Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1914 — AS IN OLD SAILBOAT DAYS [ARTICLE]

AS IN OLD SAILBOAT DAYS

American Vessel Will Take Cargo to the West Coast of Africa toTrads. For about one hundred years AmerifCan sailing vessels bartered gnd traded on the west coast of Africa- So again, with the Stars and Strlijji flying from Its masthead, the AdefiFT. Carleton, ian American sailing vhssel, loaded &» A cargo of American goods, win fell for ths west coast of Africa.

This enterprise is due to the efforts of Aurthur Muller, president of the newly organized American Tropical Trading company of New York. This company intends to take American goods on consignment—consisting of tobacco, flour, pork, 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 Sun.