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cargoes to the United states may be
made with the certainty that consunn-
ers will be found.
Last year Great Britain took about
2,760,000 punches. as against s.060.ooo
punches taken by the United states.
subsidiary of the American company
which dominates the fruit trade OF
Costa Rica without monopoliztng Ii.
The total foreign trade of Costa Rtca
exceeding the imports by s2.ooo,0oe. so
that there is favorable balance. The
English have some profitable invest
ments which will not be endangered by
the war. but Germany will suffer by
the decreased importations Of German
goods.
Reviewing Central America, it VIII be
seen that in two OF the most important
countries the effects of the European
combat are a serious dislocation of
existing trade and financial arrange
ments.
Guatemala is important both from
size and population. and from the
volume of her actual as we'll as pre-
spective commerce.
Salvador is important, not from siIe,
but from population and from the pro-
ductive and the purchasing power Ok
that population.
Germany is largely out OF business IN
Guatemala, both as the dominating
financial influence and as customer
for the leading agricultural products.
Germany is also out of the market Tor
Salvadors coffee. England, in so Tar
as financial Investments are concerned,
is not out of Salvador, but her power
to beneft the country Is limited.
The United States is in position TO
benefit both Guatemala and Salvador
by absorbing more Of their agricui-
tural products, and to benefit herself
by supplying more OF their wants in
the way of manufactured commodities.
Honduras and Nicaragua are simply
in state of suspended animation
awaiting the influence of the United
States to give them fresh industrial
life and to develop their markets for
them.
Costa Rica is in the position to with.
stand the effects of the war. anhough
she suffers somewhat because OF the
limiting of her coffee market. The
United States may help her through
this temporary dislocation, and com.
mercial relations may be closer than
at present. -
Taking Central America whole,
the outcome of the European war Is
likely to draw the countries closer to
the United. States commercially-toe en-.
courage American investments which
will furnish the basis of a larger COM
merce, and to render Europe q minor
quantity in the $S5, ,00o, 900 foreign COM
merce.
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A GUATEMALAN PLANTATION.

