The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-05-13

LOndon-Public attention has again
been attracted to Americas growing
competition with England in The in
dustrial markets by the announcement
this week that the new English trunk
line, the Great Central railway has or
dered a batch of locomotives in Amcri-
ca, and advices from abroad show
that the Americans are beating the En-
Rlish right along the line. The British
OOunsul at La Rochelle, France in a
report just submitted, says that the
Americans are fast taking tho agricul-
tural machinery business in his dis
trict from English firms. The latter,
II is pointed out by the consul, would
not conform a. the farmers demands
for light machinery, whereas the Amer
leans have adapted themselves to cir
cumstanccs and make machinery that
is exactly suited to the farmers re
quirements
The foregoing IL only a sample OF
the tributes which are now constantly
found in consular reports to American
enterprises as showing that American
manufacturers are slowly -elbOwing
their English rivals out of markets
which the British thought were their
own preserves. Articles on Anglo
American industrial and commercial
rivalry which are very fattering TO
Americans. constantly appear in the
English press. The Daily News in a typ
ical article this week on "AmeriCan
Engines The Threatened Invasion, "
compares the enormous progress in
power and speed Of American Iocomo-
tivos with the slight improvements in
English engines.
The Daily News says it Is a trife
. humiHating but still none the less
+. fact that our modern engines, both for
passengers and good trains. have not
increased in power faster than trains
in weight ON the other end, technical
experts come back from America with
glowing accounts of great improve
ments in every workshop there.
The article further declares that this
recently created superiority, which
must be ascribed to the latest develop
ments in the American locomotives in
which are combined speed and power,
has not vet been realized in England.
In connection with this commercial
invasion of the old world by Ameri-
ca, a Chicago engineer named Bates,
/ arrived in London last week. Mr..
Bates is playing an important part IN
the introduction Of American maChin-
cry and methods. Eighteen months
ago the Russian government, request
/ ing Mr.. Bates 10 make a study of
the river Volena, with view to the
improvement Of its navigation. As
result the government has decided to
. adopt his methods for some 1880
miles of river improvements, and has
instructed him to construct the larg-
est and most powerful dredging ma
chine that could be built.
Regarding the general industrial
situation 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 Europe. Up to a few months
ago he had been able to import all
kinds Of machinery cheaper from
America than it could be bought in Eu-
rope, but this now was no longer the
case.
Capt. Crozier, the military member
of the American delegation to the in
ternational peace conference, is here
making inquiries at Woolwich before
he goes to the continent. Capt. Crozier
carries credentials to French and Ger
man military depots. His mission in
cludes investigation Of and report upou
The latest phases and developments in
quick firing field artillery.
Douglass Harry Coghill member of
the house of commons for Stoke-on-
Trent, will. next week, ask the govern
ment whether, considering the injury
done our trade by the present United
States tariff, the foreign Office will en-
Ger into specific commercial relations
with the United States with a view
to obtaining favorable treatment for
British manufacturers.