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Show YANKEES SEEK FOR EAST TRADE American Business Men Push Connections Far Beyond the Golden Horn (Bj Th Associated Press CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 6. (Cor respond ence. i Americans arc gradually gradu-ally preparing to avail themselves of trade opportunities which will present themselves as soon as conditions become be-come settled in southern Kussla and the Caucasus. The Guaranty Trust company, of New York. open its Constantinople branch, the first American bank la the Levant this month The American Ameri-can Foreign Trade corporation has sold Its shipping departmtnt to an American organization called the Black Sea corporation. 12. G Booth, Jr., formerly representative of the United States shipping board In Constantinople, Con-stantinople, Is head of the new corporation, cor-poration, which has chartered several ships for the Black sea trade and Is designed primarily to assemble freight from the various ports of the Black sea and make it available for larger American ships at Hat um or Constantinople Constanti-nople DM 1 B AB ASSISTS. Admiral Mark Bristol, American high commissioner, is greatly Interested Interest-ed in tho development of American I trade in this field which bus been i abandoned by Gcrmanj and Auatrla, i Twelve American firms are already established thoroughly in Constantt- nople and ten others have agencies lin h promise to develop into perma- I nent organizations. So far the Amerl- can ships have not made regular : schedules in the Near Last, with the result that their business has been i, n 1 1 lhf.ii I i.i ;, in many ea.f In a recent report to the state de-j de-j parmenl. Admiral Bristol submitted I S suggestion of F A Tlmmcrm.in, in I American shipping agent in Conatantl-', Conatantl-', nople, that a direct line between New irlcans and the Levant would doubtless doubt-less be profitable. He would h.ii I such a line cull in Cuba, Spain, Italy, I Greece, Bulgaria. South Russia, Georgia and Turkey. M.U OKI I Ns i,im It is argued that the proposed line hetween New Orleans and Black lea ports would afford a more direct lint ! than now exists for the shipment Ol (coffee and other South and Centra ' American products to the Keai Dasl I In combination with shoes, hardware machinery and various other manufac tured products from tho Mlssisslpp valley, which, Americans hop. v,il permanently replace Gorman unt Austrian goods In this market Hamburg fOrmi rly furnished the Levant with most of Its coffeiv fjcr main- and Austria together In pre n n- times aupplled ihe Block sea arei with most of its manufactured goods but MUCh Roods were pouring in hen - , In large quantities from America bo- - fore exchange became so unfavorable. I Supplies of this sort COUld readily be I sent from Mississippi valle) points 1 through New Orleans. In the opinion of Mr Tlmmerman, and, on their return trip, ships could carry Iron ore - and manganese from the Black sea "a- i beavj cargo, together with wool, v carpota, tub. urn. licorice root, dried . fruits and otjier products of th- la I vant. a |