The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-09
SAVANNAH MADE MILLINERY
SOLD IN THE NORTH.

KrominO Novelty Hat Works Turn
ing Ont Large Orders.
There are probably not a great many
people in Savannah who know that
millinery mandatory. the Kromino
Novelty Hat Works is turning out
millinery here. for the Northern trade.
That there are certain classes of
goods that Southern houses can sell in
the North has been clearly demon
strated by Mr.. Julius krouskoff, who
returned yesterday from a trip to the
North. Mr.. Krouskoff says that Sa-
vannah is asleep to her commercial
opportunities. He did not go
North for his health. During
the four days that he was in New York
he succeeded without much effort in
placing orders which will keep his
firm busy for the coming month. When
ii is known that his firm turns out
more than fifty dozen hats per day,
the size of the order can be better es-
timated.
Another fact which the sale demon
strates is that there is a great field
in the South for the manufacture of
thousands of articles which are now
being manufactured and sold almost
entirely in the North. For instance,
there is no other similar industry in
the South to The Kromino Nov
city Hat Works, the establishment of
which Mr.. S. Krouskoff is proprietor;
and yet it is able to undersell
even its Northern competitors.
There is no better place in the world
than Savannah, said Mr. Krouskoff,
and if the people with means would
just get out and work, they could do
wonders. l am not talking for adver-
Using. No one is DESTROYS of getting
any more competition than what comes
to him anyhow. But l want to see the
city go ahead. Its prosperity is our
prosperity.
"Of course l had to offer the same
class of goods at a lower figure than
the Northern manufacturers asked, or
i could not have made a sale, but
managed to do that to my own salts
faction. Others can do it as easily, for
before I knew it l had as many orders
as l could supply"
Mr.. Krouskoff said that his COMPANY
is now looking for location where 1t
can extend its plant. There are enough
houses in the South to keep it busy,
II they would give it their patronage.
There were many, he said, who have
not yet been convinced of the fact that
the Southern product is as good as the
Northern.
1He novelty business mas grown
some in the South of recent years. but
1t has not assumed the proportions
which it will when the people wake
up to the situation"
When asked how it was that a new
enterprise in this section of the coun-
try could sell to dealers in the North
at profit over the Northern manu-
facturer, Mr.. Krouskoff said:
1t is simply a question of labor, the
price in the material being much the
same. Do you know that we hire girls
down here who do the same work for
one-third the price that the girls in the
North work? Well, it's so; and why?
Because the number of industries of
the sort are SO few in number, and
even If the number were the same l
think that Southern labor would be
cheaper"
Mr.. Krouskoff's visit to the North
has more than ordinary significance
What one firm has done, others can
do. The manufacture of millinery in
the South is undoubtedly coming in
dustry but there are many others
where the Northern houses are not
worried with Southern competition.
and, indeed, they will be the last to
awaken the Savannahians who are
slumbering over their opportunities.
The gentleman who has Just returned
from New York ventured the statement
yesterday that, prior to his trip, no
Southern house had ever placed goods
in New York city among the best class
of jobbers. The houses to which he
sold were all large and we'll known
firms. Besides New York he sold in
Pittsburg, York, Penn, and Newark.
Trade conditions are good throughout
the country, Mr.. Krouskoff said, and
everywhere the people have about as
much to do as they want