Electric railways-Continued.
Rheims, 620.

Shanghai, 260.

Electrical machinery, South Afri «.
Emigrants, Italian, Venezuela, 149
Emigration, Amsterdam (1897), 440.
England:

American manufactures, 638.
American trade methods, faults, 359.
Bicycle, United States, competition,
285.

Ceilings, stamped steel, opening for,
621.

Chemical trade, 35.

"Country-damaged" cotton, 516.
Machinery, American agricultural,
480.

Newcastle, trade, 435.

Potteries, Staffordshire, 299.

Pepper, decortication, 548.

Siphon bottles, 40.

Steam turbine, 450.

Furniture, United States, 271, 621.
United States shoes, 194.

English vs. American iron industry, 579.
Erdman, C. W. (consul, Breslau):

Breslau, industries, 223.

Wages, Breslau, 224.
Erzerum business houses, 383.
Europe:

Button industry, 481.

Nails, American wire, 460.
Railways, electric street, 300.
Salesmen, United States, 275.

Steel plates, American, demand, 156.
Sugar question, 33.

Women, employment, 145.
Everett, S. B. (consul, Batavia):
Bicycles, Java, 521.

Match industry, Java, 123.

Pepper, decortication, Dutch India,

549.

Quinine, Java, 266.

Postal savings bank, Java, 631.
Exhibition:

Machinery, Munich, 157.

South Africa, freight rates for, 311.

Export bounties:

Argentine Republic, 584.

Barbados, 584.

Europe, 300.

Germany, 464.

Ontario, 250.

Belgium, 585.

British Honduras, 585.

Chile, 585.

Uruguay, 626.

Firearms:

Exportation, Belgium, 63.

Liege, 149.

Fishery, mackerel, Ireland, 147.
Flax and hemp crop, Russia, 467.

Flax and straw goods, Belgium, 64.
Flax spinning, Cork, 157.

Flour and cereals, South Africa, 101.
Flour and wheat, Japan, 156.

Flour mill, Nantes, 306.
Flour:

Potato, Austria, 68.

Wheat, Japan, 562.

Formosa tea trade, 415.

Fowler, J. (consul, Chefoo):

German acquisitions, Shantung, 556.
United States trade, North China
(correction), 441.

France:

Apples, dried, American, 143.

Apples, dried, and staves, 462.

As a market, 349.

Bureau of Foreign Commerce, 130.

Calcium carbide and acetylene, 279.
Coal, high price, 473.

Colonies and protectorates, 203.
Commerce (1898), 298.
Cotton industry, 43.

Dovetailing machines, demand, 461.
Duty on staves and barrel heads, 307.

France-Continued.

Export bounties, 586.
Exports, decrease, 366.
Nantes, flour mill, 306.

Nuts as food, 537.

Marseilles, hog imports, 619.

New fields for United States manu-

factures, 191.

Paris, button industry, 484.

Rheims, electric roads, 620.

Siphon bottles, 39.

Subsidies, French line of steamers,
209.

Subsidies, French line of steamers

(correction), 312.

Tetanus, treatment by cerebral in-
jection, 475.

Trade openings, 350.

Weaving machine, new, 581.
Wheat crop, good, 629.
France, North, labor, 630.
Frankenthal, A. L. (consul, Berne):

Animals, Switzerland, 474.
Philippines, business points, 446.
Railway rates, cheap, Switzerland,

222.

Tax, commercial travelers, Switzer-
land, 220.

War vessels, German build, 463.

Free port, Kyao-chau, 468.
Freiburg, button industry, 486.

Freight, American, shipping, to South

Africa, 379.

Freight rates:

Canadian Pacific Railway, 150.

South Africa, 378.

Freight traffic, Russian railroads, 391.
French enterprise, Siberia, 641.
French West Indies, export bounties,
586.

Fruit, American, objections, Germany,
354.

Fruit market and American apples,
Germany, 529.

Fruit market, Manitoba, 533.
Furniss, H. W. (consul, Bahia):
Carbons, Brazil, 604.

Coal imports, Brazil, 309.
Gunpowder, Brazil, 602.

Furniture, American:

England, 271, 621.

