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New-York tribune., 1910-05-22
latest Patterns i'm Homes Displayed for Bargain hunters

pIsvs Of objects not at all in line WIN tne NJ
goods tbev carry or by some human inter-
est feature. such as q man weaving = rus
IN the window. q. girl writing name cards or
combing her hair. The arrangement OF .
display in a shop window is considsred or
SUFFICIENT Importance 10 demand expert
direction and window dressing has CONS 70
be a profession I'm itself.
The trade show, while a more recent de-
vsIopnent In business, is fast becoming OF
commanding Importance James . Young
secretary and treasurer Of the Manson
Square Garden Company, who has watcned
the birth and growth Of various trade
shows in the last twenty years. believes
that they are destined to expand TO even
greater proportions than they have yet
reached
The first Of the trade shows here" said
Mr. Young was the American Institute
Fair, which was established in 1873. ana
was for many years very hourtshtng IN
199s came the first horse show Owners and
lovers of horses felt that a competitive
showing of their animals might be advan-
tsgeoUs.
Madison Square Garden was built 10 ac-
commodate the horse show The land now
occupied by it was owned by the Wander
bfIts and there was talk OF parcel1nS W
and selling It in lots. Then some one pro-
posed that q building be erected in which
there would be space for the horse show
In 1887 the first horse show was held IN
the Garden. The poultry show and the
dog show came here the same year The
development of the trade show In Ne"
York has taken place since then
I'm 1892 the first food fair IN New York
was held. and in 1893 the first bicycle show
I look upon the bicycle show as among the
most successful trade exhibits ever held.
II was not uncommon for an exhibiting
manufacturer to sell his entire output for
a year on orders taken at one Of these
shows
''In 1895 came the first sportsman's sno"
and in 1925 the electric show. The latter
subsequently languished for time. but
the right people have taken hold of 1t and
It is now a successful affair when held.
Since then the druggists have held shows
so have the clothing men and others The
motor boat show vies with the automobile
show as a success.
'Iu December the cement men are 20
have a show. which will be the first OF its
kind in New York Chicago has already
had p cement and concrete show There IS
talk too. Of a rubber show here. and also
leather show. Boston had q leather sno"
last year, in which the showcases a4o"7
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Sbe Grade .Sbo6O an
Jnnopdffon Char
HasCou1e 70 Stay.

