Show vw r rt Cnn C 1 t Y D I r and on tho the 1 Air Its C Cotton II UI How 1111 liter er Should ld 1 T Jl 1 e N e W k 0 f j a va fa r I Ho tit Bold WK Su Sugar ar 11 boat About d And lId How It Might ht 10 III I 11 In lu thu Ihu 3 s Millions Who Work for fn form n Cent Celli un tin Hour and Ilvo ho I Well on WI Three Cents n a 1 Iny Now New Oj Oll A 1 Visit to the Chief Commercial City of tho Javanese Hl People ers ersA A Visit bIt to a 1 Normal School N IN 1 i y yI rw I i Lu FRANK fRANC G CARPENTER CARPNTER l 1 Ills i e you ou j ever lizard heard of 1 It Il Is the chief t commercial city of ti people It Is situated fits l as far east cast from Batavia as Il bri New York Is from Cleveland t and Is la connected by railroad t with silt all nil parts of Java Jaa I came camo cameto fit line lino which to It on the government 0 crosses the Island from west to east cast mid and my whole Journey was through richona rich ad coffee cortee tea toa tobacco su BU sugar plantations pla ns Of O ona t tar gar Indigo and rice There were vII vil villages laa 7 sages lages Ja S In sight all the Iho way the people r fairly swarmed and I got sonic some Idea Idoa of or ore e en L the enormous population of this Dutch Dutcha a 8 f I colony TIm THE NEW NI W YORK YOm OP OF JAVA JA A Aart art Is h the New York of Java or of I It Is le its principal seaport and It has hils the thelen most moat trade The Thu city has len en t tents tams and of these only are Kuro luro l uro ut ul scans Still these Europeans live Ue fars far s 9 letter than their brothers of Europe Many of or them ai all rich und and nd their homes humes r ss n f tiro I 0 0 The rhe streets of are arc wide wIlle and nud alts t shaded with magnificent trees They The ore are oreca re cm cn ca raved paved with asphalt and beautifully i i ll In the residence parts every evary every has a large lawn about It II with d palm palin trees I and lowers Dowers and kept i t I it t walks The grounds about the Ibe better s of Luclid those as alf large as ne homes are re Not No 1 well kept venue as and they are arc equally It i i Borne Santa of tho the houses are of vast lIst extent t lm m I They are of une me story atory st ry but the rooms cot cOI I 1 are art large lur t and the th ceilings very ery vcr high i Most dost of the houses have hu e verandas tr roofed 00 with U red fed III tiles which are upheld ek k w by white marble pillars Many of ot them 1 0 oia t 01 are arc re floored with marble maible and und marble Ics forma torms the till floors of ot most meat of the The town ton has hns electric lights Every F very IJ 1 se nun man has a n 1 telephone ee I 1 hone und and a all 1111 the he modern conveniences i BICYCLES AND ND AUTOMOBILES I carne came hero here to ti Investigate ate the tho chances chanced for tor American trade Thare Is a good opening for our bicycles and also for fortie tie automobiles There are aro many Amen Ameri American can bicycles s used In Java I Isee sea nee our ouri leading Sending makes In every eer town lown Hero here in InIE j 1 taxed andl and i tho the bicycles are art IE l there Is n a number fastened to the back hack backof r l of the tho t lo seat lien t of ot every crery wheel I noticed n one the other day which bore the fig figures 1 di nJ I ures 2002 so 80 I judge judee there must bo be morp more than th n two thousand In the city elly I o 0 These people want a good thing and andis to paying high prices as is j i at arP accustomed te f It I seems strange to have hae to get gel out of the tb ih way ay of an automobile In Java but I Ivas vas 1 8 nearly run down by b one the tho othern other oCher is night The driver was a n young Dutch Dutchman n man who was out with his sweetheart I taking the air all Ills hand Which should ti have havo been brell on the lever leer was about the thO thet tl d vaUt alst of or his Inamorata and ho he was everyone trotters t f 0 oblivious livious to to globo trotters and everyone nr 1 lw else el All kinds of carriages are used here i 1 X eee ties English dog carts victorias victories and cl landaus The rich Dutchmen drive about In fine style and find many of ot the na pa native tive chiefs and aid nobles have havo magnificent turnouts turnout Tho The ordinary vehicle Is U tho the sado or 01 dos a dos a 1 sort of a little dog dogcart do dogcart cart drawn by a n In III which the tho driver pits gilts In la front and the passengers behind lacing the tho rear The These 1 s arc are the ther u bs of or 1 Batavia r find the Ih other ether cities although are larger vehicles for fOI hire 1111 No one thinks of or walking In la Inthis inthis this hot and In the he cooler parts of the day tho the nie full Cull of ot car carriages carrll ls private and public There are aro native coachmen and footmen In livery anti and according accord to law each cach coachman has ti tl hays have u a whistle tJ to warn others to keep out of or o his hlll iii way He lie tarries carries this In Ms Ills mouth und and nn toots tOOls once or twice at every block CHANCES roll FOR AMERICAN COTTONS COTTONS COT COTTONS TONS I Our cotton factories ta orles should send lend agents to Java Inn to study the patterns and goods needed by the people Java Ina I imports from front to worth of ot stuff Bluff every ery year ear and a large amount of ot tide this IS III a cotton cotlon Inland sells