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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Organize to Improve
Silverware Conditions
III. A. MacEarand Heads Asso.
citation of Manufacturers
lust Formed

The Sterling Silverwarc Manufacture
ers is the name of a new organization
that has been formed in the icwclry
industry, with headquarters at II
Maiden Lane. II. A. MacFarland. of the
Mount Vernon Company Mount Yer
non. n y, is president of the associa-
tion, which has for it's purpose the i'm
provcment of general trade conditions
Other officers are Charles W. Harman
Alvin Manufacturing Company. IL
Maiden Lane, vice president; W A
kinsman, Towlc Manufacturing Com.
pany, Ncwburyport, Mass, treasurer;
Frederick S. Taggart, Is Maiden Lane
secretary. and George Carlton Com
stock, 6S William Street, counsel.
The board of directors is composed
Of Messrs. MacFarland Hartman
+. A. Howard, Frank NJ Whining Com.
pany, North Attlchoro, Mass. George
{. Lunt, Rogers. Lunt &, Bowler Com
pany, Wallingford, Conn; H. b
O'Brien. international Silver Company
Wallingford Conn. and Alfred X. Pot
ter, the Gorham Manufacturing Com
panY, Providcnce r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
ColOrs
american Companies Are
Watching Steps Taken 10
PreUent Foreign fnuusion

Cheap grades Of coors, principally
blacks, blues, reds and greens, are be
ing bought in the American market in
large quantities by cotton dyers in
South America, India and China. Amer
lean exporters of dycstuffs are looking
forward to substantial orders from the
latter country, which is one of the
largest consumers of coloring materials
in the world and which prior to the
war provided a large outlet for Ger
man color products.
interest in the trade here is at pres
ent centred in the methods to be-
adopted to exclude foreign dyes, espe-
cially the German variety. from the
American market. The belief prevails
that dyestuffs manufacturers in Ger
man Austria will become intensively
active, now that the trade blockade has
been lifted, and that they will make
every effort to establish their product
in the American market. 1t is against
this and other entertainments that the
American industry is now seeking to
guard itself
British dye consumers. it was stated
by an authority yesterday, are purchas
ing heavily in the Swiss market. In
this connection the statement was
made that one of the most famous Ger
man aniline dye factories in Basel
Switzerland, had recently undergone q
reorganization. It's board of directors
Js at present composed entirely OF
Frenchmen, while many Of the German
stockholders still retain their interest
Practically the entire output of the
plant Is now being purchased by Eng
ilsh and French consumers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Textile Mill Shares Steady
Ludlow ''Righls" Sell at Z in
the Boston Market
business Neus Bureau


BOSTON, April 5.-Three hundred
and twentyfour textile mill shares
besides 100 rights to buy new stock
of the Ludlow Manufacturing Asso-
GATES, were sold at the stock auctions
here this week. There were few
changes in prices, except in the case
CT the Dwight Manufacturing Com
pany, which was sold at $1,000 (par val
ue 5000, a decline of 80 points.
Three New Bedford mills figured in
the sales; three shares of the common
stock Of the Quissett Mills. selling al
22o, an advance of 4 points so VAN
sutta Mills going at 1201a, decline of
2}2 points, and one share Of Nonquitt
Spinning Company bringing 1926. de-
cline of 3 points. Quissett common is
an active stock, and the shares are
nara to obtain, especially since an
extra dividend is anticipated.
Rights" of the Ludlow Manufacture
ing Company sold at 67s. and private
sales are reported as high as 7. At
that the purpose for which the issue
Of S2,000,000 of new stock is planned
viii be made public
Stock OF the Pacific Mills not offered
at the auction sales is exciting great
interest among investors 1t has sold
privately at 1861 ex-dividend, com
pared with 1907 in February. Indica
tons are that there will be "a distribu-
ton of accumulated earnings soon
The company has total surplus and
reserve Of more than $18,000,OO0. It
is we'll known that this corporation
owns large amount of Liberty bonds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
.Jewelry
More Business in Siiuer
Than Manufacturers
Can Handle

