Show KI KING G OF SP SPAIN'S 1 S HOBBIES DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DEAL WITH HIM HE HAS THE AMERICAN BUG BU J A Talk Tali With One o of J the New Mew United States Commercial Attaches in Business Is Isto Isto Europe A Ato Their to Get Business for or Our Bi Business 11 Men cn We Ve We think of tho the ARTS Sept 16 p king of Spain Spam as a l boy boj o but he is not He is nn an active business man who ho acts as if Spain were a property which has been left him liim to develop elop Cabinet ministers come orne and o go o but the king busi- busi business stays stas An Any American business busi Jl ness man can make mace a deal with him hum big hi or little r So Su spoke our latest type of diplo diplo- ma mat t lIe He is C. C W William A A. A of or Philadelphia and Washington commercial com cora commercial mercial of the tho United Unite States embassy sin in in Paris Pm-is just back hack from a ahi hi high h business trip to Spain u Do you JOU know that we have comm commercial com oom- m mercial attaches in Europe 1 There are arc only four so far fat in ill London Paris Petrograd ad d Berlin Probably there here will wiH goon oon on be more They Thc have lIae to toi on account i of competition Their business i is to get tret et business for American business men It is the latest latest diplomats diplomats for foreign for for- ei eign cirIt 11 business s. s All the count countries are appointing them It i is the new way way diplomatic a diplomatic deals to net get worM world trade and anti keep our all buy busy in- in own end cud up They are arc tri lin r traveling buzzing JD ministers capitalists kin kings and railroad pr- pr presidents presidents slin sl- sl dents in Europe Ours belong to the and domestic commerce commerce commerce com com- bureau au of foreign merce at Washington the American American Ameri Ameri- The The kin king kins of Spain has can cnn bug said William Vc tz In Tn In first interview with him he ho said l my Y there there would be no strikes if th that t bl t 4 Americans should set set- setup up ui-ai ui as na at south of Bar Barcelona lons 1 to exploit the iron ore magnetic ore magnetic and andall andall andall abundant in that part of all kinds so kin kinds so s-so so Spain There is no difficulty t to obtain obtain ob oh- of labor at Al- Al tain tamn the thc right o kind o meria It is a f farming and conn tr try tn where laborers get 1 peseta 20 i t cents per day ay If an American American capital Company any with L equipment and superintendents superintendents superintendents should start there they can the pick of or the population for decent lecent wages h Give Gie them 3 or 4 p per day and they would become become be be- come the aristocrats o of the community Xo No fear They would not strike strike- they they'd d d be too afraid of losing their with the Americans wonderful jobs It i is in fact one of or the kings king's bugs It is a splendid place to send products not only throughout Spain but to all aU Mediterranean countries said FIl t the king to William and he has no doubt that should Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans set up there a free rent zone could be he established for Americans to take breath and go on to Spain as a market market market mar mar- ket or to other lands at pleasure pleasures as asat s sat at Cadiz Cadiz Cadi is another of the kings king's American bugs and it has succeeded There is now being organized a abig abig abig big Spanish company which wants American capital they have not eno enough gh of their own to build enormous enor enor- mo s warehouses at Cadiz which is a afree afree free ec port and zone since 1914 1014 sa says Some our commercial American capital has already come com to it and it is e called led the American Warehousing company It has land Imd enough to rent out factories for finishing finishing fin fin- finishing products and assembling goods imported import d in parts It will not manufacture manu mann fact facture re but open facilities to others othen to do so ren renting ing them sheds shops shelters anything for working free of duty hit hit- tt You Yon know how lOW these free zones operate operate op op- erate crate No dut duty is paid either on raw material or manufactured goods which enter them as long as ns they stay in them Americans can n ass assemble down knocked down own American imports finish finish finish fin fin- ish American products shipped half half- manufactured experiment with manufacture manufacture manufacture man man- and even een destroy raw material material material ma ma- imported from America an and mix it or not with Spanish materials and labor Jabor all duty free fre free so o long as the thc products remain in the zone tone When they en enter r Spain for final sale they pay pa the Spanish duty on the product which they have become If they enter enter enter en en- ter another European or oriental country country coun coun- try they pay the duty of that country coun coun- try try- only It permits Americans to manufacture assemble and finish sh in Europe c I I will give you a 1 very simple example example example ex ex- ample said H The he hc Spanish tariff on automobiles has two bro rates of duties a higher one for autos weighing weigh weigh- ing over a a. ton and a a. lower rate te for forli li lighter vehicles But in computing the weight ht th weight