Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1914 — AS IN OLD SAILBOAT DAYS [ARTICLE]

AS IN OLD SAILBOAT DAYS

American Vessel Will Take Cargo to the We#t CotMt .of Africa to Trade. For about- one hundred years Ameritcan sailing vessels bartered and traded on the west coast of Africa. So again, with the Stars and Stripes flying from its masthead, the Adelia T. Carleton, Ifla American sailing vessel, loaded iwlth a cargo at American goods, will <MII for the west coast of Africa. |

This enterprise is due to the efforts of Aurthur Muller, president of the newly organized American Topical Trading company of New York. This company intends to take American goods on consignment—consisting of tobacco, flouiy ifcrk, salt, beef, vegetables, gin, matches, to trade for native products. In the old times the American flag flying from Yankee ships took the place of lighthouses along this coast so regularly were they to be found. The shrewd Yankee trader, quite often

master of the vessel he sailed, evaded or conquered opposition wherever he came In contact with it and returned home with a profit which modern business minds find hard to believe. —New York Bun.