Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-13
Exhibit Proves Americans Don't
Need to Recognize Paris
as Style Centre.
MAKING AND USES OF THE
ClTY'S PRODUCTS SHOWN
Gigantic Looms and Export Fig
ures Show 1t Leads World
in Silk Making.
Special to the Evening Star.


sn the East Her industrial exposi-
aion and national style show opened
yesterday with the most wonderful
program ever held in the city and
of such magnitude that Governor
Names +. Fielder had to resort to
hyperbole to express his opinion of it.
The exposition is being held in the
Fifth Regiment Armory and deals
chiefly with Patersons principal in
dustry, the manufacture of silk.
Tt clearly shows one thing-that it
is no longer necessary to go to
Europe to get fashionable gowns for
american women. Models wearing
costumes designed in this country
and most of them made of silk
manufactured in this city paraded
before a throng of experts in styles
from New York and other cities, who
praised the work of the designers
highly.
American styles just as Good.
Prominent dealers in women's APP
parel who attended the exposition
predicted that, partly as a result of
the war Americans would come to
realize that Just as good styles and
materials could be obtained in this
country as in Paris or other foreign
places. That this belief was not I'M
warranted was proved by the beauty
of some of the designs worn by the
models and which will be seen In the
windows of Fifth avenue shops soon.
Forty-two costumes we're exhibited
yesterday One OF these was of pure
white clinging silk, and was worn by
:, n model who carried an olive branch.
On one raised hand a dove perched.
This was called 1.-THE peace gown"
Another, made of gold and white silk.
was worn by Miss Paterson" to per-
sonify the city. Among the gowns
meant for general use one which won
much admiration was an attractive
Russian green molre decorated with
a small MORE rose, trimmed at collar
and skirt bottom with fur and caught
up in front. This was designed by
Miss Carolyn Gautschy, daughter of
the owner of the Gautschy Silk Dye
ing Company, Of Paterson, who spent
the summer In Paris and studied de-
signing there. The gown, meant for
afternoon wear, was trimmed with
dull gold lace and buttons.
The exhibition is TO grow better
from day to day. The booth at which
the evolution of the silk making
process is to be shown has not been
installed, but will 10 in full operation
tonight. DIR. Douty will be there and
show how silk ia formed, from its
earliest stage in the cocoon to the
completed fabric. Then, too, there is
a section at the northwesterly end of
the exhibition hall which is to be
occupied today The manufacturers
have banded together for the purpose
of giving a combined exhibit there,
and 1t will be ready this evening for
all who wish to inspect IL.
1t was stated last evening that there
IS hardly room for all OF the exhibits
which silk manufacturers wish to
make. The floor in certain sections
is stacked high with boxes containing
fihe wares and these will be shown to
better advantage beginning today.
Lady Dun Gordon to Attend.
Another feature today will be a
visit from Lady Duff Gordon, who is
considered an authority on style and
whose word is considered final in
many things pertaining to styles. She
viii arrive this afternoon and go d.
rectly to the armory. She will be
taken ON trip to various silk mills
and Will inspect the gown exhibit at
the armory. What she will have to
say regarding the stunning costumes
will be of great interest to the public,
for 1t will practically be her opinion
on Paterson made goods.
or course, the industry concerning
the manufacture of silk will be the
principal part of the exhibit, but
there are booths showing other in
dustries Of the city. AT one end of
the hall cider is being made lin full
view of the public" and candy is
turned out in foam fashion by the
bushel Automobiles are shown in
part or whole and there are booths
for gloves made in the city and for
stone-faeed concrete building ma
terial. There is also n woman suffrage
booth and a prize of q ton of coal Is
offered to the visitor who makes the
most accurate guess as to the weight
of a huge chunk of anthracite.
silk Association Men Guests.
Tomorrow night delegation OF
sixteen officers of the silk Associa-
ton of America will visit the EXPOSE
ton. They will be headed by Charles
Cheney president of the association,
end will be met at the Erie depot by
n committee headed by Frederick S.
cowperthwait, Major Isaac A. Hall
and others. The visitors will be taken
TO the Hamilton Club for luncheon
and win tAen go 10 the exposition.
During their visit they will be enter
tanned entirely by the Paterson Silk
Association. There are now twenty
seven silk firms represented, but al
together there are 100 to ITO ex-
niDllOIS di lilt GiibM. hdilN VI lliO
silk manufacturers have four and
five booths. while other exhibitors
have perhaps only one or even less
than an entire booth.
4 delegation from the Newark
Board of Trade intended to visit the
exposition last night, but IL had to
be postponed. The date will be an
nounced later. There were many
Newarkers there, however.
Nfi2 ialg nm tfsNra ,f
municipalities of this state and New
York and Pennsylvania are the spe-
cial guests this afternoon and this
evening at the exposition. In adj
dition to these there win lie larg's
delegations from civic and fraternal
organizations of Passaic. Carlstadt
and Oradell who have notified the
Chamber of Commerce that they Will
visit Paterson in a body
Every one of the events has been
designed to drive home to the specta-
tors the fact that its silk-making in
dustry has made Paterson the most
3-sportant manufacturing centre for
this produce in the United States, and
that 20 per cent. of the whole coun-
stry's output of silk is made on Pater-
son looms. The city boasts 500 firms
concerned in one way or another in
the silk-making industry and pro-
duces $4,000, 900 worth of the product
every year. Approximately 10000 per-
sons of them women experts
are employed there in this single in
dustry.
~ Exposition Represents s250,0O0.
The exposition is being held by the
Patterson Chamber of Commerce and
represents an outlay by the city and
merchants and manufacturers of
x250.00O. 1t got under way beneath
The brightest of holiday skies with the
start of a commercial, civic and mill