The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-01

monthS<N tt amounted to almost 1o0, ,0oO 900 pounds per month and brought in several
 millions of dollars. What do you sup-
 pose it was used for7 To feed the Hol- stein cattle, to furnish butter for Lon- don? No.@the grass here Is good and it
 makes the sweetest Of milk. For corn bread for the people2 No, the Dutch don eat maize, though they takg vast Quanti-
 ties of our second-gfAde -four and like 1t, What, then? ! cAn easily show you
 if you win come with me to Schisdam, httle way out from Rotterdam. At that place are the great distilleries wnicn make the Holland gin or schnapps. There
 are 200 of them. and their business is to erind up American corn and reduce 1t
 to alcohol, which mixed in'a certain way
 with the juice Of the Juniper berry forms
 gin. Holland Gin is considered the best. and the Dutch think 1t is the best drink of the world. They consume vast Quan- titles of 1t and it warns them body and soul. It is used not only, here, but throughout the Dutch East Indies, where the hotels give you free gin cocktails before every meal. and where the people drink gin almost every hour of the day. A large part of what Holland sells to us is gin, alcohol and wines. She sends us Java coffee and something like z,OOo.-
 
 which comes from her colonies in the East Indies.
 The Modem Port of Rotterdam. Rotterdam is by far the best place for pushing our trade. It is. with the ex- ception of Hamburg. the best distribut- | ing point on the coast of Northern Eu- rope, and 1t has fewer trade restrictions | than Hamburg.
 | ~i.~ | from the sea built upon piles on both
 as much as fifty feet into the soil and upon them have been constructed miies | of stone Quays, enormous warehouses and
 a city of about S600o0 people. The town | controls all public improvements. and 1, | 1t spending vast sums to increase its ship ping facilities and trade. If l remember correctly the cost of deepening the river Maas, 50 that the biggest ocean steam ships could come right into the city. was moye than sl6,0O0. 900. This work, how ever, has made Rotterdam superior to Amsterdam as . port. and 1t now ranks second among the ports of continental Europe, and is surpassed by none in its safety and in its conveniences for hand. l ling goods. have spoken of its miles of stone Quays.
 " ud8 aAeV Suip ydIoS anu iloatlIS aEy docks and every means of repairing and taking care Of shipping. 1t has moorins buoys in the Maas, 90 that the vessels | can unload Into the barges in midstream. and it's quays are so i.tted with cranes that all sorts of freight can be rapidly | moved. At present there are seventy-iive ocean lines which call regularly at Rot l terdam, and the riyer and canal craft which annually enter this port number 125,0 ,0oo The river is always free from ice and business goes on all the year round.
 Uncle sam's Dutch Connections. < In my ride around the wharves I was surprised at the number of ships loading | for and unloading from the United States. Our trade is very important to Holland. l Of all its tonnage more than g per cent. comes from our country and the only country which surpasses the United States in this is Great Britain, which has about s6 per cent. of the total tonnage, but some of. this consists of American goods which come to Holland via England. There are more than sJO ships leaving Rotterdam every year for the United States, or more than one every day. There are thirteen regular steamship lines, which do business between the two eoun- ! tries. ~
 | The Holland American line is the great est. It has . passenger line to New York | and freight steamers from Newport News. The passenger ships make the journey l from Rotterdam in eight or ten days, while the freight steamers take from nine | to twenty days, 56
 This line is making money. and 1t has