The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-06-24
FROM PARIS
Interesting Letter From q Grain
Man Who is Studying Con-
ditions Abroad.

Dear Sir:
| have been in Liverpool,
London and Paris for some time
finding out how grain business
is carried on during war time.
1t has been reduced to Gov
eminent proposition, they are
doing the. buying and reselling
for less than they pay They are
waiting for new crops now. If
they come big and are. pushed
for sale, markets will break. AS
far as can learn there are no
Epeace signs, and war looks good
for all summer.
All of Europe's biggest mills
are on water where they take
grain direct from ocean steamer
by suction The smaller mills
are ON rivers or canals and grain
is brought direct to them from
ocean steamers on barges No
elevators much. A funny sight
is their high wheeled little box
cars, hold about 300 bushels Of
wheat. Very little grain is car
ried by rail. While Liverpool
sends out the quotations, Lon
don is the big market. Liver
pool has option makets about
like st. Louis, while London is
all cash The "Baltic in Lon.
don is the same as our Boards of
Trade. They have no black
board quotations. The firms get
cable offers from all over the
world and go around (half of
them with silk hats on) and
trade quietly and only in car
goes, The corn exchange is
where smaller lots are dealt in
and you see samples of grain,
from all over the world. All
grain over here is called corn.
Thus "Corn Exchange" instead
Of Grain Exchange. Liver
pool quotes per hundred weight
thus 1873 SD means 10 shillings
and 5 pence per hundred. /
shilling is equal to "a cents, /. D
is equal to 2 cents. LONDON
quotes per quarter. Paris per-
hundred kilo. 1t requires a set
of books to translate and COM
pare prices. Combination of all
markets in the world, make Lon.
don prices.
London streets are "a lot of
paths. You are con-
stantly lodging an old church,
r. the monument Of some old
fellow, who, ages ago had taken
a lot of men out, and killed lot
Of other men. There are no tall
buildings, no surface street cars,
but taxis Cheap as our jitneys)
and general traffic is tremend-
Jus, and all goes to the left.
Paris is more like our cities, reg
liar streets, a world of trees,
md beautiful place. In Lon
Ion you are considered odd if
you do not smoke cigarettes. In
Paris women Of all classes insist
N leading little fuzzy dogs
round, even in war time.
Farms are cared for like our
awns, and little village will be"
IL cuddled up together, but
ach home will have a little gar
en all it's own with rock
ence around it. AS yet I have
ct seen a submarine or Zeppel;; o."
4. I have been where the Ger
lans were when they were so
lose to Paris. Have been with
l 20 miles Of fighting line and
ak to wounded soldiers every
ay. About the only informa-
on you get is that it is awful
nd they wish it was over. In
laces where trenches are so
ose together, they are forced
} keep changing men. They
ct so well acquainted they visit
nd refuse to shoot each other
even after a King or some
,dy has told them TON
nall towns the silence and the
dness is more noticeable than
the cities. Everywhere you
, you see women in mourning
I'd the mails are full of letters
lged in black. You see officers
ID soldiers galore. but the most
ointment of all is the sight of
e cross (Red Cross. It is
aking history that will remain
ng after the war is forgotten.
Papers are full of the Lusitan-
affair this morning. It is con-
Tered "war turning point"
re.