The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-01

recent times have been due entirely 10 en-
larged methods OF transacting business.
In the last week OF October. for exam
pie. there were recorded the largest orders
for steel rails, locomotives and cars ever
known in similar period. One million and
half tons of steel rails, 10000 cars and ECO
locomotives were actually ordered within
Six days, In TIE same week there was pub
lshed a description of the most powerful
locomotive ever constructed, built by the
Brooks Locomotive Works for the Illinois
Central Railroad Company The total
weight Of this engine, without the tender
Is 22,2oO pounds, and the weight OF the
engine and tender loaded, Is 1854 900 pounds
The locomotive is designed TO haul trains
carrying 1900 tons.
A few weeks ago the largest steamship
In the world arrived i'm New York after
successful maiden voyage, and Il is now
stated that the Great Northern Railway
has already contracts in England for two
steel steamships which win be IS feet
longer than the new Oceanic OF the White
Star Line. II Is Furthermore reported that
these two are but the fore-runners OF a
large fieet of equally gigantic steel steam
ships for the trans-Pacifc trade between
Seattle and Japan.
When the Baldwin Locomotive Works
installed two giant electric travelling
cranes, having a lifting capacity OF 100 tons
/ each, IN their erecting shops a few years
ago these labor-saving appliances were the
cause Of much wondering comment among
engineers and others: but more recently
the Carnegie Steel Company caused
| to be built flor its Homestead planD
an electric travelling crane having a lifting
! capacity OF $50 tons, and It Is said that no
| more difficulty is experienced in the oper-
alton OF this monstrous mechanism than
| In the case of the smaller cranes The
I
ly in its notes of the week the following:
THAT was remarkable demonstration
| of what "a mogul can do, which occurred
on the New York Central the other day
when engine No. 9i8, 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, sixteen in ALL The total
weight of the train was 1,S32,000 pounds
or 9l6 tons, and the length Of the train.
including the engine, was 1,2l2 feet or near
ly quarter of a mile. This engine, il is
said, made the running time of the train
between New York and Albany, 143 miles,
In hours and Is minutes"
Whether we consider the actual acoom-
| phshments OF the present day or those un-
der contemplation for the near futurd 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 within the past year or 80
are merely necessary preminaries to-
ward the reorganization of manufacturing
| industries In accordance with the enlarg-
ed methods of conducting business which
are demanded in these times of Industrial
| expansion. There is a wide difference be-
tween the utilization of modern methods
| for economizing the mighty forces brought
| into play whether of nature or OF human
effort, for the purpose of charging pro-
1 duction and the formation of illegal COM
! binatons OF powerful interests for the pur-
| pose Of enhancing prices. The one is the
natural evolution of the science of indus-
trial economies; the other Is simply a epe-
cies of wholesale robbery for the punish-
ment Of which both federal and state laws
1 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 converted
Improbable because disjointed or dis
united efforts into highly successful
achievements, without resort to the nefa-
rious methods of the promoters of so-caii-
ed trusts. Large ideals may not always be
capable of fun and complete realization,
| but the practical man soon learns to seq
regate or seperate the attainable from the
unattainable, and II is this power TO seize
that which is valuable and appropriate II
70 his needs which distinguishes the man
of affairs from the dreamer or the diet
tante.