The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-03

any carriers afioat. The length of these
monsters of the deep is $50 feet over
all, and their draft SO feet Their dead
weight capacity is $4,000 tons. There
are nine holds for the storage of their
great volume of freight, while each is
capable of carrying 1,40O passengers
Ilrst, second, third class and steerage.
= he propeliers are 20 feet in diameter.
On draft of 81 feet the displace-
ment is $4,000 tons. Each vessel is
twice as large as a modern battleship,
ana VIII take on for the voyage 5000
tons of coal. The cost of these twin
shlps is 900, and within the bow
els OF each there can be stored the
contents of $500 ordinary freight cars.
or lOO trains of % cars to the train.
Fitted with every appliance for speed
ana economical handling, the entry of
these ships, created specially for the
work they have to do and the problem
tnat was to be solved, upon their mis-
sion on the Pacific will give to this
country an incompatible advantage in
its commercial conquests, and assign
definitely to US and to the agencies
controlled by Mr. Hill the mastery of
oriental trade; Tot only as against
competing systems, but as against the
carriers of the entire world.
The manager of a railroad has devel-
oped into the creator of great systems
The builder of a new industrial empire
in the Northwest
MASTER BUILDERS has presaged the
TASK expansion o f
NEARS COMPLETION commerce in the
years to come,
ana IaShloned instruments ready to its
hand. 1t is well rounded story of a
marvellous lifework; and looked at from
the end is one consistent whole. There
are no contradictions and no cross pur-
poses. The transcontinental line be-
comes the benefactor of the man who
lives upon his isolated farm in Mime
sofa or the Dakotas. The great sweep
OF harmonlously allied systems by
which the iron of the East and Middle
west, the cotton of the South and the
grain of the Central Basin are gathered
ana poured, as 1t were, through a fun
mel into the Pacific port for the Orient.
scatters as from horn of plenty pros
perity on all who find new, enlarged
and more remunerative markets. And
the inspiring conception of transporta-
ton agencies so mighty and so deli
cately adjusted that by reducing cost
to its lowest point, they can reverse the
current of international trade that sets
around the world, reflects and realizes
itself in an enhanced value for agricul-
tural products in every little outlying
country tract. With the rise of
Northwestern empire, through it and
for it, there has progressed an imperial
reduction of the transportation problem
to its simplest terms by the thought of
a master mind
The idea can now be seen in the
completeness of its simplicity. 1t is the
lifework of a man whose~AxeEsss> will
endure longer than formal monuments.
The country is coming to understand
something of the motives and methods
of James ]. HILL His inventive, execu-
tive and administrative qualities might
be inferred from the magnitude of his
labors;;- as the scientist conceives n
period from the traces it leaves behind
in the enduring rocks. But he is, first
of all, laborer in the workshop of the
world. His is character simple, stur-
dy, straightforward. His discipline is