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PLEMENT
$255,321 worth, Germany _ _
Sweden $50,037 worth.. The America-n‘trade is- “
.ease in thoseeaports which represent the _
I "s » ‘ 1 ,_ ., f. ; . ,, Carriages and vehicles..... 828.43
P STUPEND FIGURESf ,; , , f __l ' "-9 Instruments and' apparatus for scien.-__
. ..., ... . ‘ . ~ ._ , .. . , , ..-. . _ A. . . , ' - . . / . . - _ ., gee. purposes, ,,,,, including telegraph _ , , ,4.
[In .meAN rum film. a onnqnmp‘ :- _. _. . , ' . . _ . - , ..’—i” ,f/ Mg; . _ Tsaggwtlgfipgone. 13%???
‘ . on THE WORvaANUFACTURES. ‘ - ’ ’ ‘ W ' " , Machinery (small and not specified)...1,380.648
- "a ’ Tools .‘ _. 95,33?
. I ' >I’ .‘. ‘.. ‘\ x I i ’a s ‘ OI0.0.8.;‘O‘Ifi‘O‘OOOODCOOOC..'.-IO...‘ '
' .I STEADY GAD; 1' m 0’ AMERICAN 142:1?sz ..: . ..d. ...... ,,;".".‘.~"...':r."ran-.3...” ..- 10,819
”ODS Emma w, w s-A'TISFACTIOR glagglig ........-...g..._--.‘.--” 4.56.... ég.;%g
~ erEN THE ram awesome—con- Bicycles .986“ ‘
. __ ._ . Tinware .... .869
Fri-A1310)! 0' “491' RELATING To Varnish .....-........-..'....‘...‘~...... 14.841
mm” .m- ”a, TEE Lumber . .. .............. 624,580
. a ‘ ' Doors, sash and blinds. .. . .. . . ..‘.} . . . .. . ’ 114,200
000m 1. men Househdld furniture . . . . .. ..'.. . " 385.351
‘ ’ ' ' " Woodenware . 34,680
' - ., .. . 1"" m A Manufactures .ofi‘wood not specified... 268,518, ‘
' ' I f ‘ - A m . . According to the United States Consult-(ien-T‘ '
' . ' 5 -. " » eral at Cape Town, the,total imports 0 ur- ‘ '
galm _w 917° needed 8" point out th‘? well- ' niture into South Africa‘- in 1897 were valued
sounded commercial development ~of the United ' = » at $2,140,199, of which the United Kingdom,
Itates it would be m lathe remarkable in— ‘ . _ coutributed $1,611,649 worth the'ynited $3189.,» 1 .
, .J 9,891 worth, and 0, , . ,
. "x .
product of human skin and labor. The 'tre- increasing by far the most-rapidly. and ”1°- - ‘5? '
mandous exports of the last fiscal year were the -:.' '- goods would thus-appear to 'be. git/mg excellent _ v
' h . .. . . In satisfaction. . . ' f ' '
ruult c iefiy of the expansion in the foreign British consular .reports say Americas trade
businessldone by American manufacturers.
The value of the provisions, breadstufis and
dairy products,. peboleum and cotton exported
” the United States during the last fiscal year
was, greater than‘ any total previously reached
in those departments, but the diderence between
m-BI and 1897-'98 was not much ln’favor of
the later year. These figures were $784,915,600
in the last fiscal year, subject to certain slight
corrections, whereas in the fiscal year 1880481~
the total was 5715.133114- In cotton the com-
parison favors the earlia year. In- the fiscal
year 1891-’92 the‘gtotal came still nearer the
record-breaking statistics of 1897-'98. The fig-
ures for 1891-’92 were $742,992,509. _ . .