Hells worth of ot piece goods to Java annually and Hol Holland land haw have n a large share of the tho trade About worth of ot machinery rY are I brought bro ht In I a from England every ever year In r anti an almost equal amount of Iron It 1 used to lie he that the hutch Dutch monopolized Izell everything but at nt present ent no dif difference i ference Is made between Dutch and foreign Imports and the tariff IB is low luW lowThe The Th chief American goods Roods now no ems sold arO carpenters carpenter tools and sowing sewing mix ml machines chines A cheap variety of hand sewing MW sew w Ins ing machines Is common Ind American axes are Ore everywhere In demand There ore art no American Am cottons rr or prints to tl speak of and these should be he the chief feature of our trade HOW TUB TIm DUTCH Dur ll THEAT THAY FL I dont think our commercial travel travelers ers would have any trouble In entering Java The Tho custom officers are lenient A drummer who brought some corns samples of silver sliver plated wore ware to Batavia not long ago ngo was wag allowed to open his stuff sturt In the custom house and sell there lIe He wean waR charged duty duly only on the art anti vies clen c tI sold 1 nun he lie used the government office as a n store There Is a n good goat open opening openIng openIng ing here for tor American watches and clocks and for tor all kinds of ot American and notions The Tune distance Is too great for tor lour Hour anti perishable products end and the freights are high At present everything comes COllies via vin Eu Isu Europe I u rope and the Suez Sue canal anti and this may any still be ho the route after the th opening of or the tho Nicaragua cant canal as the tho Suez route will probably be the lire cooler JAVAS Ilia 1110 UI SUGAR PLANTATIONS A vast sast deal of or machinery of ot all kinds Is used In Java and It will pay nay our exporters to send their agents to work w rk the various factories There ate are sugar mills here which have the finest lne t of modern machinery tingle single machines running high bl h Into the tM thousands of dollars At present most of such Buch machinery ma machinery mI chinery comes COllies from tr m Germany or Eng I ng land whereas It should come from the tha United States tes for the United States StateR takes u a great grunt part of Javas sugar pro pre product duct We Wo took last year car worth of ot sugar from this port of bala alone and our total imports of sugar last year train from rein Java Ina amounted to Java Is It now noli producing about u bil billion billion lion and a half halt pounds of ot sugar every year and Its plantations aru ara among the richest of the world The ItIc cultivation cultivation tion Is along lines The Heidi are aru trenched to a great depth und and arc orr otherwise cultivated more carefully lI perhaps than In any other part of the world with the single exception of tho the Hawaiian Islands They are planted by b cutting the cane eano lute IntI short lengths and sticking It upright In the ground In some places the seed Deed plants planta are raised on the highlands and the cut cuttings tings carried to the tho lowlands for tor plant plantIng planting Ing This Title Is on account or a disease which has hns recently affected ilio thu cane of or the lowlands IN TilE THE CANS CAN FIELDS Sugar grows luxuriantly here The cano cane fields lire are a I very ery thicket through which It Is almost Impossible to go IO The rhe cane Is full tull of at juice and contains a large percentage of o sugar sn ar For Forn Fora a time timea a 1 great part of the product was Willi raised on the government plantations 1 but about ten years oarS ago such cultivation ens Pd Now Nosy all sugar lugar la raised on lands leased from the government and on private estates The govern government government ment nl estates have steadily deci decreased eased and In Ih 1591 IS 3 there were less than 00 of them Many of or the tho large sugar su ar factories were developed through tho the culture eye system tem rem The government advanced money to colonists colonist to build sugar nulls mills agree agreeing agreeIng fee feeIng ing that the natives of ot till the districts where the mills were built should be forced to tv grow enough sugar Rugar cline cane to keep the mills going of the theland theland land was lUf planted In sugar cane and every ever native had to give gle one days la In labor Inv bor bar a wc w week k to tend lend the crop The mill owner agreed to sell of ot his lis product to the government at nt a 11 low fixed rote rate thus paying back the money mOM advanced to him Holland made an on enormous profit out of this business rev re ro receiving for tor years a n revenue of more than annually from Its sugar sales salee It Insisted that nil alt plans for tor factories fac factories tories should be submitted to the tho gov gor government engineers for approval and the result Is h that sugar su ar making Is car carried car red ried on ns nil scientifically here as nt at any anyplace place In the world worl The rhe low wages und anti the machinery reduce the cost coat of ot the product to a 1 minimum As It Is now they make refined sugar for tor about gold a 1 plena or for a little more than 1 cent per pound Our sugar lugar lands In the tho Philippines are arc managed after att t the most host