The times., 1897-07-21


ana wearing apparel and serni-luxuries
are advancing in pEice. In few weeks
there wiz be such an advance that any
body can see il and even fed it When
n becomes necessary to FOOT the weekly
bill
shoes, 30 cents per pair advance
Leather trunks and sateheis, 20 cents
To 81 advance
Belts, straps, harness and other like
goods, 10 10 % per cent advance.
Sugar, IL cent to 1 cent advance.
Candies and preserves. advance i'll price
or detericration in quality.
Imported cigars, so cents and up ad-
vance per box.
domestic cigars, Ilghtness Of weight,
deserioratt0n ia quality and advance In
price.
Cigarettes, deterioration In quality
The above is a list OF some OF the
articles in which the price Will be notice
able. They are goods under only three
schedules, those for the Sugar. Tobacco,
and Leather Trusts.
A reporter for The Times interviewed
several leading dealers in shoes, leather
goods, groceries, and cigars and tobacco
yesterday, as to the probable effect that
would immediately be felt from the forth
coming tariff law IL was asceTtained
that already these people are having the
Urices put up on them by the wholesalers
and iobbers and manufacturers, and that
arready y 2 ven some Of them are raising their
own prices to tie consumer. This is before
tie Law is passed
Mr Crocler, The shoe dealer, said:
From New York last week l paid
cents pair more for shoes than l would
have hae 10 pay for the same quality
tie week hefore l bought 300 pairs
OF this grade Of shoes. and my bin was
s20o more for The lateness Of my tnp.
Tie same 'itng VIII lie noticeable in all
grades OF shoes very soon.
The REGAL shoe Company said Leather
has gone up Already The shoe manu-
facfurPTs are Obliged 10 pay more FOR the
Iea-bcr that they use in all ordinary
grades Of shoes II is in anticipation OF
tie tarff. and tie leather men know they
can se, il. Shoes VIII either be higher IN
price hereafter or inferior in quality. as
4 general rule
MT Topham. the trunk manufactures.
SAID. Leather is higher in price. An or
diEary leather trunk or handbag viii cost
more on account or the tariff Already
We haze paid from ! > IL 10 20 per cent
more for our leather than hefore il was
known what the leatlssF schedule would
b."
MT Barker, the grocer. said. I've are
paying IL cent a pound more for oar
sugar than before the tariff discussion
began. We do not know how much fur
ther the advance VIII go. This means that
at present we pay 81 cents d pound for
sugar. and sell il for cents. The gross
profit ON sugar is, at that rate. I-33 Of
a cent pound, and in selling 100 pounds
we make 3 cents. The net profit is
nothing Not 10 mention the ordinary
expenses OF carrying on business, the bags
and tvine to wrap up sugar are worth
more than that"
Mr. I.oughrsn, the tobacco dealer, said:
THE tax Or Imported cigars is 80 cents n
pound The price per box viii be higher
hereafter. rhe tax on wrappers for domes
tic cigars is also raised, as is that on
cigarettes. In the case OF imported cigars
the difference viii be in prsce, but prob
ably the smokers VIII not notice the differ
ence in the imported cigars and Cigarettes.
quality in many ca ses. but lighter. and in
many cases win be inferior m quality
Similar statements were obtained from
other dealers, al Of whom We're Of the
opinion that advances in price would neceS
sarily occur On account of the tariff.
The small grocers on the corners in the
residence neighborhoods, the people who
sell TO the poor, have already raised the
price cf sugar IL and cent a pound, and
already the poor have begun to pay their
tax TO the sugar trust.
TO those who deal with the F street and
Avenue grocers the price has not yet been
raised, but this is simply because these
places are all afraid to make the first
move None of them are paying expenses
on the sugar they sell. II is the grocers
In this case who suffer and not the people
yet But it is never the trust.
The price of granulated sugar is today
3 IL and cents 70 the poor and > cents
TO the swell trade
1t is the opinion of the larger Grocers
that the price will be put up by them TO
8 liz cents very soon, even if the sugar
trust does not touch them up again for
another 3-S or so. They are losing money
on sugar now
Thetohacco dealers and manufacturers OF
cigars made strong attempt to kill the
cigarette industry with this tariff bill,
and have probably succeeded in crippIing
# to a certain extent They at first ad-
vocated the tax Of S3 thousand internal
revenue on cigarettes, which would have
made the price OF these articles of luxury
more than cents box net This was
fought successfully by the cigarette peo-
pie, and the internal revenue tax on Gig
arettes on the rev bill as it now stands
VIII be 81 thousand, or so cents more
than formerly The small dealers have
beer paying 50 so per thousand fer their
cigarettes ane win now be forced to pay
$3.50. This gives them a profit of 20
cents on 100 boxes, and it is thought
dontffal ir many OF them will care to
handle goods at that rate
IS far as the tax on imported cigars
is concerned IL is thought probable that ir
VIII bring no revenue to the Government.
The dealers viii instruct the people from
whom they import to make their cigars
proportiouately lighter in weight. but OF
the same size They viii get as many
cigars a. formerly, and perhaps Pay even
a less tax The consumer i'm this case
viii suffer though he won't know it so
clearly. THE tobacco schedule is peculiar
IN other ways
As for the price that viii be paid for
shoes hereafter the exact increase on the
price OF leather does not mark the Price
on shoes 10 any great extent. A preFainent
shoe dealer said 10 The Times reporter
yesterday:
IF ] am rayfnp S240 for a So shoe
and the Increase CT Trice from the whole