Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10

Our national capital is interested in its
new union railroad station which is to cost
millions. Frankfort is only financial
capital, but it has already a railroad sta
tion which cost $500, 900. 1t has a new
postofice, new theater a new stock ex-
change and large number of new hotels.
It's finest streets, the Zeil and the Kaiser
strasse, compare favorably with those OF
Berlin and Cologne and it is noted for it's
parks and public gardens.
On account of its wealth and business
connections Frankfort forms a good head
quarters for the American invasion. Many
kinds of our goods are sold. The Deering
Harvester company has an office on Kai-
serstrasse, and the McCormcks have also
their agents here American typewriters,
sewing machines and desks are found in
different parts of the city, and there is one
large store which sells only American
shoes
During my stay l have called at the Offices
Of the Leopold Cassella & Co. dye works,
which are among the largest of the world,
and had a chat with it's manager.
While there l was taken through the count
ing room, containing hundreds of clerks.
In each room were desks from Grand
Rapids, and attached to each desk by a
hinged shelf so that it could be showed
aside when not wanted was a well-known
American typewriter. The classification of
the correspondence was in file cases from
Cincinnati and the manager he showed
them to me said he could not see how they
had ever been able to do business without
the American file system. Said he:
'You Yankees are wonderful. You sys-
tematize things so that one man can do
the work of three. We formerly kept our
Iatta in hnoka hours in
looking up one series of correspondence.
Now the original letters and the copies of
our answers are filed away together in one
of these cases, and we can find the whole
thing at once"
1t was through this man that 1 was able
to go through one of the great dye fac
tories of Germany Leopold Cassella &
Co have a big dye establishment within
a few miles of Frankfort Their factories
cover many acres and they employ in the
neighborhood OF 1000 hands. The firm is
we'll known in the United States. 1t has q
house in New York, another in Lyons, one
in Russia and a fourth at Bombay.
Until within few years ago the chief
dyes OF the world came from England. Then
the Germans learned the secret Of their
manufacture and improved upon it, They
sent our travellers all over the world, and
adapted their goods to the needs of diff
ferent localities. They now practlcally
monopolize the trade and you find German
dyes everywhere, in Asia, South America
North America and Australia. The Chit
nese will take none but German colors, at
least l was told so during my last visit to
that country, and it is much the same with
the East Indians and other peoples OF the
orient ST.. - ,
Taking a carriage drove with Mr.. Bass
Ter, one of the Cassella employees, out to
the factory 1t consists of about twenty
acres of enormous buildings, with high
smokestacks above them. Everything is
dirty and smoky, and I might also say
smelly, for as you approach the establish
ment the air is laden with odors. The
streets between the buildings are filled with
tubs and hogsheads of curious compounds
and everywhere you look you see some new
process going on with sooty-faced or rather
dye-faced men watching it. Here the mel
are lifting great barrels Of liquid and pour
ing it into watts half filled with other liquid
which is being so stirred by machinery that
1t seethes and bubbles like a witch's cal
dron. AS the new stuff flows in the colaI
changes. 1t becomes a lgh' yellow,
brilliant scarlet, or perh'"" n ultra ma
rIne blue. The men knew just how much
is needed, and also that if there is too
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