Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-04
COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
INTERESTING LECTURE AT
MCDOWELL HALL.
Delivered BY Lieutenant Garden,
u. S. R. c. S. For Univer
Sity Extension.

lt is lmpractlcable 20 give anything
like synopsis ofsthe lecture of Lieut..
Garden at Mcdowell Hall last even
ing both because of the noise OF the
dynamo, of the many words indis
tinctly heard, and also at times, the
very hasty utterance of the speaker.
The stereopticon views were very
| fine. particularly pleasing were those
| In color. One of the salient points
of tho lecture was the showing how
very many more men were employed
! in the manufactures abroad than in
America. Another was the econOmi-
cal appliances, bv which the heat is
all used, necessitated by the scarcity
of fuel. One of the mamuoth Ger
man engines constructed for this pur-
pose and shown in one of the views,
| is snow in use on the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad. But in all the es-
| tablishments he visited he found the
| highest grade of American machine
| tools in use.
LieutenantA Garden related several
quite interesting anecdotes of the Ger
man Emperor's visit TO our battle
ships, his request TO see certain move
ments and his amazement TO see them
carried out in such short space of
time. The Emperor, while walking
along the gun decks of the New York
at late hour of the night Che had
dined on the ship when the men
were all asleep in their hammocks,
asked how long it would take to pre-
pare the ship for action. The an
swer was five minutes your Males
ty. The Emperor was evidently in
credulous, but the gong was rung, and
Lieutenant Garden quite dramatically
described the different orders, how
ever, being unintelligibe TO lay ears
William was amazed that All order
which he supposed would require an
hour to perform, was carried out In
between two and three minutes.
AS the lecturer, with the help OF
the stereopticon. carried his audience
from one European establishment 60
another. it became quite new idea
to associate Italy with torges and toun-
dries, and little Switzerland with
neither coal nor iron in her borders,
with her outputs of heavy machinery,
besides the cutlery for which she is
famed. The interior view OF one OF
the English boiler manufactures dis
closed numbers of women at work upon
steam boilers, something, the lecturer
said, he had never seen in Germany.
Lieutenant Garden is an enthuslas-
tic admirer of the Emperor of Ger
many, and believes that the great
strides made by that county IN all
commercial and economic directions
is due entirely to the personality of
the Kaiser. He spoke in high terms
of commendation of the technical
schools fosfered by the Emperor, of
the admirable technical training of the
soldiers, who. when their term OF ser
vice is ended. are in demand by the
great manufacturers Ihe most inter
esting portion of the lecture to those
interested in the burning question OF
labor and capital, was the story OF
the KruppS of Essen. In the ninety
years since the inception OF their
works no strike has ever occurred.
Every provision for the we'll being Of
the employees who number ~, 900 is
made The views in colors, too, show
ed the different colonies with the
charming cottages OF the laborers,
rented to Them for So or S6 per month
those more pretentious. and which
here would command $50 or S75. are
rented To the overseers and toremen
at about Sl3.
The streets are laid out in circles
and curves and the trees and shrub
bery are very beautifully distributed.
There are kitchens where the young
women are taught the culinary art,
hospitals where the convalesCents
were seen on the lawns engaged IN
outdoor games. This great establish
ment of contented prosperous en-
ployees has for its basis the principles
of Christianity What different state
of things we should have in America
if our employers could learn to deal
Justly and righteously with their eIn-
ployees. This description of the
Krupps and some of the English
works. wherin their example is bear
ing fruit. was we'll worth the visit
last night to Mcdowell Hall.