The sun., 1919-07-30
Tremendous Demand Soon to
Come for All Kinds Of Build
ing Material.
AMERICAN SKILL NEEDED
Hotels, Factories, Mills and
Railroads Await Initiative
From This Side.
ny r. m. WILLIAMS.

can send forth In the way Of construc-
tion engineers and material for build
ines, factories ana hotels.
There probably is no held in the world
where,larse modern hotsis are needed as
In the Far East. The Chinese have the
capital to 20 ahead and build but they
don't know how.
China has several natural cement do
positA az has Japan, 40 that 20 far as
cement is concerned. she is well provided
China has and is ready for more fac
tory buildings, such as canning factories,
cotton spinning and weaving works
aerated water faetories gas works. ice
and cold storage plants, iron and steel
works, leather factories. tanneries and
the like. match factories, oil mills. paper
mills, printing and lIthographic works
railway works. rope factories. sugar re-
flneries. tobacco factories, water works.
wooIlen factories and shipyards.
Development along these lines VIII
mean much in raising the earning capac-
ity of the Chinese, and she needs ali
the assistance In education that we can
give.
thousands Of items that go into con-
struction of buildings Is a problem. My
own opinion is that It should be done
In the Far East through newspaper ad-
vertising, showing factories here In the
United States with exterior and Interior
views and their approximate cost, with
short outlines of FREQ architectural as
sistanos to any Chinese Interested In
work along these lines.
Needs I'm tho Philippines.
no American manufacturer Of steel
construction materials for use In con-
crete building construction would make
a mistake In having his own Office at
Shanghai. Manila and a few other I'M
portant points.
The Philippine Government must,
sooner or later, enter into great con-
struction plans for public buildings. II
| Is only a question OF q few years now
when they will need new post once
at Manila, a Senate and an Assembly
building and hundreds Of other impor-
tant buildings for Government work
throughout tho islands.
| The Chinese Government sooner or
later, must start, the construction OF
thousands Of school buildings through
| out China, and In this respect she no
doubt win follow in the footsteps Of the
| Philippine Islands and erect cJncrete
buildings.
| With school building win come the
opportunity for all articles entering Into
| the construction thereof. as well as the
particular articles needed for. schools
such as steel blackboards and the like.
Tho Philippine Islands are still using
| the composition boards In the classrooms
and these are eaten UP by the ants and
| do not last at the most more than about
two years. In some parts Of the Phil
ippine Islands they must be renewed
every year.
| with schools also comes the oppor-
tunIty for American school furniture
| and now the American manufacturers OF
school furniture should begin to adver-
! tIsc In the Chinese newspapers 30 that
whom China gets ready our socis will
be ready for sale.
| Construction Field Unlimitsd.
Side by side with the network Of raIl-
ways that will be built In the future in
the Far East, we win zee modern con-
crete railway stations. All Of these offei
their opportunity for the use OF many
items manufactured in the United States
Irrigation schemes will not depend
upon the present primitive way Of doing
things but will call modern machinery
into use. Oil and gas engines. power
driven rice mills. seed mills and the
| like VIII come into wider use, just az
| fast as the American manufacturer will
advertise them and bring their ad'
yantages to the front in these markets
II must be born in mind that labor Ia
plentiful, and 30 far as capital Is con-
cerned, that throughout the Far East
hundreds of millions OF dollars in gold
are boarded away. 1t Is an educational
process TO get these fortunes into the
open, and in a way that the Chinese need
not Tear the exposing Of his wealth.
| In India there will be an Increase OF
| wool mills, tanneries sugar factories
sawmilis, paper mills. rope millst lin
seed and castor oil mills, jute presses
| -four mills, cotton and 5ute mills and
printing works.
AS one goes over the lis. and COM
pares II with China, with the exception
| If sawmiils. for which there would be
but a limited fieid due to lack Of lumber
the items are about the same.
| However. In tho Philippine Islands
where there is plenty OF lumber, there
Ia big opportunity Tor sawrniilA Eiec'
| trical machinery for them II a most i'm
| portant item In all of these countries.
Need OF Indigo Planters.
Construction Of some kind of building
| for the indigo planters offers n wide
feid Of study and one that would prove
worth while. These planters desire tc
keep abreast of the times and have the
| money to pay good prices for the besi
that can be procured.
Roofing materials are In great demand
| In all parts OF the Far East In fact
this market starts at the Hawaiian Isl.
lands, goes to Australia and New Zea.
land and travels to India, mp through
tho Straits Settlements. on to China and
| then right up to Russia, over to Ala ska
down into Canada and back to the doors
OF the American manufacturer.
Skeletons for concrete structures are
a big item, and ohis business alone could
be developed into millions of dollars an.
nualiy for the American manufacturer.
Retaining walls for canals is another
important item In the Far East. II n
! all q matter OF education. and In Chins
| It can be done through advertising In the
native newspapers.
Metal ceiling would prove a good sell.
er IN the Far East; in China again par.
| ticularly II the American manufacturer
would develop the dragon design OF
| flower designs OF Chinese flowers.
| Conduits and culverts for telephone
and telegraph systems offer wide fold
!. all worth developing. Referring tc
China. of course. refer only to the
cities OF Honglsong. Shanghai, Tien-
| tsin and Pelxin. One win understand
that In the smaller cities Of China there
Is at present but little field for telephone
work that could not be carried over tele.
graph poles and wires.
| Articles that would enter into the