The San Francisco call., 1905-05-22
Some of the Wonderful Achievements of Recent Years

II HIS is an age of hustle. Here at a
glance one may see how some of the
recent most remarkable feats in the
art of hustling compared one with another
in respect to the time occupied in COM
pleting them, the black column in each
instance being drawn in length in pro-
portion to the time taken. Some of the
feats recorded were performed by
single brain, others were the acts of
groups of men. Some represent instances
&C unpremeditated hustle, while upon
others long and earnest thought had pro-
vided beforehand for any contingency
likely to occur in the rush for the record,
says writer in the Detroit Tribune
In the engineering world locomotive
building was once very popular among
hustlers, until the Great Eastern Railway
turned out an engine in nine hours forty
seven minutes in 1891 and set up seem
ingly unapproachable record. Now the
most popular phase of hustling has taken
the form of a Titanic game Of bridge"
that eliminated in a structure, 906 feet
long, crossing the Raritan River and the
Delaware and Raritan Canal, being moved
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
on to new abutments in the brief time
OF eight and half minutes. The actual
time taken for the removal of the struc-
ture weighing 24oO TONS through fourteen
feet six inches, was 1Q3 seconds, the ball
ance of the time being occupied in re-
moving the bolts and making the discon-
nections and in making fresh connections
at the ends when the bridge was in its
new position.
REMOVING BRIDGES.
In England few days ago the Midland
Railway removed a bridge near Attercliffe
Road Station, Sheffield. and substituted
steel structure in five hours ten minutes;
while a 420-ton bridge on the London,
Tilbury and Southend line, in the neigh
borhood of Bow, was last summer placed
in position between 12:40 on the Saturday
night and 1890 on the Sunday morning,
Notwithstanding the fact that the old
bridge was not got out of the way before
a. m. and the new bridge had to travel
thirty feet The West London Extension
Railway Company succeeded in moving
an old fifty-ton bridge in the neighbor-
hood of Battersea Station In 1902 and sub
stituting a new structure of double the
weight in forty-two minutes.
Expeditions as these feats undoubtedly
were they can scarcely be said to have
eclipsed those Of the worlds two cham
pion butchers. In one instance d Ballarat
butcher backed himself in 1900 for $50 to
place chops on a gridiron in ten minutes
from the time he took the sheep in hand
to shear, kill and dress it He won.
American meat dressers hearing of this
Englishman's fame, journeyed across the
Atlantic with the idea of, figurately
speaking wiping the floor with the Brit
ish champion. The English representa-
tive in this line of hustlfng is Stanley
Warth, foreman butcher of Ipswich,
who in 1900 performed the remarkable
feat of dressing a bullock and a sheep
and running mile, all within half an
hour Warth dressed the bullock in thir-
teen minutes, the sheep in six minutes
and then, throwing aside his apron, ran
the measured mile in five minutes, there
by winning his wager with five minutes
to spare.
MAKING SHOES.
There has been certain amount of
competition in rapid shoe production of
late years. In Lynn, Mass. a pair of
lady's boots were made in the presence
of a notary public, who timed the per-
formance, in thirteen minutes by utilizing
the services of fifty-seven different oper-
ators and forty-two machines that pro-
ceeded to convert twenty-six pieces of
leather, fourteen pieces of cloth, twenty
four buttons, twenty-four buttonholes,
eighty tacks, twenty nails, two box toes,
two steel shanks and twenty yards of
thread into dainty pair of lady's foot
gear in the time mentioned.
The genius who is assisted by inspira-
ton is capable of some feats of hustling
that the ordinary individual is unable to
perform, even when time is no object
Lord Tennyson, for example, Is reported
to have told DR.. Butler of Cambridge that
he knocked off Crossing the Bar in ten
minutes. Sir r. C. Burnand is believed
to have written his famous burlesque of
Diplomacy in five hours. Captain Basil
Hood, when interviewed some few months
ago, put on record the fact that the play
let ''Ib and Little Christina" was the
work of three hours. Solomon j. Solomon
is credited with having completed his
famous Academy portrait of I. Zangwill
IN five hours, and the late Sir Arthur
Sullivan who composed and scored the
elaborate overture to "The Yeoman of
the Guard" in twelve hours. is said to
have performed like feat for the equally
trIneful "Iolanthe" by ten consecutive
hours of strenuous toll.
ASHEEP TO COAT.v
A lady coming across "the herring
pond" whose father boarded the ship
from the pilotboat when the vessel was
still two hours away from the landing
place, with a small army of nodistes and
dressmakers, and the tidings of her hus-
bands death, is said to have walked down
the gangway with the other passengers