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New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Teachers for Department
Stores Are in Demand

The demand for educational directors
and teachers in retail dry goods and
department stores throughout the coun-
try exceeds the supply at present. Mrs.
Lucinda Prince, educational director of
the National Retail Dry Goods Asso-
citation and head of the Prince School
in Boston, said yesterday that she had
sixty-eight applications for teachers
and class of but forty-five from which
to fill the demand.
Mrs. Prince yesterday addressed stu
dents of the Teachers College, Column
bia University, on the opportunities
offered in department store educational
work. Next Saturday she leaves for the
Far West to address merchants and
school authorities in Spokane, Seattle,
Portland and California in reference to
establishing training courses for store
educational teachers in the schools and
colleges.
More than 200 graduates of the Prince
School are performing educational di-
rectors' work in stores throughout the
country.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Business Money

The volume Of business in the COM
mercial paper market of Monday was
fair, as volume is rated nowadays, and
demand was also fair. A few new
banks entering the market in New
York are offset by few withdrawing.
The main market of the commercial
paper broker continues to come from
out of town. The rate at Chicago is
still about 514 per cent. In New York
the rate is 5h and practically all bills
go at that figure, though a very excep-
tional name with a maturity of not
more than four months will 20 at 5A
per cent.
Commercial paper dealers are now
beginning to view the lack of borrow
ing by business as something strange
and unaccountable. They affect not to
know where business is getting the
money from. Business men, for one
thing, seem still to think that money
rates are due to come down, notwth-
standing the approach of the Victory
Loan and the conditions caused by the
failure Of Congress to provide an ap-
preparation for the railroads.
Business tomorrow is expected to
be exceptionally dull, resembling a
Saturday. While the banks will be
open, not many Of the buyers are ex-
pected to be found at their desks, and
If they are they are not expected to be
IN the mood to buy.
Some bank acceptance dealers found
a fair demand for bills yesterday. but
in general there was little happening
either way. Demand was dull and not
many new bills were coming out. The
compe tition for the limited supply of
bllls has been so keen that some
houses are alleged to have been buying
them at a price to yield practically no
profit to the broker at ALL The broker
felt sure of selling them and wanted
simply to keep things moving, and to
show list of names which he could
take pride in. The European situa
ton and the Bolshevk uprising in
Hungary were given rs reasons for un-
settlement in yesterdays market. But
the dulness was accentuated because
TO day fell between a holiday and a
quasi holiday. Some dealers think if
possible that the bank acceptance mar
ket may be good to-day. AS the Stock
Exchange will be closed and the banks
open there will be no outlet for call
money, condition which may lead to
bank acceptance demand.
Brokers still wait hopefully for the
bills to be issued against the Belgian
credit, and for the bills to come from
the delayed shipments from the Argen-
tine.
Fifteen to sixty days prime trade
acceptances were quoted at 505M per
cent; sixty to ninety days, 5M51a per
cent; indorsed trade cceptances, AZ
per cent, all maturites.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
TELEPHONES.
Beekn1an 8243
Beeknlan 5000
Mill Shares Stronger
Demand for Shares Taken =.
indication of Prosper;,v
Business Netcs Bureo,

Special Correspondent
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, March o.
Another unmistakable evidence of
fidence in returning prosperity in ~.
textile business is manifest hera =
the strengthening demand for m;,
shares at ever-increasing prices. Mor.
notable in the advance of the nas, g..
days has been the startling rise :,
Manomet stock, which has touched y,
high water mark of 155, betterinc -
best previous figure of 1921. wb;.s
was reached in 1918 boom times
recent statement by this corporate,
showed s4.269,940 of net surplus a,
quick assets over quick Liabilities =,
over million and quarter in exco,.
Of the entire capital stock.
Further foreshadowing of fu,rs.
profits is manifest in the lively demanss
for stock of the Nashewana, Nonor;s.u
Sharp, Qnissett and Booth mills. WIKI
Merchants, Flint and Weetamoe lesS
ing among the Fall River mills. ThaS.
are all sorts of rumors of melon cuts
ting in the near future, but il sseno.
likely that none will be made until tbc
taXability of stock dividends is fnalIo
determined.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Schedule in Bankruptcy
Bradley Assets and Liabilities

