New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-11
r.,esees France
As Huge Layer OF
Machinery Here
,..,r, Says Call on Amer
!, Will Tax Our Vast
Industrial Resources
Utensils for Farms
Lotions Result of Survey
Devastated Region
Made Last Fall
.oplr FOSTER HoGGsON.

SoBLE FOSTER HOGGsON.
n the American Industrial
, .,..;on which last fall made
~ Of the devastated region Of
Frsnce.
lssp M belief. based upon Two
f-. .-s.--e.o and irst-haud study
f',ihi I-st-.sl and agricultural areas
Z rs - that thc reconstruction
q f".If..- che war VIII make a call
t.'- s~ercan Industries mat VIII
''l g.-r resources and lead 10 "
. al ., 49,. chat viii be markedly
sa1fe'.l Infinitely more enduring
~ r.a,braom trade OF the last
% 5'.f... tss made France conscious
re fa ..--....f needs. and has ere
2 str in1ss....i- greater demand for
~ :. ..v,rr ma -hinery than W '.ot..l
- ed under normal conditions
Z ps'ee ~. materials and equipment
se-e ol - olu need when the war
siss frans' I'D are rolled steel for
r1is ...i0n. sanitary and plumb
% OF, -on-rcte mixing and con
q 49, machinery, stock factory
- - - loors. wire glass, taStoIy
u,ie a. n. .ures, cranes, carrying oclts
A1as -svsr4 elevators and lifts.
ri - ,ivs.srs. metal furniture and
-.sslA-. 80 factory hardware,
49,. s,r.nklcrs. farm equipment
-. .svine machinery OF prac1l.eAIIy,
- md. modern factory structures
N tc,sl equipment OIL. 49,
r.-.zrv 20 the usual beiiei, RAM.
- hssn an Industrial nation. IL
y s,.i.rtiy A land Of farms. Yet DC.
- - seculiar local conditions. u
:. u, a. heretofore furnished MARKET
4, arm machinery. --ooooo
n he country, $4,000 are az
-. n thc market for American
--i,-sr.s and machinery. acIoIlS
s...,4ost France are engaged I'D mar
:. ,Ts--urition and other war ma
- % the manufacture OF even suTn
- Implements IS we're preViously
.l..ss bas ceased. The demand for
..r.,n made machinery will, there.
a .be close OF the war, be OF
.--sgst importance, both 70 TINS
- and the people OF France.
1rtis IN its Industrial reorganiza-
- ast France needs American CO.
-...on more urgently. and II Is here
Ii N, greatest chance for the Amer
!. -,rufarturer lies. Under normal
-.l.3o,s the demand for modern
sea- machinery would be allght'
Ia -,sult % ITS lack OF modern ma
s.s-r. ifs business in different cen
:, IA hecn dropping of during the
| - s,x decades. With modern metnods
IA ~ss,rn labor saving machinery. IL
.-s..Aie that France might nave
~ ,,b-re part Of this lost trade.
v,urNss awakened France 20 this
,,sl vN,s has become so strikingiy
nsaigr.
/, va.nr many Industrial plants /
f,ssi NV stAt we're modern IN con-
,.rse.ios Or rlar. was surprised 20
ssS Il rv tvpes of machines which
r,-t on, q use with US twenty years
70. Whsn dcscri bed new American
,lebir,s. having greater projection
~ Material saving in labor. The
sssu Of the companies showed en-
ssr &c be put il touch III
rz-gfscturers.
Al o. the Industrial facts. de. ana
'.sr-alion Afforded the American In
astral Commission while abroad have
~ compiled and issued n book form.
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