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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
F',lrs
Manufacturers Of Furs
Busy Preparing Their
Sample Lines

Next month should mark the open
ing of the active fur manufacturing
season in furs. At present the manu-
facturers are Interested solely in
sample lines. Within n month the de
mand for particular garments will be
established and the makers will then
be in the market for the raw material
Maynard Miller, president, and
Charles s. Untermeyer. treasurer, of
Maynard Miller Company, Inc, fur
manufacturers. sailed for Europe yes
terday where they will visit all of the
large fur markets to investigate style
and other conditions revelant to the
fur business. They expect to be gone
about two months. Mr. Miller reported
yesterday that merchandise that has
been stagnant for some time. notably
German fitch NOV known as Liberty
fitch) and mink is now in great de-
mand. For summer wear Mr.. Miller
said that moles and squirrels in cape
effects will be popular, while next fall
and winter should see dolman coats
and coates in high favor with the
consumer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Metals
Copper Price Reduced to
Is Gents, but Little
Trade Results

The lie ding copper companies yes
terday again reduced the price of the
metal, some small sales being recorded
at Is cents. which is from a quarter
to half cent below the previous price.
Even this reduction, however, does not
attract large consumers. 1t was re-
ported THAI one transaction was com
pleted yesterday for the metal at Is
cents, delivered at the purchasers
plant. While the quantity involved was
not large. the conditions of the sale
actually brought the price of the cop
per below Is cents.
Small sellers were yesterday recorded
as selling the metal regularly at -
cents. also delivered, which means that
the price paid was between 14s4 and
as cents a pond, according to the
distance the shipment has to be made.
There were no other features in the
metal market yesterday. Trading was
dull, except in lead, for which there
is fairly active demand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Government Sheepskins Go
To Successful bidders

Awards have been made to the sue
cessfu bidders for the shearlngs-
sheepskins tanned with wool owned
by the government. The quartermaster's
Office made the following awards:
Milwaukce Tanning and Clothing Com
pany Milwaukee. Wis, IL cents per foot
TOR all on hand by them OH 1000: l.. f.
Robertson & Sons, New York, $4,000
rect at 20 cents and $1,000 feet clip
pcrs at 10 cents; Guitcrman Brothers.
st. Paul. 10000 shcarlngs ut 17&
cents, 50,62S feet mt % cents. 2l2.650
Feet al u cents, 49, 600 feet at Is cents,
a ,,l, 100000 feet mt 10 cents; Joseph i.
" brlon Company Boston. 212O feet nt
~ cents; Canadian Glove Company
winnipeg, 10000 feet nj 1919 ccnts.
AL rejects at cents: l.. Frank Sad
dlery Company San Antonio. 5000 feet
az IS cents and Gordon & Ferguson
~ raul' 1900 feet at % cents, 23d 900
MT 20 cents, 100000 at 20 cents and
0,0O0 at Is - cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Furriers to Start
Training Schoolfor
Returned Soldiers
While Learning to Become
Skilled Workers Those
Who Take Up Trade Will
Be Paid Living Wage

At meeting of the Retail Furriers'
Association of America. Inc, last
night at the Hotel McAlpin, tentative
plans were adopted for the establish
ment of school for the training of
furrier workers, and particularly sol
diers returning from France who want
TO become skilled in this Industry
During their terms as students these
soldiers and others will be paid about
$40 week. 1t is expected that the
man OF average intelligence can come
through the school sufficiently skilled
within three or four weeks to earn
from $50 to $50 a week as a worker
The school is to be established by
the retailers to serve the twofold pur-
pose of filling up the depleted labor
forces in the fur industry. and to de-
velop larger number of skilled work
crs. Several hundred furriers at
tended the meeting. at which G. r.
Clayton, director of United States
training service of the Department
of Labor outlined the plans and
methods of establishing school such
rs the furricrs have in mind. Mr.
Clayton assured the retailers Of the
full cooperation of the government of
fees. The school Will be located in
VIEW tlk anu Will NC supported ny tlt
furriers association. No tuition fee
will be charged students and an espe-
clal effort will be made to have return
ing roldicrs become interested in the
fur business.
Last nights. meeting was the frat
held by the Retail Furriers' Associa-
tion of America. The new organization.
which han been in the formative stage
for several months, Ia said to have u
membership of about ono hundred. in
Guiding the leading fur retailers in
New York There are about one thous-
and retail furricrs in Greater New
York according to Jacob NJ Xnamcn,
counsel for the association. and it Ia
expected that most of these concerns
will become affiliated with tho new
trade body.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Rubber
Buying of NaraI Types of
Rubber 4 pparel Is
Large

