New Britain herald., 1926-08-09
WORLD ACTIVITY
 REFLECTED IN N. '.
Gotham Also Has Many Things
 DlstinctiVely Individual

The activities of the world are . reflected in score of New York exchanges here which never attract public attention, but around which centers trade involving millions of dollars.
 Their variety is greater than the wares in Turkish bazaars, and many or the commodities conjure up pic- lures of those hidden away ports on the other side of the world of which men dream but seldom visit.
 The oil market immediately sug- gests petroleum and its products, but other oils which command regular markets and are as essential in their way as petroleum are dealt in daily. Among these are peppermint oil. cintronella, almond. lemon and wintergreen. These are termed the essential oils, while following them come the vegetable oils; linseed, cot tonseed, olive, china wood and cocoanut. Animal oils whose names suggest anything but the animals include oleo oils, degras. stearine and neatsfoot.
 This catergory alone represents all hemispheres, an the seeds and spices take one into the picturesque Far East where they are gathered from cities which with their peoples have changed in no way since the time that caravans first carried their pro- ducts westward to Europe.
 Among the seeds are the canary, caraway. cardamont, coriander; and the domestic market supplies the millet, mustard and sunflowers grains.
 The spices offer 8 great array with red, white and black pepper head ing the list Following come cloves, cassia, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, mace, paprika, sage leaves and thyme.
 Peanuts form large division of the unknown markets. Supplying as they do, butter, oil and by-products last years crop amounting to 60S.- 311,0OO pounds.
 And then there is an invisible mar ket, whose operations affect the money with which every foreign commodity is bought and purchased.
 That Is the exchange market, whose only tangible quality is net work of telephones connecting more than 100 banks, brokers, and the principal buyers and sellers in the larger cities.
 Most of these deals are clothed in secrecy, brokers often being in- structed not to give the names Of buyers and sellers. The explanation of this lies in the fact that 1t is essential for business to have 1ts market position and deals held in confidence.
 Fve-shade. d la Helen Wills, have become suddenly popular with New York taxicab drivers. The shades, topped with white cross pieces, came to the fore with the warmer weather anu SlN6 lle NohtiSD" chauffeurs a uniform appearance. They also remove the pugnacrous aspect some drivers unconsciously assume with battered caps.
 Old Battery Park is the meeting place of the world and its brother. Easily accessible to score Of na- tionalities from their separate quarters nearby, children talk jar gon of languages unintelligible 10 the visitor, while the older persons sit about. quietly enjoying the breeze. which is in sharp contrast to the intense summer heat of the con- gested slums.
 Close by the Battery is block of | red brick, three story buildings, 1 which is sandwiched in between tall | skyscrapers. These buildings con- structed of red brick brought from | Holland when New York was Nieuw l Amsterdam, are a portion of the Astor estate, and occupied by 1 Syrians and other Near Eastern | nationalities.