280 CARPET MANUFACTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



pally tapestries) from France to tlie United States was $14,480 for the 

 year ending June 30, 1889. 



The total value of carpets exported from France, principally to Bel- 

 gium and England, during the year 1888, amounted to $570,991. 



J. L. RATHBONE, 



Consul- General. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL, 



Paris, October 18, 1889. 



ST. ETIENNE. 



REPORT BY COMMERCIAL AGENT MALMROB. 



On receipt of circular I made immediately diligent inquiries in every 

 department attached to ray agency, but in no part of my district could 

 1 find that any manufacture corresponding to the character of those 

 mentioned in the circular existed. 



There is however a small manufactory situated in the town of Tullius, 

 in the department of the Isere> for the fabrication of a kind of coarse 

 stair-carpeting, owned by a man named Drevet, who employs about 

 twenty workmen ; but as this industry is only in its inception the amount 

 of work done is not considerable. Notwithstanding, the owner assured 

 me that he has plant enough to employ two hundred artisans and turn 

 out 2,000 yards of carpeting a day. The material he employs is hemp, 

 and his machinery is moved by water with a force of about fifty horse 

 power. At present the dyeing, spinning, and weaving are all done on 

 the premises, and all sales are effected directly through the manufact- 

 urer, no commission agent being employed. He exports none of his 

 fabrication save a little to Algeria. As regards the pay and manner of 

 living of the workmen, M. Drevet vouchsafed the following information : 

 The pay of the men ranges from 2.50 to 3 francs a day (5.18 francs =$1), 

 the women, from 1.50 to 2 francs. Their rent does not exceed 60 francs 

 a year ($13). Their manner of living is frugal and simple. A vegetable 

 soup is taken invariably in the morning; for dinner a plate of meat, 

 with generally two kinds of vegetables and a bottle of red wine ; in the 

 evening a soup same as in the morning and whatever remains from 

 dinner, the whole coming to about 60 francs a month for a man and his 

 wife and two children. 



The men work ten hours a day; the time for breakfast (half an hour) 

 and dinner (an hour and a half) are not included. 



OSCAR MALMROS, 



Commercial Agent. 

 , UNITED STATES COMMERCIAL AGENCY, 



St. Mienne, August 21, 1889. 



