The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-29
BERLIN USES
 OUR MACHINERY German Manufacturers are Also Im- porting Our Experts to Man
 the Mechanicm.

Copyright, 1902. by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Berlin.
 Germany is trying to fight the Ameri- can invasion by importing American ma chinery and American methods. It Is sending delegations to the United States to study our factories and a large num- Der of American experts have peen brought over to teach the use Of our machinery. Nearly every large factory In the Empire has more or less American tools and I have gone through some In which the American labels and trade marks have been clipped off and German name plates tackled on in their places. The Germans are very jealous of our trade advancement and the manufactur- CTS say they can sell goods more easily If their customers think they have been made with German machinery.
 I have already spoken of the American shoemaking tools. These are being used with American experts behind them, but so far their produce has not affected the American imports American tools are used in the woolen and cotton factories, and in the electrical works and in the big iron foundries, such as Krupp's and others.
 A Model American Factory.
 I visited the Ludwig Loewe machine tool works, one of the largest factories of Berlin, the other day. It is considered the best and most up-to-date establish ment in the Empire, and It is modelled entirely on the American plan. It is de voted to machine tools, and it makes them altogether from American patterns with American machines, and to some extent under American foremen. The firm Is one of the few that has been making money during the hard times that Germany Is now having It made "A per cent. about three years ago, and l am told that 1t made about F per cent. last year. It already supplies the most of the ma chine tools of Germany, and in time its owners expect to crowd the Americans out of the market. It has also branch in London and is competing with us for the English trade.
 Our machine tools are noted all over Europe They are sold in every manu- featuring center You can find lots of them in Birmingham and Sheffield. They are used in Paris, St. Etienne and Lyons and also in Berlin The demand for them is so great that this factory was built to supply it.
 Ten Acres of American Machinery
 It Is strange to find ten acres of Amer ican machinery in Germany, but this is what these buildings contain. The found- CT of the works, Ludwig Loewe, was a young hardware merchant in Berlin. who sold, among other things, our sewing machines He saw the machines were better than anything the Germans could make, and in 1870 went to America to learn how it was done. He visited the sewing machine factories and our works for making machine tools, and came back determined to get a share of this trade. He brought a complete outfit of Ameri- can machines with him, and gradually built this factory, which is one of the model ones of the world. It is made of brick, iron and glass, a large part of which came from America. The build dngs are floored with American lumber, and six acres of the ten are covered with American boards. This Is so, not wilthstanding Norway Is just across the borders within easy distance of Berlin. The boards are of hard maple, three inches wide, nailed to a pine flooring. which rests on another floor of cement and steel. The maple will not splinter and 1t can be kept cleaner than any other floor. I examined the machinery as I went through the shops Nearly every tool was American. There were great blaming ma chimes and milling machines from diff ferent parts of the United States. Our