Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-07-20

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been years of great events and achieve
ments.
Il said at the Lake George meeting
that 'one of the inevitable results of
the war between Japan and China
would be the opening to the commerce
of the world Of fields heretofore un-
known, perhaps the richest on the
GLOBE and in urging the members of
the New York Press association to do
everything in their power to secure to
the United States a portion of the great
commerce to be developed between the
western nations and these two old coun-
iris of the world, asked three ques-
tons:
/" Shall the grain in China and Japan
be harvested by machines manufac.
tured along the lines of the New York
Central, or will the manufacturers of
England and Germany supply them?
Shall the fires in Yokohama and
Tientsin be extinguished with engines
built at Seneca Falls, or win France
and England send their fire engines to
Japan and China?
w
fast mail trains between Yokohama and
the interior of Japan and through the
rich valley of China, be built at Sehe-
nectady or Dunk kirk, or will our ORR
entail friends and neighbors in the
Pacific buy them Of our English cous-
ins?'
II predicted that active efforts to-
ward the extension of American COM
merce by commercial bodies, supported
by liberal and broad-minded policy
on the part of our government, would
undoubtedly secure to the United States
the blessings that come from great
and varied commerce, and I said that
the New York Press association, and
similar associations all over the coun.
try, could stimulate a public spirit that
would insure the important results out
lined. II. 4.
At that time we had no idea that
war between one of the old nations Of
the earth and our young republic would
be fought; at that time we had no idea
furnishing locomotives to the English
railroads, as well as japanese, and no
one thought four years ago that Amer
lean bridge builders would go into the
open market and successfully compete
for the building of a great steel bridge
in Egypt; nor that in so brief time
American engineers would be building
railroads into the interior Of China from
the most important seaports and fur
lnishing locomotives by the score to
nearly every country on the globe.
In letter from a friend in Toxic,
Japan, written only q short time ago,
there was this significant sentence:
you will be interested in knowing that
I have hanging on the wall of my Of
flee framed picture Of your Empire
State Express, and we expect in the
near future to be hauling a japanese
Empire Express with an American
locomotive They have now in Japan
nearly 100 locomot iyes that were built
in the United States. In Russia they
have over 400 Of our locomotives, and
nearly every railroad in Great Britain
has ordered LOGON Olives from this coun-i
try since the beginning Of the wal, with
Spain. RI s.s.f ~ 81
In this connection it will be interest
ing to note in passing that the second
American locomotive was built at the
West Point foundry near Cold Spring,
on the Hudson river, and was called the
Best Friend, and from that day to this
the LOCOMOTIVES has been one of the best,
friends Of all our people. s
4 NJ Prince Michel Hilko Il, nperial min
isterof railways Of Russia, has, since his
visit to the United States few years
ago, constructed a train on much the
same lines as the New York Central,s
Lake Shore Limited
Only a short time ago, at the res
quest Of one Of the imperial commits
sioners Of Germany, the New y ork Cen
trail sent to Berlin otographs Of the
interior and exterior Of our finest cars
and other data in relat ton to the op-
GRAFTON Of American railways. Several,
other countries have asked for similar
information, and there is al general
waking up Of foreign nations on the
subject Of transportation, brought
about mainly BY the vond erful achieve
ments of American always. q