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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
CHARLESTON'S WHOLESALE
TRADE.

ana JeWSil - %
hay. hats and caps
foreign and domestic
fruits, drugs and med
icines, doors, sash and
blinds, clothing. dry
goods, crockery, to-
bacco and cigars, boots
and shoes and furni-
ture. There is room
for new Corners and
these will be well
come.
The Manufacture
ing Industries.
The chief manufac-
turing industry of the
city is fertilizer and
there is much capital
invested in this. The
total output of the
mills passes 400, 900
tons.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
A CENTER OF FINANCE

An Exposition in Itself. It Offers At
fractions in and About the City that
Can be Found No Where Else and
Visitors to it Will Find Historical
Associations of Revolutionary and
Civil Wars, Bombardments, as Well
as the Great Upheavals of Nature.
Ills Which Have Been Surmounted
by It's Undaunted People.
1t is related of a young man who was
about setting out on his first trip to
Europe. that he was so elated as to be
hardly. able to think or speak of any
thing else. insomuch that after purchas-
ing certain articles for his journey, he
turned away without waiting for his
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

money to be changed. The
tradesman called after him !:
Sir, you have forgotten your
change.
"Well. never mind" re-
piled the youngster, dream
ily "you can hand it to me
in London.
But" rejoined the deaf
er. 81 am not going to Lon
don"
mot going to London"
exclaimed the bewildercd
youth, "then where on
earth are you going?"
So of those visiting our
Southern States during this
year of the great. South
Carolina Interstate and
West Indian Exposition It
is hard to understand
where on earth are You
going" if not to Charles
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
IT'S TRADE AND COMMERCE.

The trade and commerce of Charles
ton are better at this time than for five
years past. The credit of the city, in
distressing times, has been maintained
and new and better conditions con-
front it.
In round numbers it's trade and COM
merce in the year past amounted to So
100000. an increase of about eight and
half million over 1886, distributed
as follows: In the cotton trade four and
half million. phosphate rock a half
million, in fertilizer values one and an
eighth million, in the wholesale and re-
tail trade over two million; all of this
being great increase over the preceding
wear
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
LOOKING BACKWARD.

There can be but passing glance at its
great history began under the Lords
Proprietors, but in 1929 going under the
direct authority of the British crown,
when North and South Carolina was
made of the divided Province of Caro-
lima. In 1888 the town was Incorporated
as the city of Charleston, which has
grown to it's present population of nearly
so 600 people, the city standing upon
made ground" as much of it was in its
beginning marsh and creek and ponds.
Then came the Revolutionary war, be-
ginning with opposition to the stamp act
and in the struggle for American indie
pendence Charleston took it's full share
and Sergeant Jasper and Fort Moul-
trie are famous names, and tales today
are told by grandsons and great grand
sons of those who suffered prtvatlQns
during it's days of bombardment.
After the Revolution the city grew and
reaching out into new fields
and growing in population. While in
1900 there was a population of nearly
/ 800 this had grown to over 10000 i'll
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
A STIRRING HISTORY.

mantle; but l was assured that the
were facts
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
1860, when the Flag of the Confederacy
Dated over the city.

