The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21
Ladies' Underwear.

 upwards to American tourists are not In- common. It used to be that many Of our adies got their furs here and especially their sealskin sacques, but the new law which prohibits the bringing of seal into the United States has broken ID this trade and now not fifty seal sacqaes are sold in a summer. The customs regula- tions prohibiting any traveller to bring in more than $100 worth of goods have also affected Switzerland. The merchants say they would have sold three tr'es as much to tourists had it not been Tor this law and that number of possible pur- chasers of pearl necklaces and costly furs had told them that they now had to ouy in New York. At the same time more or less goods are sold to tourists who hope to get them through the customs house without declaration.
 Fortunes in Condensed Milk.
 The Swiss are making fortunes out of the condensed milk manufacture. They exported more than 62,O00,O00 pounds of such goods last year, and their sales of condensed milk to Great Britain alone amount to nor ethan $2,0000O0 annually. This business was founded by an Amer ican, United States Consul, who opened a factory here in 1866. He organized company with q paid-up capital of H2- UuD, ana Tn the ll3l year GOlutllSSu tIlly about g, 600 cans His friends put more money into the business. IL steadily grew and by 1850 it had increased 10 +2.000, 900, and it was turning out cans by the mil lions. Branch offices were established in different parts of Europe and later on 1 believe in the United States The buSi- ness paid right along, and similar estab b. llshments are now to be found in d'f1er- eHt parts of Switzerland operated h% the Swiss. The farmers bring their I9ik to the factories and are paid so much per quart for it. There seems no reason why the business should not be proftably carried on in the dairy business of the United States.
 The Cheese Business.
 Switzerland makes lots of money out of Its cheese. It exports something ike 60. Oe0.O0O pounds annually, and is receipts therefrom are more than Ss,GO0,OO0. We ourselves take about 5,0OO.O0O pounds every year and pay our grocers on the average 5 cents a pound for it. The same cheese sells here for about 16 cents pound. The duty is only cents, so you see that our grocers are making q good round profit.
 I am surprised to find that no ,Seucha- tel cheese is made at Neuchatel. sithcugh Neuchatel cheese is known the world over. NtuEIhltl IS Il tOWu or -u,UBU people, which is more n ted for watch making than anything else, It has large house industry and q number of fact )ries and uses many American watch cases to in close Swiss movements. The only cheese of account that is exported from Switzer- land is the large round cheese which we know as Schweitzerkase. and of which we eat almost $1,OOO.OOO worth every year.
 Swiss Industrial Beehives.
 Switzerland has been called the play ground of Europe, but 1t Is the workshop of the Swiss. The tourist business, big as 1t is, is a bagatelle in comparison with the other industries. Nearly every town and city is a beehive of work. 1 have written of Zurich as one of the most prosperous factory towns of the continent. Geneva has only 100000 people, out 1t is doing the business of tens of millions. and all the country around it huns. There are watch factories. music works and crockery establishments here which make quantities of goods for export and also establishments turning cut jewelry and enameled work.
 In Basel, a city of the same size as Geneva, on the other side of Switzerland, the industries are equally great. Ribbons are made there on looms imported from America. and there are factories of vari- ouS klndS.
 Swiss Watches.
 One of the queerest industrial centres is Chaux de- Ponds in the Jura mountains. Here the finest Swiss watches gre made and that largely by hand. The town has a population of 32O0O. and half of it's peo- pie are employed in making watches and watch movements. The work Is much divided. each man making one kind of wheel or part of movement. Those who prepare the simplest pieces may get as much as 50 cents a day, while the finer workmen will receive g or more. The town turns out something like 30OOOO watches every year an output worth more than $I0O0,000.
 It is in Geneva that most of the enam- cling of watches is done, many of our finer cases being sent there from the United States to be finished. The Gen evese watches are also noted for their beautiful construction. They are spoken of as jewels as well as timekeepers. Most