Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1921, Page 21

1.5, BUSINESS WIN EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th. St. Bet. F & G Sts. Trustworthy Goods Only American Firms Outrank British, French and Others in Constantinople. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Special Correspondence of The Star and Chicago Daily News. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, August 18.—"When I first arrived in Constan- jtinople the American colony did mot exceed thirty people, Including the staff of the high commission. Except ifor a tew firms established in the near east since the olden days, American business was scarcely represented. I am glad to see around me today more than sixty 100 per cent Americans representing American business and its traditions in this part of the world.” This statement was made by Ad- miral Mark Bristol, United States high commissioner to Turkey, at the first gleebnnx of the American Luncheon ub. Ten years ago when Consul Ble Ravendal started the American Cham- ber of Commerce in the Levant he could not find a sufficient membership among American business men in this part of the world and had to appeal to missionaries and professors of Robert College to join this business organ- ization. Dr. Gates, a Chicagoan, presi- dent of Robert College, though not |connected with business, was the first president of the American Chamber of Commerce. Now this institution has grown so strong that it has suffi- cient means to have a branch in New York, and is considered the most re- liable and one of the strongest busi- ness organizations in the near east. Quick Growth of U. S. Colony. Three years ago, except for the Standard Oil Company, the American Tobacco Company and the American Rug Company, scarcely any real American firms were represented here. The few who ventured to come did very little business and most of them were represented by local men using local business metiiods and systems. The business of representatives of large companies like the tobacco com- pany and the rug company was to ex- port merchandise from Turkey to the United States. General trading with the United States was done mostly through British or Scandinavian rep- resentatives. Today the American colony in Con- stantinople counis more than 1,000 members and is_second only to the British colony. The last three years have opened the eyes of many Ameri- can business men to the possibilities in the near east and now there is practically no branch of American business not represented in Constan- tinople. The American Foreign Trade Cor- poration, a concern financed chiefly by the tobacco concerns, was a pio- neer. Its representatives arrived soon after the armistice as general merchants selling _everything from \ne-ile. to automobiles. They started Match Your Odd Coats With Qur TROUSERS 4.65 We have hundreds of Fine, All-wool Trousers that will either match or go well with your odd coats. Plain or fancy blues, grays, browns, greens, tans, etc., in cashmeres, worsteds, flannels, serges, tweeds, etc. Save the price of an entire new suit by matching your odd coat. Cor. 7th and G Sts. N.W. OPEN SATURDAY Evening Until 10 O’Clock Victrola Stock Complete You will find here the full Victrola line—com- plete—up-to-the-minute. The Victor Records The library embraces all the new records and extensive stocks of the old favorites. Try us for the records you cannot get elsewhere. Payments at later dates arranged on a large scale, opening branches throughout the near east wherev. Political conditions. however, compelled them last yeai to close most of their branches. In the republic of Georgia they started by doing excellent busines: through their branches in Batum an! Tiflis. but were compelled to clear out a few months before the bolsheviki arrived. In the Crimea, where they were doing good business with Gen. Wrangel's government on 2 barter system. they were again compelled to close up a few days before the bol- sheviki arrived. Now they are con- centrated in Constantinople. Experience of American Bank. Only eight months ago the Guar- anty Trust Company of New York opened a branch here. It is difficult or a bank to start business in Con- stantinople. On account of the polit- ical situation economic life here is There 1s only one pos- bility for people here to make money and in foreign exchange. Everybody. from the bootblack at the corner of Galata bridge to the finance minister of the country. gambles in foreign exchange. Eeside the twenty- eight English, French, Italian, Dute Greek, German and Rumanian banks, there ‘are hundreds of so-called ex- change offices — one-man businesses. ‘The market is almost entirely in the hands of a small group of bankers who daily fix the price of exchange in accordance witn their own in- terests. The rate on the dollar or the