Silver and silverplate manufacturers
have been so pressed with business
during the last few months that sev-
eral of the larger concerns have been
forced to refuse orders or to accept
them only with the understanding that
deliveries would not be made for two
or three months. An added stimulus
has been given their business through
the unusual demand that has come
from retailers and dealers for silver
ware for June weddings. One big
slVersmith declared that the outlook
for June business is excellent and that
orders already received for silverware
for delivery prior to that month are
greatly in excess of those Of other
years.
Retailers arc particularly anxious
to obtain the better grade articles
Manufacturers are receiving large or
dcrs for plated ware, but because Of
the accumulation Of orders since the
signing Of the armistcc they have been
unable to keep up with the demand.
Flat ware. knives and forks, etc, are
in particular demand, one company re-
porting that on one pattern alone it
IL 5000 behind orders. labor that
entered other fields during tho war is
slowly returning TO the silvcrsmiths.
and the manufacturers expect that
they VIII shortly approach a normal
production basis. With the price Of
silver regulated by the government the
silvcrsmiths say that it is not possible
for them to make any reductions to The
trade at this time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Suggests Credit ReyisiOns

Credit informations should be re-
vised and attempts of buyers to in
crease their orders beyond normal ca
.pacity should be checked, according to
1.-THE Bulletin" of the American Mems
and Boys Clothing Manufacturers As
soeiation. The article containing this
advice was written by Miss julie Sim
son, credit manager for j. Schoene-
mann, Baltimore.
THE past two years Of unusual bust
ness activity" says Miss Simson, "show
q comparatively small percentage of
Business failures, while he prevailing
trend, on account of the reconstruc-
lion period, predicts Il somew what gloomy
aspect for business failures; this re
action IL more likely to occur in the
latter part of 1919.
'.ln pursuit of safety and success
combination Of ideals-weed out those
accounts that have continued chroni-
caiiy slow during the prospe rous bust
ness period, and watch the credit limit
OF those accounts to return TO the level
Of the prc-war period. but in determin in
ing this limit the purchases in
units should be compared with those OF
the prewar pcdiod. Wherever there is
\ tendency 70 increase over the nor
mai requircmnts, rduce orders to con-
form with the merchants past capacity
Not the least important. however,
should be tho thorough revision Of all
Erecit Information 10 enable the credit
nfantof TO thoroughly and intcIligontiy
study sll phases OF the risk"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
United Waist League to Open
Soldiers Employment Bureau

An employment Office for returned
soldiers who wish to obtain positions in
the waist maintaining industry will be
opened this week by the United Waist
League of America. The request that
such action be taken by the league
came from Captain Wiley, of the Nth
Division, which viii return home with
in a few weeks. Many of the boys of
the division were employed in the gar
mcnt trade before entering service.
Tomorrow the advisory council of
the service bureau of the league will
meet to act on a plan to issue form
letters to retailers notifying them Of
complaints regarding their business
conduct made by manufacturers. Com
plants Of unjust returns Of merchan-
disc and similar trade abuses viii be
made public in the letters, and retailers
who chronically practice trade abuses
viii be listed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Tanning Exports Drnn

Exports of tanning and dyewood ex-
tracts from the United States are said
to be steadily falling on. Consumers
in foreign markets are again looking
to the pre- war source of supply, Ar
of the materials used by tanners. such
as chestnut extract. oak bark extract
and hemlock The importation Of the
latter into the United States WAS pro,
hibited during the war and domestic
consumers obtained their sunnlies
from producers here The Ouebrscbo
Works in Argentina, the largest BRO
ducers in the world of these materials.
are said to have large orders on hand
from European consumers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Business Honey