It will be seen that if only the four or five
great staples which come pretty directly from
the soil were taken into account the exports of
the United States in the last fiscal year, while
,very great and the largest ,ever known, would
not have made a long step beyond the best
previous record. The exports of cotton have
. often reached a greater money value, and that
has happened several times in the petroleum
trade. The record was broken by less than $9,-
000,000 in provisions and dairy products. Yet
the grand total of all exports surpassed the pre-
vious high-water mark, made in 1896-97, by
more than 8180,0000“). The fiscal years of
1880-‘81 and 1891392. when the exports of agri-
cultural staples came nearest the figures for
last year, were beaten in the total for all ex-
ports by $329,000,000 and $201,000,000, respec-
tively. The world is turning out at present
manufactured products at the rate of $38,600,—
000,000 a year, and America is doing one-third
“this work. "
The census of the United States for 1890 gives
the manufactures of this country for one year
(1889) as $9,373,000“. and the census of 1880
gives the value-for that year as $5,370,000.000,
showing the‘ gainjin ten;years to have been $4,-
003,000,000," er a gain in a decade of 74.54 per
_, cent. At this same rate of gain for ten years,
between 1&0 and 1900, the 'value of America’s
manufactured. products in 1900 would reach
$16,360,000,000. Suppose one cancels this rate
of gain for three years of business'depression,
there would still remain $14,273,000,000 as the
values of America’s manufactures for the year
1900, or the sum of $12,873,000,000 as the pres-
ent (1898) rate of the annual products of this
country.
In ten years the totals of our exports have
increased at a rapid rate, and the figures are
certainly imposing at the present time. In this
connection it is worth remembering also that
unless the goods s'é'nt ab’road'had given satis-
faction no such gains could be noted.
'That the gains have been general and that
all countries alike appreciate the value of our
products are suggested by the following com-
parisons: . ' ‘
Ten years ago the 'United States sold to
nations classed as African.$3,000,000 worth of
goods; now our sales to the same nations
amount to $17,000,000. In the same time our
sales to Japan have increased from $4,000,000 to
21,000,000; our sales to' China, from $4,500,000
to $10,000,000. The increase .of sales to Aus-
tria-Hungary, have. increasedfrom. $500,000 in.
1888 to $5,000,000 in 1898; increase "to ‘Belgium,
from $10,000,000 to $47,000,000; to the Nether-
' lands, from $16,000,000 to $65,000,000; to
France, from $40,000,000 to 100,000,000; to Ger-
many, from $56,000,000 to 150,000,000; to ‘Brit-
ish North America, from $38,000,000 to $85,-
000,000; to the United Kingdom, from $362,000,-
WO to $540,000,000 ,
A striking view 0': the growth of this country
in industrial affairs has been prepared from sta-
tistics gathered in Sweden, as analyzed by the
British Consul at Stockholm. '
Periods of five years were used in making the
comparisons, the figures ending with 1895. In
average annual pig-iron production the United
States increased from 2,284, tons in- the
187.1475 period to 8,263,000 tons in the 1891-_’95‘
period. Since 1871 the British share in sup-
plying the world with ern has Shrunk from
46.3 per cent to 37.5, while .that of the, United
States has increas'edfrom 16.1 per cent to 30.9.
In the output of iron ore the British annual
figure declined in 1895 to 12,249,000 tons
and that of the United States advanced to
14,288,000 tons. In the twenty-five years cov-
ered by the tables ending in 1895 the United
States has increased its total in the world's yield
of coal from 17 to nearly 30 per cent, while the
British output fell off from 47 to 34 per cent.
Great Britain’s consumption of cotton in the
same time has increased by a fourth, and that
of the United States has doubled. '
The United States produces a fifth of the
world’s wheat supply, England and all its colo-
nies one-eighth, and Germany one-twentieth.
This country mines 22 per cent of the gold of
the, world and 35 per cent of the silver. In the
twenty-five years the new railway constructed
In the United States was twenty-three times as
great as that of Great Britain and Ireland, and
nearly eight times as great as Germany's.
While the total foreign trade of Great Britain.
exports and imports, increased 2% per cent, that
of the United States increased 15. In the
of population this country leads all
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THE MILLS BUILDING.
. Broad—st. and Exchange Place.
