The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-08-19
SPEND s475,OOO,OOO.O0
TWICE A YEAR MORE THAN -FOUR
HUNDRED THOUSAND BUYERS
VISIT NEW YORK CITY.
DAWSON CONTRIBUTES SHARE
Vast Sum Is Left in Gotham by Mef-
chants Who Go There to Buy
Their Goods. Million and Half
Spent Entertaining Them.

Their Goods. Million and Half
Spent Entertaining Them.
Dawson merchants who go to New
York to buy their goods, and some
of whom are now there, contribute to
a vast sum that is spent in that city
twice a year by business people who
go there for few days from cities
and towns of the country.
According to a writer on this sub
iect, within the next few weeks AGO.
600 men and women will visit New
York to spend $475,OOO,O0O. They
do this twice a year.
These people are the buyers for
the dry goods stores Of the United
States. They are from nearly ev-
cry town of 1000 or more inhabi-
tants from Maine TO California.
1t will cost the wholesale mer-
chants and their statesmen about ST.
100000 to entertain these buyers,
most of this amount going to provide
dinners, theatre parties and excur-
sions to nearby resorts for women.
The buyers are paid $3.50, 100000
in salaries. What they receive for
their services is more than is paid to
the officers and men of the German
army, exclusive of maintenance and
equipment, and their combined sala-
ries would more than pay off the
entire Indebtedness of the state of
New York.
Merchants estimate that the whole
sale dry goods business in New York
each year amounts to $95O.0O0,O 900.
Buyers are divided into two classes.
The first and largest class is that
composed of the men and women who
represent the retailers. There are
approximately $4,000 of these The
other $4,000 represent big jobbing
houses in other large cities. They
are all the year round buyers, and
generally have Offices in New York,
which they make their headquarters
while buying. There is not a buyer
in the market for any house of even
second rate importance who has not
worked for years with the sole end
in view of becoming a buyer. Each
buyer is a specialist.
The dress goods buyer is an expert
in dress goods. He has made study
of the theory as we'll as the practice
of textiles. He is able to take
piece of goods and calculate its actu-
al value as accurately as the people
who made it.
The buyers of wooden and cotton
fabrics are the aristocracy of the
buyers. They have been in business
the longest, but they are gradually
giving place to buyers of cloaks, suits
and other garments. The fabric
buyers are nearly all men.
The greatest part of the entertain
ing is done by the ready made gar
ment people and millinery houses.
The reason for this is most of the
buyers in these lines are women.
The latter part of August brings
Ietup in the invasion of buyers.
The first of September sees only
few thousands remaining in New
York, and before the 9Th of the
month they have gone home and are
busy preparing selling campaigns for
the merchandise they have been buy
ing for weeks During the fall and
winter they will make occasional
trips to New York to look for bar
gains, but only few at a time. But
the first of February all of them are
back again. and the same hustling
and the same entertaining take place,
and the same amount of money is
spent