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I was greatly interested too by the collection of articles at the Rosenburg Castle This is the only ed is very small It contains an extraordinary collection of royal clothes (ould Sartor Resartus say?), ar vessels, and all s of Denmark

I was especially interested by the collection of royal drinking vessels, froold and silver flagons Whatis that marked the depths down to which the stalwart Dane was able to swig at a pull one enorht of wine In some cases the naraved on the flagon to record his feat

”Take hi, and the words have becost ourselves For we unquestionably have derived a great deal of our drinking capabilities from our ancestors the Danes

The whole of the en are excellent

Besides those I have raphic Museum--the best of its kind; the Museum of Coins, the most coical Museuical Museum, and many more The custodians are most kind and civil; and when they see any visitor interested in the collection, they take a special pleasure in going round with hi out the beauty and rarity of the articles, i information I wish those melancholy taciturn ”staff-in-hand”

attendant custodians of our British Museums could or would follow their example, and thus aid the chief object of these costly institutions

Holding the reat pioneers of astronomy, I was much interested by a contemporary portrait of him in the Town Hall; but still reat Round Tohere he carried on his careful observations by instrun and construction These, with many additions, he afterwards transported to the island of Hveen, where the remains of his castle and observatory are still to be seen; While I wasthe Round Tower I could not but think of the footsteps of the great astronoen for Hah the island of Zealand, I was ferried across to the island of Fyen, and after that I proceeded along the mainland of Sleswick and Holstein

I was much pleased hat I saw of the people of these provinces

Their fares onderfully clean and neat

The wo I believe I sawland Even the brass and iron hoops round the old and silver

Everyhad its neat di The very flower-pots were painted red, to fetch up their brightness to the general standard I never saw apeople than those who They seeland-- especially in the northern and eastern parts--in their oval faces, their bright blue eyes, and their light and golden hair, as well as their active minds and bodies, which enable they

I went fro a few days' business I went to take a peep at the fine collections of pictures there, as well as at the Hague Then I proceeded to Rotterdaland by the Batavian steaed tour Everything was going on well at the Bridgewater Foundry The seeds which I had sown in the northern countries of Europe were already springing up plentifully in orders forof the ha ht

CHAPTER 17 More about Bridgewater Foundry--Woolwich arsenal

The rapid extension of railways and steaely increased demand for machinery of all kinds Our order-book was always full; and everytrade There was an increased demand for skilled mechanical labour--a dean to outbid each other, and wages rapidly rose

At the same time the disposition to steady exertion on the part of the workan to decline

This state of affairs had its usual effect It increased the deht increase the productiveness of their factories without having resort to the costly and untrustworthythe number of their worke They displaced hand-dexterity andin their action They could not possibly go wrong in planing and turning, because they were regulated by perfect self-acting arrangements They were always ready for work, and never required a Holiday or a Saint Monday

As the Bridgewater Foundry had been so fortunate as to earn for itself a considerable reputation for mechanical contrivances, the workshops were always busy They were croith machine tools in full action, and exhibited to all comers their effectiveness in the most satisfactory manner, Every facility was afforded to those who desired to see them at work; and every machine and machine tool that was turned out becaenitor of a nuratification of seeing my mechanical notions adopted by rival or co this point of honour, there was roonisable, I esteeiarisms as a sort of left-handed coarded the eneral adoption, and many of them remain unaltered to this day

The machine tools when in action did not require a skilled workuide or watch them All that was necessary to superintend the machine tools already possessed the requisite ability to plane, to turn, to polish, and to execute the hen firmly placed in situ The work merely required to be shi+fted from time to time, and carefully fixed for another action of theclever labourers, I made an extensive use of active handy boys to superintend the s machine tools To do this required little exertion of muscular force, but only observant attention Thehad been embodied in theeometrical for educated the faculties of the lads, and trained their ideas to the perception of exactness of forave them an intimate acquaintance with the nature of the materials employed in mechanical structures The rapidity hich they thus acquired the efficiency of thoroughly practical th they were proave to the foreht to recoes any lad who showed an extra intelligent earnestness and assiduity in superintending his machine

This produced an active spirit of emulation, which not only advanced their efficiency but relieved the foree of his duties I have already referred to the subject in a forly urged upon the attention of proprietors offirst-rate work into habits of workshop dishonesty, ie ”skulking,” and other annoyances

My syste of apprentices was the ”perfect cure,”

if I may so speak All that existed between us was mutual satisfaction with each other, and that alone proved from first to last in every respect a perfect bond

So co machines relieved from the necessity of labour, thatasleep, allowed them to attend to other machines within their powers of superintendence This kept them fully awake The workement, as a relief fro extra was added to their wages for each additional machine All ell for a time, for men as well as masters But now came the difficulty

The system was opposed to the rules of the Trades' Union

Their co oneout of eht to be employed And yet, at the time that the objection was made, such persons were not to be had The increased demand for skilled labour had employed every spare workman

Nevertheless the system, in the eyes of the Union, ”must be put down”

The demand was made that every machine must have a Union man to superintend it, and that he es All labourers and lads were to be discharged, and Union ood, and the workshops were full of orders, it was thought by the Union that the tin was opened by the organisation of a powerful body, entitled ”The Aineers” It included every class of workmen employed in the trade--ironfounders, turners, fitters, erectors, pattern-makers, and such like All were invited to ainst the employers

In order to make a conspicuous demonstration of their power, the Council of the Union first attacked the extensive firm of Platt Brothers, Oldhae all their labourers or other ”illegal hands” fro their vast assortal es The plan of the Union was to attack the employers one by one-- to call out the hands of one particular workshop until the employers were subdued and obeyed the commands of the Union; and then to attack another eacity of this policy very much resembled that of the ostrich, which hides its head in hole and thinks it is concealed The employers knew the drift of the policy, and took steps to circumvent it