The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07

brought 10 the factory and the dolls are
put together. All work is paid for by the
piece, and as TO hours these people are their
own masters.
LAS 1 said before" continued Mr. ZolIer
1.-The majority Of these German villages
specialize their work, as, for instance, the
village of Haemmern- This is not far from
SOnneberg, and IL is where everybody
makes toy ships. Warships, frigates
yachts, canal boats and all kinds of noble
craft are made there; and the funniest
thing of all is that hardly any of the inhab-
water enough for anything except a row.
boat Near this is Eisfeld, and is what is
known as hohby-horse town. From here
you can 60 on to the villages known as
Schalkau and Ehnes. In these two places
are made wooden guns of every size and
kind. Naked wood animals travel from Son
this hamlet the inhabitants are occupied all
the year round in the PURSUIT of putting fur
and feathers on animals and birds.
is where a person might get terrible night,
mares, for here are made all of the masks
that go over the world and one can hardly
go into shop without being CONFRONTED by
some tremendous face. In Nurnberg,
where the toy buyers congregate from all
over the world, the ancient tOymaker
has been replaced by machinery. But
Nurnberg still leads the world in the evolu-
ton Of quaint and excellent toys. That an
cient city of armorers, whose weapons once
were the best and most terrible, Nurnberg
the Olden, that sent spear and sword and
battleax out into the land to smite and
destroy, now is the gentle and peaceful
ruler of the field of most complete peace
the field of Christmas and its toys"
IN DEPARTMENT STORES.
For a department store it takes a number
of men to do the buying, and they make
trips twice a year and sometimes oftener
The purchasing is done by the department
manager, for he can tell what his demands
are better than could anyone else. The
adjustments is the fact that each depart
ment is conducted independently of the
other. and the manager has the same con-
troll of it as if he were conducting a store of
his own. However, all of the bills of his
purchases have to go through the hands of
the head of the house In one of these
stores in this city the system that is en-
ployed to keep the buying in check is that a
managers purchasing must not exceed the
sales of his department.
Very often in such places certain fads
come in vogue, such as some time ago when
everyone was collecting Indian relics. At
that time store sent a man through
New Mexico, Arizona and all along the
border collecting them. Then again this
same establishment wanted some odd and
novel bric-a-brac, and ii happened that a
missionary coming from China conceived the
idea that to raise revenue to aid him in his
work he would collect some of the oldest
and most quaint things that are made in
that country and bring them over here to
sell The store heard of him and sent for
him to come here, and purchased his whole
stock.
New York city is the market of North
America, and often there are articles there
of a peculiar style that would never get
out, and it is for this reason that the buy
erS for the dry goods houses go there Their
idea is to observe as much as il is to pur-
chase, and this is particularly true of the
millinery and dress goods buyers. The mil
lnery buyer always takes the head trimmer
with him. and 1t is said that when she
comes back she will have 100 patterns
which she has bought and 200 ideas which
she has got by observing. 1t is for this
same reason that the buyer puts up at the
Waldorf-Astoria, attends the horse show,
goes to the Metropolitan Opera and lunches
at the most fashionable cafes. 1t used to
be that the commission houses auctions
were held at the seasons when the buyers
were there but this has been done away
with TO a certain extent, for it has been
found Improbable to both the buyer and
seller.
1t is said that of all of the people that
the dry goods and millinery buyers have to
contend with the French are the worst. In
purchasing dress goods for instance, if the
French merchant shows seven patterns and
the buyer does not buy he will show no
more, but, on the other hand, IL he makes
In millinery buying a person has to buy to
get in the large establishments where ex-
elusive styles are carried, otherwise they
will permit no one TO go through.
WASh-DtSESS GOODS.
AS interesting a line to buy as any in a
large dry goods house is that of wash
goods, for they are all imported from Eu-
rope.
"Our buying" said A. ]. Venn, who has
long been at the head of this department
for l.. S. Ayers & Co, requires a great
amount of forethought, for the goods are
delivered to us nine months after they are
purchased. In many instances drummers
come through here from the large Eastern
commission houses and give us the idea of
what is new, and with the buyers knowl-
edge of what the demand will call for, he
is very nearly able to tell what he wants.
Very often the travelling man will bring
only pictures OF what the goods are going
To be like; the man purchasing will have to
make his selections from these and nine
months from that time the goods will come.
You see il is in this way that exclusive pat
terms are made UP.
lone thing that always seemed strange
to me-, Mr.. Nenn continued. lis the fact
that America, which has been foremost in
everything else could never make wash
goods. The principal reason for this is
that this country has never had a school
of design. The very finest swisseS that can
be obtained come from St. Gall, SwitZer-
land. Some of these have design i'm them
which is embroidered into the goods by the
inha bitants OF that country. The peasants
are given the goods at the factory, and also
the kind of design that is desired and they
take il to their little cottages, and there on
quaint little machine the work is done
'''The printed dimties that are sold in
this country" said Mr. Nenn, come from
Belfast. Ireland. and the ma jOrity that are
sold in this city are brought straight from
there here. In buying direct a store gets
control of the style. Then the English gren-
adines come from Manchester, for the most
part. Very often statesmen for these goods
will come here direct from the foreign coun-
tries without staying in New York and
these are the fellows that we are constantly
organizes. which are very extensively worn
by women during the summer months are
purchased at the New York houses OF
course. Ireland makes the finest linen and
the Bingham mills are located in Glasgow
Scotland. The first mills there. and those
which made the place famous, were owned
BY John and David Anderson. There is now
another large mill conducted a short way
from that city that Is run by William An
dersOn, which also turns out a fine quality
of ginghams The popularity of the goods
made there IS that the thread is dyed before
IL is woven into the piece. and this of
course, makes ii a fast dye. Mattresses
are, TO q certain extent. made i'm that coun-
try. and also in Manchester England. All
of these goods, for the most part are
bought in New York at the commission
houses. but / don't think" said Mr. Venn
that il will be many years until we shall
be able 10 make these things In this coun-
try. What We need Is school of design
and the new Technical Institute Will fur
nsh that"