HIS LIFE AND WORK 



a mile back from the dock, because of the 

 better view that this site affords of the harbor. 

 London has no elevators, and never has had, 

 although it buys more wheat than any other 

 city. It has six million mouths to feed, so that 

 the grain is devoured as fast as it arrives. To 

 give bread to London would take the entire 

 crop of Indiana or Siberia. Neither are there 

 any elevators of any importance in Paris, Ber- 

 lin, or Antwerp. Whatever wheat arrives at 

 these cities is either hurried to the mill or re- 

 shipped. Wheat is too precious in Europe to 

 be stored for a year or for two years, as may 

 happen in Minnesota. Rotterdam has one 

 elevator only and of moderate size. Neither 

 Odessa nor Sulina have any of the large pro- 

 portions, for the reasons that in Odessa the 

 labor unions have an unconquerable prejudice 

 against elevators, and in Sulina the grain is 

 held only a short time and then forwarded else- 

 where. This Sulina, as a glance at the map 

 of Europe will show, is the loneliest of all the 

 wheat-cities. It stands on a heap of gravel at 

 the mouth of the Danube an oasis of human 



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