Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-10-02
English workmen, if their ideas are

English workmen. if their ideas are
correctly reflected by their trade Jour
nails, are beginning to view Vii!i alarm
the rapid and steady decline ct va-inns
trades and callngs 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 ha We
crowded out of Englishmen's har is
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 cheaply
here. Oars for rowboats. flooring and,
indeed, ali the parts that go to the max
! ing Of wooden houses are shipped into
! the british isles in such quantities and
al such prices that the carpenter is
almost a 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 a 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
minrnizes the cost of production.
10 n 1iya
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-
gethcr They are shipped knock
down SO as to ecouomize space on the
ships, and are put togetherin England by
bows at small wages. The stained glass
industry, too, has received setback
through the introduction of 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 a stained glass window which for
merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm
itated for $3.50, and the stained glass
~orkers cannot compete against such
prices.
Label stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with machine which
will label 10000 cans in ten hours,
i which does not give the hand worker
: much Of q chance. Even the profess
sions. so-called, are threatened by mod
: ern inventions. The shorthand report
ers are watching with dismay the i'm
provements being made in the phono
graph. Experts are now at work try.
ing to devise scheme whereby the
| photograph can be run slow enough t,
enable a compositor to operate his limo
type machine directly from the phono
graph and set up speech without the
: intervention of written copy" Wher
n this is accomplished the shorthand mar
will have to 60 driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
on ranie, peculiar vegetable fihs
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
is silky, much stronger than cotton AM
y finer than fax. The chemical treat
rnent to which it is now subjected rot
the fiber, but when that is overcome
= is thought it will closely push cotto
Ie on account of it's cheapness and the cas-
+ with which it is cultivated.-Chicag
Chronicle.