The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-19
THINGS WORTH NOTING.
Compiled for the Tribune by Walter j
Ballard)

Compiled for the Tribune by Walter j
Ballard)
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
Is making arrangements for opening
Young Mems Christian association rooms
in six of its car barns. where 10,0OO en-
ployes spend much leisure time each
day. At one of these $4,000 has been en-
pended for libraries bowling Alleys So
cial rooms and a restaurant. An em'
ployes benefit association is an adjunct
| The total losses by fire paid by insur-
| ance companies for 1901 were S99,5I3 IVY w.
and the total premiums received on the
risks written were s47l ,275,15 15473, covering
81, ,5S0,542, ,0H of risks.
American ocean shipping. must be pro-
tected lust as other American industries
are protected, If 1t Is to be fostered and
encouraged and built UP to success. The
| subsidy bill provides for very moderate
protection, and the principle 1t embodies
| is as sound as that OF the Dingley law.
why should not our shipping be protected
as well as the products of our farms ana
| our factories?-Troy Times.
| A census report on wool manufacture
just issued shows a capital of $392, ,040, 800
| invested in this industry. The value OF
products for is 1900 is returned at S392, 40
05O, to produce which involved an outlay
of $9,5SO,293 for salaries, $S2,20l. A4 for
wages, $2S,929,797 for miscellaneous ex-
penses, and $232, go 1856 for materials used.
The whole number of establishments re-
porting was 1885, a decrease for the
decade of 154 or g. per cent. The capital
invested increased, however, from $685.
$4,000, and the value of products from
S337, ,76S, 900.
William STILL an educated negro and
known as the Father of the Underground
Railway, died in Philadelphia on July III,
leaving an estate Of about S1,0O0,000, aged
so years. He was born a slave, but Sc
cured his own and his mothers roman
tic escape from Shareholders in former
days of bondage and became highly re-
spected in Philadelphia.
"In 1867 Abram S. Hewitt computed the
population of the world at OOO0OO,000 and
| the consumption of iron at 20 pounds per
| capita per annum. In 1900 the population
of the world was probably 1900 100000, and
| the total consumption of iron In the form
| of pig was over A. 900, 900 tons, which gives
an average per capita consumption for
| the year close on so pounds, or four times
| the average consumption "a years ago. In
| this remarkable advance there Is good
cause for being hopeful. If not confident.
as to the scope that exists for the con-
tinued development of the iron industry
| in the time to come-the more SO that
| some countries. and notably the United
| States, are approaching 400 pounds per
capita per annum, or five times the gen.
| eral average of mankind. Indeed. some
| statitical authorities, who have invest-
| gated the relation of population to pig
| iron supply, have reached the conclusion
| that in a few years. time there will be a
n r>f far, n hnr
| to undeveloped sources of supply are
opened I'M. and c. NJ. Schwab recently
| expressed the opinion that steel has many
worlds vet to conquer and will come into
| use for an ever increasing variety of pur-
poses in the future. British Iron Trade
Commission Report in the Iron Age"
The following tabular statement, taken
| from the reports of the United States
| treasury department, shows the exports
and imports of cycles and parts thereof
| for the last five years of the decade
Prior to 1896 there was no separate classi-
fication for this industry, its statistics
| being included either with carriages and
| wagons, or with manufactures of iron
| and steel.
Fiscal year. Imports. Exports.
1876 ........................ .S'o,JOU S,oJo,ois
1897 Observation-Disclosures. o1.122 70O5. .3993
lS9S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4,S4o bS46,'I-3
lSS3 ........................ 400 o,iS,ow
1900 ........................ 3,516 S,o5s. .l49
Almost the entire demand for bicycles in
| the United States and many foreign coun-
tries was, until recent years, supplied
from England, but American bicycle mt,s.-
ufactures have had the satisfaction Of
| reversing trade conditions, and now the
United States Is supplying bicycles not
| only to England but also to all other
parts of the world.
Census statistics show that the south
is taking the place of the north as the
great lumber region of the country. The
value of the lumber products of Michi-
gan and other great lumber states of the
north is declining, while that of most of
the southern states Is rapidly gaining.
Undoubtedly this Is due to the reckless
cutting that has been going on for years
in the north.
Besides harvesting peas with moving
machine and raising asparagus in beds
of 100 acres, Colorado now boasts cur
rant patch of eighty acres, the largest in
the world. There are $4,000 plants in all.
have often heard 1t enormously
stated that the Americans worship dol
lars. This is not SO, because a rich man
as such Is not greatly esteemed. What
the American admires and honors Is the
ability to do; that capacity in a man,
through his own sagacty, nerve. enter.
prise and skill to create and employ a
fortune. Nobody In America seems to
feel above his work or degraded by 1t. AS
1t Is done, and as Is the result obtained,
so Is the man esteemed by his fellow men.
and such Is the place he will make for
himself in his community or In his coun-
try, Everybody works and works for the
sake of work; and thus there has been
produced In America In the short space of
one generation an industrial potentially
which is more wonderful and more to he
feared than the works and plants which
these same workers have created. No
where is the struggling youth more kindly
encouraged, more readily trusted, more
generously aided more gladly made place
for. than in America, and when ! say this
/ speak from personal experience. and
with gratitude in my heart toward many
of those busy and keen, but also gen.
erous and broad-minded American men OF
airs,"-British Iron Trade Commission
Report in Iron Age"
Americas recently achieved industrial
supremacy over the nations of the old
world has called international attention
TO the superior efficiency OF our workmen
and the marvellous productive power of
our machines. We are able to build
electric locomotives in Schenectady, for
example. and sell them In London. in the
face OF European competition. because an
American machinist works more rapidly
and lnteligently than his English cousin.
and. further. because his output is in
creased by swiftly moving automatons OF
steel. The marvelously constructed cleo
trio shops at the gateway of the Mo-
n xyl. ha oh