lac commercial paper market last
week fell to d s.agnation which has
been the greatest in weeks. perhaps in
years The deadlock is both ON the
side of business and on the side of the
banks. Many business houses do not
want to borrow money They are not
asking for it. The buyers of CONNER
cial paper houses have to exercise more
persuasion than the sellers. And the
strangest part of all is that there is no
unanlmlty of opinion among CONNER
cial paper brokers as to why business IS
not borrowing. A month or two ago the
almost unanimous opinion was that
business was not borrowing because
there was no business. II was said to
be hesitating, waiting for war prices to
come down. 1t did not want TO take on
new stocks. make them into finished
goods ana then find when the goods
were made that raw materials had 50
fallen as to bring finished goods to a
price where there was no profit.
The next thing business was blamed
for waiting for was the termination of
the peace conference. It wanted peace
definitely settled 1t wanted to know
where it stood. President Wilson's abb
sencc in Europe, the adjournment Of
Congress without voting funds for the
railroads, the lack Of knowledge Of how
the railroad problem and the multitude
Of other reimbursement and reconstruct
ton problems were to be sovcd were
supposed to have left it up in the air.
Now commercial paper brokers have
come TO doubt both thcsc theories. If
they are not wrong, they are at least
inadequate. They do not explain the
greatest monthly exports in all our his
tory. They do not explain unprccc-
denied bank cIoarings. They do not
explain an enormous retail trade.
Brokers arc coming more to the cx-
PLANTATION that borrowing is so bad for
the very reason that business is so
good There is an amazing abundance
Of money in the pockets Of the people.
Long time payment periods have been
cut down to short time payment
periods. Collections were never SO
prompt When a business mans collec-
tions are good he does not have to Dor
row so much. An unusual quantity of
notes is being antic pated.
The bank acceptance market is in the
same position as the commercial paper
market on the supply side, and for the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Holland Rubber Trade

Only 464 tons Of crude material were
distributed to the rubber manufac-
turers Of Holland during 1918, accord
ing to Commercial Attache Paul l..
Edwards, al The Hague The annual
report of the Amsterdam Association
for the Rubber Trade for the wear
ending 1913 shows that the restricted
activities Of the trade in 1917 wero
not improved in any way in 1918. Nc
rubber whatever could be distributed
to factories except under the very
strict Netherlands Oversee Trust con
ditions. which made trading in rubber
impossible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06

tons to the needs of the buyer, In
the past they made their product, and
the general attitude was that the Gus
toner should take it or leave it, Pur-
chasers for the army and navy in
sisted on having changes made to meet
their special needs and got the manu-
facturers used to red tape which is
a necessary evil. Some red tape and
adjustments to meet customers re-
qurements are necessary in dealing with
foreign peoples, and we should recog-
nize the fact"
Mr.. Emery said that his company
was already beginning to get salts
factory orders which were postponed
during the war years. From the orders
received, he deduced the fact that
there was much activity on the west
coast of South America, in Cuba, South
Africa, China, and other countries out
side Of Europe. The chief hesitation
he said, is in Europe.
Asked about the prospects for
domestic business, Mr.. Emery said that
his concern felt SO optimistic that it
had stuffed its warehouses with stock
to get ready for the great expansion
anticipated
The Dodge company make equip
ment for the mechanical TRANSMITS ion
of power in factories, and their orders
are therefore baromctric. indicating
the ger eral state Of industry. About
so per cent of the domestic business
of the company consists of emergency
orders, and it therefore concentrates
on quick distribution. The other 90
per cent consists Of advance orders for
extensions of factories and for the
equipment of new factories.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Chemicals
Export Buying Of Fertilis.
ers about Only Actir-
ity in Chemicals

Fertilizers continue the only active
products in the chemical market The
demand for them is chiefly on export
account Spain, Italy and South Amer
lean countries are taking large guam
titles Of sulphate Of ammonia and
other prepared fertilizers from the
United States, while the demand from
these countries for soda ash is said to
be growing The Dutch East Indies
are also buying fertilizer in the Amer
lean market. Japanese dealers are
said to be meeting with little success
in their efforts to market chemicals of
which they have large supplies on
hand in this country.
Citric acid, which showed consdcra-
bic weakness during the last week ow-
ing TO the arrival of large importations
from Italy and England has again be
come hrmer. and ~ now quoted at from
Sl.22 TO Sl.24 u pound.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
About to Close Books
= On Cloths for Fall
American Wooden Company
Reports Orders Enough on
Hand to Keep Mills Busy

