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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
F ortunes Made
In arm Produce

Spain has become rich since the war
started by exporting agricultural prod
uce to France and by manufacturing
military requirements, but her in
dustries, most Of which are in BARGE
Iona or some other town in the same
province (Cataluna), depend on foreign
supplies for raw materials The facs
Is sometimes forgotten by those not
acquainted with Spain that the Gaia
Ian does not style himself Spaniard
His Catauila happens by accident to
be a province of Spain, and though
he might not desire to form part of
any other country he makes 1t quite
clear to you that to be Spaniard
is one thing and to be Catalan some
thing very different. He discards thu
euphonIous Castilan for his own
patois-his Catalan, which is not
pretty to listen to. He obstinately
sticks to the use Of his own language
and as Spaniards do not learn his
patois, it follows that the national in
tcrests suffer.
and he is close-fsred. The influence
of Hebraic origin is strong in the ebay
acter of many Of the inhabitants of
Catalina.
AS manufacturer the Catalan is fire.
ouently suecessful; not OIL account Of
his technical ability, but because he
knows how to get value out of under
paid work people, and his industry is
we'll protected by customs tariffs.
He has not, however, the gentle man
ncrs, the good-heartedness nor the low
ableness Of the Spanard. He is essen
TALLY calculating.
And 1t is SO with the other sex. The
Catalan woman Is striking looking, but
she lacks the kind eyes and the charm
OF the Spanish doncella. She does not
attract you sufficiently to call for Sec
ond glance at her
Barcelona is very busy town, and in
relation to its size one of the most VIC
ious in the world. There are great
business opportunities in Spain for
American merchants, and to obtain a
footing now means to establish a last
ing trade for the future.
There is an opening here for almost
every class of merchandise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
AuszsHMz=TNzzM~zzzem,,,

The Germans understood particularly
we'll how to handle the Spanish market
to best advantage. They did not waste
time endeavoring to educate their Gus
toners. They supplied their goods
adapted to Spanish requirepents and
afterward introduced, little by little,
their own German specialtics.
This is the only satisfactory method
of developing large business with
Spaniards and Spanish speaking coun-
tries. 1t may easily be understood that
IN country where at least 60 per cent
of the population can naither read nor
write the demand is chiefly for lower
grade goods.
The standard OF commercial morality
in Spain is not high, but, rs every
where else, there are good as we'll as
undesirable customers.
The American merchant would be
we'll advised to trade with the larger
distributing concerns who have a rem
EtEtlon TO maintain.
Spanish traders are anxious for the
war to finish SO that they may be able
to get once more into touch With Ger
man sources of supply.
France and England have not been
able to take Germany's place as fur
nishers of Spanish needs.
England will have hard fight after
the war if she becomes candidate for
Spanish trade.
British merchants have in MANY in
stances unwisely alienated the sym
Pathles OF their foreign customers by
neglectng their old friends and by
treating Inquiries with scant courtesy.
People who understand the Latin char
ecter do not behave so stupidity. 1t is
SO easy to say and write what you have
got to say amiably.
Americans might we'll take A lesson
from the lndiscretions Of the British
l mere Is an idea prevailing that there
will be an antipathy to German goods
after the war. Those who bellows tbat
way are not students Of human nature
Continent is perfectly safe so long as
IT does not draw on mans BANKING
account.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Plants a Sprig
Of Oregon Pine

Captain Hardy planted sprg of
Oregon pine close to the Perry monu-
ment. with the prayer that the friendly
relations between the United States
and Japan be as fresh and ever con-
slant as the color of the pine. lie was
asked to go over the Kurihama beach
and locate many spots in connection
with the landing of the Perry party in
1858. From the accompanying photo
graph, it seems that thu children of
five to fifteen took & good deal more
interest in this work of historical re-
search along the beach than did the
gentlemen Of historical society.
The old sailor was presented to their
Majesties the Emperor and Empress Of
Japan by the new American Ambas-
sador, Mr.. Roland S. Morris, and had
an interesting chat with MARQUIS
Okuma. The old sailor told the mar
quis that he had served the colors
through the Civil War and also through
the Spanish War. but he has steadily
declined to receive q pension from the
government. That impressed the mar
quis greatly. And he was reported to
have exclaimed:
Here is the true American spirit
which makes the greatness of the
United States."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
"Y' Growing as
Fast as Men Arrive

