Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-08
|ORE|GNERS UNDERB|D
|hipmentS of United States
Steel Corporation.
AILs SENT TO SIBERIA
CIV the American Company Is Able
IL Jhakrbid Europe.
1s1r TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
escriptiGn in Manasseh Cutters
Diary of a Call on the Venerable
AILs SENT TO SIBERIA
IsIT TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
escriptiGn in Manasseh Cutters
Diary of a Call on the Venerable
Philosopher in Philadelphia.
BY WILLIAM f.. CT RTIS.

BY WILLIAM f.. CURTIS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald
Last year the United States Steel Cor
oration exported 1.Oli,0s. tons IF various
roduots from its subsidiary companies 10
very part of the world. The principal
rticles' were steel rails and other railway
construction supplies. bridges, structural
teel ready for erection. bars. plates.
|heets, tubes. pipe. wire, wire nails and
very conceivable form in which steel is
how produced. \ considerable part of
he exports went to Japan and China.
where a great deal of railway construction
s going on. and IL is interesting to know
Tat the railway now being constructed by
he Sultan of Turkey from Damascus To
Mecca 10 carry the pilgrims who visit that
sacred city annually will be laid with
American steel.
During 1921 the American Steel Corpo-
alton also furnished 3p.UUU tons OF rails
for The South Manchurian railway. which
runs northward from Port Arthur ana
.Dalny. the extreme southern points OF
the Liao-tung peninsula and connects
with the Great Siberian railroad at Muk-
den and Hardin. This railroad which
formerly belonged To Russia. passed under
THE control o. Jaran at the close of the
recent war.
large quantity of rails have been fur
|nlshed by the steel trust for the trans
|slberian railroad. During the Russo
Japanese war the agents of the Russian
government entered into negotiations for
tine purchase of steel sufficient to double
rack that road. which is the longest line
the world. and also for the conStruC-
|tion OF railway through the valley Of the
amur river. which would furnish the
Russian government complete line be-
|, Neen Niadivostok and Moscow without
|le2vlns Its own territory. But owing to
IL lnaoilty TO meet the financial Require
|nentS the contract vas never signed
Practically all the bridges now ba.nc
|erected on the railway lines in China and
japan are cons tructed by American COM
|panies. The United States Steel CORPORA
ton has been enabled in almost every
case OF competition TO uuderbid English.
rencn and Belgian manufacturers the
reasons being that il owns the mines
from which Its ore and coal are taken.
the ships which transport them. the fur
ndces IN which the raw material is turned
into .ngots and the mills and factories in
Wnich the finished produc: is produced Ii
also controls a fleet of steamers which
AIRY those products to the uttermos,
snds OF the earth. Every article produced
oy the United States Steel Corporation is
lanoied by its own employees exclusively
from the moment that the raw material
taken out of the ground until it is
II.
Therefore the corporation is not com
peled 10 pay interest or commissions or
individual
All the natural sciences and all the ap-
p1ed sciences have been brought upder
control In this great business. which could
De done only by enlisting vast capital
ana uniting the various branches of in
dustry into single :, stem under a single
orsanlzauon Duplication of effor; is thus
practiced in making sales and no money
Is wasted There is no speculation irf. he
contracts II accepts and there is no waste
of energy.
The Export Business.
The United States Steel Products ~
port Company, the clumsy title under
which the export business of the stesl
trust is conducted, has branch Offices in
London; Montreal. Mexico City. Buenos
AIRES. Lima PERM. Cape Town and To-
hannesburg South Africa Sidney ,Aus-
trana). Shanghai, Batavia tJaya, and
aDout nifty other commercial ceuters Of
he world. where Us own agents sell the
products of the Carnegie Steel connany
the lllhols Steel Company. the American
Steel and Wire Company. the America
Sheet ana Tfnplate Company the Ameri-
can Bridge Company. the Tennessee Goa,
ana iron Company. the National Tube
'iPdi! anu we many other great man.
iiacturirg organizations which are con-
sohoated under the title of the United
States Steel CORPORATION
In order 10 carry their goods To market
the most economical manner. the
american and Manchurian line of twelve
steamers has been organized and Is man
ased by Norton * Co. produce exchange.
New York. All of the stea mers are new
only one is more than two wears old
me! are built for carrying cargo on the
most economical basis possible. but have
accommodations for limited number os
passengers. The fleet consists of The fol-
lowing - i''