The colored American., 1900-01-27
m INDUSTRIAL ARENAS

.,a nower house in New York, 500, 90
norndg In weight, W sre made there.
The largest grain vessel ever bull
Nos lust been compile ed at Chicago, 43
feet long, draft "a feet.
Within six months Buffalo will b
.IectricaIly lighted with light fror
mower at Niagara Falls.
rncIe Sam has % war vessels Of
.be Atlantic coast, in Europe, o.
tbe Pacific, z In Asia and one on tn
lakes.
G. Louis is growing so fast tina
there are prospects OF a third brldg
teing built over the Mississippi at tina
point.
The iron and steel makers are busie
tban last month. Productive capacit!
IN the west is being strained in steel
not iron.
ten inch gun threw a shot sever
miles from Fort Washington to Alex
ondria. The gun can throw a sho
eleven miles If it spits on its hands, 81
to speak.
The carpet manufacturers want tx
combine and may try it at Phksdelphia
There is a rumor that prices IN bicycles
will take another tumble before sum
mer.
Invention has now gone so far tina,
hot rolled seamless steel tubing In
ehes outside diameter can be turned
out. A blast furnace that cannot turI
out 400 to 500 tons Of metal a day il
now out of date.
The British government is now ne
gotiating with Westinghouse for 20
900 horse power plant to be erected al
Assouan Cataract, Egypt, to cost S40O,-
e0O the power to be sent 100 miles OF
more through q cotton growing district
And now comes a hay trust. The
American Hay Company, composed o1
100 of the largest buyers and shippers
in the United States, with headquarter:
in Chicago, capital $5,OO0,O0O, will run
up prices if they can.
The London Underground Electric
Railway Company had to come all the
way to the little town OF Franklin In
western Pennsylvania to buy 1000, 600
pounds of castings, the heaviest of
rHich will weigh thirty tons.
The Russian government wants to
buy enough aluminium to make 10000
pieces Of kitchen ware for its soldiers.
Zach soldier will then carry his kit
chen on his back, along with his bed
room and parlOr.
The volume of business thus far this
ysar has been larger by far than the
same time last year. A greater eXpan-
sion Is now in sight. Retailers have
enjoyed a good winters trade and
wholesalers and jobbers are industri-
OusIy pushing out for summer business
The Carnegie Company make $780,
goo tons OF pig iron per year out of a
fetal Of l2,5O0,000 tons now being made
More blast furnaces are to be built, tive
at Youngstown, Ohio. The Westing-
house companies at Pittsburg are
crowded with orders. 4 new company
Is organized at Pittsburg to Dlanufac-
ture maChinists tools.
Wall paper makers count on advan-
eng prices. Wool buying will soon be-
gin in earnest. Lumber dealers have
oesuD to sell in big lots of building
sun. Leather manufacturers say pric-
Is have advanced a trifle Cotton Is
t-I weak at all shipping points. The
reason is that the masses who wear
cotton goods have not been able to
spare money for extra clothes after
!a!lEg cost Of table living.
We imagine We have about all the
Ine land on the western continent.
mere IS Columbia, little patch in the
No'IheFn part of South America. 1t Is
e,e'en times as large as Pennsylvania,
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