When they want to write home thew
turn to the y. M. c. A. Fred LEIGHTON.
Dartmouth, '16, told nc he estimated
the soldiers had already come to the
\. NJ. {. A. for 100000 sheets Of note
paper. If they want button sewcd
on, or stamp, or to know if there is
a Cod they turn to the Y. NJ. c. A.
enough work to keep all the men the
"YN can mobilize on the job from
morning until night. The "Y" is grow
ing just as fast as the troops arrive
whenever new detachment goes into
camp new Red Triangle hut springs
up.
Some idea of the scale on which
things are being done is given in the
following order sent to America by r.
(. Garter, who is in charge Of the
american !. VI. {. A. work in Europe
1"ehty tons OF tobacco, twenty tons
of soap, 10000 dozen Testaments
prayerboohs and hymnals, ten tors Of
chocolate, five tons of cocoa, five tons
OF coffee, two tons Of tea, five tons of
biscuits, thirty tons of writing paper,
fifty tons Of sugar, 1000 folding chairs.
zoo Photographs and 5000 records and
seventy-fve motion picture machines.
This is only a beginning; when the
real American army gets over here the
scale on which supplies are ordered by
the "Y" will be increased proportions
ately.
Hundreds of prominent American
college men are doing voluntary ser
vice with the Red Triangle forces in
Europe: d. d. Chaplin, +. G. Herein
Geen, +. c. Savage and J. c. Milne, I'd,
are some Of the Princeton boys who
have recently been sent to France. Ed
Smiley, former University of Penn
sylvania pitcher, is another who is play
ing prominent part.
PARKWAY Russia is to come in for
some Of the benefits of the American
Young Mems Christian Association.
Charles w. Riley has gone to Petro-
grad to start hut there among the
Russian soldiers. the first time the Red
Triangle OF any country has ever in
yaded the land Of SHOWS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Bows Before
Stone to Perry

There stands stone monument. And
it marks tho spot where Commodore
Perry landed, siXty-four years ago.
When Captain Hardy reached there he
was quite as much overcome with emo
ton as though he had reached the por-
tails of heaven. He threw himself
down IN front Of the monument and
let the emotional storm within him
escape in fcrycnt prayer.
Captain Hardy was entertained at a
luncheon IN q temporary structure
which was put Up close to the Perry
monument for the purpose OF receiving
the captain. Temporary, yes, but from
what the japanese newspapers say
about 1T one is led to believe that iC
was a much more pretentious building
than the matched hut which the gov
ernment OF the Shotgun erected on the
same beach TO receive Commodore
Perry and the personal letter from the
President Of the United States to the
Emperor OF Japan.
Presently the delegation from Lrsga
about forty leading citizens of the
historic community in. all the glory Of
ceremonial costume-trooped in to
present their respects and the words
OF official welcome to the captain.
In the company We're few old men
the captain had met on his first visit
to traga, back in the ancient days.
Captain Hardy took them to his bosom
IN tight embrace.
The reporter from the "Tokyo Asahi"
introduced ono OF the old residents of
uraga to the sailor: "And this is the
man who received cake of SOAP from
one Of you American sailors, when vo,,
were on your historic visit here, This
gentleman put the cake Of soap in his
iron pot and cooked it long, long
time, but somehow did not find it very
palatablc."
That, Of course, is not the handsom-
est thing that could be said of the
people so widely advertised as the
cleanest cranks Of cleanliness in the
world. But tho fact stands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
What Does a Girl
Care for Years?

