Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-22
WEATHER AND TRADE
How the Open Winter Has Depressed
all Wooden Goods and
HELPED In ALL MILLINERY LINES.
The Prospects Of the Shoe Upper Industry
Never Better.
POPULATIONS OF THE ICE DEALERS
HELPED IN ALL MILLINERY LINES.
REGULATIONS OF THE ICE DEALERS
OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY January u. 1890. (

OEFlCE OF I~lTTSBURG DISBAIChs
TUESDAY, January q, 1880.
The drygoods department OF trade is one
that has keenly felt the depression incident
to the lack of winter weather. Stocks of
fannels, blankets, and in fact all wooden
goods were laid in by our jobbers and retailers
in the early part of the winter. with a view to
at least an average volume of trade. A large
part Of this stock remains unsold, and will be
necessarily carried oveT till next season. In
other lines of the drygoods trade, the seasons
business has been above average, showing that,
with the usual amount of cold weather, dry
goods merchants would have had a good trade
all around,
One of our leading merchants who has been
connected with this branch of trade many
years, said this morning: The trade in all
woolen goods has not been so nat these many
years as it has been this winter Our supplies
were laid in with the expectation of an average
winter. As it has turned out, we laid in en-
tirely too much in this line; The people have
this winter had no need for the hannels,
blankets and heavy underwear, ordinarily
wanted in winter time.
1T is now too late to make up for lost time
no matter how severe the closing weeks OF win
ter maybe, and all that is left to drygoods job
beers is to hold over their stock for another sea
Son or force it onto market at a sacrifice"
JobbinR Millinery Trade.
at is an Ill wind that blows nobody any good"
While the elements have been adverse to dry
goods trade this winter the millinery trade has
not been as good for the past three years at
this time of the year. The money which other
wise would have gone into woolens is more
freely spent on the lighter materials of women's
apparel.
Sand one OF onr leading jobbers: W. are
better sold up than we have been for years at
this time of the year. The losses Of drygoods
merchants have been apparently a gain TO our
trade. Our troubles are likely to come later on
in the season, since wholesale drygoods houses
will no doubt be forced to carry their custom,
ers longer than usual this season, and in all
probability collections will be slow. If such
should be the outcome our business Will feel
the effects OF the open winter later on. So far
we have an extra good winter, but have no
disposition to crow, seeing we are not alto
gether out of the woods"
shoe Upper Industry.
The largest manufacturer in this line here or
anywhere in the land thus puts the situation
and outlook: Our trade is much better than
it was this time last year, and orders for the
spring are coming in much earlier than the
usual time, a fact no doubt due to the open
winter and the faith that spring will start
ahead of its centenary time. Our heaviest or
ders are coming in from distant points. While
our force is Is per cent larger than at this time
a year ago, we are working up to our full ca
pacity, and the outlook for a big trade the CON-
Ing year is first class, in fact bettec than it has
ever been before"
IL AK AuAGANANh 1 ALA1 AhahAAoSA0ACA u
shoe uppers the fact was developed that in the
past half year the French calfskin has been
gaining on the domestic article as to the
amount called for by the trade. Tn reason for
this, as given, was the general prosperity of the
country, and the consequent drift toward using
better and more expensive foot wear. When
the land prospers the millions have the where
with to indulge in higher class goods. The
shoe upper trade in the larger consumption of
high grade leather furnishes one of the straws
showing that the country is in the midst of an
era of general prosperity.
Worries of Ice Dealers.
A representative of the Chautauqua Ice Com
pany recently said: I'VE have had no harder
winter for our trade than this has been. In the
first place all our appliances and expensive ma
chinery for laying in stock have been idle all
season, and we are forced to ! large expenditures
for manufacturing ice. Again, the weather has
been 50 mild that many of our customers are
using ice right along at a time when ordinarily
there is no demand at all. On top OF all, the
streets of the East End are in such q condition |
that il requires double the regular number of
men and twice the accustomed amount of
horseiesh to deliver the goods, which we would
rather not deliver at all if we could in any way
get out of it Such a winter as we are having
may be adverse to many other departments of
trade, but l doubt if any other has suffered as
much from soft weather as ours"