Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-08-30

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 callngs in Great Britain .
owing to the introduction of improved
machinery in America, Norway, Ger
.nany and other countries and the aEOr-
uluus exports TO England of manufac-
tured goods which were once MADE III
England, bat which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country la {
| crowded out of Establishments ha is.
Small wooden articles, such as clCtAes
! pegs, sscwers, umbrella sticks and
/ mousetraps, which have an enormous
! sale in England, are not made in th.t
country any more. They are al
shipped from the United States. be-
cause they can be made more choan.y
here. Oars for rovhoats, flooring and,
indeed, all the parts that 60 to the mail-
. ing Of wooden HOUSES are shipped into
The BRITISH isles in such quantities and
at sueh prices that the carpenter IS
almos q 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 Il house
50 much cheaper than they can lie made
in England that the carpenters are IN
despair This, Of course, l., due to tie
improved mach...rry in use here, which
mninizes the cost of proc uctjon.
The coopers are beginning TO realize
that they will soon be practically out
Of e,ariaynent. since the great COOPER
lug establishments Of THIS country ship
vast quantities OF wood cut into stan :,
leads and wooden hoops, so that the
! f,r-lish cooper has but to put them to-
gythcr. They are shipped knock
down" so as to ecouomize space on the
ships and are put together in England by
BOYS at small wages. The stained glass
{. industry, too, has received setback
through the Introduction of a sort of
I relatine film which can be readily APP
piled to ordinary window glass, and
which is 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
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 machine which
will label 10000 cans in ten hours
which does not give the hand worker
>, much of a chance. Even the profess
n sions, so-called, are threatened by mod
! 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 devise scheme whereby the
: monograph can be run slow enough tC
enable compositor to opera c his limo
e type machine direcely from the phono
graph and set up speech without thu
intervention of written copy" Wher
d this is accomplished the shorthand mar
will have to 60 driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
on ranie, a peculiar vegetable fibs
70 which they expect will supersede cot
-, ton 1t grows in the Malay islands
No. China and Japan, but could be raised i
England if the demand warranted l
a. is silky, much stronger than cotton an
-, finer than flax. The chemical treat
~ ment to which it IS now sub ected rot
the fiber. but when that is overcome
- is thought it will closely push cotto
- on account of its cheapness and the cas-
~ with which it is eultivated.-Chicag
- Chronicle.