Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-07-20

lions is recognized by all the world.
''The four years that have inter.
vened between the time of your meet
ing at Lake George and to-day have
been years of great events and achieve
ments.
81 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 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 will France
and England send their fire engines to
Japan and China?
Twill the locomotives. to haul the
fast mail trains between Yokohama and
the interior of Japan and through the
rich valley of China, be built at Sche-
nectady or Dunkirk, or will our ORR
entail friends and neighbors in the
Pacific buy them of our English cous-
ins?' ga.,,ss.a.i. ri ..,.,,., ILL.,, ...-.. f{.
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 said that
the New York Press association, and
similar associations all over the coun-
try, could stimulate public spirit that
would insure the important results out
lined. tf%
cat that time we had no idea that a
war between one of the old nations Of
the earth and our young republic would
be fought; at that time we had no idea
that American manufacturers would be
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 buildingFof a great steel bridge
in Egypt; nor tthat inssso brief time
Americans Engineers would be building
railroads Into the interior of China from
the most important sssapo and fur
nishing locomotives by the score to
nearly every country on the globe.
Sin a letter froTnla friend I'M Toxic,
Japan, written! only . short time ago,
there wassthis significant sentence:
You WILDE nterested in knowing that
I have hanging III the wall of my Of
flee framed picture Qpf your Empire
State Express, and WI expect in the
near future to be hauling J Japanese
Empire Express with. an American
locomotive They have now in Japan
nearly 400 locomotives that were built
instRss sIjnited states. I'LL Russia they
have over 400 Of our locomotives and
nearly every railroad in Great Britain
has ordered locomotives from this cpun-
try since s tie bt : n4l Of the war With
Spain. '' '|'''' '-''l ~. n
'.In this connection it will be interest-
ing to notstn passing thafthe second
American I1oceino olive was built atsthe
West sPointtss:ffo nnpldry near cola Spring,
onst the Hudson river, and wa called the
Best Friend, and fromathat day toFthis
the locomotive has been one of thebest
friends Of all our people.asa e..
''Prince Michel Hilkoff, imperial min
lister Of railways of Russia, has, sincs his
visit toathe United States few years
ago, constructed train on muclN the
same fines as the New York Central's
Lake Shore Limited.fio11 saf II
"only d short time ago, at ths re-
quest of one of the imperial conimis-
siQpers Of Germany, the New YorkCen-.
trail sent to Berlin photographs OIL the
interior and exterior of our Ailestcars
and other data in relation co thu. OPP
Grafton Of Observation-Disclosures SeSeral
other countries hase asked for sii16ilar
information, and there is q general
waking up. Of. foreign, nations OH the.
subject Of transportation, brought
about mainly by tie wonderful achieve
'ments Of American railways" y a