Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-04
MANUF ACTURERS
MAY Be HARD HIT
BY FOREIGN WAR
Inability to import Supplies and
Ship Out Finished Product
Is Result.

Some OF the leading industries of
Newark will be seriously affected by
the present European war. State
ments given to a reporter for the
Evening Star by representatives of
many Of the big manufacturers to
day indicated all are in state Of
worriment Many said IL the strug-
gle is prolonged it will cause almost
the decentralization of their business.
Up to the present time the war
has had little effect on the manufae-
turers, except that the cancellation OF
sailing dates by the transatlantic
steamship lines has made II impos-
sible for them to export their goods.
As yet they have not suffered from
inability to import raw products used
in their manufactures. The supplies of
imported materials they use which
is now in the country, they say. is
adequate for their present needs. The
continuation of the war, however.
they said will cause the consumption
of the imports now on hand in little
time. and then they will find them
selves at their wits. ends to carry on
their business. Some manufacturers
depend entirely on materials import
ed from the other side These were
frank in asserting that the outlook
for them is grave Others said they
can substitute American products for
the foreign materials they always
have used and struggle along in some
way. All of them, however, said the
war will hit them hard.
Tho laathpr trade hare will no a f.
fected principally by the impossible
ity of making exports, manufactur-
ers said today. Little leather goods
is exported from Newark to Germany
and France, manufacturers said, but
great quantities go to the other coun-
tries of Europe. The cessation of
transatlantic shipping will put an
end to these exports. The leather
manufacturers said also they obtain
a certain quantity of their raw ma
terials from abroad. The cutting off
OF the source of these supplies, they
said, viii work them little harm, for
they can obtain the goods they get
from Europe in the United States as
we'll. The use of American materials
however, they said, probably will
bring a rise in prices in the finished
goods The war is likely to cause
great demand in Europe for Ameri-
IdH SilutSs INT illillAAAiiAhltAo s't'AA~f
but here they will have to face the
problem of making shipments with
the ocean steamship traffic paralyzed.
Many of the Newark leather manu-
facturers make goods almost eXclu-
sively for the American trade, and
these predicted the war will have but
little effect on their business.
Cannot Import Metal.
At the Balbach Smelling and Re-
hning Company it was said today
that the impossibility or importing
metals will work havoc with that in
dustry Already, it was said, the
effects of the war have been felt in
the tin market, the price of tin hav-
ing taken a great jump. The COM
mercial end of the business is prac-
tically at a standstill now, it was
said, the markets being closed all
over the world and, 1t was added,
that the industrial end certainly Will
suffer in consequence. Like repre-
sentatives of other industries, how
ever, this concern asserted it was
rather early as yet to give any DELI
mite statement regarding the war $
effect.
At the offices of Baker & Co. Inc,
platinum manufacturers, it was said
the war had not yet made any I'M
preston on that industry here. That
the continuation of the struggle will
be attended by disastrous results,
However. it was predicted freely.
Manufacturers of platinum artlc.es
obtain almost all their raw material
from Russia, it was said, and when
the supply is cut off the industry will
come to a standstill.
Paint manufacturers said they
probably will suffer little, except
the impossibility of import
ing linseed oil. The best quality of
this product, they said, comes from
India, and from no other land are
they able to import an oil SO suited
70 their purposes. At the office of
the Sherwin- williams Paint Com
pany 1t was said that firm is
principally about the pos
sibility of making shipments. The
scarcity of Calcutta oil, it was said,
would bother the company little, for
oil in abundant quantities can be
obtained from fields in Minnesota,
Kansas and Canada. Unless the war
is prolonged, it was said, the paint
industry will suffer
little. Manufacturers of paint, it was
said, import colors in large quantities
from Europe, and the cutting off of
this supply will harm them consider
ably.
Several manufacturers mentioned
the present conditions surrounding
the sending and receiving of cable
messages as a handicap to them
carrying on their business now. One
concern spoke of sending two cable
messages in it's own code TO one of its
in Europe last night.
These messages We're returned it was
said. and the company was not per-
mitted to send them again in code.