Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
IA SHIPS LOADED
|'rrTH DYEWOODS NOW :
HELD AT JAMAICA
.,,.h Embargo Prevents Car
bl'''s Needed by the Ameri-
y, IN Trade From Leaving
the Island
CALLED ACUTE

,rsrlcan Dyewood Company, with
ine ish r. the Bourse Building, announces
- has two ships loaded with dye
pa Y Ia M in Jamaica by the embargo
~ Nv Great Britain on the Shipment
lseeaosd from that island.
osssil ssTcial of the company said they had
- ~, the embargo had been lifted,
sw had no definite information to
nssct I'VE wish we had, he con-
b'i s'e '~ss we need these two cargoes
Me attention was called to a
Nheh ,hat n good substitute for log
D.',ssa becn found In a weed called
4 F'oa ~ ,,bich grows in southern Cali
rhu" said IL undoubtedly was plant
i1nA s,,h color known to the trade as
NJ q W. a made, which is of reddish
Esnn "a could not be considered as
e,stItute for logwood
n..,a,s dyewoods, the American Dye
p company acts as agent for several
~ s,orufacturing aniline dyes. When
w. soyr n happens that, while several
~. Establishments all over the coun-
rn,s .a threatened to shut down com
.,.,r several weeks ago, they are still
'.,sv,ng 'ssn 10 do business, he said that
N them had laid in very large
.s. AZ dive materials Immediately after
49, -, beaan, and they were still work.
:. these. but they are now near the
y Y "a would be compelled to shut down
wy soon -.
,.slsr IN cotton yarns, said the dye situa-
- 1. hecoming very acute. ut is true"
W Ia "that small quantities of aniline
y. arc being imported from Switzer-
"a "a hut far from enough to supply the
s~srd One great drawback. he said.
!. M manufacture of domestic aniline
~ d that the munitions manufacturers
y. sslng so much benzol and tuolol, both
= vhIch are the basis for aniline dyes.
:, AL there Is very little of these two
,ssssary commodities on the market.
There is a plant at Chester, Pa" he
III manufacturing some aniline dyes
,ri another at Buffalo. N. Y, which has
,slts an extensive output. This concern,
n 4 stated, makes two-year contracts
IN lis customers In order to protect
Nm from a slump in prices in the event
n an early termination of the war with
!. tariff TO protect them for their heavy
hyes,ment OF capital. Then it was stated
,,me time ago that the United States
sisl Corporation was going into the
nanufacture of both benzol and tuolol on
4 very large scale. The same was also
nd Of Thomas A. Edison, but we hear
r,,hIng about the result whether sue
tsxful or otherwise.
1t is not generally known" continued
NJ. Devlne, that the same dye is not
rltable for both cotton and wool, and
when It comes to silk you have another
ntlrtly different proposition"
Some merchants claim there has been
1 serious strike among the dye workers
recently which has had worse effect on
he dyeng business than the shortage of
tTes while others assert the strike was
u small consequence and has been adj
lEsied satisfactorily.
Among the trade the reported efforts of
;s1etary Redfield to have Great Britain
Ensent to the release of n cargo of dyes
/, Rotterdam valued at $l,000.OO0 is con-
ltered as a Joke. 1t Is universally ac-
Hp,sd that Germany will not release
NY dyes without an exchange OF cotton
" saodstuffs, no matter what action
Great Britain may take in the matter of
consent