Wholesalers of rubber clothing are
receiving unusually large orders for
the navy type of apparel. This is
attributed by G. L. Vanderbilt, man
agcr OF the clothing department Of
the New York branch of the United
States Rubber Company, to the number
of men now being graduated from the
schools for nautical instruction. In
Mr.. Vanderbit's opinion, the fact that
the naval forces are not being de
modified as rapidly as those Of the
army. has helped to keep this branch
of the rubber clothing business NOV
ing. Men joining the merchant marine
service also have found it necessary
to buy rubber apparel.
But aside from the sale of naval
apparel. there is little activity in the
rubber clothing business, according to
Mr.. Vanderbilt. The clements req
ulate the fluctuations in the de
maud for this type of clothing
and as far as the New York
district Is concerned this winter has
been good one for the consumer. but
a poor one Cor the manufacturer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Amoskcag Serges for Fall
Wear Are Withdrawn

The Amoskcag Manufacturing Com
pany has withdrawn it's lines of French
serge offered for use during the fall
OF 1919. No more goods of this char
actcr will be offered by the company
before the next spring season which
Will open up in July or August.
The action of the company in with
drawing the lines is significant in that
it means sufficient orders were taken
from the time the lines were opened
about a month ago until the present.
to keep the mills making the serges
busy for the next four months at
least.
When the company announced prices
on its sergcs the trade generally con
sidered 1.-THE figures as remarkably low.
Few sergcs for next fall besides the
Amoskeag and American Woollen Com
pany's product offered last week have
been placed on the market.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

do not tie up funds, and the bank can
Withdraw its loan any day. Rates on
two to three month loans on the Stock
Exchange also increased, and it was
found necessary even to raise the rate
on British Treasury bills in this mar
kct from to 5l2 per cent.
This shortage in funds has reacted
upon the bank acceptance market. A
bank acceptance is nearly as liquid as
call money because if the bank finds
that it needs funds, it can take it's
acccptanccs to the Federal Reserve
Bank and rcdiscount them. The ac-
ceptance has also the advantage of
better security but when it's interest
rate is more than 1 per cent below
that of call money, bankers become
less interested in acceptances. The
market on tho first day of last
week was practically at a standstill.
On the second day it was unsettled by
the increase by one dealer of lie Of
per cent in the rate, though the dealer
the next day came back to the old
basis. On Thursday and Friday the
demand was much better
The week brought forth two promis-
ing DEVELOPMENTS for the longer future
Of the acceptance business in America
One was the removal by New York
banks of the collection CHARGE of 40
OF | per cent for bills payable ut-of-
town, and the other was the announced
establishment of discount company
in st. Louis, similar to the Discount
Corporation of New York. to be follow
ed by one in Chicago, and within a few
months, if the movement is successful
one in every Federal Reserve Bank
city
The range of rates for the week, for
two, three, four, five and six months
commercial paper, was GA to 51a per
cent, compared with S to 5l2 per cent
the week before.
Prime trade acceptances, fifteen to
ninety days, were to 5la per cent.
Sixty to ninety day acceptances were
to ~ Endorsed trade acceptances
were 4 Y per cent for all maturities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Art of Wearing Clothes Gut
Into Women Apparel
Styles Achieved by American Designers Prove So
Irresistible That Dress and Cloak Manufactur.
DO Record Breaking Business

