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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Lessons in Taste as Well as in
Comfort and Business Efficiency

And all this time we have been tall
ing only Of the commercial and phvsica1
advantages Of the sales building to the
woman buyer, when, as a matter of fart
that is only half of the story; for the ad.
vantages of doing business amid tbs
artistic surroundings which Mr.. RusN
and Miss Reid have provided throughout
that great thirty-story building on
Forty-second Street cannot be estimated.
There is nothing tawdry or inharmoni.
Gus, from the Gothic entrance lobby. with
its Welsh tiled floor and old oaken
benches, to the business Offices awav IN
IN the peak of the opalescent dome. The
library and clubrooms on the second and
third floor are like those of the most
sumptuous mans club, with deep-seated
tapestry-covered easy chairs, huge oaken
chests and tables and soft-shaded lamps.
While the rooms devoted exclusively to
the women buyers are, to quote the
words of one of them. Simple and
refined, but oaOfut elegant"
1t would be interesting to know how
far the aesthetic influence Of the build.
ing will reach through the medium q
the women who make it their habitat for
at least three or four weeks during the
year. 1t has always been our theory
that people like really good things after
they become acquainted with them. Is
quite beyond the realms of possibility,
do you suppose, that the gold-framed
chairs and the salnon-pinl satin cur
tains will disappear from certain Sec
tons of our beloved country as result
of the sojourn of the buyers Of those
household atrocities in that lovely build
ing which Mr.. Bush has erected for their
use? If this should be the case, then
"the Rajah's jewel" will have served q
double purpose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
When "Y. M" and "Y w."
Cooperate

Considering that the various phjlan-
throplcs think so well Of the home one
would expect to see the Y M. G.. A. and
the Y. w. {. A. joyously engaged in some
Joint real estate operations, in building
delightful apartment houses with all the
comforts and moderate rents, in develop
ing garden suburbs where charming lit
tie homes could be had by the elect under
their wing at ali aluring rental--com-
munities with playground space for chill
drcn, community stores and milk and ice
at popular prices.
Wherefore it would happen that
George, when taking his Dulcinea or his
Mary Ann 10 Concy or TO the movies.
would remark, during the intimacy of
their homework trip: ''Gee, you'd oughter
sec the cute little houses out at the Eden
Restoration! ! was out there last Sun
day to zee Eddy~~he and Name have Just
taken one, $40 month and gas and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
A Buyers
Technical Library

A feature Of special interest to II.
woman buyer is the costume library ~
five hundred volumes, many of which ara
illustrated with colored plates. It tool.
thirty years to collect these volumes. and
many of them cannot be duplicated.
On the ninth floor of the buildino !.
the auditorium, which seats 400 peonls
where series of evening lectures i
given on subjects Of vital interest -
buyers, illustrated by demonstrations or
motion pictures. Just at present M,
buyer of infants wear would be e..
pecially interested in visiting this, fos
there is fashion show of clothes 70,
children held here in connection with tbs
child welfare campaign.
The rawest recruit to the ranks "a
women buyers cannot go far wrong in
ordering from the manufacturers WIN
are tenants of the Bush Terminal Sales
Building, because of the fact that every
prospective tenant is thoroughly jnves-
tigated before he is given space within
It's walls, and only first class mann.
facturers are admitted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
PenaIiziing
Child Life

But the penalties are heavy. The or
CARNATIONS which might be interested to
aid do not. The gates of whatever Eden
the young folk have been accustomed to
nhabit are henceforth closed. No more
Tor youth and maiden the inexpensive
and comfortable rooms: for them instead
hard-hearted landlord, milkman and gro
GER and butcher; and if they have the
temerlty to add children to their estab-
lshment their joys may be increased,
theoretically, but their difficulties are
doubled. The excellent tenant below does
not wish them overhead; the landlord
looks dubious, and in many of the better
class of apartments they are taboo. A
worthy Irish charwoman whose sister
had TIN" of the little olive branches said
her relative, in renting flat, was forced
to use strategy. "She w'u'd Pave nine NV
the childer wild me, an thin go wild wan
by the hand to rint her flat.
How many childer have ye? the
agent w'u'd ask
Her. says Mary. shown. him little
Katie
And thin, wan by wan, at night, she'd
be after bringing thin home, till she got
the whole tin in the house."
Perhaps the Dispossessing Angel fears
he children might be destructive in the
Garden of Eden
The prudent youth and the modern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The international
Buyers Club

