The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-22

, Brothers, Broadway, have made a specially In this
trade. Years ago every small dry goods house sold
them In small quantities., but now the trade has 81
Increased that large firms on Broadway import
nothing else but kid gloves. We have been assured
| that eight to ten million dollars worth OF gloves
are imported annually. The late war in Europe has
| effected this trade very much, and this season al
most all kinds OF European KID gloves have not
been exported in sufficient quantities TO meet the
demand on this side. The large capital of some OF
our dealers has materially helped, however, 10
lessen the scarcity and they have almost forced tho
European manufacturers during the late troubles
| TO keep up the supply.
| The leading and best gloves in the country are
stu the French Kid. In the first place they tthe
French peoplel are better ayers, the colors are
purer, they seem to make the manufacture more OF
specially there and they are particularly neat in
finishing all their work.
during the war the crop OF goat skins was some
what neglected, and during the last eight or ten
years prices OF these have become higher than
are Certainly not cneaper nyna Sd tpey Srs
higher and on the other side OF the Atlantic prices
are en-, now more likely TO go up than TO be reduced
THIS country seems TO use the best OF kid gloves
IN greater quantities than even the people or
Europe Inc best STYLES here are the Harris seam
less,' Alexandra, CourvOisierS and JOuvin's. They
have gloves in Europe OF different Danes, but the
quality Is not SO good though cheaper as those we
Enormous quantities OF kid gloves are imported
IRON I an parts OF Germany !hs greater portion Of
TO the French kids Still there are a. few es Of exees.
French Kid Almost every lutte village In Germany
mas now small manufacturers IN this llne
There is very little change In regard to colors this
season, the brown tints being In greatest demand.
Two, tllree and even five button gloves we notice
specially, are In greater demand than they have
hitherto been, beth IN col0rs ana party Kids
In stores where nothing but Kid gloves are sold
you ind gloves that will lit children Of year old
and upwards These children's and misses gloves
are imported In one, two and three buttons in all
coors, sizes ranging from No. 10 Ga, ladies' sizes
leing from ga to 8 and genliemens from IN to 10.
IL Is astonishing how kid gloves are made SO well,
as each glove passes through the hands OF twenty
nye people before it is finished. The skins are OBJ
tanned from all parts OF Germany and France Tor the
manufacturer who sorts them out and selects them,
Each SKID makes about one and hall glove to
two pairs OF gloves-in many cases not more than
three single gloves. If lady therefore obtains q
dozen pairs IL 10 somewhat difficult, as may
be SEEN. to get every PAIR of equal softness.
The quality OF the raw skin depends good
deal upon the food and the place where the pOat
Is raised, the mountain goat having The finest
and best skin ard the ''nat land'I goats skin
beng somewhat inferior In quality. me hair is
taken Off the skin Ivy tanning, which takes proba-
bly, four weeks time; 1t Is then handed to the
"scraper," who makes the body Of the skin equal
and smooth. The SKIN is then dyed which maaos IL
shrink very closes after which it goae tArougn the
process Of softening." It IL ,heh handed TO the
the girls to sew. Each girl can sew on an average
two pairs each day. When finished they care
fully packed Tor shipment IL may be seen that it
lakes considerable time to do all this and, pass
Ing through 80 many hands, 1t is astonishing that
the gloves-especally The lighter tints-turn out SO
we'll,