Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.


rost-Business-The Wheat Market-
money-Livc Stock-Polttics-H
Ladies' Hats are made-Gage Broth
ers q Co.-Amusements-W est SIDE
Theater.
CHICAGO, Oct. %, 1S70.-The mild weather
closing week, and we have had two respect
able frosts, severe enough to nip but not klll
ninter squash and tomato vines.
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
is less excited, and prices three cents lower
than last. Receipts and shipments are
little less, and grain freights are higher.
MoN-Y
ia close, though the deman from merchants
has diminished, their collections having in
creased-whieh is hopeful sign.
LIVE STOCK.
The receipts of cattle the past week for
five DAYS were IA III; of hogs n US, and OF
sheep II, 423 Prices are lower, and sales
dull. The packing season will begin in
earnest about week after next, and as there
is crest corn crop in the west, and the hog
crop will naturally be 'accordin," pork will
undoubtedly rule lower than last year.
POLITICS
are getting lively. Joseph Medil has with
drawn his name as a candidate for the nomI-
nation to Congress, and G Is. EarWell, OF the
firm of John V Farwell q Co., Is the only Re-
publican candidate now on the course. The
Tribune thinks he will withdraw, but whether
the arish is the only father to the thought, L
do not know There will be lively scramble
for the minor Offices in this city and county
HOW LADIES HATS ARE MADE.
have lust visited an establishment for the
manufacture of ladies hats and hat frames
by machinery. Inventive genius and skill
have so perfected machines for this work
that these ttcrowns of glory" for the fair sex
can be produced with marvellous rapidity and
cheapness. Aud as these machines interest
ed me I viii give brief description OF them.
| They are iron dies-upper and lOwer-stand
| ing on an iron table supported by iron up
righte, the upper die worked up and down by
means IF springs and foot lever. These
dies. or molds, are heated by jets of burning
gas from gaspipes coiled around and beneath
them. Then piece of velvet, satin, or what.
ever material is used cut of the right size
and pasted on to piece of buckram. is wei
and stitched over the lower die, by two mer
| on opposite sides of the machine, and the
upper die pressed down uron it. The edge.
of the cloth are then turned up, and bras,
wires fastened around them, pressing then
against the outside of the hat die to max,
the rim roll-shap d, and in about two min
utes-by the time three more hats are PLACED
in dies by the same hands-it is ready to b.
taken off. The superflous edges are thel
cut off by an expert scissors" and the hat j
then ready to be transferred to the finishin
room, where hundred girls, or more, fiuis
them ready for sale to the trade. Differen
styles require differect dies. Hat flames ar
made il the same way. Comparatively fe1
bonnets are sold now, ladies generally taking
to hats. Two men can work four machines
and make "a dozen hats day.
The only millinery house in the West tina
has these machines, is the firm of
GAGE BROTHERS CO.,
Importers. Manufacturers and Jobbers @
Millinery Goods, IS Lake street. UP srAIRs
the Oldest and largest house doing an erc5
siUe5y Millinery business in the Northwest
Their msnufactory gives them decided ad
vantage over their competitors. Formerl,
when relying On Eastern manufacturers a
other millinery houses now dc, they oite
found great difficulty in filling orders salts
factorilv. Now they have dies of twenty dl
ferent shapes, prominent among which ar
the Comet, Bertha, Dauntless, Ruby, Ro
Roy, Saratoga, Kate, Lizzie, Rhine, Caroline
Magic and Sailor, and can suppjy hats an
hat frames of the above leading 3. ape, {
, superior material. at Eastern prices, eithe
from stock or on short notice, and dealer
who buy here will be sure to get their order
filled. Their goods are well made an
finished, and will compare favors
bly, with any similar goods mad
in the country. Case buyers can hav
sample cases sent for comparison and al
proyal. Jobbers of Lad ,es Hats and Millinerr
goods, heretofore in the habit of purchasin
East, can now get their supplies near hom
at Eastern manufacturer prices and tho
save time, expense of travel. and freight, an
delay in the receipt of goods items who's
sum often make the Inference between gu,
cess and failure in business. The cnaracte
of the house is too well established to nee
commentator. Ihe number of their GU
toners and the increasing volume of the
trade are their best endorsement A lead
ing trait of this house is pronptaess in film
orders.
There is slight lull 10
ADJUSTMENTS
juss now, in part due to the fact that thel
are less strangers in town than two Ieel
ago, and in part to the less interesting cha
acter Of the plays and the leading actor
We are to have
WEST SIDE THEATER
opened about the middle of November.
B.