The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Trade Worth Millions
Annually Cut Off and
Stored Goods of In.
estimableN Value Taken

ports to the United States is about
four million dollars yearly.
Calais's prosperity and that Of it,
auxiliary hive of lace making towns
dotted about in the Pas de Calais ha.
for the foundation of it's frontier in
dustry de luxe hat beautiful AMI
famous product French tulle." This
has in turn been the foundation which
has made possible the present pcrf"r-
ton Of the French machine made
laces.
Calais owes its prosperity. as it does
its present immunity from German
siege guns, to it's English neighhur.
II was the invention of the bObbin
loom at Nottingham, England, a CEN
fury ago that made lace a CONNER
cial possibility. Such was tho in
dustrial war between those two allies
back in the Waterloo days that the
expectation of these precious looms
into France vas forbidden by the
English Government on pain of death.
Nevertheless some lace adventurers
of fortune packed secretly some of
the Nottingham looms in fish barrels
on a fishing boat up the Thame. and
sneaked them into Calais by night.
Soon after the French lace makers
were quickly Keeling off laces by the
yard that had before been but a hand
work of laborious inches. All tho rare
old hand made laces of France AMI
other lands are initiated with a fidelity
that leaves nothing to be desired.
Now with the Pas de Calais a laby-
rinth of British trenches and Calais
itself the working base for the army
naturally it's lace manufactures are
for the moment in allegiance. while
IS per cent. of its lace workers are
thrown out of work Also Caudry.
the near neighbor of Cambria, pCcI-
pied with hospitals and encampmcnts.
has little time these DAYS to devote
10 the fine cobwebby veiliugs with
which it supplied the Paris SHOPS
Then there were certain French in
dustries de luxe somewhat more pru.
IDENTIFY withdrawn from the actual
frontiers which only suffered In con-
sequence temporary capture, hut Their
proximity to the firing line has been
not a little bad for business. The
popular French "velour' manufac-
ture at Amiens Is one Of these. True
The German army only spent twenty
four hours in his charming old Cathe-
dral city of the north. but long enough
I o upset trade conditions in the nu-
merous branches of this cotton velvet
industry known as "Amiens velvet 20
French taste is preemineut in o."
making Of artistically designed but
tons, especially in the finer grades, an
Buttons went flying before Nul
kluck's spectacular march on rar~
down the valley of the Disc. In thu
rich and prosperous valley of this
charming river Of northern Franc,
centred the important pearl button .i-
dustry of the nation of which 3d..
black pearl button is a monopoly g..
this region. Ordinary shells are D.,
good FOR the button de luxe. SO lo
and bales Of exotic shells. selected o.
their wonderful iridescent briliianc.
from CHINA seas and from the Indian
ocean, from the Antilles and the
islands or the Pacific are dumped lat,
the small city of Andevillc. thtr" .,
ne turned into a product who's aa.l.
output runs from sixty 10 c..h'y
thousand gross daily. Prices OF uu.-
tons are as sensitive as stock o..,-
tatIons, hut the movement is eyer r,.-
ward. The present Graz" cur lu'...-
as trimmings has caused On, p.,,.
buttons of the disc To- inrr.t-. .r
price as much as from twp O., .r.,
hundred per cent. for some Wei. ..
and, while naturally tnai. n.. .....
n drop in their productions v.rn ..
German army intrenan"l - h.r.
tNantNH nNf1.r An.