New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-10
BIG STORE IS NOW IS
noens Exhibition by Way OF
Celebrating Anniversary.
OPERATES 152 FACTORIES
they're Small. but Show How
Foods and Fabrics Are Pre-
nared for It's Patrons.

.,.no,.roopcr Company, Sixth avenue,
. 10Th street seems really to have
achieved this result.
r.o pig store" has now arrived at the
".veet sixteen" and To celebrate
.s., bsppy event 1t has invited its pa
~ come and see how the wares Z
N ore made No store has ever at
&c ANYTHING like this before. and
.,,,- of the kind could be seen any.
out,idc Of biCN public expositions.
m pic stores" exhibition opened yes
...,.y with ~ little factories in full o.
10, Altogether. they contained thou
.,rJs o. tons Of machinery. and two
.t,,,ssrd additional employees are looking
.s,o~ them. II has taken nearly year
-. orange this exhibit and IL has cost
fou hundred thousand dollars TO ge; it
tocether
!, costs absolutely nothing 10 see it.
bo,rever end the opportunity is one
,,,cb no one who has the time TO visit
,,o store ought 10 miss. Also. the chill
Icon should be taken along: they will de
u,b, in these wonderful machines. and
,re exhibit Will be a liberal education for
them
rrrythng. from jewelry 20 butter and
,arssccs. is made in these little factories.
md III, present interest in the clean food
,~ohlem makes the two latter exhibits
very attractive.
There IS a big demand for the sausages
made in the sausage factory, because the
,lole process Of manufacture can be
s.sn the materials bearing the closest in
.pecton. As TO the huttermlk from the
bu,,er factory. Il hnds a ready sale At
three cents glass.
M sorts Of wonderful automatic ma
chimes are 10 be seen. There is the mar
rel Of the loom which weaves four KINDS
n ribbon at a time-a small affair. per
hsps. compared with those used in real
bg factories. but a miracle to persons
Who do not see these things every day.
There is stocking machine. from which
stockings issue through a black, cylinder
AZ intervals Of four and one-half minutes,
and another machine. from which mesh
lass come forth. also from a cylinder.
The bags. however, are not as complete
as the stockings.
The woven material mas 70 be cut IN
lepgths and mounted. Mesh bags axe
also made by hand. and il seems q little
surprising TO md. among all the wonder
nj mechanical processes, that silk gloves
ar made with no help but little ma
cslne such as every woman possesses.
Each little seam is patiently and indi-
Nduslly stitched.
More Than Humanity Intellig gent.
More than Humanity intelligent seems
the machine which cuts out shirtwaists.
Ii folds the cloth in as many layers as
are Ranted IL may be 800, but the op-
orator does not need TO count them. The
Machine does that Then ii cuts the
waists out and they are made up at the
ate o. forty or fifty dozen day by
twenty-five workers and sold at s. %
piece. though the garments, the firm as
5crts. cannot be duplicated under s..
An exhibit which always has crowd
around 1t is that OF the diamond cutters.
Here the most commonplace OF pebbles,
which no one not an expert would take
The trouble to pick up. are polished and
cl, into the most brilliant diamonds In
The world. Foreigners cannot do the work
as Americans DO It, the demonstrators
stated, because their instruments are)less
perfect, and they are not willing to sacri-
fee weight as the Americans do.
L. -
10 cut diamond. as the proverb has 1t.
One stone IS polished against another,
and the wheel used for cutting the facets
owes its efficiency to the diamond dust.
mingled with olive oil, with which II IL
treated. This wheel makes 2l,0Co revolu-
tons minute
In tie rug department the hand loom OF
our gyandmothers-a wonderful contrast
70 The modern loom which wove the rib
oons-was at work making rag rugs. and
today a real Persian will be weaving
ferslan rugs. The loom had not arrived
yesterday, but the real Persian was there,
wonderfully clothed in gold embroidered
Ieo satin and ready 10 explain in broken
English how he could mend one of the
precious products Of his native country so
'iid' no one would be able 10 find the
pace where the hole had been.
mere was real Indian, too, a little
i4rtner on. Her properties had not ar
iNeo either, but her presence was pro-
eldlined before one saw her BY the scent
VI sweet grass baskets. Although with
OUT the buckskin robes which she Will
wear to-day, she was Enthusiastically Ind
an ana no other name than the musical
woman to which she answers would
nave seemed appropriate.
The Toughest Of Basketware.
Less poetic but more practical baskets
are manufactured In the housefurnishing
department. not By lovely Indian maldens
out by brawny Irisbmen. who evidently
neeo al their strength for this labor.
me product is Of corresponding strength.
lou Gan drop these baskets down the
seSa'or shaft IL you want to. one OF the
workers. explained. and Il won't be a bit
The vorse
tunhermore-and this is more to the
p@nt-you can consign a trunk made in
"'s way TO the hold Of steamer with
r''sct confidence that II will come out
- we same condition IN which 1t went in.
considering the hard hand labor that
~ 80 70 Tie making it is surprising to find
''ese trunks sell a. low as "a. The
Ta''rials used for this strenuous bas-
- are the strong young willow shoots
1' grow beside our streams. and their
Tue son Of Erin explained, are
Ohiy Just beginning to be appreciated in
this country.
- "oolo take too long 10 tell of all the
.lner wonders On thir erhihitinn- TheIA