The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-21

bales were open nna the white wool
seemed 10 be bursting out IN every direc-
ton.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT WAY
OUR GOODS r PACKED.
] hear complaints everywhere about the
poor packing OF our merchandise. and es-
pecially about the poorly packed cotton
Complaints are common at Manchester
and Liverpool. and ~unfavorable compari-
sOrs are made as TO our shippers and those
OF India ard Egypt. The custom officers
were s2mpling the bales While ] passed
through the cotton wharves. They opened
each bale and took out a bundle IN order
20 assess the duty upon IL. they did their
work well; bit IL seemed TO me that the
amount CT cotton removed was unrecessari-
~ large.
The hauling Of the cotton from one part
of the wharvss 10 another Is done by
PeTcheron horses, finer THIN any horses
employed about the wharyes of New York.
/ 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 from three TO
five tons. In the country one horse is ex-
pected 10 haul at less; three tons and this
is so throughout North France. The horses
are well kept and are apparently no worse
for such loads. They compare favorabiy
with the Clydesdale and Shire Eorses which
/ described in my letters from Liverpool,
and they will haul about as large loads
The streets along the Havre docks are
paved with cobbles, and as far rs I can
see they are no better than similar streets
in New York. In the country the roads are
macadamized. You can drive for hundreds
OF miles and not find a rough place. SO that
the horses can haul great loads.
Nearly all Of the hauling here IL done
upon one-horse carts. II there is a second
horse IL goes IN front OF the one in the
shafts, three and four horse teams some
times being 80 hitched up tandem. The
carts have fat beds. about fifteen feet long
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 BIZ means OF q windlass where
the shafts Join and on the left OF the cart
This windlasz also binds ropes about tbs
loads TO hold them on The wheels are
about as high as the hind wheels OF a farm
wagon. and the average cart itself will
weigh. I should think. about a ton. All
weights are estimated in Kilograms. and 7
was shown loads which I was told weighed
as much as 5.ooo Kilograms hauled by one
horse. L is roughly estimated that 600 blo-
grams equal one ton
AMERICAN DRIED APPLES
USED FOR MAKING CIDER
Among the curious exports I see here ne
dried apples from New York and corn OF
cake from Chicago. The dried apples are
used for making French cider. and are
brought here from America Tor that pur-
pose. France takes something Ike T,eoo.-
es pounds of such apples every year.
The cider made from them Is sold at an
the restaurants and cafes. II cost. but q
few cents a glass. and 1t Is better than any
hard cider I have ever tasted in the United
States. The corn oil cake is a refuse of our
Indian corn after the oil has been squeezed
out Of # II IL used for feeding. as f. also
American cottonseed meal and of cake
The corn cake 1 saw came from Chicago.
Another o. our queer exports which In now
coming to Havre IL Camembert cheese
This is surprising TO the French, for they
consider this cheese one OF their specIaities,
and Il Is only within a few miles OF this
Havre is one Of the largest wood mar
kets of Europe. / saw vast quantities Of
wood OF ell kinds during my trip about the
From one ship they were dts-
mahogany logs about thirty feet
long and two feet square. and from an
other they were taking OF vast quantities Of
for use In the dye factories OF
France. I saw considerable American oak
and pine, and Consul Theckara tells me that
such shipments might be greatly increased
Il our people were more careful IN their
saving. The French customs lawn permit
the free entry for cabinet-making Of wood
Is eight inches or more IN thickness. |
Owing to our poor saving, the American
wood often arrives q shade under this size.
and the man who orders x has TO pay the
The result IL. he stops az one order
There Is also a good demand for our oak
boards and planks. provided they are sawn
10 the right thickness. but At present the
wood In crowding tbs American
wood out because II ts better seasoned and
more carefully prepared
] am surprised al the amount Of American /.