The ta-s6.str71clz VI. the lights In Nad'-
son Scusre Garden blazed forth. the pubic
rave ,,p its half dollars and passed inside
fhe brass railing. and the very latest thing
g, trade shows, the Real Estate and ldeal
Homes Show. was opened IN New York q
few evenings ago
New Workers have accepted the autoTno-
AF1e show and thu motor boat show 1hey
Rave pssroni5ed the food show under the
rleae1rshle anticipation OF carrying home
q caoice variety of samples Of breakiaSt
foods an6 the latest discoveries in cereal
,orees With equal pleasure they have
sought out the druggists shows In The hope
e. falling heir TO free corn plasters and anti
sertics and tablets.
The Office appliance show. tho electric
.hovr. +he advertisers show and the sports
mans show have IN turn won favor from
she r,1tljc, but 81 has remained for the real
estate shor 10 forecast with warning finger
the fate Of the citizens of old New York II
.ha ingenuity OF show managers keeps up
sts stimulating influence
Primarily, this latest trade show was In
tendesl for the benefit OF those enteTpr1slnS
men who havo suburban properties TO ex-
rlo.t 1t WAS TO give them "one glorious
r,npo-tunitee' to get the ear or the oeaE
rulblfc and 10 pour into that ear the lurlnS
Gale OF coy bungalows, ocean breezes, Won
,serf1ll views. exclusive residence sites ana
The whole long. gossipy catalogue OF ad-
-ysn+aRes which their respective properties
kre declared 30 possess.
PlTt some descendant OF King Solomon
suggested that New Workers might not take
t'ndly 10 paying for information which they
can SO readily get for the asking; for In
sorra1ion. indeed, that it Is sometimes dill
ec,,1+ IA get away from So the ideal
homes feature of the show was added
Tba one dominant note Of this has been
s,,ned to show how the New York fiat dwell
- Of -he future can economic on space.
tsnsre savers and mora space savers were
seen among the various appurtenances ana
FIXTURES which were shown as the most re-
cent inventions for comfort in the ideal
home one was almost tempted To feel. IN
listening "a the apostles OF space saving,
&hst the 3deal Suburban home. as well as
tbe average New York fat needs every
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during crop growing weather tho house
can dangle aloft and the owners winter
vegetables be growing on the site.
One is tempted to moralize a bit after
visiting such an exhibition as the Real
Estate and Ideal Homes Show, and to ask
'cWhy the trade show, and why will people
pay money to view what they can see With
out cost in the shOps?'
The manager of one Of the leading auto
mobile firms in the country. who always
takes large space at automobile shows the
country over said: 1.-THE trade show has
come to stay because 1t has proved itself
to be one of the best means of advertising
so far discovered. It is a development OF
the advertising craze that is one OF the
notable features of American business
methods to-day. and it has shown itself an
excellent stimulator of business.
''At the last automobile show in New
York our house spent $4,000 on a single
Sunday advertising its exhibit in the Sun
day papers. That shows what we think of
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cheat ths public were quickly abandoned
for the time being In spite of this. how
ever. ample evidences existed 10 assure the
been begun in vain.
In company with Inspector Smith. Of the
staff OF Francis NJ. Mccoy. acting chief of
the local Bureau of Weights and Meas
ures-which bureau promised the women
it's support in their fght-the delegation
visited sections where the most fla
grant abuses exist. and not only heard
plenty OF tales OF the methods employed to
cheat the housewife from the inspector, hut
saw with their own eyes violation after
violation of the law
In First avenue they saw scales that had
been manipulated to give short weight.
baskets arranged with false bottoms and
measures stuffed half full of newspaper
or cut down to about half the original
height in West Houston street they saw
rubber bands inserted in the counter scales
to make them show a greater weight than
the true one and bits of lead or strips OF
metal soldered To the under surface of the
weighing pan for the same purpose In
Little Italy" up on the East Side. they
saw weights that in appearance conrorned
to the law. but were either followed within
or had been gouged out on the under SIR
face the deficiencies of space being after
ward filled with black wax. cork. or some
other material lighter than the weight H.
self
- feel said MIS- Palmer afterwarA as
n 7 had been attending a performance NJ
leserdcman
New-York tribune., 1910-05-22
Short Weight Scanps Flourish
IN Biz Stores as Well as Little

keepers may help IN the movement Ms
suggestion Is. first OF al. that each woman
have a kitchen test set. consisting Of
scale reading by half ounces up ts 4sn
pounds. a peck measure, dry quar- mesa
ure and q liquid quart ruea'ar@ tHs
measures being all subdiv:1a1 no frac-
tions Of a quart.
After purchasing suCh a se5' ssyS NJ,
Reichmann. cit should be tested and sealed
by the official seaIer OF weights and meas
11res- Then when the supplies are received.
occa asionaIIy check what IS purchased -
see whether it agrees with what was pad
for.
1T * well to check. also. th= cor-s--s
OF package goods. TO ascertain vnethsr 1ns7
are what they are thought 70 BE- Thrs. .
four per cent shortage viii amount % ccr-
siderable in the course OF = vears E1d z
figured in dollars and cents VIII soon sho-
that the kitchen outfit was z good invest
menr.
Besides checking tl4 com -odittss ssrs
ceived il would be advisable to assist ~
1egitimats dealer By ordering supplies =
terms OF weight. measure OF rursrics.
count. Do nor order BY tbs 'ran.' t-s
print brick Jar.' BOTTLE Basket CT ia
package
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TO Bring fbe
.Ssqoff7dfers TO jas
ffce and Educate
Customers.

