Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-14

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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 enor- |
nous exports to England of manufac-
tured goods which were once made in |
England. but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country haze
crowded out of Englishmens hands. |
Small wooden articles, such as clot, es |
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 cheaply
here. Oars for rowboats, flooring and,
indeed, all the parts that go to the MAX
ing of wooden houses are shipped into
the British isles in such quantities and
AZ SUCH prices tHdl tIc carpenter Is
almost superiority there, except to put
the parts together. The planning mills
| and sash. door and blind factories of
/ this country deliver at English towns
| all of the component parts of house
SO much cheaper than they can be made
in England that the carpenters are in
despair. This, of course, is due to the
! improved machinery in use here, which
minimizes the cost of production.
The coopers are beginning to realize
that they will soon be practically out
of employment. since the great cooper
ing establishments of this country ship
/ vast quantities of wood cut into slaves,
heads and wooden hoops. so that the
English cooper has but to put them to-
gether. They are shipped knock
down" so as to economic space on the
ships. and are put togetherin England by
bows at small wages. The stained glass
industry, too, has received a setback
through the Introduction of a sort of
gelatine 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 stained glass window which for
! merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm
itated for $3.50, and the stained glass
workers cannot compete against such
prices.
4 Label stickers in the canneries are
i now face to face with 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
\ monograph 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
L this is accomplished the shorthand man
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
! English inventors are hard at work
on ranie, peculiar vegetable fiber
| which they expect will supersede cot
| ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
China and Japan, but could be raised il
:, England if the demand warranted. l,
j" is silky, much stronger than cotton anc
/ finer than flax The chemical treat
ment to which it is now subjected rot
! the fiber, but when that is overcome j
= is thought it will closely push cotton
on account OF its cheapness and the eas'
with which it is cultivated.-Chicag'
r. Chronicle.