The record-union., 1899-05-07
Causing Much Anxiety Among Manufactur-
erS Across the Pond.
Advices From Abroad Show That
the Americans are Beating the
British Right Along the Line
in the Way of Machinery, Slow
ly E1bowing Their Rivals Out or
Markets Which the English
Thought Were Their Own Ere
serves.

copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press)
LONDON May 6.-Public attention
has again been directed to America
growing competition with England IN
the industrial world by the announce
ment this 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. The
British Consul at La Rochelle, France,
in a report just submitted, says that
the Americans are fast taking the agri-
cultural machinery business in his dis
trict from English firms. The latter,
, it is pointed cut by the Consul, would
not conform to the farmers demand for
light machinery, whereas the Americans
have adapted themselves to circum-
stances, and make machinery that is
exactly suited to the farmers require
mentss
The foregoing is only a sample of the
tributes which are now constantly
found in consular reports to American
enterprise and showing that American
manufacturers are slowly elbOWing
their English rivals out of the markets
which the British thought were their
own preserves. Articles on Anglo
American industrial and commercial
rivalry which are very fiattering to
Americans constantly appear in the
English press.
Captain Crozier, the military member
of the American delegation to the peace
conference, is here making inquiries at
Woolwfch before he goes to the CONT
nent. Captain Crozier carries creden-
tials to the French and German military
depots. His mission includes investi-
cation of. and report upon, the latest
phases and developments in quick firing
field artillery.
Douglas Harry Coghill, member of the
House of Commons for Stoke-on- Trent,
win next week ask the Government
whether, considering the INJURY done
our trade by the present United States
tariff, the Foreign Office will enter into
special commercial negotiations with
the United States with a view to. OBJ
tanning favorable treatment for British
factories.
There was considerable establishment
at the dinner of the Hardwicke Society
on Monday, at which the United States
ambassador, Joseph H. Choate was
a guest, that the Lord Chief Justice,
Lord Russell of Killowen, should have
seized the occasion to lecture his au-
dience upon the shortcomings of the
American legal system. Lord Russell
was very free in his criticisms. and very
faeetious over the number of Judges he
met in America, but Mr.. Choate was
equal to the occasion, and in a good
natured speech said that he desired
TO say that Justice was administered to
the satisfaction of the people, to whom
substantial justice brought very small
cost. Justice, Mr.. Choate added, was
within the reach of every man, and he
was encouraged to defend and main
tain his rights in court, and his costs
We're little, as compared with what Mr..
Choate understood was the cost here.
Referring to the number of Judges in
America, Mr.. Choate said he could not
see now it would be possible for twenty
five men to conduct the legal business
for S0000.O00 people.