At the close of her afternoons work
she goes down to the rooms OH the sec
ond floor which are reserved for the use
of the women members of the 1nterna-
tional Buyers Club, where she is met by
charming gray-haired woman who acts
as sort of hostess or chaperon and is
mlnc of general information to the
women buyers. Here she may freshen
up generally, or if she wishes to make
more elaborate toilet there is a perfect
ly equipped beauty parlor" in the base
ment where she may employ the services
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Through the Garden to
Content

One of the most interesting secondary
results of last years wildly enthusiastic
gardening was it effect on the suburban.
home. If the old ~dage be true, and the
sure way to mans affections be through
his stomach, how must the cookies Of
many masculine heart have warmed at
the palatable results of war gardeningI
What new and delicious experience il
must have been to many a commuter,
heretofore fed on faded vegetables and
canned, to dine on corn fresh-plucked
from the home garden and to eat Of
green peas that had had no time to wilt.
Many commuter found last year that
the tiny home garden offered delightful
field for cooperative effort wherein was
work for every one, from the two-y ear-old
up, where previously his only share in
the home was the bi-weexly opportunity
of pushing the lawnmower Which pas
time for man must, one fancles, rank
In joyousness with the ever-recurrent
chore of dishwashlng for woman.
If the boarding house and the fur
nlshed room and the hotel are the refuge
and haven for unhappy wedlock, they
supply also the shoals on which many
times the domestic bark comes to grief.
1t may be that the home with the garden
offers certain insurance of fair de-
gree of domestic content. | believe the
statistics on this point might be inter
csting. At all events, it affords more OF
home. And there is soundness in the
idea of the worthy William Penn that
each house, for the "healthfulness and
comfort of its jewellers" should have a
fair garden space about it.
In any case. the suggestion of offering
charming little homes with gardens at
tached as certain means of encourag-
ing young folks to undertake the really
worth while labor of establishing homes
of their own is hereby humbly offered TO
the organizations which have as their
purpose the furthering of the genuine
welfare of the public and especially the
young men and young women that come
under their influence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
BY ELENE FOSTER

I SAT in the overseas nurses ward
at the Polytechnic Hospital the other
afternoon and looked out over the
roofs of the city to where the illuminated
dome of q great white building shone
like huge opal against the background
of the sunset sky.
Beautiful. isn't it," said one of the
nurses. I'VE call it the Rajah's jewel
cit looks like dream building,' said
another.
1T is" I replied, but it is a dream
come true For I remembered how |
sat in Miss Reds office in the Bush Ter
mina Sales Building, away downtown,
Just about year ago and listened to her
description of the new building which was
then in process of erection on Forty-sec-
ond Street. and which was the latest en-
terpriSe of that wonderful corporation Of
which she is secretary. She told me of
the plans which the corporation had for
the development of certain ideas within
its walls, and | must confess that they
sounded nothing short of utopian. re-
member particularly that she said
Think of what d boon and a blessing
this will be to the woman buyer" And
| somehow got the impression that she
herself was especially interested in this
side of the enterprise, and | still hold to
that impression, though she modestly re-
fuses to take any of the credit for the
success of this branch of the undertaking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

presided over by a very efficient librar;..
The books were carefully selected ns. III
the idea of making it genuine helm and
constructive aid to buyers and mar
chants. 1t includes the latest works ~
advertising, banking, retail SELLING. s~
porting, labor problems, etc., Is well -
those on the various branches of mann
facture, including very comprehensive
collection relating to the textile trades
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
The Tired Business Woman
Comes Into Her Own

Since the erection of the new sales
building, however, conditions have great
y improved for "the tired business wom-
an Instead Of trudglng through the
mud CT dust Of the downtown streets, she
wends her way toward the great Gothic
building on Forty-second Street, where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
rown
Be grooming and

some of her fellow buyers or the people
with whom she trades, and she sits for
long while over her "demi-tasse" talk
ing of the state of the market, the out
look for the coming season and other
business matters in which she is inter
esred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

grounds and fat baby tumbling joy
ously on the grass within sight of a
mother who did not look harassed nor
exhausted, although she might be hang
ing out a Monday wash.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Seventy-hve Per Cent Of
Wholesale Buyers Are Women

