Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-06
FEATURES OF TRADE.
The Rush for Farm and Garden
Utensils Beyond Precedent.
DEALERS A WEEK BEHIND ORDERS.
The Drygoods Trade of Pittsburg Was
Never in Better Shape.
HE CONSUMPTION OF CIGARETTES
OFFICE OF THE DISPATCH, .
PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, April 5.

oFFlCE pF lHE DlSPATCH, y
P1TTsBURe, TUESDAY April g.
There are at this date no buster trades
men in this city than are the dealers in
seeds and farm and garden implements
The rough weather of March delayed the
movement in this line, and now there is
such rush that dealers are unable to meet
the orders. A leading operator in this line
had this to say: "We are a week behind
hand in filling orders for plows, harrows,
wagons and other seasonable agricultural
utensils and are unable to get the goods from
the factories that are needed. The farmers
OF this section are certainly in good shape, if
We are to judge from their readiness to secure
the very best implements to be had. There
has not been any opportunity to break up
the ground until this week, and farmers are
now bent on making up for the time lost by
the unfavora weather of March. Our
trade thus far has been much larger than it
was at this stage year ago, and from pres
ent outlook we feel confident that this April
will show much larger results than last
April"
The Drygoods Trade.
According to reports of wholesalers there
was a more active movement in thie line
in the month of February than in
March. Taking the two months together,
volume of trade was larger than for the
corresponding period OF last year. With
the improved weather of the past week,
April promises to more than make up for
the quietness of March. In all departments
of tho jobbing trade there is unusual
activity the past day or two, and statesmen
are so busy that they can scarcely find time
to tell the anxious reporter in search of
news what is going on.
A sympathizing representative of one of
our leading firms came to the rescue of
despairing reporter to-day and took time to
say this much: sour April trade promises
to be larger than it has been for the same
month any previous season. Already we
are placing fall orders for blankets, COM
forts and underwear. These orders are COM
ing in from as far West as Indiana, as far
South as Kentucky, North to James
soons to%n and ID land Eass Tss time sS Al
when Pittsburg drygoods merchants were
content to cultivate the trade within a rad
ius OF 100 miles That time has passed. Now
our enterprisfng merchants are contesting
with Cincinnati and Cleveland on the West,
Bufafo on the North and Philadelphia and
baltimore on the East, and goods are being
sold right along by Pittsburg merchants on
the very borders OF these cities.
Cigarette Statistics.
The Boston Herald has been gathering
some statistics in regard to the increased
manufacture of cigarettes during the last IA
years, which are of special interest in view
of the recent agitation in the State Legisla-
ture for law entirely prohibiting their sale
in Massachusetts,, From a manufacture in
ISIS of less than e4o 600 900 year in the United
States, the number has increased, until now
the total is almost 5000, 600 900 per year, the
figures for all the years since 1878 showing
almost steady growth, notwithstanding
the laws that have been passed in many of
the States restricting the sale of tobacco in
this form-such restrictions being chiefly in
the form of laws forbidding the sale of cigar
cites to minors. From the rapid increase
that has been shown, it is to be feared that
such restrictions have been of the kind that
do not restrict.