The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-05
TRADE CAMPAIGNS
NOT ENCOURAGED
BY Great Commercial Houses
of New York
RAILROAD FRANCHISE
Is said To Have Been Secured by
American Syndicate For building
Thirty Million Dollar Rail-
road i'm Asiatic Turkey
RAILROAD FRANCHISE
BY PRESTON c. ADAMS

New York, June Especial For
some reason trade boom campaigns have
never seemed attractive enough to the
great New York commercial houses to
induce them to work up much enthusi-
asm. Not that the New York. houses are
slow about going after business or stock
in taking care of 1t after 1t gets here,
but the trade excursion idea has never
seemed to show much growth here.
In speaking to the head of big dry
goods house about this popularity of
New York trade. he said:
ut is not hard for the large houses In
centers like Baltimore, ST. Louis, Chica-
go and other places to undertake a united
movement and carry It through, because
the really large houses there are COM
paratively few in number and their COM
mon interests are more nearly united.
But there is a wide diversity of in
terests and methods In large houses here,
and planning to bring about action with
in a definite period implies in a great
many Instances the disorganization o.
business methods that have been in the
The opening week in one house may be
six weeks away from that of another
house, and to harmonic the dates en-
tails the breaking up of plans that have
been tried and found successful as the
result of several years experience and
labor
In this city more than in any other in
this caf1ntrv VIC dry onodc man are cub
ject to cross currents of influence which
affect our trade adversely or otherwise.
"All the great mills in this country and
abroad are represented here. A jobbing
house may have all plans ready for G.
great distribution of silks or other piece
goods, and about that time the agent of
some mill may find 1t necessary to begin
distributing stocks of his goods that have
become troublesome to him. Or at the
time a jobber is ready to make a very
large distribution at low prices the mill
agencies may be working on another sea-
sons goods and may be planning to lift
values up to a plane that will give them
profit on the cost of production for a
new period of mill work
If there were only few of these in
fuences and currents to contend with 1t
might be possible to direct their flow
for a common purpose; but from all
that l have gathered from casual talks
with men who are really interested in
New York's welfare, / recog-
nize the difficulties they see, and l doubt
very much If we could accomplish all we
would like to in making a presentable
showing"
Men in other lines speak after the
same general tenor. New York is too
hto n swing itself togetbar
According to reports in the financial
districts. an American syndicate has got
ten a franchise to build and operate a
$50, 100000 railroad in Asiatic Turkey. If
this report is TRUE, this will be the first
syndicate from this country to gain a
commercial foothold in southern Asia,
and s30,0O0,00O will build a railroad
through the most fertile part of the Ots
sian border.
One of tn leading spirits In the enter
prise, the rumor declared, is Charles A.
Moore. president of Manning, Maxwell &
Moore. The report said further that Mr.
Moore and his associates two years ago
entered into negotiations with the de-
posed Sultan Abdul Hamid, who also
considered similar proposals from a Ger
man syndicate. The present Young Turk
the project in earnest with the Ameri-
can parties.
Mr.. Moore is now in Europe.
Figures compiled by the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad show that in 1908 and 1909 its
lines carried 299. 1922 eos passengers on a.
900 miles of track, and only one passen-
ger was killed as result of wreck. The
chance of passenger losing his life in
on ha amid tc oil
culated as one in 300000.000.
The number carried one mile n 1908
and 1909 was 7,170,56S.517 SO that for each
mile travelled the chance of being killed
was one in more than 7,000,O00,00O.
In the last two years $40 passengers
were injured in wrecks. There were two
less passenger collisions and Is less
freight collisions in 1909 than in 1905, while
the number of freight dera1lments was
smaller by So
The passenger trains on the system in
the two years Travelled 11S,407.31S miles.
The freight trains Travelled approximate
ly 1250000OO miles.
In the past year oil from Oklahoma and
Texas replaced coal as fuel on fully 1000
miles of railroads on the Pacific coast
and in Texas and throughout the south
west, and also the copper smelling plant
MIA fields was used as fuel on the South
ern Pacific railroad from San Francisco
and Los Angeles, Cal, eastward by way
of FL Paso, Tex. to points where the oils
of Texas and Oklahoma were used 70.
replenishing the supply of the locomo-
tive tenders.
No industry was developed as rapidly
as the oil industry. None has produced
so many surprises. Science has treated
Whfl<
the energetic driller has followed 1t as G
business that could have no limit. In the
face of constant prediction of the enf
he has developed production Of S50,00
barrels day.
A swine growers association was re
Gently formed at Pottsville, Pa, by 6
number of wealthy farmers, who have
decided to raise hogs on an extensiv,
scale For this purpose several large
farms are to be joined together SO as t.
make over 1000 acres available. Othe
| facilities are to be obtained, and the,
calculate to place $4,000 hogs on the mar
| kete annually, as at the present price
of pork farmers contend It Will pay t.
turn their product all in this direction.
| No Overwhelming clamor for smalle
sized bills has arisen at any center out
side of the treasury office at Washing
| ton The ordinary mortal Is more con
i cerned over the quantity.
Speaking of oranges and the manner o
marketing the same, Price F. Howar
of San Francisco who is interested i
California orange culture, says:
probably there is not greater at
traction to tourists than are the per
fuIned orange groves that beautfy thou
| sands of acres in the foothil section
| adjacent to the Sierra Madres. The enoI
rich ckoldata fl.uit