The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01

but the palaces and hotels are on the mainland. There are electric lights. tele- phones and an electric street car line, all run with American machinery. American goods are popular. Our imports last year gained ? per cent and there Is steady sale for our flour, tools and machinery. There is no reason why we should not sell cotton and all sorts of food stuns.
 When I visited Siam some years ago the Oriental was the best hotel. It Is situated right on the Menam river, with windows opening out upon 1t. There Is no slass III the windows, but the climate Is warm the wear round. The only objection had to the place was the lizards; they crawl up the walls and are liable to drop In one mouth If he sleeps with 1t open.
 The American Salesman in 1nola.
 I could fill this paper with the oppor- tunities for the American drummer m lh- dia. The field is enormous. lndla mas more than three times as many people as the whole United States and IL ouys TOT eign goods to the amount ot almost mil lion dollars a day the year around. IL IS one of the great manufacturing countries of the globe. exporting more than IL ouys' It is a land of big cities. Calcutta, where the drummer first lands if he goes direct from Singapore. has more than million inhabitants, and Bombay. where he leaves, has eight hundred thousand. Mad ras. in southern India, has half million people, and Haidarabad. in the interior ia almost as large Lucknow, Benaresr Delhi and Lahore have each more than 200, ,O00 and there are twenty other cities which have more than 100000 each. ln- deed Hindo oostan Is peppered with towns and as you cross 1t on lne railroad rom Calcutta to Bombay you strike many or the principal ones.
 We often hear of the poor of India. We hear also of the rajahs and the multi tudinous rich. The rich want luxuries ana the manufacturers want the best or ma chinery and machine tools There is an enormous number of well-to-do people who can afford to buy American goods. and. as 1t is now. our furniture, jeweiry' clocks, watches. stationery and machinery of all kinds are selling.
 How to Sell Goods.
 The best way to get orders Is to take samples with you and meet the merchants in person You will need an East Indian servant and had better hire him at Cal cutta. This man will be a tarl straight black-whiskered swell, wearing a gown and A turban. He will probably look bet fer than you do and will add dignity to vour procession. He will interpret for you in Ro,r business, will walt upon you at the table at your hotel and sleep In front of your bed room door on the floor al night. You will pay him about 50 cents a day and travelling expenses, but as he VIII oIwavs take a third or fourth class car the extras will not be much. There should he m mistake about this matter, the American drummer cannot get along vyithout such a man. and he may. Tn ao- d,tIon have to have an extra hand now and then to care for his sample cases.
 The distance from Calcutta to Bombay is something like 2,oo0 miles. It IS al most as far as from New 1ork 10 oa.t fake There is a good railroad connect ina the two cities, and the trip can be ao e,lv made. Among the chief business men of Bombay are the Parsees' "ho deal extensively in American goods
 Burmah and Ceylon.
 ,rSo .aIesn,an can stop at Rangoon on
 ..,a,, to Calcutta If he takes the Brltlsn Ind,a fine and this will give him chance tn work Burmah. Rangoon has about ouarter of a million population. Generai Grant said 1t was bound to be one or the 0reatest ports of the world ana IL IS last becoming so. It is the gateway to oe,,,.r,, s,x times as big as the State of Ohio with 10 ,OC0 people and with some oS tbe richest soil of the Far East. Man SaIav A city of 1S3,oOO. the old capital of Rurnab can be reached by rail from Rangoon. o,,
 Another way to Calcutta is via Ceylon. wbere tbare are about 3,500,O0O people, in- cludine 10 GOO Europeans. The chief port of Ceylon is Colombo, a city of 16O,ooO lighted by electricity and having all modern improvements. The hotels are good.
 Our Goods on the Mediterranean.
 The ordinary American drummer will go from Bombay to the Gulf of Suez, cross ing the Red Sea and Suez canal. thus making his way into the Mediterranean, He can if he wishes stop at the town of Suez, and ship his sample trunks direct to Cairo by rail. In Cairo he will find a large foreign colony and many native and Greek merchants who do an enormous trade not only with Egypt and interior Africa. but with different parts of the