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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-07-04

Dams Ia nouvelle revue anglo-fran-
caise, 'The Anglo-French Review,
que dirige M. HID. Davray, M. Daniel
Halevy public DIES lettres inedites de
Theirs, ecrites en- 1853 au parlemen-
taire anglais Ellice. Theirs s'inquiete
de la politique envahissante de la Rus
sic en- Orient; il voudrait que la Fran
ce ct TAngleterre s'unissent pour sly
opposer. "On me donnerait la ligne du
Rhin pour ceder Constantinople aux
Russes, e%crit-il, que je ne voudrais
pas v consentir. C'est Ia ce que Jap
pelle lie 'pacte du diable. -" Mais, me
dira-t-on, c'est la guerre! Croyez-vous
qu'on defende toujours Independence
de POccident avec DIES notes? ?" On Ira
ces lettres avec curiosite. "Autrefois,
dit Theirs, porter 10000 hommes au
della DIES mers etait une crosse affaire.
Pourtant, en- 1893, nous avons trans
porte 10000 hommes a Alexandra de-.
want votre immortel Nelson. SUPPOSE
les deux marines reunies, ajoutez-y Ia
pursuance de la vapeur ct lie transport
de 100, 900 hommes est moins difficile
que celui de 10000 il y a c%inquante
ans. La guerrc de Crimee devait, I'm
an plus tard, lui bonner raison. II s'est
montre moins bon prophetic sur I'm au-
tire point: la possession de PEgypte,
don't PAngleterre couvait deja Iidee:
"Je ne sails rien de plus sot que cette
invention. L'Egypte serait une absur-
dite pour vous CONNIE pour nous... Je
vous defe de garden TEgypte a moins
d'y employer rs GU 10000 hommes de
vos BONES troupes settlement contre
les Arabes, ct je vous defe de trouver
rs a 10000 hommes de plus a porter
hers de PAngleterre'.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-07-04

La Cour Notre-Dame de Lourdes a
decide a sd seance de mercredi dernier
de bonner son %piquenique annuel du-
rant ce mois. Nous en- ~donnerons la Sc
maine prochaine Pendroit ct la date
quill aura lieu.
M. Hebert, Sec.-Arch.
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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-07-04
COUR NOTRE-DAME
DE LOURDES

La Cour Notre-Dame de Lourdes
DIES Danes Forestieres n'ayant quune
seance par mois durant Juliet ct aout,
Ia prochaine seance de la Cour aura
lieu lie 7 aout. Les membres sont prizes
den prendre note.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-07-04

Des resolutions ont etc passees ct
p~resentees par les membres de la
Cour, a Sr Celanire Hildreth qui Went
de perdre son frere, la priant d'agreer
leurs sympathies dams cette epreuve.
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New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Textiles
More Cheerful Feeling in
Cotton Goods Trade
OUer Prices

The cotton goods markets were
quiet yesterday. Buyers continued to
take just enough goods to fill their
present requirements. The feeling re-
gardlng prices seems to have improved
and talk about recessions in quota
tons has abated for the time being.
1t was reported that some Of the mills
have instructed their selling agents
to defer offering goods until market
conditions improve. Producers assert
that fabrics are becoming scarcer, and
that eventually buyers Will wake ~
TO find that goods will not be forth
coming when they are most wanted.
Nevertheless, some ioooers are re-
ported to have adopted, as individuals
the policy of buying to cover their
needs for sixty days ahead 1t is
irtimated that the tendency till be :o
underestimate such needs IT, order u
tc on the safe side if prices fall
The governments surplus supplies
Ct textiles are said to be passing into
the hands of foreign consumers at a
relatively rapid rate. Belgium is re
ported TO have taken liberal Quanti-
ties. Holland also has bought textil IS
from the United States government
the goods to be distributed among the
colonial possessions of the Netherlands
Some export trade with the other ncu-
trial countries Of Eucooc has de-
vcloped Exporters say that England
and France both need hosiery and un-
derwear, but that the restrictions i'm
posed by the two countries on imports
restrict buying from the Unitct
States.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Jewelry
Scarcity OF Precious
Stones F0lloWs Big
Drop in Imports
.Jewelry

