The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-09-10
News and Courier.

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tie line Of steamships to be inaugu
rated between Charleston and TrleSt
As Major John N. Carson, the head
II the bureau Of manufactures, de-
rartment Of commerce ard labor. Ills
position as the head Of the national
bureau Of manufactures in itself gay
IS him an insight into matters un-
H.own to others: therefore, when he
glveslt it as his opinion. as he has done
40 the correspondent of The News and
sssourier. that the new line is certain
80 prove a success he knows what he
Is talking about and is not guessing
u: remote possibilities.
Before assuming the duties as the
head Of the bureau of manufactures
last year Major Carson had been for
Jnirty-one years engaged IN newspa-
rer work in Washington, and for just
that many Years had watched men
come and go and. enterprises fail and
succeed. He had watched affairs
from the press gallery at the Capitol,
but not in politics alone was he so
we'll versed that the Government want
ed his services. He knew trade also.
He was familiar with the commerce
Of the country-with our imports and
our exports-in short his thirty-one
years Of newspaper experience made
MIN the posseSsor of a fund Of lnfor-
nation highly to be valued.
When this correspondent called at
Major Car<on's headquarters in the
census bureau day or TWO ago to talk
ever with him the question Of the
tharlestcn-TrieSt line Of steamships
he was found in a most enthusiastic
frame of mind over the venture. He
had already heard about Baron Won
Pilis's visit to Charleston and the
assurances he had given the people
>5f that city that before another new
wear should roll around they would
see a brand new line of steamships
making their port at regular periods
He said. too. he had heard of the way
-Aiayor Rhett and Mr. P. H. Gadsden
were working in conjunction with
Commissioner Watson 10 fill the waste
places of South Carolina with first
class white help from other lands. He
commended in the strongest terms.
these efforts to settle the state with
a good class Of aliens and said he was
in thorough sympathy with the move
nent. Though not connected with the
Immigration bureau in any way. his
work being to look after and build up
whenever and wherever possible the
manufactures of the United States.
Major Carson has at the same time
kept up with industrial development
in the south quite as much. perhaps.
as many Of those directly connected
with the bureau of immigration.
Turning to a large map on the wall
Major Carson quickly ran his finger
along its dotted lines until he found
the port Of Tliest. Then he told The
News and Courier correspondent
much about the commercial business
OF that port as well as that Of sur
rounding cities. Austria-Hungary, he
pointed out, is land of hard work
ers, where the men and women alike
are Injured to hard toll. They are not,
however, to be confounded with the
ordinary la5orers who come to Amer
lea to work in the bitches. in mines,
and on the railroads Of the country,
enough there may be few who will
seek that class Of work. The most OF
Them will look for better situations.
possibly on the farms of the south
and southwest.
Major Carson's chief interest now,
however, is not with the immigrants
who are to arrive at the port Of Char
7eston, but with the manufacturers of
xhe south and the way in which they
pack their goods for shipment to for
eign countries for sale.
II have been trying to make the
manufacturers Of the United States
see the necessity Of better packing IN
goods intended for foreign shipment,
Major Carson said, "because unit
we learn TO pack our goods as we'll as
those in Germany and other countries
with which We have to compete, When
they are offered for sale: We will nev.
er get their full value. Take the peo
an