Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 106, 22 February 1909 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PAILADIU3I AXD STJX-TE LEGRAM, MONDAY,' FEBRUARY 22, 1909.

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TWO BILLIONS OF COFFEE IMPORTED TO THIS COUNTRY This Remarkable Record Has Been Made in Past Twenty Years, an Average of 100 Million Annually. UNITED STATES LEADS IN COFFEE DRINKING Asia Supplies the Bulk of the Tea Supply While America Leads in Coffee and Cacao Exportation.

Two billion dollars' worth of coffee, lea and cacao have been Imported into the United States during the past twenty years, or an annual average of About 100 million dollars. In some years the total of coffee, tea, and cacao is considerably more than 100 million dollars. Coffee imports alone have on certain occasions, approximated 100 millions in value, while tea has ranged from 9 million to 18 million dollars per annum, and cacao has grown from 2 million dollars a year to 14 million dollars a year, having in 1907 and 1908 attained practically the eame rank as tea in import value. Roughly speaking it might be said fchat the annual importations into the TJnited States of coffee, tea and cacao amount to 100 million dollars a year, f which three fourths is coffee and (the remainder about equally divided between cacao and tea. As Coffee Exporter. America supplies the bulk of the coffee and cacao and Asia the tea. Of the coffee imports taking the fiscal year 1908 as an example, the figures of the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor, show that out of the 890 million pounds, imported 700 million came from Brazil another 100 million from other Bouth American countries, 70 million from Mexico and Central America, and 7 million from the West Indies, the remainder coming from parts of the world other than America. Of this remainder J) million pounds came direct from the East Indies, 2 million from Netherlands, presumably brought from her East Indian possessions, 4 millions from Asia and Oceania, other than the East Indies, and about another million pounds from United Kingdom, Germany, and other European countries, presumably the product of their tropical colonies. Thus America supplies practically 98 per cent of the coffee imported into the United States. Of the cacao imports, America also supplied the very large proportion. The total quantity imported in 1908 was 83 million pounds of which 40 million pounds came from the West Indies. 17 millions from Brazil, 14 millions from other South American countries, 14 millions from the East Indies, and nearly 10 million pounds from European countries into which it had been imported, presumably chiefly from their tropical colonies. Orient as Tea Market. Of the 94 million pounds of tea imported in 1008, it may be safely said that practically all of it was produced in the Orient, though 9Vi million pounds- came from the United Kingdom presumably the product of her Asiatic possessions chiefly India and Ceylon; 2 million pounds entered from British North America, the product of the Orient, teaching Canadian eoil either across the Pacific or by way of Europe and the Atlantic; 47 million pounds came direct from Japan to the United States; 274 million pounds from the East Indies. The above figures of imports of coffee, tea, and cacao are only those of imports from foreign countries. In addition to this, small quantities, especially of coffee, are now brought into the United States from our own islands. From Hawaii, ini which the production of coffee is a comparatively new Industry, the quantity of coffee brought into the United States in the fiscal year 1908 was 1.310.000 pounds. .From Porto Rico in which the coffee industry is well established, but which

sells its coffee chiefly to European ct.ntries, the quantity brought into the United States during the year mentioned was 129,000 pounds Porto Rico exportation of coffee to foreign countries having amounted to about 35 milion pounds. From the Philippines the quantity brought to the United States Is very small, in many years none. The coffee industry in those islands, 'which was formerly very prosperous, has in recent years suffered to such extent from a blight that exportations from the islands have practically ceased, though the fact that similar conditions which overtook the coffee industry in the Dutch East Indies were succesfully combatted and the production and exportation of coffee resumed, suggests that the Philippines may, with proper attention again become large producers and exporters of coffee. Americans Like Coffee. The United States is the world's largest consumer of coffee and cacao, but not of tea. Coffee importations by the principal countries of the world in 1906. the latest year for which statistics are available, amounted, according to a statement of the Department of Agriculture, to 2,577 million pounds, of which 9S5 millions were imported by the Uatted States, 412 millions by Germany, 256 millions by Netherlands, 216 millions by France, 119 millions by Belgium, and 113 millions by AustriaHungary, while in no other country does the total reach as much as 100 million pounds. Of the 336 million, pounds of cacao

