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Show AMERICAN AUTOS USEDJN SPAIN Business Having Great Boom But U. S. Dealers Unable to Send Tires. CONTRABAND OF WAR Auto Trucks Doing Away With Antique Carts and Oxen and Donkey Team. MADRID, April G. (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) There I are some curious features of tho Increase In-crease in trade between Spain and America which has resultod from the ' submarine Avar and the cutting of Germany's trade with Spain. Whilo American automobiles are having a groat boom iu Spain, thoy havo ono curious drawback in not boing ablo to bring along Uie American times, as theso aro rubber and contraband of war, subject to all kinds of restrictions restric-tions and regulations. The American auto-trucks aro caus. Ing a revolution in Madrid along throe I distinct lines: First, doing away with ( tho huge antique carts which labor along tho streets; second, supplanting supplant-ing tho long tandem teams of oxen and donkeys, covorJ with jingling bells; and, finally, changing Mndrid from one of tho worst paved capitals of Europe to ono of tho best. Tho Spaniards looks with awo at tho dis-1 appearance of their ancient methods before tho march of improvement. A complication has arisen over tho. shipment of American meat to Spain The Spanish ships were glad to got ' this class of freight, but tho ships , were not provided with tho necessary refrigerating plant. As this is essen- ' tlal for shipping meat long distances, j many Spanish ships aro being over- j hauled to put In tho modern cold-storage cold-storage equipment so as to handle this new class of American product Once equipped this way, fresh Spanish fruit will be going to America, and tfresh American meat coming to Spain Beginning to Use Electric Iron. ( American flat-irons and other electrical elec-trical novelties are now being used for the first time, and tho Spaniards say these articles are so much bettor finished than the German goods that used to come here that they will hold tho market permanently even If German Ger-man trado gets a footing again after tho war. Even American drug-stores with American medicines have made their appearance along the streets of Madrid. . Besidos stepping into the place of Franco and Italy In supplying Ameri- ' ca with antiques, curios, etc., the war is also having the effect of giving Spain a good deal of the Amorican trade in perfume, toilet articles and soaps, which used to go from France in large quantities. Some of these articles, such as castile soap, have their origin hero in Castile. Selling ArtTreasures. It Is in the American demand for their art treasures that the Spanish are taking their chief Interest Buyers Buy-ers for the big American department stores aro now coming here for tho first time instead of to Florence, Milan, Paris and other art centers from which it would be risky to ship art treasures now. America would havo received a number of the paintings of the great Spanish master Goya If it had not been for a recent complication at the New York custom house. Tho pictures pic-tures actually went to New York, were held on tho pier for some time because of irregularities in making out papers, and were finally sent back hero unopenod. The owner had meantime mean-time made two trips to Now York, but at last gave up tho shipment as hopeless. hope-less. One of the pictures was Goya's study of Madame Haro, another his Virgin painted on a panel of wood, and a third a peasant dance, on wood. Another artist Is now taking to America a Titian, called Salldad (solitude). (soli-tude). Tho value recorded here Is 500,000 pesetas. |