A glance at the import figures for
1918 shows why dealers in gems and
manufacturing jewellers have found it
so difficult to obtain sufficient supplies
of precious and scmi-precious stones
to meet the unprecedented demand for
jewelry of all kinds from every part
of the country in the last year.
Imports of diamonds, cut but not set,
l.st year were valued at only $7.761 $40,
compared with $1S.416,570 in 1917 and
S24,276,882 in 1916, while uncut dia-
monds to the value of $12 2605,526 were
imported last year, compared with $13,-
O91,592 the year before.
Only S722 .981 worth of pearls (not
strung or seN were imported last year,
whereas in 1917 the value of such i'm
ports was $4,S98,4O6 and the year be-
fore that 1,972,018.
Other uncut precious stones were
imported last year to the value of
$604 $50. compared with $4S3,224 the
year before, but the value of precious
and semi precious cut stones fell from
81 1852 ,34S to 1868, ,094 and that of imita-
tion precious stones CroppeI to $500. .642
last year from 81, l67 ,399 in 1917. The
total value Of all imports under this
classification fell to S24 900, from
94O,JUo,oOI IN 1911 ana pol l,o3O,UoU lWO
years ago.
Imports of uncut diamonds last year
from the Netherlands were valued at
$6,266,3l9, compared with SIS, 5,022 1893
the year before, and from the United
Kingdom at 81 ,30S ,941. compared with
81 229 ,259 in 1917. Only $112,580 worth
Of pearls We're imported from France
compared with S3,095,957 worth in 1917
and S6,214,056 in 1916. Great Britain
shipped only $376,741 in pearls to deal
ers in this country, compared with
S1.449, 100 in 1917 and $5,053,53 in 1916
Retail jewellers are reported to be
still sending in orders for high class
goods, as we'll as the cheaper sorts, or
scale to suggest little or no abate
ment in the desire on the part Of the
people generally to invest in articles
! Of nersonal adornment
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Deferred Buying
Sends Shoes Higher
Retailers Buying at Advanced
Quotations.; Stocks of
Some Grades Low

Retailers who held off on their pur-
chascs of spring and summer shoes
awaiting drop in prices following
the signing of the armistice are now
in the market in great numbers and
paying higher prices for their goods
1t was expected that with the end of
the war shoe prices would decline.
Retailers therefore deferred filling or
ders for new stock. Instead of coming
down prices advanced from 10 to Is
per cent during the last three months.
Now these retailers. whose stocks are
depicted, have to make replenishments
and they are paying the higher prices.
The need for merchandise is demon
strated by the numerous immediate
delivery orders received by the shoe
manufacturers and wholesalers dur
ing the last few days.
The strike of the BROOKLYN shoe
workers is having an effect upon the
oiesale shoe trade. Stocks of wo-
mems high grade shoes are low and
1t IS likely that prices will have to be
advanced again
Shoe men report that there is a
marked shortage of mat kid and ooze
caltskln, while scarcity of vici kid
IS becoming more apparent every day.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05

The market is almost bare of paper.
Bankers in New York have been able
to pick up the notes of firms in good
standing for 534 per cent. the highest
rate mentioned N a number of weeks,
but the amount obtained at this figure
is hardly enough to talk about. The
general market is still 5'3 per cent
and to most New York banks no paper
is offered under this figure, but brok-
ers can get "A per cent for the best
names elsewhere. There is good de-
mand for notes from Chicago and the
Middle Western banks. Some brokers
assert that there is a little bit better
demand, both from New York and out
of-town institutions. noticeable since
paper was marked up to 612 per cent,
but about this there is considerable
difference of opinion and the bankers
saw it would require a marking up Of
paper to 534 or even per cent before
an appreclable increase IN demand
would be noticed.
Business men still hold off from
borrowing, first, because they fear that
raw materials purchased now might
fall greatly in price by the time they
had made them into finished products,
and second because they hope for a
slight lowering of interest rates. To
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Leather
Tanning Business Quiet,
but Trade Expects
ReUiU0i

ne tanning business is dormant.
tanners are cautious in their pur
chases, buying only for present and
near future requirements. The enact
ment of the Dent bill, validating in
formal contracts made between the
tanners and the government during
the stress of war times. is expected
TO have stimulating effect upon the
INDUSTRY. Payment on several million
dollars worth of contracts was held
up pending definite action upon This
bill by Congress-
According to hide importers the
European demand for hides is keen
and the American market is in a nosi-
llon to adequately take care of these
orders. Imports of hides are coming
through III fine shape from all sec,
tons excepting Argentina. where a
strike OF stevedores has held I'M shin
ments.
There is an abundance of hides of
the low and medium grades. in fact
lhe supply is above normal, but i'm
poftcrs point out that the finer grade
OF caliskins come from abroad and
because of the absence of shinnino
facilities they are scarce and hioh
priced. During the last few weeks.
however, more calfskins have become
available and prices are expected to
be lowered. ~
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Rubber
Railroads Holding of OF.
Purchases OF Rubber
Goods