imported by the principal countries of the world in 1908, 80 millions were imported into the United States, 75 millions entered Germany, 51 millions entered France, 47 millions into the United Kingdom, and 24 millions into Netherlands, making - the United States the world's largest Importer of cacao as well as coffee. English Like Tea. Of tea, the United States stands third in the rank imported; the quantity of tea imported, into the United Kingdom in 1906 being, according to the same authority, 270 million pounds; Russia, 136 millions; United States, 86 millions; Australia, 29 millions; and Canada, 26 million pounds. The United Kingdom, it will be seen, is therefore by far the largest importer of tea its colonies, Australia and Canada, being also large importers in proportion to population. The "coffee habit" has evidently grown upon the people of the United States. Twenty years ago, in 1888, the quantity of coffee imported was 423 million pounds, and in 1908, 890 million pounds, though the quantity has fluctuated from year to year, having in 1902 and again in 1905 exceeded 1 billion pounds. The per capita consumption, which in 1868 was 6.52 pounds, in 1878, 6.24, and In 1888, 6.81, was in 1898, 11.68 pounds, and in 1908, 10.04 pounds. In tea the per capita consumption has somewhat reduced meantimt, that of 1878 having been 1.33 pounds per capita; 1888, 1.4 pounds; 1899, 0.94 of 1 pound, and In 1908, 1.07 pounds per capita. In cacao the growth in per capita consumption has been even more rapid than that of coffee, the quantity imported having grown from 25 million pounds in 1898 to 83 million pounds in 1908, having thus considerably more than trebled in the short space of ten years. The United States Is thus the world's largest consumer of coffee and cacao, and holds third rank among the importing nations in the importa

tions of tea; her imports amount to

more than one-third of the coffee, nearly one-fourth of the cacao, and about one-seventh of the tea entering the international markets of theworld. What Prices Average. The prices at which the coffee of the United States was imported in 1908 averaged but 7.6 cents per pound. That from Brazil averaged 6.9 cents

per pound; from other South Ameri

can States. 8.8 cents; from Central

America, 11.1 cents; from Mexico, 11.5 cents; from the East Indies, 12.6 cents; and from Netherlands, 15.3 cents per pound these prices being the wholesale market price in the countries whence exported to the United States, and therefore not including freight, insurance, and other added charges on arrival at the ports in this country. The average price of 7.6 cents in 1908 is slightly lower than that of the three years ending wtth 1907 and slightly higher than that of' the period from 1898 to 1904, but much below that of the period from 1892 to 1897, when the import price averaged about double that of 1908.

THE THEATER

Filipino Band. At San Francisco the California promotion committee met the famous Philippine Constabulary band of 86 members and escorted it about the city in automobiles. The natty little Filipinos, garbed in olive drab uniforms and overcoats with red capes, attracted much attention as they were shown over the Golden Gate city. Their one thought now is of Washington where they are to play at the coming inauguration ceremonies. Big Bill Taft, while governor of the faraway Philippines, became a prime favorite of all Filipinos, and the various members of the big band are all impatient to reach Washington and see E1 President Neuvo." They will play at the Gennett Friday, Feb. 26. "The Lion and the Mouse." Charles Klein is one of ths few American playwrights whose efforts have met with enduring success, "Heartsease," produced by Henry Miller has served as a perennially popular vehicle for this actor. "El Capitan," which he wrote in conjunction with with John Philip Sousa, furnished De Wolf Hopper with his greatest success. The same may be said of "A Royal Rogue," written for Jefferson De Angelis; with Lee Arthur he collaborated on "The Auctioneer," in which David Warfield made his stellar debut. For this actor he wrote "The Music Master," and now "The Lion and the Mouse," the greatest success in theatrical history. "A Girl at the Helm."

The Girl at the Helm will be the at

traction at the Gennett theater one night, March 5. The Princess Amusement company of Chicago, under the personal direction of Mort H. Singer, is about to offer the LaSalle theater's latest success, "A Girl at the Helm,", in this city. The production will be the largest and most pretentious yet offered, not even excepting the wondrously beautiful 'A Stubborn Cinderella" and "Honeymoon Trail." This big organization will be headed by Billy S. Clifford, a comedian long a favorite and Maud Lambert, the noted prima donna. Others importantly announced are Robert G. Pitkin, William Arthur, Countess Olga von Hatzfeldt, Florence Martin and Bernhardt Niemeyer and a $10,000 challenge beauty chorus of forty is one of the added features. "A Girl at the Helm" is said to be the daintiest and most attractive of all the productions made famous at the LaSalle theater, Chicago. "The Land of Nod." The big production, "The Land of Nod," will occur at the Gennett theatre one night, March 4th. It is one of the amusement events of the season which is attracting more than ordinary attention. It is a musical comedy whose record of success during the past three years stands without

parallel in the history of the stage in,

this country. Originally produced at the Chicago Opera House, where it drew- capacity, audiences- for 27., weeks.

