Show y H U VII R I I 11 N C TER f A M TH E G 0 L EN 41 ALL EUROPE AIRE MONEY AND IT MILLION CITY OF I I I 11 1 J Ill l I 4 1 Special of the News Now by Frank G C Carpenter I on of tilt the richest of or Europe It hll iu le leral ev tn tirI ral COI cor i of ol u millionaire and who hive have luxurious lu It has hau om of ot th the chief tonk tonkins k ins Inre firms firm at ol o world and IU Iti took Ua a 01 ui thole JIO of ol Jondon An ot of American are ara held hell heldi Iiii hi i r and nd our are bought and Old gold every IX day on tl the I om urn told toW that th the Amsterdam brokers have like in Urn th l tew ew In American nUi k and that thal th y our u as good M aa any of ot the tiLe world Not ot long loi there there wo wn o like worth of United Stales tw stock tok ItO k held In Amsterdam Including 1550 share hilI ot of the preferred ir and of at the common There fliers Is ti much Southern ln and Trunk wine oin C I IQ II Q quite ft a lot lol Of ot t Denver Klo rom Ome Atchison Topeka Kannas City In il nil alt more mort or lee lew of about different American stock FO TUN S 1 1 TUB Tim Among the lending securities sold old on the elook exchange are ure thOM tho of Dutch companies doing bu lne II In Holland I Hast Indian lIllian There Thre In Is I no end nd of companies here which have been Leen bt en or organized tp to t develop dt Sumatra Java nor llor net Qt the tho Celebes and many of at them paying hiI bI dividends dividend They give gle Borne orne lIeu Idea n ne to what our capitalists inny Inn do In the Philippines later on TaRn TaHo the matter of tobacco are 1110 14 ii different companies s which have es en estates tats tates In Java or Sumatra and the tho stock of ot many of ot them l I is far above tiar Tim rho Doll ranges raMes from tram to 60 00 for or shares anti and aul It dividends of from 10 to tu 28 per Iler cent clint The rise Tobacco company pays 28 8 per tiel cent the tile hell Dell from roni 47 to 10 3 31 per por ont cent and awl the Dell DeH about 12 a p per pilI r cent The Thu company C ranges from trum to toa a 1 and the hrding IH III over Some Sums of lIt the tho companies doing 11 In are ore paying good Ol The Dutch petroleum enterprises are prosperous The companies hero have Ilao oil nil Melds ileitis In III Sumatra and Borneo hut but Iho the oil II I III much below that of If the United States In character and the output Is not large luG M HANKS S There are ore many big hl banks hanks here some Borne hacked backed by II Jews and some by hy Chris Christians Christians Thu Tho Jewish Population Is largo large comprising altogether sonic some Many of at the tho Jews arc nrc descendants of those thOle who caine here hero from Lisbon dur during ing III the middle ages and engaged In lending money mony and In shipping projects Others CLIme from froni Germany Ger and eastern Europe l Tin Thu Dutch themselves uro aro among the safest t and nd best business bu lne men of ot the world and with the Jews Jew make mak n a strong combination They riley have never nover 11 11 to Invest In ventures that promised well voil and raul they have always pushed liu hed out for new lleV nt things Amsterdam m laid laiti the foundation other of her IlIr wealth through her spice trade with the tho Dutch Ku I t Indies She Bhe had hud the mon lOon monopoly of or this trade when the Dutch Hist I l India company was formed she sho Is I today ono Oil of tho the chief spice mar Iliac markets hem of tho the world Shin She 1111 hail had to tu hue haw plenty of or money to back bark liar her Ier en on enterprises and this thin has hns led Id to tho the growth of at a n large bunking business On One of if the tho oldest banks lit la that of I Ithe the Netherlands which U is quoted at K 00 percent ller cent celli and ull upward a The rhe French b bank shares hal are al worth as high as a I 00 and the th I Herman German Government bank shares harell sell sli at nt 1 OS Then there IH Is the tile Java Jaa bank which does doel a large trade In the East