On December 20, 1860, the State Of
South Carolina seeded from the Union,
the ordinance was passed at St. Andrews
Hall, on Broad street, in Charleston
and ratified that night in South Carolina
Institute Hall on Meeting street, both
of which buildings were destroyed by a
great fire in December, 1861, a year later
From the evacuation of Fort Sumter
on December 2, 1860, to the close of the
Civil War, or rather to the eighteenth
day of February, 1865, when Charleston
city and harbor were evacuated, after
567 days of continuous military opera
tioGs against them its history is one of
battle and strife. Deluged with storm
of shot and shells, which plowed their
way through streets and homes, leaving
battle SCARED city, it took up the bur
den after the war, and bursting through
the terrible bonds of the Reconstruction
era" it moved onward so that it's 10000
people of 1860 amounted to nearly so 900
in 1900.
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cast" in cotton manufacture these goods
arc to be exported. Then there are the
products of the great pine belt, which In
the section named reaches the enormous
figures of 1O1 900 100000 of feet of lum-
her. The tributary coal fields are placed
at AS 45 square miles and adjoining these
are many and extensive iron deposits
The tributary corn belt should SEND
through Charleston an immense portion
of the one and three quarter billions Oh
bushels of corn raised. It's tributary
phosphates States produced in 1900 one
and a half millions of tons and a large
norton of this is to be exported. Inc
tributary rice fields are to be considered
To handle an immense amount OF thesS
PRODUCTS is the logical condition toE
Charleston and that the Twentieth Cen
turv will see it's foreign commerce vastly
increased is but to be expected.
CHARLESTON'S WHOLESALE
TRADE.
Charleston does a large wholesale pusl-
ness and this is increasing, the growth
boing steady and sure. The hgures
which cover the wholesale and retain
trade exceed thirty-two million OF dollars
VI year and in, the wholesale business ne"
business i'd being obtained. Among the
wholesale business conducted there Is
the trade in groceries, stationery Watches
iewpIrV. grain anu
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

Since the war it's history has been still
eventful It's grapple with the pestilerce
of yellow fever, scourge forever driven
away, the terrific cyclone which twisted
its homes from their foundations AMI
the still more awful throes of the earth
quake of 1886, which shook the city as by
giants hand, are matters of contem-
porary history, and Charlestonians with
with characteristic pluck. still push to
the front and startle a continent with
the magnificence Of a Southern EXPOSE
ton, made to link it to a brighter future.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

Cotton is one of the principal of these
and as South Carolina is in the fore of
the great progress of the Great South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
THE EVENING STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1902.

men, including importers and exporters,
principals and agents. There are perhaps q
dozen newspaper correspondents, several
American architects and not few Amerd-
can bartenders.
Within the last few weeks an American
commercial directory has been published.
giving an alphabetical list Of American
firms and all matter OF interest to Ameri-
cans in Paris. 1t Is book of about 300
pages. which shows something Of the extent
of the colony. In running over its pages
notice the following companies with Ameri-
can names: There Is an American bicycle
company, an American cotton company. an
American saddle company, an American
coal and shipping agency and an American
trading union which deals in clocks. Then
there Is an American autograph company,
an American estate agency, which may fur
nsh titles and estates to our Goldfish mil
lonaires, as we'll as an American tar paper
company and an American dancing acad-
envy.
AS to the American typewriters, they are all
represented as are our bicycles and phono-
graphs. The American line has a steam
ship Office here, and 1 have already spoken
of our express companies and life insurance
establishments.
p There are several American book stores
in Paris. the chief of which Is Brentano's.
There is a Boston baker, an American
grocer and several large American jewelry
stores. Among the queerest Of the latter
are those which sell paste diamonds and
gold-filed American watches. They adyer-
tise the fact that their clocks all speak
English and call their jewels real American
diamonds. The so-called diamonds are to-
day the most brilliant things shown on the
boulevards. There is one company which
has four or five shops filled with brilliantS
and paste set in every possible way. 1t has
the same price for every article in its shop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
BURBERRY SEASON OVER.
Good Year This, but They Are Can
ming Poor Stuff in These DAYS.

