The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-01

with England's shipping over the world
| today Take the p. O., one of their Ia
| nous lines to the Orient. generation
| ago it had no competitors to speak OF; to;
| day the Germans are getting the most OF
| it's trade. The Germans have the fastest
and the best of the Atlantic steamers and
they are building bigger ones ana better
ones every year
The fastest ship now on the ocean is
the Deutschland Of the Hamburg Amer
lean line. 1t has 1900 tons and its rec
ord speed in crossing the Atlantic. was
just about twenty-thrce and "a half nautl-
| cal miles an hour. 1t went from Sandy
Hook to Plymouth An 1--WE days. seven
hours and thirty-eight minutes. The rec
ord speed of the St Paul. a sister ship
| of the St. Louis for its fastest voyage
| averaged twenty-one miles and eigat min
| utes t. the hour. an average only sur
| passed by the Deutsc Inland, the hron-
prinz Wilhelm of the North German
| Lloyd and the Lucania of the Cunard
J line.
I A Sample Company of Invaders.
/ / had as fellow passengers fair sam
| pie of the Americans who are leading our
commercial army to LANDS beyond the
| seas. Several were capitalists after IN
vestmcnts in England and the continent
| One was partner In great eloctrical
| construction company going abroad TO get
| contracts for the new roads thai England
| proposes to build AID another was a
! Yankee railway manager VINO was GO
/ ing over to show the British electric rail-
| way trust how to operate its undertake
| ings after the American fashion Thero
| were also the representatives of some OF
| the biggest agricultural Implement max
| ers of the United States. two men from
| the Milwaukee Harvc ster Company. going
| to esta blish agencies in England and con-
| tinental Europe. and Paterson, n j.,
man who intends to coat Europe red with
his cold water paint. He tells me he
| sells 1t already from the Baltic TO the
Mediterranean and that the openings for
| all such things are good.
Eyeglasses and Doll Babies.
Then we had Lubin. ,ha Philadelphia
optician and motion picture man. who
| told me that vast quantities of American
| spectacles and eyeglasses are nov sold
| in Russia. Germany, France and Eng
| land. and Collins another Phiiadeiphlan
cardboard and mounts. We had also LIE
| wv of New York. an exporter and I'M
| porter of toys who Informs me that all
| toys made by machinery in America are
| now having a heavy sale in Europe. Even
| in Germany, the great toy-making coun-
| try of the world, our iron and wooden
| TOYS are sold in quantity They are pref
tier and better than the hand- mace Ger
man articles and can be sold for half the
| price. Mr.. Levy is going over to buy dolls
for the American market. lie says j'eOo
different varieties of dolls are made in
Germany and that the latest fashions
in American dresses are sent to the doll
makers in order that our children may
have dolls with dresses as up-to-date as
| their mothers.
Another German-American passenger
was on his way to open up an office for
American typewriters in Berlin, while a
mining engineer from California was en-
route for the South African gold fields,
and Il Young Indianian was on his way to
SOUTHAMPTON and Buenos Ayres to pave
the streets Of the Argentine capital with
| Trinidad asphalt.
We had also silk men. machinery men
and grain men. The list is too long to be
given and | cannot mention the variety
Of freight. for the parser showed me that
the different articles ran into the hun
dreds. l will only say that we had big