ENIt Indies paying between 7 T and 8 per percent percent cent rent a B flank and Credit Association lion for Or South Africa the Ara Am rl bank the tite und unda a number numb of others oUI rK KAST tAST INDIA MINING STOCKS Within tho the past few years quite lulle tl It I Ideal deal of speculation has ha b been een n ami lit III mining of the Dutch companies which ore lire exploiting I of gold jold coal cOllI antI and III nil tin The operate In IH Borneo Sumatra Sanko the Ihl Celebes Cleoo and In Iii Dutch on tin tiLt I north coast cout of America So tar far I the gout gold mines of ut the East Kast 1 t Indie Indies ha hanot haH not l to very much uch hut but the I shares of Guiana rn are ara 11 at nt and more Inure am and 11 to b ht be do doIng dolog log Ing In well all this The tin till of the Island of Lilt are very profitable plO One ill tin Ito company linn hISS doubled Us Its divi dividends and the ate art turn turning turning ing Ilig out OleO een more than III In the put t The Dutch steamship are lUll making milking money TUB fhe fh line pays ll Y good dividend The Bleat tsaL company that ha has haM the monopoly of ot tin lit trade of the this Malay Iala archipelago U III pro iro of oth otti other an there are a II er companies which pay lY from 0 G to 11 Jl per tent right along al Il IN DIAMONDS The Dutch are Ire milking making fortunes out of They Thy buy th them nj tn Ill th through the rough and AOl cut and them fur for th tile the ets ta They have has been doing this tista for fur generations arid 1111 have made Amster Amter Amsterdam titan dam the tile chief Illet diamond cutting cullin und anti poi pol polishing place of ut it the tile world worM The Tue work Is t mostly done dune by Portuguese le Jews Jew who have hav been engaged In iii It U from corn father to toson toHOU son HOU for tor hundreds of ot years Titers There are such men here who do nothing not hInt else and anil they are the most must skilled of ot their th lr kind In tIll tile world They work for forthe forthe Oi the tile capitalists BI at i regular wages some In III little shops mill others othera In factories There are In ill all about 00 factories In Inthe Inthe intile the tile ity with or 1400 1100 polishing stones tunel In which the men work wurl day do In awl and day Ilay out upon uI on diamonds for lor extort export About All ut worth wurth of rough stones are ure bought every lery year and when polished are sent COOt to 10 all alt of tin tIe world Within the last few f W years of good times In ill tho thu United States some of the best stones tones have ilave come to us tie and amI we ve weare are lire now nul taking about worth every year We have havo now the green diamond for which Morgan Is said to havo offered a n quarter lUll UHF r ter tor of a n million billion dollars Alit several other large are now no being cut cul which may go gu Into th tile tho hands of Ameri American ron COO millionaires IN A Hid lUO DIA DIAMOND In company with lIh Mr Frank D n 1 Hill III II our American consul I was 88 shown over one lIfe of ut the tho largest anti and richest of the Dutch diamond works this afternoon In It 11 was that of oC Mr Ir on burger tho the factory that cut iUt Ihl for Queen Victoria the om LOC omIn LOCIn In which the Mogul was shaped and the one ont where here tin the was wag polished up for fol 01 thi th czar izar of Ill It Is III I tile the most mu t Important mill milt of or it the tue world wor And stilt still It Is anything but Imposing It U is in n a thirty dirty brick building In iii the Jewish quarter of cf If Amsterdam situated on a R narrow street and looking more like hike n a tenement house houw than a 11 mill milt which grinds ornaments for tor millionaires anti their heiresses The hull which we w entered was narrow and the tho wooden wooten 11 How flow Dillon Invest in American merican A What They Hold in Our Steel and Fortunes in ill the East They Make I Money From Front Diamonds and a Visit to the Diamond Good Center Con tor for