wasteful methods met Nevertheless the true planters make money If the till agricultural a de do department can establish experimental stations and factories It can cun probably show the tho sugar men how to Increase their profits profit tenfold I should think that Indigo could be bo grown brown at nt a II profit on almost every one of If tho the Philippine Islands The Che Indigo plants are tiro 10 found In several of the tho pro lIfo provinces vinces Inces of ot Luzon and n a small amount Is grown in tho the northern part of ot that Island Here In ht Java there then are aro vast VIst plantations devoted to this crop and 1 nm urn told tol that they hay pay very ery well Some SOllie of or the planters Tent rent their lands of ot the tho natives tut t and others have estates leased from the tho Dutch government The best Indigo Is 18 grown croft n In the thu central part of the tho Island I saw sol n a 1 number of plantations on an my way lIlY from Solo to Lo They looked for all tho the world like plantations of o ragweed grown In regular rows The Indigo comes from he ire leaves which ore are picked flIcked oft of three thice times tines n a year and put In vats vals of ot water neater to lermont Enough water tenter Is 18 put hut In hr to just cover cliver the leaves Within a n short time lima the th blue coloring or juice goes out Into the water and after n a awhile while the water seater turns a yellowish h green It Is now drawn ra wn ort oft and 1111 allowed to soak Into powdered chalk which when dried becomes the Indigo of or com coin commerce pierce merce The Best Indigo has bas n a tine line pur l ur color and It U should have huo a aMort sort Mort of ot a tI copper gloss MILLIONS S AT 1 CENT AN HOUR So SQ tar for I have not discovered trades in iii Java Jum and line thu contrast be between between tween tW en hero and In Australia Is painful It Is difficult to find n a man manin manIn in Australia and Now Nose Zealand who Is lot tot making 2 or more for Cor eight hours work worl Hue Here there tholo are millions who are glad to get et 20 n O cents for tor ten hours work It Is only only In the cities that the tho themen thenon non men receive na us much as this In the I mountainous regions of the I saw men and women laboring for less le iI than a cent nn an hour and nn In the tea plantations the tho regular wages swages aro are 1 7 cents a day da for tor six work On Online the line railways tho the get 14 cents wId a II day and nun l on the tho government fit germs they tha receive less Here Heie In ala bala tome somo common laborers lub ferl get Jet 16 cents a day and this tills Is III considered high wages I Jilin am told lold that thal a man can live on 4 gulden or about per month and the man tuna who nets gets from 53 3 to Jj 1 a 1 month has hag all he ho wants scants and money to burn The rhe result Is that with nil all the low wages there Is 19 little poverty In Java Jaa The people everywhere look fat and healthy They respect themselves andon and on the whole are I think happy They rhoy spend nil they make mae and delight In gay gny clothing In some come regions they wear the craziest patterns of ot brown red and amI yellow jollow calicoes The Tho men wear ecru CUI calico callcu call u ons a suet sort of divided skirt which hus bus zigzag stripes looking as al although though It had lind ha been struck by lightning Many Man of ot the patterns are arc beautiful They rhe are re the Invention of Qt the people the work of ot printing th them i being dono done by IJ hand hanl and In ca cases casas os the t design being sketched nut of or the th heath of the designer tle The English I tand Germans have havo copied them thes patterns palt ins even to faults hUlt and uro urb shipping I II In printed cottons In vast l The Tho home homemade homemade made mado articles bring high prices but tho the Imitations rl tell t for tor a n fair fall profit on time tha H HI t H Ht I f fj ff I f I f i I II q j T i ii I 1 1 I J JI i I I IT IT Ii 1 T 4 i L T e X I J Jy i It f X y 1 y wui u t 1 ty tI 1 I n y Y 1 1 y 1 1 to toI I f I t 1 M MI I tr J t tv J v s i at 1 f i f r I J t 3 Photographed for tor the News Neva by Frank Prank 0 a Carpenter I ITHE i THE REGULAR VEHICLE OF TRAVEL T 1 H lH H H I 31 HI I H HH HI H HH HootH H r lI H H HA A A A OW rost rosl of ot manufacturing To Introduce American prints it might be bo well for our factories to 10 obtain the original de designs designs signs and copy cupy CUJI them JAVAS NEW OIL FIELDS FI I passed through Javas new noW oil of fields fieldson on my way eastward They aro are situated not far from the north const coast ron l One lie lies Ilea near and tho the other not far from the tune two being several seral hundred miles apart a aso None of t the Ie u oil so 80 far tar goten Is la equal e to that from Crom the United States Stales arid and It Is now selling Roiling or about 20 cents less per case CUBe The Tho Standard Oil company has lias the lire bulk of the tho trade here It has hns Us rte agencies at Samrang and and It U brings In oil by the ship shill load The Tha oil Is bought by the Chinese middlemen who sell It to 10 the Iho native nathe merchants who peddle It tt out In small quantities In the market the average measure la is a n 11 tin till tincup CUll cup 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