One of the mo
'Mills Building, a. cut of which appears above.
st imposing and important office structures of the Wall Street district is the
Of magnificent architectural design, it stands at
the corner of Broad-st. and Exchange Place, a monument to the "skill and prowess of the
American building genius. It was erected in
1882 and was the first of the present 'long list
where the upper floors were occupied as offices through an elevator service. When it was first
completed it had the most efiicient elevator
service in the world. ‘Unlike the great number
of buildings which have appeared during the last decade or so, this handsome structure is con-
structed of solid masonry rising from a foundation on the solid rock. The steel shell plays no
part in the great mass of red brick which rears itself to the sky, displaying its solid and im-
pressive outlines in a. section of the city where
huge structures. have now come to be almost
the rule and not the exception. The Mills Building was carefully designed to meet any compe-
tition that was to come, and to-day it still occupies a most conspicuous. place among the archi-
tectural exhibits of themgreat' metropolis. It is
located directly opposite the New-York Stock.
.Exchange, and its principal tenants are bankers and brokers, lawyers and other business men
whose interests are connected with the great financial lifevofvlthis financial centre.
Years. The {British colonies and "dependencies
increased 12 per cent, Germany the same, Rus-
sia 11 per cent, (is-eat Britain and Ireland 8.77
per cent, and France less than 1 per cent. It
is of moment to remember that these are figures
collected in Sweden, and that the comparison
is made by. a British ofi‘icial.
Below. are' presented some interesting facts
in regard to American exports:
WIRE NAILS.
The universal demand for American wire nails
is shown .by the fact that they go to every grand
division of the globe, and to practically every
country: Germany, France, the West Indies, all
the South American States, China, Japan.
Asiatic Russia, British Australasia, French
Oceanica and British and Portuguese Africa.
In'jiifact, it is difficult to find a spot' among the
civilized and semi-civilized people of’the globe
Where ”this recent product of American inven-
tion and American labor does not now find a
place. To the Danish West Indigs the exports
last year were 4,880 pounds; to Peru, 25,985
pounds; to Argentina, 268,942 pounds; to China,
9,632 pounds; to British Africa, 49,299 pounds;
to British Australasia, 1,118,459 pounds, and to
Japan, 4,372,292 pounds, the exports to Japan
being larger than to any other country, and
forming in the fiscal year 1897 .nearly one-half
of the total exports of this article.
The Bureau of Statistics furnishes the fol-
lowing table, showing the number of pounds
and value of the wire nails exported from the
United States during the last decade: , ~-
. v .. ~ Price
per lb.
Year. Pounds. Value Cents.
188,9, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,612,576 $157,389 9.7
1890 . . ‘.. . . . . -.. .'. . . 1,955,959 160,510 8.2
1891 .. 1,768,433 136,858 7.2
1892 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,056,267 160,239 ‘ 7.8
1893 ......... . . . . . 2,300,501 158,093 6.9
894 . . . . . . 3.233.776 180,607 5.6
1895 . . . . 4,367,267 210,192 4.8
1896 ~. . . .' . . . . . ..... 8,031,927 21, 4.0
1897 . . . . . . ........ 9,941,714 357,541 3.6
1898 ..'.’.‘....‘.'.....22,894, -
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, , . . LOCOMOTIVES.
American locomotives are steadily growing in
popularity. ’ Within the last twelve years the
annual exports of these products have increased
from 52 to 338. In the following table further
particulars in regard to the exports of American
locomotives are given showing aggregate and
average values:
Number. Value. "Average value.
1886 52 $333,390 $6,414
1887. . . .. 58 373,245 6,435-
1888 . . .. .. 56 40 .014 7.268
1889 144 1, .14 8.521
1890 161 , , 7,954
1891 .....'............275 2,424,363 8,816
1892 197 1,717,715 8,719
1893 195 1,794.7 .203
1894 .................142 1,028,330 7,241
1895 ------.-----------252 2,397,519 9,442
1896 261 2.512.270 9,625
1897 ................. 338 » , ,831 9,514
1898 (nine months)..474 4,337,693 —‘
TYPEWRITING MACHINES.
The exports of typewriting machines from this
growth
others. with an advance of 24 per cent in ten
country increased by nearly $500,000 in 1898
over. the figures for 1897. \The values for the
'two ,years were $1,453,117 and $1,902,153 “re-h
spectively. Among the chief countries to which
they‘ were «sent Were the following: ‘ '
- . 1897. 1898.
