world. The papers sell from l to 4
cents, or from D centimes to 20 centimes
each. They are cried on the streets and
also sold in little galvanized iron news
stands on the outer edges of the streets in
all parts of the city. The kiosks belong to
the government and the newsdealers pay
rent for them. They make their money by
the commissions they receive on the sales
Of the papers. The usual rate is two-ffths
Of a cent per copy for a 1-cent paper and
three-ffths Of a cent for papers that sell
from 9 RI 2 peOtS aaph Supb nnwGdpalprC
on the boulevards sell the different Ameri-
can magazines. They not infrequently have
American newspapers and always the Paris
edition of the New York Herald, which is
partly in French and which has so much
continental social new in it that it can
hardly be called American.
l had a talk last night with Mr.. Lazare
WELLER, who recently returned from the
United States, where he has been locating
a place for the twenty young students
which France from now on must keep In
America to study our industrial and business
methods. Mr.. WELLER is delighted with his
reception in the United States and is urging
that closer commercial relations should be
established. Said he:
1.-THE French have never felt more
friendly toward the Americans than they do
now. We appreciate your wonderful kind
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plies to our suffering people of Martinique
and we should like to do what we can TO
make our trade relations with you closer.
Indeed, l may say the French will do all
they can to meet the people Of the United
States in this way. We should be glad to
buy anything Of you when it is not to our
great financial advantage to buy elsewhere
along what special lines can our trade
with France be most easily increased? ?" !
asked.
There are several lines" replied Mr..
WELLER, land especially that of coal. I
should say that you could give us your
surplus ccal quite as advantageously as the
English or Belgians. Our annual production
of coal is about Is, 900, 900 tons short of the
demand and we have to go to England or
Belgium for supplies. The United States
could easily furnish this and | hope that
arrangements can be made to that effect"
Since / saw Mr.. WELLER I have had
further talks about the coal industry of
France with other parties. | am told that
the time is ripe for the introduction of our
coal here ana that there is no doubt but
that if properly pushed it could make it's
way into the markets. At present France is
using about A, 900, 900 tons of coal and the
home production last year was not quite
SO, 900, 600 tons. Only 5 per cent of this is
anthracite, the remainder being bituminous
and Ignite. At present quite a lot of
American coal is coming into Marseilles
and | understand that it is successfully
competing with the Cardiff coal there.
The American coal receipts at that port
during the last year have been over 200, goo
tons. The most OF the Havre coal comes
across the channel from Great Britain and
that of northeastern France from Belgium
via railroad and canal.
All sorts Of fuel are used in France, and
that most economically. There is no waste
Of wood or coal. Many Of the railway cont
panies use coal dust for running their
steam engines. The dust is pressed by
hydraulic force into briquettes, or bricks. D
Coal dust pressed into balls the size OF
eggs is used for cooking and also for house
heating and crate fires, 1t seems to heat