Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-02

English workmen, if their ideas are
correctly reflected by their trade jour (
nails. are beginning to view with alarm
the rapid and steady decline of various
trades and callings in Great Britain
owing to the introduction Of improved /
machinery in America. Norway, Ger !
MANY and other countries and the eIor- !
nous exports to England of manufac-
iured goods which were once made in
England. but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country have
crowded out OF Establishments hauts.
Small wooden articles, such as clothes
pegs, skewers. umbrella sticks and
mousetraps, which have an enormous
sale in England, are not made in that
country any more. They are all
shipped from the United States. be
cause they can be made more chcapiv
here. Oars for rowboats, flooring and,
! indeed, al the parts that go TO the maxi
| ing of wooden houses are shipped into
he British isles in such quantities and
at such prices that the carpenter is
allnost a superiority there, except 10 put
! the parts together. The planning mills
/ and sash. door and blind factories If
this country deliver at English towns
all OF the component parts of house
! 50 much cheaper han they can be made
! in tnPlapd that the carpenters are n
Gcsl air This, of course, is due TO the
| improved machinery in use here, which
IniMirnizes the cost Of production.
The coopers are beginning TO realize
that they viii soon be practically out
! Of employment, since the great cooper
! ing establishments CT this country ship
vast quantities OF wood cut INTO slaves.
heads and wooden hoops so that the
iA2lish cooper has but 10 put them to-
crtAer. They are shipped knock
.tGyNn" so as to eCouCmiZe space on the
ships, and are put togetherin England by
boys at small wages. The stained glass
industry, too, has received setback
| through the introduction of a sort OF
relatine film which can be readily APP
piled to ordinary window glass. and
which is a perfect imitation of stained
glass. 1t comes. of course. in all colors.
and a stained glass window which for
merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm
=
workers cannot compete against such
prices.
Label stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with a machine which
will label 10000 cans in ten hours,
which does not give the hand worker
much of a chance. Even the profess
sions. so-called. are threatened by mod
ern inventions. The shorthand report
I ers are watching with dismay the i'm
provements being made in the phono-
graph. Experts are now at work try
, ing to devise a scheme whereby the
photograph can be run slow enough to
enable compositor to operate his limo
type machine directly from The phono-
graph and set up a speech without the
intervention of written copy" When
J this is accomplished the shorthand man
will nave to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at work
on ranie, peculiar vegetable fiber
o which they expect Will supersede cot
,, ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands,
= China and Japan, but could be raised in
England if the demand warranted, 1t
= is silky. much stronger than cotton and
;, finer than flax. The chemical treat
=. ment to which it is now subjected riots
the fiber, but when that is overcome i
- Oh account of it's cheapness and the cas-,
with which it is cultivated.-Chicagt
Chronicle.