Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-08-31

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 man ufac
tured goods which were once made in
England but which the reduced cost
Of manufacture in this country have
crowded out Of embellishments hands.
Small wooden articles, such as clothes
pegs. silewers. 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 cheap
here. Oars for rOwboats, flooring and,
{ indeed. all the parts that go 10 the max
/ ing Of wooden houses are shipped into
( the Hritsh isles in such quantities and
/ at s4eb 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
all OF the component parts Of house
! so much cheaper than they can be made
in England that the carpenters are in
Gessair. This, of course, is due 20 the
improved machinery in use here, which
minimizes the cost If production.
Tie coopers are beginning 20 realize
that they will soon be practically out
of employment. since the great cooper
inc IS Attachments of this country ship
vast quantities o? wood eat into slaves,
heads and wooden hoops. 50 that the
F...,'.sh coODer has but to put them to-
gether. They are shipped knock
down" so as to ecouOT:ize space on the
ships and are put togetherin England by
bows at small wages. The stained glass
= industry. too, has received setback
through the introduction of a sort of
selatine 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 ccIors,
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 stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with a machine which
will label 10000 cans in ten hours
which does not give the hand worker
y much of a chance. Even the profes-
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
. monograph can be run slow enough tc
enable compositor to operat" his !ino
E type machine dirccely from the phono
graph and set UP a speech without the
intervention of written copy" Nher
q this is aceompli he'd the shorthand mar
viii have to go 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
o. China and Japan, but could be raised IL
England if the demand warranted. ]
- is silky. much stronger thar cotton an
:, finer than fax. The chemical treat
-, uent 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 it's cheapness and the cas-
~ with which it is cultivated.-Chicag
- Chronicle.