Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-01-24
GREAT FEATS or 1901.
ODD AND REMARKABLE THINGS
OF LAST YEAR.


The first year Of the twentieth century
saw many new records established in
various lines OF human activity. New
Years day there were thirty deaths from
violent causes in various parts Of Ken
tucky. The record set a:high slaughter
mark. Kentucky also eclipses all records
% another direction. Jan. 20, a Kentucky
.trm sold a Chicago house 5000 barrels
sf whisky, which. IL the largest single
Sransaction In liquor ever known.
The matrimonial mart usually has big
hings to show in d year. All nuptial
epeed rec0fds eere. smashed Sunday
Aug. 10. at st. Joseph. Mich.z ChicAgo's
aretna Green. when twenty-seven couples.
rom Chicago were deftly spliced In one
lour and th-ree-quarters, each couple thus
saving less than five minutes to go
through the mill. The minister who In.
1901 claims the record with reference
to the grand total of marriages and fu-
0erals, connected with a long minister's
life. is Rev. j. NJ. Naughty Of Mason
City, Ill. During his career as a preach
er, a period of some forty years, he has
married 1857 couples and conducted
100 funerals.
Turning to the divorce side Of matri-
mony-a side peculiarly rich in speed
rec0rds-one naturally would look to Chi
cago, Oklahoma or the Dakotas for win
uers. The Chicago speedy divorce calen-
dar for the year found its stellar per-
Torrance in the case Of Mrs. G. Kruger.
1t took this lady a trifle less than ten
minutes to convince Judge Dunno that
she ought to be cut loose from her hus-
hand. Henry William Kruoparl
Referring to feats in travel, it certain
" was a great year for the automobile.
Even In these days Of chronic record
breaking such a performance as that Of
Henri Fournier, the French chauffeur,
who drove q heavy French racing ma
chine a mile In 81 As seconds on the
Coney Island boulevard, in November,
was most noteworthy.
The long-distance record for horseless
vehicles was broken by Arthur j. Eddy,
OF Chicago, a former president Of the
Automobile Club Of that city. In sixty
days, from Aug. / to Sept. 80. he covered
1900 miles, travelling through Michigan,
Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts and part Of
Canada. He averaged about 100 miles
d day, and at times maintained a speed
of forty miles an hour.
Wonders incident to travel were pro-
claimed in other classes; for example,
the unchallenged record Of Charles Bel
lamy. a Burlington Railroad fireman,
who in eleven years Of faithful service
travelled 6O8,S4O miles and shoveled 49,
5O1 tons Of coal on the way. He never
lost a trip or received a scratch through
accident. Railroad men shy that 1t is a
<N0Ah-nf nhrvHSAn1 oyN II, 4. ~@,,a
An engine on the Great Northern Rail
way, in England, which was built in
1870, completed in August an aggregate
of 100000 miles. breaking the English
record in this respect. The speediest
long-distance delivery of mail ever ac-
complished in the world was that of the
consignment which left Sidney, Australia,
Oct. ID. for London, England, by the
American route. A distance Of 1926
miles was covered in t%hirty-one days, a
saving of four days over the Suez canal
route.
1t was a fruitful year in unprecedent-
ed financial, commercial and industrial
transactions. The largest shipment of
gold which ever left New York in a sin
gle day was sent to Europe Nov. 10 on
the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. The sum was 7,0S2,5S3.10 No
other ship in the worlds history has ever
been so richly laden. Another record
Is noted in the statement that ut the
opening Of business on July 81 the Unit
ed States treasury had in It's possession
the largest fund Of gold held by any ma
ton in the world and the greatest ever
owned by this government, the amount
being $504,354,279.
Wall street had a record-breaking day
on Jan. Z, when for the first time in the
history Of the New York Stock Exchange
mole. than 100000 shares were trade1
in OF, it's floor during the five hours of
business.
The largest single order ever given for
watches was received by an American
manufacturer from a London firm, the
former agreeing to deliver to his CUSTOM
er 100000 timepieces within twelve
months. A. l.. Schaeffer of Edgar Coun-
ty, ILL.,, harvested the largest crop of
popcorn ever gathered in the world. From
his 1O2 acres he had 1900 bushels, a
yield of q little over seventeen bushels to
the acre. It cost him $17 an acre to
raise, sort, shell and pay ground rent.
Yhe winter wheat yield Of Kansas for
1901 was 90.O45,514 bushels, valued at
S%6O,479,54O; and breaking the preceding
years record by 13,450.07O bushels.
These two were the largest wheat crops
ever grown by any State. The first year
Of the new century was an all-aronnd rec
ord breaker. for the farmers Of the Unit.
ed States. The entire years surplus of
the products of field and farm sold
abroad amounted to no less than $780,.
100000.
Charles NJ. Schwab. president Of the
United States Steel Corporation. ls .au.
thority for the statement that steel has
supplanted cotton in industrial kingship:
that it exceeded the cotton industry in
1900 by more than 500. 100000 and for
1901 will exceed it by more than $780,
100000.
Reports of pig iron manufacturers COW
ering production in October show that
the month was a record breaker, the out
put reaching the great total OF l.iOO.O 900
tons. or at the rate Of 16.600.O0O tons a
year. All previous tonnage records were
broken during December at the Carnegie
steel mills in Homestead, the total out
put for the month being 825.S0l tons. ex-
elusive Of armor and all other govern
ment plate. The distribution of wages ON
Dec. 10. covering three weeks, aggre-
gated $4,000. the biggest pay day ever
known ut this plant.
Imagine, if You can, a live stock train
1876 miles long-numbering 1897 cars
and containing 34,7S5 head Of cattle. 49,
458 hogs and 22.234 sheep and you will
have some idea OF the record-breaking
day for receipts at the Union stock
yards. Chicago, on "Wednesday July "a.
1901. II W fhA 6ieeesf day axAn known