The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-12
SEES PERMANENT
 PLACE FOR U. S..
 GOODS IN EUROPE
Dr. Eqan Tells Merchants of Opportunities That May
 Be Nurtured.

-s5 Copenhagen, May flz.--AK1eF1cdh trade opportunities in Europe were pictured in a promising light by Dr. Maurice F. Egan, the United States minister to Denmark, in speaking re- gently to number of business men who have of late been in close rela- ton with the United States legation and consulate-gener here.
 If the American man would divest himself of some preconceiVed ideas and carefully study actual conditions in. foreign countries. he need neither fear financial panics nor the results of ,over-production in his own coun- try. Dr. Egan believed.
 < He said while he could sympathize
 with the position in which many American business men had been
 placed by the conditions on the high
 seas resulting from the war, he felt
 that these very interests so
 much impaired-wo u1d profit in the
 end. He had many times dep1ored the ttprovineiaI point of view of many Americans in business as to
 foreign conditions. It had been most difficult to induce them to study Esu- rope except as a mere pleasure ground or as a place which might be utilized for the increase of their
 business without any previous scien- stific study. At present there were many business men in the United
 
 | discover that the security of busi- ness had been shaken by the war.
 Their. period of tranquility had been so long that the chance of any in terest outside of the United States af-
 fecting them seemed to be so impos- sib1e that many of them were amazed, angry and helpless in the presence of such unexpected disasters. | However strange it might seem, the l present unhappy conditions had l opened both the eyes of the American | business men and the citizens of the nedsokal countries to the necessity, of lscientifieally strengthening the conn mercial relations between the United
 States and foreign countries. The l neutral countries had begun to look 1 to the United States from a new and practical point of view. They had be-
 gun to understand that there were 7certain products which could be bet ter obtained in the United States than
 in any ether. At present the abnor-
 nnal rate of freight stood in the way | and had to be considered. The risks otherwise too., were enormous. Cali
 fornia fruits for instance and Oregon l apples sell at a premium and disap- 1 pear from the market in the shortest I possible time Cargoes of graga- fruit recently made fashionable in l Denmark by the king-are readily l sold and 9 more amusing condition is
 that Denmark is at present obliged to
 get it's spaghetti in New ork.
 The superiority of certain American Ecanned goods as for instance aspar-
 agus and tomatoes is acknowledged
 and there is even demand for | American candles since the price of candles in Germany has risen. A l great opportunity too, exists for the {. sale of American plumbing appliances
 he said, but firms handling these 1 things in the United States must send a competent man, speaking the Ian | guage and understanding all the Eniceitfes of American plumbing as ap- l piled to foreign buildings.
 sfOur consular reports, in which | there appear many communications 1 from Consul General Winslow, show I many other needs. Curiously enough the interest in American products. the I existence of which seems to have hitherto been unsuspectedt in Europe is growing andAwi1l continue to grow If properly nursed by our business
 men after the war.