Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-03
Exports Of Hieh-Grade American
Manufacturers

No greater tribute to the faithfulness
and efficiency of the American work.
man and American manufacturer could
be found in a condensed space than the
records of the Bureau of Statistics, De-
partment of Commerce and Labor,
which shows the expectations of what
may properly be termed "high-grade"
manufactures from the United States.
People in all parts of the world are
purchasing every month and practically
every day of the year the most COM
pick products of the American work.
shop, such as typewriters, sewing ma
chimes, cash registers, scientific instru-
ments, telegraph and telephone appara-
tus, musical instruments, and other
articles requiring superior skill in their
manufacture. Articles of this class
are transported to the most distant and
out-of-thew places of the world the
islands of the ocean and the distant
interiors of the great continents
the calm confidence that they will not
only render the service for which they
were manufactured but continue that
service for such length of time as to
justify their transfer from the place of
manufacture to distant communities
not provided with experts and facilities
for repairs. That this confidence in the
products of the American workshop is
justified by experience is indicated by
the continued and, in most cases, grow
ing export trade in these articles.
Take sewing machines as an example.
A hundred million dollars worth of
these machines have been exported
from the United States in the last quar-
ter 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 included Madagascar, Belgian
Kongo, the Canary Islands, French Gee
ania, Asiatic Russia, Persia, Alden,
Hongkong, Dutch East Indies, Para
quay, Peru, Dutch Guiana, Haiti, Santo
Domingo, Dutch West Indies, Egypt,
Turkey in Asia and Europe, Siam,
Korea and Liberia.
Typewriters are another example of
complicated machines exported to dis
tant parts of the world with confidence
that they can there be successfully
operated without return to the manu-
facturer for frequent repair. The
value Of typewriters exported from the
United States since the fiscal year 1897,
when they were first shown in the
statement of exports of the Bureau of
Statistics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, is over 60 million
dollars, and in 1909 they went to no
less than 80 different countries. colonies
and islands, including Greenland at the
far north, New Zealand at the far
south, Morocco 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 Oceania
in the Pacific; Bulgaria, Servia and
Roumania in Europe; and Persia, the
Straits Settlements, and Korea in Asia.
Cash registers are a still more recent
ly developed item in our list of exporta-
tons, yet they We're sent in 1909 to
more than 30 different countries. in
GLIDING nearly score in Europe, prac-
tically all parts of North and South
America, to China, Japan, Asiatic
Russia and Straits Settlements in Asia;
to Australia, New Zealand and Philip-
pine Islands in the Pacific; and to vari-
Gus sections of Africa.
Musical instruments of American
manufacture, including organs, pianos
pianolas, are evidently popular, the
countries to which pianos and organs
are sent being approximately rs, and
even of pianolfs the exports are num-
bered by thousands, and the countries
to which they go approximately half
hundred, including China, Japan, Siam,
New Zealand, the West Indian Islands.
the countries of Central and South
America, and dozen or more of the
countries of Europe.
Thus one might go on indefinitely
enumerating the products of the Amer.
lean workshop of high quality and com
pick character, such as electrical appl-
ances, monographs, Woodworking ma
chinery, shoe machinery, wood working
machinery, dental goods, Photographic
goods, mowers and reapers, and many
other articles of this class, forming a
very considerable percentage of the 800
million dollars worth of manufactures
exported from the United States last
year.