PRESIDENT WILL LEAVE III MARCH Oil LONG TOUR

Will Hunt Big Game in the Fastness of the African

Jungles for About a Year,

Then to Europe.

WIFE WILL JOIN HIM

AFTER HUNTING TRIP

He Will Visit at Least Three Continental Capitols and Will Be Shown the Greatest Honors.

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Washington, D. C, Feb. 22. Theodore Roosevelt, 50 years of age, who on March 4, with his retirement as twenty-sixth president of the United States, will have completed over 25 years of public service, has decided to take rest and recreation in a two years' trip abroad, half of which will be spent in Africa under the British flag as a faunal naturalist and the other half in Europe, visiting at least tnree of the big capitals. At the head of a scientific expedi

tion outfitted -by the Smith sonian Institution of Washington, he will, with his son Kermit and three American naturalists of note Major Edgar A. Mearns, J. Loring Alden and Edmund Heller make a collection of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and botanical specimens of Central Africa, which will be deposited in the. United States National Museum at Washington. Leave Middle of March. The party will leave New York city about the middle of March, going by the Mediterranean route to Gibraltar

and Naples. At Naples the members of the expedition will board a steamer of the German East African Line for Kilindini Harbor, Mombasa Island. They will arrive at the East African port toward the end of April, proceed by the Uganda railway to Nairobi, spend six months there, then continue by rail to Port Florence. Lake Victoria Nyanza, making a total distance of 584 miles by rail. The expedition will cross Uganda by caravan and finally pass down the whole length of the Nile, reaching Khartoum about April, 1910. Much of the hunting and. specimen collecting will be done in British East Africa, where the Uganda

railway will be used as a means of

ready transportation from Nairobi, which will be the base of supplies. Mrs. Roosevelt to Join Him. At Khartoum, it is expected, the president and his son will be joined by Mrs. Roosevelt, who will accompany them on their trip to Europe. The naturalists of the party will proceed direct to the United States from Egypt. Mr. Roosevelt probably will remain in Continental Europe and Great Britain about one year, having accepted invitations to deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford university, an address at the Sorbonne in Paris and a lecture before the students of the University of Berlin.

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its presentation throughout the west and south and at the big New York theatre, has been characterized by a degree of public patronage which has not been accorded to any other stage work. "The Land of Nod" is literally a magnificent spectacle. The New Phillips. The first audience of the week at the New Phillips this afternoon took to the new performance with great applause, and each number was greeted with expectancy that was not disappointed. The bill easily surpasses those of the last couple of weeks. Mardot and Hunter in their comedy playlet, "Gemenese on Guard." took the house by storm and as it is not easy for a comedy company to give an encore, both had to resort to stepping out front and smiling their thanks and appreciation. The act was funny just simply funny, and when that is said their is no need of more description. Jack Ryne and Sue Emerson ran a close second to the other act so far as popularity was concerned and handed out a line of comedy that was real

ly good to listen to and enjoy. The laughs .were certainly let loose at the theatre this afternoon. Fred R. Edwards who is traveling bachelor style and as he says hasn't found any girl yet who can come up to him in comedy, made a hit. "Graustark." Castle & Harvey, the well known scenic artists of the 14th Street theatre, New York, have just completed the most elaborate scenic production ever-constructed in their studio, which is to be carried on tour by the company presenting "Graustark," a dramatization of George Barr McCutcheon's successful novel of the same title. The production is complete in every detail, including the stage furniture and draperies, requiring a specially constructed sixty foot baggage car for its transportation.

Prices of living increased, the only exception Mrs. Austin's pancake flour. Same old price at all best grocers.

The largest telescope In existence does not make the planet Mars appear any bigger than the moon is through an opera glass.

Phillips Theatre.

VAUDEVILLE. Half Week Feb. 21 Entire change of pragram Monday Thursday Mardot and Hunter "Gemenses on Guard"

Admission 10 cents to all parts of

the house.

IN DIANA TFPQTT .(TP LEAGUE - - COUSEIUM - - New Castle vs. Richmond Monday Eve'g, Feb. 22. Skating Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Morning, Afternoon and Evening. Polo Prices Admission 15c; reserved seats 10 cents extra.

Harry C. Sommers, Lessee and Mgr. Phone 1683 Jt 52?SL,4SM8M1. The Land of Ned

The Girl at the Helm The linn and the House

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