The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-11-24
AMERICAN RAILWAYS
As Related to Commercial, Indus
trial and Agricultural Interests
Present Period styled the Age OF
transportation = Foreign C"u"-
tries Buying our locomotives
Development of the West.

century that il Is an age OF trahspor'a-
ton. Transportation underlies mate
| rial prosperity in every department OF
commerce. Without transportation
commerce would be impossible. Those
states and nations are rich, powerful |
and enlightened whose transportation
facilities are best and most EXTENDED.
The dying nations are those with niue
or no transportation facilities.
These were part of the opening
words of an address delivered before
the International Commercial congress,
recently held in Philadelphia, by
Ceorre III. Daniels. General Passenger
Aren't of the New York Central a llud-
son River railroad, and president OF the
American Association of General Pas
scnger Agents.
He then went on to quote Mr. Mulhall.
the British statistcian, who in his work
on THE Wealth of Nations" said of the
United States in 1895: IF we take n
survey of mankind in ancient or mod
ern times. as regards the physical, me-
chanical and intellectual force of ma
tons, we find nothing to compare with
the United States
Mr.. Mulhall proved by his statistics
that the working power Of a single per-
son in the United States was twice that
OF a German or Frenchman, more than
three times that of an Austrian and five
times that Of an Italian. He said the
United States was then the richest
country in the world, its wealth exceed
ing that of Great Britain by IS per
cent, ard added that in the history OF
the human race no nation ever before
possessed 100000 of instructed ciu-
zens. should Mr.. Mulhall revise his fig
ures to-day, the differences would all
be in favor of the United States, for in
the past IS months we have demon
strated the superiority of our manufac
lures in every direction, and our ability
to cope successfully with questions
which have heretofore been handled eN'
! c!usiveiy by the older nations is now
recognized by all the world.
Mr.. Daniels told of a letter he had re.
1 ceiyed from friend in Toxic, writer.
only a short time ago, in which was this
, significant sentences: You viii be in
, terested in knowing that | have hang
! ing on the wall Of my Office framed pic
ture OF your Empire State Express.
I and we expect in the near future TO be
. hauling a japanese Empire Express
: with an American locomotive. They
! have now in Japan more than 100 To-
: comotiyes that were built in the United
States. In Russia they have nearly
|, 1000 American locomotives, and prac-
: tically every railway in Great Britain
has ordered locomotives from this coun-
/, try since the beginning of the war with
!. Spain.
n But il is not alone our locomotives
Il that have attracted the attention OF for
), eirners who have visited our shores;
i our railway equipment generally has
q commanded admiration and is now re
! ceiving the highest compliment. name
IL, imitation by many sister nations.
The demand for American locomo
tives from all parts of the world Mr.
al Daniels attributed, in the first place
+ to the superior quality of our ma
H. chinery, and, in the second, to the fac
le that the general passenger agents 0
~ the American railways have. througl
ys their advertising. made the maryelou
r. results accomplished by our locomo
ne tives household words in every countr
to on the globe.
I'd The emperor of Germany in ii
II. speech TO the Prussian diet in Januar
n last, said Mr.. Daniels, did not lay III
Ia greatest stress upon the necessity fc
n increasing the army or for the cor
struction of additional ships for tn
navy, but he did impress upon his heal
| L. nf NJ N
the railroads and the navigable canal
re In order that the German nation migl
rs. have knowledge of the most advance
ire theories and practice in the constru
nd ton and operation of railways an in
ms perial German commission was sent
tn the United States a short time ago f
RS the purpose of examining America
he railways and making such recomme
IN dations as their investigation shou
ny suggest. In the report of this commi
ire sion. which was recently published, Oh
he of the first sentences is as follow
Tx "Lack OF speed. lack of comfort, Lac
ny OF cheap rates. are the charges brougl
against the German empires railway
ms compared with those of the Unit
,ol- States" They recommended the ado
ye1 ton of many OF our methods, eXplai
ar ing in their report that they were
en- superior not only TO those in vogue
Germany, but also superior TO those
ain any other country.
fir One Of the claims made by Mr.. Dani'
led is that railroads supersede the cana
ire. and he gives as one reason the gener
the demand Of the American public I
cx- quick time. A shipper having hu
cts dred thousand barrels of -four or a IN
airs lion bushels Of grain for export mt
rs move IL from Buffalo to New York wit
hey in n specified time, and he cannot ri
the the slow process Of the canal.
what Railroads Have Accomplishs
A few examples Of the acbievemer
OF American railroads in little me
'he than half century, and many OF thu
- within the last rs years, were tn
ave given. Before the railroads were bu