The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-26

The vast field of engineering science
has seen sensational developments.
1887 has given us the mighty Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, queen of ocean
greyhounds, and the fastest. the hand
soonest, and the largest passenger
steamer afioat: it has given to us the
fieetest battleship in the world. in the
shape of the japanese fighting craft
Yashima, and the speediest small yes
sci in existence in the British torpedo
boat Turbinia, this last presenting in
itself one of the most important adj
vances in steam engineering in that she
attains her tremendous rate of speed by
means of her steam turbines. Record
breaking has been the aim of every
naval architect and engineer; the time
in which a vessel crosses the Atlantic
has been cut down by hours and min
utes and seconds until at last a vessel
has done the trip in less than six days.
Engineers have hammered away at the
record times of railroads until to-day
the accomplishment of a speed of 90
miles an hour, which a few years ago
would have been regarded as visionary
and impossible. has become of such
common occurrence as to be considered
notice The use of steam as a motive
power has been improved upon. Elec-
trio railroading has been tried and
found to be a distinct advance. Tt Is
operating successfully in the New
Haven road in Connecticut and on the
overhead railroad in Liverpool, Eng
land while in London it is to make
bearable the choking atmosphere Of
that abomination, the underground
railroad. Horseless carriages have
ceased to be the butt of the cartoonist $
pencil and the joke writer's pen In
three great cities of the world, London,
Paris and New York. motor carriages
have become such a familiar sight as
to be an object of curiosity to none but
country visitors. The important ad-
yancement made by electricity is shown
by the fact that in 1887 there We're So
miles of electric railway. and an IN
crease in the number Of electric cars
operated from 172 to $1,000.
1t has been a great year for the ad-
yancement of women. Even in the con-
servative countries Of Europe barriers
to the onward and upward progress OF
woman have been removed. In France
| this has been especially noticeable
| many restrictions to the higher educa
| ton of women having been removed
| The attempt to secure for women equal
| privileges with the male students al
/ the university proved a failure, al
| though the faculty had admitted the
| women to study with the men, pas:
| the same examinations and beat then
! when they could. which occasionally
/ has happened
| In the field of sport. as in the held o
| science, to break records has been tn
| aim of every contestant. The star
| the year has been little Jimmie Michael
/ the Welsh wonder. On the turf new
/ king has arisen-Hamburg- might,
son of Hanover and Lady Reel, abou
whose ownership there has been s.
! much secrecy, but of whose right Il
his crown as turf king there is no ques
/ ton Football has been fiercer spor
/ than ever and deaths have occurred OF
/ the gridiron with such frequency tina
in some states the legislature has seri
ously considered the question of prohib
iting the game. Golf has more thai
maintained its popularity. The tndica
tions are that if 1897 may be called