New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
NOTES OF TRADE
AND INDUSTRY

Cotton goods houses handling ging-
hams are dissatisfied with the response
OF buyers 70 fall offerings. For a week
or so 1t had looked as though there
would be good volume OF business
In woven fabrics for dress goods for
fall, but the buying has been far be-
low year ago so far in the season.
Late purchases for rush" deliveries
on spring business have also been dis
appointing. The tendency Of women OF
moderate means has been in other d.
rections than toward the plain, neat
effects of Bingham. The cheapest
grades for use IA aprons, housework
caps and the like have not fallen of so
much as have the medium priced dress
materials. The buying for dress ma
terials runs largely 20 rat.nes and thin
woven fabrics in fancier designs, and
also 20 printed goods with small hg-
ures or in the palmer designs.
Contracts for heavier weight goods
for the armies OF Europe are about
finished for the present, and there Is
lull in business with army buyers
now. Inquiries are being made for
samples Of light cotton half hose and
for khaki clothes, and large orders are
expected within the next few weeks for
deliveries TO start in April or May. IL
is reported that the Allies will buy
severa! million yards OF Khaki cloth,
olive drabs and other cotton goods
suitable for uniforms for the warm
weather. In cotton half-hose there was
a good demand for the heaviest grades,
with double thicknesses of material,
FOR the winter campaign, after the sup
ply Of wOollen hosiery in this country
had been exhausted, but this buying
has stopped
Potash prices are still advancing as
a result of cutting Off future supplies
through the invasion Of Alsace by the
French. They are now in a position to
interfere with shipments through Ger
many, though they are not able yet TO
send potash through France to this
country Within the last day or two
sales Of potash have been made in New
York at $40 a ton, where the market
was about S35 ton last July. Besides
its use in the dyestutfs and chemical
market of Germany, il was also used
there az a substitute compound for salt
petre. Practically all natural saltpetre
comes from India, and so this substi-
tute compound had 20 be used By the
Germans in making gunpowder The
only other important source of supply
excepting the Alsace potash fields is In
Silesia, and shipments from there are
irregular for German use and have
been cut off from export. The Ameri-
can potash fields in California have
not been developed, and a much greater
advance IL price is expected
The linen market is growing buster
as buyers realize that there will no.
be much more linen brought 70 this
country while the war lasts. The Ger
man linen importers have advanced
their prices here, but the most i'm
portant Irish firms have kept them az
the same levels as prevailed last July.
Irish importers are not able 10 get
further supplies, as prices for linens
in Great Britain are too high. Within
the last two months quotations in irish
linens on the other side have been put
about 80 per cent higher, and that was
after several months Of advances. Ger
man linen importers have sold out
nearly all of their stocks of popular
priced goods.