of packing is included in included in- in clu ed in the dutiable ma mass s. s If we d' d k f ri i 3 z r n t t M Y l w yf at w wt uvA f t M R S fl A s t o yr v. v a t ir 1 o r y t td f A rt i t i 7 r r r t I y l y fa I F i 4 r q w r r r f t S A- A J may Y i t r I Il k l 1 l' l JN 1 y v 9 1 7 e eL L t r rl 4 t ff E E. E A. A Brand first assistant chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic G C C. C William Villiam A A. of Philadelphia and Washington commercial at- at tache of the American embassy in Paris The United States to the I a up v of TT has v-n- v i. A King Alphonso Alphonse Spain commerce at Washington He just passed through Paris on a visit to present has only four such commercial attaches in London Paris Petro- Petro Spain Spain Spain-as as a result of the kings king's American hobby grad and md Berlin J can enn import American autos into such Ilch sucha I Ia a free zone and unpack them and put them together they can be he placed laced on flat cars and enter Spain at the lower low t I er rate for autos of a ton or less Ford Chas has now an unloading station at Gibraltar Gi Gi- Gi Gibraltar which is English and free trade Barcelona also wants want to be a free freeport freeport freeport port and zone So t this hi American Warehousing company of Cadiz is going going go go- ing slow to lo bring Barcelona into the combination not to cut each others other's throats The tiThe king has hM brought a number of bi big ng American concerns to Barcelona says or commercial Tho The United States Steel Products company affiliated with the steel corporation is is furnishing rails railway equipment and iron and steel products aroun around Barcelona even eten steel ingots On my first visit isit I agitated the idea of or establishing es- es es establishing s- s an American chamber of commerce It was a new ide idea but I found that our consul general at Barcelona barcelona bar bar- celona Carl Bailey Hurst had also thought of it and was about to realize it It is now established To To get an idea of the kings king's activity act activity acty ac ac- t ty see how bow he pulled wires to get the American International corpora corpora- tion I It was formed in New Net York about eight months ago ngo with ith a capital of to invest in foreign en enterprises enterprises enterprises en- en says U At At first they declared themselves to be interested interested inter inter- ested este only in in Russia RUSS l South America and China but through the reports of the American department of commerce their interest has been aroused in in Spain They sent a 1 delegation to Spain Spai last April but postponed their decision Willard Straight vice rice president ent of of- the the- Corporation was in Paris and London Several of the engine engineers rs hav have not yet crossed the At At- lantic lanti In the same wa way the National City Bank of New York has bas sent representatives sen representatives to Spare Spain and in spite of contradictions contradictions contradictions con con- the rumor persists ts that they have t. t taken ken over over the Bank mk of Barcelona Bar Bar- celo celona a. a The Irv Irving Ig N National bank of New York has also its men on the spot And more Two of oft American grO groups 1 financiers finan finan- tiers ciers are arc said to be interested in a project gr greatly ly favored fa by the king kinS' to build n. n a direct railroad from Madrid Madrid Madrid Mad Mad- rid rid to Jo the tIle French frontier Th The striking thing thin here is that our Americans backed Americans backed by the kin king king arc arc rc not afraid d to attack a a. Rothschild in in- in terest Th The Norte railroad which actually ac ae- actually wastes miles of meandering meanderings meander- meander lags ings a added ded to lo the miles direct route from the l I French ench frontier to Madrid Madrid Ma Ma- is cor controlled by the who built it The They will naturally put up a fight but how v can they win against a new direct Ii line pc 1 When I 1 had my first interview with t the eking king says lie ho said t to me You Yon k know that the Spanish I government guarantees guarante 5 per cent in interest in- in crest terest on capital invested in n approved ed new railroads I replied replie that in coming coming coming com com- ing from run to Madrid one might ima imagine ine tI that the Norte line had enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed en en- joyed a n kilometric subvention by the way it meanders The Icing king laughed laug-hed I and said no that it had been bren thought good business years ago to unite all an anthe the important towns of tho the regions traversed whence the twisting and amI winding and that as ns a n fact th they had ma made e a lot of money but the time h has come for something better if Spanish Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish freights to France are to have a n. chance have ha as they must This new American lino to the French frontier is to be electric with the European gau gauge e and on Juno June 16 1914 just two months before the tho war the king of Spain and the president of the l French Republic signed an agreement agreement agree agree- ment to do everything in their power to establish direct fast railroad service service service ice between Paris and j Madrid Another hobb hobby which the king has of off i is tho New York-Vigo York Steamship