Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-27

been made. Tho increase Is general In
all kinds OF lumber and lumber furn-
ishings In the plain materials II Is not
so great as In the finer. The former now
cost about fifteen TO twenty per cent
more than heretofore while the latter
has gone up from twenty-five to forty
per cent, thus making a general aver
age advance OF about thirty-threo and
on-third per cent.
GLASS TRUST IN TROUBLE.
The article Of ordinary glass is one
that has witnessed some sudden ups
and downs during the past year, owing
TO the existence Of the glass trust-or
as those interested prefer to term II,
the glass Combination" Mr.. Bennett,
manager OF the Sears Glass and Paint
company, states that glass had adj
Yanced up til last December 40 per
cent in price, during the previous two
years. About two-thlrds OF the glass
producers OF the country were IN the
combination, the other one-third re-
naming out. and the majority seeing
that they could not persuade the min
ority TO join In the combine gave notice
that all prices would be reduced on
Dec. 18th last. Prices thereupon tum-
bled back IS or 40 per cent, so that
glass is now among the rare exceptions
10 the prevailing Increases. The action
Of the trust, however, was very severe
one on the merchants who had loaded
up with stocks prior TO Dec, 18th, and
while the public today Is receiving the
benefit Of the war between the big
and little end Of the combination, II
can be set down as certain that the re-
lief will only be a temporary one, and
and that as soon as an entire combina-
ton can be effected glass prices viii
shoot no skyward along with those OF
other commodities
AS 10 plate glass, that has taken a
skyrocket jump that is startling. II
has been going up and up for the past
two years until II Is now beyond the
reach Of many who az one time were
able to put II into their buildings Said
Mr.. Bennett today: THE increase IN
plate glass has been 275 per cent. Only
dealers and builders can appreciate
what this means. We used TO pay
about $4,000 for a car OF plate glass,
whereas We now pay from $4,000 to
$4,000
PAINTS AND OILS.
The advance in paints and oils have
also been marked. ranging from 20 to
60 per cent
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Sickness Isn't classed IS luxury but
Il costs good deal more 20 get sick
now than II used to. II you
buy uuinine. you will do 1t at an adj
vance OF about twenty-five per cent
and then the druggist doesn't get as
much profit as he used 10. All prescrip-
lions containing mercury will cost
twenty-five per cent more than for
merly and cocaine has gone up at least
100 per cent. The general advance in
every class Of drugs is nom fifteen to
twenty per cent and this also applies
10 patent medicines.
THE PICTURE BUSINESS.
The Increased cost Of things Is not
confined to the absolute necessities,
though they are most effected The ad-
vance goes into every ornament and
establishment that enters into the fur
nishing Of home. Take. for instance.
pictures. Speaking OF them this after
noon Mr. c. r. Savage said: THE prices
In picture making have made altitud-
inal flights along with everything else.
Picture mouldings have increased sixty
per cent. the glue which holds them to-
gether forty per cent, the whiting which
Is put upon the wood twenty per cent,
the putty which is used to I'LL up cracks
and obliterate defects twenty per cent,
the oil, the paper on which the picture
is painted thirty per cent, the glass
that covers II fifty per cent, the screw
eyes which go into the frame one hum
dred and twenty-five per cent, the wire
by which II Is held one hundred and
twenty-five per cent, and the brass
hooks or nails by which the picture Is
hung one hundred and fifty per cent"