The American Wooden Company,
which has taken the lead in selling
woollen goods this year, is almost
ready to close its order books on NOR
chandise for next fall, it was learned
yesterday at the company's office.
The company now has little to
offer in the way Of cloths. and many
lines have been entirely sold out All
the cloakings and other women's wear
fabrics that the mills can mako for
next fall have been disposed of, it is
said The company now is sending out
combinations and revisions of orders
On some cloths, particularly fannels,
orders have been cut down consider
ably. The orders on worsteds arc said
to have been confirmed nearly as first
written. Some clothing manufacturers
report that orders they placed with the
company for woollen suitngs have not
been cut down as much as they antic-
pated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Trade Notes

The Milbrook Woollen Mills, which
has catered exclusively to the mems
wear trade, will enter the women's
wear field. Within the next few DAYS
the company will announce the open
ing of cloaking department in charge
OF j. j. Hattenbrun, who has been con
nected with prominent woollen selling
agents here for the last twenty years.
For the present the company will Of
fer only cloakings in "Frostonc," a
velour-like fabric with silver sheen.
The name OF the new cloth is reg
stered trademark.
Frank f. Bowe, who has had many
years experience in Oriental trade,
has been appointed Far East represent
alive for the Export Finance Corpora
ton, 40 Wall Street. and will sail from
Seattle on April IS to open Offices in
Kobe, Japan, and Shanghai, China.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
BUSINESS NEWS BUREAU:
Tribune Building
lS4 Nassau Street
Shortage of Cloth
Curtails Output
OF Mems Suits
Retailers Now in Market
Find Scarcity of Spring
Clothing, Which They
Failed to Order Last Fall

Lack of a sufficient supply of cloth
Is the only thing that is preventing the
manufacturers of mems clothing from
dong record-breaking spring business,
according to William Goldman. of Cohen.
Goldman & Co. This concern is one
of the largest in the country engaged
IN the manufacture Of mems clothing.
The spring season, which normally
closes around Eastertme, will have to
be extended this year if the retail deal
ers are to get all the clothing they
want" said Mr.. Goldman yesterday.
I'VE, started last fall to make spring
clothing on a restricted basis. We were
still in the war then and prices were
high. Few of the manufacturers ex-
pected to do normal business. There
was not surplus of raw materials on
the market. Then came the armstice
Inc immediate result was a trade stag
nation. Buyers hesltated to come into
the market and trade in what they be-
lieved would be a falling market. Later,
though. 1T became apparent that the
prices for spring and summer clothing
could not fall to any great extent and
the retailers began stocking up in small
quantities. These orders in most cases
were barely sufficient to cover the re-
taiiers' needs at the opening OF the
spring season. When they began show
ing their goods to the customers they
found the men of the country ready
and willing to buy. The retail clothing
business in spring merchandise has been
exceptional and the retailers have been
driven back into the Wholesale markets
in search of more goods.
Labor difficulties held up production
for several weeks and there was a
shortage of good clothing in the whole
sale markets. AS soon as our labor
troubles were adjusted we began going
ahead full speed, but we cannot keep
up with the insistent demand from the
retailers. There isn't enough cloth to
be had to fill this demand. 1t is posi-
bic that some of the materials which the
clothing manufacturers ordered for use
this fall will be made up into summer
clothing"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Shoe Hospitals
Are OyercroWded
With Patients
Repairing of Footwear Now
Regarded by Manufacture
ers as Essential Service
as Well as Economy

