The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-12
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

Frost -Business-The Wheat Market
Money = Live Stock-Poiitics-How
Ladies' Hats are III ade-Gsxe 8roth-
ers q Co.-Amusements-W Side
Theater.
CHICAGO, Oct. %, 1870.-The mild weather
OF the season has taken chill during 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, II not expecting, an Improvement on
the arrival Of cold weather.
THE WHEAT MARKET
is less excited, and prices three cents lower
then last. Receipts aud shipments are
little less, and grain freights are higher.
MONEY
Is close, though the demani from merchants
has diminished, their collections having in
creased-Whleh is hopeful sign.
LIVE STOCK.
The receipts of cattle the past week for
five days We're 14,1T; of hogs BITS, and of
sheep l1,423. Prices are lower, and sales
dull. The packing season viii begin in
earnest about week after next and as there
Is crest corn crop in the west, and the hog
crop will naturally be ''sccordin," pork will
undoubtedly rule lower than last year.
POLITICS
are getting lively. Joseph Medill has with
drawn his name as candidate for the nomi-
nation to Congress, and G 3 Farwell, of the
firm OF John V Farwen & Co., is the only Re-
publican candidate now on the course. The
Tribune thinks he Will withdraw but whether
the nash ls the only father to the thought, l
do not know There win be q lively scramble
for the minor offices in this city and county
HOW LADIES HATS ARE MADE.
l have just visited an establishment for the
ma Fpa Of laI Ho4a "a
by machinery. Inventive genius and skill
have SO perfected machines for tins work
that t., these crowns OF glory for the fair sex
cheapness Aud as these machines interest
ed me | will give brief description OF them.
They are iron dies-upp6r and lOwer-etaDd-
ing on an iron table supported by iron up
rights, the upper die worked up and down by
means of springs and foot lever. These
dies, or mOlds, are heated by jets OF burning
gas from gasppes coled around and beneath
them. Then piece of velvet, satin, or what
ever material 10 used, cut OF the right size
and pasted on to piece Of buckram, is wet
and stitched over the lower die, by two men
en- opposite sides Of the machine, and the
upper die pressed down uHon 1t. 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-shap d, and in about two min
utes-by the time three more hats ere placed
III QlCS Tie SAIiG udIitIE--It - ISdIl 10 Dt
taken off. The superious edges are then
cut off by an expert SCISSORS" and the hat is
then ready to be transferred to the finishing
room, where hundred girls, or more. finish
| them ready for sale TO the trade. Different
styles require differe dies. Hat Fl ames are
made in the same way. Comparatively few
bonncts are sold row, ladies generally taking
to hatg. Two man can work four machines,
and make Il dozen hats day.
The only millinery house in the West that
has these machines, Is the firm Of
GAGF BROTHERS CO.,
Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Millinery Goods, IS Lake street. Up STAIRS ,
the oldest and largest house doing an egclat-
Sirajy Millinery business IN the Northwest.
Their manufactory gives them decided adj
vantage over their competitors Formerly,
when relying on Eastern manufacturers as
other millinery houses now do, they often
found great difficulty in filing orders salts
factorliv. Now they have dies Of twenty diff
ferent shapes, prominent among which are
the Comet, Bertha, Dauntless, Ruby, Eob
Roy, Saratoga, Kate, Lizzie, Rhine, Caroline,
Magic and Sailor, and eau supply hats and
hat frames of the above leading g apes, Of
superior material, at Eastern prices, either
from stock or on short notice, and dealers
who buy here Will be sure to get their orders
filed. Their goods are well made and
| finished, and viii compare fav0ra-
| bly, with any similar goods made
/
sample eases sent for comparison and ap-
proval. Jobber9 of Ladies Hats and 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, and freight, and
! delay in the receipt Of goods items whose
sunl often make the difference between sue
cess and failure in business. The character
of the house is too well established to need
commendation. The number of their Gus
toners and the increasing volume OF their
trade are their best endorsement. A lead
ing trait Of this house IS pr0nptnesS IN filing
orders.
There is a slight lull 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 have q
WEST aIDE THEATER
opened about the middle of November.
3.
BRI GIGS HoUsE.-We are pleased to call the
attention of our friends and the travelling
public to the comforts and conveniences
afforded at the Briggs House of Chicago.
This house having been recently reftted