section of Central America which has
been most dependent on Germany in
commerce and finance also suffers most
severely for the time being.
Guatemala sometimes has been called
Germany's commercial colony in Cen
trail America At one time English
financial and commercial influence DOM
mated. English investors supplied
money in the form of loans, and then
waited hopefully for their interest.
While waiting they made no concerted
movement to encourage the develop. .
ment of the agricultural industries, OF
which coffee raising is the chief one.
Sir Lionel Garden. who was British
minister to Guatemala, came to Wash
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the coffee plantations were bought by
Germans. Some of these were owned
by the members of the big Hamburg
firms. who were in the habit of coming
out once a year to give personal at
tention to the management of their
properties. German business houses.
having direct connections with Ham
burg grew up and practically domi-
mated the commercial operations of the
country. German capital also went into
the banking business either directly or
through the commercial houses.
The result of all this has been that
Germany has financed Guatemala. The
American consul In a recent report es-
timated that the country had been
financed to the extent of so per cent
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Loss of the European
Market for Coffee a
Serious One-Bananas
a Saving Feature of
the Situation Ger
many's Comm ercial
Influence Destroyed.
England Also a Suf-
ferer - Review of the
Different Countries.
Where Financial Re-
Mobilization Is Neces-
sary - Closer Trade
Relations With the
United States.
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United States also leads in drugs and
medicines. Salvador has commercial
treaties with several of the European
countries. and these treaties in few
articles discriminate against American
products, but they do not materially
affect the volume of trade.
Honduras suffers less than her neigh
bors from the interrupted coffee traffic.
because coffee is not one of its impor-
tant export products. 1t is. in fact. so
small as to be negligible. Sarsaparilla
is an export commodity of some conse-
quence. Bananas are the chief export.
and they are from the Atlantic coast
line to New Orleans and other gull
ports A German steamship line had
engaged in the fruit commerce when
the war broke out. Though its sa1linEs
are interrupted, there are sufficient
steamers, and there has been no inter-
ruption of the banana tramc.
X y
After bananas, minerals are the most
important export, and these come
chiefly from the great Rosario mine.
Practically all the gold and silver
cyanides, which is the form in which
the mineral products are exported. are
taken by the United States.
The import trade is substantially
American trade. Out of total imports
depended on to supply nearly $4,000, 600.
Cotton goods are the heaviest item, and
the European countries heretofore have
had something more than look-in on
this trade, but it should now go to the
cotton mills in the United States.
Honduras cannot be said to be
financed by any European country. The
big blanket debt of $100,000,0 900, which
the British bondholders' corporation
claims to exist. is largely mythical, but
<0 thnr
eien investments. Had the treaty pro-
posed by Secretary Knox been ratified,
Honduras by this time would have been
in excellent financial form.
The fact that the country practically
had no European credit. and the further
fact that few Of her products found a
European market, and few European
products found a Honduras market,
render Honduras immune from the
war influence except in It's general ef-
improved, there is no reason why her
trade should not be greatly increased.
and the increased commerce necessarily
would be with the United States.
Nicaragua. in her desperate plight,
it might be supposed, was not in a
position to be affected by the war. But
Nicaragua produce coffee of a high
grade, whose market is chiefly in
Europe, France and Germany being the
leading buyers. A world-famous French
chocolate frm also has cacao planta-
tions in Nicaragua. and this traffic is
interrupted along with that In coffee
The United States takes part of the
product, but the variations are wide.
Last year the United States took more
than 100000 of Nicaraguan coffee.
All the hides that can be obtained are
taken, and the bulk of the rubber
product. On the Atlantic coast the
bananas are absorbed by the American
market.
Nicaragua buys her eottons from the
the United States. The United States
leads in almost every other y, cSmmodity
depends on the United States for re-
lief The country oaa has no no Ioans ae
loans which were held by q London
Paris were tsnsn tba3 up Syasr by tae
took to nnance Nicaragua In the In
terest Of American trade and invest
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ity. The European market always as
sured good prices. even when the com
mon grades were low.
The Panama canal was on the point
of facilitating the transportation of the
coffee. Most of it is raised on the
highlands of the interior. which slope
down to the Pacific coast, and the cof-
fee Is more easily transported through
the coast ports than by bringing it
out to the gulf ports, even where there
are interoceanic railway lines, as in
Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Opening the canal to traffic insured
through water transportation and was
Havre and Hamburg. But the pres
ence of British and German warships
on the west coast made it fnexpedient
for the merchant carriers of those
countries to risk the cargoes of cof-
Zee even were there market for it
in Europe.
The banana trade, which is of great
Importance to most of the Central
American countries, is not so seriously
interrupted, since most of this traffic
is with the United States. The bananas
Atlantic, SO that the canal has no
bearing on this commerce.
England was taking banana cargoes,
and it may be that these will be tenn
cruisers have yet appeared in the West
Indian waters along the route to
southampton and Plymouth.
German company, backed by one
of the German steamship lines had
invaded the field. and was seeking some
of the profitable traffic of the big
American fruit company which domi-
mates the banana industry in Central
America. II had not made startling
headway at the outbreak of hostilities,
but since German commercial enter
prise and German patience entered into
the struggle it might be that another
year or two would see a change. The
war. however. puts the whole enter
prize into the background.
The United States, without much ef-
fort, can absorb the bulk of the Gem
trail American banana cargoes which
heretofore have been going to Europe.
An extra bunch of bananas to each
American consumer during the season
will do il.
Absorption of Central Americas cof-
fee is a more complex problem. The
indifference of the American coffee
drinker to quality is one source of the
trouble. Porto Rico, which as an
American possession has maintained
coffee propaganda in the United Stafes.
has found that quality makes little
Evening star., 1914-11-08
The Navy's Preference.

WINSTON CHURCHILL. first lord Of
F" the British admiralty. said in q
recent interview with an American
correspondent:
'The German army's private tipple
il, from all reports, champagne. Tho
German navy, however. sticks to Dost''
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for her leading export commodity, yet
is seriously affected by the European
war, as are her neighbors. Coffee pro-
duction is an important element in the
economic life of the country, but it is
not the leading one. Costa Rica pro-
duces in good years coffee to the value of
$3.500,O00. England, heretofore, has alb
so per cent of 1t. The United States,
however, has taken a small proportion,
but in the future may take more. Ger
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ment Shutting off the European
market for chocolate and cacao adds to
Nicaragua's financial tribulations.
The country is SO rich in varied nat
ura1 resources that whenever stable
political conditions obtain and her de-
velopment goes forward there will be
a largely increased market for foreign
commodities. The interruption of the
coffee and cacao trade, while tenn
porary, in the end may eliminate Eu-
rope as a buyer of Eicaraguan prod
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ucts. The United States easily can alb
sorb all that Europe is unable to as
simulate. When this is done it should
have even a larger measure of the
trade.
Costa Rtca, with a stable government,
also has the benefit of a stable market
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many heretofore has absorbed a larger
quantity than the United States.
Bananas are the main source of Costa
Rican revenue. and of the prosperity of
the country. Notwithstanding that the
traffic with England was assuming
some importance. the diversion of the
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BY CHARLES M. PEPPER.