Cherryfeld (Me) Corr. New York Sum-
Burberry pickers who have been on the
plains since August 10 are packing their
tents and stealing away to the cities,
where they have a chance to spend their
money. The season, which ends this week.
has been the most successful on record.
Nearly 10000 bushels of the fruit have
been gathered and canned, and though the
weather has been cold and rainy at times,
the pckers have made good wages from
the start.
Since the introduction Of the BURBERRY
rake and the tanning mill, the men who
own the canneries have grown economical
and are putting up fruit which the average
family man would hesitate to take home.
For the last ten days the canneries have
been engaged in filling large cans holding
a gallon or more, all of which are intended
for the use of hotels and restaurants,
where burberry pudding is made by the
hundredweight and BURBERRY cake is turn
ed out by the square rod. Though the
fruit Is clean and wholesome, it is very
small and immature. consisting of the I'M
grow on the very tip ends of the bushes.
1t is without flavor juices, and has
nothing but the dark purple color to certi-
fly to its having grown on BURBERRY bushes.
The largest and most juicy berries are
from the early pickings, and are put up
in pint or quart cans. Later when, the
fruit grows smaller and the workers are
rushing to make q record the two-quart
cans are used for a week more, and at
the very end Of the season, when the
fruit averages no larger than birdshot and
has grown dry from long exposure to the
sunlight. it is put in gallon cans and sent
away for consumption in the hotels and
boarding houses.
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No Increase in Average Age.
/ the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
A most inaccurate and misleading story
has been going the rounds to the effect thai
census figures prove that the average hui
man life in the United States has been pro-
longed during the last century, some IA
years The census figures show no such
thing. They show that the "median age"
average has risen during this period by
that amount but a further reading of the
statement compiled by the census shows
that the "age composition of the popua-
ton has been subjected to other and more
disturbing influences than the progress OF
sanitation and the advance of medicine.
The age composition has been affected of
late wears by an increased influx of adult
population from foreign countries. This
one fact Is sufficient in Itself to account
for the rise of the median age, without at
tributina it to the boon of carbolic acid or
paregoric. There is nothing to show thai
people live any longer than before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

according to the French figures. and this Is
under the real amount, as many of the
goods come in through England. and are
accredited to that country.
'In addition to the articles have mem
toned there are many others which we sell
in large quantities. The Americans nave
good trade in tools. furniture and hides
They sell dried apples for cider. india rub
Der goods feathers for hats and millinery,
canned Holsters. and a large amount Of
chemical products.
Our Reciprocity Treaty With France.
IT look for a considerable increase in
American trade" continued Mr. Green.
when our new treaty goes into effect.
This treaty was signed in July. 1899. and
1t is to be ratified on the Oath of next
September. BY it our raw materials are to
be admitted on the payment OF minimum
duties and the United States makes re-
duction on French imports of silk, cotton
and linen goods and also on articles de
Paris, food manufactures, glass, metal and
paper wares This will bring in our bread
stuffs under a much lower rate of duty
than they are now paying, and We will be
able to compete more successfully in these
respects with other countries. In the past
France has had reciprocal treaties with
England and Belgium. so that their goods
have come in under the minimum tariff.
while we have had to pay the maximum
tariff. Indeed. more than eleven million
dollars in duties were paid on our exports
to France in the year 1900.
The American Art Colony.
have referred to the American art col
society crowd. living chiefly In the Latin
quarter and having a little world of its
own. The colony is large. consisting of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

OUR AMERICAN CONSUL GENERAL AT PARIS

investgat' all matters bearing upon Amer!-
can trade. 1t holds regular meetings. pub
fishes an annual report, and issues bull5-
tins every two weeks with all items oc In
tereSt regarding FrancJ-American com
merce, The chamber has library of 1000
volumes. and reading room We'll supplied
with American newspapers, and especially
with our trade journals.
The president is Mr.. Francis K!mbel, and
the secretary Mr.. Edward Green. l find the
chamber OF commerce valuable repository
OF American and French statistics, and am
indebted to its secretary, Mr.. Green, for
valuable assistance regarding the Ameri
can invasion. In talking with me today he
said that the United States now stands
about second in the French import trade
and fifth in the export trade We are sup
plying France with about Ga per cent of
It's imported food stuffs. and about 7 per
cent of the imported manufactured articles.
What We Sell France.
I asked Mr.. Green to give me what our
chief French exports were. He replied:
'sThe principal ones are cotton, copper.
petroleum, tobacco. tallow and lumber. In
1900 we sold France more than S27,oOo,Oo0
worth OF cotton, almost 100000 worth OF
tobacco, and more than 81. 900 worth OF
Oil Our copper exports amounted almost
20 $12,O00000, and our sales OF machines
and machinery to more than 100000. We
Qold her over 100000 worth Of meat, al
most $6.000.0 coo worth OF lumber and $4,000
DO worth OF grain and flour. The total
exports In that year we're almost $92 000, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