When one day recently delegation OF
emartly clad women, members of the Rainy
Day Club. headed by their president. Mrs.
A. NJ. Palmer. invaded the pushcart market
along First avenue. above Sth street, in
order to get information first hand OF the
trickeries practised by the short weight
artists-against whom the club following
the initiative taken by Mayor Gaynor, has
started a vigorous Crusade-excitement
little akin to panic was started,
Down the long line of pushcart men and
throughout the stronghold Of the small
dealers f1ankirg the sidewalks the alarm
vent for a curious sort of wireless teles-
raphy exists among these people, and while
they have little respect for the law. yet
they have no intention of getting into its
clutches without struggle. So there were
attempts at legerdemain. more or less evil
dent. The substitution of untampered
weights for those that had been doctored
was made. and all the srtifces practised to
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snace sav,ng device that the gray matter
Gof man can evolve.
Judging from the augury of this show.
the time is not far distant when the New
Yorker will spend good deal of time either
| in remembering where his belongings are
| hid sway-in some space saving device
or else in manipulating the levers and
cranks that operate these same space saw
ers.
Time NAV be when the kitchen range
can be hoisted out of the way up to the
| ceiling when II is not in use. merely by
pulling g rope; when the piano can be
turned over bv the simple twisting Of a
crank so that its back can be utilized as
he'd. when g. man will carry around his
shoe backing outfit in his hollow bootheels
and his shaving appliances in the top of
his silk hat. It looks as If things might
be coming to this pass.
One of the space saving" firms declares
that "a new era in kitchendom is com
ing" and that the various space saving
devices II makes save from four to thirty
three square feet of floor space. as com
pared with corresponding utensils of the
ordinary kind If this means that the land
lords OF New York will be able to take
these areas out of the space that fats
now have, then heaven save New York from
the space savers! No wonder this firm
asks: Are you pretudiced against modern
improvements"
The space savers invite you TO keep your
bathtub in a wall space six inches wide in
your parlor or your kitchen or wherever
you please; to open a door and drop down
the drain basin and the curtains and frame
for the shower bath when you desire to
use them and afterward to pull g. cord and
hitch them UP to the wall once more and
shut the door on them. "By this space
saving plan" smilingly suggests the DEM
onstrator. amy one can get BATH
Equally ingenious is the space saving
combination of porcelain and nickel which
can be alternately a kitchen sink and drain
board, two wash tubs or bathtub. Take
out the central partition and the top tray
when you want a BATH explains the ex-
hibitor, then mount on chair or foot
stool and plunge in
One can readily imagine that IN a nat
furnished with full complement OF space
savers the entire time of oGe person would
be needed for manipulating them. i
Even in the construction Of houses the
epace savers have been busy. Already the
coIlspsibIe house OF four or five rooms that
can he put up quickly anywhere and taken
down with equal speed is an accomplished
fact II points to the time when the tax
dodger who is really TesourcefuI can move
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suppose. that the comet had overtaken
them, but he put an around each and
addressed them thus:
There old Sockalexis. that's all right
Wen fix things up all fine an dandy
What's tha matter Now. sister. just ease
up and tell us what # Is. Eh2
"Er com-met! Er com-met! Burn!'
AN burn, An burn! An burnt An bu
u-u-eh-eh-ow-ow-ow!
''Evebbruddy!''
''AIl up!''
Dead" they yelled at each other.
Rats" said O'Farreli.
WHO handed you all this business about
burn an bu-u-rn all up2 En-
My Mariner" said the girl, biubbering
again. "She and pan all be burnt UP an
US. too, out he-e-ere"'
"Oh, no, you won't
Say. cap" said the male one. pointing
at the sky. Him. you Knowles gonter
burn us. With fire right out Nv heaven.
My mariner didn't make US so TO school
to-day neither: twarnt no use. We
couldn't be safe, kept in tn church"
"Oh yes" O'Farrell said, as If he had
remembered something. ~ heard all about
that There was some talking about burn
Ing up Brooklyn. but that all blew over.
nothing in st. You tell your ma she heard
all wrong. Tell her you're all of YOU safe
An then. Flossie. tell her-well. just you
tell her that He thinks more OF her kid
dies than she does"
O'Farrell seized one in each arm and
Iusged them TO the tenement house where
they lived Then ve paced our home" ard
waI together
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THE CHINESE HoRATIUs.

