Covert, J. C.-Continued.

Shipments to Chile, 473.
Silk trade, Lyons, 211.

Tuberculosis, precautions against,
France, 642.

Cranberry cultivation, Canada, 622.
Crops:

French wheat (1899), 232.

Hop, world's (1899), 626.
Rice, Japan, 661.

Russia, 157.

Southern Russia, failure, 156, 231.
Walnut, Italy, 510.

Wheat, France (1899), 494.
Cunningham, E. S. (consul, Aden),
Mocha coffee, import, United States,
625.

Customs classification, Venezuela, 269.
Customs collection, Canada, 334.

Customs regulations and fees, Japan, 277.
Customs regulations, provisional, Kyao-
chau, 273.

Cyprus, commercial movement, 346.

Davidson, J. W. (consul, Tamsui):

Iron bedsteads, China and Japan,
413.

Railway construction, proposed,
Formosa, 98.

Dawson City:

Money-order department, 504.
Notes, 65, 333.

Telegraph, 504.

Debt, national, China, 326.

Debts, collection:

Greece, 456.

Hungary, 455.

Jamaica, 457.

Netherlands, 453.

Paraguay, 459.

Salvador, 458.

Debts, national, 329.

De Leon, P. M. (consul-general, Guaya-

quil):

Cacao culture, Ecuador, 250.

Ecuador, resources, 36.

Electricity, Ecuador, 175.

Ivory, vegetable, Ecuador, 477.
Machine trade, Ecuador, 35.

Denmark:

Agriculture, protection proposed,
510.

Exchange rate on New York, 182.

Dent, L. A. (consul, Kingston):
Coffee, Jamaica, 62.

Debts, collection, Jamaica, 457-

Tariff, Jamaica, effect on trade, 1.

Diamonds:

Amsterdam, 657.

Mines, Kimberley, 317.

Production, Transvaal, 444.

Dickinson, C. M. (consul-general, Con-
stantinople):

Exhibition, Constantinople, 184.
United States commerce, Turkey,
558.

Diederich, H. W. (consul. Magdeburg).
German beet-sugar campaign (1898-
99), 393.

German prize for beet-lifting ma-
chine, 392.

Diplomatic officers, Japan, 293.
Dominican Republic, duties payable in
gold, 183.

Dredge, new, Russia, 543.
Dried fruit, Germany, 170.

Dudley, I. B. (minister, Lima), railway
contract, Peru, 341.

Dudley, L. E. (consul, Vancouver):

Assay offices, British Columbia, 174.
Platinum, iridium, and osmium,
Vancouver. 146.

Telegraph, Dawson City, 504.
Dues, port, Marseilles, 235.
Dünkelsbühler, S. (vice consul, Nurem-

berg), hop crop, world's (1899), 626.
Dutch East Indies, mining law, 180.
Dutch India:

Mining bubble, 433.
Petroleum, 333.

Duties:

Cattle and tobacco, Guatemala, 476.
Collodion, Netherlands, 510.

Increase, Transvaal, 445.

Payable in gold, Dominican Re-

public, 183.

Tobacco, Venezuela, 335.
Zanzibar, 662.

Duty, druggists' scales:

France, 131.

Germany, 130.

Duty, export, teas, Formosa, 588.

Ecuador:

Cacao culture, 250.
Electricity, 175.

Finch, W. R.-Continued.

Port works, Montevideo, plans,
176.

Rice planting, Uruguay, 183.

Fisheries:

Pearl, Venezuela, 272.

Salmon, Norway, 330.

Fisk, G. M. (second secretary of em-
bassy, Berlin), German-American bal-
ance of trade, 126.

Flax:

Crop, Russia (1898), 230.

Disease, Belgium, treatise, 502.
Russia, 227.

Trade, Russia, regulations, 169.
Fleming, R. (consul, Edinburgh), ma-
chinery, United States, United King-
dom, 385.