deed, that the scope and character Of the
work done in these distant and remote
schools Is by no means below the standard
Of that turned out by our home institutions.
xx
With the beginning of the scholastic year
another art school has come into existence
Thanks to the generous bequest of the late
John Heron, the Indianapolis Art Insti-
tute has been enabled to open this fall
under the direction Of the Art Association
of that city with a corps Of four instruc-
tors and excellent equipment.
Thirty thousand dollars, 1t is reported. Is
to be expended by the British government
on the renovation of the Albert Memorial
In Hyde Park. London. whose only virtue.
modern critics aver, Is the obseurity gained
by the kindly obliteration produced by the
combined force of smoke and weather.
x
Daniel C. French has just finished hts
equestrian statue of General Hooker,
which, when cast in bronze, is to stand at
the Beacon street end Of the state house
grounds in Boston. The general ("Fighting
Joe'D is represented In an active pose, with
right arm raised and the horse (Which. by
the way, is by Potter is tightly refined in
and paving the ground. Mr.. French has
also orders for statues of the late Governor
Wolcott and VIM. F. Bartlett of Pittsfield,
for the interior of the state house, and has
recently executed, IT will be remembered.
the bronze doors for the Boston public IL
brary. In this last work he has departed
radically from tradition and fashioned his
design on decidedly original plan, for in
stead of dividing the doors into small pic
ture panels he has chosen to treat them as
merely accessories to the architectural
scheme, and each presents a single thought
set forth by a simple draped symbolical
figure. The middle doors stand allegori-
cally for Wisdom and knowledge and the
side pairs for Truth ard Romance, Music
and Poetry, respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

both artists and students. Every salon has
its American pictures, and the American
artists stand well and not infrequently
take honors. This is so both of women and
men.
Paris has row a society Of American
painters. established Ia advance the inter-
ests Of its American artists. and among
its members are such men as Bridgman,
Story. MacF;wan, Weeks. Edwin Abbey,
John S. Sargent and others. There is also
an American Art Association, composed Of
both artists and students The president
of this is Rodman Wanamaker the son of
John Wanamaker, and among its sustaining
members are General Horace Porter, the
United States ambassador. and Mr.. John X.
Gowdy, our consul general. Many Of our
artists are married and live in Paris with
their families. Some are rich. but many
are Very poor. This is especially so of
students, many of whom come here under
the mistaken idea that they possess genius
only to struggle along for years on the
edge of starvation and then to give up in
despair.
An American Girl at the Grand Opera.
There are many Americans here studying
music, and not a few who have decided
talent. Among those who are now at
tracing considerable attention is a young
girl from Texas, who has just made a con-
tract to sing in the Opera Comique and an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
They Cordially Agreed.
m the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Eyes, sir, the newspapers of this coun-
try by their extended publication Of sensa-
tional crimes and incidents are doing an
incalculable amount of injury"
That's right The people shouldn't be
permitted to read such details. The less
they know about crime and criminals the
better"
II entirely agree with you. May I ask
the nature of your business"
II am a green goods man.
"And 1 am dealer in gold bricks.
Shake"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
Proper Enough.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Towne-'Here's a queer announcement:
New publications, "Tales OF the Circus"
by ]. Perkins, illustrated
Browne-"What's so strange about that?"
Towne-Don't you see? 1t reads as If j.
Perkins was illustrated, not the book"
Browne-"Perhaps he Is; he. may be the
tattooed man"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

