Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-01
NEW FIELDS OF LABOR.
When One Occupation Ceases Another and
Greater Takes Its Place.

Nnen One occupation ceases AnOtner anu
Greater Takes Its Place.
With the introduction Of new machinery
both men and materials are constantly
thrown out of employment in some quar-
tiers, while new methods OF employment are
opened in other quarters. An application
of typewriting machines, for instance, is to
the production Of copies of documents in
cases where not enough copies are re-
quired to justify the expense OF ordinary
type printing. The typewriter copies.have
thus supplanted various other styles of
copies before in use. For legal proceed
ings, when it is requisite during the trial of
case to produce a few copies of the
minutes for the lawyers and the court,
typewriter copies are almost universally
used. This gives employment to mechanics
in making the machine and calls for the
production of many kinds of ink. Some
times typewriter copy is made in litho-
graphic ink, and this may be transferred to
stone and any number of copies printed.
By the use of ink ribbon in the typewriting
machine copies are made as indelible as
any writing.
When Mrs. Langtry took notion to wear
dresses without buttons, the result was the
throwing out of employment of many but
ton-makers, but when the fashion of buckles
and ornamental hair-pins and hat-pins came
in there was new demand for workmen.
lie Tdplu VI cltClElC
has made a lot of gas fixtures obsolete and
created a demand for new set of
mechanics to make electrical appa-
ratus. For many years gutta-percha and
India-rubber held the market for thousand
toys and fancy goods. but celluloid came
in for share of the profits and soon
afforded employment to thousands Of work
men in great factories. Gutta-percha has
about gone out of the market, and India
r.lIhhar has hnpona vDlnab la that nnh05U
ever sees the all India-rubber shoes that
used to keep dry the feet of our grand
mothers.
The revival of the popularity of brass
work has created new industry and set
thousands of men at work making beauti-
full brass goods for domestic utensils, fancy
goods and ornamental work.
The discovery and invention of Daguerre
has undergone thousand notifications
and improvements, so that the original
process has almost disappeared. Photo
engraving has almost entirely dispensed
with the slow process of wood engraving
and has given employment to thousands of
workmen in an entirely new branch of in
dustry. A few years ago illustrated books
were expensive. Now they are cheap, and
an army of artists has been put to work on
them.
Electro plating underwent a revolution
when nickel plating came in. Now they
plate with nickel buttons stoves. steam en-
gines, and all this gives employment to
many workmen. The modern method
of stereotyping with the use of a paper
matrix has created a new industry IN the
of daily newspapers, and made
it possible to print large number for quick
delivery. This gives employment to many
workmen not heretofore employed in the
production of newspapers.
Thus, along with the throwing out of en-
ployment of many workmen by the intro
duction of labor-saving machinery, there
goes the opening Of new fields of employ
ment created by new fashions and new
methods of doing business. Many labor
saving machines have been broken and boy
cotted by workmen under the impression
that the use of the machines would starve
the men, when the result was, in fact, to
create eventually a demand for more work
meA. The cotton gin. instead of condemn
ing workmen to idleness, created the de-
mand for millions of them. The sewing
machine has opened a wide field for the en-
ployment of more women by making sew
ing so cheap that the poorest shop-girl may
have a dozen tucks in her skirt if she
wishes them.
1t has been estimated that if every man
would forego the two useless buttons on the
back of his coat there would be saving of
millions of dollars. The fact is. that the
tons gives employment to many workmen.
The passion for bicycle riding and roller
skating has produced another illustration of
the rapid development of new industry.
1t is not long since the bulk of the grain
shipped in the port of New York was
shifted by hand. Now the grain elevators
take it from one vessel to another, or from
warehouse to vessel, with very little hand
labor, although, on account of the increase
of the quantity shipped, more men than
ever are employed in the grain business.
The making of horseshoes by machinery
at first caused a strike among the black
smiths, who refused to put on the machine
made shoes; but the work was done so
much more cheaply that the machine shoes
and the result was that owners
of horses, as they got the shoes for less, had
the horses shod oftener than before, and
the blacksmiths did not lose much, if any,
work after all In ready made cloaks and
dressing for women there has developed re-
Gently an enormous business, and the cheap
ness of the product has not only given en-
ployment to new hands, but has enabled
women to dress better than ever for a given
amount of money, and to wear garments of
style and finish hitherto unattainable by
many of them.-[New York Sun.