The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-12
PRESIDENTS POLICIES
 CALLED WISE AND GOOD
BEGINNING NEW . GLOVE INDUSTRY
 RESULT OF WAR

nLOOLI LII " n1t A number of new industries have sprung up in this country as result of the war and the stoppage of inn ports. They have shown a mush- room-like growth, and the only fear held for their future prosperity is that once peace is declared in Flu rope, foreign competition may assert itself again and bring them as quick a decline.
 Although American manufacturers who have ventured into new enter prises are by no means underestimate ir.g this competition, they are now do- iEg all within their power to per- feet their product to an extent that will enable them to hold what ous- mess they now enjoy under any and all conditions A striking example of this is in the latest industry estab- lished here to produce gloves that before the war were made entirely on the other side according to the New York Times.
 In the year before the war imports
 Iof suede-finished cotton gloves to- tailed 1,75O,000 dozen pairs. The
 whole cotton glove business of the country went to Germany, despite the
 fact that not a silk glove was import
 ed. The secret of manufacturing a suede-f1nished material belonged to
 the German manufacturers at Chem
 nitz. Attempts to duplicate the pro-
 cesses by which this cloth was ob-
 tained failed on this side. One large A rnvio I,a1 al c1n nf
 this description manufactured abroad. After a year and half of experi-
 menting there has now been placed on
 the market a glove of cotton and fin ished like suede. In the short time since it's appearance it has been very highly praised by representative buy CTS, who in the past have been accus- toned to get their supplies of the ar ticle from Germany.
 For some time it was thought that the suede finished cotton material was a cloth that was woven, but experi-
 1rent proved that it was knitted
 fabric This discovery by no means ended the labors of the investigators. After getting the knitted cloth it was found that, to be serviceable, stretch ing of the cloth to all but very
 slight degree must be eliminated. A way was found to get this re-
 suit. The suede finish was another problem. Attempts to duplicate the German goods by brushing the fabric did not give satisfaction. A co-nbt1- ation of methods finally brought what was wanted. The process through which the material is now put re- quires the use of chemicals together with other manipulation of the fabric.
 The factories of the company making the goods are located in New Eng
 land and the various processes are
 completed in different plants.
 After getting the cloth the ideas of the manufacturers went further. There was ever present the fear that once the war is over, German com petition might prove too much for the infant industry. Means had to be found to improve the finished product to such an extent that once the Amer ican public had bought American
 gloves of this description, they would never again >return to foreign goods. An executive sof the company de-
 scribed the, improvements that have been made over the German product. We are out" he said ''to make an American cotton glove for the Amer | ican people. There is no reason why
 we can't produce cotton gloves when
 we make all the silk gloves we use. American cotton is grown here and cotton gloves should be made here. At present we have to go to England for the kind of cotton yarns we use, but we have experiments on foot now to complete the chain from the cotton fields to the glove counter.
 "'The foreign-made article is made cheaply and it's cheapness is at once apparent. Even the goods of the sort produced here were rather poorly patterned, but we have changed this. For instance, the suede finished cot ton gloves up to now have been cut on silk patterns. This means that the fingers. are long and the glove is mar row across the back of the hand, just as silk glove is. We have cut our gloves on leather patterns so that a woman, man or child will not have to buy a glove a size larger than requir ed to get a fit, and then have some room left in the finger tips. A wo- man wearing IA size will not have to order a 6 1-2. Another feat ure of the new gloves will be quarter sizes. This is following out the cus- tom in the leather glove trade. The glove we are producing is an imitation of a suede leather glove and why shouldn't it be identical in every re- spect possible with the, leather glove Another innovation will be in mak- l ing gloves with but one clasp. This, again, is fashioned after the style in | the leather glove line. The Ger
 man concerns have stuck to the two- clasp glove, not because the one-clasp variety is any harder to make. but 1 just because they started that way, | and have had so easy a time of it that | there has been no reason why they should adapt their product to the American market.
 "In several other particulars buy CTS admit we are manufacturing a superior glove to the kind that came from Germany. Our gloves are piqued while the Germans use the in-seam, which is looked upon as the distin-