to my mind outweighs all the others.
1t Is that this GEAR there Is q real
style incentive in womens clothes. To
the style expert there is marked diff
ference between the style and cut of
garments that were produced during
the war period and those of the coming
spring season. Although there has
been a dearth of new fabrics and a
shortage of many of the standard
American designers have achieved bet
ter results than ever before, and with
little inspiration from France to help
them.
Style, you know, is essentially i'm
aginative. 1t is hard to define and
harder to attain. Style does not nee
essarily mean something new. In fact,
all that is new in style is merely a
development of old ideas. This spring,
for instance, the leading style in won-
ems cloaks is the dolman effect, de-
velopmcnt of the old talmas and the
Arabian burnoose. The dalman cloak is
not adapted directly from these gar
ments; its prototype is found more
in the shawls worn little half d
century or so ago by fashionable
women. The principal feature of these
shaWls was their graceful Rugged in
appearance at the waist line. when the
arms and hands of the wearer were
properly held. 1t took real fashion
leader in those days to so drape her
shawl and carry her arms to give this
effect. Now this hugged-in appearance
is cut into the garment itself The
American designer has so constructed
these coats that any woman can look
graceful in them. and not merely the
woman who had the natural graccs and
art of wearing clothes, ms was the case
in the old days.
"1'hnt Is merely one instance Of
what has been achieved along the line
of style. 1t is small wonder then that
every woman. wants thcsc new gar
mcnts and will buy them If she can.
Call II vanity, or what you win, women
like TO dress as we'll rs they possibly
can, and when the designers nnd gar.
ment manufacturers bring out np-
purcl Of rcnl style merit, business IS
bound to be good"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Business Money

The most significant event Of the
week in the market for commercial
borrowings was tho increase Of rate,
which for most business firms Of good
credit is now "a per cent. The rate
has risen in spite of the fact that the
to borrow was not increased, and the
amount they wanted to borrow has re-
NAMED as small as ever. Only few
weeks ago the banks. throughout the
country we're reported to be more anX
ious to lend their money han bust
nessmcn were to borrow it. CONNER
cial paper was readily absorbed. The
reason was that business had slack
ened, that loans necessary to carry on
a large volume of business matured,
were paid, and were not renewed, so
that banks found their funds coming
mback to them and piling up; and the
business Of a bank is to have its money
always out and earning a return.
But the banks now, particularly those
OF New York, are not greatly interes-
ted in commercial paper. The reason
lies in government finance. The Vic
tory loan draws every week more near,
and as it approaches, the volume Of
Treasury certificates of Indebtedness
which the banks must hold in antici-
patton of that loan becomes greater,
until the banks now have about ST.
OOOOOO,0O at Az per cent tied up in
this way. Then too, the heavy tax
payments are now due. and banks must
put themselves in q position to help
their customers meet them. Finally,
stock market activity in the past two
weeks has broadened, and that usually
absorbs increased funds.
The increase in the call money rate
to w per cent for Stock Exchange
loans secured by industrial company
stocks on Monday was partly the re-
suit of an accident; but banks have
been able to get 512 and 6 per cent all
week for loans which have this advan
tage over commercial paper, that they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Sale of Machine Tools 10
French Dealers Sanctioned

The French government, it was an
nounced Yesterday. has given its sane
ton to the purchase of S40.000.00O
worth of machine tools and agricult-
ural implements by French merchants.
according to advces sent to the War
Industries Board by Bernard NJ. Ba-
ruch. In order to get this business
credits for one year viii have TO be
granted by American manufacturers
Under the proposed arrangements
American firms would deal with
French consumers direct, as was the
case before the wal
Large quantities of cotton arc also
required by France, and negotiations
may be opened in the near future for
this product, transactions to be sub
ject to similar conditions those in
volved In the possible sale of the ma
chine tools and agricultural implc-
mentS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