Manufacturers Of mechanical rubber
goods are optimistic over the posi-
bilities of their business approaching
the normal stage by next fall. but at
present, they report, conditions are
not as good as they should be. Most
companies are now busy catching up
with orders placed during the late
war period They are booking COM
paratively little rev business
G. B. Dickerson, treasurer of the
Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacture
ing Company, said yesterday that the
activities of the railroad and steel
companies provide excellent barome-
ters for the mechanical rubber busi-
ness. Railroads, usually heavy pur-
chasers of air brake hose and steam
hose, have been placing only small
orders lately. awaiting the passage of
the appropriation bill by Congress.
This has materially affected the rub
ber goods manufacturers.
Mr.. Dickerson holds that the condi-
ton of uncertainty in the rubber goods
field is only temporary and that bust
ness should be developing shortly. He
said that prices for betting, hose and
packing will hold, as not one item in
their manufacture costs less now than
it did in war time. Labor also stayed
at the wartime cost level.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Buying of Woollens Runs
Largely to Softer Fabrics
Such Goods Are Most i'm De.
mand for Young Mems
Clothing

From the early orders placed by
manufacturers Of mems clothing with
the woollcn mill agents it is apparent
that the soft finished fabrics such as
fiannels and like materials are in
greater demand than are the sergcs
and worstc dfabrics. 1t is contended
that the manufacturers expect their
business in the next few months to
run larger to young mems clothing,
the bulk of which is made from the
softer and more novel fabrics. This
idea arises from the fact that many
of the country's young men have been
in military service for year or more
and are much in need of civilian
clothing, while the older men have
bought clothing as they needed it.
Another explanation of the lessened
demand for serges for mems wear, lies
IN the fact that during the war pc
riod the production of civilian fabrics
was restricted and many mills turned
their available looms for civilian pro-
duction TO staples, mostly serges For
this reason there is greater supply
of made up sergcs in the hands Of
Jobbers and clothing manufacturers
than there is Of any other materials.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
OF
Silks
Quick Return OF Buyers
Indicates Good Trade
in Silks

Trade in fancy silk fabrics assumed
large proportions yesterday, but bust
ness in the plain wcaves was not es-
pecially active. The display rooms of
the more prominent manufacturers
were thronged with visiting buyers,
and it was noticed that some of those
who had been in the market four weeks
ago were again in attendance. This
indicates that retail trade is in a
healthy state and that it is necessary
to replenish stocks.
Retail merchants when buying from
high class concerns do not quibble
about prices. While manufacturers
ders for fall shipment, they prefer to
discourage orders for future delivery.
They express the view that it is best
to hold buying within reasonable
bounds until the problems growing out
of readjustments are more compre
hensively worked out.
1t is reported that many iobbers
who held burdensome stocks of silks
that they bought on the theory that
the war would last until the summer
of 1919 have been able to dispose of
such surpluses.
Business in raw silk was light yes
terday. Manufacturers of the finished
products apparently do not dare to
Quiremcnts. Importers doing business
in New York are carrying light stocks.
Prices for the Japanese as we'll as the
Chinese product are slightly lower in
the New York market, but cable ad-
vices received from Yokohama late yes
terday indicated that Japanese reelers
had advanced quotations.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
TELEPHONES:
Beekman 8243
Beekman 5000
Want Women to Return
TO Trimming of Hats
Retail Nlilliners Seek to Brirn
About REIMBURSEMENT .
of Labor

