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Show American 'tncl German Manufactures. Ten years ago one might have traveled the length and breadth of the Rbeln provinces, prov-inces, the great lion and steel district of Germany, and In all the leading shops one Woujd have found English tools. Today all this s changed, and In lieu of English tools one finds now for all ordinary work German stock tools, but One also iinds in ii arly all the first-class establishments a group of American machine tools for the high-grade work- a silent tribute to the i xccllence of our outputs. I found machine tools from Provldehi S, from Hartford, from Plalnfleld from Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, from Wilmington, from Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, from Hamilton, from Cleveland in fa. t. from all the first-class American shops, and only from the flrst-claas shops l found no tools of the second r third-grade third-grade make. If one would know which art i he best American machine tools, go lo Germany. The Germans know. There Is no room In the foreign market for Shod- Qj i Is, save possibly in cotton for the l irlt nt . , . But If America leads In machine tools I noml. - and In . . onomlcal practice, Europe is far ahead When i say Europe i un m ieinian in particular. Practically every large-powered gas-6nglne In Amer-I, Amer-I, a tod. iv v.orthv "f lb- name, with two exceptions, came fr-.m German shops or M shop? controlled by Germans. Four designs of gas-engines have been disposed of lii America, and negotiations .- a llfth t.i the wrlt.-r'n knowledge, recently under way. , . i one shon In Belgium I found large gas-engines in service operated by the h. al units which ordinarily are permitted lo escape through the funnela Into the air. In the blast-furnaces In America. In the inajorlt) of plants, 0 Krge quantity or 1 1 urn and heat is thrown away, which on the continent of Kuiope i iptur.d. har-n. har-n. e.i, made to run engines, develop prw. r. do work. 1,1. lit. Godfrey L. tar-den tar-den In Harper's Weekly |