Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-23
Enplish workmen. if 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
i 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 manufac-
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, all the parts that go to the MAX
ing of wooden houses are shipped into
the british isles in such quantities and
! at such prices that the carpenter is
almost Il 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
in 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
| ~, bax nil ka
Of employment. since the great cooper
j, ing establishments of this country ship
vast quantities of wood cut into slaves.
t heads and wooden hoops, so that the
English cooper has but to put them to-
gether. They are shipped knock
down" so as to economic 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
gelatine film which can be readily ap-
4 piled to ordinary window glass. and
which is a perfect imitation of stained
glass. 1t comes, of course. in all colors,
1 and stained glass window which for
merly cost $50 can now be perfectly i'm
: itated for $2.50. and the stained glass
workers cannot compete against such
prices.
t Label stickers in the canueries are
: now face to face with a machine which
d will label 10000 cans in ten hours
u which does not give the hand worker
much of q chance. Even the profes
y sions, so-called, are threatened by mod
e ern 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
Il photograph can be run slow enough t.
enable a compositor to operate his limo
type machine directly from the phono
= graph and set up a speech without the
~ Intervention of written copy" Wher
this is aceompl shed the shorthand mar
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
On ranie, peculiar vegetable fibsl
which they expect will superssde cot
ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
l. China and Japan, but could be raised il
ii England if the demand warranted. I
" is silky, much stronger than cotton ant
= finer than fax. The chemical treat
n ment to which it is now subjected rot
O. the fiber, but when that is overcome i
te is thought it will closely push cotton
r. on account of its cheapness and the cas-
n with which it is cultvated.-Chicag
m Chronicle.