Inc Retail Millinery Association ..
America Will make campaign sm.S
Wholesale and retail houses -
millinery business to adjust the wi.
tive proportions of female and m.s.
labor thus bringing about the ,.s..
ployment of returned soldiers in ,A..-
old positions. At the second arna S"e'f
convention Of the association q, 10
hotel McAlpln yesterday, i. was \. .e
clded that the present surplus =.
male help and shortage of femoI.
labor Is the result of employers q.
tanning women in positions forms,I,,
held by men even after the men hay
returned from army or navy serv;.a
The association intends maxine
canvass of the trade to discover h.
many women's positions can be sIl.s
from among the women who are nav.
holding what in normal times b.n'
been mems jobs.
1t was unanimously agreed at N,
convention that Congress be urras
to consider the situation of all 81.
tutes constituting our anti-tru,t la,,.
lation. The association went on rso
ord as recommending the adoption ~
formulatlve standards of general
business conduct TO be administsras
by supervisory government bodv.
an enlarged Federal Trade Commiss;on
OF nine members.
The officers of the association w.,e
reelected to serve during the COMING
year; They are: Harry S. Bernhard
Gimbel Brothers, New York. nrss;
dent; Joseph Mayer, r. II. Macy &
Co., New York, 1st vice president: s
George Kerngood, kaufman Depar..
ment Stores Company, Pittsburgh
Penn. I'd vice-president; Charles
Mashek. The Bailey Company, Ceve-
land, O., Sd president; Max
Sternberg, Frank G. Seder, Pitts.
burgh, Penn, 4th vice-president: L..
roy Iavake, L. Bamberger & Co.
Newark, n. j., secretary. and Robert
wilson, also of L. Bamberger & Co.,
treasurer. f. Y. NJ. Goldberg contin'
ues as general manager and executive
secretary of the association.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Furs
Spring and Summer Furs
in Great Variety Are
Wanted BY Retailers

Spring and summer furs are in de-
mand by retail dealers, who arc in the
market in great numbers Manufacture
ers have in most cases completed their
sample lines and have great variety
OF furs in many garment styles to of
fer Judging by the early orders placed,
the coming season will be the best in
several years for the manufacturers Of
lightweight fur garments.
great range of pelts share in the
popular choice. Squirrel predominates
in the call from the retailers, but
brown. silver and cross foxes, mole,
stone martcn. mink, kolinsky and Rus
sian and Hudson Bay sable are also
included in many orders.
From the style standpoint it is ex-
pected that the garment with the semi
cape effect in squirrel, kolinsky and
mole will be popular during the com
ing season. Stolls are also being or
dered in large numbers. Hudson seal,
trimmed with beaver or mink, is a
popular type Of stoll.
Raw fur merchants declare that the
shortage Of muskrats-Hudson seal
is becoming more serious every day.
One merchant said that the present
low stock is due chiefly to the fact
have been an incentive for the trap
pers to kin of muskrats before they
had chance to breed Action in the
form of government legislation provid-
ing for the conservation of these ami
mails is held to be necessary if the
future demand for muskrat is to be
met. While part of our stock of musk
rats comes from Canada, the animal
bred in the United States is consid-
cred the best for sails as Hudson seal.
An indication Of the general demand
for furs IF all varieties was provided
in the number Of manufacturers and
dealers who took advantage of the
prompt day" of the New York Fur
Auction Sales Corporation and with
drew from the care Of the sales com
pany the skins they had bought at the
recent auction. Under the terms of
the sale purchasers who paid for and
received their goods by prompt day.
were granted special discounts. 1t is
said that more than Is per cent of the
S5,00O000 worth of furs sold at the auc-
tion was withdrawn before the eXpira-
tion of this discount period.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Business Money

this extent the present stagnatlon IN
the commercial p per market, like the
stagnation in business generally, is the
outcome of state of mind.
The bank acceptance market yester-
day was greatly improved Thus bet
termenf was in pant due to the same
causes which led to the easier tone IN
call money, which yesterday renewed
at per cent. but fell before the end
of the Stock Exchange session to 412
per cent on combined railroad and IN
dustral collateral. Sixty day bills
have all been bought up rapidly for
the past few days. but yesterday even
the ninety day bills sold better than
for some time. One dealer got an
order for nothing but ninety day bills,
which probably came from some one
buying for an out-oftown institution.
nice supply of bills has been
coming in from Boston. This is main
ly the result of the recent removal
of the out t-of-town collection charge.
The range of rates for two, three,
four, five and six months commercial
paper yesterday was 5l4 (o512 per
cent. unchanged from Monday and a
week ago. 1t was Tuesday week ago
that great bulk of paper was marked
up a of l per cent.
Prime trade acceptances, running from
fifteen to sixty days. were so 5l4 per
cent. Sixty to ninety day acceptances
were oM 512. lndorsed trade accep-
tances were Az per cent for all ma
turtles.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Millinery Sales Exceed
Large Unit Production
Manufacturers of Trimm ed Hats Find 1t Difficult
to Secure Enough Skilled Workers to Meet
Unprecedented Demand; Weather Helps Trade