Nevertheless, boon and Z blessing
this building has proved, if,dss4s,, to the
hundreds of woman buyers who come to
New York twice every year from all
over the country. And do you know, by
the way, how large a percentage of the
wholesale buyers Of merchandise in this
country are women? am told that rs
per cent Is a conservative estimate, and
that this is not due to war conditions,
either. In point of fact, the number of
women engaged in this sort of work was
rapidly Oh the increase before there was
any thought of war. This is not to be
wondered at when you consider the ex
pcrience which women for generations
have had in this kind of work; when you
realize that from time immemorial the
woman of the family has been the pur-
chasing agent for the home, buying not
only all the household equipment, from
the grand piano III the drawing room to
The dishcloth in the kitchen pantry, but
The raiment Of the entire family as well.
Long experience has made her much
more competent judge of the quality and
durability of almost every kind of mer-
chandise than man, whose knowledge,
after all, is for the most part technical.
No More Chasing of the
Elusive Sample
Before the erection of the Bush Ter
mlnal Sales Building, which, by the by,
IS the first of its kind in the world, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

firms of manufacturers Of infants wear
represented on that sixth floor of the
sales building it will take the buyer
several days to place all her orders, but
think of the time and the strength which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

she saves by being able to do her select
ing all under one roof
AT noon she goes down into the clubs
grill room, where she lunches amid the
pleasantest kind Of surroundings with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

everything, and the cutest garden, An
there's big community greenhouse out
there where they start anything for you!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

An the prices-they amt half what you
have to pay here! Oh, sayi and he looks
longlngly at the mistress of his afTcc-
tons.
And next Sunday out they 20 for to
scc There is Il world Of suggestion in
the adorable little houses perhaps even
crocuses in the grass and lilac bush in
bud What wonder that the young men
and maidens would "sce visions and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

dream dreams and see also possible
realization at the sight of little children
playing safely and happily in sunny play
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

background an unhappy, lonely or ever
an embittered childhood.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
No More Chasing of the
Elusive Sample

Before the erection of the Bush Ter
mlnal Sales Building, which, by the by,
IS the first of its kind in the world, the
The Washington times., 1919-10-11
PLAN CHICAGO TO
miami 'MOTORGADE'

That riding On steel Pullmans and
lounging IA observation cars is not
the last word IA Southern travel, is
the belief Of more than one hundred
tourists who win leave Chicago on
October 20 for Miami. Fla. They VIII
depend on motor cars for their au-
tumn tour de lux over the DiEiahirh
way and through the picturesque
South.
The party win be CD charge OF 3
Chicago tourist agency. which has
chartered ten passenger touring cars
used during the past summer FOR
trips through KeIlowstone Park.
These big motor cars. which are
mounted on three-quarter-ton chaa-
sis and equipped with Goodyear cord
pneumatic truck tires, are now en-
route from the nations most popular
playground
The DiLie-bound "uOtorcads" also
VIII include three n-passehFer
touring cars, owned hy the tourist
agency and a number OF motorists IA
their own automobiles.
Travelling By day in automobiles st
e. leisurely pace and making side
trips TO points OF scenic and historic
interest the tourists win see the
south TO better advantage than b.
train
The members OF the big motor
touring party, in fact agree with
The Washington times., 1919-10-11
MOTOR TRANSPORTS
HURRY SHIPMENTS

/ "OnC OF the greatest demonstrations
iof live stock hauling by motor truck
twas conducted recently at Mason.
Iowa. said Mr.. a. c. Burch. sales
manager OF the Clyde Cars Company.
: AT the conclusion OF the North
Iowa Fair, held at Mason CITY. the
promoters were confronted with the
problem OF returning the live stool,
which had been sent in fol. exhibition.
Il happened that seventeen trucks
sent out on a development tour by the
National Association OF Mortor Truck
Salesmanagers were in Mason CITY
some or these were pressed into serv-
ice and the stock which had been
taken from three to four days TO
come in by rail, were returned to
their farms IN As many hours
AT Rugby, y. D., q similar compari-
son was made between truck and
horse transportation. Just outside OF
Rugby. little more than eight miles.
is the big Whipple farm. One Of the
trucks went out TO the farm and took
load or 5000 pounds OF thrashed
wheat. hauled IL back to Rugby aud
unloaded il in one Of the. grain Gle.
vators.
The trip was made over rough
roads in twenty-eiEht minutes, the re-
turn trip in thirty-two minutes.
Teams took more than two hours to
make the trip one way and two loads
were considered a full days work.
The truck. on the other hand. could
easily have made eight trips a day.
The tour proved in every respect q
biz success
The Washington times., 1919-10-11

