The times., 1899-09-26
VISITORS FROM ENGLAND
Guests of Sir Thomas Upton at the
Executive Mansion.
They Pay Their Respects to the
British Wauufacturers' Methods
and the TransvaaI Situntion-The
Beers Debt of Gratitude Forgotten.

John Lawrence and w D. Ross, of
London, who are visiting Washington as
guests of Stilson Hutchins, were received
by the President yesterday. Mr.. Lawrence
is the chairman of the Linotype Company,
of England, and managing director Of the
new westinghouse Company, of England.
Mr.. Ross is editor of BLACK and White,
the London publication. They are guests
of Sir Thomas Upton, owner of the Sham
rock, and will witness the races from his
yacht, the Erin. In addition to the inter-
stoclholder in a number of other enter
prises, many of them with an American
foundation. Among them is the English
company which has purchased the rights
to the Edison process of extracting ores,
known as the Edison Ore Milling Syndi
cate. This company is composed of thirty
six ironmasters and capitalists of Eng
land, and it proposes not only to utilize
Mr.. Edison's inventions in the extraction
OF iron ore. but to turn it toward the
extraction of gold ore for application in
the Transvaal
MIR. Lawrence will visit Mr. Edison at
Orange on Wednesday, and then go over
his works, where he conducts his expert
ments. He will then visit Pittsburg to see
the Westinghouse works replica of which
VIII be constructed by the English COM
pany. The latter has purchased forty acres
of ground near Manchester, England, where
a duplicate of the Westinghouse works in
Pittsburg will be erected, it being the in
tention of the company to cover the en-
tire forty acres with shops
"Our company" said Mr.. Lawrence last
night, intends to erect in England a Sc
ries of shops which will be capable of
turning out engines, dynamos, and electric
plants equal to anything produced in Amer
lea. England is far in the rear in the use
of electricity. We confess that we have
been passed by America, France, and Ger
many. A prominent railroad in London was
about to equip its lines with electricity, and
gave the contract to an English concern.
After experimenting with the contract the
Englishmen relinquished it, and it was
taken up by a German firm and executed
by means OF German workmen. We be-
lieve there is a great opening in England
for the use of electricity; the application of
ii TO electric lighting, to electric power, to
the construction of all forms of electrical
appliances. We have formed q company
with s12. 100000 capital, which was, by
the way. largely oversubscribed to manu-
facture in England all the machinery which
now comes from the United States.
English manufacturers and English
workmen are backward about taking hold
OF improved machinery. The workmen are
reluctant to accept labor saving machin-
cry, although in every instance it has
proven to be for their benefit. In the case
of the Linotype machine We had a hard
6xhr -
compositors fought us fiercely. Finally,
after five years, we organized a combina-
tion of employers and secured about 600
members, all publishers of daily papers.
By their concerted action we secured the
Introduction of the Linotype machine, aud
/ am glad TO say that the compositors
acknowledge that their wages have in
creased under the new arrangement. The
public, according to the figures furnished
by the ccmpositors' union, receives ~ per
cent more reading matter than before the
introduction of typesetting machines and
the compositors have less bills to pay on
account Of strikes
Mr.. Lawrence is an earnest sympathizer
with the position of the British in the
trouble with the Transvaal, and says that
England has $1,000, 900, 600 invested in the
Transvaal and that all she wants is equal
The Beers forget that they have been
able to hold their territory only by the
sufferance of the British" said Mr.. Law
renee. They invoked our aid against the
sayages and we protected them We have
developed their country and made them
wealthy. Without us they would have
been nothing. / wish | could bring before
the American people the testimony of the
American engineers and others who have
spent years in the Transvaal and know
what IL means TO be a stranger there
America has 1000 men in the Transvaal
most of them occupying high positions as
chief engineers and managers of large
properties. They all sympathize with the
British position. / have no doubt Dom
Paul has undermined Johannesburg and
the mines, but we will perseyere, if he
destroys all the property. 1t will be no
easy task, but the English will win in the
end"
Mr.. Lawrence declined to express an
opinion as to the outcome of the interna-
tional yacht race, except to say that he
hoped the Shamrock would win. AT any
rate" he added, I'VE are assured Of fair
treatment and if we lose We will not 90
back to England to complain of the treat
ment we have received. Sir Thomas Lip
ton is a sportsman TO the bone and he will
take beating. should he get one, like a
true sportsman
JnHN STEEpEP CTADUE MAN