The Detroit times., 1916-01-21

say IN Cleveland Some q our in.
dustries are running al their theo-
retical capacity. which is rarely
done even in the best of times.
Other lines are sulI below normal.
The point Is that An Improvement
is in sight everywhere. The war
order millions got this country's
OF New York's greatest bankers.
business started. We attended to
the rest ourselves"
Clothing Factories 5uSy.
That was shown by the factories
IN which women's clothing is made.
Only two-or three--other towns N
yhe world make as much wCmcn's
clothing As Cleveland does n de,
rends on the way YOU fEure In
Philadelphia they figure Cleveland
fourth In Cleveland they can prove
they rank the Quaker City Strans
ers to either locality are advised
nor 70 start this topic of Conversa.
ton II Just wastes time lu any
case Cleveland boasts and win
good reason. OF the character of her
factories They arc bright sunny
well arrangod and safe.
The lotl.ng trada was very slec.
until ,ro muurn- ago" the manu-
tacturers said. The war did IT.
The clothing made In these great
lactcrics is. Of course. Ok tie less
expensive sort r. is very largely
bought by the women whose iu
comes have no faint relation 90
coupon cutting The rich womaI
argues that it ie her duty - ory
pretty gowns IN Iull times Tho
other woman NAV have as keen a
sense of duty but be quite una 10
20 buy me gowns Sh7 doesn't be-
Rin 20 rpplenish her wardrobe until
her husband has been az work for
good many weeks. Sometime.
fhers are debts 10 De- paid mp and
lnuallmentF 20 he Strengthened out
and al-ay a little war fund 70 b.
laid away "a protection against
the uuFnoWn future.
Vow ne are catching up the
manufacturer say The old maj
OF a good many hundred thousand
households has steady work again
That old man is pretty wise. as q
rule. He can smell hard times a.
far away as a banker Every ~eef
our sales are increasing II means
that the old man Is satisfied with
the outlook -
The chamber of commerce ir
| Cleveland keeps a careful thumt
on the business pulse. Its member
! furnish desired information 70 thu
statistical department IN a rathe
unusual spirit ~ mutual aid. Dur
I ing the last three months Of 1871
gloom was thickenlng everywhere.
Let US look into this" said th'
! officers OF the chamber. Let us So
n conditions are as bad as peopl'
say they are"
During those three months manu-
facturers who employed almost one
half OF Clevelsnd's wage Garner
I furnished elaborate reports 10 th'
chambers statistlcians. A diges
OF these reports with a brief sug
zestlon as 20 the moral 20 be draw
from them was furnished to th'
members OF the chamber. Condi
tions were frankly bad. The re
ports we're continued for the mrs
three months in 1915. Then the!
we're discontinued.
When Improvement Began.
what vas the user said the sec
retary OF the chamber business
had 30 improved that every on'
could feel II. Why waste time rc
porting that factg"
The improvement. vas a genera
and a progressive one in every lin'
inquired into. Oddly enough. retal
trade never did suffer greatly II
Cleveland. although toward the enc
, OF 1915 retail collections we're hard
ly more than So per cent. as agalns
100 per cent perfection. one AZ
sumes that Cleveland retail pur
chasers are convinced optimists
| Wholesale collections were heI'
back by weather and harvest condi
! tons, but Of late havs been excel
/ lent. The labor market Ia not 10
variably a test OF conditions, for II
Cleveland there ara certain seasona
trades--such a. the lake seamei
and builders--who are on the loos'
In winter, no matter what buaines
conditions may be. But In Novem
Der of 1915 there were 1000 fewer
| applicants for work than in tn
same month a year ago -Four anS
one.half times ~ many jobs wer'
offered. and three and one-half timcI
as many men were plscsd II mus
be remembered. TOO, that In Novem