United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . .$731,152 $896,576
Germany ...... . . . .. . . .. . .. 228 '10 425,614
France .......... ........... 99, 2 94,608
Other Europe .......... . . . .. 175,976 232,253
British Australasia ..... . . . . . 67,622 ,03
British North America. . . . . . . 30,710 51,752
Africa ................ . ‘. .. . . 19,6... .34
Mexico 25,298 ,
Argentina 11,914 18,187
EXPORTS TO SWITZERLAND.
The following are some of the articles of Amer—
ican manufacture and production thathave
found their way to the Swiss markets since
July 1, 1897, as reported by the United States
Consul-General at St._ Gall. The list is. espe-
,cially interesting as giving some idea of the
great variety of these exportsz' '
Lumber and logs in cargo lots, woodworking
machinery and tools, ironworking niachinery and
tools, lathes and shapers, emery ’whéels, rail-
road iron, iron wheels and wheelbarrows, roll-
top desks and other office furniture, cigarettes,
smoking tobacco, raw tobacco, ironing machin-
ery for laundries, agricultural implements, agri-
cultural machinery, _ phonographs (Edison’s),
ice cream freezers, arms (rifles and revolvers),
road carts, wagons "and carriages (but A few'),
dump wagons, steel forgrilling purposes, picks
"5561113953, toas'zf all kthdSTEt’reEth-sweEping
mac‘hines, rubber goods,” canned , vegetables,
canned fruits, dried fruits all kinds, honey,
pampas plums, wines, wheat, mustardmsged,
grass se'ed,‘cast iron. porcelain enamelled sani-
tary» appliances, as bathtubs, lavatories, sinks,
water closets, etc; steam, water and gas fit:
tings; steel and iron tubes, steel ceiling; (trial
drdcr),_laoies’ and men's shoes, sole and other
leathers,”machinery belting, leather and'rubber;
pianos (to a Small extent), organs, patent monty
drawers, cash registers, provisions (hams, sides,
lard, and Salami and other sausages), cotton-
seed oil, Standard'Company coal oils, raw cot-
ton,'inkstands, photo «library paste, inks and
mucilage, bicycles, tires and other accessories
(all of the best makes are represented in Swit-
zerland); typewriters (differentmakes); collars,
cuffs and shirts; ,writinggbond and ledgcr psi.—
per's; blotting paper, cOffee mills,_cornc‘ob pipes,
photographic supplies and‘apparath, tubular
lanterns, picture hooks and wire, picture frames
and mouldings, furniture and. other hardware.
AMERICAN EXPORTS ‘TO SOUTH AFRICA.
For the year ending June, 1897, the South
African countries imported from the United
States goods tovthe ,yalue of $16,953,127, and in
the year ending June, 1898, the figures rose to
‘ $17,357,752. The following classified exports for'
the year ending June, 1897, give a fair idea of
the diversified nature of the trade «being done
with Merican manufacturers: -
$209,750
Mowers and reapers.. . .. ”a... . . .
Ploughs and cultivators. .". . . . . . .. . . . . 146.23”:
Small 1mplement'sseeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo me
With Japan for 1897 shows an enormous in.-
States increased 57 per cent, and exports in-
creased 55 per cent, while foreign trade with
Great Britain only 5 per cent, and with Ger-
many’8 per cent of the total. The followmg
comparison is made in, iron and steel products
of the years‘ 1890, 1896 and 1897: ' '
,Locomotives . ..
Machinery and in- '
t is ..........394,111 781,510 1,909,723
Stigmmgcililers. . . .. 30,314 54,869 211,490
Rails. and railway , «
t ' ls 619 434,853w1,558,794
It’d]: 3811s .(ibs) ..... .' 1,298 232,353 939,379
AMERICAN ‘ LOCOMOTIVES _‘IN JAPAN. .
In 1896 railway engines _made~ in , America
began" to be imported into‘Jap'an toga per-
ceptible extent. Up to. that time, against, 175
English engines used on the Tokaido line
there were'only six engines of American make.
But since then more than seventy engines have-
been imported from America. This growing
predominance of American over English en-
gines is partly due to the cheapness and partly
to the promptitude with which orders are at-
tended to. An American engine, made at Phil~
adelphia or New-York or in New-Jersey, costs.
including freight and sundries, 19,000 yen.
against 24,000 yen for an English locomotive.
