Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-08
FUR BUSINESS NEVER WAS
BETTER THAN AT PRESENT
New Styles Increase Demand for Expensive Trimming
Sporting Goods on Jump-England
Guards Tin Imports

-. never has been better year for
-. ,his year" said NJ. Tamarin,
rurs,sscturer rurs and importer Of furs. 18th
rcb streets "One of the reasons
ena.s, so much fur has been used for
Es,l.soinr .. on ladies' garments. The most
..nsnsive furs are silver loN' single
Istpa nost from $500 up as high as you
Ehns a. 90 AS for Russian sables, single
Iran. Ssn he had from $50 up. but the
r,s ,s a very small skin much smaller
tfspN ,ho fox. A great many white fox
hsn. hsn are dyed and sold as blue fox.
nn,.vsr has been in great demand this
so much so that Il has been
seaso, .e a,e3c,,lt 10 supply the demand. The
y.r f,r has to be plucked. This is a
Apfss. yvbich can only be done by eN-
9,s and experts are limited In number
p.d can only pluck certain number Of
~. ~ day. The scarcity of expert
Hshlns shlns rather than scarcity Of skins.
Iplu.N,h ,hs principal cause of a shortage in
beaver fur
srAt,sKrNs ARE SCARCE.
,.. N seaiskins there are very few
| ~. stins on the market on account
- ,bs embargo on the catch Possibly
ol S,ors than 1000 skins came on the
E.ts, during the last year. Hudson
! n.ai which is prepared muskrat. Is taxi
- The Mace OF Alaska seal, and is very
rn,ch in demand. There has been a good
<dssI Of errnine fur sold this season. also
usi,s weasel which resembles ermine
] w., closely. Dealers do not carry heavy
,ssts of Russian sables. They cost so
s,oh and the skin Is liable To harden.
i rst,,nk has been very popular as a fur
s,hls season also.
aNext week beginning on Wednesday.
,s..o will be a convention of the most
4 ,mportant fur manufacturers. dealers and
4 in,norters In St Louis, Mo. one of the
nhiocts of the meeting will be to make
/ :, Louis irstead of London. England the
,reat fur sales centre of the future
SPORTING GOODS BOOMING.
sNo other business is subject to such
4 rsrullar conditions as ours" said Charles
= Tryon, of the +. X. Tryon Company.
4 sportlng goods dealers. OF 6il Market
s,reet today. Last year. when the foot
and mouth disease was so prevalent,
hunting dogs were not allowed to he loose.
lest they carry the infection from one
asld TO another and the hunting season
ssu Nat. our business being literally shot
10 pieces Then last spring opened up and
q succession of eight consecutive wet sat
Iurdays spoiled the fishing season. And
/ the boys didn't play baseball on account
OF the wet weather.
but such n change! We never did such
\ a business as we have done this Christ
mas. We were swamped. The wires into
bur offices were hot all day. We supply
about 400 different stores here in Phila-
]delphia. Our retail business Is not one
tenth of our wholesale business Every
one of our customers was coming I'm
smiling around Christmas. They were
sold out and wanted more goods. They
had cleared out all the Christmas goods
left over from last year Skates, both
ice and roller, sleds, raZors, cutlery of all
kinds. playing cards. games. air rifles for
boys, everything we had was comman-
deered. People had paid off their old
debts and had money to spend and they
we're spending II, and they are stll spend
ing. We look forward to 1916 as one of
the best. If not our best year, and we
can even say the same of 1917. our men
are out travelling over the country and
their reports indicate what We may eX-
pect.