Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — FILIPINOS ARE DIPPY ABOUT AUTOMOBILES. [ARTICLE]

FILIPINOS ARE DIPPY ABOUT AUTOMOBILES.

Hawaiians and Porto Ricans Also Like Go-Devils and Many Machines are Bought by Them... A report issued this week by the U. S. Department of Commerce and, Labor states that nearly two mllliom dollars’ worth of automobiles are shipped by American manufacturers to our three dependencies, the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico and Hawaii. The autos with American cars and, farm implements are making their way Into the life of the islanders. The other products sold to these possessions are given as follows: The principal articles shipped to the territories in question, are, as already indicated, manufacturers and foodstuffs. To Hawaii the group, “cars, carriages, etc.,’’ amounts to about one mill-ion dollars, of which about three-fourths is automobiles; cotton manufacturers, nearly two million dollars; Iron and steel manufactures, three and three-fourths million; leather and manufactures thereof, more than one-half million; mineral oils, one and one-half million; paper and manufactures thereof, one-half million; tobacco manufactures, onehalf million; manufactures of wood ( chiefly lumber) one and one-half million; breadstuffs, one and threefourths million, and meats threefourths of a million.

To Porto Rico the principal articles were cars and carriages, one million dollars in value, of which automobiles formed a little more than one-third; cotton manufactures, four and onethird million; Iron and steel manufactures, four and one-half million; leather and manufactures thereof over one million; mineral oils, onehalf million; paper and manufacture thereof, over one-half million; soaps, nearly one-third million; manufactures of silk, one-third million; manufactures of wood, one and threefourths million; bread stuffs, practically. six million dollars, and meats three and one-fourth million. To the Philippines the principal articles shipped were cars and carr'ages over one-half million dollars in value, of which more than two-thirds was automobiles; cotton manufactures, four and one-tbird million, against one and two-third million in 1909; manufactures of iron and steel, four million; leather and manufactures thereof, nearly one million; paper and manufactures thereof, more than one-half million; manufactures of wood (chiefly lumber) over one-half million; mineral oils over a million; breadstuffs, one and one-fourth million, an 1 meats one-half million.