Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-08-28
Fnplish workmen, il their ideas are

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 Inanufac-
| tured goods which were once made in
| England, but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country have
crowded out of Englishmen's hands.
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 srch quantities and
at 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 town.
all Of the component parts Of 4 house
so much cheaper than they can be made
ii in England that the carpenters are in
despair. This, of course, is due TO the
improved machinery in use here, which
njuiInLcs the cost of production.
The coopers are beginning TO realize
that they will soon he practically out
Of employment, since the great cooper
Jag establishments of this country snip
vast Quantities of wood cut into slaves,
hra3> and wooden hoops. SO that the
Eu"'.sh cooper has but to put them to-
J gether. They are shipped knock
down" so 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
piled to ordinary window glass, and
which is 4 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 inn
e tated for $3.50. and the stained glass
workers cannot compete against such
prices.
Label stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with machine which
VIII label 10000 cans in ten hours
which does not give the hand WOrke Ell
y much of a chance. Even the profes
N sions, so-called, are threatened by mod
! crn 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 tC
enable compOsitOr to Operat" his mo
e type machine directly from the phonO
graph and set up a speech without the
intervention OF written ''copy.' Wher
q this is aceompG she'd the shorthand mar
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
on ranie, a peculiar vegetable tbs
to which they expect will supersede cot
-, ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
10 China and Japan, but could be raised il
England if the demand warranted. !
- IS silky, much stronger than cotton an
inner than fax. The chemical treat
49, tnent to which it is now sub "cted rot
the fiber, but when that is overcome
is thought it will closely push cotto
on account of its cheapness and the cas-
- Chronicle.