Badly" he said. here's a sample Of
true courage. Here's a man So scared that
he's forgotten how 10 pray in Chinese and
decent privacy. Yet. while he's ready TO
be burned to a cinder himself, he sticks 20
his duty and keeps his restaurant open.
You notice there's a small 'Chink' on the
sidewalk who urges the crowd 10 come in
and watch him pray from the tables. where
chop suey viii continue 10 be served at
reasonable rates to the last shiver Of the
crack Of doom. Yet the 'Chinks' down.
toWn haven't batted an eyelid at this comet
or put out a lantern on the joss house, for
they don't believe IN it there; they haven't
the same Down East kind Of conscience
that this man has, and they aren't getting
the trade"
As we passed through the theatre district
noticed the remarkable beauty of the
women. but no signs Of the comet Before
could resist O'FarreT had whirled me
through revolving door, and l found my
self In a vast apartment almost as fine ana
brilliant as Luna Park With the air Of
one well used 10 luxury. O'Farrell ad-
vanced. holding h card in the hand that
had a cuff. I had often seen the card. It
read: IF Xavier O'Farrell. Special Core
spondent. Melbourne News Hong Kong
Visitor Voice of Barbados
He handed it TO man dressed in black.
with 2 white shirt. who was plainly a
favorite of his laundry woman: OFarrell
added something 1 did not hear, and the
man stopped staring at me, laughed and
sal id, "AU right" and led US. 20 an elevator
Of ,InparalIeIed splendor- VIC ascended to
an enormous height. passed through some
clean corridors and stairs and came out on
the roof I saw only a fat place. with some
very superior persons who looked through
a telescope. Not 50 with OFarrell.
Down there" he said waving his hand
IN his most impressive manner. you see
the city, seemingly turned up toward the
horizon like a big. tWinkling saucerful of
sleep, curiosity and superstition Thou
sands and thousands are still gaping on
their roofs or on the bridges, though tney
see nothing and will see nothing. But listen
to the woman with diamonds at the tele-
scope and to the telescope man.
Accordingly listened.
81 viii now show you Jupiter and his
moons" the man said. The large star
that is Jupiter; 10 the right are two little
ones: those are two moons"
But they don't look as big as the moon"
the woman objected
Madam" said the astronomer. who
seemed 10 be grieved, that is the largest
planet IN the solar system. II IS thirteen
thousand times as large as the earth and
sixty-four thousand times larger than the
moon IS or ever Will be-
How interesting" said the woman. Il
suppose we can't see the comet because It's
behind the moon?"
THE comet" said the astronomer. well
yes. the moon has something TO do with 1t.
So has Jupiter, and the sidereal motion has
20 bs taken into account The sidereai
motion is very important. All that Implies
complex calculations. as you can see
An elderly man who wore a cap con
tradicted the astronomer several times. He
had looked through the great telescopes a.
PadUa. Brussels, Vienna ana Rome, and
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the trade show. 1t paid us ten times over
Do think It lessons the amount OF adver-
itising that is likely to he done through tne
regular channels? Quite the reverse. IL
stimulates advertising along every line
This is because the trade show creates
business. When a man is selling his goods
he will advertise; when he isn't selling ne
won't advertise
In the case Of the automobile men 1t may
be said that their trade show exists now
because of their practically uniform desire
to show their machines and to create COM
petition. But in the case of some trace
shows they spring UP as money making
ventures on the part of promoters rather
than in response to any well defined de-
mand of the trade.
The trade show supplements the show
window as an attention Compeller. Every
one knows that shopkeepers who have the
ability to make interesting displays for
their show windows are sure to secure Gus
toners. They may attract notice b. dis
New-York tribune., 1910-05-22
On the Boardwalk
Summer Seems Fnthroned A.
ready at Atlantic City.

