Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-30
Irish Wooden Cloth.

. About five years ago a representative
OF some Irish WOODEN mills came to the
United States to direct the attention of
American clothing manufacturers to
cloths manufactured from Irish wool ON
Irish looms. The field for imported
cloths had been already closely occupied
for years by imports from Great Brit
ain, France, Germany and other Euro
pean countries, SO that it was a work OF
extreme difficulty to find an opening for
other goods.
Fortunately, however, for the success
OF Irish enterprise, the samples exhib-
tied came under the personal observa-
tiOn of A. Shuman, the head of the great
Boston clothing manufacturing firm OF
A. Shuman Il Co., who after careful ex-
animation at once perceived the supe-
rior excellence of the new fabrics
in point of durability and beauty OF ).
design for mems business suitings
and boys wear. The firm gave
the Irish representative some trial
orders. On their arrival in Boston the
goods were made into garments with
exceptional care on the premises of the
firm, and they proved so satisfactory to
the purchasers that two years later Mr..
A. Shuman proceeded to ireland, where
in the principal WOODEN mills he witt
messed all the processes of manufacture
ing from the securing Of the wool to the
finishing OF the cloth.
AS an immediate result of this inves.
tigation he placed large orders for first
class grades of goods only, in the hands
OF the Irish manufacturers. Since then
the manufacture Of Irish ~friezes, chev-
OTIS and tweeds has received a wonderful
impetus. The extensive importations
OF these goods by the Messrs. Shuman
& Co., who are the largest manufacture
ers of first-class clothing in New Eng
land, can now be found distributed
throughout the entire country in the
best retail stores of all the principal
own and cities. Their superior excel
by the importers and manufacturers.
The chief feature in which these Irish
cloths excel all others OF like grade is
their superior durability owing to this
peculiar characteristic Of Irish wool,
that it possess the longest fibre Of any
\ wool raised in the world. That added
to another equally important fact which
is that the twelve leading mills manu-
facture only the best raw material,
thereby ensuring a fabric which is as
highly creditable to this rapidly devel-
Oping Irish industry as to the enter
prise of the Boston firm which has as
sisted so materially in its Development.
Among the mills with which orders
have been placed we may mention the
M~ahoneys, OF Blarney, Hill q Son, OF
Lucan, Dublin, Claytons Of Navan,
Dripsey of Cork, O'Brien of Cork,
Smith q Gleason of Athlone, and Mar.
quis OF Waterford, Kilmacthomas,
Waterford. 1t is very evident that the
wooden industry for which Ireland vas
once as famed as she is now for the man
ufacture Of linen, has taken q new and
vigorous start, the possibilities Of
which can hardly be estimated In tha
good results which must inevitably flow
from it.
Messrs. Robinson & Carmen have se.
cured control of these goods for Omaha
and vicinity. They will cheerfull1
show them to all visitors.
w. S, Daboll, the popular Ravennes1 ast
season Of Rudolph Aronson's ''Ermhie's
company, threw down his part at reh2arsal
one day last week, left the theatre and
started for Providence, X. l., where he pro.
poses TO settle down. For years IL has besr
the height of Daboll's ambition 10 own p
prosperous gents furnishing store In Provt5
dence, and as his family is we'll on this Il
probably his chosen time for gratifying ~
. desire. -