Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-15

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 i'm proved
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 hanGs.
Small wooden articles. such as clOt s
pegs. skewers, umbrella sticks AID
nousetraps, 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 chrarly
! here. Oars for rowboats, flooring and,
| indeed, all the parts that 60 to the MAX
! ing Of wooden houses are shipped into
The British isles in such quantities and
1t such prices that the carpenter is
. almost d superiority there, except to put
the parts together. The planning mills
! and sash, door and blind factories Of
his country deliver at English towns
all Of the component parts of Il house
so much cheaper than they can be made
in England thar the carpenters are Ia
despair. This, OF course, is due TO the
/ improved machinery in use here, which
minimizes the cost Of production.
The cocpers are beginning to realize
that they will soon be practically cut
of employment. since The great cooper
inzc establishments of this country ship
vast quantities of wood cut into slaves,
lrads and wooden hoops, so that the
En"lish cooper has but to put them to-
gtther. They are shipped knock
down" SO as to ecOpomize space on the
ships. and are put togetherin England by
: BOYS at small wages. The stained glass
: industry, too, has received a setback
through the introduction of 4 sort of
gelatine film which can he readily APP
piled to ordinary window glass, and
which is 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 stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with machine which
| will label 10000 cans in ten hours,
+ which does not give the hand worker
= much of chance. Even the profess
= sions, so-cailed are threatened by mod
ern inventions. The shorthand report
u ers are watching with dismay the i'm
provements being made in the phono-
graph. Experts are now at work try
ing to devise a scheme whereby the
| photograph can be run slow enough tc
enable compositor to operate his limo
type machine directly from the phono
graph and set up speech without the
J. intervention Of written copy" When
n this is accomplished the shorthand man
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventor are hard at work
on ranie, 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. i
is silky, much stronger than cotton ant
y finer than flax. The chemical treat
ment to which it is now subjected rot
the fiber, but when that is overcome i
t. is thought it will closely push cotton
Ie on account of its cheapness and the cas-
+ with which it is cultivated.-Chicag
i Chronicle.
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