The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-08-19
LAMENT OLA BRITISHER
HOW AMERICAN INVENTIONS ARE
CAPTURING FOREIGN MARKETS.
Striking Lament Of Hritieh Writer
over the crowdin9 Out Of English
by American Manufacturers In All
the Leading Lines CT Goods.

over the CroWdin9 Out OF tng1sn
by American Manufacturers In All
the Leading Lines CT Goods.
To understand the prevailing be-
lief among the Britisners that they
must do something to prevent Ameri-
can manufacturers from crowding their
own ont of their home markets one
has only to read little book that
has of late had q great popular sale
over there. 1t is entitled The Ameri-
can Invaders" A reprint of it Is now
circulating in this country.
Men sometimes speak," says this
English author, "as though the dra-
matte coup CT Morgan when he ac-
qu!red control of one of our great snip
ping lines. or of a. Schwab who out
bids our stcel-mnkcrs. or of Philadel-
phia bridge builders who capture the
orders for our biggest viaducts COM
prise this invasion. They do not. Such
items are merely the sensational In
cidents in a vast campaign. The real
invasion goes on increasingly and with
out noise or show in FIVE hundred in
dustries at once. From shaving soap
to electric motors, and from shirt
waists to telephones, the American is
clearing the field.
walk down the main thoroughfares
in any of our great cities--London or
Glasgow or Liverpool. Take, for in
stance, Holborn viaduct, and see there
the great blocks of Office buildings
mainly given over to the London repre-
sentatives of American manufacturers.
Notice the candy stores, the ice-cream-
soda fountains, the American shoe
stores, in our streets.
Bryant G. May, the once great Eng
lish match firm, which has no competi-
tors and paid dividends of 20 percent
per annum. were driven out of the field
by the American Match Trust. Hav-
ing shown Bryant G. May that they
could take their market away from
them by selling better matches at
cheaper prices, the trust offered to
take over their factories and guarantee
them interest at IA percent on their
agreed value. The entire English
match industry and trade passed on
this basis into American hands.
"The most serious aspect of the
American invasion" says the author,
"is that nearly every new industry
created in England for Is years past
is under American control. What are
the chief new features in London life?
They are, take it, the telephone, the
portable camera, the phonograph, the
electric street car, the automobile, the
typewriter, passenger elevators in
houses and the multiplication of ma
chine tools. In every one of these
save the petroleum automobile, the
American maker is supreme; in sever
al he is the monopolist. These new
industries, be It noted. are enormously
| profitable; the men they employ are
highly paid mechanics and prices rule
high.
"Take the typewriter. Machines are
brought to England from New York
| and Boston to the average value of
considerably over $4,000 a week. The
cost Of the raw material used in the
| typewriter is comparatively trivial, and
the greater part of this outlay goes to
high wages for skilled labor. Time af-
| ter time English firms have endeav-
ored to acquire this trade, but in vain.
| At the present moment the only seri-
Gus competitor with the American ma
chino for Office use is a Canadian type
writer, the Empire"
When the English government es-
| tablished a national telephone service
| as part of the general postoflice de-
| partment, it tried to get its telephone
instruments from English makers. But
no English firm was ready to supply
them, and the big order went to the
| Western Electric company of Chicago
Many million pounds sterling are to
be spent within the next few years by
| England on telephone instruments
and English makers seem to be entire
| ly out of II.
| In Parliament at the last session
bills were presented covering the con
struction of electric railroads that will
cost s120,000000, and here again the
American constructors are taking the
bulk of the business. The author says
that about one-half of the motors on
the street cars in Great Britain are
! American-made. All the new London
underground roads are equipped from
American shops.
In things domestic America has also
carried England by storm. From sew
ing machines to carpet sweepers the
English home is filed with things
made in America.
Turning to printing the writer says:
Here the American makers are alb
solutely masters of the field. Nc
first-class daily or weekly paper now
when laying down an entirely new
plant would think of anything but
American presses" The Hoe machines
are used by every leading London
newspaper with one exception. The
provincial newspapers are rapidly
equipping themselves in the same way
The American machine tool is seer