other is Miss Bessie Abbott who has a
TWO years contract for star parts in the
Grand Opera House. Miss Abbott has a
fine soprano voice, and the French have,
as II were. adopted her as one OF their
great artists. The Grand Opera House, as
you know, ranks at the top Of the opera
houses Of the world. 1t is an honor for
an artist to sing in 1t upon any terms, and
for an American girl to have a long con-
tract at the start for leading parts means
fame and fortune.
The Paris Opera House Is wonderfully
beautiful. 1t cost million dollars more
than our national library building at
Washington and it covers as much ground
as the national Capitol. 1t Is to a certain
extent government Institution and has
soldiers In uniform and policemen on guard
at the entrance Full dress is expected in
most of the seats, and the patrons of II
are among the richest and most fashionable
Of the French capital.
Yankee Professional Men in Paris.
But let me tell you something about some
Of our professional men who are making
money in Paris. They are numbered by
scores and most Of them charge larger fees
than are common at homo. There are
many American doctors who belong to tho
Anglo-Americap Medical Society and q
twenty-five American dentists who are
members Of the American Dental Club, in
addition to others who are not. It has
American lawyers, American electrical en-
ginAers and hundreds oS American business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

costs about the same as at home. Fuel Is
dear. both coal and wood being sold In
small quantities. gas costs about WOO 9
thousand feet. and IL your bills are not palo
within five days, after they are rendered the
supply is cut on without notice.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
Right in Their Line.

From the Chicago Tribune
How did your base ball game come out?'
'.They mopped the ground with us."
"I thought they would when I heard you
calling them Q scrub nine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
ICELAND'S GEYSERS
A Long Ride on Pony Back
to Reach the Spot.
A w AY- up HOTEL
THE LITTLE BED ROOMS HAVE
DoUBLE-TIER BUNKs.
Not Very Fine In Any Particular, Ex-
cept the Food, Which is Best
Of Its Kind:
A WAY-UP HOTEL
Copyright, 1902, BY F. E. Clark.)

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
REYKJAVIK, August II. 1902.
Ten hours by pony from Thingvellie by a
rough, hard bride path are the great gey-
sers Of Iceland. The hotel at Thingvellie,
very modest public house, is covered on
the outside with corrugated iron. while the
pine boards show fresh and clean, guilt
less OF paint or paper on the inside.
dozen diminutive bed rooms. about the
size OF ships cabin, with two hunks in
each. built one above the other, afford
ample accommodations for all who are
likely to seek the shelter of this hotel at
one time, and its abundant table leaves
little to be desired in that respect.
When one remembers that every board
and joist in the building had to be brought
thousand miles by sea, for there is no
wood on the island. and must then be
transported nearly forty miles further on
pony back, and that every sheet OF CORFU
gated iron with which 1t is covered reached
Thingvellie In the same toilsome way from
Wolverhampton, England, our respect for
the little hotel in this waste and bowling
wilderness increases.
II was built by the Icelandic government,
with the idea of revivng the old political
associations of Thingvellie, and as a place
for public meetings, but in the four years
since it was built 1t has never been used for
this purpose, but it is a great convenience
for travellers, who used to lodge in the
farm house parsonage near by the only
other building, aside from the little church,
in the valley.
What Wall Holl' VALLEY HoteD may be
in future years l cannot predict, for its
genial and well-informed proprietor, Mr. 7.
J. Davidson, who knows every foot of soil
in the vicinity, and all its traditions. Is
soon to go to America to try his fortunes
in the new world which his forefathers
discovered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

windows, whether the stone be as big as
the head of a pin or the size of a walnut.
The price is francs. or SLIGO. The goods
are displayed under electric lights, and
crowd of French men and women gathers
about the shops every evening. AS far as
can see the stones look as brilliant as. the
real diamonds costing thousands and tens
Of thousands of francs which are shown
IN the other jewelty stores near by, and the
jewelers. tell me that only experts can tell
the difference