The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-26

the world-or the building Of locomotive
and cars. Percival Roberts, Jr.. Presiden
Of the American Bridge Company, ma.
well represent the bridge builders, Will
Samuel r. Galloway, President Of tn
American Locomotive Company, may prop
erly represent the locomotive building
A for cars. the industry may be properl,
divided into three classes. the making O.
pressed steel cars, Of sleeping and drawing
room cars. and Of passenger and freigh'
cars. OF the first, Charles T, Schoen,
chairman Of the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany, has been selected as the represent
alive, while Robert T. Lincoln, President Of
the Pullman Company. must be taken az
the representative OF the American make OF
sleeping and drawing room cars, William
Mcmillan, chairman OF the American Car
and Foundry Company, said to be the larg-
est makers Of freight and passenger cars
In the world. should represent that industry,
OF course the railroads must be repre-
sented at the luncheon. and who better rep
resent the greatest railroads Of the world
than Alexander j. Cassatt. James j.. Hill,
William X. Vanderbilt and Edward II.
Hartmann?
In the manufacture Of bicycles and type
writer's the United States cuts a consid-
cradle figure, and while a number Of men
might be thought to be the proper persons
TO represent either industry, il has seemed
to THE Sun that Col. Albert A. Pope is the
dean Of bicycle makers, while Charles W.
Seamans may as well meet the Prince as the
representative Of the typewriters. II. how
ever, c. Latham Shoale Is within reach Of
an invitation, he ought to be hidden to the
feast, because IL was TO his inventive genius,
probably more than to any other IA mar
that the perfection to which American
typewriters has been brought is due.
Tho United States leads the world, as
everybody knows, in the matter Of inven-
ton. Therefore. the men whose genius
has made possible great American indus
tries must break bread with the Prince.
The Monitor type Of warship revolutionized,
for a time. the business Of building fighting
ships. Theodore r. Timby Of Brooklyn,
hale and hearty and still inventing although
he has nearly reached the century mark
in years, must have an honored place at
the feast. II may not be generally known,
but the records Of the Patent Office at Wash
ington show that It was Mr.. Timby and not
Ericsson, who nvented the type of ship
which first became famous after the battle
with the Merrimac during our Civil War.
Edison. of course, will be one OF the One
Hundred. with inventions too numerous
TO specify. His i~ncandescent lamp is enough.
Charles F. Brush stands as the inventor
Of the arc lamp and, therefore, he must 20
TO The banquet. Tesla should be hidden,
because OF his invention for the transmission
Of electrical power.
George A. Lowry for his invention Of the
round cotton bale; Edward G.. Acheson,
for the great work he Is doing at Niagara
Falls in the making OF carborundum, and
NJ. ID. Locke, for his invention Of the Lidgcr-
wood galloway, must also 20. II were
well nigh impossible to carry on great
works like the subway in New
York had not Locke, or somebody else,
invented the contrivance for removing the
material excavated.
The industrial development OF the United
would hardly have been what il is
to-day had it not been for the wonderful
development OF the South. II has seemed
10 THE Sun that two men, perhaps more
than any others. should stand for the in
development Of the country south
Va Ahuooi iAd biAOu : lAllt onS Ol lntfH IL
7. Morgan, President OF hevirginia-
Chemical Company. and the
other is Henry NJ. Flagler, who has made
his fortune as an officer Of the Standard
Oil Company, BY a process which he
for the making Of phosphate, Mr..
has turned barren wastes Of the
South into productive cotton plantations
and, thereby, has turned millions Of dollars
the pockets of the Southern people.
Henry NJ. Flagler. by his development Of
and water transportation in the
South has opened, as it were, an
unknown country to the rest Of the world:
then. by the expenditure of millions
great hotels. has made Florida and
States pleasant places for strangers
dwell in.
The packers OF provisions nave become
important factors In the industrial situation
n America. The suns choice from this
industry il Edwin c.. Swift of Chicago,
Henry Fortman. President of the Alaska
Association. and Samuel L. Gold
'tein OF San Francisco. Mr.. Swift would
the packers OF meats and the
while Mr.. Fortman would
the great salmon-packing in
lustry Of the Northwest, and Mr.. Gold
TEN the fruit-canning industry of the
'acifc Coast. Tn canning OF fruits is one
4 the main industrial stays Of California.
{ has reached its perfection largely through
he invention OF labor-saving machinery.
he inventions of this machinery were
ither made or are controlled by Col. F. W.
Hiss. President of the +. W. Bliss Com
any Of Brooklyn. and Prince Henry would
be interested 10 meet Col.
Hiss and 10 hear him talk on f~ruit-canning
Machinery.
In the mining Of iron, copper. gold and
oal, the United States Is a factor 10 lie
eckoned with in the worlds industrial
or course, there is Just one
reat Yankee iron miner and, although he
as retired, no gathering Of Yankee Cap
inns OF Industry would be complete with
Ut him. His name is Andrew Carnegie.
1t will be conceded. probably, that the
merican copper kings are James b. Hag-
in n United States Senator William NJ.
lark. John w. Mackay has always been
Captain of Industry, even when he was
My a prospector for gold in the noun
Of California. He is now the Presi-
emit of a telegraph and cable com PAW
1d the head Of various other enterprises
II the great simon-pure American gold
liner were 10 be picked out. it would seem