great many owners would be entire
Iy satisfied. But the mere fact that
the car consumes less gasoline should
be an indication OF other pleasing re-
suits that 90 with Il. il can readily
be understood that q light weight
started from a rest takes less effort
that u would to start heavy body.
A baby carriage can easily be started
and pushed around. If en- engine
were fitted to it. Il would probably
give $50 miles per gallon.
Motorcycles show 80 20 so miles
per gallon the cycle cars Of few
years ago showed anywhere from %
to 40 miles per gallon. lhe heavier
the vehicle becomes the more gaso-
line is needed to get il started, and
the more Il is needed to keep IL go
ing
Europe has recognized this long ago
anu that Is why the European owner
is very much surprised when be hears
or such high fuel consumption fig
ures as 10 and / 5 miles per gallon.
He believes that 20 TO so miles Is
about what should be had, and he
Is right.
The Washington times., 1919-10-11
AUTO TRUCK TRAIN
GONHNGESFARMER

The >idea OF handling the tremen-
dous movement OF grain and stock
from farm to city by means OF the
motor truck was one of-the greatest
lessons demonstrated by the develop
mentfour OF the motor truck train, =
in the opinion OF H. B. HoaglaHd.
sales manager Of the Signal Motor
Truck Company, Of Detroit.
This train, composed OF seventeen
motor trucks of different makes, was
sent out from Chicago in August BY
the National Association OF Motor
Truck Sales Managers to make a tour
OF Illinois. Iowa. south Dakota, North
Dakota. Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The object vas not to sell trucks but
merely to demonstrate to the farmers
what the trucks can do for them on
their own fields and highways
All along the route the trucks did
actual work for the farmers and the
larger mercantile houses. Where
merchandise was hauled for whole
sale houses, representative Of the
concern rode in the trucks and check
ed up the data When grain and
stock was hauled for the farmer, the
farm owner himself sat on the
drivers seat and experienced the sen
sation OF hauling his products TO
market just as quickly as ne could
travel there himself in his car Ac-
coFdinE to local dealers scattered
along the way. this went a long way
toward breaking down the unTeason-
able prejudice sometimes found
against motor transportation.
The Washington times., 1919-10-11

AUFOMOTTVE
SECTION

Henry Van DYKE thaf l1e ot
ire Journey 81 hot only % reach l.e
goal, but 90 nnd- enjoyment on lhe
WayE
The tentative sc1elnls Tor lfd
1.eoo mile TRIP from chie1ge b
Miami has been 81 arranTod that -
days run win cover more than 800
miles, and an allowances of tuenlr-
i've days Tor the tour win permit
1topoVers and oI.the-route nilFfir1-
ages 90 places of interest Including
the Lincoln Farm and tha Mammoth
Cave in kentucky. che Herritnre ard
ChIczamaugua Battlefield d Lenners
see. and Fort Ogisthorbe and Ander-
sonville prison in GEORGIA
Ahe Itinerary Tor the tour leads
through Indianapolis. French LICK
Louisville. Nashville. Knoxville. Cnaf-
tanoogas Macon, Waldostn- Madison
and Jacksonville % Miami. traVell
down the east coast through rouantfe
ST. Augustine and the two most fr-
nous water places of Ponce de Eeon
lauo--Daytona and Palm Beach
The Washington times., 1919-10-11
CARS Will
USE LESS GASOLINE

