The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-09
BNGLhND'S STEEL OUTLOOK
SOME REASONS FOR HER LOSS OF
 SUPREMACT.

SOME REASONS FOR HER LOSS OF
 SUPREMACY.
 Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute
 in London Lack of Enterprise in
 Great Britain Described by nlr. Gar
 rett of ClevcIand-Need of Adopting
 American Methods.
 London, May S.--The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute opened to-day. It is attended by all the promi- nent engineers in Great Britain, while almost all the American engineering eenters are represented, Andrew Car negie being among those present. The new president, William Whitwell, de- voted most of his address to American methods, declaring that Great Britain was compelled to adopt them. He said: ''We shall have to fight much harder in the future to retain our proud posi- tion.''
 The principal paper this morning was read by William Garrett, of Cleveland, who prefaced his remarks by declaring that Great Britains supremacy in the iron and steel trade, so long held, was now lost. He then went into detailed comparison of the methods of British and American rolling mills, with no f1attering results for Great Britain, and concluded with declaring that if the British steel makers did not follow the 1>1yo ,i,, ing, and also by only manufacturing at points most advantageous for shipment, and using the most economical meth ods, the manufacture of iron and steel would become lost art in Great Brit ain.
 Many unpleasant statements were put before the British gathering by MT. Garrett. Manufacturers here, he de- clared, would not spend sufficient money on mills or machinery. He urged them to adopt American methods at some of the modern plate mills in Great Britain, and there would be a marked increase in the output To say the British workman canont be as active and ener- getic as the American workman is en- tirely wrong. He continued
 Your falling behind is partly due to the fact that up to the present you have had no competition. I may be wrong, but venture to assert that during the past ten years all the British iron and steel manufacturers together did not spend as much money in Improvements as the Carnegies did in two years. Is your ingenuity and energy exhausted you who, at one time, were the greatest l manufacturers in the world? I cannot believe it. Tn order to show you how | far you are behind in the output of wire rods, four of the best rod mills in Great | Britain during January did not produce | as many rods as one of the wire-rod | mills in the United States. Is there no remedy? And will Great Britain, the | mother of that business, who taught the world how to make wire, give it up?
 MT. Garrett went on to point out how this state of affairs could be remedied | by consolidation.
 The chairman, in announcing MT. Carnegie's gift of G6,5OO to the Insti- tute for Original Metallurgical Re search, said MT. Carnegie had decided to double the amount and the council had agreed to distribute it among va rious natipnalities-one-t third to Dr. Matthews (American), one-third to Dr. Goldberg (Austrian) and one-third to Dr. Stansf1eld (English).
 MT. Carnegie subsequently, in propos- ing vote of thanks for the presidents address, said that in his opinion the president had put his finger on the right spot.
 The Bible taught them, Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added unto you" He (Mr. Car negie) said, Seek ye first the United Kingdom and the markets of the world will be added unto you" "Get right at home," said MT. Car negie, land do not worry about things abroad" The way to get hold of foreign mar kets, MT. Carnegie continued, was to { get hold of-and conquer the markets at home. It was not necessary to thank him for the prizes he had given for re- l search. He had to thank the institute, [ for he felt it was a field in which a great deal more money might be prof. i itably spent.
 D. D. Campbell, of the University of :, Michigan, tomorrow will read paper . which will treat of the formation of carbides and silicides of iron. Among :, the American visitors are Messrs. w. A. z Bostwick, of Pittsburg, J. A. Mathews, of New York; W. R. Stirling, of Chi ', cago, and W. H. Foster, of Niles o. n yyTy A yyTt NE r T-1T1 Fryc