New-York tribune., 1899-07-30

business concern-Fint, Eddy & Co.-whlch does
an export business with Africa, Australia NEW
Zealand. Brazil, the Argentine Republic the
Central American States, Mexico and the fhH-
ippnes
On the subject OK "Our Export Trade Mr
Flint in the course of an article published IN
The Forum" in 1897 said:
The existence of great export trade IN @ tne
United States would have an educatlve influence
on our people IT would cause them 10 look dt
great economic questions from higher point vi
view Contrasting their wages with those OF
other countries would tend to make our lapo@aUrs @
satisfied with ;helr more favored condition me
farmer would realize his dependence on taciIl'les
for transportation by land and sea and granger
agitation would gradually cease. Our manu-
facturers would ne stimulated 10 renewed ei-
forts to occupy this wider field and the Legs
Iature would be forced to study closely and IN
telligently National finances and trade, not from
the standpoint OF narrow partisanshIp or loca'
conditions but from the higher ground or the
rights of all and the general good, and IN we"
Of the ultimate domination of the universal law
of supply and demand.
IN SPORT AND WAR.
Tfc list of organizations which owe their eX-
istence to the efforts of Charles r. Flint would
be large one, and the amount of capital when
they represent is enormous, but there are other
He was a member of the syndicate which built
and raced the V 9ilant and thus successfully de-
Tended the Americas Cup against DunraTen's
Valkyrie II, and he acted as confidential agent
FOR the United States Government in negotia-
ticns for war vessels and munitions OF war IN
the war with Spain. lie purchased the Esme-
ralda from Clili and delivered her to Japan
during the Chinese Japanese war. and it was
at bic N VI IL
nary transaction because it was unusual for
Power to purchase q war vessel after the decla-
ration Of war and have it delivered during the
continuance Of hostilities
Mr. Flint was married in 1883 to Miss Simmons,
daughter OF Joseph f. Simmons, of Troy, N. Y,
and his home is at No. East Thirty -sixth-st.
In one If he many articles which he has writ
ten on the subject of industrial combinations Mr.
Flint said
The chief advantage possessed by these com
bnatons, and one which Overshadows all u'hers,
lies in the ability to cheaper the cost of manu-
featuring bv the Introduction of careful and in
te1lgent management into their various operat-
ing departments. When once merger is ef-
fccted, and the managers able to compare
the past records OF the various plants, il is in
variaby found that owing to ADLER management
or better facilities, some plants were turning out
their product at much lower cost than others
Under the new regime all this is at once
changed. incompetent managers are discharged
and the methods which before prevailed in the
most favored and best equipped plants are in
troduced into all. If il is found that there is a
greater aggregate capacity than the legitimate
consumption demands, some Enthusiastically
those in which the cost of operating is greatest
are closed down, and the remainder operated 10
their full capacity, In this way each plant is
enabled To turn out the maximum OF product at
the minimum OF cOst-whch Is the perfection of
manufacturing. This may seem hard for the
workmon ia the idle plants, who are thrown out
Of employment; a1d so it is But it must be re-
inembered that the aggregate of labor employed
is as great in the one instance as in the other.
1t is simply shifted from one place to another,
and a smaller number of men are employed on
full time instead of a greater number working
short hours only. From my own observation,
extending over many years and including al