Those who have studied the. fuel
problem and carburetion agree that
the modern car wastes far too much
gasoline fPr the work 1t does. Car
buretor engineers have given Us the
best designs they possibly can. the
redners OF fuel arc giving US the best
fuel possible under existing condi-
tions
II one gallon or gasoline now per-
forms only onc-third the work OF
which il is. capable, where Is the two
thirds uastce The answer Is the cars
of. today are too heavy. Lighter cars
viii bring about 50 marked q reduc-
ton In gasoline consumption and 50
many other advantages in perform
ance. Increase OF tire life and Of car
and road life. that the entire Industry
is bound to take up the light weight
question and carry II 70 IFS logical
ends
cars OF the future will be so much
lighter that il VIII be the common &C
curreuce to hear OF thirty miles per
gallon Of fuel instead OF considering
il as a phenomenal performance as at
present
That that can be done by reducing
the weight OF the vehicle IL quite'eas
to see. The greater the load TO DC
started. and carried along on roads
and up hills. the greater will be the
power required, hence the more fuel
the engine will consume. Reduce the
weight OF the vehicle and even with
the same size Of engine you get a
marked reduction in fuel economy.
However. with the reduction In the
weight Of the chassis, there is no
further need for the larger engine in
order to get the same performance as
before The engineer recognizes this,
for be knows the results he viii get
with a given weight per horsepower
and with a given gear ratio.
A few years ago a test car was
driven over the roads OF Long ISL
and and on one gallon OF gasoleIe
this car Travelled over eighty miles
While some OF this distance was No
doubt Travelled by coasting. the great
er part Of IL was done with the en-
Eine pulling
This test car was stripped or body
tenders and many other parts. and
was. lightened to the greatest de-
gree This same car, while not Civ
ing eighty miles per gallon in serv'
ice. does give phenomenal mileage
solely because Of the lightweight OF
the vehicle.
II the reduction in weight brought
with IL only a saving in gasoline. a
The Washington times., 1919-10-11
.AIR CUSHION TIRES
SCORE OVER SOLIDS

How well actual performance hg-
uTcs argue for giant pneumatic cord
tire equipment on medium capacity
trucks which operate over country
roads OF all kinds is evidenced ia a
report recently submitted the Fire
stoe Company on a trip made this
summer by two OF the tire cOmpany's
transcOntinental test trucks.
The trucks, each loaded TO its full
tWO-tOn capacity. were sent into the
West early in July to assist in ship
by-truck demonstrations. One was
equipped with solid tires. the. other
with pneumatics. Operating together
over the same roads and undeF all
other conditions as nearly as possible
the same. the trucks ran up a mileage
or approximately 1900. with these re-
suits IN favor or the one which was
I equipped with pneumatic tires:
Thirty per cent more mileage per
gallcn Of gasoline.
Sixteen per cent more mileage per
gallon or oil.
SeveHty-seven hours less time spent
on repairs.
Under rfmarks on his data card the
operator Of the pneumatic tire truck
made this entry: Truck NJ 81. on
pneumatic tires was in good shape to
run at all time during trip"
As 1t was necessary for the trucks
10 move together, no opportunity was
afforded for obtaining data which
would set forth how much more
ground tho truck on air cushions
. could consistently cover in a working
day in excess or its COMPANION. al
. though increased mileage per work.
7 ing day Is one or the most potential
argument on tho side or pneumatic
I truck tires
The Washington times., 1919-10-11
AUTOMOTIVE
SECTION
WHATIT COSTS TO
OPERATE AN AUTO

bayou know what It costs you to
operate an automobiloo ItIs simple
mstter 70 keep a record. and the hg-
urcs arc likely TO be Interesting. A
record Of the cost Of operation OF varf-
Gus makes Of cars would probably up
set a good many illusions. now in
the ~ no of the average person
great many people lay stress
upon the gasoline consumption as re-
CARDS the cost of operating an auto
mobile. Others figure on the basis
- on economy. Others on the Initial
cost of a car. others on the case on
tires.
The only way, however. TO get an
accurate idea OF the operation cost
rs to keep a technical account OF
every item Of expenditure. and of the
mileage Travelled in order to ascertain
the cost per mile.
A. s.. Johnston, OF Los Angeles, Cal.
drives a 1919 model E1issel.
Accurate Record.
Mr.. Johnston has kept an accurat te
account OF every detail OF expense in
connection with the operation OF his
automobile for a period Of four years
continuously. He has driven his car
4e.006.2 miles> He has used 2.2g4 gal