Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-31
HOW AMERICAN GOODS IRE
FLOODING THE NEITHER.
LANDS.

Rotterdam every year Tor the United
states or more than one every day.
There are Is regular steamship lines.
which do business between the two
countries
The Holland-American LITE is the
greatest 1t has a passenger line 90
New York and freight steamers FOR
Newport News The passenger ships
make the journey from Rotterdam u
eight or ten days, while the freight
steamers take from nine To twenty days
This line is making money and II has
FOR stveral years paid dividends OF I'D
per cent and upward
Outside the Holland American line
the chief steamship companies which
deal with the United States are freight
ers. the most OF the vessels going 10
the southern states There are tank
steamers belonging to The German
American Petroleum company which
ply regularly between New York, Baltl-
more Philadelphia ana Rotterdam, and
there are tramp steamers Which carry
oil. The Neptune line has one or more
steamers a week 70 Baltimore The Cos
mopJlitap and the Keystone lines make
regular shipments 10 Philadelphia and
the johnson Blue Cross line and North
American Transport line do u business
between here and Norfolk and New.
port News. Then there is the hairless
ton Transport line, with irregular sail
Ugs the Texas rranspOr, and thg l'cr
mna Transport, with steamers 10 NeW
Orleans and Galveston ana the Gulf
Stream line which sails hi-Wlekly ~
the same ports. Barnard d Co.. have
steamers from savannah TO Rotterdam
and the Cuban line goes from Rotter-
dam or Antwerp 20 New Orleans every
three weeks There la also q line from
Holland To- BOSTON with steamers every
10 days and other lines Ia Philadelphia
ana New York So YOU soc that the
Dutch-AmgrC3n trade keeps the guli
stream sizzling the greater part Of the
year.
A DUTCH AMERICAN Sky SCRAP
ER.
have letters from Chicago to the
Holland representatives OF Armour &
Co. aud Swift & Co., and / asked my
porter at nay hotel where to find them.
He took me 20 the corner and pointed
to a big white building facing the river
az the end of The B0ompjes That" he
said lis the Witte Huis II is the only
American building I'm Holland aud Is
the headquarters Of the chief American
firms" %
| crossed several bridges and stroll
ing down to 1t, found il even so. The
building Is on the American plan, al
though Il was erected by Belgian IL
ia made Of bricks faced with white
porcelain tiles. The Dutch call II a
sky-scraper and talk Of IT'S dangerous
height although It has only ten stories.
II Is, / am told the only ten-story !
building In Europe; II Is q giant In
Rotterdam, although in New York II
would be but a baby. II Is perfectly !
plumb Notwithstanding nine hundred |
trees were driven down into the sand |
to make It's foundation, The average
building OF Rotterdam is Of from three
to five stories, and many buildings lean
this way and that so that parts Of the |
city are apparently drunk.
The American house has electric ele,
vat0rs worked by little Dutch boys |
dressed IN white smocks IL was by |
them that ! went from story to story |
calling on some OF our largest Amcri.
can agents / find that the meat men |
here are selling vast quantities Of our
meat and lard not only TO Holland but |
to all the countries along the Rhine,
and that the American Cereal company |
Is pushing its goods into this part Of
Europe II has It's offices In the
American building, and its advertise
ments are everywhere Indeed, the |