line It HIt is persistently reported that a Spanish American American Transatlantic company company com corn pany pony is to run three boats per month each way between Vigo and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York fast passenger and mail and anel d carrying Ug fast freight says sas our commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial It i is being delayed e 1 pending settlement of the subvention subvention tion which tho the Spanish h government will grant and 2 pending the indispensable indispensable indispensable indis indis- development of railroad facilities facilities fa fn- fa- fa i from Y Vigo go inland These have finally been Leen taken up by the rich city of Valladolid and other industrial centers of northern Spain Barcelona does not like it It frightens Lisbon But Bet what will you yon These matters mattern are arc I decided decide a advantages nn and frei freight ht e economies economics an and Barcelona can have a straight ht railroad line Barce- Barce Vigo lona which will make her a a. pretty prett s saving over both Barce Baree- Barcelona lona Cadiz lona-Cadiz lona an and Barcelona The king has all this on his mind Spain pain IH has S a chance to fairly buzz Z with business Last year Spain sol sold more goods than n she bought The peseta which peseta which us used d to be called the sick peseta peseta has has gone awa away above par to a point where pesetas are worth slightly more even cn than dollars dollars dol dol- ol- ol lars The war var did diel it it But Rut this same war va r has st started up ui Sp Spanish nish prosperity pros pros- and and is bound to continue it after hostilities if Spain can hustle an and profit threatens profit threatens to lo draw away a alot alot lot Jot of European capital at the moment moment moment mo mo- ment when Spain needs more and more to work her boom and cinch her pr prosperity So the ling acing cultivates the tbs American Ameri Ameri- can ambassador orIf or If you want an anything of the king they say down there I ask ask the American ambassador He Ho is Joseph E. E Willard of Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia banker railroad man roan owner of tb the controlling of Willard rs 1 ho ho- io- io tel in Washington tou His eldest daughter daugh daugh- ter married Kermit Roosevelt and the wedding which it will be remembered remembered came off orr in iu Spain was attended attend attend- ed by boY both the king and the colonel Each being being- full of ideas they sa say down there that each wanted to lo do doall doall all the t talking lk ng and as the king speaks English beautifully Teddy had haJ the best of him I When tho the war broke out the king and the ambassador or revived the talking talking talking talk talk- ing match Reduce that transport ta tax on American coal and we will sen send you yon all you yon want said Ambassador Willard Willard Wil Wil- illard il lard I will win go you sou said the king He lIc got the tho t tax x abolished In a few months following we shipped tons of American coal conI to Spain In 1916 our sales will Teach reach tons more more coal in one year ear than wo we shipped to Spain before in all the tue I years Se Secretary Redfield in hi his annual annual annual an an- nual report says that when the transport transport trans trans- port ta tax tat was was' abolished the news was sent by cable and that three weeks later several American firms had i I landed landed big nig orders And the thc king continued talking he said ht By rights Spain ou ought not import coal Our subsoil is 15 rich richin richin richin in coal as in every ot other useful mining mining mining min min- ing product from aluminum and antimony antimony antimony anti anti- mony to wolfram and tungsten But Bui its it's those railroads A ton of coa coal coni can be carried from Cardiff to Barcelona Barcelona Bari Bar Bar- celona by sea in cheaper cheap cheap- er than from the Asturias h by rail though only miles Cant Can't you send som some American railroad and mining capital to Spain 1 JJ said tho the Ally Why sure sere dor dol Reform your our mining laws and m tariff tariff and Ill I'll write write- to the department department depart depart- ment in Washington Washington- How many Americans American know of our department of or commerce Its special bureau of foreign and domestic commerce i is doing very nicely nicely nice nice- ly Iy in spite of the fact that thousands s of manufacturers and jobbers in the United States especially States especially the smaller ones ones have have no not yet awakened to the fact th that t Uncle Sam through this bureau bureau bureau bu bu- reau is literally at their service in getting export business s for them andin an anin and andin in helping them take care o of it Yet Yet- Y ot eve every day ay new testimonials arc are coining coming in One Ono is a small manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- fact in iii Illinois who admits that the bureau brought him a n 1500 order order order or or- der carrying ing a n fat margin rin of profit at nt an expense of off exactly 10 cents Another concern in Ohio began t two o years n ago o following up the tra trade o opportunities opportunities opportunities op op- tipped off by the bureau of foreign n and d domestic commerce It has brought t them in or orders lers for worth of goods from one one ne foreign |