at. 
of our foreign commerce, 
_ WORLD-WIDE DISTRIBUTION OF 
AMERICAN FARM AND FAC- 
TORY PRODUCTS. 
The contributions which the peo- 
“i ple of the United States are making 
Ga to the comforts and requirements of 
the daily life of those in other parts 
of the world are scarcely realized 
eyen by those supplying the articles 
so contributed. How little does the 
girl or woman in the factory realize 
that the cotton cloth being manufac- 
tured with her co-operation is to be- 
come a holiday dress for some other 
girl or woman in China, or India, or 
the Philippines, or South Africa, or 
the islands of the East or West In- 
dies! How little does the boy or 
man who engages in the daily round 
of farm life realize that the bacon 
to be made from the pigs which he 
feeds is to go into the homes of Li- 
beria, and Portuguese Africa, and 
French Oceania, and Asiatic Russia, 
or that the eggs which he collects 
may be exported to British Guiana, 
or Peru, or Cuba, or Central Ameri- 
ea, or the various countries of Eu- 
rope! 
the neighborly interchanges _ be- 
tween our own people and those of 
other and distant parts of the world 
are shown as part of the every-year, 
all-the-year-round routine of trade 
recorded by the Bureau of Statistics 
of the Department of Commerce and 
- Labor. 
Its annual volume, ‘‘Commerce 
and Navigation of the United 
States’’, which is supplied free of 
charge to those desiring it for study 
shows 
many curious things about our trade 
with the various parts of the world. 
It is interesting, for example, to see 
that the American mule goes to Af- 
rica, Australia, the islands of Ocean- 
ia, British, Dutch, and French Gu- 
iana, Eeuador, Brazil, Haiti, Costa 
Rica, and British Honduras for ser- 
vice on the roads and plantations. 
American candles, of which the ex- 
portations amount to from. 3 to 8 
million pounds a year, are lighting’ 
homes in Japan, Korea, Siberia, Tas- 
mania, Venezuela, the Dutch West 
Indies, Salvador, the Philippines 
and French possessions in Africa. 
American brooms and brushes are 
making clean the floors and dusting 
the garments of dwellers in Turkey, 
Roumania, Malta, the Azores _Is- 
lands, Egypt, Spanish possessions in 
Africa, German islands in the Paci- 
fic, Hongkong, and Santo Domingo. 
American peanuts, of which the ex- 
Yet these and many other - 
-eurious and interesting incidents of 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A. J. ORR : 
Bennett Street ag 
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2" PAINTING AND 
“as  PAPER-HANGING 
Dealer in PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, ETC. 
A full line of PATTON’S SUNPROOF PAINT and Specialties. 
Telephone .. 
pposite High School 
Manchester, Mass. 
NAUMKEAG TRUST CO. 
CARITAL and pea eg $500,000 
Eo} Fabens, President 
N. A. Very, Treasurer 
Robert Osgood, Vice=Pres. 
William O. Chapman, Sec. 
DIRECTORS 
Gordon Abbott 
George H. Allen 
Roland M. Baker 
Henry P. Benson 
Stedman Buttrick 
Arthur F. Estabrook 
Eugene J. Fabens 
Francis R. Hart 
Jeremiah T. Mahoney 
Robert Osgood 
Francis Peabody, Jr. 
George Lee Peabody 
David Pingree 
Frederic G. Pousland 
Charles S Rea 
Charles W. Richardson 
Nathaniel G. Simonds 
This company solicits your account whether it is large or small. 
Interest paid on deposits subject to check. 
lord 
million 
e from 5 to 7 
pounds a year, go to British India, 
the Guianas in South America, the 
Danish West Indies, Guatemala, La- 
brador, the island of Bermuda, and 
portations range 
the Belgian Kongo in Africa. Am- 
erican boots and shoes, of which the 
exports range above 10 million dol- 
lars a year, go in increasing quanti- 
ties to every part of the world— 
Hongkong, Siam, Japanese territory 
in China, Java and Sumatra, the 
Straits Settlements, Australia and 
New Zealand, German possessions in 
Africa, Liberia, Brazil, Paraguay, 
Mexico, Canada, and_ practically 
every country of Europe. Ameri- 
ean windmills, of which more than a 
million dollars’ worth are exported 
every year, are seen in South Africa, 
the Canary Islands, Turkey in Asia, 
Freneh China, Haiti, Santo Domin- 
vo, Turkey in Kurope, Switzerland, 
Roumania, Greece, and Greenland. 
And so we might go on extending 
the list indefinitely, enumerating 
produets of the American farm and 
factory which are being sent to 
other’ parts of the world, and these 
articles would include sewing ma- 
chines, typewriters, motor boats, or- 
gans, pianos, pianolas, soap, perfum- 
ery, oranges, raisins, prunes, chew- 
ing gum, toys, and many other equ- 
ally curious and interesting articles, 
to say nothing of the great classes 
making up the grand total of more 
than 767 million dollars’ worth of 
manufactures, 565 million dollars’ 
worth of raw materials, and 370 mil- 
hon dollars worth of foodstuffs. Of 
raw cotton alone the year’s export 
amounted to 450 million dollars; of 
meat and dairy products, 130 mil- 
lion; of wheat and corn, partly in 
the grain and partly in the form of 
flour and meal, nearly 125 million; 
of iron and steel manufactures, 180 
million; of petroleum and_ other 
mineral oils, 100 million; and of cop- 
per manutactures, nearly 90 million 
dollars, and so on down the list. 
The countries, colonies and other 
territorial divisions to which these 
articles go, as shown in the volume, 
‘“*‘Commeree and Navigation of the 
United States’’, above alluded to, 
are over 100 in number, and it would 
be difficult to find in any part of 
the world a country in which some 
article or articles of American pro- 
duction are not being sold. 
The articles which people of other 
countries send to the United States 
in return will be discussed next 
week, 
