The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04

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Ladies' Hats are Made-GaEe Broth
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TheRter.
CHICAGO, Oct. q. Is7O-The mild weather
Of the season has taken a chill duliDg the
week, aud we have had two respect
able ~frOsts, severe enough to nip but not kill
winter squash and tomato vinCs.
BUSINESS
Is moderately active, but all classes are hop
ing for, if not expecting, an improvement on
the arrival OF cold weather.
THE WHEAT MARKET
l. lees excited, and prices three cents lower
than last. Receipts and shipments are a
little less, and grain freights are higher.
MONEY
Is close, though the demand from mer-
chants has diminished, their collections
having increased-which is q hopeful sign.
LIVE sTocK.
The receipts of cattle the past week for
five days are 14.17l; of hogs PITTS, and of
sheep 11,423. Prices are lower, and sales
dull. Tne packing season will begin in
earnest about week after next, and as there
is a great corn crop in the west. aud tho hog
crop will naturally be 'accordan," pork will
undoubtedly rHle lower than last year.
POLITICS
Are getting lively. Joseph Medill has with
drawnh his name as a candidate for the nomi-
nation to Congress, and @. B.. Farwell, of the
firm of John V. Farwen & Co., is the only
Republican candidate now on the course.
The Tribune thinks he will withdraw, but
whether the irish is the only father to the
thought / do not know. There will be a
lively scramble for the minor offices in this
city and county.
HOW LADIES HATS ARE MADE.
Ihave just visited an establishment for the
manufacture OF ladies hats and hat frames
By machinery. Inventive genius and skill
have SO perfected machines for this vol K
that these "crovns of glory for the fair sex
csn be produced with marvellous rapidity and
chespness. And as these machines interest
ed me / will give q brief description of them.
They are iron ~dies-upper and ~lower-stand-
ing on an iron table supported BY iron up
rights, the upper die worked up and down hy
means OF springs and a foot lever. These
dies, or molds, are heated by jets of burning
gas from gaspipes coiled around and beneath
them. Then a piece of velvet, satin, or what
ever material is used, cut of the right size
and pasted or to q piece Of buckram, is wet
and stitched over the lower die, by two men
OF opposite sides of the machine, and the
upper die pressed down upon it. The edges of
the cloth are then turned up, and brass wires
fastened around them, pressing them against
the outside OF the hat die to make the lin
roll shaped, and in about two minutes-bv
the time three more hats are placed in dies
by the same haBds-it is ready 10 be taken
off. The superfuous edges are then cut off
by an expert scissors" and the hat is then
ready to be transferred to the finishing
room, who're a hundred girls, or more, finish
them ready for sale to the trade. Different
styles require different dice. Hat frames are
made in the same way. Comparatively few
bounets are sold now, ladies generally taking
to hats. Two men can work four machines
and make rs dozen hats a day.
The only millinery house in the West
that has these machines, is the firm of
GAGE BROTHERS & CO.,
Importers, Manufacturer and Jobbers Of
Millinery Goods, IS Lake street, UP STAIRS.
The oldest and largest house doing an eI
ctESiUely Millinery business in the Northwest.
Their mandatory gives them q decided
advantage over their competitors. Formerly.
when relying on Eastern manufacturers as
other millinery houses now do, they often
fouDdg great difficulty in filing orders satis-
factorily. Now they have dies of twenty diff
ferent shapes, prominent among which are the
Comet. Bertha. Dauntless, Ruby, Rob Row,
Saratoga, Kate, Lizzie, Rhine, Caroline. Magic
and Sailor. and can supply hats and hat frames
OF the above leading shapes, of superior ms
terial, at Eastern prices, either from stock or
on short notice, and dealers who buy here
viii be sure to get their orders filed. Their
goods arc well made and finished, and will
compare favorably with any similar goods
made in the country. Case buyers can have
sample CAGES cent for comparison and sp-
proyal. Jobber of Ladies' Hats and Millinery
eoods, heretofore In the habit Of purchasing
East, can now get their supplies near home,
at Eastern manufacturers prices, and thus
save time. expen-e Of travel aud freight, and
delay in the receipt of goods-items whose
sum often MAKE the difference between sue.
cess and failure in business. The character
OF the house is too well established to need
commentator. The number Of their Gus
and he increasing volume of their
trade are their best endorsement. A lead
ing trait of this house is P~romptnesS IN filing
There is a slight lull in
A-MUsEMESrs
Just now, in part due to the fact that there
are less strangers in town than two weeks
ago, and in part to the less interesting char
acter of the plays and the leading actors.
We are to have a
WEST SIDE THEATRE
opened about the middle OF November.