The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
ADVANCE IN PRICE.
The Cost of Carpets
Will Increase
Shortly.
ALL GRADES WILL Be AFFECTED.
The Advance Is Governed
By the Eastern Manu-
facturers.
ALL GRADES WILL Be AFFECTED.

A tip to the wise is sufficient. If you
are thinking of getting carpets, it
wouldn't be half bad idea to pur-
chase them now, for the price is to
take shoot up the tube
A dispatch from Chicago says that
the jobbers there are preparing for an
advance of from 10 to 20 per cent on
Iall goods, both home and foreign
made.
The Spy reporter called at the Whit
tall mills yesterday afternoon to as
certain what bearing this news had
locally, but Mr. Whittall is in Europe
and Alfred Thomas will not be in the
city until Tuesday. William j. Hogg,
however, said that there was more
truth than poetry in the dispatch and
that an increase could be watched out
for at any time.
In regard to the dispatch from
| Chicago Mr.. Hogg said that 1t would
be necessary for the eastern manufac-
turers to take the initiative. 1t is on
the Atlantic seaboard that carpets are
manufactured, and any ADVANCE would
That the price will be soon advanced,
he said, was a certainty. Industrial
conditions demanded it. After the
| Worcester and other eastern manufac-
turers went up on the price, then, of
lcourse, the jobbers all over the country
would have to follow suit
That the western men have been given
a tip on the expected advance is GER
tain, but Mr. Hogg says that they are
1 a in 40 m 60
the raise at Aug. Is. He says that the
| date can not be set at this time.
According to the dispatch, the ad-
vance has been expected by the job
bers in view of the situation of the
market and the enhanced prices of the
raw material, machinery, mill supplies,
| etc. AS a matter of fact, the level of
ingram carpets has been abnormally
| low during the last two or three sea-
sons, and manufacturers have made
| little or no profit on much of their
product. With the opening of this
| season more lively demand for car
pets of all descriptions sprang up and
| the sales thus far made have been far
above those Of previous years. Sales
men have made good trips and the ad-
vance which was made July l did not
detract from the large buying, and
mills are running to their fullest capa-
,city on orders.
Concerns which for a number of
years have always closed during July,
have run full during the entire month,
while all the representative New York
Massachusetts and Connecticut mills
are running nearer to their capacity
than for a number of seasons Phila'-
ldelphia ingram mills have more orders
than they can conveniently handle.
and there are rumors of strikes, as
Operatives are beginning to understand
the situation. 1t is asserted, however,
i if manufacturers are to be in a posi-
ton to grant the demands of weavers,
they must secure an advance over pre-
vious values. as the profits under old
prices obtained do not warrant paying
the help an advance.
| The near by mills are no exception
to the rule. The great plant of the
Lowell Manufacturing Company, as
well as the Bigelow, Roxbury and 9TH
er concerns, are all well employed and
with good prospects ahead for long
run of profitable work.