Following receipt of a preliminary report re-
gardng the assets and Liabilities OF James Brad
Federal District Court Yesterday made permanent
the appointment of Stephen L. Hopkins. John s
Sheppard and George C. DeLacoy rs receivers IN
the equity suit brought by john 10y. a creditor
OF 1893 l-3 shares OF the common stock of the
Bradley Contracting Company which the receivers
say Ought TO be worth upwards OF 81 GOO 00O:"
forty-two shares of the stock Of Bayley nipkiiis
Inc. having 10 nominal value and ten shares OF
the Ecallaw Company which owns property in tina
Fort Washington section. worth between Slio. 600
and $500 coo.
Although Bradley Kept no books or accounts thc
all MS obligations TO consist of bills and notes
PAYABLE amounting TO S55 800 and his contingent
nsDily or notes OF I. T.. Bradley Contracting
Company. bradley & Weed. Fiss Doerr 4 Car,
gregatng 81 .257 .0S6 ~ "
The receivers also report that the Endorsement
OF OF notes of the Bradley Contracting Company for
S,i Sa.ots;.oo, OK bradley & Weed for So. 500 Of
are likely 10 prove 70 be liabilities IN view
ol INC adjustment of the contract recently made
by Bradley N Weed with the State OF New YORK
ana NE composition agreement OF tho creditors of
the bradley Contracting Company
Out of Town
TROY n Y. March 24-Rc.cree IN Bank-,p.cv
Mns rS III ihis city to-day received and accepted the
credtors Of the Moose River Lumber company. Of
which former Governor John A. Dix was ur,.,bleu.
and which failed for $500. 400
frustee fifty shares of preferred Iro,,,,ns Puio and
faper stock. part OF the of the lumber com
tsany "a G, We're sold at auction for s75 share and
OF the bankrupt concern sold for S. 60 The roport
oi M tne trustee showed about s9l .0000 10 apply On
aoiiities ia. OF the concern Attorneys representing
aggregatng So. 900.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
BUSINESS NEWS BUREAU,
Tribune Building
154 Nassau Street
Passaic Mills to
Resume Operations
On Spring Goods
Orders Still ON the Books
When Strike Was Called
To Be Filled First; No
Fall Openings Are Likely

Filling OF orders for spring goods
still on the books. rather than fall pro-
duction, is the first consideration Of
the woollen mills in the vicinity Of
Passaic, n. j., which have resumed op-
erations after u strike of more than
two months. These mills turn out
the highest class of women's woolen
dress goods made in this country
When the strike came it caught the
mills with many spring goods orders
still untitled, and until these are out
OF the way, it is said, there will be
little or no production OF heavier
weight materials. Probably in month
or so these mills may start their pro-
duction of fall cloths
Few of the half dozen mills affected
will hold formal fall openings this
year, it is said, but win mako up fall
materials and sell them as produced,
rather than take orders for future de-
livery.
ut is the only safe course for the
mills to follow now," said a representa-.
tive of the Gera Mills yesterday. "La-
Dor and raw material costs are still
problematical and cancellations on fu-
ture delivery orders are encouraged un-
der the unsettled conditions. We don't
intend to place ourselves in a position
where cancellations can be made, and
so viii sell goods only when produced
by the mills
Continuing its low price policy, the
American Woolen Company yesterday
offered woollen suitings for fall, 1915,
the product of ten different mills, at
prices ranging from 81 1a cents for
three-quarter width goods made by the
Hecla Mills, to maximum of $3021a
for high class full width goods from
the Chase Mills.
Buyers regarded the offerings as
good value and the sales during the
day were said to be large. No direct
statement concerning the composition
Of the fabrics offered could be obtained
from the company, but buyers said that
most Of the cloths, with the exception
OF the Chase and Lebanon fabrics were
manipulated, that is, made of wool,
cotton and shoddy. Even for manipu-
lated fabrics the prices were regarded
as low.
The high and low prices of tho -fa-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Chemicals
Large Sale Of Sulphuric
Acid by Macy Depart
nlezlt RepOrted

