Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-08-29

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 introd uction of improved
machinery in America, Norway, Ger
many and other countries and the enor-
nous exports to England of manufac-
| iured goods which were once made IN
! England, but which the reduced cost
! of manufacture in this coutnry have
| crowded out of Engishmen' hands.
Small wooden articles, such as clothes
pegs. skewers, umbrella sticks and
nousetraps. which have an enormous
sale in England, are not made in thai
country any more. They are all
shipped from the United States, be
cause they can be made more cheaDiy
here Oars for roWboats, flooring and,
indeed, all the parts that go t. The max
ing of wooden houses are shipped into
, the 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
this country deliver at English towns
all OF the component parts Of a house
so much cheaper than they can be made
ia England that the carpenters are ia
despair. This, Of course, is due to the
improved machinery in use here, which
ninirizes the cost 81 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,
h.i.3S and wooden hoops, SO that the
! English cooper has but to put them to-
gether. They are shipped knock
town" 50 as to economic space on the
ships, and are put togetherin England by
boys 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
y piled to ordinary window glass, and
which is a perfect imitation of stained
glass. IT comes, of course, in all colors,
and a stained glass window which for
merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm
e 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
will label 10000 cans in ten hours
which does not give the hand worker
" much of a chance. Even the profes
~ sions, so-called, are threatened by mod
IL ern inventions. The shorthand report
at ers are watching with dismay the i'm
provements being made in the phono
graph. Experts are now at work try
,, ing to Edevise a scheme whereby tn
6. monograph can be run slow enough t.
enable a compositOr to operate his iino
le type machine directly from the phono
graph and set UP speech without tn
Intervention Of written copy" Whel
"a this is aceompl. shed the shorthand MAJ
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at wor
on ranie, a peculiar vegetable fibs
ITO which they expect will supersede CO.
~, ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
No. China and Japa3. but could be raised /
England if the demand warranted.
70. is silky, much stronger than cotton an
an finer than flax. The chemical trea
~ ment to which it is now sub jected rO
Co. the fiber, but when that is overcome
ot is thought it will closely push cotto
on account of it's cheapness and the ca:
~. with which it is cultivated.-Chicae
-. Chronicle.