The herald., 1896-11-11

This year the sturdy New Englanders
are almost unanimous for sound money,
and, not a whit abashed, they opened
| the campaign with the stars and stripes
| again, only mckinley and Hobart was
| the tail piece. The idea swept the coun-
| try and now, from Maine to California,
| the old flag hangs out with the Repub-
lican candidates names affixed, and the
popocrats, National Democrats, PrOhi-
bitionists and Socialists have followed
suit much to the joy of the flag dealers
I'VE have had mighty BOOM" said
a Park place jobber yesterday. "All
through the campaign the cry has been
for flags; more flags. Every house in
the trade had it's hands full in filling
big demand, but for nothing like the
one that began as soon as the candidates
were nominated
Roughly speaking, there are three
grades of flags-bunting, cambria and
cotton flags. The bunting ones are made
by hand and the other two grades are
printed on machines. When the rush
came, the first to throw up their hands
We're the makers of bunting flags. It's
quite a job to turn out an accurate
American flag, well sewed and properly
designed. Everybody employed extra
help, and so was enabled to limp along,
though not up to the cry for Old Glory
Perhaps $1,000,000 has been spent for
flags in this campaign.
ut got to be great fad to distribute
the printed flags of small size at politi-
cal meetings that the audience might
wave them when the speakers made
their telling points. Sometimes we'd
get rush order for $1,000 to be delivered
at once. 1 tell you it was hard job to
reel them off the presses in time, but it
was generally done, for, of course, Sucn
work he hapd1nd far moro "a pidI>
than handmade goods"
The biggest regular American flag
prescribed in United States regulations
is the garrison flag. This, the flag man
said, was generally large enough to suit
even the most enthusiastic. But some
times bigger emblems were wanted.
One in particular was the flag that the
Equitable Life people wanted to swing
from their Broadway building. 1t must
be mastodon among flags. No bunt-
ing wide enough to make the stripes was
on the market. 1t was made. neverthe-
less. They fashioned each stripe out of
two widths of bunting, and up it went
Haunting its red. white and blue almost
as wide as Broadway itself and reaching
nearly down to the roofs of the cable
cars.
Bunting flags could be had during the
campaign" said the jobber las low as
so cents. They ran the gamut of prices
up to 800 and higher. Some firms
quoted printed flags as low as so cents
a hundred. For $40 the managers of a
meeting could make brave show.
Then. just as we began to see the end
of the rush. came yesterdays sound
money parade and a rafting demand for
more flags for decoration. Mr.. Hanna
threw us thousands of dollars, too, by
requesting that the day of the parade
October 31st, be observed as flag day
by sound money people all over the
United States No one had begun to
recover from that rush when the other
side, hoping to hide sound money sen
timent ordered October 31st for a sill
yer flag day. too. 1t was grand"
Some one has had to suffer for all this.
Who is it? The makers of Transparent.
cies and Autographs. the seller of torches
and uniforms, and every dealer in cam
paign novelties.