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Frederick Upham Adams was born on December 10, 1859 in Boston, Massachussets, United States. His parents were John Spencer and Emeline (Smith) Adams, the former a veteran of the Civil War and a mechanical engineer.
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“The United Fruit Company's political and economic achievement is a commanding achievement that needs to be studied and Mr. Adams has given us some very interesting material.” - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science In 1914, the famous author and reformer Frederick Upham Adams published "The Conquest of the Tropics," a lengthy 400-page book on "the story of the creative enterprises conducted by the United fruit company." It is from this lengthy book that chapters on the banana industry have been excerpted and republished here for the convenience of the interested reader. (Lengthy topics such as Central American healthcare, the Cuban sugar industry, and country histories have been omitted here with the goal of preserving a focus on the banana industry.) Adams' writings on the United Fruit company were well-received at the time of publication: “Absorbing, ... the story is one of decided interest, ... a genuine storehouse of information.” - Bulletin of the Pan American Union “Interesting and informing ...” -Boston Transcript Contrary to the writings of muck-raking self-appointed "historians." who typically seek out the evils of big business and disregard for “income reasons” the great constructive work which they have accomplished, Adams has taken a different tact in his writings on the United Fruit Company. Adams details how the banana industry, in order to secure its own existence, carried the message of civilization and sanitation into the swamps and jungles. It made livable an inhabitable portion of the globe. This alone would entitle those who have accomplished it to the commendation of the world, but greater things have been done. An entirely new article of food had been brought to temperate North America by the enterprise of the United Fruit Company. From the humble begining of Andrew W. Preston and his associates, who invested $20,000 to promote the banana business in 1885, the United Fruit Company, importing 24975,640 bunches of bananas a year, has gradually grown. The conquest of the tropics was not alone a commercial enterprise, all of the tropical pests breeding malaria and yellow fever had to be vanquished. Prior to 1885, the year the Boston Fruit Company was organized, bananas were little known in the United States. They were regarded as a luxury and were sold for any fantastic price dealers could command. The transportation of the fruit was a perilous undertaking as bananas are exceedingly perishable, and ship owners who attempted their transportation were gambling at long odds. The crop was uncertain and hurricanes and floods frequently destroyed the yield of an entire district. Adams writes: "The normal death-rate of a typical Central American seaport, in the years prior to the advent of the banana industry, was not less than 150 annually out of a population of 1,000 ! This is fully ten times what it is now. It was almost sure death for an unacclimated foreigner to remain a week in these unsanitary surroundings. The wealthy citizen of Costa Rica or Guatemala who wished to go to London, Paris, or New York on business or pleasure approached the Pacific port from which he was to sail in fear and trembling, and thousands who longed to make such trips could not be induced to take the risk." Adams' whole work is replete with illustrations of the advantages of production and distribution that big producers enjoy over the small producer, and how the small producer is benefited by contact with large enterprises. The book is a travelogue and romance as well as an industrial history. Frederick Upham Adams (1859 – 1921) was an American inventor, writer, editor, and political organizer. He was the author of "President John Smith"; "The Majority Rule League of the U.S."; The Kidnapped Millionaires"; "John Henry Smith"; and "The Bottom of the Well."
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Frederick Upham Adams was born on December 10, 1859 in Boston, Massachussets, United States. His parents were John Spencer and Emeline (Smith) Adams, the former a veteran of the Civil War and a mechanical engineer.
To Adams' general education in the public schools of Elgin, Illinois, was added a thorough mechanical training under his father, which qualified him for several years' service (1880-1883) as a machine designer in Chicago.
In 1884, in collaboration with his father, Adams was granted letters patent on an electric-light tower--a lofty mast supporting a battery of arclamps--which for several years was widely used in the illumination of cities. His interest in street lighting led to his invention of an electric-lamp support in 1885, and of an electric-lamp post in 1889, the latter the standard structure since generally adopted.
From electric lighting he turned to railroads, with special reference to designing rolling-stock for speed, and in January 1893 was granted seven letters patent on a railroad car and train, with suitable equipment and special housing for locomotive and tender. In 1900 an experimental train constructed from his designs for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad proved capable of a sustained speed of over 100 miles per hour. A discussion of his theory and designs is found in his work, Atmospheric Resistance and its Relation to the Speed of Railway Trains (1892).
In the meantime, Adams had established a reputation in journalism and authorship, but reappeared in the Patent Office, in 1914-1915, with applications for an improved road-bed and leveler and a new type of vehicle tire.
Early in his journalistic experience, he developed marked interest in sociology and labor problems, which led to his service, during several years, as labor editor of the Chicago Tribune. He reported the anarchist uprising of 1886, and numerous labor strikes following it, and in 1893 founded a reform magazine, The New Time, which he conducted for several years. He was western press representative of the Democratic National Convention of 1892, and chief of the Democratic Library and Press Bureau in 1896.
His only public service was in the office of chief of smoke inspection of Chicago, during 1894-1897.
As a writer on social and economic subjects, he early espoused the theory of direct legislation, which he advocated in his book, The Majority Rule League of the United States (1898). His other books, dealing principally with sociologic and political matters, are President John Smith (1897), "the story of a peaceful revolution"; The Kidnapped Millionaires (1901), "a tale of Wall Street and the Tropics"; John Burt (1903), "a study of masterful character", and other.
In his later years, Adams gained recognition as an authority on aviation, a subject discussed by him in several series of newspaper articles. He was an expert, also, on bridge and other games of cards
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Adams was one of the principle organizers of a short-lived political organization called The Majority Rule League of the United States.
Adams was married to Alice Mary Whitaker, whom he married in 1884.