The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02

forced to resort because no one In this
country was able to compete, either as
regards price or time of delivery, with
the American firm that secured the
contract. The causes alleged for these
defeats of British industry are:
I'D Extreme pressure in our own con-
struction works: (2) inferior construc-
ton and material in American work;
(S) willingness on the part of American
firms to do work at loss in order to
secure business; "a undue favoritism
to American makers by the British and
Indian government agents.
The answers to these excuses are:
I'D American works are driven fully
as much as those at home during these
busy times, but American makers can
always find time to take and complete
another contract; thus, at the present
time, the Pencoyd Company has on
| hand the 5000 tons of street viaduct for
the Burmah railway, IL large steel
bridges on Russian account for the ST.
| berian railway and 10000 tons of steel
work for the framing of WanamakerF
| new store in Philadelphia; (2) neither
construction nor material are inferior
in the Atbara bridge, it was made UNI
der close official inspection, while the
steel analyses tell their own story. The
allegations of favoritism are too foolish
for consideration"
! 1t is curious, continues Engineering,
that so much ingenuity should be exer-
! cised in inventing obviously false and
| shallow excuses when the reasons are
| obvious and unfortunately very Sc
J rious, In the first place, bridge con-
| struetion in the United States has long
been reduced TO a system of manufac-
| turing a few special and standard
| types Except, of course, in special
/
/ of the most complete and efficient kind
4 can be laid down with confidence, for
4 it can be employed in the rapid manu-
! facture of the various standard types
4 of bridges. Moreover, no machine or
1 plant is allowed to become obsolete. In
1 SUCH works as those of the Pencoyd
] company (and there are dozen sim
4 liar plants in the United States) ma
4 chine or a plant becomes obsolete as
soon as 1t can be replaced by other ma
/ chinery that can give better paying re-
suits. In this way American shops of
the best class are kept always in the
highest state Of efficiency, and the vast
outlay incurred in the frequent re-
newal of plant is more than repaid by
increased output. In this country pro-
duction is both slow and costly. 1t is
the old story over again, on a large
scale, of the American and British
4 lock making and dozen other indus
| tries we might name"
Old world eloquence is by no means
declining: If there be any who be-
! lieve the contrary to be the case, let
them peruse the following inspiring
! passage taken from a temperance ad-
dress made recently in a certain city
across the water
The glorious work will never be ac-
complished until the good ship Tenn
| perance'. shall sail from one end of the
land to the other and with a cry of
| Victory at each step she takes, shall
plant her banner in every city, town
| and village of this united kingdom!''
One Mr.. F. w. Crossley of Dublin is
out with suggestion that fund be
| started to save Killarney" to'which
every lover of Ireland may subscribe
from one shilling upwards Mr. Cross
ley sent his own subscription of one
thousand shHlings to the lord mayor of
Dublin