New-York tribune., 1902-12-26

ti t1 oaos 1 f o from NewYork to Brook
lyn than an American does to-day to fash m mes,
Benjamin Franklin if he could have stood the other
@ cay & as ,ns many yeapSbe Exploits Of time annihila-
ton record. II test OF thouSnt transrnis
patch sung over the Wires to San Francisco, then
to yanoopver from there 10 S4Ka atfc to london
and back to New-York. Every wire naa peed zee q
reached the last word this test message another
operator in the same room was taxing une ~ abIs
gTeG TGeS Of fro the agon 6as dispatch not from 's
The Whole world has caught the electrical CON
tagion of America. and the globe is enmeshed IL, IN
thought freighted wires. The brine swept capies
times The wires that swing and sway in the wind
over every land all told, would make eight steel
The telephone has withered the space that sep
TTafed ces ~ e ana ba@s been saved by this Voice
conductor for two billions of telephone L1essages
fafo WaiioWs of fifty years ago farmers telephone
along barbed wire circuits In In ksnsaS s for I've min
utes with its branch in Boston Chcsgo S, st3GK 3
change and complete an entire transaction in thirty
seconds. London brokers eager to deal 9hIeKlg @ on
gested with business. cable to Paris via New-1o%rk OK
and T but a6sSuey R0ro Pompf
Sanguine as he was about the success, OF ms ms
been BIZ amazed at the spectacle the other day
in md-Atlantic Of two great ocean gi2 gIeynIusGs mus
CARRYING On chess @ pe gaine Of this Wire
less teIegraphy is to be one cannot safely promise
Conservative men refuse to subscribe to all the be
wildering predictions made for this latest Of time
and space annihilators. Yet commerce to-day is
taking out patents on the dreams OF yssIesroaS. este Gay
tury ago cynically declared TO be extraTagant ana
ba seab is bens lad miles below the
surface OF the Pacific ocean bed ten thou,
course Without syable Of unbeIef To speed
human thought along the ocean depths is me no longer
Measured in thought transmission this old planet
pnema}e n9 a hydraulic inventions have SO annh
lated space that there is but T2 small 1afn 10
professor Of transportation in the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA Il takes steps only Gnein en- In sSo S o5 B
the sunrise Of the century it took all but sxty-fye
That w was when men travelled in saiIboats post
chaise, on horseback and on foot ocean steaIneIs
in Two for then it took only one hundred and sixty
Gays 5sS to e6reeg Ihe gGe be el Topd still smaller
and an enterprising able 10 get around
the world in one hundred days. Since then Jules
of the speed Of steam vessels and railroad trains
one can box the compass anc get nome IN stHS
days And the eng is not yet win the corP5eIlGH Pf
Francisco than Oakland is, across the Golden Gate
viii be as near to Wall Street. the purse Of
America. as are the commercial ports Of Europe
ing beneath the onslaught OF modern methods.
American merchant Of today and the American
merchant of the future. Every facility at his hand
American will have to be quick on the trigger. He
must stand with his ear to the telephone his
poraneous in all business; and never meditative
Inc american meTGhala, & II ne n W nasl 6Tst The
time for deberation and waiting for foreign mar.
the earth has forced his competitors his street,
and it behooves him to be original If he would win
curate and timely information as to the industrial
PULSE bea6s ana coeTc5aI k [s of 5istIj
button by which he may take advantage of this
information. and deliver to their destination with
the least delay. the products most suitable for the
needs Of that particular community. -,
In the United States to-day 1t Is practically In
possible to go far wrong on crop conditions The
inch thai a stalk of corn grows and it knows with
certainty the condition of the bread basket or the
Department the government each month issues the
most careful and remarkably complete report that
ing crops in the United States. Absolutely impair
the comniier the report is an invaluable signboard
to the commercial and industrial interests OF the
While the government stands tape measure me- ssi in
BORDERS Of the United States there is practically no
Of similar nature regarding that of
sian, Argentine and French wheat fields almost |
as far away to-day so far as information is con-
f6ree hundred ~ea davg Sge u INC eo'0
If the United States is to be q world power It's |
greatest achievements will be commercial ones
The United States Government should not expect /
mercial battle less carefully equipped. That the
federal goveTnment is begnning ms tho TO d reaze tIs ms
Agricultural Department, which, under the author
with representatives abroad to obtain information
America. india and elsewhere. However, this ser
vice as now planned is to be only Occasional sue4
frequent intervals. not only of crops. but OF all
The whole consular service Of the United states |
should be permitted TO utilize the cable and tee-
interests while II is str hot; while the |
need still exists which American industry. Ameri-
can brains and American energy can hll.
Opportunities for American conrnerciai supremacy
consists in the control directly or indirectly, so |
far possible: Of system of distribution, world
wide developed by American methods to the high |
Distribution has not been reduced to a science on
are Independent, each making time tables for Its |
own purposes without regard to any other system |
Steamship lines are not affiliated with great land
plants Mutitudnous M re Gsshpmfents M fd
haul is often ignored either wilfully or through |
car and the unsystematc handling of freight and |
of all kinds the railroads of Europe
Wbo bad az fTageed great deal in Europe and
was was famar ar with the cenditions in America by
actual investigation, why his country sti retained
freight cars Of insignificant size. He replied:
We'll. they as big as the country They haul |
all we oh They fb bring b us all that we
endeavored to show the opportunities through |
basis I Suggested car ferry across the Channel |
to England similar to to the the one operated all ,t the
waukee and the points across the inland sea on
power of Great Britain would easily justify the |
employment of large cars more modern locomotives |
and the longer haul from the wheat fields of Rus |
sia, Hungary and Austria. My Belgian friend as |
sured that all this impracticable; that 1
those things might do for America, but never for |
Europe He admitted that thsre was no close alli- |
and matter Of fact the transportation Of the |
Old World was in large measure heterogeneous in
stead of homogeneous, as II should be.
Germany is applying American ideas to her rail- |
roads. and the trains OF Great Britain being |
operated upon American schedules. France is i'm |
proving her land transportation in similar way. |
but these sporadic rather than united efforts.
Africa affords mighty field for American enter |
prise. Her dollars and her brains may play great |