The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-14
WORLDS RADAUM OUTPUT
Is CONTROLLED ABROAD
France and Germany the Sources
of Supply, for Which the De
mand Is Increasing Rapidly.
DEPRESSION IN RUSSIA
Consul General Holloway's Letter
Small American Iron Exports
to Land of PharaohS.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

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radium industry. one of the most unique OK
all industries, and one which is attracting
wide attention at this particular time
/ Consul General Guenther, writing to the
State Department from Frankfort. Ger
many, in regard to this industry. says that
notwithstanding me difficulty in it's pro-
| duction, many tons Of ore being required TO
| produce one gram, a radium industry has
| already developed in Germany and France
and although one gram is sold at a little
| less than 5000, the manufacturers are said
| to have orders for several hundred grams.
Consul General Guenther says: 1.-THE de-
| mand for medical purposes exceeds the
supply. Radium possesses all the important
! qualities of the Roentgen rays. in addition
to the invaluable property of being ready
| for use at any time and furnishing its rays
| without the employment of apparatus. 1t
has been demonstrated that small glass
| tube. not larger than a goosequill, is as
effective as an expensive and complicated
electric apparatus for the treatment of
| cancer-surpassing the best effects of the
( Roentgen rays.
THE ease with which radium can be adj
ministered locally, as, for instance, in the
| nose or throat is an invaluable advantage.
| The fact that radium exerts a very peculiar
| influence upon light-emitting bodies has
| given rise to the hope that it may eventu-
| ally play an important role In the industry
| of light minute quantity of radium Is
| sufficient to produce strong light from a
layer of zinc pyrites. and this light pro-
avoided. Radium rays, unfortunately, pos
sess the dangerous property OF inJuring the
| human skin by producing severe burns"
| The Japanese government is about to ere
ate a number Of consulates in Russia for
the primary purpose Of fostering the ex-
portation of japanese goods to that
| country.
| A result of the recent investigating tour
of several Chinese merchants in Russia is
the organization Of Chinese department
! stores in Moscow and ST. Petersburg, to be
| followed up by the establishment of branch
stores in Warsaw, Wilma, Kief, Riga, Hell
! singfors and Odessa. These department
| stores will only sell Chinese products, and
| their statesmen and commercial travellers
| are to be Cinnamon.
! A report was made to the State Depart
ment some three years ago advocating the
| establishment of American stores-that is,
| stores for the sale of American products
In the leading cities Of Europe. That idea,
totally ignored by American exporters and
| in Russia by the Chinese.
| Before his transfer to Halifax Consul
| General Holloway, of Indiana, writing from
/ st. Petersburg. wrote that Russia is still
| laboring under the financial depression that
commenced about five years ago. growing
out of succession of crop failures and
losses in manufacturing enterprises, as we'll
as large expenditures to complete the
Siberian railroad and TO purchase other
| railroads. many of which are operated at
a loss to the government. In addition the
government has been building new roads,
| which will not pay expenses for many
years. with the hope Of developing the
| country through which they pass. This was
done in preference to improving existing
| roads already overcrowded with traffic, and
now that good crop has been produced the
railroads leading to Odessa and Nicolaev,
as well as TO other parts in Russia, are
unable to handle the trains rapidly enough,
| tracks en- route, while forty or fifty vessels
are anchored outside in Black sea ports
awaiting cargoes.
| The banks have been unusually conserv-
| alive and are laboring to regain the losses
| OF the past few years and but few paid
dividends. 1t is stated that while gold coin
MOSCOW. it has, almost disappeared from
ordinary trade channels throughout the re-
| mainder of the empire.
All sorts of manufacturing wherein iron
| is factor is still paralyzed with no prospect
| for betterment In the near future. Ameri-
| cans who visited Russia during the past
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| here, except in one or two cases of mining,
decided not to do so and returned home
The proposition to convert the street car
| lines of st. Petersburg to an electrical sys-
| TEN still hangs and nothing is done so far
| as the public is advised. The lines are sin
| gle track and the cars are drawn by horses.
are particularly dull. The total value Of
| declared exports to the United States from
| the consular district Of st. Petersburg dur
/ ing the fiscal year 1903 amounts to $S7S, 597 49,
| Compared with the fiscal year ended June
\ 30, 1909 C$1, $50, SS7. on this represents de-
crease of SIS, 2S9.5s
| Out of the 100000 worth of iron and steel
manufactures imported into Egypt last
1 year, the United States furnished $12S
worth and the American consuls and COM
mercial agents stationed in that country
/ seem to believe that there is something
| radically wrong with the methods of Amer
/ lean exporters IL this condition continues.
| Africa generally presents a fertile field
i for the cultivation of American trade and
/ Consul General Hanauer, from Frankfort,
| Germany, calls attention to the fact that
| the city OF Johannesburg, South Africa, is
| about to build drainage system and has
voted an appropriation of s.: 100000 for that
| purpose. This he thinks offers an excel
| lent opportunity for the sale of American
| pipes and toilet and bathroom accessories
| i'm the production of which the American
manufacturers excel.
| The only competitors of note which the
| United States has in this line i'm South
\ Africa are the English, and their products
| do not equal those of the Americans The
consul believes that there is a good OPEN
| ing for the novelties and improved produc-
\ tions in the plumbers trade so widely used
/ I'm the United States and so greatly SUI
| perior to those of any other country He
/ saws in this direction there is favorable
opening I'm the cities Of South Africa for
American manufacturers and contractors.
Consul mcfarland, writing from Reich
| enburg, Austria, says that there seems to
| be no hostility on the part of the Austrian
people to the introduction of American
products of whatever character, if the OPP
position of the agrarians to the importa-
ton OF food stuffs be excepted. On the
contrary. superiority improvement OF
method are quickly acknowledged. This
| would appear TO make easy market here
for American goods, and practical knowl-
l'edge of local conditions Is necessary to
| correct such an impression. In reality, IL
| is an extremely difficult market to compass
| with satisfactory results. Vienna and
| Prague are the natural commercial and
| wholesale centers for Austria and Bohemia
The other numerous cities are comparative
| ly small and their shops designed only for
| local trade.
The immense relative population of Bo-
hernia lies In the DORIS. or small villages.
| which stretch along the watercourses in
almost contiguous lines and in APPARENT dis