Flour:

Germany, export premiums, 171.
Guatemala, 342.
Madagascar, 491.

Spanish tariff, 181.

Flour, wood, manufacture and use:
Germany, 216.

Scotland, 217.

Forestry inspection, Canada, 505.
Formosa:

Camphor monopoly, 415.
Foreigners, treatment, 421.
Railway construction, proposed, 98.
Teas, export duty, 588.

Foundry, Monterey, 265.

Fowler, J. (consul, Chefoo):

Chefoo trade (1898), 296.

Piece goods, United States, China,
493.

United States trade, China, 71.
France:

Advertising, Government, 640.
Apples, United States, dried, new
use, 398.

Bordeaux, railway, electric, 398.
Bridge across the Rance, proposed,
526.

Colonial office, 172.

Duty on druggists' scales, 131.
Electric-railway project, 340.
Exporters, suggestion to, 499.
Grain situation, 633.

Hosiery and knit underwear, 366.
Inherited property, 159.
Kid gloves and kid skins, 367.

France-Continued.

Marseilles, port dues, 235.

Marseilles, transportation, 233.
Meat importation, 199.

Nantes street-car strike, 398.
Nice, tramways, electric, 340.

Paris, congress, charity, 242.
Paris, congress, medicine, 497.
Paris, railway congress, 651.
Postal cars wanted, 181.
Piquette, 399.

Railway collisions, invention for
preventing, 529.

St. Malo, quay, 661.
Savings banks, 638.

Steamer, new French, 531.

Steamship line, French, report, 243.

Textile plant, new, 330.
Tobacco juice, uses, 236.

Trade with Russia, 403.

Tuberculosis, new remedy, 177.
Tuberculosis, precautions against,
642.

View of Philippine situation, 93.
Wheat crop (1899), 232, 494.

Workmen, accidents, 163.

Franco-American treaty, French view,

512.

Frankfort, railways, street, 340.
Freight charges to Great Britain, exces-
sive, 537.

French warehouse, Madrid, 665.
Fruit, dried, Germany, 170.
Fruit, roadside, Europe, 395.
Fruit trees, South Africa, 490.
Fruit waste, Germany, 200.
Fruits, Honduras, 336.
Fruits, United States:

China and Philippine Islands, 313.
Germany, 200.

Netherlands, 140.

Norway, 139.

Fuel, new, Belgium, 172.

Furniss, H. W. (consul, Bahia):

Manganese mining, Bahia, 266.
Platinum, iridium and osmium,
Brazil, 147.

Quarantine, Brazil, 660,

Furniture:

Germany, 170.
Russia, 188.

Gas-lighting contract, Sumatra, 179.
German-American balance of trade, 126.
German schools, foreign countries, 337.
German trade, Uruguay, 336.

German vs. United States pound weight,
169.

German vs. United States trade, Ar-

gentine Republic, 507.

Germany:

Apples, United States, 631.

Barber chairs, United States, 141.
Beet-lifting machine, prize for, 392.
Beet-sugar campaign (1898-99), 393.
Berlin, motor-carriage exposition,

international, 517.

Breslau, streets and buildings, con-
struction, 390.
British trade, 383.
Canal, new, 523.

Cattle and fresh beef, United States,
196.

Celluloid, substitute, 654.
Chambers of commerce, 207.
Chemical discoveries, 664.

Chemicals, 379.

Coal, United States, southern, 381.
College, colonial, 513.
Consular education, 118.

Duty on druggists' scales, 130.

Egg industry, 225.

Electric plants, 370.
Emigration, 656.

Exports, efforts to increase, 206.

Exports, soap and perfumery, 129.
Exports, United States agricultural,

German view, 202.
Fiber, nettle, 655.

Flour, export premiums, 171.
Foreign interests, 127.

Frankfort, street railways, 340.
Fruit, dried, 170.

Fruit, United States, 200.

