The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
able to assert on the highest authority
that the story is pure fiction.
slz COUNTS IN THESE DAYS.
Success Is Achieved Sometimes by Pom
derous Inventions.

derous Inventions.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The multitudinous changes of far-reach-
ing Importance which are now occurring
in the Industrial and commercial worlds
demonstrate that we are entering on an
era of 'big things" Whether we look
at the merchant the manufacturer or the
discoverer of new processes and new in
ventions. we perceive that success comes
to the man Of large ideas Indeed, some
of the most remarkable achievements of
recent times have been due entirely to en-
larged methods of transacting business.
In the last week of October, for exam
pie, there were recorded the largest or
ders for steel rails, locomotives and cars
ever known in a similar period. One mil
lion and a half tons of steel rails, 1000
cars and 500 locomotives were actually or
dered within six days. In the same week
there was published description of the
most powerful locomotive ever construct
ed, built by the Brooks Locomotive works
for the Illinois Central Railroad company.
The total weight of this engine, without
the tender, Is 232, 200 pounds, and the
weight of the engine and tender, loaded,
is 364,000 pounds. The locomotive Is de-
signed to haul trains carrying 1000 tons.
A few weeks ago the largest steamship
in the world arrived in New York after
successful maiden voyage, and it is now
stated that he Great Northern railway
has already contracted in England for
two steel steamships which will be 16
feet longer than the new Oceanic of the
White Star line. 1t is furthermore re-
ported that these two are but the forerun-
| ners of a large feet of equally gigantic
steel steamships for the trans-Pacific
trade between Seattle and Japan.
When the Baldwin Locomotive works in
stalled two giant electric travelling
cranes, having a lifting capacity of 100
| tons EACH in their erecting shops a few
| years ago these labor-savng appliances
were the cause of much wondering COM
ment among engineers and others, but
more recently the Carnegie Steel COM
pany caused to be built, for it's Home
| stead plant, an electric travelling crane
| having lifting capacity of $50 tons, and
| it is said that no more difficulty Is ex>
psri.nced in the operation of this mon
| strous mechanism than in the case of the
smalle cranes. The Railway World of
Nov. mentions casually in its notes of
| the week the following:
| That was .emarkable demonstration
of wh..ta nsvgul can do which occurred on
| the New York Central the other day,
when engine No. 9iS, one of the new mo-
| guls hauled out train No. Ii, the South
| western limited made up of two mail
| cars, five passenger coaches and nine
| Wagner cars, 16 in ALL The total weight
| Of the train was 1S32,000 pounds, or GIG
| tons, and the length of the train, includ-
! ing the engine, was 1,212 feet, or nearly a
| quarter of a mile. This engine, it is said,
| made the running time of the train be-
| tween New York and Albany, 143 miles,
| in 3 hours and Is minutes
4 Whether we consider the actual ac-
| complishments of the present day or
| those under contemplation for the near
| future, we cannot fail to be impressed by
| the fact that "bigness" is the keynote of
| every important undertaking. Indeed,
| many of the great trade combinations
which have been formed with the past
| year or so are merely necessary prelim-
| tnaries toward the reorganization of man.
4 ufacturing industries in accordance with
the enlarged methods of conducting bust
i ness which are demanded in these times
of industrial expansion. There is a wide
difference between the utilization of mod
| ern methods for economizing the mighty
forces brought into play, whether of en-
larging production and the formati ;of
| Illegal combinations of powerful interests
for the natural evolution of the science
of industrial economics the other is sim
| ply a species of wholesale robbery, for
| the punishment of which both federal and
state laws have been enacted
| The special genius for organization is
| coming to be regarded aS an American
trait, to which much of the success OF
| modern industry is indebted Instances
could be named where the simple touch
of this genius of organization has con-
verted Improbable. because disiointed
or disunited, efforts into highly successful
achievements, without resort to the nefar-
ious methods of the promoters of so-callet
trusts. Large ideals may not always b,
capable of full and complete realization
but the practical man soon learns to seq.
regate or separate the attainable from thu
unattanable, and it is this power to sez,
| hot Is al, hi
to his needs which distinguishes the mar
OF affairs from the dreamer or the dill
ettante.