Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-16
I1NgN'S STOCKINGS
PARDON PLAIN TALK,
SHRINKING in LENGTH
.,.rv and Skirts Getting
nga ! ssorter and Farther Apart,
Declare Manufacturers
in Convention
toBwEB SORT is GONE

shirts and shorter stockings for
NoI's, No.,.,s s,,nner is to be the rule. This
fHsn fn.,. revealed today at the opening
~ VI N the convention of the National
f3pts.,sn of Hosiery and Underwear
,e.clurers when manufacturers ex-
ta.s s,,rprise that women with their
sinost half way to their knees should
2a ~. lame time demand stockings almost
short as mems half hose;
4 Morley. Of Scott q Williams manu-
;.,.rs Of hosiery machinery, Boston,
r,a, said;
n. younger women are wearing their
...sirss as short as mems half hose, and
,,ian,ic CITY | saw some of tile older
,,trins down their regular-length hose
80 the,same effect. Then. again, they
Y, ,be limit and passed II last year for
~. y transparent that there was actually
1 ,.,dv 10 It. but that grade of goods will
a, n in demand this year. Women are
". aernandlng more substantial material.
i, ls true" said Mr.. Morley. that my
y. bae up to the present, the only ma
s,nes that have anything specially new In
" sxhibu this year. We haven't quite
,,,cAed the point where you can throw a
~ N cotton into n hopper at one end of
s,ecslne and when you walk around to
=, o,her end find complete sLt of under
~. and a pair of stockings waiting for
-, Raj II is coming very near 1t. Those
s...,,h,rl a" he said. pointing to u row of 70
y ip'ln .lJc Grafton. make a complete stock
Al n one oDerati0n. Each machine will
r.shs about three and half zen stock
Tss day, and one operator can attend 70
,bout a dozen machines.
NO SEAM TO SEW
rThere is no seam to be sewed up the
,.ok of the leg when the stocking is fin
shsd as formerly. The machines will make
IN or cotton stockings, and they work au-
tcmatcally
.Thls machine" he said, referring to the
sne from which he had taken completed
s,ockInr has 100 needles. Some machines
Ssrs more. some of our large hosiery
machnes for making underwear material
hye over 5000 needles. quite a difference
nom the time our grandmothers used to
tnlt stockings with four needless
Across the way from Scott & Dilliams'
srhIbt Is a machine for drying stockings
after they have heen dyed and washed and
paced on stretcher boards. This machine
dres the stockings at the rate of 10 n
minute or 600 an hour. or 5000 in 10-hour
day Il also piles them and counts them
n dozen lots automatically.
MANY KINDS OF SOAP.
There are dozens of different kinds of
kaps for washing hosiery and underwear
0ls, for the machines, aikalis and various
cAsmicals for taking out the grease and
oil spots left by the machines. Dyes of all
eolors and tlnts, some of them so scarce
As 10 be almost worth their weight in gold
ell on account of the war Scales for
weighing dyestuffs so delicate that they can
record the Tooth part of carat or the 4OOth
part Of pearl grain.
There are skeins of silk from China.
Japan, southern Italy. India and some
rassd In the United States from the silk.
worm
There are other equally good looking
tKelns Of artificial silk, called ''viscose,''
made Al Marcus Hook, near Chester, Pa,
that never saw a silltworm.
"Afar all. does II matter" said the ex-
hlbIlQr whether the silkworm eats the
lafes and they go through a chemical
lansformation in its body to be afterward
pun into a cocoon or whether the chemist
Ftffqrms a similar operation at first hand
Eehout the silkworm?" But whether arti-
al or natural, these silks are in great de-
and for fashionable hosiery
mere are cotton yarns as fine as a spi-
rs web and some coarse enough to knit
BIO hose for ongshoreman. There are
osiery buyers and sellers and manufac-
urers from every State i'm the Union.
There are washing and laundry machines
7 eoiiHous capacities. All the machinery
operated by electric current and safety
istf Is the motto which prevails every
There
Ioaay-the opening day of the business
essions-the National Association of Ho-
cry and Underwear Manufacturers will
{ welcomed by Mayor Smith. the response
be made by Harold Lamb. Union Manu-
aeturing Company. Union Point, Ga. An
eoress ty II. j. CattelI city statisttcIan.
NJ be followed by reports of the officers
na me annual report of the president. p.
I Wlthers, Mount Vernon. III. A. l.. Nor
on treasurer of the National Aniline and
nemical Company. will speak on THE Do
iesuc Dyestun Situation" Herman A.
ielz' OF New York. will discuss "Dyestuffs"
me convention will go into executive ses-
ION IN the after-oon. when there will be
ieetlngs OF the seamless and full-fashloned
os'ery manufacturers, with various sub
aaoclatlons and those OF the underwear
'anuIacturers with a special meeting of
nderwear members.