American Our Flour is Handled and Other Mutter About Uncle Sam Jam in ill the tIe Netherlands n wu stairs we WI climbed were no bItter better than those of or many mallY u II bUll barn In Pennsylvania The rue walls as 11 high up UI BH as your yOUl shoulder were ware painted dead black 1101 lint white whitewashed washed aboe The Tue steps were blank ha k kall and all everything was wall so lO colored a us white thing thine like u a 1 diamond till fill tillI upon jO U It U It II I t could iU Id be easily NII J Hut flut from this you must molt hot hilt that the diamond uri art carelessly han hall handled dl tI or III r that they the lie III around loos iii are counted and weighed again al again und and every diamond atom JUI I In wen avail to the dust must be he accounted d I fur for fu HOW DIAMONDS I IA OoS AHE ItE SPLIT Hut flut If you Oll will Wiil come with me mt I show how you Ou how the time precious are atu handled We Ve 1 fleet first enter the room where the splitting Is dolie 0 It In III 1 time the Mine In to which tile the great ir at dia ilia diamond mond was aU polished It Jt Is of tho tile size Ilze of or an 1111 n ordinary parlor but hut th 1110 lit Horn Iop a ana na fill bare ban as a that of or a R I ami the til v two men mOil who ar are handling the tho Iton are nrc working ut lit II a table which a country carpenter would knock up Ut UI for rill ft 7 cents The Tiit mn wear II caps aI over which lire ur ic smocks outdo Pt J t bUo I Jeans Their tithes altogether a 1 tOll would not sell for tor S to ti u a j secondhand c othier and the furniture lit if f thin the z II ll told wId tools tool Included would not bring brin more than 10 Q those men arof ar dally handling stones Stoles worth many tin of dollars dol hi They Ther Tile split single stones atones worth a fortune and lInel each has III lasa a n for fortune tune tumie In his lila little workbox L Hut But let us UK see lee how they dolt Ono One of ot the men steaks speaks and life lie shall give fl ive e you 1111 the process us ilK ho he gave Ve It U to tom torn m rn Tills This wild laid he hI uS is h Ii 11 picked up what shat looked like hike an 1111 Irregular pie piTe of mica mla 4 rW or parent crystal 1 is big Wg as ns the tue III c ml flit t I your OUI OU I little ii t tie lii nger i iii it a dia diamond ii I mond monti In the rough It Is I Ju t aN l S It I w a I Ito taken to kin from froal the tile mines mille with wIllI all uli I IS law lawand and ond Imperfections I III All Ahl of or liis must lit be split oil off before It can go to 10 Ii tilt the pol 1101 poli It i and It Is IN my ply bu li w 10 II k kiln W to do It I have 10 to hIt at tho tue nix to do that must first lust cut out a 11 notch to hold my splitting wedge I DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND I ISow Now Sow nothing but hUI a diamond wilt will cut dOt a 11 diamond dIR he went wen on a ua as Ie he pIcK 1 a piece of white Hilte stOne st nu not flot VIe the Ie head of ot pin so StI 0 I 1 take tRIe tRIeR a R with a 0 slurp shari edge like It In Home sonie cement at Lit the thu tool and he ito there I It In Home cement cemen I on the tile end nd of u II stick not unlike the handle of oC ofU oCt ofa U a t awl asI lie He tills this cement in a 1 gas gall Hume and cooled It af at after attel tel ter th the atone by hy II In III 1 ihn As i 1 It became cold old the ce Hardened anti and the diamond was wan firmly hold held He lie then hen fixed the thu rough Into a 1 similar t tool 1001 ol und and tak tuk taking ing ini In the nut diamond he ito called tile his diamond knife III bit with It again and again upon the flaw llau tin making a I noise noie us tie though sharpening a 1 gritty slate pencil It was only a 1 moment un until In til III he bf then tilen stood tho tool ton holding the In iii n It 1 hole holl In n a Isail i nd plate pints pia tp fits fax to the tue th table In trout front of or him lIe Ho up tip a blade hlade of steel an nn inch whip unit and about three thre long HP lie fitted I