The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-10-13


Of the great plate glass windows OF
Hugns & Hacke's Fifth avenue and
Market street store is this inscrip-
ton: New tariff prices" Fastened
on the wall Of the Fifth avenue side
are two tablets, proelaiming, on the
one:
HSee our iron bedsteads, with wo-
ven wire screen, complete, for 1915.
New tariff prices
And on the other:
Fall and and winter dress goods.
New tariff prices"
/ . o. 3 . - % . @ o. . b. r - - -
A Post reporter. impelled by curl
osity, entered the store, to discover
what "new tariff prices" meant. He
encountered Mr.. Hacke, who submit
ted to the infection of these ques
lions.
"What does new tariff prices
mean2"
'Lower prices. "
"How does that Gomez"
'Why, we have bought goods from
manufacturers ofEurope andAmerica
at lower prices adjusted in anticipa-
tion OF the new order of things, and
consequently we are selling goods at
wonderfully reduced rates But now,
understand, these goods were neither
made nor bought under the new law.
The tariff which effects our line does
not 90 into effect until next January
But dealers are selling at discount
E advance Of this date, out Of sym
pathy with the impending general
lowering of prices.
is it not true that the only post
ponement in the new tariff bill till
January |, 1895, relates to manufac-
tured woolens, and that raw material
is free to-day? And are not the cot
ton schedules already operative?"
Yes; that may be But don't for
get that the woolens we have bought
were made from wool bought under
the old tariff law. Free wool has en-
abled manufacturers to supply their
products cheaper, and those that
were made for the fall trade had to
fall in price out of sympathy with
the cheaper prices of current manu-
featuring. There is little difference
in cotton"
Mr. Haeke, will you let me trouble
you for few specific instances of re
ductions-some lessons for the la
dies. They're the ones who study
prices, aren't theyp'
They afelhdeed. Take American
serges. Those that retailed at rs
are now go cents; those at 65 are
80"
GLOW about challies?"
"Down from 80 to 35 and 80"
Chats a kind of a dull thud,
isn't it? | saw some marked Scotch
shawls out in the front windows. Do
the figures there go?"
Correct to the mark. Scotch i'm
ported shoulder shawls that were
$1.50 are now at 81; those at 50 are
now at ST. % and the 80 so kind are
now $150 There is only 5 per
cent reduction on silks, for the tariff
was only cut from 80 to As per cent.
as the general reduction of prices
due to the new tariff law?"
"Of course it is"
"And the customer, inasmueh as
she or he will have less tariff to pay,
can buy cheaper store goods"
PRECISELY"
"Well, this grows interesting. How
about blankets?"
Blankets made in this neighbor-
hood offer reduction of from 10 TO
l24 per cent only. But the eastern
cut is emphatic-30 to 33 per cent"
GA man can keep warm cheaper,
can't he? What does a pair of blank
cts cost now, by the way?'
"a pair that cost $4 under the Nc
Kinley law we now sell for $685."
please continue this tale; that
will encourage matrimony."
"French hannels have tumbled
from rs to so and As"
"Do you think these decided re-
auctions will involve, justly or nee.
essarily, a lowering of wages2"
"Not at all. can cite an instance,
just few days ago, The employees
of the great mill of Lord & Taylor
struck one evening for 10 per cent
advance The firm had so many or
ders ahead that it had to grant the
demand, and next morning the mill
went on as usual"
Mr.. Mould, the European buyer of
the firm, here entered with handful
of orders for imported novelty goods
in the next spring styles. He showed
the prices that now obtain, being
represented by highest figures below,
and the prices that will obtain when
the goods come across for the spring
trade, being represented by the low
est figures appended;
Cashmeres, so cents to 81 cents
per yard.
Lady suitings, 40 cents to % cents
per yard.
Wool plaid, Is cents to so cents
per yard.
Covert cloth, 50 to $L35 cents per
yard.
Vigeroux suitings, rs, So, and 81
to so, 65, Is cents per yard.
TO Down German.
Judge John X. Cowen, chief coun-
sci of the B. q 0. has been nomi-
mated for Congress in the Baltimore
district This is one Of the straws