The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-12
WARN OF ADVANCE IN
CLOTHING COST
Ready to Wear Manufacturers Serve
Notice ON the senate In Protest.

Ready To Wear Manufacturers Serve
Notice ON the senate In Protest.
A Washington special says the ad-
vance note of a wearning to wearers
of ready made clothing to prepare for
a rise of at least rs per cent in the
price of their apparel was sounded to-
day in Washington by a special com
mittee of the National Association OF
Clothiers. The organization purports
to be composed of 81 per cent OF the
leading clothing manufacturers OF the
United states, supplying 95 per cent
of the clothing.
The committee. in q statement issued
az a protest to the Senate, deplores
the retention of what are practically
DlngIey bill rates on wool and says
that their effect has been such In re-
cent years as gradually to reduce the
amount of wool carried in imported
cloth.
Through the inability Of the cloth
to stand ordinary wear the manufac.
turer has been gradually deprived oil
the opportunity to produce garments
upon which good reputation can oe
based, and the prices consequently mus,
go up. The members OF the special
committee are:
Marcus NJ. Marks. president of the
National Association of Clothiers, chair
man.
Ludwig Stein, Of B. Kuppenheimel
and Company, of Chicago.
Slegmund b. Sonneborn, OF hehry
Sonneborn and Company, Baltimore.
David Kirschbaum, of A. kirschbaum
and Company, Philadelphia.
Louis KRISTEN, of Stein, BLOCK and
Company. Rochester, N. Y.
Frank R. Chambers. OF Rogers, Peel
and Company. New York.
William Goldman, of Kohn. Goldman
and Company. New York.
e. r. Smith, Of E. X. smith and
Company, Boston.
Statement by Committee.
Setting forth frankly the prices thai
are proposed for clothing next SEASON
the committee says:
1.-THE advanced prices on worsteds
which have been announced following
the steady deterioration OF fabrics ~
weight and quality resulting from tne
operations of the Dingley bill Will ado
to the retail price approximately $S.oe
on a $40 suit OF clothes. ~ on va
suit. and IS on a $50 suit, or from ~
per cent to 20 per cent to the COST Of
the clothing to the Wearer, ine az
Rregate burden of the Increased cos'
of mems and boys clothing to tht
American people under the present ad'
vance alone will be $3.50. 100000 for the
year 1910, which is twice the value OF
the annual domestic wool Clip.
The foregoing. 1t 10 set forth. Gem.
onatrates the results already apparent
to the actual manufacturers OF cloth
ing, and they can see no chanse un-
less the Senate bill through some
miracle undergoes q radical overhaul
ing before 1t reaches the President.
Deterioration In Quality
According to their statement Issued
TO-DAY the clothing manufacturers have
reached the belief that the enect OF
the Dingley schedules plainly has been
the deterioration Of the quality OF
popular priced clothing. The state
ment is made that standard winter
worsteds which ranged twelve years
ago from twenty-one to twenty-four
ounces in weight to a yard have grad
ually been decreased in weight so that
they now range from fourteen TO six
teen ounces. and standard spring
worsteds. which ranged from fourteen
10 sixteen ounces IN weight per yara.
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