The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1890-10-17
About Prices.

Ir YOU want real practical answers 10 tn'
Wild and paintive cry that prices nre go.,n'
IN. read the advertisements, IN which th
dealers interview themselves. The Facts pre-
sent are all the other way Boston hecoru
Itisave very shallow man indeed that cal
be imposed on by such statement as tn's
There are of course enterprising refa" deal
ers stockedwith goods;bought before the taril
bill went into effect, that advertise TO sell u
old prices. But the very fact that they seel
to attract trade by doing this, Is PROOF ina
they know and everybody else knows ina
prices are going up.
The simple truth is that the malls are be'nt
flooded with circulars from manufactures
and jobbers announcing upward changes II
peices. A plenty of business men In this ana
every other town have received them. w
OF the thousands may he mentioned Higgins
& Co. and Dobsons In the carpet trade wht
have already been put up . IL cents yart
and In some cases five cents, and this is no.
the top notch. Boerum and Pesse and othel
manu- facturers of blank books have
given notice that all their old price lists arc
Cancelled, and an advance of % per cent. II
made on letter copying books and 10 per cent
on nearly all other goods In their catalogue
Benjamin & Caspray, j. 9. Ryer y Co., 4
Mason g. Co., Bernhard Ulmann Il 20. In dry
goods, garments, ornaments, furnishings etc
Balster & Co. In hardware and the Chicago
dry foods houses of John V. Farwell "a
brother OF tho Illinois senator), Marshall
Field & Co. and John H. Walker say I'M
ported wool goods costing SOC. ayard, Will be
increased on account of the bill to 50 cents,
and the cheaper the quality the greater VIII
be the advance In prices. 1.-The increased
cost of the lower grades of foreign hosiery
will be so enormormous that 1t Is really hard
to forecast what effect will be had of prices"
Axes have advanced on the average ~ a
dozen, saws, hand and cross cut, from III to
40 per cent. every thing In lead and TIN very
heavily. Window-glass, tin cups frenen
corsets, figs, dead frogs, dress goods jack
knives. all sorts of things are ballooning. on
common window glass the new tarlh Is pusn'
ed up to 100 per cent; on ground glass TO LOO
per cent: on enameled glass to 296 per cent
and 80 on, The old rate on common CHM
news was As per cent. The administrative
bill made it II and the new law raises II TO
$50 per cent. .
In furniture 1t Is increase on every sioe.
Some of the leading domestic makers .s oa
mohair plushes, used In upholstering, the
Chases. for example. have advanced their
prices 10 cents yard, making the extra COZ :
IN lounge covered with that material
about 40 cents for this cause alone. Wlitoh
rugs. used In upholstering, which formerly
cost 1915, now cost 1928. Ihe man who
buys a lounge thus upholstered VIII pay inc
70 cents. Glue has been advanced. Turf en-
line Is hjgher. and that touches the varnish.
I,inseed oil Is higher, and that touches Inc
paint on the furniture and the house. Inc
old dnty was % cents a gallon, ana so n'gn
was n that importations tor long time nave
amounted to hardly anything. Then trust
took hold of domestic production, and ruSDed
prices up from about ~ to " Genus ga'Io y,
Then the duty was advanced from 20 to ~
cents by the tariff revjsers, because of 1.-The
large importations.' which are hardly 100
vallons a year as compared with domestic
oroduction OF q. 600, 900 or 30,O0O.OO gallons.
Now the trust has had its stock listed at the
New YORK stock exchange. Picture frames
will cost more owing to the new tariff on
yoId-leaf, bronzes, etc. The advance VIII De
If Is 90 per cent more for hosiery, 40 per
,ept. more for dress goods, and anywhere
rom 10 to 40 or more per cent. ior
,uits of clothes, handkerchiefs, towel
ngs, velvets. frlllings, buttons and so on.
It will take about $3.50 for womans
ulster that last year cost $50; $l2.oo ror
what was then a $40 suit of clothes. Inc
mate rial for an Atwood dress costs at least
80 more than 1t did year ago. A water.
proof that could be had last summer for $6
will cost In the neighb0rhoOd of u.s.. table
for winter outfit of comparatively cheap
but decent clothing for a poor mans family
of a man. wife and boy will be very nearly
AS below. The woman Is given cotton and
wooden house dress and good wooden dress
for best wear. The man and the boy are
each given one suit Of clothes: