Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-21
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Signs of the American Invasion.

Signs of the American Invasion.
The first sign saw Of the American in
yasion was one Of the transatlantic liners
American petroleum, agricultural ma
chinery, and cotton. AS we came to the
quay I saw a well-known brand Of Akron
oats advertised on the walls of a build
ing that must have been a century DID,
and in walking to the Hotel Frascati I
passed an Office in which an American
! typewriter was clicking away.
Later on I called at the consulate, and
| in company with Mr.. A. II. ThaclSara.
who is. Uncle Sans representative here,
! took a drive of several miles, going from,
one dock to another and stopping at the
various places where steamers We're un-
loading goods.
AT the transatlantic quay we visited a
warehouse as large a any in the city Of
New York. 1t was packed up to the top
with boxes and bales from different parts
of the United States. I saw American
plows unloaded from one Of the American
liners, and outside were reapers, mowers,
and all sorts of farm tools Of well-lsnown
American brands. There was large
, shipment from the Deering Harvesting
Company of Chicago; there were many
Mccormick reapers, quantity of wheels
and tongues in separate package and
also some iron hay rakes to be run b.
horse power.
At another dock found the wharves
covered with bales of American cotton.
There were many thousands of these, COW
ering an area of several acres. They were
lying on the stones out in the SUM- The
cotton was poorly packed; some of the
bales were open and the white wool SEEM
ed to be bursting out in every direction
hear complaints everywhere about the
poor packing of our merchandise, and
especially about the poorly packed cot
ton Complaints are common at Manches-s
ter and Liverpool, and unfavorable COM
parsons are made as to our shipments
and those Of India and Egypt. The GUS
tom officers were samplng the bales while
l passed through the cotton wharves
They opened each bale and took out
bundle in order to assess the duty upon 1T
They did their work well, but it seemed to
me that the amount Of cotton removed
was unnecessarily large
The Big Horses of France.
The hauling Of the cotton from one
tpart Of the Wharves to another is done by
Percheron horses, finer than any horses
employed about the wharves of New
York. I saw one hauling fifteen cotton
bales, which must have weighed on the
average 500 pounds each, and find that
the usual French load for one horse is
three to five tons. In the country one
horse is expected to haul at least three
tons, and this is so throughout north
France. The horses are we'll kept and
are apparently no worse for such loads.
They compare favorably with the Clydes-
dale and Shire horses, which described
in my letters from Liverpool. and they
will haul about as large loads. The streets
along the Harvre docks are paved with
cobbles. and as far as I can see they are
1>1r{ @l,o, =cs,,, to-
York. In the country the roads are mac
adamized. You can drive for hundreds
OF miles and not find a rough place, so
that the horses can haul great loads.
Nearly all the hauling here is done upon
one-horse carts. If there is second
horse it goes in front of the one in shafts,
three and four-horse teams sometimes
being so hitched up tandem. The carts
have fat beds about fifteen feet Ions
and three feet wide, with shafts about
half the thickness of telegraph poles The
shafts are on hinges, and the loads are
raised and lowered by means Of a wind
lass where the shafts join ana on the
left of the cart. This windiass also binds
ropes about the loads to hold them on.
The wheels are about as high as the hind
wheels of farm wagon, and the average
cart itself will weigh, should think. j
about a ton. All weights are estimated
in Kilograms. and I was shown loads
which l was told weighed as much as
5000 Kilograms hauled by one horse. It
is roughly estimated that ] 900 Kilograms
equal one ton.
Some Queer American Exports.
Among the curious exports see here
ara dried apples from New York and
corn Oil cake from 1..icago.$ The dried APP
pies are used for making French cider,
and are brought here from America for
that purpose. France takes something
like 100000 pounds Of such apples every
year. 81
The cider made from them Is sold at
all the restaurants and cafes. It costs
but a few cents a glass. and it is better
than any hard cider have ever tasted
in the United States. The corn oil cake
is refuse of our Indian corn ATTIC. the
oil has been squeezed out OF it. It is used
for feeding, as Is also American cotton
seed meal and oil cakeis The corn cake
+ saw came from Chicago
Another OF our queer ex parts which Siss|
now coming To- Idavre Gamembert
cheese This ID Hur prisink to the Trench.
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