Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-01

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 aud the enOr- I
nous exports to England Of manufac-
tured goods which were once made in
England. but which the reduced cost
/ Of manufacture in this country haze
crowded out of Establishments 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
! slinped from the United States be-
cause they can be made more cheapty
here. Oars for rowboats, flooring and
indeed, all the parts that go to the max
ing of wooden houses ara shipped into
. the British isles in such quantities and
: at ssrh prices that the carpenter is
> almost Il superiority there except to put
the parts together. The planning mills
and s.,sl4, door and blind factories of
this country deliver at EHg!ish towns
all Of the component parts Of a house
50 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
miniInizes the cost of production.
The coopers are beginning to realize
that they will soon be practically out
Of errloyment, since the great cooper
ing esta ADJUSTMENTS OF this country ship
vast quantities of wood cat into slaves,
heads and wooden hoops, SO that the
Froiish 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 together in England by
bows at small wages. The stained glass
industry, too, has received setback
= through the introduction of a sort of
g 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 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
viii label 10000 cans in ten hours,
which does not give the hand worker
" much of chance. Even the profess
N 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 phone
graph. Experts are now at work try
., ing to devise scheme whereby the
s. photograph can be run slow enough to
enable a compositor to operae his limo
le type machine direcely from the phono
graph and set UP speech without the
intervention of written copy" When
q this is accomplishments shorthand man
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at work
on ranie, a peculiar vegetable fiber
,to which they expect will supersede cot
-, ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
No China and japan, but could be raised il
England if the demand warranted. /
20. is silky, much stronger than cotton ant
~ finer than flax. The chemical treat
on ment to which it is now subjected rot
for the fiber, but when that is oyercoune i
ab is thought it will closely push cottol
49, on account of its cheapness and the cas-
~. with which it is cultivated. Chicag
80 Chronicle.