Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-01-26
in valuation Of property conseonent moon the

of all the Cottons ever shipped to British |
wharves. England realizes from her cotton |
manufactures, EGO, 600, 600 per annum, and
employs in it about million of her people |
while India once celebrated for muslins SO
fine that, in Eastern language, they were de-
>cribed as 'webs of woven wind,' buys and
wears Britishma calicoes which have had
TWO shipments; fret as cotton to Britain from
India, where the cotton grew, then back.
Now as to the sugar lords" The retiners
upon the Thames are finding they cannot
compete with the refiners upon the Clyde.
Ehe raw sugar consumed in 1868 amounted
to no less than III, 643 tons, and single
company, the Globe, paid in that year, TO the
customs, as duty on the sugar refined in their
establishment, f350,000. But the "iron
lords as standing upon loftier plane, de-
serve more extended notice. They are now the
great princes and powers of the west coast OF
Scotland. The Glasgow Directory mentions
Of ironmongers, iron merchants, iron mas
ttrs. iron founders, iron tube and iron fence
makers, over 800 firms. This is the rendeZ
vous OF the iron men and the receiving house
of nearly all the iron produced in Scotland.
Further up the Clyde are famous Falls, Both
well and Cadzow Castles, the Duke of HAM
iltOns Palace, fields where Royalists and
Covenanters contended localities celebrated
in the ballads of Scott But here and further
finds delight in things they are; in the
manufacture Of chemicals to burn, blast,
| blacken, and bleach; in the weaving of webs,
| the dyeing of bandanna haDdkerchefs, and
| the marvellous production of colors; in the
making of saccharjne delicacies or transpar
encies in the building of steamships, and in
the production OF articles which, from their
| enduring nature it would seem, should last
| forever.
| Few are aware OF the extensive and varied
character of the iron manufacture The
! toundres turn ont articles of all shapes and
! sizes, both for use and ornament. Work in
casting is SO perfected that the plumage and
the attitudes of birds in their native haunts,
! The delicate outlines of tulip, the yigor CT
| Spring buds or the wilted appearance of Sum-
mer leaves at noontde, are initiated with
surprising accuracy. In the Paisley Gardens
IS gift of the Coats Brothers. 1t consists OF
an imitation iron wall nclosing large basin,
in which are huge sea-horses around u foun-
tain proiusely decorated with Egyptian boys,
dragons, dolphins. wild herons, and natural
foliage. Pulpits, lecterns, coyer-fonts, stable
fittings, mangers, stalls, letters for signs, and
every variety of railing and rack, bracket and
rustic work, are common. Articles manufac-
tured range from immense bridges, water
wheels, and shafts for steamers, to punv uten
sis for kitchen use or nick-nacks for parlor
adornment. Among the several specialities
which have won for some branches of Glas-
Cow manufacture worldwide reputation
all of which are the legitimate offspring of
enterprise-the chief remains to be noticed.
Ihe iron interest developed steamship build
ing on the Clyde, and drew thither the work
of the great shipyards on the Thames. The
total number of vessels built last year was
24l; tonnage, 194,24S; horse power, 19, 429
ba nd
George Thompson, r. Napier & Sons, Card
( CO., Denny Brothers, John Eden, Todd &
McGregor, &C., all more Or less known since
your civil war. The work has been in armor-
plated war vessels, steam ships. and sailing
vessels, both for foreign and coastwise traffic
all of the HEAVIER medium tonnage, and I'M
surpassed in beauty, speed, or strength
/ These vessels sail in all great waters, belong
70 home and foreign Governments, and carry
the mails of all nations. The dredging ma
chimes and floating docks have also contribu-
ted greatly to the reputation of the Clyde
builders. With the former contrivances a
gigantic work has been performed in deepen
| ing the Clyde. From being a stream florida
| bic in many places, the river has acquired a
| depth TO admit ocean steamers at the Glasgow
quays. According to an official report dated
June so, the quantity of material removed
during the 26 years preceding amounts to
l2,7l2 996 cubic yards, which, if placed in Il
! row, would form line nine-tenths of the
earth's diameter.
The history of the Glasgow iron interest
happily illustrates the subject of invention as
being the servant of industry and, by its
labor-saving machines, smoothing the en-
ployment and increasing the pay of the very
class of laborers whom its apparent destiny
was to defraud. Thus the sewing machine
took the garment out of the hands of the sew
ing girl, but added to her wages. So the use
of railways increased the value of draught
animals. There are on the Clyde monuments
to the great inventors, Watts and Bell, to
whom, above all others, Glasgow is indebted
for its present prosperity and early advanta-
ges. In 1854, the former made in Glasgow
his first model of steam engine. In 1911.
the latter launched the Comet the first boat
in Europe successfully propelled by steam.
Mr.. Robert Duncan, Port Glasgow, has re-
Gently made novel application of steam
power. His invention is the auxiliary steam
| launch, which is carried on board the sailing
vessel so long as the winds are favorable, but
on entering a calm region steam is got up in
the launch, and she is sent 70 do duty as
tug, not ahead of the vessel, as is usually the
case, but alongside.
| 1t is evident that iron steam and sailing
vessels are wholly to supersede those built of
| WOOu. vi lne XII Vessels quit tiSt year on
the Clyde, 1876 were iron, and some of the
rest composite. Now, from this it is plain
that the revival of American iron manufac-
turc is solely dependent upon the cheapening
ofiron, by invention, by acquired experience,
and skill, of which Glasgow furnishes a very
fair example. That such experience and skill
are attainable, were it felt that the policy of
Protection would be unhesitatingly and I'M
swervingy pursued, no one who has any
faith in American genius and enterprise can
for moment doubt. Could those Americans
who, inconsistency condemning Protective
Tariff while favoring what they call "rev-
enue" one, see themselves in the light of the
Blackburn mob, which, in 1919, destroyed
all the jennies having over twenty spindles-
believing this number the limit of useful
neutrality-suspicious. might be some hope of a
radical change. hold up Glasgow as an ex-
ample of varied industry in small compass.
! The city quarries its stone near at hand, man
ufacures its own iron, glass, clothing, chem
icals, paper, and pottery, and builds its own
vessels. 1t may, like its best houses, be