the Mint edge ell tI of cit this luto tho the f fand and ga gave II e tho the hack back of or the tile blade a I i r tap tup with a tt little steel bur bar about tl It long Ion 1 A moment later inter he its took oft off oi the 1 cement ant thawed that the diamond wail WOH nil broken lI pointing out ont that ono one of the pien CM was wall hat flat and ant the tho other ui III meet round lint Hat stone atone said he lie will bo be II used usel to make a n rose diamond and the tue theother theother other a n brilliant All diamonds II atu 1110 cut a 8 row rust or The Jho brilliants havo ht 58 oa G facets anti the tho lose diamond lInmond I 21 2 I Hut itu Bald lIali I 1 aio lIro te tho tite pieces always large enough to LO make male individual I It stones J No was tile the reply relI Many Inn too t for tor or 1111 ruse roso diamond are ure vei 11 email we te it ep them all 1111 alland anti and n nil use them hum lh m In ill various ways 1 the ilia dust la Is Wo We burn bun hits his cc ce cement I ment flO 1111 every atom that comes comell from the th diamonds The Tite diamond dust Is III employed d in polishing alIt H II some of the tho small email smallie ll CI 8 ie 10 for Cor glass cutters IN POLISHING noo l heaving this room wo wn go RU on 01 to see pee seethe the polishers Tl are arc on the tile third licor H In a ft I long lOll hall hail tilled with bolts and lint Blinding The Tho room Is wailed 1 with and the he men lilt Bit with their to th light before long benches over Or which move lint flat wheels of ot soft Iron at Ut the rate of 2000 revolutions thinS per 11 minute wheel IH IS as n big hi as aA a thinner dinner plate and It goes gocs so fIst that you ou nuI cannot tell It Is moving nt at nil all Fastened to handiest like 1111 t those with which I J ih r a I the spilt four t ll on each cant plato They I tire sot ot In so that hilt t they the just touch the wheel Kuch Ench diamond Is hi coy coo covered ered Irr with a II of at diamond dust and Iii the tile friction of ot this upon HAff s 5 around the plate tHa L grinds It into Inlo the many faces facca or facets which go n much Increase Its lis bril Tue most valuable stones are lire I cut In this tills It takes a long time limn timeto I Ito to transform a 1 rough diamond Into a n I brilliant I During my tout tour I naked asked one of the tho theo experts o whether nn an Imitation diamond had ever over been h ln mado which could do him or any one ono who knew kIlet 1011 much touch about diamonds Ho lie replied that real diamonds me Ate like Ilk nothing else ulse upon earth em III and that any ono who under tinder them CUll can till easily cushy the real from coma the false DIAMONDS LIKE HEADS The Cue mutt man showed me Inn models In 11 glass ol 01 11 all nil the diamonds cut by b the factory Including some pome of or the tho largest t In the tile world HP I to showed howll me inc real roul tones tOlleS for fir sale Male worth thousand of dot dol irs hr and among othern dill dia diamonds monds strung wires Wiles as 11 hue HUB nil us U a II hair punt pu t as its though they the wore sore bends beads Tilt The hole In lu these thelio t diamonds tI wor nide here lu lii Ants Anis Thol In is only one cia man upon ranh who wh If to do iii It Ills Is iii 1111 a secret so 00 far no has been bean able Ible to Imitate It The itt hi lit I makes ure are as ns HUH Oil as 15 a n but hut notwithstanding this they th thlire lire ale polished on tile the lUCille Inside In I lUll were mado mn u nt nl the tile tip of or 0 tilt till dill dia diamond mond 1 I talked with my lIlY guide and ond learned that thoy they vary according ac to 10 the time work wor from 15 5 to 20 0 n a 1 week Thu Tue polishers Ire are not Ilot fo so well tehI paid as the tile splitters shutters H ami amil tho thio best work commands the till big bl money Tho rho great gloat money In Ill the thu th business gees to tn the capitalists not i more mort than limn ate are paid out for such 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