Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-05-14

poncd or not. II may be put down rs
an assured fact that Mr.. Irwin will Ike
nominated. His friends throughout
Cook County are legion. and his name
adds strength 10 the Republican ticket.
Mr.. George 4. Fuller. Secretary of
the Grand Rapids Company. may liz
appointed by Mayor Harrison mem.
Der Of the School Board next month.
Hon. d. II. Cameron. the popular
member Of the Board Of Education.
who has been visiting In California for
the past Ave months on account Of his
health. returned to the city Monday
night. much improved.
a French engineer who has been on
a tour Of inspection was not impressed
by the big things In this country. Il
shall report to my government" says
he. that the biggest things In America
nrc the little things. The French PEG.
pie are experts In domestic economy,
anu live comfortably by saving what
average families In the United States
throw away. But Americans are, ON
the other hand. experts In Industrial
economy. They make money by saw.
Ing wastngc In business. ana lose some
OF 1t by wastagc In domestic economy.
The attention paid to small details In
big works IL amazing 10 me. I visited
some establishments where ! believe
that the profits are made not In the
manufacture proper. but In the saving
Of materials ana labor by close atteu-
ton to details that are looked upon Us
trifes by us. For example. l saw u
grindstOnc In operation In a large o..
tablisment automatically sharpening
lathe ana planer tools. This machine
costs probably M much as 100 Of our
ordinary grindstOnes cost. but I sec
that 1t automatically grlnds all the
tools for 300 hIgh-prlced mechanics.
aud 1t only works few hours each
day. The skilled mechanics In our
country frequently stop their regular
work to grind their own tools. AMI then
do 1t only imperfectly. In the United
states tools are all accurately ground
to the best shape by the machine. 40
that the men Gun do more ana better
work on this account In given time. !
believe that that machine has brains
the brains OF the inventOr--and It has
no doubt revOlutiOnized work Of this
kind In American machine shops. This
Is but one case out OF many that l have
noted during my stay In the country"
The visitor correctly defined peculiar
characteristic Of American inventive
genius. The vast engineering achieve
ments, the immense manufacturing es-
Establishments AMI the leviathan ma
chinery are, OF course, most cOnspicl-
Gus ana impressive. but these big
things are comparatively few In num-
her, while the novel improvements In
little Enthusiastically classed as cyan
kee notions"-are legion. and each con-
tributes Its mite toward the general
sum of the cOuntry's business prosper
ity. 1t is certainly wise to give full at
tentlOn to all details.
The "radius of influence" of "A great
institution of learning Is striklngly sug-
gested by a recent gathering In historic
Lucknow, when twenty-one mission
aries came from all parts of the Indian
Empire to organize the Boston Uni
versity Alumni Association Of Southern
Asia. Most fittingly to their and other
fostering mothers might one apply the
l'salmist's saying, "Their line Is COMO
out through all the earth. ana their
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