Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 6 | "Thieves Markets" Sell Yankee Goods

j 'THIEVES MARKETS" L SELL YANKEE GOODS ! "thieves' fnarkele of Kuropa are today to-day crowded with he product of American rectories. When the Amer--Iran armr went home, enormoue Block of equipment of various kinds Were disposed of In France and Oer-snanr. Oer-snanr. by eeke -and - otherwise, and much of this surplus haa found lis way to the many open air gatheringe of tha continent where men aad womiv bargain for a mlacellaneoua maag of artlclea under the tadt un. deratandlng that onenuat not Inquire In-quire whence the thirlTs come. la Ihe .market of laf ga. covering an area of two blocks, there are offer for sal dally '. large quantities of trailed State' army parapnernana. particularly clothing' and aanltary article ar-ticle bearing tha names of different American relief organisations. Amei-Icaa Amei-Icaa phonographs give dally concert of American airs, which Invariably '.tract the crowd from the music of ooennetltora with their German ana. chine playing Ruaalan tunea Amer- icaa sewing marhlnea, too. are em sale la wait alalia and In others there are American-made knlvea and t forks vicing with Gorman, Polish and Ruaalan manufactured goode of the aarae kind. Also there arc thousands o old and worn collars, still carrying carry-ing the mark which give their birthplace birth-place a Troy, N. T. The . purohaaer takes kla pick at hla own price, provided he can reach aa understanding with the polyglot storekeeper, who will bargain with him In any on of the four or five language now current In the etreeis lot Htga. I I :