Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-14
No Novelties in Ecuador.

According TO the IentTal anu no"t"
American commissioners one OF the
hardest problems the merchants OF this
country who have trade relations be-
low the equator, find, is the difference
in the fashions. While here each sea-
son must have its novelty, there the
correct thing is what long established
usage repeats from year to year Mr..
X. ii. IIOadley, who, as he expressed
it, buys in the United States on COM
mission for South American merchants
everything from cambric needle to
steam engine, illustrated this ecccn-
tricity of the trade quite forcibly.
The demand in Ecuador and neigh
boring countries for cotton goods OF
American manufacture writes wash
ington correspondent to the -. LouS
| Gi0bc- Democrat, was under conSidera-
ton, and Mr.. IIoadlcy was asked II
large quantities were shipped there
mo large quantities, he replied,
"but we send some dry goods out
there all the time.
"Is it inCrcasing?"
alt is increasing very well within
the last few years. The trouble with
cotton goods was that your manuiac.
turcrs had as much demand for their
products as thoy could make goods to
supply; therefore they did not try to
cultivate the foreign demand; and
when we would 20 up to the manulac-
turers and want 4 lot of cotton they
would say: 'TEc price is too much.
We would say, we want them packed
in loo pound packages They would
reply, We can not do that; we will
send YOU case But we can not
ship in eases; we must ship in 100
pound packages, to be transported into
the interior on mules. Our only re
source then was to have them packed
ourselves, by packer, and that added
to the expense. Then tho fashions
here are so constantly changing, ant
out there they are not. The people il
those countries want the same pattern
to-day that they had twenty yeas ago
and in some sections they want then
even older,
GLOW about the length of tn
d, gOods?'
"That has been another point. Gu,
manufacturers make piece OF clotI
of forty-onc, forty-two, or forty-thrc
wards and we have to pay for the picc
! bv the yard. In England they vii
= make them up in pieces of cNacll
:. twenty yards or thirty yards, an
= then they will cut them up and max
:, them into smaller pieces OF ten yards
u our manufacturers would not bothc
:. :, with that; they can sell it at HON
y without all that trouble.
y "IIOw about the width. "
y "The width is the same rs the Eng
:, lish width. But those people get II,
" " cuStomed to certain prints, to certai
~ ~ qualities, and they wont have an.
NJ NJ thing else. e"
- And certain lengths?"
- Yes, sir. ~
'S The Chairman-Thcre is the san
" y reason with them as exists with 4
y simple people; they have coniiden'
~ in a thing they have known for Il Ion
~ ~ time, and if there is any change
" any kind in it they are not entire
~ satisfied,
4" Mr.. Hoadl ev-To show you no
" ridiculous the thing becomes, we we
NJ NJ in the habit for years of shipping o
y" what we called "soft tallow candles,
II. dips. The only purpose for whit
io they were used was to grease the nj
~ ~ rors' heads; nigger would step in
VI the store and buy one Of these dip
N and then 90 out and rub it over
u" head. That is all they were used TO
Well, we bought these candles f
=. wears from one manufacturer, ~
,io ,n, they always had on the boxes s.
,ei ,sa low label, giving the manufacturer
:, name in Spanish, and all about
~ w. Finally he got out of labels, and
- .s' had new batcn made, and he alter
,n' the color and had the labels made BIZ
o,' Our next shipment went out with bI
Co. labels, and every single lot was thro
49,, on our hands, and they said as
irs labels were blue the candles were
III III rus. All we could do was to have
n0' nn lot of yellow labels made, like
om' former, and sent out there and pas
ol oto on the boxes, and then they were SO
nv, nr "What country was this you sp'
al al off"
oh' "On the coast of Columbia.
~, "Is that true of all those pcopl do
A'" there?"
"Very largely; they want to-
what they had years ago.