triaing little thing like eighty-two
years of age doesn't amount to straw
in the consideration Of a schoolgirl
dreaming an international dream.
AT 1880 p. III. OH the sunny 18th Of
November, 1917, the Mexico Maru. of
the Osaka Shosen Kaisha's Seattle Line.
turned her nose up tho persistently-
sung and much-storicd Yeddo Bay. If
you happened to be anywhere within
sight, you would have seen Captain
Hardy. 1t was impossible to miss him.
He was right there on the bridge, all
rugged up in the costume OF sailor Of
Commodore Perry's days, waving his
cap, with "Susquehanna" in gold letters
waving it to all the world Soon the
reporters from the leading Toxic papers
mobbed him. The old captain stood the
attack like a rock of ages. But the
reception which awaited him at the
stone pier at Yokohama, which the ship
made little after y. H., quite melted
him. lie had left Seattle simple
American citizen; he landed at Yoko-
hama right upon the lap of "a recep-
ton committee such as the ambassador
Of a great power is rarely honored with,
More than that, he received something
which the most distinguished ambassa-
dor who had come to the shores OF
Nippon had never received--a bouquet
from little Miss Yamamoto. Fact is
the old sailor scared the little girl
pretty nearly to faint with his hug
and kiss.
II never dreamed of ever seeing such
a sight as that" said the captain to the
newspaper boys who had crowded about
him. His finger was quivering in the
direction where the Yamashro and the
Fuse, the two newest 30.6Oo-ton super
dreadnoughts of the imperial navy,
swung at anchor. "Why. when was
here in 1858. all the ships you had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
BY 4Adachi kinnosuke
N AMERICAN boy is now il

4 N AMERICAN boy is now in
N Jspan-just fresh, unripe kid
out on lark. he is letting
himself loose upon the entire Oriental
Empire and having the time of his life.
He is eighty-two years old now, and
answers to the namc of Captain Will
lam II. Hardy And, SO far as know,
he is the fttest Of all the brave men
who forced Japan to open herself to
the world under Commodore Perry in
1853, for he seems to have survived
them allthc only living witness of
the first international treaty, in mod
ern sense, Japan signed at Kanagawa--
the only living American who saw with
his own eyes how the Hermit Japan Of
slxtyfour years ago looked and acted.
And to tell the truth, Japan-both the
people and the official world there's
enjoying the treat Of the captains visit
even more than the American visitor
himself. For Captain Hardy--an OBJ
scure retired sea dog Of but yesterday
and mere, though sturdy, citizen of
the United States, just one Of one hum
dred millions-is to-day accorded the
hohors and attentions due to person.
age little short of q guest Of state.
Moreover, the way he came to make
the visit has about it flavor Of
Alice in w onderland romance. At the
Aoyama Girls School, in the city Of
Toxic, little Miss Yamamoto was max
ing her studious way with the rest of
her comedy company. Just how she
came to hear of an old sailor who had
been one Of Commodore Perry's men
still living in America I do not know.
But she did. And the discovery must
have loomed much bigger in her vision
than the dream of distant continent
that haunted the restless imagination
Of Columbus. She sat right down and
wrote Captain Hardy, and limited in a
gentle Girlish manner why in the name
Of all that is gracious and cherry-blos-
SONY the old captain did not wish to
come back to Japan and see his old
friends.
Editors of newspapers, statesmen in
The American Congress, windbags in the
imperial Diet of Japan and other horrid
lunatics talked Of the American-Jap-
ancse war. Of course. But there was
nothing to that sort Of poppycock. The
sixty~four years since the captain's
first visit have mellowed the temper of
the Nippon people a good deal, in fact,
in their attitude toward the redbeards
Her people would be glad to see him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
japan Cheers Ex-Jackie
Who Helped "Open" Her
Last Survivor of Perry's Men, Who
Weakened Flowery Kingdom i'm 1853,
Revisits Scenes at Age of Eighty-two,
and Is Acclaimed With Royal Honors

had bamboo poles for the mast And
that was about true. From bamboo
pole mastcd wooden junks to the So
60O-ton per-dreadnought, which can
hold its own against the best that the
American and the European navics
could show, is quite step. And here
was man who had seen the Nippon
Of wooden junks and the Nippon Of
the battlcship Fuso. "And I was a
lad Of seventeen when came here for
the first time," he said. ri was seven
teen years and two months old" One
of the Japanese reporters told him
that that was nothing. "rhcre is an
old man still living who saw you come
into the bayou and all the rest of
Commodore Perry's ships and men
and he is five years older than you
are"
When Captain Hardy left the United
States he was free man. The min
ute he landed at Yokohama he was not.
lie was taken in charge completely.
There was a string Of automobiles
waiting for (in.-and motor cars are
scarce in Japan. When he got to
Toxic there was no brass band waiting
to welcome him to the old town Of the
Shotgun, but there were very many
people there ready to receive him, each
and every one OF whom made n hun
dred times more noise in Japan $
who's Who" than any brass band I,
Fourth Of July has ever known. Wis
cOInt KnDokO prilxr frou,ciOOr =, Il
an eX-MiAistcr OF State, ana Baron
kanda were among the number. And he
was forthwith commanded to attend the
chrysantilemum party in the garden of
the court. But the imperial chrysan-
themum garden party was not the stage
for the most dramatic scene Of the old
captains visit. That came when the
Hardy party went to bit of beach on
the Yeddo Bay called Kurihama
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Mothering Sammy
By Frank w. Getty

