Republican farmer., 1919-07-25
VISITING BUYER HAS NO INTEREST
 IN DRY NEW YORK
Happy Days Country Folk . Once Had There Appear
 Things of Past.

Prohibition in New York either
 closing or desolating the places
 where the lights used to shine the
 brightest threatens to change the
 whole system of New York's great
 marekt
 The visiting buyer threatens no
 longer to come here. but to demand .him.
 The dreary du1lness of the cabarets and big restaurants during the last week is regarded as proof positive that the expedient of their proprie- tors in raising the price of everything else to make up for the 90 per cent cut in profits charged to the demise of liquor will not work with the pub lie The emptiness of the many tables is not due to any midsummer dull ness. New York at the moment is entertaining-cr pretending to en- tertain-a daily average of at least a hundred thousand visiting buyers. These persons, men and women. for merly used the occasion of their an nual or semi-annual trip to New York as their one opportunity for a fling. Free from the restrictions of sewing circle gossip in the dry home town, they dressed in their best and did a splurge here, frequently as the guests of the big wholesalers from whom they buy.
 This season these wholesalers have by no means diminished their ap- for entertainment But as one man who sells hundreds of of dollars worth of winter goods Tnrfncr season said .yesterday:
 An old friend of mine from Spr1n gfnld, 1ll., told me last night that she could have a better time at a cider party back home than at the cabaret took her to. And my check for the evening was more than the nifty dollars I spent in taking her to dinner the year before. I guess I agree about the cider party too. You can't shake the shimmy on tea-and somehow. or other it doesn't seem half so funny to watch 1t with roth- ing but French pastry to attune the nerves on. As for jazz music-well. you've got to put something between the ears sturdier than a couple of Eustachian cubes to get any pleasure out of that"
 The visiting buyers are still to be ''NSi Nti III uItIllnlSnlng mum beTS at the gay places, but they are not even dressing up for the party the way they used to and one look at them shows that they are having no such del!riolls time as prompts them to forget to ask for discounts The sellers were perfectly willing to take a chance and spend their money to see whether napkins and food and soft drinks and jazz and atmosphere would have the desired effect. Most of them confess themselves beaten after a couple of trials.
 So the wise ones are already con templatins taking their whole lines on tour. New York, they say. will still remain the centre for the crea- ton and exchange of ideas and for of certain lines But they predict that selling will have to inces. Some of the bigger buyers, of course, will come here strictly on the business of getting birdseye view of the market. The others, who are wont to combine the birdseye with a rose tint and bleary eye, will prob ably stay some.
 The same conditions are reported from a half dozen other great market centre cities of the East in despatches received yesterday. Both there and in New York the places which ca tered to entertainment as well as to eatfuC are raDidly closing down