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Show LIKE AMERICAN GOODS. Great Inroads Made In Germany by Products Manufactuied and Orown in United States. Washington, June 1 Tho ancient palace of tharlemngno In German), Is belns renovated with Georgia pine. California plums and pears aio pro-fined pro-fined In the empire to tho formerly fa-ntous fa-ntous fruits from nearby lt.il), S-rli and lloml.1, and American machinery In being used o Impiove the waterworks water-works of Alx-la-Chappelle T liese are sonio nf the facts made In mi extiact from Cnmmeirlul Relations fm 1901, made public b) Fiedcilc Emory chief of tho buioju nf foielg.i commerce to. du). An nlaimlng condition brought out In the publication Is the fact Hut the Germans Ger-mans are cop)lng Amrlrpn-nmde ai tides u close!) that Ihe Imitations hid full to mnke serious Inio.uls on the Kilo of tho genulno goods Suva the cxtiatt In splto of the trade depression prevailing pre-vailing In Germany registered Imports of American goods arc advancing, according ac-cording to the reports nf the consular olJlcers in that countr) especially In tci tain lines Our furniture Is popular, popu-lar, particularly that meant for ntllce use Our chairs and desks, sj)s Consul Con-sul E A Man nf Itreslau are kept In stock hy the dealers In that lit) Other niileers mention tho same nr-tleles, nr-tleles, but Consul Ozmtin of Stuttgart notes tint the competition of German Ger-man nrllclcs copied after American patterns Is making Inroads Inlo what otherwise would be n splendid market for our goods Consul Harris of Mannheim says that wlille eighteen months ugo our ollli.i furniture had tho field almost wholly to Itself, today roll-lop dpsks fl to cases, bookkeepeis' desk, typewriter typewrit-er desks and other olllee furniture of American design but of German nuko ate enteritis the market. The sime, he hi)k. Is true of bathtubs bath-tubs and other snnltnr) appliance Tho American bath-tub has turn so nearly copied that nn ordinary ob. server cannot distinguish between tho native and the Impoited articles Her man shoes for both exes nro now for salo in Mannheim, shaped, lined, stitched, marked, numbered and put In box s ui almost xa t imita n of the Amerii an sh Our lath, s m I plun s nre also mpied Nevirthilss our goods mo making their w i) |