New-York tribune., 1919-06-13
py1sTNESS NEWS BUREAU. {.
Tribune Building
l54 Nassau Street
Surplus Navy
Flannel Brings
Over S2,OOO,000
High Prices Bid by Clothing
Manufacturers and Piece
Goods Jobbers; Over
100000 Y ards S Sold

More than 100000 yards of blue
A.nnel was sold here yesterday by the
limited States Navy Department. This
was enough material to make uniforms
for almost 100000 American sailors.
The goods ultimately will be converted
into civilian clothing. The govern
ment realized more than s2,000,000
from the sale When the bids were
opened at the Brooklyn navy yard it was
found that air the goods, which were
Of eleven-ounce weight, could be sold
for s2.27 yard and more, although the
minimum of S2.13a had been set in
the terms of the sale. The highest
bid was 1926 yard. Between twenty
five and thirty woollen cloth jobbers
and clothing manufacturers were
awarded various lots Of the cloth.
The prices received for the goods
we're much above the figures named
by woollen mills when they first offered
Aannels to the trade in March. Pres
ent prices for the best grade of fan
uels run as high as $3.50 yard.
Details of Purchases
Included in the offering were about
100000 yards from the Metcalf Mills,
2o,400 yards from the Cleveland Mills,
le,3OO yards from the Ellis Mills, 109,-
800 yards from Deering, Milliken &
Co., 1926 yards from Talmage &
Farnsworth and $4,000 yards from the
Ethan Allen Mills. Two-thirds Of the
Metcalf Mills cloth was unshrunk. All
the other mills cloth was shrunk.
The largest purchasers were Henry
Sonneborn & Co. and Frankel Bros,
clothing manufacturers, and Herring
BIOS. and Rittenberg Bros, woollen
|, foods jobbers. Unshrunk cloths from
the Metcalf Mills brought the highest
prices Frankel Bros. took 100000
yards of these at 1926 and 10000 yards
at s3.11. Rittenberg Bros. took $4,000
yards at prices ranging from $3.129s
to s3.25ls a yard.
Metcalf's shrunk cloth brought from
s2S7 to S2.96 a yard. Among the pur-
chasers and amounts they took we're
Henry Sonneborn & Co., $4,000 yards;
Schwartz G. Jaffe, 5000; Perry &
Frank, 5000; Herring Bros, 6,7oO, and
J. C. Brownstone, 1000.
OF the Deering, Milliken & Co.'S
cloth, Herring Brothers were awarded
$4,000 yards at s2.33 yard and Rit-
tenberg Brothers $4,000 yards at S2.37
yard. These two firms were large
purchasers of the Talmage & Farms
worth fabrics, Herring Brothers taking
10000 yards at s2.27 yard and Rit-
tenberg Brothers 1926 yards at an av-
erage of s2.35 yard.
Over One Hundred Concerns Bid
Herring Brothers were the largest
purchasers of the Ethan Allen Mills
fannels, taking 100000 yards, almost a
third of the entire Offering from these
mills, at S2.84 yard. Rittenberg
Brothers paid an average price of s2.93
for $4,000 yards. Michaels, Stern &
Co., Rochester clothing manufacturers
took $4,000 yards at $286, and A
Schapp got 10000 yards for s2831a q
yard.
The terms of the sale called for g
deposit of 10 per cent of the total
amount of the bid When the bids
were opened more than S1,5o0,000 had
been deposited. According to officers
in charge of the sale bids were re-
ceived from 103 different concerns.
The navy still has a surplus of ma
terial on hand which will be sold later
The next offering will include IL and
IS ounce navy blue serges, 10000 yards
of flannel similar to those sold to-day,
80 ounce overcoatings of blue melton,
shoes, black venetians used for lin
ings, cotton wadding and khaki can
vas. These will be sold at auction by
Burling & Dole in their salesrooms,
b99 Broadway, on June &c.