The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-01

ers every ten days and other lines tQ Fhjhdelphia and Nov ioyk So you see that the Dutcn-Americsn trade keeps tho Gulf stream sizzling the greater part os the year.
 A Dutch Amsrican Sky scraper.
 have letters from Chicago to the Hol- land Representatives ot Armour & Co. and Swift C Co. and asked my porter at my hotel where to nnd them. He took mo to tho. corner end pointed to big white
 building facing the river at the end os the Boompjes. That" said ne. 1s tne
 White Huis It is the only American
 building in Holland, and is the Aheadluar-
 ters of the chief American firms
 I crossed several bridges. and. etroll- ing down to 1t. found it even %. The
 building is ou the American plan. al.
 though 1t was erected by Beigian, It is made of bricks faced with waite porcc- lain tiles. The Dutch cal 1t . sky-scraper and talk of it's dangerous height, al-
 though 1t has only ten stories. It is, am told, the only ten-story building in
 Europe; 1t is giant in Rotterdam al-
 though in New York It would be out q
 baby. It is perfectly plumb, notwith- standing s00 trees were driven down into
 the sand to make its foundation. The
 average building of Rotterdam is of from LuL08 hO uNG 6tOtiCSa 0ttA tA<@Ay VI sAs~
 buildings lean this way and that so that
 parts Of the city afe apparently drunk.
 The American house has electric eleva-
 tors worked by little Dutch boys dressed
 in white snocks. It was by them that I went from story to story calling on some of our largest American agents.
 find that the meat men here are>seiling vast quantities of our meat and lard not only to Holland, butfto all the countries along the Rhine, and that the American Cereal Company is pushing Its goods into this part of Europe. It has It's offices In the American building. and its adver- tisements are everywhere. Indeed. the Amertcans are far hetter advertisers than the Eur6peans. and you see "Kwaker oats," American typewriters, kodaks and California fruits everywhere.
 Dutch Girls Like Our Sewing Ma chimes.
 ind a great many American sewing machines used in Holland. They are scattered oyar the continent, and are con- sidered far superior, to any made in Eu- rope One or two of our firms are push ing their foreign business more than any other, and especially the Singer Com. pany, which has its advertisements ev- anywhere and branch houses in all the cities of England and the continent In fact, found q store here on the Hoog- straat--the Broadway of Rotterdam which had photographs of some of the
 sewing schools of Holland. in which th6
 little Dutch girls are working away on American machinep. One of these pie
 lures Is of school at Alkmaar. one of the oldest towns Of Holland.
 Not far from this shop are hardware
 stores with great variety of American goods. including lawn mowers and Michi-
 gan pitchforkss and in the music store just over the way 1 saw windows filled
 with the marches of Sousa printed with
 the American flag on the cover. They
 are made by Rotterdam firm and sell In sets at 70 cents copy.
 The American shoe does not seem to be
 walking into Holland as rapidly as could
 be desired. The climate is 30 wet that
 thicker soles than ours are needed. New ertheless.r it is no worse than England. and our shoes will sell if properly push
 ed. There is one store in Rottsrdam with
 big sign above 1t advertising American
 footwear, and another store. which was
 intended for selling American shoes, is
 vacant. The Dutch merchant opened his place on contracts which he had with Americans, leasing one of the best places aud planning to make our shoes a spe- cialty. His goods. owing to the careless ness of the American exporters, failed to come on time, and the result was that he compromised his lease and gave up the business.
 Are We Poor Business Menf Indeed, the Americans have a bad repu- talon in Europe as exporters and trad- CTS. We make the best goods. but we