Buying of women's apparel in vol
ume surprising all former records Is
actuated by three distinct and con-
Rapport, one of the leading manu-
facturers of cloaks and nantes.
Manufacturers Of women's gar
ments are having the best season |
can recall in the twenty years of my
experience in this industry" said Mr.
Rapport, yesterday. "Thc market is
filled with retail buyers who are plac-
ing large orders for merchandise for
spring. They are forced itto buying
heavily by the demands being made
upon them by their own customers. We
hear the same story from all the buy
ers who come into our establishment.
clothes and they want the II now.
"My observations lead me to be-
lieve there are three reasons for this
heavy demand for women's garments.
The first is that a large percentage
Of women refrained from buying
clothes during the war period. Now
clothes and stylish garmentl were not
looked upon with high favor then, but
now there is no excuse for the woman
who can dress we'll but who does not
In short, whatever ban there was On
stylish garments mas been llttcd, ana
fashionable women have been quick
to take advantage of the new order
Of things.
"1he second reason for this revival
in dress, as see it, is a desire on the
part of American women to dress up
for the boys who are returning from
overseas. There Is scarcely "a village
or hamlet in the country that has
rot at least one or two soldiers re-
turning from Europe. 7 he women
members of their family <ent to APP
pear ut their best whon these boys
come homo. Accordingly they buy new
clothes. Other women in the same To-
tulity will not be outdonc by these
few and so they MISC purchase new
gnrmonts The thing is cumulative,
a study in crowd psychology. Once it
IS started it GNin9 Roadway of it's own
weight.
"Now tic third reason is ono which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Raw Wool Imports

The importatjons Of raw wool into
this country during the month Of De
cember, 1918, amounted TO 35.l46,9 oi
pounds, according 10 the figures issued
by the Department Of Commerce. More
than 29,000000 pounds Of this came
from Australasia &nd South America.
Australia gent i3,63O,l02 pounds and
New Zealand 2,l59,z pounds From
the Argentina we imported 7.Gfs, 1896
pounds The total Of South American
wool imported amounted TO 1885, 1896
hounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Steel Men TO Discuss
RcdGcId Price Plan

Representatives. Of the American
steel industry will meet next Thurs
day To take action on the proposal of
Secretary Of Commerce RcdGcld for
the sterilization of prices The date
for the meeting WAS set yesterday by
Judge Ebert IL. Gary, chairman of the
board of directors Of the United
States steel Corporation.
Steel producers are ANXIOUS to bring
about price conditions which will
bring the railroads into the steel mar
kct. The railroads are reported to
have taken only 6 per cent Of the 1919
steel output, against normal annual
consumption of 35 er cent. 1t is not
expected, however, that business from
this source will be forthcoming until
railroad finances have been rcadjusted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Burlap Trade Dull
Prices Have Been Declining
for Three Months

Trade in burlaps largely used for
making cloth food containers is dull.
Prices have been steadily declining
the last three months. Material 40
inches wide and weighing 8 ounces
10 the yard was quoted yesterday at
a cents yard, against 10 cents a
yard IN July, 1918. A finer grade of
burap than this has receded from
"A p cents yard to 1912 cents ward.
-, Importers have suffered large losses.
They imported goods in Quantities
from Calcutta, India, during the war
period in order to insure sufficient sup
plies of food containers for the in
dustries of the United States.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Limit on Footwear Exports
TO Norway Taken OFF

1t was announced by the Tanners
Council yesterday that the plan of the
war Trade Board. under which only
rubbers were permitted to be cxportcd
to Norway, has been changed and that
these three commodities are now on
the nonration list. This means that
there is no limit placed on the quan
uty of footwear which may be ex-
ported to Norway. 1t is still necessary
for exporters in this country to obtain
export licenses covering these items
and 1t is also necessary that the i'm
porters IN Norway obtain import Ger
uIicates as heretofore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
English Textile Men ORGANIZE

Textile manufacturers in Bradford
England, the centre Of the British
woollen industry, have established a
National Wool and Allied Textile In
dustrial Council to consider wages,
hours of labor, working conditions and
benefit to the industry as whole
Employers and employees are repre-
sented equally in the council, which,
in addition to settling labor disputes
which may arise, will supervise the
training Of new employees in the trade
and viii make comparative studies of
the wool industries IN England and
other countries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Meetings and
Conventions

