Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-25
about 80 SHIPS ana the sther pernaps.


about 5oashipss ana the Ssther. perhaps.
Ittbok me several hours TO Dive about
the new 1docks:aIE went by rni les Ok iron
warehouses; and sheds flied with all
ssortsgSof goods Att times sIs4wass.insssa a.
sthicket OF masts and sat Others j. could
hardly see through the network OF rig
cling Tie docks and canals we're filed
reatssteamers,san dscaEs We're NOV
ing and that carry ing the goods
out and q n.aI could mot get the exact
area Of the, docks, hut am sure there.
are more than 900 acres. The. BassinsD u#
Kattendykh alone: has; .230Sacres and the
Bassir Lefebve has $50 acres. stoppedS
and made some photographs about the
Basin America, where our petroleum IS
landed. Barrels marked Standard Oil
sCompany ), = were piled high on the banks.
and acrossssth e sway Wass an enormous
brick elevate which " as being filed
with: the wheat from our great North
west.
s visited & the Red Star quay. where
there are:warehouses filed with Amer
Jean wood pulp. cotton, and machinery
Il saw Chicag meats In; cans, boxes
marked PhiIade alpha pickles, and every
sort OF Yankee notions in various pack
ages. Two steamers%were unlo ading car.
goes. OF corn, oil cake. and agricultural
machinery and a team sof Belgian horses
was: sdra ggingssawa about six onSszot
Minneapolis four at one load. II did. not
count the bags. but there must have been
hundredss Of them. Z
LITTLE ELEPHANTS sINsH0RSEHlDE
And just here 4 want to. speak bout the
Belgian horses used about the .Wharves.
They little elephants sins horsehides,
and they will haul bigger loadsz3th han
even the horses Of Liverpool OF. OF. Havre.
Two. Of them pull, a load of eight OF. ten
tons with ease, and single horses drag
FIVE tons: The wa CONS used 5ab bout the
docks weigh, about a ton and a:shalf. each l
and hen you, load one of them with
sixty big bags Of sulphur or several hun.
dred . ba gs of wheat Sousk have LOAD
which an American. team could. not bulge,
but which these Belgian draft horses pun
along like so many feat Tiers. a.
+ Each wagon has tongue, and when
one horse is used it is hitched up on one
side of the tongue -instead of changing to
three or four tons and the wagon 81. .al-
together about five tons. Z over these Bel
gian5 block pavement Thissis doneEWlth-
out: trouble, and you will ;concede it is "a
big load for one horse. The best horses
Of this Kind weigh bout three thousand
pounds, and each is expected to pull from n
three to five tons. The horses are well
cared sfor4andz bring good prices.
i T. went 'front.' the Red StarSdocks to the
lumber yards. They cover. acres and con.
tain enorm piles of America n pine and
other woods Ships were loading and .un-
oaafRg
enough Of our lumber ,foorsthe half Of
Belgium. The boards are BROUGHT chiefly
from the Southern States and shipped by
try. Much OF. the lumber used in9 Ant
| werp Is carried bout on these big SWag..
| ons. I watched some men loading ones
| them. Each had a leather pa on his
half a dozen boards at one time, hand
ling the lumber nj ore apidly than Is done
QTEER%AN1ERIcA IMPORTS.
r.tmports Ito Belgium. but find s sit diff
| c11lt to. learn just what .Ethey:aressN Much
of them come through England and Ger
many. We ship; them most of the sta
| a great dec Eof crushed. corn. corn oil. and
notions. The agents Of the Swift Pa cking
| Company tell me that they sell canned
meat s . OF kinds. a nd also bones nd
| hogs: hair. The homes are .ShtDDed TO Ger
ma nv and Russia for buttons. tooth
! brush handles and OF her s,,rh things. and
] the hair is used to- st 11f furniture Bel
/, siIim 5huys a :great deal reef Ia m
! is sent over I'm; barrels. Am erican- cam ed
meats are seldom used except for picnic
and excursion lunches; blu OUT lard and
pork hams are. parthof thsaregular be Bel.
i to Antwerp is transshlpped to 9th erS coun-
i tries. It goes into the goVernmen t ware
1 houses, and then passes on to its dest-
| nation; without paying tariff duties
GHENT AND ITS#AN1ER1CAN COTTON
ga vast. deal of American cotton comes
/ to Antwerp for the spinning mills i Of
/ Client and other ia ctories. Ghent@ls the
i Manchester OF elgiun, It is situated or
Il hoT ho6f no VT
| distance from Antwerp and an hour Eant
I "a half by rail from Brussels. =. $40
4 s. Client has $1,000 inha bitants, and it I:
upward Of six miles in .circumfe ,fs
\ large part Of it being taken up In bleach
1 Ing grounds. Several small rivers flow
! through the city and there are bridge:
everywhere. There is "a wide canal which
connects ittWithsthe Scheldt5a and anothe
which connects 1t with the Lei river
Many Of the buildings are old. and witt
/. Its canals, the town Is eedingly pic
turesque. ~ -. 80 F--.s4sst
{ Client is a. business city. It's peopl
4 In the Middle Ages their cloths were ia
: nous all.I over Europe. tThere..:ar nov
3 about 500, 900 spindles in the city itself
9 and as many more in the country about
z and is spun and woven into cloths 70
export a. vast amount OF; lit going to Bel
! gian Congo. sE5sS
!. Client IS also noted for Its linens. ]
has one Of the largest linen mills Of tn
Il world, employing about 5000 hands. I
is the center of a rich farming. regior
and in the country nearby. some OF tn
Il beautiful laces for which Belgium is note
= are@made..ss IA great part Of the. lace II
still made by hand, the women doing tn
work with numerous needles on cush
ions. - Il. III
& JUDAS MIRRORS.
g We have a. consul-generals at.EAntwerl
q I.callad3 upon him at Ii O'Clock this morn
81 ingr::and I have no d oubt5: that ne :kne,
!. just howl looked before u sot inside hi
$ door, and this: wit bout. peeping out 9
S the wind ow. l. have written Of the bras
5 peep holes which the French have In tn
Z front DO org OF their apartments SO tina
esneyE can peep through and without 4bein
Z seem, size up the person who knocks be
fore opening the door The. Belgians. In
Guiding theiAmerican consul; have Y, an 2. az I
rangement (which keeps pace with that {
4 the French. and goes tt lem one better
q tits a. cornbina ton Of little mirrors fas
s tened on an iron@arm OF. bracket Ito tn
hat