Show EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES Month of April Was Larger Thnn Any Preceding Month in History Except March and May 1900 TRIBUNE SPECIAL Washington May Exportation of manufactures In April was larger than In any preceding month in tho history of our export trade excepting tho months of March and May 1900 The total value of manufactures exported In April 1903 was In round term 510003000 against S 20000000 in April IfS 2JOOO000 In April 16K IGCGo In April 1E > 3 and li00i000 in April 1 33 Thus comparing April 1K3 with April 1893 the total la 1 nearly three timea as great On only two occasions In tho entire history of our export trado have the exports ex-ports of manufactures during a single month reached as high a figure oa that of April 1903 The two months which ahow a larger total than April of this I year are March and May 1900 In March 1MQ the total exports of manufactures were 44707139 in May 1900 540400307 while In April o this year the total was f An examination of the details of the export of these two months which exceeded ex-ceeded April of this year shows that the higher figures of those two months are duo almost exclusively to tho fact that iron and steel exports on thoso occasions wero much larger than at present The total value of Iron and steel exported In March 1900 was 1165S3S7 and in May of that year 12026GS1 while In April of tho present year tho total exports of Iron and alccl was S929233 |