A shipping conference to be at
tended by representatives Of the Unit
cd States navy. the Shipping Board
and the Railroad Administration will
he held at the Hotel McAlpln on Tues
day. March 4. under the auspices OF
the American Manufacturers Export
Association. This conference will be
preceded by "A luncheon Mt 1880
Following the luncheon the members
viii be addressed by Rear Admirpl N.
H. Ush"f commandment Of the Third
Naval District. who viii dcacfibe the
activities Of the navy and tho auxiliary
merchant marine during the war,
Others who are expected 10 speak are
i, H. itosscter, director of operations
for the United States Shipping Ron rd j.,
Conrad T., Spcns OF the United States
Railroad Administration and Joseph
Slechta, vice president OF the Gano
Moore Coal Company.
a joint meeting Of the Institute OF
Radio Eng and the New York
Electrical Society will be held on Wed
Societies building at which Roy A.
Wcagant, chief engineer of the Mar
conf Wireless Telegraph Company Of
America, will read Il paper.
The recent announcement Of Mr..
Wcagants discoveries and inventions
in connection with wireless tcegraphy
created worldwide sensation.
The United Waist League Of America
held the first Of a series Of conferences
with the important silk manufacturers
OF the country on Friday. The object
OF these conferences, another Of which
will be held this week, is 10 obtain
information regarding prices and the
possibilities Of changes in the future.
After the conference Of this week the
league will advise its members as TO
the proper courge to pursue in placing
orders for new stocks of raw mate rials.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Drugs in Active Demand
Supplies of Important Botanical
Kinds Are short

Proprietary medicines and drugs ~
all kinds are STA ia great demand
throughout the country, Dealers are
gradually replenishing their stocks
which were depleted because Of the
influenza epidemic.
The shortage of several important
drugs is reported. There have been
meagrc shipments Of iplcac from
South America, while the supply Of
ergot is far below normal owing 10
the failure Of Spanish crops. Quininc
supplies are coming in slowly. the
product being shipped from Java by
way of Japan. The demand for
quinine in all sections of the country
continues. Manufacturers are gener-
ally oversold as far as their capacity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Raw Silk Imports i'm 1918

imports of raw silk into the United
States amounted to 1856 ,453 pounds,
valued at $lS0,2O9,537 against 36,5O2 1881
pounds costing $1sA,2o3.1S3 in 1917.
Last year Japan supplied 27,074,811
pounds, the equivalent of 85 per cent
of our total imports, and she received
therefor $15d ,6S0,51O. In 1917 Japan
exported to the United States o,306,-
022 pounds of raw silk, tho value of
which was $l51.47G.2G2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
japanese Silk Men Coming
to Study Industry Here

Nineteen prominent representatives
of the Japanese raw silk industry nrn
expected to arrive IN this city on
March IL. The silk Association of
America will give the visitors ii dinner
at the Hotel Astor tho evening of
March *. Tho object of the visit il
to enable the Japanese delegation to
obtain better understanding of the
American silk industry and to promote
tho mutual interest of the trade in
general.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

question:: ! am connected with a
concern rs salesman and receive n
r'Hlh percentage Of the profit as my
salary
J. ! nm puzzled whether should
use the blanks for income tins not
more than $1,000, or the blanle for
hlgher amounts, ne Mt the present mo
'noht do not know the result Of my
not tAS,
:, | bought rent ESTATE in 1909, which
cost me- about $4,000, IN 1913 had
bid of $4,000 but refused such bid
ms considered the value $4,000 at
that time, Since then tho conditions
or the general property wero 80 poor
That sold the real estate for $4,000,
consequently shall record the de
duction on this transaction nj 5000.
3, have another property which
cost me about $4,000 that il, had
to foreclose mortgage to buy the
property in. Such property is now
worth not more than about $1,000.
Can deduct the loss Of $l,700?
4. nm also the owner of another
property through being forced to fore
close n mortgage. and on the actual
sale Of which | lost about 81 100. This
undoubtedly can also be deducted from
the income?
HHSWcTS. VI INC 9o,uVU limitation
in connection with income tax returns
applies To the amount of net income.
and not to the amount of tax.
GU Where property has been sold
which was purchased prior to March
l, 1913, the basis for determining gain
or loss shall he the fair market value
as OF that date. CD No dcductible
loss arises In connection with property
until such property has been actually
sold. (U Yes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Copper " ages Cuf

CALUMET, Mich. March Ten
thousand men are affected by -
per cent cut in wages. announced TO
day by the Calumet and lIccla aud
subsidiary companies. II is said that
the average cost Of producing copper
since November has been higher than
The present marlct price
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Buyers Wants

tANliRl'S WANTED Open for whitc sc inch
cahMic. 6iN1o. immediate delivery must 10
cAoUr Send sample and beat prize. Lester Hell
lnenurr Co. Nosion. Mass