English pound. for Instance, may go ten or fifteen points up or down be- tween 11 a.m. and 4 pm. and small fortunes are made and lost dally by the gamblers. The position of a new bank in such circumatances is natu- rally difficult, for they all want the new concern to joia the gang of ex- change makers. “If the new bank re- fuses they all try to down it. In such difficult circumstances, while there was practically no business, the New York concern opened offices here and started working om a purely American basis. All the officers and a large proportion of the staff are American. After eight months of activity with purely American meth- ods the company succeeded in obtain- ing the foremost position among all Constantinople banks. Beside these two strong new busi- ness organizations there are now in Constantinople about thirty minor concerns representing practically all branches of Amerjcan business. Though, owing to the present un- settled political conditions business is_slack, they boast ‘“iat all of whatever little business there may bhe ®oes to the British, Italian and French firms, some of which have been in this market for more than a century, see that most of their busi- ness is going to the new competitors. ‘Why Americans Get Together. Their increasing numbers here made the Americans think that the time had artived to establish an American club. Therefore there is now the American Luncheon Club, where mem- bers gather once a week. Tt is more a political than a soclal organization hecause of the necessity for the Americans in Constantinople to get together. The near east has always been a nlace where nationality has plaved an important part in busi- ness and the prosperity of various concerns ~as not 8o much dependent on their business ability as on their nationality. Business and concessions are obtained here more on the strength of the numher of men of war anchored in or outside the straits than on the capacity of fulfllling a contract. ‘To say that the United States now leads the business of the world and that the European powers are finan- cially in bad shade, that Americans are out here for business and nothing else and that some other powers may have territorial aims {s considered a grave offense hy representatives of other nations. Some Americans have been put on the “black list” of the allled intelligence and labeled “‘pro- Germans” for having made such state- ments. In such circumstances it is only natural that Americans here want to close their ranks, end the fact that in the present luncheon club and the future American club only 100 per cent Americans are eligible is more measure of self-defense than exclusive- uess. OHIO MAYOR IS REMOVED. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 9. Mayor Herbert A. Atherton of New- ;rk.ht;hlo. was removed from office to- 2; VICTOR PRODUCTS EXCLUSIVELY 2 OLLEGE clothes of nowadays have the spirit of the serious side of school life. The Brooks model for the college man has the well bred air of the substantial man of affairs he expects to be when he enters busi- ness life. A RESS S S S S S SS SO e beesseses ] = —— — — o2 e~ L s The Tastion Ghep) 15th G * hBE e ne e nisd by e NS exle: e y e Newar] Nextsoiceing Opp. Crandall's Order League. ~ Bvidence the governor announced, that gambling has been running wide open in Newark, and that Mayor Atherton was derelict in prosecuting the gam. blers. by self-confessed gam- Rochester Tailored Clothes Manhattan Shirts blers that Atherton received bribes from them for protection and then ided their bling ‘were #is- ral credited by INTURKISH CAPITAL| § The Mnater of Kinloss, grandson son of Baronexs Kinloss, ix shown here with hix bri TITLED CLERGYMAN AND HIS BRIDE, WHO IS DAUGHTER OF VILLAGE BLACKSMITH [y01, scaeiion Zoaves Splencia of 1 ALBEIE R he Inte’ Duke of Buckingham and the former Katherine Heatrice Mackenzie Jackman, danghter of a village binckumith, whose forge is witunted on the bridegroom's hixtoric ancestral estate, Stowe Park. The young master of Kinloss in n clergyman. MANY AMERICANS SPEAK | AT WORLD CONGRESS Methodist Conference Considers Ac- PARKER KILLED IN CRASH. American Is Victim of Fall of French Passenger Plane. PARIS, September 8.—Richard Per- . Kins Parker, son of George Parker of tion on Limitations of Salem, M was one of the four Arms Parley: ‘ Ipassengers Killed when the Stras- bourg-Paris express airplane crashed By the A oanciated b ain Tuesday evening while making a hesall o «ses | 12nding at Le Bourget. LONDON, Sentember: 8.