Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-27

French count. One Of the big banks
here is that Of Morgan. Harles u Co.,
which is backed by the millionaire Nor
gans Of the United States. OF which
Pierpont Morgan IL one. Another Amer
lean bank IL that OF Munroe & Co., and
another still the Seligmann Bros
one Of the richest Of the American
colonists Is "a newspaper man mean
Jones Gordon Bennett who has for
years made Paris his home He has
close Geographic commur ca tlons with
tie Herald office IN New York and
practically edits his paper by cable. Mr.
Bennett Keeps up his establishment
here whether he is I'm the city or not
The servants are always In full dress
and always on duty. II you call at the
house you viii be- informed That they
do not know II MI Bennett Is IN and
they will go OF to find out A moment
later you may be told he is IN Nice. or
Cairo, OF Of on his yacht IN some other
part Of the world. The Figaro speaks
very highly of Bennett, calling France
TIE land of his Adoption. aud saying
tly he rs The friend Of all Parigials,
and that an are his friends one of the
OGacrcs, OF The newspapers published IN
France is the Paris edition Of the New
Fork Herald. II Is Ike nothing IN Eng
land or America heine devoted chiefly
10 Fr nch and continental society news.
! understand that Mr.. Bennett is as
much interested In II as in his great
parer in New York, and that he Is kent
advised Of an that appears I'm Il. The
Paris paper IS circulated freely over
the country, and copies Of Il are sent
matuitously to all American consnls
ard m'risters as vol as to the ,chict
cluhs M the world The paper sells tor
30 crfmes Ia Paris, and for two pense
in England
THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE..
There Is an American chamber ~
commerce IN Paris which Is becoming
very Important to American trade II
has rs offices In the Rue Scribe. just
back cf the Grand hotel. and under the
sha90 Of the grand opera house, I'm
the very heart of business Paris. The
chamber was founded eight years ago
with ten members. and II now has 239
embracing the leading Americans Of the
French capital Its business Is 20 fur
ther commercial and industrial rela-
tions between the United states and
France and TO investigate all matters
bearing upon American trade. Ii holds
regular meetings publishes an annual
report and issues bulletins every two
weeks with all items of interest regard
ing Franco American commerce. The
chamber has a librory of 1,200 volumes.
and reading room well supplied with
American newspapers, and especially
with our trade journals,
The president is Mr.. Francis kim
bel and the secretary Mr.. Edward
Green. | find the chamber Of COM
merce q valuable repository Of Ameri-
can and French statistics and am In
debted to its secretary, Mr.. Green, for
valuable assistance regarding the AM
erican Invasion. In talking with me to-
day he said that the United States row
stands about second IN the French I'M
port trade and nth IN the export trade.
We are supplying France with about
GU per cent Of its imported food stuffs.
and about Z ner cent Of the imported
manufactured articles
WHAT WE SELL FRANCE.
] asked Mr.. Green to give me what
our chief French exports were. He
replied:
"The principal ones are cotton, cop
per, petroleum, tobacco, tallow and
lumber In 1900 We sold France more
than S2G0O0.00O worth Of cotton. almost
S6OO00OO worth of tobacco. and more
than S16O0,00O worth OF oil. our cop
per exports amounted almost to si2, =