South Africa, 456.

Fur-seal industry, Japan, 469.

Gas, South Africa, 372.
Gera:

Button industry, 488.

Commercial education, 370.

Weaving school, 370.

German consular service, increase, Bra-

zil, 120.

German interests, Guatemala, 160.
Germany:

Acquisitions in Shantung, 556.
American apples, 353.

American trade opportunities, 524.
Aniline colors, export, 226.
Barmen, button industry, 486.
Barmen, commercial conditions,462.
Beet-sugar exports, 57.

Bicycle industry, 283.
Breslau, industries, 223.
Breslau, wages, 224.

Berlin button industry, 485.
Canal, new, 466.

Coal as motive power, 466.
Commercial bureau new, 280.
Commercial education, Gera, 370.
Commission houses, American, 355.
Consular service as an aid to for-
eign trade, 134.

Diesel caloric motor at Munich ex-
position, 44.

Electric roads, 464.

Export trade, 363.

Export bounties, 588.

Export methods, American, com-
plaints, 622.

Export unions, 362.

Exports to United States, 225, 364.
Farmers, 57.

Filament, new incandescent, for
electric lights, 45.

Freiburg, button industry, 486.
Fruit, American, objections, 354.
Fruit market and American apples,

529.

Gera, button industry, 488.
Gera, weaving school, 370.

Glass industry, 135.
Hay crop, large, 474.

Heidelberg students, passports re-
quired, 146.

High prices and increased meat im-
ports, 528.

Hog products, United States, inspec-
tion, 200.

Germany-Continued.

Imports, increased meat, and high
prices, 528.

Imports and exports, 143.

Insurance system, German working-
men's, value, 51.

Land, sterile, reclaiming, 58.
Machinery, American and German,
55.

Machinery exports, 144.

Malarial disease, German studies,
593.

Munich, machinery exhibition, 157.
Pork, United States, opposition, 54.
Saxony, education, higher, 464.
Shipping, 137.

Stettin, cruisers, new, 463.
Strikes (1897), 433.

Stuttgart, sample bureau, 367.

Straw industry, 53.

Sugar-beet cultivation, good seed,
451.

Trade differences with United States,

adjustment, 473.

Trade with Russia, 369.

Trade with South America, 138.
Traveling agents and foreign lan-
guages, 359.
Trichinæ, 200.

United States manufactures, Mu-
nich, outlook, 195.

United States shoes, 352.

War vessels, German build, 463.

Water courses, mountain, as indus-

trial aids, 618.

Wines, foreign blending, 199.
Women in trade, 475.
Workingmen's houses, 465.

Ghent:

Bale, round cotton, 64.
Exposition, provincial, 622.
Gibbs, M. W. (consul, Tamatave):
Canal and railway contract, Mada-
gascar, 128.

Meats, canned, Tamatave, 254.
Railway contract, 566.
Gilbert, H. W. (consul, Liege):

Belgium, commerce (1897), 59.
Firearms, Liege, 149.

Shoe imports, Philippines, 10.
Straw and flax goods, Belgium, 64.
Telegraphy without wires, Belgium,
307.

Wines, California, Belgium, 198.

Glass industry:

Germany, 135.

Japan, 418.

Glucose manufacture, laws governing,

294.

Wales,

Goding, F. W. (consul, Newcastle):
Iron works, New South
631.

Newcastle, trade, 435.
Gold fever, Dawson City, 432.
Gold production, Uruguay, 238.
Gold shipments, Cape Colony, 630.
Goldschmidt, J. (consul-general, Berlin):

Beet-sugar exports, Germany, 57.
Button industry, Berlin, 485.
Caracas warehouse, 176.

Coal, Venezuela, 240.

Goodnow, J. (consul-general, Shanghai):
Directories, commercial, China, 470.
Exporters to China, hints, 405.
Mints, new, China, 558.

Railways, electric, Shanghai, 260.
Railway supplies, China, 25.
Tobacco, China, 629.
Gothenburg, street railways, 571.
Gowdy, J. K. (consul-general, Paris):
Button industry, Paris, 484.
Colonies and protectorates, French,

203.

