The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-09
$500, 100000 EXPORTS 1910.
Hish-Grade American Manufacture!
Prove Popular All Over World.

No greater tribute to the faithful
ness and efficiency of the American
| workman and American manfactu-
rer could be found in a condensed
space than the records of the Bureau
of Statistics, Department of Com
merce and Labor, which show the
expectations of what may properly
be termed "high-grade" manufac-
lures from the United States.
People in all parts of the world
are purchasing every month, and
practically every day of the year, the
most complex products of the Amer
lean workshop, such as typewriters,
sewing machines, cash registers, sci
entific instruments, telegraph and tel
ephone apparatus, musical instru-
ments, automobiles and other artl-
cles requiring superior skill in their
manufacture. Articles of this class
are transported to the most distant
and out-of-thc-way places of the
world-the islands of the ocean and
the distant interiors of the great con-
tinents-with the calm confidence
that they will not only render the
service for which they were manufac-
tured, but continue that service for
such length of time as to justify
their transfer from the place of man
ufacture to distant communities not
provided with experts and facilities
for repairs. That this confidence in
the products of the American work
shop is justified by experience is in
dicated by the continued and, in most
cases, growing export trade in these
articles.
Take sewing machines as an exam
pie. A hundred million dollars
worth of these machines have been
exported from the United States in
the last quarter Of century, going
to every part OF the world. In the
single year 1909, for example, the
countries, colonies and islands to
which sewing machines were sent in
cluded Madagascar, Belgian Kongo.
the Canary Islands, French Oceania,
Asiatic Russia, Persia, Alden, Hong
kong, Dutch East Indies, Paraguay,
Peru, Dutch Guiana, Haiti, Santo Do
mingo, Dutch West Indies, Egypt,
Turkey in Asia and Europe, Siam,
Korea and Liberia.
Typewriters are another example
of complicated machines exported to
distant parts of the world with con-
fidence that they can there be sue
cessfully operated without return to
the manufacturer for frequent repair.
The value of typewriters exported
from the United States since the f1s-
cal year 1897, when they were first
shown in the statement of exports of
the Bureau of Statistics of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, is
over s60,00O,OO0, and in 1909
they went to no less than ninety diff
ferent countries, colonies and islands,
including Greenland. at the far north,
New Zealand at the far south, Mo-
rocco in North Africa, Siam in the
extreme Orient, Ecuador and Bolivia
in South America, the Azores and
MADEIRA Islands in the Atlantic,
Dutch East Indies, and French Oce-
ania in the Pacific; Bulgaria, Ser
via and Roumania in Europe; Per-
sia, the Straits Settlement, and Ko-
rca in Asia.
Cash registers are still more re-
Gently developed item in our list of
expectations, yet they were sent in
1909 to more than fifty different
countries, including nearly score in
Europe, practically all parts of North
and South America, to China, Japan,
Asiatic Russia and Straits Settle
ments in Asia; to Australia, New EEL
and and Philippine Islands in the
Pacific, and to various sections of
Africa.
The automobile, which seems to
require careful and expert attention
even in the country in which manu-
factured, goes in large numbers to all
the grand divisions and many of the
pricipal colonies and islands of the
world. The 1909 figures show ex-
ports of automobiles to seventeen diff
ferent countries of Europe, to prac-
tically all of the countries and larger
islands of North America, to every
country of South America; to China,
India, Straits Settlements, Dutch
East Indies, Hongkong, Japan, Ash
attic Russia, and Siam in Asia; to
Egypt, Portuguese Africa, Canary Is
lands, French Africa and British
East and South Africa in that grand
division. The valuation of this class
of exports has rapidly increased un-