War has taught that there is econ
omy as we'll as comfort sn the wearing
of old shoes. This lesson, in fact, has
been learned 50 we'll that the repair
shops are working overtime rebuild
ing shoes, which in many cases would
have been discarded in times gone BY,
because they had begun to show signs
of wear.
The higher class Of shoe manufact-
urers, far from being discounted by
the widespread adoption of this policy,
have taken an active part in en-
couraging it. Repairing departments,
thoroughly equipped with ali the ma
chlnery necessary to reconstruct old
shoes. have been established by a
number of large concerns The shoe
manufacturers nave come to consider
repairing q service which customers
nave right to expect from them, and
realizing that the taste of the average
American in footwear is fastidious
they have developed the shoe hospital
idea TO the point where the patients.
no matter how badly broken down
when they enter, come forth almost
us SOOu as new.
Like Pressing Clothes
There is no reason why man or
woman should not have their shoes
repalred,' said John NJ. Coward, GEN
erai manager OF the James S. Coward
organlzatIon ut follows the same
principle as sending a suit or dress
, the tabor or the cleansers. A re
Maple repair shop gives the same con-
Of c,
the tailor or cleaner to a suit and
dress In measure our repair de
partment was established so that our
customers would not permit their
shoes to 90 into the hands of the ordi-
nary cobblcr.
During the last year our repair bust
ness mas increased about 100 per cent.
Our work in this department now in
cludes putting new lasts, new welts, a )
wen as new bottoms, in shoes in fact.
they are virtually rebuilt. When one
considers that an average new pair of
shoes costs about $40, the economy of
having them resoled for SO is evident.
we handle from 300 to 500 repair Jobs
a day, but we don't make any profit on
tins kind of work, as we look upon it
as an item of service to customers AT
that, 1t costs the customer 81 NOR
than it did before the war because of
,"c present TABOR and material mar
ket'
All Items More Costly
Mr.. Coward holds little hope of shoe
prices being reduced for some time to
come and passes over the labor end of
the present situation by merely re-
marking that his workmen are "now
drinking their luncheon coffee from
thermos bottles. instead of TASKS, as
they did few years ago in discuss
ing the increased cost Of material en-
tcrinG into tho manufacture of shoes
Mr. Coward declares that kidskins and
calfskins. which five or six years ago
he could buy for 25 cents 81 foot. now
cost 80 cents. Sole leather formerly
could be bought for 80 cents a PAIR
The pair now costs 81. he said. What
are known as "top pieces the bottom
lift on heel, used to cost cents,
while now they sell for II cents
Nails he said, "now cost about
100 per cent more than they did before
the war, and there are other items"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Larger Buying of
Cotton Goods bv
South i'm Prospect
Meeting of Southern Dry
goods Association This
Month Expected to Stimu-
late Dealers to Action

Business conditions in the South
have frightened remarkably in the past
month, according to Norman II. John
son, secretary of the Southern Whole
sale Dry Goods Association, who Wis
tied this market last week.
Business operations down our way
he said, "havc speeded up spcndidly
In the early part Of February trade
slackened in the South but later in
the month an Improvement began.
high levels attained in the early months
of 1913. Inc peak this year was
touched within the last three weeks
1.-The South was never before so we'll
supplied with money as at present, and
the large surplus stocks which were
held by iobbers have been reduced to
normal levels. Southern buyers will
make purchases in the New York mar
ket until IT,. first of June, and buying
will probably become more active after
the convention of the Southern Dry
Goods Association terminates on April
IS at Louisville.
There is a growing demand in the
South for the better grades of mer-
chandisc, and Southern merchants are
insisting upon receiving goods which
iii other days they did not seek. With
prices stabilized, orders will be placed
by Southern merchants, and the cotton
mills will resume operations on a ca
pacity basis. AS soon as the peace
treaty is signed, raw cotton will sell, |
believe, at much higher prices than the
spectators now anticipates
Buyers take the view that the mar
ket in cotton goods has, in the MAN.
been stabilized by recent reductions in
prices. In some fancy high-grade mate
rial there will be reductions for the
fall buying season, but these hardly
will be made until the middle of May
Business has been standing still in
the New York market for the reason
that prices had been entirely too high
Jobbers who purchased in january
found that when the goods were de-
hvered, sales to retail dealers had to be
made that wiped out profits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-06
Wool Council of England
Want Yarn Exports Limited

The fixing of an aggregate limit for
the export of woollen and worstcd yarn
and the abandoning Of the system of
rationing by countries are called for in
a resolution passed by the Wool Coun-
ell in England The resolution has
been sent to the War Trade Depart-
mcnt as a guide to action in that de-
partment. according to cable advices
from American Consul General Skin