The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-22

lOllE uO In SAS FI~A |
tus. AS to Yankee watches, it is likely
that they are carried by officers on
both sides in the present unpleasant
ness in the east. Referring again to
that conflict, should Japan destroy the
Transsiberian railway, the car might
buy q new one in the United States.
Z merican manufacturers are constant
~ sending railways abroad-that Is,
they are sending locomotives, cars.
rails and br.dges-and should anybody
in the old world see fit to order a rail-
road it could be supplied at short no.
tice, sleeping cars and all, for the sleep
ing cur is another American invention
which has found favor abroad.
AS the typewriter, distinctly an Amer
lean invention, has clicked it's way to
fame in old world countries, SO anoth-
er, the sewing machine, has found even
greater favor. Its use is worldwide,
and steamers sailing from New York
last year carried sewing machines
worth $5,OOO,O 600. In other words, per-
haps 100000 machines were packed
away in the holds of the great ocean
carriers. Today some are being used
in snowclad Russia, while others are
humming merrily away under the shade
of the bamboo tree. Equal in value to
the sewing machines sent abroad from
New York are the electrical appliances,
for American engineers lead the world,
and the demand is increasing all the
time. 1t has been the development IN
the Uses of electricity, especially the
wonderful growth in telephone service,
which in the last quarter century n
so greatly increased the demand for
copper. America supplies the world,
not literally, perhaps, yet so large a
part does American copper play that
should the exports stop for even a
month the markets of the world would
be upset, construction work in places
on the other side of the globe would
come to a standstill and new projects
might be abandoned. From New York
last year, with the assistance of a few
ocean tramps, a line of steamers took
| copper ingots and bars worth just
about an even $3O,OOO,O0O.
When anything breaks in the old
world, except perhaps the balance OF
power, it might be repaired with Amer
lean glue, which goes abroad in pals
SO many of them last year that had
they been piled one upon another the
topmost would have been eighty-fve
miles from the surface of the earth.
Boots and shoes enough were sent from
New York to have covered the feet of
100000 of the people of other coun-
tries, and the steamers which handle
the fur trade carried furs worth So
100000.
But great as are the exports of man.
ufactures, it is, after all, the fact that
the old world must eat, which makes
it possible for the international mer-
camille marine to find cargoes on this
side for a feet of 1856 vessels, some OF
them Of over 10000 tons burden and
representing all told an aggregate OF
over 100000 tons. Some idea of the
volume Of the exports Of grain. from
New York is gained when it is realized
that half the entire shipments of the
north Atlantic seaboard go from that
one port. New York in 1908 shipped
1925, OOO,O 900 bushels.
Every one knows that hundreds OF
thousands of American cattle make
the ocean voyage only to be slaughter.
ed in order that they may become the
roast beef Of old England. Not SC
much is known about the exodus OF
the sheep. Had little Bopeep been put
to the necessity of looking for hel
} charges among the exports from New
York her task would have been a diff.
cult one, for last yea the line OF
steamers which carries practically al
) this class Of freight had over 77,O0(
bleating travellers.
When it comes to canned meats an6
vegetables it is literally true tina
America feeds the world. Anothel
/; American food product often deridet
in the United States is pleasing to tn
lpalates of the jewellers in foreign parts
The sturdy yeomanry Of old England
the %peasantry of France and the sub
J. jects of the kaiser have NJ prejudic
/; against o~leomargarine and evidentl.
: spread it in liberal quantities on bread
(; white and black, for steamers sailin'
; from New York last year carried near
= ly 1O9. ,OOO pounds. Think Of send
> ing from one port owe $4,000 tons o
oleomargarine to tickle the palates Q
the old world and neighboring cour
tries in the new!
So great is the American export trad