Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-05-08
I|jE NEWS OF EUROPE.
American 'Ianufao tUl'ers ElboWing
Britishers Ont of the Markets.
TRIBUTES TO OUR MACHINES
Lord Russell Attacks Our Legal Sys-
tenn. and Lord RevelstOke Tells
British Traders of Our Com
mercial Enterprise.

| again been directed to Americas grow
| ing competition with England in the
industrial markets by the announce
ment last week that the new English
trunk line, the Great Central railway,
has ordered a batch of locomotives IN
America, while advices from abroad
show that the Americans are beating
the English right along the line. Inc
British consul at La Rochelle France,
in a report Just submitted says that
the Americans are fast taking the agrl-
cultural machinery business in his dis
trct from English firms. The latter, 1t
is pointed out by the consul. would not
conform to the farmers demand for
light machinery, whereas the Amerl-
cans have adapted themselves to cir
cumstances and make machinery that
is exactly suited to the farmers re-
quirements,
The foregoing is only sample or the
tributes which are now constantly
found in consular reports to American
enterprises and show that American
manufacturers are slowly elboWing
their English rivals out of markets
own preserves Articles on Anglo
American indust, al and commercial
rivalry which are very hattering to
Americans constantly appear in the
English press. The Daily News, in a
typical article on american Engines
The Threatened Invasion" compares
the enormous progress in power ana
speed of American locomotives with the
It-N INK
The Daily News says
1T is trife humiliating, but still
none the less a fact, that our modern
English engines, both for passengers
and goods trains, have not increased
in power faster than trains in weight
On the other hand, technical experts
come back from America with glowing
accounts of great Improvements in rail-
way working there"
Our Machinery Winning.
In connection with this commercial
inya sion of the old world 10y America a
Chicago engineer named Bates arrived
in London last week. Mr.. Bates is play
ing an important part in the introduce
ton Of American machinery and meth
DDS Eighteen months ago the Russian
government requested Mr.. Bates to
make a study of the river Nolga with
view to the Improvement of its naY!ga-
ton. AS a result the government has
decided to adopt his methods for some
$500 miles of river Improvement and
has instructed him to construct the lar
gest and most powerful dredging ma
chine that could be built. This machine
has Just been completed in Belgium. 1t
is an electrical self propelling hy-
drauic dredge of $500 horsepower. It is
crea ting a great deal of comment and
speculation in engineering and scientific
circles Prince Hikoff, the Russian
minister OF public works. and the Bel
gian minister of public works, together
with a large co.ppany of Belgian Off
Gals, VIC 1T hi ,at tests of the
dredging machine which We're made on
the river Scheldt few days ago. Since
those tests were made commissions rep |
resenting the Australian and the In
dian governments have inspected the |
machine, as result of which Mr.. Bates /
has lust signed contracts to furnish I
similar plants for India and Australia. |
Commissions from the Panama and I
Suez canals, from South Africa, China |
and Japan besides several European |
countries are coming to inSnect the |
machine. while the last to announce an !
intended visit are the king of Belgium |
and Prince Albert, son Of the heir APP
parent to the Belgian throne
Regarding the general Industrial sit
uation Mr.. Bates said that the present
boom in iron and steel in the United .
States has had the effect of checking
the expansion of American trade in
Up to a few months ago he had
been able to import all kinds of ma
chinery and material cheaper from
America than it could be bought in Eu-
rope but this is now no longer the case
Captain Crozier. the military member
u the American delegation to the inter-
national peace conference, is making
INQUIRIES Al Woolwich before he goes to
the continent Captain Crozer carries
to French and German mill
.ary depots. His mission includes in
7estigation. of and report upon the lat
,st phases and developments in quick
firing field artillery.
For n Commercial Treaty.
Douglas Harry Coghill. member Of
the house Of commons for Stoke-on-
Trent will this week ask the govern
nent whether, considering the injury
lone our trade by the present United
states tariff the foreign office will en-
er specific commercial negotiations
With the United States with view to
obtaining favorable treatment for Brit
sh manufacturers.
There was considerable astonishment
It the dinner of the Hardwicke society
week ago at which the United States
mba dor, Mr.. Joseph H. Choate, was
. guest that the lord chief justice, Lord
RUSSELL of Killowen, should have seized
he occasion to lecture his audience
lpon the shortcomings Of the American
egal system. Lord Russell was very
rec in his criticisms and very facetious
,ver the number of judges he met in
America, but Mr. Choate was equal to
he occasion and in a good natured
peech said that he desired to say that
Justice was administered to the salts
action of the people, to whom substan-
ial justice brought very small cost
Justice, Mr.. Choate added was within
he reach Of every man, and he was en-
oura Ced to defend and maintain his
lights in court. and his costs were little
IS compared with what Mr. ChOate I'M
erstood was the cost here. Referring
o the number of judges in America,
Ir. ChOate said he could not see how ii
would he possible for 25 men to conduct
he legal business of 10000, 900 people.
Your correspondent has had an inter- I
Jew With Lord ReVelstoke on the sub {
ect of the latters visit to America
rom which he has Just returned Re-
errtng to the present rush to form
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