Exports, French, decrease, 366.
Siphon bottles, France, 39.

Gowey, J. F.(consul-general, Yokohama):
Camphor, Japan, 310.

Butter, American, Japan, 419.

Camphor trade, Japan, 629.

Cement trust, proposed, Japan,

624.

Electric lamps, Yokohama, 469.
Fur-seal industry, Japan, 469.

Glass industry, Japan, 418.
Japan, trade (1898), 302.
Japan, hat trade, 563.
Japan, silk exports, 311.

Japan, steamship service, 302.
Labor, cheap, Japan, 624.
Perfumery imports, Japan, 155.
Rice crop, Japan, 629.
Wheat flour, Japan, 562.

Graham, W. H. H. (consul, Winnipeg),
fruit market, Manitoba, 533.
Grain, duty on, suspended, Korea,
155.

Grain export, Russia, proposition to pro-
hibit, 73.

Great Britain:

British trade, competition, 491.
British vs. American shipping rates,
508.

Exports, American, hindrances, 508.
Hop crop, 467.

Greece, United States trade, 356.
Greene, W. M. (consul, Bermuda), agri-
cultural conditions, Bermuda, 301.
Griffin, W. T. (commercial agent, Li-
moges):

Nuts as food, France, 537.

United States manufactures, new
fields for, 191.

Groceries and provisions, South Africa,

100.

Grout, J. H., jr. (consul, Malta):

Bicycle trade, Tunis, 305.
Malta, bicycle trade, 113.

Malta, trade conditions, 108.

Guadeloupe:

Charter parties, 424.

Duties, 245.

Duties, new, 424.

Economic conditions, 139.
Financial conditions, 627. ·

Meat, scarcity, 245.
Pointe a Petre, port, 599.
Shoes, United States, 628.
Guatemala:

German interests, 160.
Tariff increase, 308.
Gunpowder, Brazil, 602.

Haiti:

Duty on soap, 628.

Export bounties, 588.

Industrial conditions, 428.

Mining enterprise, American, 309.
Railway, projected, construction,

121.

Halstead, M. (consul, Birmingham):
American trade methods, England,
faults, 359.

Bicycle, United States, competition,
England, 285.

British vs. American shipping rates:
Hindrances to American exports,
508.

Coal, American, foreign countries,

343.

Coffin furniture, Australia, 304.
Consuls, American, activity, 617.
Furniture, American, England, 621.

Halstead, M.-Continued.

Hop crop, Great Britain, 467.
Locomotives and rolling stock, de-

mand, Japan, 156.

Nails, American wire, Europe, 460.
Railway material wanted, Australia,

472.

Shoes, United States, England, 194.
Salesmen, United States, Europe,
275.

Steel plates, American, demand,
Europe, 156.

Steel tubes, British, United States,
218.

Sugar factory, government, An-
tigua, 627.

Wheat for bread, world's supply,

385.

Hankau, German commerce, 122.
Harbor and railway improvements, On-
tario, 249.

Harbor improvements, Montevideo, 239.
Harbor regulations and new tariff,
Japan, 472.

Harbor regulations, open ports, Japan,

255.

Harness, South Africa, 98.

Harris, E. L. (consular agent, Eiben-
stock), export trade, Germany, 363.
Harris, C. B. (consul, Nagasaki):

Shipbuilding, Nagasaki, 561.
Wheat and flour, Japan, 156.

Harrison, T. S. (agent and consul-gen-
eral, Cairo), Egypt, trade conditions,
161.

Hart, C. B. (minister, Bogotá), export
bounties, Colombia, 586.

Harvest failure, Russia, 388.
Hat trade, Japan, 563.

Hay crop, Germany, large, 474.
Heidelberg students, passports required,
146.

Hemp and flax crop, Russia, 467.

Hitchcock, E. A. (ambassador, St. Pe-
tersburg), patents, Russia, 393.
Hiogo, port, 125.

Hoffman, W. J. (consul, Mannheim):
Heidelberg students, passport re-
quired, 146.

Land, sterile, Germany reclaim-
ing, 58.

Hog imports, Marseilles, 619.

Hog products, United States, inspection,
Germany, 200.