The Worthington advance., 1899-07-21

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
westernE nations and these two old coun-
iris of the world, asked three ques-
tiOns: Z: :st,I.ia Asi -.
'''Shall the grain in China, and Japan
be harvested by machines manufac-
tured along theflines of the New York
Central, or3will 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?.
''Will the locomotives, to haul the
fast mail trains between Yokohama and
the interior ofEJapan and through the
rich valley of China, be built at Sche-
nectady or Dunkirk, or will our orr
sntal. friends and neighbors in the Pa
cifc buy them Of our English cousins?'
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
undo oubtedl secure to the United States
the blessings th4t come from great
and varied commerce, and said that
the New York Press association, and
similar associat tions all over the coun-,
try, could stimulate public spirit that
would insure the important results out
lined. s.-
''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
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 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
nishing locomotive 7es by the score to
nearly every country on the globe.
,''In a letter. from friend in Toxic,
Japan, written only a 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 pictu of your Empire
State Express, and we expect in the
near future to be hauling Japanese
Empire Express with an American
locomotive They have now in Japan
nearly 100 locomotives that were built
in the United Sta ates. In Russia they
have over 400 of. our locomotives, and
nearly every railroad in Great Britain
has ordered locomotives from this coun-
try since the begih hning of the war with
Spain. ~ a. e..
"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
Rest Friend, and from that day to this
the locomotive has been one of the best
friends of all our people. t>s' ....
''But it is not alone our locomtives
that have ATTRACTED the attention OF
foreigners who have visited our shores,
our railway equipment generally has
commanded adn nliration and is now
receiving the highest compliment,
namely, imitation by many of our sis
ter nations. f@s i. - ..l.'
"Prince Michel 'Hilkoff, imperial min
isterof railways Of Russia, has, since his
visit to the United States few years
ago, constructed train on much the;
same lines as the New York Central's
Lake Shore Limited. =-25 - sT'.A,.@
"Only short time ago, at the re-
quest of one of the imperial commits
sioners of Germany, the New York Cen
tral sent to Berlin photographs of the
interior and exterior of our finest cars
and other data in relation to the op-i
Grafton of American railways. Several
other countries. have asked for similar
inforrnat tions md here is4 a general.
waking up Of foreign nations on the
subject of transportation, brought
about nadnly blythe wonds rfu1 achieve
ments ofaAmerican railways" Sss
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