The navy last week sold 1000 tons
of sulphuric acid (oleum) and $50
tons Of mixed acids to one of the large
dealers in this city, it became known
yesterday.
These chemicals were to have been
sold on sealed bids, but the offerings
received by the Navy Department, it
Is asserted, were so low that bids
were returned to the senders with the
request that better prices be offered
for consideration. Some dealers, fol-
lowing this suggestion, renewed their
bids at higher figures, and the chemi-
calls were disposed Of, the bulk of
them going to two New York houses.
The prices offered are said to have
been much higher than was the case
at the recent sale Of chemicals offered
at auction by the receivers of the
Aetna Explosives Company.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
The Tribune Page of Business News

Certainly, and highly beneficial, in nv
Judgment. That to me is the shortest
cut to let the Japanese know what
America demands and let America know
what Japan can do in serving her.
Service is the cellar and roof of trade.
We over there in Japan have come
to realize this pretty thoroughly now.
Unless we make money for our Amer
lean customers, unless we can give them
what they want, there can be no such
thing as permanent trade between us.
Time was when some OF our people
we're won't to gold brick themselves
with the old, old dream of the get
richquick fraternity, known as the
one-sided profit. No more Of that now.
| am all for a joint action with Amer
lca-in a practical and profitable way
profitable to both sides. If we think
that we can not bring that sort of COM
bination about, then we might just as
we'll quit troubling ourselves about the
permanent American-Japancse under
standing"
This is statement. The value OF
it depends altogether on the ability of
the speaker to "dcliver the goods"
Therefore it is important for the
present interviewer to present Mr..
lmai in his various activities. Be-
sides being the managing direc-
tor OF the karakura Company he
is the chairman OF the Matsumoto
Chamber Of Commerce, counselor of
the Yokohama Silk Conditioning House,
director Of the European and Ash
attic Sericulture Company, Ltd; the
managing director of the East Asia
Raw Silk Syndicate, director of the
Meiji Hydro Electric Company, Ltd; a
director of the Japan Mutual Fire IN
surance Company, Ltd.-to mention
few of the positions he holds. In
short, Mr.. Imai, while modestly dis
claiming all the magic arts of a mira
Gle worker, is quite able to give flesh
and bones to what he thinks is both
wise and profitable, especially in the
field of making and selling silk Amer
ican-Japanese combination in this par
ticular line of trade, therefore. is
about to pass from the realm Of
dreams.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Charges Grocery Houses
With Unfair PRACTICES

WASHINGTON, March pa CON-
plant was issued to-day by the Fed
eral Trade Commission against the
McknightKeato Grocery Company,
wholesale grocery house of Cairo, Ill.,;
the Scudders-Gale Grocery Company,
of st. Louis, with branch in Cairo,
and Ray L. Hosner and Thomas W.
Watson, co-partner grocery commits
sion agents of Cairo. The complaint
states the commission has reason to
believe the concerns arc engaged un-
lawfully in conspiracy to hamper and
obstruct a certain competitor.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
COlors
Demand for DyestuGs
From Passaic WoolIen
Mills Reported

simultaneously with the announce
ment thet textile mills in the Passaic
district will resume the manufacture
of high class womens dress goods,
dealers in dyestuffs reported an in
crease in orders for coloring materials.
One large dealer has cabled to Switz-
erland for shipments of dyes. He
questioned the statement that Swiss
dye manufacturers are producing COL
ors with the use of German interme-
dates, since he had no difficulty what
ever in obtaining import licenses from
the authorities at Washington, which
would not be the case if the Swiss
were using materials bought from the
enemy. He also called attention to the
fact that the Swiss manufacturers had
bought large quantities Of intermedi-
ates from England as we'll as from the
United States.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Australians in Market
For Toilet Preparations

