The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-05
NEW YORK EXPORTS
 MAKE NEW HIGH RECORD.

The port of New York made a new export record ip the month of Sep tember. The average daily exports per business day were larger than in any earlier month in the history of the port. A compilation by the For eign Trade Department of the Nation al City Bank of New York of the daily records ofsthe Custom House during September. shows an average of nearly 10 1-2 million dollars for each busi1 ness day of the month, while the rec ord of August showed an average of but trifie more than 10 million dol lars for each business day of the month.
 This does not necessarily mean thtt the total, exports of the port in Sep tember exceeded those of August, for September had but 25 business days, while August had 27 business days. But if the revised figures of the port 8 business coincide with the daily re- ports during September, the daily average per business day in Septem- Der will be greater than in August or in any earlier month in the history of the port. The total exports of August were $271,243,000 or $10, 0,046,000 per business day; that of September, as shown by an aggregation of the daily reports, was $2s9,9S1, 900 or $10,796,- 900 per-business day.
 4 Practically one-half of this very large total for the month of exports were for the battlefield. Of ex- plosives and empty shells the total for the month was nearly 50 million dollars; brass manufactures, chiefly tubes for making shells, another. 20 millions firearms millions; picric acid for the ntanufactdre of high ex- plosives 1-2' millions; and barbed wire 1-2 millions. Smokeless pow der alone was approximately TT mill lion dollars; and projectiles millions. In addition to these articles distinctly for the battlefield there were ap- proximately 8 million dollars worth of automobiles and parts, of which for Europe in conjunction with the war. Copper for the month amounted to about 12 million dollars.
 Last weeks record alone included about>6 million dollars worth of load ed projectiles, while those iof the preceding wee showed nearly mill UOA QOllaTS WOTtu. Ae1SI Wech $ scA- ports showed of smokeless powder 5 1-A million dollars worth, in the preceding week 1-2 millions and in the first week of the month million dollars.
 The total exports of September are larger than those of any preceding month except August and the average. for each business day. in September is even larger than that of any earlier month in xhe history of the port. The September exports Of New York alone were larger than those of the entire country in any month preceding the year 1915 and formed about 53 per cent of the exports of the entire country, against an average of less than 40 per cent. in the period imme- diately preceding the war.
 New York is now by far the largest exporting port of the world. Prior to the war, her exports were slightly more than those of Liverpool or London or Hamburg, the three world ports ranking next to the United States in exports. With the very large increase, however, in the export trade of the United States and the increas- ing share which the port of New York has had in that trade, the exports of this port are now as great as those of London and Liverpool combined.