The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-11-12
TARIFF EFFECT :
ON COMMODITIES
VERY PECULIAR
Increase in Rates Caused Ad-
vances in Many Lines of
Goods
LUMBER ON WHICH RATE Was
REDUCED HAS ADVANCED

rom ~ to $l.20 per Thousand But
the Price Had Advanced From Fifty
Cents to One Dollar.
Chicago, Nov. 12.-Cries of protest
against the new tariff schedule went
up in Chicago today from big manu-
facturers whose products go into the
humblest home. Members of the Ma
tional Furniture Manufacturers as
socfation. representing S25,000.000 in
vested capital, served notice that the
price of their product must go up as
a result of the tariff. especially on
the lower grades of furniture. Hard
upon this, officials of the Chicago
Wholesale Lumber Dealers associa-
tion announced that the price of pine
lumber used in building modest cot
tages has gone up from so cents to
81 a 1000 feet. White print paper
and pulp manufacturers from the east
and west added their condemnation
to the tariff situation.
Meetings Are Held In City.
The furniture manufacturers met at
most representative sessions in the
history of the organization; the white
print paper men held forth at the
Hotel LaSalle and the lumbermen
checked up today on session held
late yesterday
Prices are going up in side lines
affecting the furniture trade and be-
hind closed doors today the manu-
facturers took an inventory of the
situation. The mirror that "milady"
uses to perfect her coiffure is to be
especially expensive, because of the
25 per cent increase placed upon
glass under the new tariff schedules.
Materials Take Big Jump.
To justify higher prices for furni-
ture the manufacturers instance the
following increases:
Glass advanced 20 per cent within
the last week.
Hardware advanced 10 per cent
since adjournment of congress.
Lumber advanced from to 10 per
cent since the enactment of the AL
drich-Payne tariff bill.
The furniture manufacturers are
disturbed over the advance in the
price of glass and insist it will mean
that the cheaper bedroom dresses con-
tanning mirror will have to bring
more money to meet the duty on the
glass used in making the mirror. The
manufacturers acclaim that on the
low grades of furniture as we'll as
the higher priced pieces the profits
have been so lean that there is no
way of meeting the situation except
by higher prices.
Glass Trust Is Blamed.
The plate-glass trust enters into
the situation, according to NJ. H., Fech-
heimer, of Lemon Bache & Co., glass
dealers of New York and Grand Rap
ids, Mich.
"The American Plate Glass COM
pany increased the price of their
product 40 per cent in a single day
by telegraph after the tariff schedule
went into effect" said Mr.. Fechheim-
er. "This meant that the price of
mirror glass was also increased as a
natural result. The furniture men
made hard and honest fight against
the increased duty upon glass, but the
opposition was too strong. They wan
ted the tariff left where it was. The
net results will be an increase in the
furniture containing glass or mirrors.
Just what the advance will be is not
known at this time. 1t will. however,
be more on the low-grade goods than
on the higher grades"
Sees Relative Wage Increase.
Benjamin Bosse. q furniture manu.
facturer of Evansville. Ind, declared
that the prices of labor are to go up
to keep pace with the soaring of the
prices of manufacturers material
and the cost of living. This was a
phase of the situation also taken up
by the furniture men. Mr.. Bosse ad-
ded that since the adjournment of
congress there has been an upward
tendency in the prices of all raw ma
terial.
"The duty on glass means an in
crease in cost" said J. S. Linton.
secretary Of the furniture manufac-
turers association. "All grades of
furniture have been selling too low
and we hope to be able to get better
prices in the future"
Paper Man Joins In Protest.
Arthur c. Hastings of New York
president of the American Paper ana
Pulp association. which includes near
ly so per cent of the paper and pulp
makers with its ranks, showed that
the tariff schedules on wood pulp are
not satisfactory when he said: I;
Eve naturally do not consider the
tariff successfully or properly ,revis-
ed. The revision is not finished, how
ever. The paper and pulp industry
ranks twelfth in Importance in the
country, and 1t by no means receives
the consideration it should. II we
had great plants and an organization
like the steel trust, for instance, we
would get the consideration that is
our proper due. As It is now we have