Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-22
MORE SUGAR SENT
TO GREAT BRITAIN
108, o61 $50 Pounds Forwarded
During First Part of This
Month.

NEW YORK, Oct. GA feature Of
the exports of commodities from this
port from the period from October
to October 20, as compiled at the Gus
tom House yesterday, is the doubling
of the export of sugar to England, as
compared with the figures for the en-
tire month of September. In the first
twenty days of this month sugar ex-
ports to England were 10S,061, 75(
pounds, as compared with exports OF
81, 733, $50 pounds in September. There
were no shipments Of foodstnffs
direct to Germany or Austria.
The exports Of foodstuffs from Oc-
tober IL to October 20 were not SC
heavy as in the first ten days of the
month. Denmark was one of the few
European countries that took more
from this port in the latter ten days
than in the first. Denmark took $685.
OPS bushels of wheat, against 97,427
bushels in the first ten days and 49,
GAS bags of wheat -four, against 30. LOG
bags
England took less wheat and wheat
flour, exports of wheat being 218,500
bushels, against 269, 2S6 bushels in the
first ten days. Exports OF wheat flour
to England were 1896 bags and 761
barrels, against 1888 bags and 1,0So
barrels.
France also slackened it's demand
for wheat and wheat -four. taking only
39,377 bushels of wheat, against 49,
sos bushels in the first part of the
month.
The effect of the British restrictions
on goods for the Netherlands, which
may be destined for Germany ulti-
mately, is apparent in the ten days
statement. All the neutral countries
adjacent to Germany and Austria,
except Denmark, appeared as smaller
purchasers of our foodstuffs during
the ten days just passed than in the
first period The Netherlands took
only 446,377 bushels of wheat, against
/ ,O49, 522 bushels the first ten days.
Italy took only one-tenth as much as
in the first period of the month Only
171,915 bushels of corn went to the
Netherlands, against 495,9S1 bushels
the previous ten days.
The continuation of the growth of
the export trade, however, is exhibited
in the exports for the last three days,
which we're $13225,039, against ss,829,-
17s FOR the same days last week and
81, 997 1876 for the same days last year.
1t was learned yesterday that Fred
cTlCh a6Cht VA
the British war office, will leave OF
tawa in the next day or two for New
York. 1t Is expected that he will place
large orders for army cloth, gloves,
socks and underwear, together with
other articles required by an army in
the field. c. Vasardarkis. on a special
buying sand trade mission for the
Greek government, is in the city at
the Waldorf.
Large shipments of rubber boots
have been started from New England
recently, as result of the heavy
rains in France, Belgium, Russia and
Austria. The United Hosiery Com
pany. of Boston, reports that heavy
orders for its product are being re-
eeived. F'irearm factories at Hart
ford and other Connecticut centres
are working day and night making
revolvers, machine guns and ammu-
milton.
John J. Arnold. chairman of the for
eipn relations committee of the Chi
cago Association of Commerce, esti-
mates that $3.50, 900 in supplies and
food products have been sent to Eu-
rope since the war started. The knit
ting concerns of Philadelphia are busy
turning out orders as large in single
case as 200, 900 blankets.