Atlantic City. May 71-visttors are 1-1-
ing this resort Just about the pleasa1tss;
spot in the United States a. present -SiraT
hats have sprung up into fun bloom an'
there is g general discarding o. everything
that smacks Of winter and chilly Tsalaa
There is a host Of visitors here. 21d
while the hotels are uot packed as t1sS
viii be IN the next month. yet thsy are
we'll filed, and everything indicates u
boom in the resorts business In ani',i9-
ton Of the coming crowds. the CRY lS--
ers have contracted for the vldsnns r
the Boardwalk in the lower part OF '
city. From Illinois svenus TO Texas
nue. the TX viii be % feet woe W"
from Texas avenue down throusa -
fashionable residential district or L-s
it will be - feet wide Nine feet addlu'-
will be added TO the first nentiorsa Ss-'---
and twenty feet 70 the last
Newlin Haines. proprietor CT 11s -
ST. Charles. has Just Rad plans 4.
for an addition t. that hosiery IL W.
fourteen stories hiSh. steel fran's.. anu !.
tireIy freproof The new wing VIZ =,
tain 1S rooms. A large ballroom
convention hall wiz b. o. ns
1oor. Th4 main entrance viii b froal
Charles Place. ard rrs loooy "li >
marbls snd mosaic foors. Win -,
marble eight feet In height. aoo's i,
Will be a stons finish Tns Vooa N
the interior or the new wing WI
tiTely or MAHOGANY. ,,,-ov7
David T. Rahter. one Of The ven =
hotel men O. the resort. has Just 4,
long term lease OF rre Hotel VS'7,-.
Chelsea. and improvements ars
made rs,..l
q L, cake who has conducted us -
Sotheru. IN South Virginia avs1o'
last two years. Is rsuoratinS tnis -
The annual convention os ras NsS S--'- -.
State Medical Society VIII ba ae-H
city on the last four DAYS ot nsNI ,,r
Haddon HALL and the Hotel Ch8i s. ,rs,s
be the headquarters of the paJsl
AZ the shore. -.-si Er-
Tine american Society cf Mechanics. -,
Sinscrs viii hold q four ddyS .,,r,sr5
here. beginning May 81 me s,s,bsinl.
viii be at the Ntr.oorous -
where the meetings viii also = I--,snirz-
General Benjamin Letevre' '. On s,r re
ton. is speudins fovtntght UV ,i,s hs
benefit Of his health. tie IS
heatiquartrrs at Youuss HoteL ,- az
NV and Mrs. Thomas A EDISON s,s..
,rrore~ the shore visitors. IheS ana
ing at the Hotel Shelburne 1l,' ,,-,. ia
,.,,r ~, 81 motor car from theH - lrs
orange They are accompanies ~ p,-keg.
.r,art,i,ipc Miss Bowen and 5 u
OF Orange. Nsw YofN
Air and Mrs. c. NJ Snyder. o' N'% ar the
-, - - th, u,tal vVinds0E ~ Mss
week. They are accompanis' y
Snyder. rsgis-
Among the residents OF Ne" l0'T ne :ol-
tered at Atlantic city hotels 'l'
lowing. a Ms 4
chalfonte-Fred C. Goods. Mr. I'm. ss' s e,
H. r Duniway. Miss Anna c Ds ,,l,r and
gallagher. f. p Henry. ChSn's md MIS-.
Mrs. n NJ. MaeCracksn ana ne
NJ Bachert. " "a
Morton uore,-T j. 6urke nd - &. J.
MAJ. brown. Mrs j BroNn
Hlmm'ud.
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TO INTEREST HoUsEKEEPERs.

mer is planning first of all to hold big
mass meeting 10 arouse the interest of as
many housekeepers I'm the city as possible
To explain To them the situation and make
suggestions as 10 how they can help 10
night the conditions is the object Of this
gathering.
y net weight law for package goods viii
be advocated for. according To the figures
of Fritz Reichmann. State superintendent
of Weights and Measures. the New York
public loses more than S1O00.OcO yearly be
cause OF the tricks employed in short
Weighing package goods. Au enort 20 set
remedial legislation viii be vigorously
pushed
NJ. Reichmarn has told hcN the hou5s-
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A LONG STRETCH.

~ suppose it takes a vivid irnastnsHd-
to write?''
.eYes: and that fellow has q Why. y
trnagines he's a oet"-vTs shtnzton Fer.
aid.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-22
GOT PAY FOR IRON RING

One man. however, was nailed by the m
snaotor and Rainy Daisies in the act o.
irving to hide & circular iron rins when
had been slipped beneath the pan on his
scales to increase profits by adding several
o,,,,cas to each purchase. a pint measure
which a woman pedler had filed WIN
string beans was emptied of its contents
The inside was stuffed with newspaper 10
one-half it's height.
II is said that practically al OF tns
strawberry boxes shipped into New h'i>
CTty as quart boxes contain about tF1ree-
quarters of a quart. and it vas found thaL
redlers in First avenue we're selllnS irul-
in boxes which were Il per cent snort
measure. The law prohibits the sale or
berries except I'm pint and quart measures
False measure is obtained by pushing up
the spIints in the bottom of the box %
that IL is from - to ~ per cent short
This Is done by taking sharp kuife aho
dividing the box in two at the bottom theN
with a slight pressure of the thumbs tne
frame gives way and the centre rises sum
cientIv TO accomplish the object desired
In West Houston street vas found a
butcher who operated a. small shop whose
scale was from eight ounces 10 pound
out of balance This was a spring scale
which Is I'm common use by merchants. but
the spring had been 50 fXsd that a i've
pound test weight placed IN the seals re-
sistered five and oue-half pounds.
Of the better class of stores whose pro
prietors shortweisht their customers near
ly all the inspecting women had tales 20
tell one member OF the Rainy Day Club
committee related how she ordered butter
of a certain firm against which many COM
plants have been lodged II was weighed
at the house and found short To convince
herself. the woman went again and ordered
another carton. which proved a duplicate
of the first order Then she went back
and lodged her complaint. at which the
tradesman only laughed. as did also tine
women customers who flted the store, each
one victim, though apparently hopeless
one. OF tho tricks OF this particular grocer