Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-09-18

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 caliings in Great Britain
owing to the introduction of i'm proved
machinery in America, Norway, Ger
many and other countries and the cnor-
nous exports to England OF mauufac-
tured goods which were once made in
England, but which the reduced cost
of manufacture in this country Ia %
crowded out of Englishmen's hant ..
Small wooden articles, such as cIot 81
pegs, shewers, umbrella sticks AID
mousetrap., 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 chcapy
/ here. Oars for rowhoats, flooring and,
! indeed, ali 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 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
despair. This, of course, is due to the
improved machinery in use here, which
miniinizes the cost of production.
The coopers are beginning to realize
that they will soon be practically ont
Of employment, since the great cooper
ing establishments OF this country ship
vast quantities of wood cut into slaves,
heads and wooden hoops, 50 that the
English cooper has but to put them to-
gtlher. 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 a 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 stickers in the canneries are
now face to face with machine which
4 will label 10000 cans in ten hours
{ which does not give the hand worker
= much of a chance. Even the profess
n sions, so-called, 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 scheme whereby the
/ photograph can be run slow enough te
enable compositor to operate his limo
type machine directly from the phono
graph and set up speech without the
/ Intervention of written copy" Wher
II this is accomplished the shorthand man
will have to go driving an ice wagon.
English inventors are hard at work
on 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. l
!" is silky, much stronger than cotton ant
y finer than flax. The chemical treat
uent to which it is now subjected rot
u the fiber, but when that is overcome i
e. is thought it will closely push cottol
te on account Of it's cheapness and the cas-
+ with which it is ultivated.-Chicag
u Chronicle.