ENTRAL America
has been almost
lost sight of in
the discussion of
the reflex effect, of
the war of the ma
tions on W o r ! d
commerce. The eff
feet is none the
less felt, but at
the s a m e time
there is an open
ing for increasing
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ington soon after Mr.. Bryan became
head of the Department of State and
persuaded the peace-loving Secretary
that there would be no bullying of a
weaker power If England were allowed
to threaten Guatemala with gunboats
in order to secure the renewal of in
terest payments on the Guatemalan
debt which was held in England.
Part of the proceeds from the export
tax on coffee had been pledged for that
purpose and for time had been
punctually set aside. But the Guate-
malan government had allowed the pay
ments to lapse. Sir Lionel at that
time had not had chance to antaEo-
nise the Washington administrators
Mexican policy, and his suave argu-
ments prevailed at the State Depart
ment.
Guatemala found that this country
would not interpose any objection to
the British gunboat policy, and the
payment of the interest on the bonded
debt out of the proceeds Of the coffee
export tax was resumed to the great
satisfaction of the British bondholders
With the coffee exports now checked,
and with the economic conditions so
bad, it is not unlikely that the interest
payments will again be suspended, but
complications with England are not
likely to follow.
German capital went into Guatemala
on an investment scale and many of
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The financial and commercial disloca-
tion has affected the different Central
American republics about as it has the
South American countries which were
financed in Europe. foreign COM
merce, aggregating SS5.000.00o. has
been upset. Those which were most
dependent on Europe have suffered
most.
Central American loans have not been
popular in London and Paris and Ber-
lin, and the debts of this section OF
Latin America have not required the
floating, of new loans to take up old
ones or if they did require it there was
so little encouragement that few of
them were attempting it when the war
broke out.
Credits have been badly shaken, but
it happens that because of the close
ness to the United States drafts on
London and Hamburg have not been
the sole means of exchange. New York
and New Orleans have had more or less
direct financial dealings with the Cen
trail American countries.
The trouble which Central America as
a whole experienced at the outbreak of
European hostilities. and which it still
experiences, was largely a question of
coffee. Hamburg and Havre had abb
sorbed the bulk of the Central Ameri-
can coffee, which is known for its quail
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the sale of goods of the United states
which heretofore have been supplied by
the belligerent European countries.
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Good Boxing Exhibitions

On Wcdne> day evening At the
! ndgc arena was witnessed .
good boxing exhibition. which
WAS enjoyed by = barge crowd
In Ia" mann event Nruu"r ana
iialI"r to@uht n ten round nout to
IA draw Kid Day. lhr h,iIe
layorit" at TINS ~rctIou won a
decision over recruit fucker m
SIX rounds, which was NJ" best
tight oi the day and many thot
thu decision should have been a
draw. Young Jason ra>IN ont
pointed Green and vas gwen u
we'll earned decision There
were no knockOutS scored II
was AN excellent exhibition OF
llu gaur aud wa~ ouIol's
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PRIZE

To th" one that gu,>>"> the
number Oi grains Ol corn M =
pint glass. For every Dollar
Cash Purchase you grl one
chance ~ the Large Dol Now
- the chance 10 win q present
tor Christmas Ends Christ.
ma Eve
MOORE Il MODkE.
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ihmN IN be- d Gaiued nurse
0. man! nurses marry mllhouaues
would advise you to try thu sage
Do course, som, mli,Lau,s g. ~, nos
als hu' mo- vl 0nrm ga .o the
I,al oumrdIr-
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SQUADRON SERIES

Nov. ~ l>t ~ md
80 md ~ ;rd
Dee . "rd - lol
Game called 81 So +. NJ. and
10 br OF four ten minute quart
,r~. otherwise 10 ~ played IA
accordance WITH the othciai rules
Captains of teams concerned
viii arrange tor tin necessary
officials and tn preparation ol
th" gldlron Tor each game
Postponed games 10 be- played
on following daN commencing at
leo p ~
NiN order ol Colonel SIOrumD
LlppINCOTT.
Capt ~ AdIl ialh Cavalry.
Adlutdut.
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LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND MIL.
lTARY TAILOR
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ualuabl, persons of Sca Yurk
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MOORE Il MOORE
The mirror., 1914-07-16
SHOP H TWISTERS
By Frank

Buck expects to be transferred to the yard
crew in the near future.
A student has been placed on ballers.
Buck is acting as boss and instructor.
Sherlock of hopes for set of ballers in
H. We will do all the boosting we can
X. c.
Two men have been added to the shop
force; both are receiving lessons from experts
on Spinners.
System began the running of manila
500 feet on Monday. After long run of
pure manila it is welcome for change.
M. of the machines, has installed speed
ometers on the drive shafts. 1t is now easy
to tell how fast the spinners are running.
Never Sweat has collected quite picture
gallery which he has arranged to advantage
on his stand where he keeps his soap, talcum
powder and knick knacks in general.
Far be it from us to do any knocking, but
you never saw such decorations under the
table in d when the old timers were run
ming balers. When $50, Slivers, Jess and
the writer were on the job, we were always
For the information of baller men who
have never been in shop H: Our ballers are
placed back to back, eight on each side
with the tag table in the center. The fin
ished ball is dropped through hole in the
table, where it falls in trough and is con-
veyed by belt to the weighing table. The
bobbins are placed in front of the machines
as are also the empty spools. 1t does away
with unnecessary handling and makes it
more convenient all around.
The mirror., 1914-07-16
FLASHLETS FROM SHOP E
By o. u. B.