read can do 50 undisturbcd; a pool
room, with four tables constantly in
use: two pianolas and n photograph,
, an American soda fountain. and, rare
thing for England, shower baths; in
other words, all the comforts of home
as the American soldier understands
the word. ready for him any time he
cares to take advantage of them.
And he certainly does take advantage
OF it. l talked with dozen or more
American soldiers who had dropped
into the Eagle Hut on their day in
town.
Writing for The Tribune, are you p
said one great, husky boy from The
Bronx. "Well, you tell the folks back
home not to question whether or not
to give to the Y. M. C. A., but just
how much"
II didn't know anything about the
" back home" said another, "but the
first thing I'll do when l return Is to
take membership"
"The ~ has been a life saver" vol
unteered third.
And so it goes. The thing the Amer
leans who come over hero miss the
most are the things the Y. M. c. A.
aims to supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
London, Dec. IS.


~ AMMY had been drinking. In fact,
as he walked somewhat laborl-
Gus course up through Piccadilly
Circus 1t was apparent that this par
ticular American soldier had. in army
vernacular, an ledge on"
There were two good reasons WHY
Sammy shouldn't have been IN chat
condition. In the first place. it's
strictly against the United States army
regulations. In the second, he was
just regular American boy with 81
good home back in the States, and
he wasn't the sort of boy who goes
off and gets drunk by himself Just
for tho fun of it.
But London is a big city and lone
some one. and he'd lost his comrades
somewhere in the crowd, and he wasn't
quite sure of his way back to the hotel
so he just wandered on. AS he passed
under street lamp a girl, a little slip
OF thing, with painted face and rouged
lips. accosted him. Now, Sammy had a
head on his shoulders and he had a
girl back home. but he was lonesome
and he wavered. and Just them some
thing happened.
An automobile rolled slowly past,
its occupants noticed him. and brought
the car to stop with a grinding of
brakes. The next instant q cheerful
voice that sounded like home spoke
in his ear:
Hello, there. Sammy! It's kind Of
late. How about ride down to the
'Y' and cup Of hot coffee before you
turn in ?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Makes the Boys
eel at Home

An American soldier lay wounded in
an English hospital. The first day no
was we'll enough to receive visitors an
American woman came to see him and
sat by his bed, talking to him in the
language Of "home" he understood so
we'll and missed so much. She found
out he was from Chicago, and the next
day brought another visitor who was
from the boys home town, and who
found they had several mutual friends.
When they were leaving Sammy asked:
"IIow did you know was here? How
did you happen to come to see me?"
"Thank the Y. NJ. c. A. for that" said
vidual case Of every American wound
ed or on leave from France, and see
that he gets a chance to talk to folks
from home. When you get better Pm
coming around and take you out to my
home. The Y. NJ. G. A. keeps all the
American women in London who havo
volunteered to help in close touch with
any cases Of wounded Americans here"
These are a few OF the things the
American Y. NJ. c. A. is doing for the
boys who are going out to fight. And
there are many more.
Perhaps the greatest function Of the
"Y' is the way in which it bridges the
huge 3,5O0-mile gap between Sammy in
Europe and "homc." The American SOL
der can't get home when his days
work Of soldering is done. lie has
been torn from all that home means to
him by the exigencies Of war. SO the
y. M. c. A., through the medium Of
hundreds Of homelikc huts throughout
France and England and with the aid
of thousands Of young college men
fresh from the States, tries, as far as is
possible, to bring "home" to him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
The "Y' Had
Reclaimed Another

