Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-08-26

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 manufac-
tured goods which were once made in
England, but which the reduced cost
| of manufacture in this country have
crowded out of Engiishmen's haEl Is.
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 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 III
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
that they will soon be practically out
of employment. since til" great cooper
ing establishments of this country ship
vast quantities of wood cat into slaves.
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 togetherin England by
boys at small wages. The stained glass
: industry, too, has received setback
through the introduction of sort of
| 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
/, itated for $3.50. and the stained glass
workers cannot compete against such
prices.
Label stckers in the canneries are
now face to face with n machine which
will label 10000 cans in ten hours,
which does not give the hand worker
\ much of a chance. Even the protes-
n | sions, so-called, are threatened by mod
! 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
:. photograph can be run slow enough to
enable compositor to operate hts limo
E type machine direcely from the phono
graph and set up speech without the
Intervention of written copy" Wher
q this is aceompl. shed the shorthand mar
viii have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at worl
On ranie, peculiar vegetable fiber
10 which they expect will supersede cot
!, ton. 1t grows in the Malay islands
o. China and Japan. but could be raised IL
England if the demand warranted. l
o. is silky, much stronger than cotton ant
~ finer than flax. The chemical treat
ment to which it is now sub iected 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 cultivated.-Chicag
- Chronicle.