The sun., 1901-10-27

enu euus k.eauy 70 tho Nhiue OF tne riin
| There needn't be any waste la cutting
you see. This elephant had a history
Almost all Of our elephants have records
This was the old CLAP who had "A little dthl-
Guilty with his keeper. somewhat out IN
Ohio. The elephant picked tho keeper
him and held him there until the man was
drowned. Vicious beast. but he'll make
stunning bag. won't hel
we tanned the skin OF the elephant who
died az ia. Garden last year rather than
move, and we got the show elephant who
fen on a train going at forty miLs an hour
out near scranton Most ~ the elepha NJ
skin Christmas novelties this year vi
b. made OF his mate. She Just lay down
and died of grief IN Baltimore after her
husbands sad death. A New York firm
IL working her up into chatelainc bags and
card cases now. Theres romance FOR YOU.
"Now here's buffalo hide Books a
little like the elephant Well. maybc u
does. but !; isn't - handsome Buffalo
leather u mighty scarco nowadays and
- Il IL very high in price Genuine walr7is
il expensive too. Most Of the leather sold
for walrtis IL seal with a walrus grain.
Monkey skins are called for steadily
The demand for snake skins has almost
altogether died out. They were the rage
for a while. but they weren't durable and
didn't work up 80 very well We keep
few on hand Here's bunch Of big rsttlers
and boa const rictors.
He PULLED out a pile Of notified skins that
looked creepy even In their dried state
You see good deal Of the marking
IL spoiled, he said. That often hapIen-
and IL isn't our fault Snakes killed ~ q
ho, climate are very oily and II the skins
aren't properly cared for az the starr, ""
have trouble with them when We get to
work at thom. I'm glad We don't have
20 bother with them Is much a. we did
Almost all the snake skins we tan nov arr
sent In by men who have killed them ana
want them for souvenir
The superintendent OF the tannery has
an interesting collection Of souvenir ana
experimental feathers ranging from
man eating sharks skin To the skin of
man tho shark would have liked To eat
Tn. shark skin, which n gray and sand
papery 10 "A trophy brought hack from
fishing trip. by a Wall street broker.
The pie,e of human skin, which looks
much Ike pig skin. wac left at the tann"ry
bv a travelling man. He took II In on"
day and wanted II tann.i. The suIE'rin-
teilcent asked "a large round sum for the
work He didn't care Tor the cominf ION
and explained that there was only one man
in tho ,-sia hlishment who was willing 10
work with human skin. The travelling
man went away. leaving th" skin ana h
course Of time the workman without preJu-
dca tanned II Human skin has be'n
cured at tho tannery before, merely 'o
obligp customers and the workman says
thin black crackly cuticle and after thst
cannot H. told from the white skin.
A whal. skin IN the freak collection shows
a .aft close fu7z or fur that tak'- velNetv
sheen and some f-h skins have deNeloped
surprising chests In the tanning
From tho tannery 1HE SUN reporter
went 20 the factory Of New York hrtn
noted for tho quality and originality of ~
l.a her goods There leather- were to be
se.,n In smaller bulk, but IN greater variety
for many imported feathers ar" lised IN
addition to the American tanned skins
we buv all the domestic gonds We can,
said the superintendent. -and III" larger
share ~ our fancy leatherS ars now tanned
here. hu, there's no DENYING that the EURO
peans are FAR ahead Of W. when i com"s
10 coloring. Certain colors ar" ob'Aihed
~ well herr a. there. but the American
tanners can ct no such range uf unts.
They ma accomplish u IN time, but don't
believe it for water and climate both hAv
O good deal to do with the matter. and
even II We could learn tho secrets oi th"
IN NOUS old country tanners, believe
conditions would keep us
from rivahng them IN dives
He took up pie>e Of ALI gator skin shaded
from palcst silver green down 10 deep
green In the heavy Working and WIN
touches of vague rose In the high relief
Now We can tan that alligator skin
a. we'll as any one IN every respect save
In color. but We couldn't do that colorins
over here TO save our souls. Look at this
He unroled a piece 81 mooth-tnished,
sort calfskin. over whose prune-colored
surface rippled a shading that looked more
like water than wood grsining
That j. new effect IN leather color
shading We have to get our novelties in
such coloring schemes or IN Srrnng
- hene~ nov thar We cant md new animal
for our use Of course some feathers will
fhaf f~rtllfin'f ha nHs-I
others Il depends upon the teytiHe and
grain Morocco takes more brilliant col
oring than any other leather. tRlfskin
oolors beautifully. Lizard skin colors fairly
well, too.
There h. a tendency this season toward
the u-a of very light color- IN leather, but
81 course the handsome dark leaih"rs ar"
always in favor This ses elephant skin l.,
| think. ~ beautiful a thing a. We have
in the place
Tho sea elephant slin was first cousin
to the land elephant skin nch brown.
deeply grained. but Il had changeahle
sheen like that of velvet. and though there
" a. apparently no fuZz OF hair on ~. ~
took on varying Hight and shad" when
strokcd bv the hand
IAN of these heavy leat hers. sen elephant.
sea hon, buNalo, elephant and the rt~t arc
hard TO work We pare u down ~ thin
NJ possible put the grain Is 20 deep that the
l.siler must be thick ~ hs~', aitd " takes
a skilful workman Ia handle u ~ that "
" III not 30 clumsy.
sTnc elephant and buffalo travelling bags
are the handsome--t thing, on ~" market.
4 plain bag Of genuine elephant SKIN -
worth from slo To- slJp and "A buffalo tag
sells for about SIS Herr i wnlri> SKIN
that l. go ng into cha'.lain" bag You
-s-. u j. hadly cat up With lighting -car-
and harupuu scar That's usually III"
trouble WITH wAlr,is skins.
The American steer -slns ard calf skins
hay. th". an. fallt tn" btrbcd-vtr" f"nc,--
Of III" West are rss-pousibl" IT, that case.
All of Our finest steer aih"f- au' Impaired
from Holland. though they NAV H. tanned
IN thi- country. The Holl1nd -kins ar" not
only unsrArrrd. hut have = cleaner grain.
Most 81 our pig skin = imported, too.
We have hogs enough here. ami oar tanner
could tan the skins we'll. hut 'he pachorz
are too busv doing oth"r things with the
hogs 10 bother about -kiuning them. They
ssV that ihev car max" more out oi 'hc
skins In hac1n than they can bv uring
them for l-.lh-r -u we have To- import the
leather There Wa a boom N ~ when
IN. women took up finger purse. hut nov
the demand has fallen back To- normal
"Al 10. Russia lea, her u-" !. imIorted
from Russian tHnn"ris-~ "" make very
good Ri'~-'a l-ather hera, h'!t the fra
grsutc-. doesn't last ~ A. dos IN m" Russian
gcods, Ovr- there th" pcfiuming h. done by
,hs bark and uil u~'~i in thc tanning prO0y,s-'.-
and b-,umc~ really a part q III" h'a'h.r.
They say that Ia -utn. kuSsitn tsnn'ti'Y,
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