Manufacturers of face powders and
other toilet preparations of similar
nature are receiving large orders from
Australian firms. The market for these
goods, as we'll as perfumes, is said to-
be large IN the Antipodes. Austra!ian
buyers who have come to this country
IN search OF general merchandise, it is
said, have been impressed with the
products Of the American perfumcrs
and toilet goods manufacturers. A
growing export trade to Japan and
South America also is reported
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Trade Notes

B. 3. & r. knight, Inc. manufac-
turers or bleached cotton fabrics, an
nounced yesterday that they were pre-
pared to sell a limited quantity Of
thirty-six inch Fruit of the Loom" at
1919 cents a yard. The Messrs. knight
stated that when they have taken what
they deem to be sufficient volume of
orders at the reduced price, the quo
tation would be advanced to 20 cents a
yard, which will be the firms lowest
price for the remainder of the spring
buying season.
The National Retail Dry Goods AS
socation viii remove it's Offices from
the Aeolian Building to the Fifth Ave
nue. Building next Friday. The new
quarters viii give the association
ample room for the new departments
soon to be installed under the expan-
sion plan ratified at the recent ma
tional convention.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Trade Commission Issues Order
Against Lumber Company

WASHINGTON, March 24.-The Fed
eral Trade Commission to-day issued
an order to the J. Fl. Patterson Lum
Der Company, Of Marengo, ILL.,, "for-
ever to cease and desist from sending
or causing to be sent to mail order
lumber houses harassng letters con-
tanning spurious requests for esti-
mates. prices or other information in
tended only for bona fde customers" :"
The order, the commission announced
resulted from the failure Of the pat
terson company to answer complaint
within the required thirty days.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Exports of Knit Goods

Exports of knit goods during the
month of January this year were
valued at $3,156,70s, against $3.50, ,7O3
III January last year. Exports last
Januay included s72,2O5 dozen pairs of
cotton hosiery. valued at $2,481, ,939,
compared with 533,5lo dozen pairs
valued at $1,101, 1881 in January, 1918.
Our best customers for knit goods in
January this year were Australia and
Argentina, the frst-named country
having purchased goods valued at
$667 ,05A, while Argentina bought s644,-
i5S worth. In January last year Aus
tralia purchased from the United
States knit goods valued at S15S,619,
While Argentina bought goods that
cost S1G2, ,596.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Countrywide Protest Against

For the purpose Of putting before Con
gress a countrywide protest against
the luxury tax which goes into effect
May / the National Retail Dry Goods
Association has prepared card which
will be distributed to customers of re-
tail stores. The card will inform the
customer that he or she has just paid
the luxury tax, and detachable por-
ton can be used for registering en- in
dividual protest against the tax. The
cards will be sent to more than 10000
retail merchants in the country. VINO
will distribute them to customers upon
the payment of the tax after May /.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Working for Better Quality

"'What about the American criticism
and complaints against the Japanese
SIX What are we doing to improve
the quality of our silk at home Well.
we try to improve the breed Of silk
worms by crossing and we arc trying
n number of things to make the fila
ment uniform. AS for the American
complaints against the Japanese silk,
our customers are polite and gentle
vh., WITH US always, although they don't
exactly make state secret Of their
complaints. But all in all nothing
serlous-complaints about fine ends.
nodes and uneven quality Of threads.
and so on.
"There is one curious thing have
noted among the American BUYERS.
When they see the goods marked with
the name OF a certain producing dis
trict-'Shlnshu' for example they
are of inferior quality Nothing is
further from the truth. Shinshu, or
almost anywhere else (of course with
certain rare exceptions where unusual
local conditions prevaiD can produce
different grades of raw silk Shinshu
Tor example can, and does in fact, pro-
duce. Xxx crack as we'll as an inferior
quality. This sort Of prejudice on the
part OF the buyers proves detriment
to that particular district. When the
buyer looks for nothing but inferior
quality from a certain district, it dis
courages that section to produce
inner quality. for the simple reason
their goods do not command q higher
prlce, although the quality is unques-
tionably there.
"Our American patrons complain Of
the violent fuctuaton of the market
price of silk at Yokohama. There is too
much speculation, entirely too much
gambling about it to please them. They
are absolutely right. Only we manu-
facturers of silk are much more dis
pleased at the speculative side of the
commodity than our American friends.
And let me say right here that we have
been studying the situation for years
and We shall never neglect opportuni-
ties to bring about definite change in
that respect. / think we shall do it.
and very soon. The Fundamental
trouble, Of course, has been the lack of
adequate capital among certain weaker
brothers in the ranks of reelers and
producers. For purely financial consid
Grafton some of them are forced to
sometimes throw their goods on the
market, breaking the price. But condi-
tiohs are changing over there, and for
the better. A''
"As in number of other enterprises
OF magnitude, ! am On enthusiastic de-
yotee to the doctrine Of the American
Japanese combination in silk business.
mean nothing less than the partner
snip in financing and management Of
companies devoted to the manufacture
and sale Of Japanese silk. Fcasiblc?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
New Jewelry Sales Service