The lack Of cold weather may be Q
cause of worry for the snow shovel
lers, but the high grade milliners OF
the city are rejoicing over natures in
advertence. The demand for fine hats
is greater this season than ever be-
fore in the history Of the trade, ac-
cording to Henry Reinhardt, presi-
dent of Maison Maurice, of 661 Fifth
Avenue.
"The extremely mild weather." he
said, "is inducing women to buy their
spring hats much earlier than usual
and heightenng the demand, which
is also stimulated by the large amount
of money in circulation and the giving
up Of the voluntary inhibitions against
buying which curbed sales during the
war.
prices will be high because labor
is scarce and expensive, and likewise
materials that are used in hats. but
the customers. alive to conditions, arc
not complaining. Many skilled work
ers who formerly made hats went
into war work and have not yet re-
turned. Then, too many who for
merly worked in retail stores are nov
in hat factories"
Asked to explain the inflow of labor
into the factories, Mr.. Reinhardt in
dicated that the millinery trade is
just now emerging from an industrial
revolution. Within the last year and
half, he said, large scale production
of trimmed hats has supplanted to
an unprecedentedly large extent small
unit manufacture
Almost overnight, Mr.. Rcinhardt de-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Good Cloths Being Made
From Reclaimed Wool

Some good cloths, both in mems wool
len sultings and overcoatings, are said
to have been made by using about 20
per cent reworked wool reclaimed f1S =,
government flannel shirting clips, go
per cent virgin South African Cape
and American territory wool and an
other 20 per cent of long fibre wool
OF the grade known to the trade as B
super.
These goods are laid wide in the loom
and woven so that the finished fabric
narrows down. The reworked wool from
the shifting clips is said to have re-
markable felting qualities. In making
the standard shirting during the latter
part OF the war a cotton warp with a
worsted filling was used This worsted
yarn was made Of high grade wool,
half-blood or better. In reclaiming
the wool from the clips the cotton
is eliminated by carbonization. This
reclaimed fibre, it is explained, cannot
be twisted again into worsted yarn, but
1t is a longer fibre than is ordinarily
used for "fllings," and therefore felts
down we'll
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
New Overcoat Cloths

The American Woolen Company is
showing twenty new ranges in mems
fancy overcoating cloths for fall, 1919,
from as many different mills. The
prices run from $l.35 yard for fab
rlcs made by the kennebec and Indian
Spring mills. to as high as S3.1O and
S3.l5 for cloths made by the Foxcroft
and the Sawyer mills. While several
or the mills represented in the show
ing made civilian fabrics last year.
1t is explained that their products
then, IN many cases, were sub standard
because OF the greater amounts of cot
ton and reworked wool used at the
governments request to conserve wool
Ior army purposes. For this reason
there can be no price comparisons.
Metcalf Brothers & Co. have begun
showing their serges for fall, 1918.
Inc Inc prices range from about $2S5 to
$3.50 yard and represent reductions
or between 40 and SO cents ward
from last years prices. Most of the
tabrcs, compared with the same num-
bers offered last year, are AS cents
lower this year.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05

cuously, though. There is something
to be said on the other side Some
mills send out goods that are not up
to their samples. That practice also
should be stopped / think the trade
should adopt a new selling contract
which would bind the mill to deliver
goods as near to the sample as is hu-
manly possible to make them and also
bind the buyer to accept and pay for
ordered goods when they are delivered
according to contract"
To obviate some of these evils which
arise in the practice of ordering goods
months before they are to be deliv-
cred the mill organization which this
man represents has not conducted a
formal opening this year and Will have
none. Goods are being made up by
the mills now in anticipation of fu-
turc orders Then, when the orders
are placed delivery can be made quick
ly and strict observance of the sales
terms will be insisted upon.