Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-16
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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 i'm, ;roved
machinery in America. Norway. Ger
many and other countries and the enor-
nous exports to England Of maaufac-
tured goods which were once made in
Engia nd, but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country have
crowded out of EngIishlnen's hands.
Small wooden articles. such as clott.,s
pegs, skewers, umbrella sticks al
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 roWb0atS, flooring and,
indeed, all the parts that 60 to the MAX
ing of wooden houses are shipped into
be British isles in such quantities and
at such prices that the carpenter is
almost superiority there. except to put
! the parts together. The planning mills
and sash, door and blind factories OF
! tn, country deliver at English towns
all Of the component parts of a house
so much cheaper than they can he made
! in England that the carpenters are n
! DESPAIR. This, of course, is due to the
! improved machinery in use here, which
! iniuinizes the cost CT 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
! En"i;sh cooper has but TO put them to-
g,,her. They are shipped knock
, anWn" 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 Il 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,
which does not give the hand worker
much of 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
monograph can be run slow enough to
enable compositor to operat his limo
type machine directly from the phono-
graph and set up a speech without the
Intervention of written copy" When
this is aceompli shed the shorthand man
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at work
an ranie, a peculiar vegetable fiber
which they expect will supersede cot
ton. III grows IN the Malay lSllnus
China and Japan. but could be raised in
England if the demand warranted. II
is silky, much stronger than cotton and
finer than flax The chemical treat
f,ent to which it is now subjected rot:
the fiber, but when that is overcome i
> is thought it will closely push cotton
on account of its cheapness and the eas'
: with which it is cultivated.-Chicag,
Chronicle.