The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-09

essential to their full development, This IS lesson that England has learned on her part, through the sudden rise of 6erman manufactures, and the lesson Germany learned in view of the artis- JIG superiority of her French competi- tor It IS evident that Germany inc tends to excel in manufactures, as she mas III arms, and she goes about 1t with the same masterful thoroughness. A recent deputation from Manchester to investigate the technical schools of Germany reports extraordinary devel- opment in electrical sciences as applied to electrical engineers industries. Darmstadt, with population of 57,O00 capital of duchy numbering in all but l0O0,000 people, maintains a technical high school of university rank. It has the most elaborate equipment of cleo tro-chemical studies and is attended by more than 1000 day students above eighteen years of age. They enter af- ter thorough preparation into secon- diary schools, and the general industry of the country gains by the extended time given to scientific technical train ing. In this way alone can there be maintained an adequate supply of men competent to direct the great manufac- tories.
 The development of textile schools, including all the various branches of spinning, weaving, designing, dyeing and finishing, particularly impressed the Manchester committee. Laborato- ry methods, they note, have been dis charded in those branches in which chemistry plays part; the equipment is on a scale approaching the works themselves, and affords the same kind of practice as that obtained in the spinning and weaving schools. Thus students get a practical and effective knowledge of the processes employed. At the renowned Chefield school, the Prussian government has recently built and equipped a large three-story build ing as a dyeing and finishing school. Besides the chemical and physical lab oratories, drawing rooms, lecture and testing rooms, it contains a fine chem ical museum and library in which are to be found the technical books of all nations. The instructors are carefully selected and are men of distinction in their specialties. As proof of the es- teem in which the school is held, the fact is noted that it is entrusted by the Royal Gobelin factory in Berlin with the dyeing of the yarns used in it's special productions; also that many manufacturers send yarns to be dyed in shades that they cannot produce. ol ie looms. The fees for Prussians are $30 and s45 per session. for other Germans, $45 and SIP; and fcr foreigners, $120 and $1S0. Recently 1t was proposed to ex- clude all foreigners from this and sirn- liar schools in the Kingdom. The com mittee observe that these various arts and especially dyeing are matters of far greater momentto Manchester than to Crefeld At the Berlin Municipal Higher Weaving schools they found the students engaged in manufacturing materials for which Berlin enjoys spec ial repute, namely, buttons, gimp, braids, braids, gold and silver thread, etc., many of which, they respectfully observe, were formerly maid at Man. chester.
 The trade in mantles and ladies' clothing, in which these small wares are used, amounts to $5,000,000 annually. The jealousies with which the secrets of the manufactures are guarded is shown in the exclusion of visitors from the department of the bureau of educa- tion (Berlin), where models, diagrams and other means of illustration are pre- pared for distribution to the technical schools of the country. The commer- cial importance of this elaborate provi- sion of appliances and training is illus trated by the single fact that the worlds market in coloring matter and pharmaceutical products derived from coal tar is commanded by Germany. The annual value of these proucts is es- timated at $5O,000O0O. Germany con- trols three-fourths and sends 75 per cent. of her share abroad. The feature of their system upon which the Ger mans themselves place great stress, and which the Manchester committee emphasize in it's report, is that of thorough general instruction as prelirn- mary to the technical. Money induce ments are offered to enable young men of promise to give the time required for adequate preparation as captains of industry."-T Independent.