BY April the cooperative sales SER
vice for jewelry manufacturers Ss will
be in operation on the nineteenth f,oor
oI M the Bush Terminal Sales Buildiny
Inirty firms will be represented in the
cooperative service, while individual
snowrooms will bring the total number
o OF Jewelry firms represented on the
dhe lines will represent a complete
aahss IN Jewelry for both the foreien
ana ,l1 domestic trade and will include . II Il
hinas aa OF Jewelry with the exception os
diamonds and platinum. S''" %
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Mill Architect Killed
Business Neacs Bureau
Sp,rinj <{,a,-o

Special Correspondence
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, March "a
Charles w. Praray, one of the most
successful mill architects in Massa-
chusetts, was killed in an auto acci-
dent here last night. He designed the
large Booth mill and the Neild mill of
New Bedford and the Pilgrim mill of
Fall River, and did much to adapt old
textile mills to the requirements de-
manded by modern working conditions.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
By Adachi Kinnosuke

CILK is the diplomatist among COM
modites. Like American cotton,
it is prominently international
Often it IS born under the thatched
roof Of poor farmer in an obscure
village, but always it is destined for
great overseas adventures. And Co.
suke Imai, Senator Of Japan, and chief
Of the honorary commission which is
investigating conditions in this eoun-
try for the National Association of the
Raw Silk Industry Of Japan, expects
great things of the fragile product of
the silk worm. He believes, literally,
that through it will be brought about
better, saner and much wider appre-
citation Of America by his countrymen
and of men and things Japanese by
our American friends.
"In American-Japanese relations silk
should do great deal. AS silk is the
flower of textiles as we say at home,
and even as it is the most important
product we have as far as our exports
are concerned, so the United States is
the flower customer in this product"
Mr.. 1mai told me yesterday. eve are
producing now little more than $780,
100000 WORTH OF silk annually. The
United States takes about $150,OO0, 900
worth. That is to say, our American
customers take nearly rs per cent of
the total. And rs have said, silk is
by far the most important item in our
export trade. You can at once see in
what esteem we hold the United States
among our patrons.
ut has been wonder to me that
more japanese silk manufacturers and
traders have not come to visit America,
and oftener. They should. The COM
ing of the present commission is
tardy recognition of this fact. We
should understand the ever varying
conditions of the American market;
should study and constantly watch it.
We are far from having done this in
the past. Our neglect on this point is
little short of incredible, and certainly
inexcusablc, but from now on | do sim
cerely hope that we shall improve on
this point.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
Japanese Producers ProsDer

Can Japan supply the ever increas-
ing American demand for silk? NV
answer is, yes-as far as | can see
now. Or course, there is the vital
question of the cost Of production
Ine cost Of labor in japan in the rails
ing OF worms and the production of
cocoons has increased more than 100
per cent since the beginning of the
great war, The manufacturing cost
~ steam natures has doubkkl also. 1t
~ improbable that silk win ever 10
New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
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