The daily gazette., 1878-10-21
From the Baltimore SUM- 0r - 3
AMERICAN INGENUITY.


our people add their power of adjusting
means to ends in unusual circumstances
This great power of promptly adapting
themselves and their efforts to changed
conditions, which distinguish Americans
above all other people, have been strik-
ingly exempliiied in the past ten years,
during which our manufactures and in
dustries, after having been stlmula ed by
every sort of unhealthy excitement since
| 1861, have lacked the market necessary
to relieve them from being glurted with
unsold products. In this strait our work
men have sought to get fair share in
the worlds markets, and, in spite of the
obstacles in the way, deficient trausporta-
tion, high interest and insurance, waste
full processes, and ignorance of the char
acter and quality of foreign demand,
they are on the high road to success.
Since 1870 the increase in manufac-
tured goods is very marked, but the most
important feature of it, the extension of
the lines of goods exported and of the
markets to which they are supplied, does
not come out SO plainly OH the face of
the sta istical returns. 1t is of course
lgenerally known that we have an un-
Irivaled superiority in the charactts and
abundance of our raw materials. Our
lcotton holds the looms and spindes of
the world In spite of all vicissitudes.
Our iron has greater tenacity than any
o'her manufactured except that of Rus
Russia and Sweden. Our coal Is cheaper
and more abundant than elsewhere, and
in petroleum, copper lead, leather, wood
for saving and for turning, &C., we have
unequaled natural supplies.
We have only just begun to turn these
to account as factors in our competition
for the control of foreign markets, but
what we have already done has startled
! Europe. For an instance of American
ingenuity in this regard take the case OF
> the manufacture of beef for Great Brit
ain. That country cannot supply the
quaD,ily of beef needed for her many
months, and the rinderpests and mur.
rains which infest ca tie brought from
. Eastern Europe have checked import a.
tions from those regions. Hence beei
rose in price in London and became
+, scarce, wbereupon our cattle dealers un-
dertook to supply the new demand
y They took weIl-grown steers from the
pastures of Texas, fed them some months
On cultivated grasses in Missouri, fatten.
led and tanned them on cheap Illinois
!. corn, and then, driving them to New
York or Baltimore, either butched then
= and shipped the carcass, or shipped then
n alive for delivery in London and Liver
0 pool, cheaper thau the British hatcher.
could afford to hang up their own meat
, ISo with American cheese. Forty year.
ago we exported 100000 pounds o
: American cheese-now the expectation /!
107 1854 1886 pounds, and we have driver
! both the inferior and superior grades o
: English cheese out of their own markets
tcur dairymen being able to initiate the
size and appearance and surpass til,
, flavor of the best Cheshires and doubi,
Glouces ers. Our CHI eseS now go into
: Germany, and are preferred to the tougl
cheese there In use. and it is said that ole
u American cheeses are served to Ameri
!, cans on the Cunnard steamers and eatel
by them with great relish-for Stllton.
d We have made so many improvement
in labor-saving machinery that our manu-
facturers are able to overcome the differ
}. ance in wages that used to hamper OH
compelit ition with "the pauper labor o
n Europe" With improved tools and tn
Intelligence necessary to their use, ou
d mechanics are said to be able to do dou
HI Ertranaans rnanhat
les, and in far more ingenious manner
The British Mail tells Of house in BIZ
= mingham which is manufacturing "4 al
kee pattern household sundries, such Q
egg whisks, nutmeg graters," &c, placin
them in the market as American good
j.. Several lockmakers in South Staflordshil
1 are engaged in making padlocks "upon
| fayorite United States pattern," an
/ American patontees are warned to regi
] ter their inventions and trademark
! promptly, in order to escape British p
rates. Formerly our exports OF tobacc
were entirely of leaf and in the origini
packages-since 1890 we have sent abroa
V,529, l54 hogsheads, equal to 13,O0C,0 ,0OO
600 fbs-but recently we have begun
sell abroad manufactured tobacco, cigar
se sfine-cut," cigarettes, snuff and chewin
In tobacco, and the foreign trade OF Amer
can cigars is already worth S4,0oO,o'
per annum.
The refrigerator tonnage business hi
increased from 5000 IN 1876 to 2S,O'
@ tons in 1878, and promises to make tll
% country the grocer shop of the worl
This business Includes the whole line
canned goods and perishable product
70. oysters, fish, vegetables, eggs, butte
,s game &C., and is growing every da
@ Il is said we sell potatoes to Ireland, GA
o. meal to Scotland, and plum-pudding
England. There is a regular plum-pu
rs ding mandatory for export at Dove
m Del, and Philadelphia house is expol
'st ing mincemeat in large quantities. U
til recently Germany made toys for
the world, and it bad come to be pr
verb hand went throu'
|s every land" but within the past five
six years the Uulted States has begun
send TOYS to Germany. Wood is chea
er here than in Europe, machines wo
Fl faster than hands and last year we 80
81 100000 of toys to the old world
children. In the same way our breWe
have begun to sell lager beer to Bavaria
AC. ,i,a torn