Fruit waste, 200.

Furniture, 170.

Hamburg electric street-car
tem, 218.

sys-

Hamburg, malt export, 629.
Hamburg, petroleum (1898), 382.
Hosiery and knit underwear, 357.

Germany-Continued.

Imports from United States, 203.
In 1898, 205.

Industries, growth, 377.

Interests, Transvaal, 490.
Iron, United States, 524.
Life-insurance companies, 244.
Locomotives, 134.

Meat imports, 499.

Paper and textiles, 379.

Paper, printing, 498.

Parcels-post exchanges with United

States, 637.

Paving stones, artificial, 337.
Pawnbroking, 371.

Sheep and wool, 632.
Strikes, 657.

Suggestions for exporters, 125.
Tariff on agricultural machines and
tools, 124.

Tool-machine trust, 121.

Trade and industries, Mannheim,

122.

Trade and industry, 656.
Trade and labor, 379.

Trade-mark convention with Guate-
mala, 507.

Trade with Russia, 403.

Trusts, 498, 636.

United States horses, 338.

Wages, children, 508.

Wood flour, manufacture and use,
216.

Wool import, 128.

Wool, Silesian, 133.

Zinc exports to United States, 210.
Ghent, exposition, 222.

Gibbs, M. W. (consul, Tamatave):

Flour, Madagascar, 491.

Municipal taxes, Madagascar, 183.
Gifford, G. (consul, Basel), coke, United
States, demand, Switzerland, 657.
Gloves, kid, France, 367.

Gold-bearing land, Siberia, lease, 553.
Gold Coast, commerce, 347.

Gold-mining machinery, Transvaal, 188.
Gold:

Output, 1899, Transvaal, 489.
Philippine Islands, 186.

Production, Transvaal (August,
1899), 648.

Goldschmidt, L. (consul, La Guayra),
corn, tariff, Venezuela, 661,

Guatemala:

Bonds, 335.

Goodnow, J. (consul-general, Shanghai):

China, freight facilities from United

States Atlantic ports, 416.
Formosa teas, export duty, 588.
Motor vehicles, Shanghai, 417.

Passenger transit, Shanghai, 98.
Plumbago, China, 90.

Silk and tea, China, 491.
T'ung oil, China, 492.

Gowdy, J. K. (consul-general, Paris):
Duty on druggists' scales, France,

130.

Meat importation, France, 199.
Gowey, J. F. (consul-general, Yoko-
hama):

American-Asiatic Association,
Japan, 332.

Camphor monopoly, Formosa, 415.
Electric industry, Japan, 96.
Japan, foreigners, 165.

Passenger transit, Japan, 97.
Plumbago, Japan, 89.

Rice crop, Japan, 661.

Tea exports, Japanese (1898-99), 179.
Tobacco monopoly, Japan, 431.
Grain export prohibited, China, 180.
Grain situation, France, 633.
Great Britain:

Aluminium, 215.

Canadian competition, 189.

Colonies, prosperity, 110.

Duties, cattle and tobacco, 476.

Flour, 342.

Trade-mark convention with Ger-

many, 507.

Guayaquil Railway, 341.

Guenther, R. (consul-general, Frank-
fort):

British-German trade, 383.
Strikes, Germany, 657.

Trusts, Germany, 636.

Hagerman, H. J. (second secretary of
embassy, St. Petersburg), railway,
Siberia, work on, 409.

Halstead, M. (consul, Birmingham):
Automobiles, cost of running, Eng-
land, 641.

British harvest, 494.

British shipping trust, 538.

Copper, United States, competition.

214.

Freight charges to Great Britain, ex-
cessive, 537.

Licenses, commercial travelers, Rus-
sia, 168.

Trade notes, Midlands, 540.

United States trade competition with

Great Britain, 536.

Westinghouse works, Great Britain,
384.

Freight charges to, excessive, 537.

German trade, 383.

Hamburg: