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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1903)
CGtrtDbpCSr.lJOlU THE ILLUSTRATED l.KK. 15 Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Page Twelve.) A warehouse bore could show its goods to people from all parts of the country, and if if were managed by Americans who spoke Italian it would do well. What Italy needs is American drummers with a knowledge of the Italian language and of the customs and habits of the peo ple. The Italians are slow. They don't care for catalogues, but they want to roe samples and talk over the goods face to face with the seller. The American drum mer should come intending to stay until he Knows the Held and ha. willing to take time for his sales. Tou can't hustle an Italian. At present many American bicy cles are beinjj used. Some two-whetled plows are sold and also a great many reap trs" and mowers and a few threshers. The Italians claim that our threshing machines are not economical; they say they waste the grain, and they therefore prefer other makes. We sell some goods to the Greeks, but mostly through British, German and Ital ian merchants, who label them with other names. The American exporter has thus to pay a big profit to the foreign middle men, and he loses the chance of making a reputation for his goods, as the trade marks aro changed. As it is, four-fifths of the American goods sent to Greece are handled in this way. American commercial sales men should visit Greece in person and work the country, accompanied by their sample trunks. The Greeks want the best, and they will pay for it if they know they are going to get It. The Europeans give them long credits, but I am told that many of the Greek merchants are unreliable, and that every customer should be fully in vestigated. This trade might be prospected by the American drummer stationed In ItaJy. It takes but a day or so to cross the Medi terranean from Italy to Greece, The best place to stop is Athens, where there are excellent accommodations at a cost of $3 a day. Greece Is n small country, and it can be easily worked. At present we are annually Selling the Greeks about 15,000 bales of cot ton. They buy our calicoes and sheetings, watches and Jewelry, sewing machines and typewriters, and also our farm tools and farming machinery. In return we annually import from them from 15,000 to 20,000 tons of seedless raisins, known as Zante cur rants. The Balkan slates of Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania are all using more or less American goods. Their total trade, how ever, is small, and it will not pay our com mercial travelers to work the territory. It can be managed by the agencies at Buda pest, or from Constantinople or Odessa, if American firms have correspondents and agents at those places. The countries are very backward, and sooner or later they are bound to nee cur farm tools and our heavy farm machinery. Speaking of American warehouses abroad one has recently been opened in Constanti nople. It is known as the American Ori ental agency and it handles goods on com mission. It shows the goods In its ware house, and when sold it pays the American exporter for them, taking its commissions out of the sales. This warehouse has all sorts of agricultural machinery and farm tools. It is handing wind mills, pumps, lamps, Jewelry and stationery supplies, as well as sewing machines, typewriters, clocks and watches, and American notions. Turkey is now buying considerable hard ware of the United States. Five hundred large agricultural machines were sold there last year. New openings are coming up as to railroad materials, although the con cession recently granted for a road from Constantinople to the Persian gulf will re quire supplies wnicn will probably come from Germany. There are also openings In Asiatic Turkey. Palestine and Kgypt, but these I will refer to in my next letter, which will describe a trip around the world with the American drummer. FRANK Q. CARPENTER. Grand Opera Invasion (Continued from Page Eight.) operatic work very early, her Marguerite In the "Damnation of Faust" being her most successful role. Madame Ackte left Finland to enter the Paris Conservatory, and in the preliminary examinations stood first among 197 candi dates for admission. Later she was given the Grand Prix for her singing of Mar guerite in Gounod's "Faust." Critics say that girlish parts like Marguerite, Juliette, KIsa and Elisabeth are best suited to her. Madame Ackte Is the wife of a leading Finnish lawyer. Dr. Renvsll. She is very much the grand dame, taking almost as snuch pride in her costuming as in her singing. She designs nearly all of her own stage costumes. Several of the new male singers are hand some men, over whom the matinee girls of Kurope have raved an some American women raved over Padercwskl. It Is con fidently expected that thty will extend their field of conquest here. Th hand somest is Fran Naval. He may be mobbed by enthusiastic women, as Padereswkl wus here and Kubelik In England. Two of these men are anomalies in the operatic world. One of them Is Naval. ITo Is thin a rare attribute of the grand opera singer. Tho other Is Enrico Caruso, who actually objects to being called a "star." Naval Is of Slovane birth, coming of a race almost unknown save to the Austrlans who dwell on the borderland of Roumania. Like Jean de Resscke, whose place he will take, he excels In French repertoire. Emperor Wilhclm was eo delighted with young Fran Naval's art when ho first camo to Berlin, after having scored success In grand opera in Vienna, that he engaged him for a term of five years, and Is re leasing him temporarily, so that he may sing In America Caruso has taken the place of Mario as the leading Italian singer of the old-fashioned school. Like Calve, he delights in caricature and draws remarkably well. One conductor is coming whoso name has been for years a household one among mu sicians, although he Is still young, llerr Felix MottI is considered the greatest operatic conductor in Europe, unless Dr. Hans Rlchter be excepted, and Rlchter is getting old. This is his first apearance in America. Mottl comes from the Royal the ater, Carlsruhe, where he fills the position of court conductor. Among the many pretty clever girls whom Italy, Germany and Austria are sending over for the classic ballet which Is to be a feature of the season, the first place Is taken by Slgnorlna Inrlehctte Varlsl. She Is an Italian girl and achieved success at La Sen la, Milan. Unlike many expert dancers, she has a fine figure and Is only 23. A FREE came inside each package of Lion Oof fee 60 different games. Hello! HtvOe AXRcTot: Root f fx I TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER Oaly One Dollar m. Year. 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