New-York tribune., 1883-11-04
PULLMAN CARS WATCHES 80 THEhTEICAL
INCIDENTS.


LONDON, Oct %.
One more step has been taken toward popuiariz-
ing the Pullman ear in England. The Midland
Railway, heretofore running day care under q con-
tract wish The Pullman company and charging eX-
ira fares has now bought them ad they viii henCe-
forth be considered simply rst-olqss carriacc= and
no extra fare viii be charged. This change, we are
told is due to The competition Of The London and
/ Northwestern Railway which has pat on its line q
number Of twin saloon carriage; whatever thoy
may he. Twas told in Liverpool the other day that
/ the Midland Company and the London aud North
western Company between them were ruiniHg the
Liverpool hotels Americans, on whom thees hotols
Gppc-r 70 depend for gTcal par Of ;her custom,
used 20 speud 40 least night on landing from the
/ steamship. Bat nov these two railway companies.
in the GoTCeHCss Of their rivalry. have not only IN
creased the number Of regular ozpGossos, hut run
special trains to London on the arryalNl al Amer-
can steamer or, rather, of q steamer from America
since Of American steamers there none, OF next
to none Certain it is that the Journey from Liver
pool to London is now made twice ae often as for
| mcrly. and probably cannot be much improved IN
| point 0f speed on comfort,
/ As q day aac the Pullman is on the whole q IA
vOTite with tie English public. Il became popular
however, very slowly. The Midland introduced Pull
mans ~ long ago a8 1874 and only now sees Ss way
/ 10 accepting them az q necessity Oi its own daily
traffic The sleeping cars are less liked nor is there
any great use for them on the short lines Of Eng
lsh railways II il only on the trains to Scotland
that they are much wanted. The Midland and Great
| Northern both ran them from london to Edinburgh
and Glasgow and Perth. But the Great Northern
has sleeping car-a of its own, and these so
! convenient aui comfortable that Jhey preferred
/ to the PUllwaHs. Ia the iatter berth- may always
/ be bad while he former are almost always full.
Nor Is ths altogetbsTdua 20 cho conservatism Cg the
| BrtOn dEd his liking for his own w3ys, on his
/ dislike 20 American novelties The travelling
/ American may be found in the English carriage
! The journey from London u Edinburgh ia one that
J make pretty often. and always by NIGHT. and
confess to a preference for the English sleeping ear
riage OveT the American. The English is far less
ingenious and complicated and cannot be tulued
into a day But il is q very good carriage in
deed for a ten houIs night journey.
Another lameRtahon over the decay of the Eng
lish watch trade and the inroads OF the American
watches appear to-day. Tho Timer acts down the
American trade though creation Of the last thirty
years, as thrpe times the English in amount. The
English trade, 10 declares, has uOw no pretcnsiOus
to occupying the home market II is the colonies 20
which English manufacturers look, and whereas
once they exported not ) per cent Of thrir warcs
!
gained the day. The Swiss and the American can
beat the Englishmau in price, and do. They turn
out as good a watch most people care for at cost
which puts English competition nowhere. The
American learnt the secret of organization and the
use of machinery which the English cannot OF ill
not learn. Here things 20 much O. they did 100
wears ago, save that the movements Of great part
of the cheaper English watchcs simply imported
from abroad. A dozen trades contribute 10 the
making of a single watch, carried Oh under differ
ent roofs by separate firms. often at long distance
from each other In America, ga you know they
have been combined, and TO this combination
with the added advantage of machinery
and the mathematically accurate production Of
precisey similar parts of innumerahle watches, rs
due the surprising fact that a single American firm
now turns out annually as many watches as all the
English makers tOgether-2O00 The Swiss are
said TO make the enormous number Of 3, 100000.
France produces over half amillion-0O per cent of
them from Besaneon. SO that if We leave Eng and
behind we are very far indeed from driving
Switzerland and France out of the worlds markets.
as sanguine Americans not MANY years ago pre-
dicted we soon should. The Swiss said TO make
now a million watches more annually than they
did five years ago. The French business has grown
tenfold within thirty years But the English are
not idle. and on the whole not Respondent al
though The Times thinks matchmaking as a great
industry. doomed. They are beginning to use ma
| chiuery and otherwise undermining the habits Of
the trade And they still pride themselves being
able To produce, if not the cheapest or the most
snowy. the best and most durable timekeepers in
the world. The best English watches are still
sought for-even Americans are known to prefer
them Manufacturers in Switzerland and the
United States boast that they can make good if
they please. At al events" observes this author,
with humOr, it does not often please them" And,
| putting patriotism aside, suppose it is doubtful
whether any watch Is superior, the whole, to the
best of the English, If you to pay the price de-
manded.
A story was in circulation the other day-I heard
il even 80 Ear North the North of ScOtland-that
Miss Mary Anderson had refused TO be presented 10
the Prince of Wales. IL WAS not a very probable
story The fact that the Prince Of Wales has been
out of the country ever since Miss Anderson has
| been playing at the Lyceum did not make it more
prubable and to-day read in all the public prints
that the Prince and Princess OF Wales witnessed the
performance Of IngOmarD at the Lyeeum on Sat
urday; aud then "on the fall of the curtain Miss
Mary Anderson was by special desire of their Royal
Hghnesses presented to the Princess who graciOusy
gave the young actress her own bouquet, at the
same time expressing her great admiration of MISS
Auderson's talent and cordial wishes for her sue
| cessD Ii is reasonable to infer from this
copfaaRiQa6 that the Prince present at the
| ceremony. aud that Miss Anderson was
presented TO him as well as To the Princess.
| Perhaps il does not much matter. What does
matter is that Miss Anderson has managed TO MI