Evening star., 1898-11-12
INVADING ENGLAND
American Business Interests Are
Pushing to the Front.
ALONG HITHERTO UNTRIED LINES
Our Cousins Across the Sea Dc
Not Enjoy the Competition.
WHY WE ARE SUCCESSFUL
pecial Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
LONDON, November 3. 1898.
England is being invaded by the United
States.
1t Is commercial campaign, and this
country is just now enjoying a numoer Ct
new and notable illustrations of the in
creasing power of America to cause such
an upheaval among the ancient trade ira
ditfons of Great Britain as the average
Englishman has never dreamed possible.
From ignoring the United States in :he
commercial and financial field, the united
Kingdom has unhappfy come to realize,
in some respects, the steadily increasing
successes of American competitors who at
nearly every turn are showing what down.
to-date methods and western ingenuity can
do, when squarely pitted against the anti
quated fashions SO long prevailing h re. 1t
is estimated that S100, 900, 900 in good Eng
ish gold goes annually to America to the
loss of Great Britain SO severe have been
the inroads upon homemade goods in many
departments of trade by the rapidly rising
American and other foreign competition
that English manufacturers in some lines
are displaying large advertisements, ap-
pealing TO the patriotism of the people to
support home industries
Nor Is this less of prestige alone felt in
the regular run of trade. The most talked
of American in England for several weeks
has been Tod Sloan, the sensationally
successful jockey, whose new world styIe
of close neck riding won him nearly every
race in the entire English circuit and spread
CONSERVATION all over the British turf
When asked if the English upright riding
jockeys are learning his ways. Sloan re-
piled: Il don't know; never look back"
American Steel.
The obstir acy of the British manufac-
turer against taking up with new methods,
and the present system If English trades
unions, threatens most serious loss to Eng
ish industry, II a radical change is not
soon brought about" said s. T. Wellman
OF Cleveland, Ohio, after recent trip into
the steel manufacturing districts of Wales
Mr. Wellman Is widely known one of
the heaviest steel operators in the United
States, and his remarks gained wide at
tention from the English press numbers of
which have long seen the impending dan-
ger, and have urged that an entirely new
system of commercial training be put into
effect by business concerns throughout the
united kingdom.
In the meantime western wares are stead.
lily gaining. The Carnegie steel products,
from PittSburg, are commanding some of
the heaviest contracts in this country. and
even cast iron from America is ahead in
this market. Recently the city of Glasgow
opened competitive bids a large order
for water pipe, and the lowest figures were
those Of a Pennsylvania iron iirm; but so
great was the opposition to letting the
order go out of the country that all of the
bids were thrown out on an alleged techni-
Cality. Quotations were again advertised
for, and once more Pennsylvania was the
lowest bidder 1t remains to be seen il the
Americans will be allowed to fill the order
but it Is now agreed that our iron mills can
cut below all competition in this field, and
still have q profit.
Some time ago the English and Egyptian
governments asked for Specifications for
light pattern of railway locomotive suit
ahlA for rl1nniDQ Eryp
erts. The British locomotive concerns said
the road must take their regular make Of
machines; the Americans said they would
supply whatever was wanted and the order
went to the United States. In Japan a
number of railway locomotives were to be
purchased. The English makers said they
could furnish them in two years, and not
before; the Americans promised them In a
quarter Of the time, and had the engines on
the ground in exactly six months.
Electrical Equipments
The era Of electricity in city transporta-
ton is just arriving in London, and 1t has
been brought about largely by the activity
of American manufactures. First among
the roads to adopt it Is the new ine lately
completed running underground from the
lord mayors mansion to Waterloo station.
and Its heavy passenger traffic Is showing
to the other underground roads the great
advantage this route has over the stuffy |
SMOKY tunnels through winch the steam |
locomotives now run This line has the |
distinction Of passing under the busiest spot |
on earth, expressively known In London as
Slaughter Corner" being the convergence
Of Queen Victoria street, New Bridge street !
and the approach to Blackfriars bridge. |
Hundreds Of hackney cabs, scores Of omni- |
buses. maze OF trucks; all keep up q |
humming, drubbing roll. and all sorts OF |
trades and traf1cs occupy the ground sur
face, while above the trains Of the Dover !
railway go crashing over their viaduct al |
most every minute. A cross section Of the /
under earth would reveal strange confu. |
sion. One railway above and two below are |
only items In the activities OF this crowded /
spot. 's
In the building Of the new lowerrnost |
electric road. which Is seventy-Seven feet I
below street level. more than half Of the /
was with American equipment /
and large part Of the electrical installA- /