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'THE BUSINESS MANS PAPER "
OR t;>e cause ttol lacka assistance,
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TRIP to Europe this summer will be
' 'quite the thing.'' We notice that
many members of the trade are already
booked for European vacations, and—"there
are others."
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ELL, are we or are we not in it with
both pedal extremities planted
with a full, round, heavy thud in the centre
of the' ring ?
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W
W. KIMBALL, the piano mag-
. nate of Chicago, has been tarry-
ing awhile within our gates this week. Now
is the time for some of our contemporaries
who know all about his moves—and it is well
known that Mr. Kimball is prone to disclose
the interior view of his affairs to newspaper
men and let them in on the ground floor—to
again revive the news that he is about to
open warerooms on Fifth avenue. They
might go a step further and select the loca-
tion, just to save him the trouble, don't-cher
know.
NTERVIEWS with many of our leading
business men and financiers have ap-
peared in the daily papers during the past
two weeks, and the optimistic view of the
business situation held by them is gratifying.
They are almost unanimous in the opinion
that times are better than they have been,
and that the outlook was never more hope-
ful. They say that while the improvement
is slow, it will increase steadily during the
summer until next fall, when old-time busi-
ness conditions will prevail. Let us hope
this state of things will be realised.
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ELECTROTYPES OF MEDALS AND
AWARDS
URING the closing days of the last
Congress a bill was passed author-
izing the issuance of electroypes of medals
awarded to exhibiters at the Columbian Ex-
position. In consequence, a few weeks ago
Hardman, Peck & Co. wrote the author-
ities in Washington to the effect that they
were anxious to procure electrotypes of the
medal of award granted them. After quite
some correspondence and the usual amount
of red tape, they received a reply from the
Director of the Mint to the effect that "the
department has no facilities for making
electrotypes of the medal of award of the
World's Columbian Exposition, and as
there is no appropriation available for ob-
taining the same, it has been found im-
practicable to furnish electrotypes of the
medal."
This certainly is an extraordinary condi-
tion of things. It is quite in line, how-
ever, with the bungling methods in connec-
tion with the awards from the very start.
Judging from the letter received by Hard-
man, Peck & Co. the law passed by the late
Congress is practically nil, and in order to
procure electrotypes of awards it will be
necessary to wait until the next Congress
makes an appropriation, which will be some
time next year. Owing to the delay these
medals and awards are really of little value
to-day, and twelve months from now they
will be almost worthless to the manufact-
urers desirous of using them.
The letter received by Hardman, Peck
& Co. is the first definite information which
has been made public anent this important
subject, and thanks are due them for their
action in the matter.
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EXPOSITION OF EXPORT SAMPLES.
CORPORATION has just been form-
ed in this city to maintain a sort of
permanent exposition of samples suitable
for export trade, and to undertake bringing
American sellers and the foreign buyers
into closer communication, This idea is
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no doubt, the outcome of the very success-
ful meeting of the manufacturers of this
country held recently at Cincinnati, when
a National Association of Manufacturers
was founded. It is a commendable move
toward the extension of our foreign trade.
Other countries arc doing everything in
their power to extend their commercial ad-
vantages, and it behooves the American
people to be alert and alive in their owji
behalf.
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The plan outlined by the corporation just
referred to, although new to this country,
has been maintained for some years in Ger-
many with substantial results. There are,
however, some radical differences between
the two cases. Germany is not as concerned
about her home markets as we are, and is
devoting her energies to pushing her for-
eign trade. The trade expositions which
she permanently maintains are supported
jointly by the Chambers of Commerce, and
the municipalities of her ports where they
are established. Her foreign consuls on re-
turn to their native country ^ive public lec-
tures on the best means of entering the for-
eign market—lectures that are filled with
exact details necessary in trade affairs. Our
manufacturers get little assistance in this
direction, but if the new corporation is
properly handled it can do much to build
up foreign trade.
There is no reason why manufacturers
in the United States should not control the
majority of trade in the South American
countries. Expositions for the display of
American products in South American cap-
itals and other desirable points, would do
much in this connection.
Piano and organ manufacturers particu-
larly should be able to dispose of a large
share of their products right through the
Southern Republics. There are many ob-
structions just now in the way, it is true,
but by concerted action they can be re-
moved. Legislation tending to the re-
establishment of the reciprocal relations,
which was wiped out by the present tariff
law, as well as other legislation tending to
the enlargement of foreign trade and the
prosperity of our manufacturing interests,
should be among the aims of the National
Association of Manufacturers.
It shows a lack of enterprise to rind the
products of the United States practically
unrepresented throughout the great South,
while the manufactures of Germany and
England are to be found in every establish-
ment. Our wares are superior, and we have
the advantage of being nearer the market
than European manufacturers. The sub-
ject is an important one, and is worthy the
earnest consideration of manufacturers.