Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-11
THE SOUTHERN TRADE.

THE SOUTHERN TRADE.
The Newark, N. j., Register publishes the
result of an investigation of the business is.
sues as made by workingmen in that city who
report:
We called on some of the largest firms in
the hat trade in New York, who are large
purchasers of Newark made hats They
state that their total sales for shipment to the
Southern States since January 1st, 1880, are,
80 far as can be ascertained in round numbers,
S10,0O0,O00; last year the total was only S4,'
$4,000. This enormous increase is account.
ed for by them in two ways. First-The
sales to dealers in the Southern States this
year have been very large on account of the
prosperity there since the establishment OF
the legal State Government Second, the
prices obtained from the southern trade is
from twenty five to thirty per cent. more than
are obtainable in the Eastern and Western
States, because there is no local manufactu-
rers to compete with.
Reliable dealers inform us that if the pros.
perity of the South increases as it has during
the past year, our hat shops will be kept busy
all the year round, as they we're thirty years
ago, when as all old hatters will tell you, we
we're as busy at one season as at another.
We next called on the shoe trade. The
most reliable reports place the business in the
sixteen Southern States at 1000, 900 against
S5,766, 900 for the last year. The shoe trade
is better than it has been for years and is in.
creasing steadily, while the demand is for
better qualities of work, at considerably in
creased prices. With prosperous and uni
ted country, the trade from this section would
be sufficient to keep our factories busy the
year round. One of our number being in
the employ of a large sewing machine com
pany, we called at the office of several compa'
nies and facts and figures were cheerfully Civ
en-. One firm alone is sending six hundred
machines per week into various States in the
South, and the total business done so far this
year in the Southern States is over three times
what has been done in any previous year.
The saddlery hardware dealers were also
interviewed, and we find that there is steady
and increasing demand for that line of goods
in the South, and some manufacturers have
been compelled to work at night to fill orders.
Shirt manufacturers, carriage makers, ma.
chinsts and other trades were inquired into,
and the same general answers were given to
our questions.
1t is worth while to give you statement
made by prominent manufacturer. He said
that on August 18th, he sent out three travel
ing statesmen; one through the Eastern States,
one West and another South. Their expen-
ses were about eight dollars per day each,
and only one Of them, he who went South, had
paid expenses. The competition in the Eas-
tern and Western States was so great that his
statesmen there could not make any sales to
speak of.
SOMETHING ABOUT FANs.-Kan ST was
the first lady who carrid fan. She lived in
ages which are past, and the most part tor.
gotten, and she was the daughter of Chi.
nese Mandarin. Who ever saw Mandarin,
even on tea chest, without his fan? In
China and Japan to this day every one has
fan; and there are fans of all sort for every
body. The japanese waves his fan at you
when he meets you, by way of greeting, and
the beggar who solicits aims has the ex.
ceedingly small coin, "made on purpose" for
charity, presented to him on the tip of the fan.
LII LlIlcS, tilC oiScho ouO
Romans, fans seems to have been enormous;
they were generally made Of feathers, and
carried by slaves over the head of their mas
ters and mistresses, to protect them from the
sun, or waved about before them to stir the
air.
Catherine de Medicis carried the first fold.
ing fan ever seen in France and in the time
of Louis the Fourteenth the fan was gor
geous thing often covered with Jewels and
worth small fortune. In England they
we're the fashion in the time Of Henry the
Eighth. All his many wives carried them,
and doubtless wept behind them. A fan set
in diamonds was once given to Queen Eliza
beth upon New ears Day.
The Mexican feather fans which Cortez
had from Montezuma were marvels of beau
ty; and in Spain large black fan is the
favorite. 1t is said that the use of The fan
is as carefully taught in that country as any
other branch of education. and that by
well. known code of signals Spanish lady
can carry on long conversation with any
person especially an admirer.
The japanese criminal of rank is politely
executed by means of fan. On being SEN
tedced to death he is presented with low
bow, and as he bows, presto the execution:
er draws his sword, and cuts his head Off,
In fact, there is fan for every occasion in
Japan.