Sammy looked around. His COM
panion, recognizing the stamp of the
newcomer, had faded away into the
shadows. Secretly relieved, he climbed
into the car. The long arm Of the
American Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, Familiarity known as the sY,''
had reclaimed another American. This
feature of the work, "patrolling," as it
IS called, consisting Of picking up any
stray soldiers who may have lost their
way, is only small factor in the work
the Red Triangle is accomplishing.
On cold, dark morning in August,
with heavy rain falling in sheets and
penetrating as only an English rain
can, a detachment of New York en-
gineers arrived at one Of the American
training camps. The men were wet
through, chilled to the bone and abso-
lutely miserable.
Instead of the cold comfort of a
dreary camp site, they found a great
Young Mems Christian Association hut,
busting with activity to make them
comfortable. Great urns of hot coffee
and heaps of buns were ready for them
at the refreshment counter. Oil stoves
were distributed and the New Workers.
succeeded in getting dry and warm.
Writing to the secretary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association aftelward,
an officer expressed the opinion that
only the presence of the Red Triangle
hut prevented the decentralization and
illness through exposure of many Of
the American troops.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Pershing Believes
In Athletic Training

Recreation, an all-important factor
in the Sammies' lives when their days
work is over, is furnished by the games
that the college men who are leading
the Red Triangle work in France or
ganize. Down in the southern part of
England, wherc a newly arrived de-
tachment OF troops is training, Wallie
Trnmbull. the old Harvard football cap
tain, got up game Of football, which
he umpired. Thousands Of dollars
worth of baseballs and gloves and bats
nave been ordered for the camps in
France. All sorts Of indoor, as we'll as
outdoor, games arc provided.
General Pershing is great believer
IN the value of athletic training in war
fare: And tho general has spoken in
the highest terms of the work the 'SY''
is doing among his men. A "big
league" with American and Canadian
teams from the different units, has its
season we'll under way, with the Y. NJ.
{. A. supplying all the necessary para
phernalia.
The "Y" has established clubs, cafes,
hostels and information bureaus every
where. It's hard to find a spot in
France or England to-day where there
are American troops and no signs point
ing the way to the Red Triangle depot.
Gates for light refreshment and count
crs Tor the sale of tobacco and candy
follow the troops right I'D 10 the
trenches. In the latter the boys can
buy the old familiar "smokes" that
they decidedly prefer to the French to-
bacco.
When Sammy gets his first leave he's
naturally, unless he has friends over
here somewhere, decidedly bewildered
lie doesn't know where to go nor what
to see. In this way the English Tommy
has it all over his American cousin. In
most instances he can get home, but
there's naturally no chance for Sammy
to do this. SO the ever present "Y" has
It's representative to meet the leave
train. Men VINO haven't any particular
destination can ride up to tho Eagle
Hut, stow their kit, wash up, get good
dinner and prepare for ten DAYS of
thorough enjoyment, because the "Y"
attends to everything.
There arc sightseeing trips ar
ranged by the local chartered corpora
tons for the sole benefit Of the SOL
dlers. They can visit all the points of
interest in this strange land. They can
play games or go to the theatre, or if
they ere so inclined thew can listen to
lectures and study French, all under
the guidance and many times at the
expense OF the Y. NJ. G. A. Americans
living IN London who have volunteered
to entertain the boys from home are
hollilcd When they arrive, and arrange
ments made for them to visit American
homes. Everything is being done UNI
sFhrlngly and completely for their com g
Tort and enjoyment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06

Above is Captain Hardy, the last
survivor of the men who were
with Commodore Perry when the
American Navy opened the gate
of the Flowcry Kingdom, In 1883,
surrounded by Japanese school
children, as he goes to point out
the spot on the beach where the
first Americans landed. Below,
Captain Hardy, before the Perry
Monument, is addressing crowd
of japanese
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-06
Success Achieved
Despite Difficulties

Besides Marie, Miss Bennett deals
With Zelie, the maid, and with Nine.
Noquet, tho laundress. The latter
works in what under the German occu-
patton was used as morgue. There
on stove one foot square she per
forms prodigics. The very climate
wars against her. Marie is her bitter
enemy; but the unit votes for Nine
Noquet, who turns out our stock OF
clothes week by week undiminished In
number, clean, but never dry.
We live we'll at Grecourt; our store
room is full and our wood is cut. We
would rather eat at our own table than
at that even of the baronne, to whose
kindness we arc indebted for eur shell
ter here. But between the lines one
can read that this success is achieved
in spite OF very real difficulties, and
without Miss Bennett and Miss Lewis,
with their patience and their energy,
We could not have lived here at ALL