Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-14
Mexicans Like
Taxicab Rides
Light American Cars Are Used-Ger
many viii Never Again be Sugar
Exporter of Old-Canada
TOOts Horn
(Bv Isaac Gregg.l

Washington, Oct. l1.-MeXlcanS aS
well as Americans are very fond OF
riding in taXicabs. says Consul Gen
eral Dawson in a report made to the
| Department of Commerce today. Al.
/ though the taxi service in Mexico City
is still in the experimental stage
operators are very much encouraged
with prospects of success. Because
of the condition of the Mexican streets
whether paved or unpaved. the up
keep on a taXicab is very high and
for this reason many Of the lightest
types of American cars are being
used.
Previous to the inauguration of a
regular taXicab service in Mexico City
chauffeurs of public cars charged any
price they could secure although
municipal regulations laid a basic
price per hour and passengers usually
gave whatever the chauffeur demand
ed in order to save time through argu-
ment.
According to Alfred P. Dennis. spe-
cial representative of the Department
of Commerce in Europe, Germany will
never again be able to export l,000,-
600 tons of sugar as it did before the
war. Perhaps ten years from now it
may have surplus OF 100000 tons /;
but for the immediate future 1t viii
have all it can do to supply domestic
needs. Germany for years has beer
the leading beet sugar producer of the
world. Second place in world produc-
ton, formerly occupied by Russia, has
now been taken by the United States.
With production cut approximate ly IN
half by the war the recovery of the
German sugar industry is matter OF
practical concern to American bees
growers and sugar refiners.
Within the territory turned over 70
Poland by Germany under the terms
Of the peace settlement were $780,
400 acres of beet sugar land. IN
deed. some Of the best beet sugar soii
of the old empire was in the Posen
region and the s0called Danzig cor
ridor. With the territory there pass
ed also to Polish control two sugar
refineries and upward OF 30 suga-
factories. Experts estimate tina;
$4,000 tons Of sugar production has
been lost to Germany by territorial.
cession out of the 2,700,O0O tons o.
prewar sugar capacity.
American Consul Cobb at Jerusalem
tells Che Department Of Commerce
that since the advent of the British
into Palestine the natives have adopt
ed English manners, styles and GUS
toms. He says that it IS possible 20
purchase in Jerusalem made-to-order
suits for very little money. Evening
clothes can be had for S45, busi-
ness suit can be purchased for 81
while dinner Jacket costs but S3''
1t would be well for the American
tailors who still continue to charge
exorbitant prices for their goods 10
examine some of the prices in vogue
in Jerusalem for similar goods.
At present in Palestine clothes OF
an Occidental style are worn by Eu-
ropeans numbering 100000 and by 4
certain percentage Of the Arab popu-
lation living in the towns. There arc
no ready-made clothing factories lh
Palestine and tailoring shops are very
small.
The Dominion Of Canada is footing
the American horn. According TO "A
report to the Department OF Com
merce from Vice Consul Sanford al
Ottawa good crops in most parts %
Canada are having stimulating IN.
fluence on trade in all classes OF
Goods. At che present time there ap-
pears to be a fair local demand Tor
musical instruments. According TO
Canadian statistics for the fiscal
wears ended March 81, 1921 and l9Zz
it would appear that brass instru-
ments, phonograph records, phono-
graphs and finished parts thereof as
we'll as other musical instruments are
largely imported from the United
States. 1t is stated that the outlook
for better business in this line Is
brighter.
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