Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-18
COOPERATION IN TRADE
SHOE RETAILERS THEME
Baltimore Dealers Visit Wash
inqton Tradesmen and Invite
Them to That City.

The state of the shoe trade and the
value of cooperation among shoe and
other merchants was discussed by officers
of the Retail Shoe Dealers Association
of Baltimore and members of the shoe
dealers section of the Retail Merchants
Association Of Washington last night at
the headquarters, l2U2 f street nor. h.
west.
The Baltimore shoe dealers came to
this city for the purpose of inviting the
men engaged in that trade in Washing
ton to meet with their brethren in the
Monumental city May 13, when the Wash
ingtonians are to be entertained at the
Hotel Rennert. The invitation was ex-
tended by Joseph M. Hess, secretary Of
the Baltimore association. Joseph Stras-
burger, chairman of the shoe dealers sec
ton and president of the Retail Mer-
chants Association, assured the visitors
the invitation would be accepted.
Maurice Weyman. president of the Bal
timore Retail Shoe Dealers Association,
recited in detail the benefits that have
| accrued to merchants in the Monumental
city the result of cooperation.
Cooperation Life Of Trade.
THE manufacture of shoes is one of
the largest industries in the United
States he said, land the dealers in that
! comm odity have been divided in their
acknowledgements. But this is an age of
organization, and the shoe merchants of
Baltimore have learned the lesson that
cooperation and not competition is the
life of business.
Ottmar Marcus, treasurer of the Bal
timore association. spoke Of the proposed
| tariff reduction on shoe machinery, which
| he said will be welcomed by the shoe
| trade. He described the methods of the
| shoe machinery trust, declaring that the
manufacturer had to lay down half the
| cost Of shoe machinery for the use of
| it and then pay royalties on his output.
| Following an address by Arnold Bam-
! berger, chairman of the executive COM
| mittee of the Baltimore association, the
i visitors were warmly thanked for their
invitation and for their counsel.
| Baltimoreans Present.
!, Among those present were: Maurice
Weyman, Joseph NJ. Hess, Ottmar Mar
/ Gus and Arnold Bamberger of Balti-
more; Joseph Ttrasburger, president of
! the Retail Merchants Associations; r.
! M. Conors, Max Rich, B. w. Ehrman.
| Harry Hahn, Edwin Hahn. Samuel Ad-
Ter, lsador kaufman, A. E. Felser, M.
w. B. Davis, w. J. Hyde. David Gus
dorf. SOL Louis, A. Heilbrun, ID. Louis,
| T. f. Edmonston, w. n. Dorsett HIS
Adler. E. S. Adler and Charles j.
| Columbus, secretary OF the Retail Mer-
| chants Association.
Previous to the speech-making a con.
siderable amount of routine business was
| transacted.
At a meeting of the furniture dealers
I section of the Retail Merchants Associa-
| iton, held yesterday afternoon, Chairman
| J. Philip Hermann presented his resigna-
| ton. owing to the fact. that his resi-.
dence in the country frequently makes
| it impossible for him to attend meetings
| in the evening.
P. j. Nee voiced the sentiments of the
members present in stating that the fur
niture dealers declined to accept the
resignation of Mr.. Hermann, and sug-
gested that a vice cha lyman be named.
On motion of L. j. Jackson, Meyer
Fellheimer was unanimously elected vice
chairman of the section and to represent
the section on the board of governors of
the Retail Merchants Association in the
absence of Mr.. Hermann, its chairman.