The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-02-03
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| INCARNATION
Tribute 10 American WOrkmen
and Manufacturers
|HIGK-GRADE PRODUCTS
People throughout the World PurChas-
ing Almost Daily The Products Of This
Country Evidences The Superiority

No greater tribute to the faithfulness
and efficiency of the American work
man and American manufacturer could
be found in condensed space than the
records of the Bureau of Statistics,
Department Of Commerce and Labor
which show the expectations of what
may properly be termed '''high-grade'
manufactures from the United States.
PEOPLE in all parts of the world are pur-
chasing every month and practically
every day of the year the most COM
plex products of the American work.
shop, such as typewriters, sewing ma
chimes, cash registers, scientific instru-
|ments, telegraph and telephone appar-
atus, musical Instruments, autOmObl les
and other articles requiring superior
skill in their manufacture. Articles of
this class are transported to the most
distant and Out-Of-the-Way places of
the world - the islands of the ocean and
the distant interiors of the great con-
tinents-Wth 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
land facilities for repairs. That this
confidence in the products of the Amer
ican workshop is justified by experience
BIS indicated by the continued and, in
most cases, growing export ira lie IN
these articles.
Take sewing machines as an example
La hundredmilion dollars worth OF these
machines have been exported from the
limited States in the last quarter of a
century, going to every part of the
world In the single year 1909, for ex-
ample, the countries, colonies and is
bands to which sewing machines were
sent included Madagascar, Belgian
Kongo, the Canary Islands, French
Oceania, 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
liant 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 state
ment of exports of the Bureau of Sta
tistics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor, is over 60 million dollars. in
1909 thew went to no less than 30 diff
ferent counties, 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 Is
lands in the Atlantic, Dutch East Indies
and French Oceanic in the Pacific; Bull
garia, Servia and Roumania in Europe;
and Persia, the Straits Settlements,
and Korea in Asia.
Cash registers are a still more re-
Gently developed item in our list of ex-
pOrtationS. yet they were sent IN leO9
to more than ~ different counties, in
Guiding nearly score in EorOpe, prac-
Itically all parts of North and South
| America, t. China, japan, Asiatlc Rus
STA and Straits Settlements in Asia; to
Australia, Ne~ Zealand and Philippine
Islands in the Pacific; and to various
sections of Africa.
The automobile. which seems to re-
quire careful and expert attention even
in the country in which manufactured,
goes in large numbers to all the grand
divisions and many of the principal COL
onies and islands of the world. The
| 1909 figures show exports of automO-
biles to Il different counties OF Europe.
to practically 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,
Asiatic Russia and Siam in Asia; and 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
having rapidly increased until the fig
ures of the the calendar year 1910 alone
show total of IL million dollars.
Musical instruments of American
manufacture, including organs, pianos
and pianolas, are evidently popular.
the countries to which pianos and or
gans are sent being approximately 70,
and even of pianolas the exports are
numbered by thousands, and the coun-
tries to which they 60 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
enhmerating the products of the Amer
lem workshop Of high quality and COM