The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-21
THE AS KIN LE TIER
BUT TONS AND BRAIDS
By Frederiek = HaslSsn.

!. piece. while the manufactures o.
j ready-made underwear grumbles
i 1.-THE price Of buttons increase ron
/ ten cents to twelve cents per gross
81 for his cheapest grades. These ta asss
i buttons are likely to be made OF tlH
y from the junk Pile. They are COW
Tered with cotton fabric and turned
i out from machines by the gross tn
Hess time than it takes to tell. THESE
4 cheap metal, buttons were made pos
Il sible by the ingenuity OF man
) NAMED Sanders, who invented ma
3 chine for manufacturing cloth COW
!ered metal buttons early ID tne
nineteenth century. The metal 1S
lstamped into she'll form. the shell
iconsisting Of two disks. The back
.Idfsk Is perforated by hole throuen
i which a tuft OF cloth is drawn 10
tserye as shank.
While fabric covered buttonS az
1.-The chea pest upon the market, they
NAV also be quite expensive in pro
portion to the value Ut the cIoIn
4 Will, which they are covered. Win
I tl1e nresent fashion Of trimming g. the
costume with buttons of the same
material came the patenting OF sman
\ machines now in use in every large
tailor shop and department store
innon which metal shells of any DE-
sired size may be covered with ma
lterial to order. These shells are
made in variety OF forms ns
this year Other styles have rims -
metal or Of contrasting materlal.
Many of the fine fancy buttons
sold as imported have really peeH
in this country, anu
Others can be. The threatened snort
age of the European importation ms
stimulated the American manuIac
turer to produce larger quantitles ~
high grade goods than ever oGIoIel
Novel and artistic designs will be N
demand and the manufactursI
viii try to produce them. Inc large
Arm has Increased its designing force
until 1T has now no less than MY
men and women artists devotlns
their time to the designing OF ne"
buttons to be used chiefly for tne ueI
loration of the clothes of the Amer
can women. This factory. which IS
one Of the largest in the country
produces buttons Of many kinds. ~
lcluding those made OF metal, cAoIn'
morn. bone and other materials.
Last year. the United States
ported buttons to the value OF Soo4.
1872. which was an increase OF nearly
iffty per cent over the exports OF
1909. Most OF these buttons Went
Ito Great Britain and Canada. only
about $40, 900 worth having been
lshipped to South America. 1T IS es-
lffniated that the demand from Eng
land and Canada will be as heavy TINS
wear as last. In addition, Americas
buttons Will be wanted in large quan-
titles in Central and South America
because Of the dificultfes these conn
tries will have In securing tnelf sup
| niles from Europe as formerly
one Of the materials used Mrge.y
I in the manufacture of American bul.
tons Ia the vegetable ivory imported
from south America. The tmporta-
ition of vegetable ivory last yea J.
iamounted to ten thousand pou1l
The value Of the buttons p I1uSa 30
iamounted to millions of dollars; NO
Il less than fourteen large estaoll tal,
,ments in this country are deyote s.
Exclusively to the manufacture ol
buttons from vegetable ivory, wnl lIe
a large number OF other factories use
II in con junction with other ma
terials.
The value. of buttons manufas-
+ured in the United States APPROX
Mates sis .OOO. 900. The industry
employs nearly quarter of a million
versions They work in about nVH !
hundred different establishments
! some of which are capitalized ZOE:
millions of dollars. Different par"
of the country are centers Tor. dl nel 7
ent varieties of buttons The greaIeI
mart of the fabric, braid ana crocn l.
b i,s,+tons are manufactured in the vi
c;niiv Of New York City, although
number Of good sized factories exist
alsawhere Great quantities OF bone
and coagu1ated blood buttons are
manufa ctured In Chicago from the
byproducts of the stock YARDS. BT 49,
and military buttons are manuL ~
tured chiefly in New England. .ns
largest factory of this klna , oslIS
located In Connecticut. Cellulolo
buttons are also made in the great
est quantity in New England.
though Los Angeles has also rae
tory devoted to this purpose
The tendency towards military ei-
facts in the trimming Of womens
clothing calls for large supplles
Of braid to be used in com binations
with buttons and also applied alone,
aitl1er plain or In ornamental pat
terms. The importations OF braid
have been considerable each year.
but it is claimed that practically all
| nafterns in general use can be maze
in American factories Several OF
these have no put on additional
force to fill the heaviest demands the
trade has ever made upon them.
GettonI silk. wool and metal are the
materials used in braid Manufacture
Persia has no distilleries. brew
cries or public houses. and native
wine is the only intoxicating bever-,
age used.
Gas was first used for lighting the
streets OF New York in 1925, adm at
this time Drummond invented 0le
1imelight