We changed from white ssaI to standard
on the 11th inst.
Missft kisses are the kind that girls Law
ish on each other.
Old Sol must be in good working order
these days. apparently.
Everyone looked as fine as frogs hair last
Sunday, in their new suits.
1t is so hot these days that shop news
melts before it can be jotted down.
We anticipate seeing a genuine baseball
game between the inmates and that outside
team.
By the number of magazines that have
poured in on ye scribe, it proves that it
pays to advertise.
That piano accompaniment, during the
movies, sure makes it more realistic; fine,
keep it up, G..
Micky says that he wishes this Demo-
cratic administration would take the duty
off the spuds, begorra.
The ghost walked through this shop on
Friday, and left nice blue check in the
hands of Guard Thompson.
l see that my old friend Fitz, of shoe shop
and foundry fame arrived at this bailiwick
on Tuesday. What do you think of the
scenery, Fitz?
If fidelity, and ingenuity, are worthy of
recognition, and reward, then our foreman,
Frenchy, can rest assured that it will not be
long before he is allowed to return to that
dea: Woonsocket, and the wife and child
rem
The mirror., 1914-07-16
SISAL "NOTS" FROM SHOP F
BIZ Sherlock

Thanks Mr.. Editor for the scribble-Stick.
Yep, fellers, Mickie is still on the job.
Oh, for a Jimmy Pipe GRAINED full OF
good weed.
Avaunt there you. We are waiting for
that H vacancy.
The electric fan is more apt to keep us
cool than the baseball fan.
Grit reached our bailiwick o. K, 1877.
Will reciprocate as publications arrive.
Oh, fudge! At last Swede Lena has
acquired place upon the Sunday detail.
SIivers you are sure there. A regular
Tyrus Cobus. This is compliment.)
When a shoemaker wants an assistant,
Superintendent Williams escorted gentle
man acquaintance through the plant Thurs
day.
In the future our popular and much in
demand pitcher from F will be hailed as
Cyclone Harry.
There are over 1000, 900 female bread
winners in the u. S.-Sure and there are
some uncounted eh, Javert?
Our genial foreman Mr.. Alexander es-
corted party of friends and relatives
through the department the past week.
Better come and get us, we re all set for
Manila Six and set of machines that take
a relay sprinter to operate. H., make note.
Suffragettes who bust bomb right under
the seat of government did a most unlady-
like thing, and are bound to get talked
about.
Carlton says: "Well l won the hair
brush but damifiknow what m going to
do with it, the barber don't leave me
enough hair to brush.
Since Jack Johnson forgot his previous
lack of birth and gentility, and protruded
himself into the heavyweight championship,
prize-fghting has ceased to be the esthetic
calling it should be.
"How may / learn to write moving
picture scenarios ''-Ouired geek of me.
Practice daily my friend, with Indian clubs
and dumb bells until the muscles of the
hand become strong enough to stand the
strain.
Upon several occasions we have re-
ceived cards of commentator from readers
outside, and from various points relating to
Sisal "Nots." To all we heartily tender
our thanks. as such praise is indeed en-
couraging.
The mirror., 1914-07-16
B. and o. NOTES
By Otto Mobile

A picallo player was given ry-out last
week and is now under consideration.
Kindly excuse our absence last week as
we were suffering from an indisposition.
Did you hear Big Chief Dec. send out
his blood curdling war-whoops last Sunday
Wow!
Said Nil Desperandum on the Fourth
"This reminds me of 'amstead cath, ye
know
"Kully'' asks, eff Nat Wilks is king OF
pantomine is Miss Kay Store-vil queen of
the movieS?'
The party who said the choir boat was
sailing on calm sea neglected to touch
wood and whistle.
The expression ''getting to the end of the
rope" was appropos last Sunday. We will
sing number twentythree.
The next man that quotes us ga stitch in
time saves nine and 'button, button,
who's got the button," will get what for
After looking over the list of prize win
ners on the Fourth, we guess that Carlo
should worry about the high cost of living
and start 'tfve and ten store
Officer Clapperton passed few minutes
of his vacation in the tailor shop last week,
but couldn't explain why the paint shop
didn't carry off the bull-wheel race. Soldier
Bob, we know, is there on the "wheel' and
any of the others can handle the .'bull. :"
Avast