Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-30

English workmen, if their ideas are
correctly reflected by their trade jorr-
mails, are beginning to view with alarm
the rapid and steady decline II various
/ trades and callings in Great br:t..in
owing to the introduction Of i'm proved
machinery in America. Norway, Ger
many and other countries and the enor-
nous exports to England of nanufac-
| tured goods which were once made in I
/ England, but which the reduced cost
! OF Manufacture in this country hive
crowded out of Eugiishmens ha IS
! Small wooden articles, such as clctu,s
pegs, skeWers, umbrella sticks and
mOusetraps, which have an eH0rmous
sale in England, are not made in that
country any more. They are alt
shipped from the United States. be
cause they can be made more chesp!y
here. Oars for rowbOatS, flooring and,
indeed. ail the parts that 90 to the MAX
ing Of wooden houses are shipped into
Vie British isles in such 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 towns
ali OF the component parts of u house
50 much cheaper than they can be made
ia England that the carpenters are in
despair. This. Of course, is due to the
improved machinery in use here. which
minimizes the cost of production.
The coopers are beginning to realize
tLat 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
English cooper has but to put them to-
gvther. They are shipped knock
Town" 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 sort of
gelatine 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
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,
I which does not give the hand worker
much of a chance. Even the profess
sions. so-called, are threatened by mod
-, ern inventions. The shorthand report
Vt ers are watching with dismay the i'm
proyements being made in the phono-
graph. Experts are now of work try
ing to devise a scheme whereby the
| phonograph can be run slow enough TO
enable a cOmpositor to operate his limo
type machine direcely from the pnono-
graph and set up q speech without the
! intervention of written copy" When
II this is accomplished the shorthand man
viii have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at work
en- ranie, a peculiar vegetable fiber
which they expect will supersede cot
ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
China and Japan, but could be raised il
England if the demand warranted. j
" IS silky, much stronger than cotton anC
y finer than flax. The che incal treat
nent to which it is now subjected rot
! the fiber, but when that is overcome i
e. is thought it will closely push cottol
le on account of it's cheapness and the cas-
/ with which it is ultivated.-Chicag'
! Chronicle.