Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-11-03
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENTS

CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
Wheat Market
Money Live stock --Poittios-How
Laoies' Hats are made-GaHe BROTH
ers A. Co.-Am use N nts- WesI Side
Theater.
CHICAGO. Oct %, 1870 The mild weather
Of the season has taken chill duiing the
closing week, and we have had two respect
able frosts, severe enough to nip but not kill
winter squash and tomato vines.
BUSINESS
Is moderately active, but all classes are hop
ing for, il not expecting, an Improvement on
the arrival OF cold weather.
THE WHEAT MARKET
II less excited, and prices three cents lower
than last Receipts and shipments are
little less, and grain freights are higher.
MONEY
IL close, though the demand from mer-
chants has diminished. their collections
having increased-which is a hopeful sign.
LIVE STOCK.
The receipts of cattle the past week for
five days are i4,171; OF hogs 27775, and Of
sheep ii ,423. Prices are lower, and sales
dull. The packing season Will begin in
earnest about week after next, and IA there
il a great corn crop in the west. and the hog
crop will naturally be 'sccord,n," pork will
undoubtedly rale lower than last year.
POLITICS
Are getting lively. Joseph Medili has with
drawn his name as candidate for the nom-
nation 10 Congress-, and G. =. Farwell of the
firm of John Y. Farwell 4 Co.. is the only
Republican candidate now on the course
The Tribune thinks he will withdraw, but
whether the 11ish is the only father to the
thought | do not know. There will be
In
city and county.
HOW LADIES HATS ARE MADE.
have just visited an estabiis hment for the
manufacture of ladies' hats and hat francs
by machinery. Inventive genius and SKILL
have so perfected machines for this work,
that these "crowns If glory" for the fair sex
can be produced with marvellous rapidity and
cheapness. And a. theso machines interest
ed nue. | will give brief description of them.
They are iron dies upper and lower stand.
ing on an iron table supported By iron ND.
rights, the upper die worked up and down by
means Of springs and foot lever. These
dice, or mods, are heated by iets Of burning
gas from gaspipes coiled around and beneath
them. Then piece of velvet. SATIN, or what
ever material il used, cut of the right size
and pasted ON to piece Of onckram, is wet
aud stitched over the lower die, bv two men
on opposite sides Of the machine, aud the
upper die pressed down uponit. 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 rim
roll shaped, aud in about two minutes--by
the time three more hats are placed in des
by the same hsnds-it is ready TO be taken
off The superfuous edges are then cut of
by an expert ''ecissors,' and the hat la thep
ready 10 be transferred to the finishing
room, where hundred girls, or more, finish
tl.,, I,r For la 10 ha II ~, ,.,,t
styles require different dies. Hat frames are
made in the same way. Comparatively few
bonnets are sold now, ladies generally taking
to hats. Two men can work four machines
and make rs dezen hats day.
The ouly millinery house in the West
that has these machines, is the firm Of
GAGE BROTHERS co.,
Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Millinery Goods, 70 Lake street, Up srAIgs,
the oldest and largest house doing an Ell
c',isiuely Millinery business in the Northwest.
Their mandatory gives them Il decided
advantage over their competitors. Formerly
when relying on Eastern manufacturers az
other millinery houses now DO, they often
found great difficulty in filing orders salts
factorily. Now they have dies Of twenty diff
ferent shapes, prominent among which are the
Comet. Bertha. Dauntless, Ruby. Rob Roy,
Saratoga, Kate, Lizzie, Rhine Caroline Magic
ana StlloT ANU can supply uath ana nat frames
of the above leading shapes, of superior ma
terial, at Eastern prices, either from stock or
on short notice, and dealers who buy here
will be sure to g, their orders filled. Their
goods are well made and finished, and will
compare favorably with any similar goods
made in the country. Case buyers can have
sample csees sent for comparison and APP
proval. Jobbers of Ladies' Hats aud Millinery
goods, heretofore in the habit of purchasing
East, can now get their supplies near home,
at Eastern manufacturers prices. and thus
save time, expense of travel aud freight, and
delay in the receipt of goods--tems whose
sum often make the difference between sue.
cess and failure in business. The character
OF the house is too we'll established to need
commentator. The number of their Gus
toners and he increasing volume of their
trade are their best endorsement. A lead
ing trait of this house il Prontptness IN Tltng
orders.
There ia slight hull in
ADJUSTMENTS
inst 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 ha,ea
WEST SIDE THEATRE