Further, chiefly owing to the outbreak of the
engineers’ strike, and later to the extraordinary
tecture, the orders in Engl d have been very
slowly executed, and forty engines sent for in
1896 have not yet arrived. That is not the
case with America. But though there the re-
cent tendency lies in the direction of the grad-
ual superseding of the 'English engines by
American, on the whole, however, those of
English make still predominate over the oth-
ers, the American engines, as above stated,
being of only' recent introduction. ~ ’
The railway authorities have been engaged
since last year in, carrying out experiments
with the American and Euglish'engines, but,
the investigation remaining as yet incomplete,
no definite 'verdict can be pronounced on the
relative merits of the two kinds of locomotives};
That'fthe American engine consumes :aiargen
quantity of" coal compared with «the English.»
seems to be“Well-e’stablished. As to_the rela-
‘tive cheapness-‘of theAmeriCan engine, it‘ought.
to be remembered that the materials used by
the English and American casters are not sim-
ilar, so that it is impossible to pronounce any
definite judgment in' that respect alone on the
question of the relative merits of the two en-
gines. However, one point is certain, namely,
that the American foundries utilize mechanical
power to a larger extent than the English.
For the eight months ending August 31 the
exports of American'oatmeal show a very big
gain, being 55,851,778 pounds, valued at $1,-
163,572, against 31,049,721pounds, valued at
$632,523, for the corresponding period in 1897.
Here is an increased foreign call for American
oatmeal in seven months that absorbs 24,802,-
057 pounds more than for the same months of
the preceding year. New-York is credited with
exports of 23,990,156 pounds; Boston, 18,202,-
000 pounds; Baltimore, 9,945,462 pounds; Phila-
delphia, 3,305,271 pounds. ‘
Our export trade in candles, while not repre-
senting a very large amount in value, some
$232,000 during the fiscal year ending June 30.
1898, shows a. considerable quantity—3,072,369
pounds. “There was an increase of rather more
than 400,000 pounds in,the quantity of Ameri-
can candles exported- this year,. as compared
with 1897.7 At the same time there was a. gain
of nearly 5,000,000 pounds in the shipments of
soap that we made to foreign countries.
AMERICAN TROLLEY-‘CARS FOR uTHE
- - . ARGENTINE. ; :'
.- A firm of American ~manufacturers recently
completed a number of trolley—cars for the Gov-
portation of meat from the Government abat-
shops a'ndfi'arievt’s of the cities." ormerly p
transportation was efifected by horsecars, but
the introduction of electric traction made pos-
sible ,much‘larger cars and speedier service. All
the slaughtering of cattle must be done at the
Government abattoirs, and in this way it is pos-
sible to .provide a thorough inspection of
meat before it is offered for sale. . . '
For many years the horsecars have been used
to bring in the dressed meat, but the objec-
tion was made that it was liable to suffer in-
jury from the heat and dust. 'so. that now, in
the improved trolley-cars, the meat is carried
in specially made boxes, which are handled at
either end of their journey by a large crane.
For this purpose not only motor-cars are used.
but also trailers, and a train of such cars can
be run to the city and the markets.
Buenos Ayres has recently ordered twenty
motor-cars and seventy-five of the trailer class.‘
so the extent to which they are used can be ap-
preciated. The meat-boxes are lined with zinc.
and are provided with ample ventilating ar-
rangements. Each box carries about 6,000
yards gating-item 3.119. axetemlleabeen found
efficient frd'm eveiy’possibie standpoint. .
The light agricultural machinery in Algiers is
all of American make, and is very suitable to
the requirements of the colony. The .ploughs
used by the French colonists are chiefly of.
American make, but have never been looked,
upon with favor by the Arabian farmer,.,-who
still scratches the; ground with a plough of most.
antiquated and utterly useless pattern, as did
his father and his father's father before him.
crease. Imports into Japan from the United
. . . .$48,518 $416,106 $2,393,385 .
activity of naval and merc ant marine archi- '
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ei‘iiineht’bf Argentina, which will be used at —
Buenos Ayres and other places for the trans- .
‘tcirs, located in the suburbs, to the butc%er-
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