The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-24
NEW ENGLANDsS
 OPPORTUNITY. Conference on Latin American Trade Planned by New
 Haven Road.

Tn order to enable manufacturers and business men within it's territory to grasp whatever trade opportuni- ties exist in Central and South Amer ica in consequences of the war. the New Haven road is arranging for 8 conference on this subject to be held in Boston the first week in Decem Der.
 Manufacturers and representatives sof the different Boards Of Trade and nanufactuTing associations in the territory served by the New Haven will be invited to attend this confer ence. It is the hope of the road that by such a plan much useful inforrna ton will be acquired and 3. general stimuIIls given to New England en- terprise in this direction.
 In general, the object of the meet ing will be to secure such information and advice as will be helpful at filis. time to New England manufacturers. This information will be given by. those who have made aSspecial study Of the situation in the Latin Ameri- can countries. particularly with ref erence to their banking facilities, trade conditions and ways Of doing business. packing of goods and other factnrRrs to, takeato secure and retain business in them.
 4 luncheon will be rendered to those attending the conference, fol- lowing which there will be addresses from a number of speakers conyer- sant with conditions affecting Latin American trade. Among fhe speak CTS already secured are Edward Ew-. ing Pratt. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Government; Will liam A. Reid, special expert on Latin American Trade of the Pan American Unfons V. Gonzales, South American expert of the National Association of Manufacturers, New York; and ". S. Kies, head of the foreign department of the National City Bank, New York which has just established a branch in the Argentine Republic.
 It is planned to follow the address es with as general discussion of the. i South American trade situation. which at this juncture it is expected will be mutually helpful. That Il need for more detailed information I exists this time is conceded gener- ally. Such information should be lparticularly useful in New England. I The States of Massachusetts, Rhode I Island and Connecticut through h l which the New Haven.s rails run, are among the greatest manufacturing g States in this country By the last l Census figures they produced nearly Ii per cent. of the total value of all manufactured goods produced in this l country.
 Southern New England is excep-  tiona1 both in the number of it's mon l ufactured establishments in propor- ton to it's area and in the variety o1
 manufactured products. It would seem therefore as if no section of the Fl country were in a better position tc
 avail Itself of the new con ditions
 brought about by the war than this
 part of New England, provided the
 needs of these countries are inte1li.
 gently studied and the somewhat pc culiar conditions governing trade
 with them thoroughly understood.
 The interests of the New HaveI
 road are so closely fnterwoven witl
 the interests of manufac acturers in it
 territory that it is only natural tha it should seek to assist and encour
 age the movement now so general u secure South American business. Nev
 England's shares it is felt, should b
 conmensurate with the size and i'm
 portance of it's manufacturing indus
 tries It is believed that the confer
 ence which it Is planned to hold wi
 stimulate interest in New England
 opportunity in South America and b
 of assistance in the plans now bein
 made to get business there.