Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-12
RICH BOOTY ON SEAS.
American Goods For Japan and
 Russia Worth SIo, 500, ,ooo.
ooETRABAND LIABLE TO SEIZURE

UUNIhAbANU LIABLE IU ShlIUkE
 Food Supplies. Medicines, Rines ana
 Other Articles Skipped by Amer tcan Firms Are on the Way to the
 BeIIigerents I'm the Far East--Great- CT Part For Japan.
 America at this moment has upon the high seas, consigned to Japan, ST. 100000 in goods which, in part or in
 whole, are liable to seizure as contra band of war. Consigned to Russia,
 merchants of the United States have at sea goods of like nature and of about half the value of those en route for Japan, says the New York Herald. Although it is supposed that con siderable business is done in munitions of war, the experience of the trade
 has been so ample that the lesson of
 secrecy has been we'll learned. Not
 withstanding it is known that the
 armies of several nations have been
 equipped with American arms, the ex-
 port records of this country do not show that any arms ever left our ports.
 The Russian government has been in
 formed that 100 packages of sewing
 machines shipped by the steamship Empress of India from Vancouver on
 July 25 are in fact rifles from Con necticut arms factory. A shipment of this size, however, is regarded only as
 sample lot but it has taken a tor tuous and what would appear to be an
 expensive route. Being brought to New Haven it was sent in a schooner to Hartford, whence it was rebilled
 and sent by rail to Buffalo. It was then reshipped to Duluth by water, re billed there to Fargo, rebilled again to Dominion City, Manitoba, where 1t reached the Canadian Pacific railroad It finally was delivered in warehouse in Vancouver There 1t was rebilled
 and the packages remarked and put on
 board ship for it's actual destination. The trade on the Pacific Is chiefly with Japan and concerns articles, the
 use of which for war purposes scarce ly can be denied, 1t includes grain,
 flour, mules, chemicals machinery, railway supplies leather, electric appli- ances, and, in small quantities, fire arms. The locks and magazines of the rifles went in one ship, the stocks and
 barrels in another, and each was billed
 as machinery. But they were con
 signed to the same house in Yokohama A medical supply house in New
 Brunswick is busy night and day fill ing orders for silk and catgut ligatures, which are packed under a distinctive fol of Philadelphia, whose preparations
 are chiefly compressed in tablets, has
 supplied great quantities of Its goods.
 They were sent largely to England for
 reshipment.
 Another firm of manufacturing chem
 ists of Philadelphia whose preparations
 are standard the world over has fur
 nished enormous quantities of sulphate of quinine One shipment of this ar ticle Is 1000 pounds gross. Among the important items appearing in these in-
 voices are 374 packages of surgical in-
 struments worth about $200 Il set, shipped on the Mesaba July 23. Also
 300 cases of antiseptic bandages and
 100 packages of antiseptic sponges, via Tilbury docks, the departure port of
 the Peninsular and Oriental ships from k London
 The greatest stores of this class of l goods going to the east issues, how
 ever, from Detroit drug house, which has branches in Australia and agencies
 in all the east. All the visible supply of
 camphor in this country has been taken
 up for shipment to the east, and much
 of it is on its way.
 1 Tn New York city a Broad street
 house Is intrusted with the confidential l business of the Russian government,
 and 1t extends it's supervision over this
 country and Canada, and through it's
 many agencies keeps trace of every
 foreign shipment that looks suspicious.