-—Addresses|| v5ré ®piier wan ito. have salled by Judge Charles B. Ames of the| Methodist Church South, who nre-[ sided; H. C. Morrison of the Methodist Church South, W. T. Davison of the |y, Wesleyan Church, Bishop Richard J. Cooke of Montana, Willlam Grist of the United Church, the Rev. Ivan Lee Holt, president of the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.; Lewis Humphries of the FPrimit Church and the Rev. George Elliott of Detroit, were delivered at the morning session of the world confer- ence of Methodists, in session here today. The question of an expression by the conference on the forthcoming conference on ljmigation of arma- ments at Washifgt is being con- sidered by a committee, and probably will come up in the conference Fri- day. A Discussions of modern Biblical criticisms _and _evangelical theology by British and American ministers constituted the chief feature of this | afternoon’s session. The principal { speakers were the Rev. Dr. A. S. Peake of the Primitive Church, Bishop John L. Nueslsen of Zurich, | Switzerland: Dr. Ryder Smith of the Wesleyan Church. the Rev. Lyman E. Davis of the Methodist Protestant ! Church and Rev. William D. Brad- field of the Wesleyan Church. BAPTISTS ASKED TO SAVE.! Economy Urged to Aid $75,000,000 | Campaign in South. 1 NASHVILLE, Tenn., September 9. Southern Bapt will cut out a juxurfes this fall, eliminate many of | the common necessities and wear old shoes and patched clothes, if need be. to meet their pledges to denomina- tional interests, i they heed an appeal | formulated today by the conservation | commission of the $75,000,000 cam-| paign. | Members of the commission have challenged the local Baptists through- | out the south to meet them in sacri- | ficing personal comfort rather than | fail to meet their obligations to the general causes of the denomination. LA PRENSA DIRECTOR DIES. BUENOS AIRES, September 9.—An- nouncement s made of the death of Alejandro J. Paz, director of the news- paper La Prensa of this city. and sister, for home September 3 on bohrd the steamer Paris with his father, mother via, with whom he had mmer tour of Europe. but Parker ss of 1922 at ut completed his course in been on c: ed by the French police from a letter in his pocket. CUTS FREIGHT SERVICE. Shipping Board Plans Retrench- ment on the Pacific. the United States Shipp be confined to the board's fleet of freighters and will not affect the transpacific passenger services, it here by Meyer Lissner of . a member of the Ship- ng Board, ‘The freighter fleets down in all ports.” he when the board comp! the cutting down half of our freighters will be tied up.” re to be d. cut “Probably PROHIBITION BILL PASSED. CHRISTIANIA, September 8.—The lower houte of parliament tonight adopted the prohibition bill which for- s the importation of liquors or wines containing more than 14 per cent of alcohol. The bill now goes to the upper house, where it is ex; o _be approved. Beses I':Ccramr:g:.:ldlul Ty Bxamines College Glasses Fitted DR. CLAUDE S.SEMONES eI z LR Phone ¥aia T8I Home in Perfect Order —if you have us do your papering, decorating, and furnish the window shades and draperies. Prices exceptidnally reasonable. Estimates cheerfully furnished, CORNELL WALL PAPER (0. 714 13th N.W. 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In Sugar Hollow, dy- ing in less than two hours. A curious coincidence is the fact Bequest. to. University. SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.. Septem- ber 9.—Cornell University will proba- bly recelve about $2,000,000 under the will of the late John McMullen, presi- dent of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Dredging Company, which has been filed for probate. At the hearing Oc- tober 1 the will in detail will be known. Mrs. Laura A. Hughes of this city and San Francisco, a nicce, is left an annual income of $5.000, and home of Mr. McMullen on Judah Island here, valued at $125,000. Relatives in Cali fornia and here are also remembered. RECEIVERS FOR BANK. Two North Carolina Are Closed. GREENSBORO, N. C., September 9.— | 7 In superlor court here Judge James L. Webb, upon the recommendation of the state corporation caommlssion, signed orders placing the Bank of Thomasville and the Bank of Denton, |7 which recently were closed by a nlatel 2 g W A\ Institutions bank examiner, in the hands of tem- porary receivers. T. J. Finch of Lex- ington was appointed recelver for the Thomascille bank and J. Arthur Ross for the Denton bank. Attorneys for the two banks were ordered to appear before Judge Webb here September 14 to show cause why the temporary recciverships should not be made per- manent. KEEPS $6,000 FROM ROBBER. WINDSOR, Ontario, September 9.— George Allen is $6,000 richer today because Mrs. Allen had the nerve to perform a feat of legerdemain with a bandit's pistol pressed against her head. Kneeling before a safe in her Kome at the robber's command, with ' 7 a pistol a: her head, Mv& Allen open- , ©od the safe and swept 6,000 into her lap. Then she handed the robber $300, with which he escaped in an auto- mobile. KILLED BY LOG IN MILL. 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