Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-19

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 im proved
machinery in America, Norwa", Ger
many and other countries and the enor-
nous exports to England of manuiac-
tured goods which were once made in
England. but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country haze
crowded out of Engiishmen's han IS.
Small. wooden articles, such as clio ..s $
pegs, s.lewers, umbrella sticks and
mousetraps, which have an enormous
sale in England, are not made ia that
country any more. They are ali
shipped from the United States, be-
! cause they can be made more cheaply
here Oars for roWb0atS, flooring and,
indeed, all the parts that go to the maxi
, ing Of wooden houses are shipped into
! the british isles i'll such quantities and
/ at st'ch prices that the carpenter is
almost a sIIpertluity there, except tC put
/ the parts together. The planning mills
/ and sash, door and blind factories Of
. this country deliver at English towns
! ali 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
n.nimizes 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 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-
ctther. They are shipped knock
down" so as to economic space on the
ships,and are puttogetberin England by
boys 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 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.
Label stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with a machine which
viii label 10000 cans in ten hours
I 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 dismav the i'm
provements being made in the phono
graph. Experts are now at work try
ing to devise a scheme whereby thu
| monograph can be run slow enough tt
enable a compositor to opera Z his limo
type machine directly from the phono
graph and set up speech without thu
Intervention of written copy" Wher
II this is accomplished the shorthand mar
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
an ranie, a peculiar vegetable tibs
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.
is silky, much stronger than cotton an
> finer than flax. The chemical treat
uent to which it is now subjected rot
the fiber, but when that is overcome
g is thought it will closely push cotto
'e on account of its cheapness and the cas-
L with which it is ultivated.-Chicag
II Chronicle.