Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — Yankee Ingenuity Explained. [ARTICLE]

Yankee Ingenuity Explained.

▲ Manchester, England, publics’'on gives to Americans the credit of being far ahead of the mechanics of Great Britain In the Invention of labor-saving

machinery, and attributes it to ska higher cost of hand labor in the Unite* States, to the absence of trades union restriction on the use of such devicea and to the encouragement given to the workmen to do all he can to econosnira and Increase production. During the past two months the Baltk more and Ohio Railroad Company has received 1,110 new box cars, 1,239 double hopper gondolas and 224 coke ears of ths order-of 5,150 recently placed with Pullman’s Palace Car Company, the Michigan Peninsular Car Works, the Missouri Car, and Foundry Company and the &Mith Baltimore Car W’orks. Deliveries ing made as rapidly as the cars are MP* pleted.