The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-13
ABREAST OF ALL

Kitchener's Cavalry Using Tredegars
Works Horse Shoes; German Wash
Women, Cedar Works Buckets;
Engines Beyond Two Seas.
Ihe most notable feature and tendency
4ingthe " GRID. . industry and comm er.c!u
enterprise s.uuri.ls lie past t:cld ne = iiAs
. been The american fade INVASION OF ilie
markets of the world ~ is=8..
g interchangeable wares are seeking and
finding purchaser S tho world over sEs--55
spcciaily ss: not;tIlIc has been the success
which has accompanied American en-.
prise and PLUCK M efforts at S.rtde OK
#r;tns.oll with Greac B.itain and European
countries. In every business day ofs La,
yesr tic United States sentsEt1D - rs;:t
flarita in J,ssWorth of goods l.s. en-
cess of THOSE received. This, Situation
was THE. trevcrso Aof the condition which
existed ten Years breyiously
The. e arc Eng fish distr- cts whose: names
have become wo4dss1n our Iali ts.as Sc So
-ncnomous with certain. great. Glasses ot t
manufactured goods. III these: very
fields America has come to CoInpete sue
cessfully in their great speciatie:;. It IS
literally true. that America mas. sold. cot
tons iii 'N1lnchestcr, pig iron -in- Lanca=
shire, and steel 5ins Sheffield.
Americl;i-b,rlltszten engines supply the
power for the operation OF Anl.- r can-bulit
electric lines in-Eereral European cities,
notably Glasgow.
American-lnade linotype machines ard
American butt quadruple presses in Man
chester and Sheffield and other English
cities turn out daily newspapers printed
on American paper.
RICHMOND'S: FOREIGN TRADE.
In this awakening TO the opportunities
OF trade expansion in the markets OF the
world the industries and enterprises OF
Riclnnod have not Jagged behind. 1t IS
a fact too little known and heralded that
Richmond made wares have come to have
an established place IL the larger COM
merce that supplies the markets OF the
world.
The products of the Richmond factories
of the American Tobacco Company, are
known and on. sale the world over. In
large quantities plug tobacco and snlok-
ing tobacco and more especially cigarettes
are shipped to all parts Of the world. It
Z! Is said that there are extensive districts
of inland China in which the Allen 4 Gin
ter cigarettes arc the only foreign-made
goods to be found in the shops.
The factories of the Second Internal
Revenue District of Virginia, including
Richmond and Petersburg, manufacture
nnety-five per cent. OF. all the plug to-
bacco exported from the United States
The plug tobacco for the United States
Navy is and llasr.becn for years exclusive
ly a NirsiniaS product and a Richmond
manufact ure.. - ~ Is
The mining OF iron. PYrites and the
manufacture Of sulphuriess acid in Vir-.
Sinia is a tivelyE new industry. I t
was begun in LouislScou1it!ssin 1883, and
tho first products were. sent to Europe
for experiment fsfrl G. Results being sat
isfaetorx; g ftisnacb wa 81 in,ported from
EuropeTand set UP in RICHMOND for burn
ing this pyrites and mailing sulphuric
acid. To-day he valucaso the output OF
this enterprise is sscO0QA year. Three
fourths afSalI*tlIe pxrites mined in the
United States is taken. from these mines.
The ma nufa cturcd product is shipped the
world over.
LARGEST INETHE WORLD.
At Richmond.thc largest woodworking
establishments in the swQrld-the. Rich
lnond Cedar-y Yorls-man rfactures wares
which go all oyer the United States, and
are now largely exported toSEngland. Ger
many. France South Africa and Australia.
A Richmond-built steamboat from the
yards of the William r. Trigg Company
Z mas gone 1dItHet up liz iva GU
some of it's tributary streams than any
other boat of like size and draught.
The British cavalry in Lord Kitchener's
army in South Africa are largely supplied
with steel horseshoes from the Tredegar5
Works at Richmond:
Tho Richmond Locomotive Works has
built or is building locomotives, a score or
more i'm all, for Finland Sweden and
New Zealand.s,a This concern is doing an
interna tionul business. Some six months
ago the third installment of twelve loco
motives wasss shipped to the Finland
State KailToad. -
The slate OF buckingham county, han
died by the J. r. Williams Co.. OF Rich-
,nond. was one Of the exhibits at the
first Worlds 1Eair in London in 1851. II
has been celebrated for. it's high qualities
ever since and maintains an international
regulations, 1t is shipped in considerable
quantities to supply the foreign trade.
+. European trade is quite a factor in the
success of the extensive soapstone works
in Albemarle county. which furnish this
article to the world lin all conceivable
shapes and adaptations
The Richmond make books of the r.
Z. Johnson Company have followed the
flag to the Philippines and Porto Rico
and have been extensively adopted in the
schools.
The blotting paper business Of the Abe
marie Paper Company is established upon
an International basis. Extensive ship
ments Of this. uneSceled product are
made to all parts of the world
The Hasker- Narcuse factory has
large and growing trade in tin goods with
foreign countries.
These, by way Of Illustration, sets forth
the fact that Richmond has taken it's
place in the promotion OF American for.
eign trade.