The St. Louis Republic., 1901-06-16

Percy and the Wells, have been conveying
eargoes Of 5000 tons ,s OF coal each and and
coast with signal success. Now Is. Il.
Crowninchild. the clever and popular de-
sisner OF the Independence. has designed a
group Of New York and Boston capitalists.
while five masted schooners galore are on
particular. the New England shipyards are
steadily turning out sailing vessels OF con-
siderable capacity. In the handling of that
class Of freight that depends more upon
economy OF movement than promptness Of
delivery these vessels have . distinct Held
Of usefulness.
I'm his recent explanation Of the world
wide success Of American enterprise. Lord
George Hamilton. Secretary Of State for In
dia. told Sir Alfred Hickman, member Of
the House OF Commons for the West Divt-
sion of wolverhampton. q prominent IRON
master. that Americans yearly improve
their products in quality and price. Chemi-
cal research. concentration OF capital. thor
ough technical education ard improved in
dustrial organization have in recent years
made n greater advance in America than in
might have added native inventive genius
as a contributing factor OF no mean sig
n:fcance. To illustrate. take the rapidity
with which iron ore is fashioned into steel
"For a couple Of years past ore from the
Mount Iron mine has been converted into
thousand tons. say. On the first day IT
would be mined. The second day. at noon,
II would be run TO the railroad wharves at
wharves Is about half a mile long and cap
able OF holding fifty thousand tons. In one
hour the nine thousand tons would be load
ed into a Bessemer steamer and barge. i2i
and sss feet long. respectively. At / o'clock
on the second day the steamer and consort
would start on their eight hundred and sixty
mile trip.
Ingenuity In the Secret.
On the sixth day. at the same hour. they
would arrive at Conneaut. o. The seventh
day. at l o'clock. the nine thousand tons
Of ore would have been taken from the
holds OF the vessels and loaded into one
hundred and eighty OF the fifty-ton steel
cars. On the morning OF the eighth day
these cars would be delivered to the fur
mace at Bessemer or Duquesne. where the
fcur.stack furnaces have a capacity an
the ninth day. at I a. m. the ore would
have run through the cupola, and could be
transferred TO the Bessemer converter or
mixer, and In less than an hour turned into
Eot to the plate mill and made into ship
plates in an hour.
chip plates would be ready for shipment
The mines. railways. vessels and mills being
under the same interests. this perfect co..
the ingenuity involved I'm tbi, snssdv ,,e,a. y.
morphosis must suffice.
1T has been stated that one Of these huge
ecrgoes would be loaded into a vessel In an
hcrr. This is possible through the use Of
wonderful car hJisting and dumping ma
chimes which seize the loaded cars oyerturn
item. empty the ore into chutes and then
gently replace the cars on the tracks, in
stead OF using the old system Of buckets and
Gerricks. Again: at points like Pere Mar
guette a train Of thirty loaded freight ears
Is run directly into the hold Of n steamer
and transported in unbroken bulk
A., IL u such devices az these that have put
the United States to the fore in monopoliz-
Ing the markets Of the world Indeed to
every true American there must come a
thrill OF purest patriotism when he realizes
that II fs through the ennoblinx arts Of
peace that the United States has achieved
international pre-eminence at the dawn of
the Twentieth Century,