The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-03-09
CONDITIONS IN THE EAST

We have all been reading of the
great industrial activity in manufac-
turing centers and of the making of
millionaires b Y the wholesale on ac-
count of new conditions. From what
I have observed and been told the
printed reports have not been cxas-
gerated. New York is drunk with
business, and the great white way"
is crazy. From early evening on
through the wee small hours of morn
ing, Broadway, from 34th street to
59th is n boiling, seething mass Of
humanity too varied TO describe. To
"A jay from the bear grass, il was too
strenuous and after venturing "A few
blocks in it and among it he was glad
TO beat it for shelter. II is good ma
tured crowd, well dressed crowd
but all intent upon spend. All the big
theaters are in that section, and they
release their crowds about II y. m.
That is the ,,me the real life begins.
Going to the play" is mere incident.
And automobiles! | must have lodged
10000 of them at the street cross
ings and seen million. OF course,
u
too fast.
But that's enough about Broadway.
What | want most to tell about is the
merchandise situation. To be frank,
it is serious. Not that we are going
to have to revert back to fig leaves"
there will he sufficient supply TO
clothe our nakcdneSs. hut wen have
10 dig deeper in our pockets than ever
before TO pay for il. and we can't be
So discriminating when it comes to
the quality and pattern of the cloth.
In all my experience ] have never
found stock so low with wholesalers.
and they say the mills will not guar
antec anything for the future. Con
tracts entered into year ago have
not been touched by the mills and
jobbers are taking what they can get
as they can get it. Particularly is
this true of staple piece goods such
as ginghams, percales, muslins, etc
The price is Of secondary consideru-
tion-getting the goods is the main
thing,
And speaking Of prices here have
already been radical advances on cv-
erything and the future promises even
greater. The price on an article to-
day is as far as anyone will go; to-
morrow will have to look out FIR it.
self The lines found that had shown
great advances, with more to follow,
were those into the manufacture of
W, ich enter cotton, wool, silk, iron,
steel, brass, copper, glass, clay and
dye stuffs. Outside of these | can't
say as they are not among my lines,
And why this situation? There
are several why's" AS for cotton
goods, for several seasons the mills
had been curtailing their output in
order to dispose Of surplus stocks on
hand to enable them to keep in touch
with the raw material market. After
that time their output was all made
under contract with the distributors
in other words, their goods were
sold before they were made and the
jobbers contracted for only what they
thought they could dispose of in @
season.
On account of the European wal
America was suddenly called upon Il
supply demands from numbers of neu
tral nations that formerly depended
upon Europe. In addition to that, bel
ligerents have been drawing on vi
more heavily for both the raw ma
terial and the finished product. De
mands for home consumption have
been heavier than ever before known
The result is the mills have such ire
mendous outlet for their products tina