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New-York tribune., 1919-06-26
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Note the djHercnf distances
af which khe various workers
Use their eyesight.
In the fitting of eyeglasses
for special occupations we con-
slider carefully the distance at
which the wearer intends to use
them.
For example bookkeeper
requires that his eyeglasses be
fitted for a longer working
range than would be necessary
for an engraver.
With us, every factor that
bears upon the comfort and
satisfactory use of the glasses is
carefully considered.
1t is this close attention to the
seemingly unimportant details
that has helped to make ours the
Largest Optical House i'm the
World.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-26
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~ West 81 St. uear McCreery & Co
81 East 23 ST.. near 4th Ave
50 w. l25th St.. near Lenox
Az C0ltim Ave-. 81 & 81 Sts.
20 Nassau St.. near John St.
i405 st. Mich. Ave-, i8O & 1871 Sts
2629 Broadway. SO & 100 SITS
1907 Broadway. nr. Wi1lo'by. Bklyn
480 Fulton St. opp. A. & S.. Bltlyn
683 Broad ST.. next to Bedell. Newark
New-York tribune., 1919-06-26
ssVOrauaerts'' Calls Treaty
Only a Scrap Of Paper

BERLIN, June "a (Delayed) (By The
United Press) s).-The Berlin "vor--
warts" Majority Socialist organ, to-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-26

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New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Textiles
Cotton Goods Dealers
Seek to Put Check on
Speculation

Demand for cotton goods yesterday
was keen. Buyers from widely separat-
ed sections of the country were in the
market. Nearly all of them had to seek
the leading jobbers and converters. be-
cause the mill agents were unable to
consider their needs. Visiting repre-
sentatives of jobbing concerns Journey
ed from house to house in order to
amplify their purchases of finished
fabrics for prompt and near future,
shipments. Many of the sellers were
chary about taking all Of the orders
they were offered. These refusals to
accept additional business were based
on the desire to curb speculative buy
ing as yell as to conserve supplies for
steady customers. Consequently where
buyer offered to taks 100 cases he
was reminded that not more than twen-
E-five cases would be allowed him for
the present.
Even remnants we're quickly picked
up for eventual sale on so-called bar
gain counters. One of the leading SELL
ers asserted that buyers who, in normal
times, were won't to quibble about
prices were now paying without q mur-
mur the present inordinately high fig
ures asked in the trade.
Demand for gray or unbleached d
fabrics lacked snap, the mills being in
conspicuous as sellers, while offerings
by second hands were not large. Where
converters or spectators sold these
goods the business was put through at
about "A cent yard under the prices
quoted by the mills.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Buyers Strive to
Place Orders for
Spring Woollens
Selling Agents Say Flood of
Inquiries Now Coming In
Indicates an Active Sell
ing Season

Interest in the wooll.n goods trade
centres on prices and production for
the coming spring season. Clothing
manufacturers and retail merchants
are besieging the offices of woollen
goods selling agents, seeking to place
orders, or failing that to get some
definite information regarding what
each mill will produce and how prices
Will run. From the early inquiries,
according to the mill representatives,
the demand for high grade goods will
persist through the coming spring
season as it has through the present
fall season. Selling agents who were
asked why their mills did not turn
to using lower grade woods in view
OF the fact that the supply of these
is larger than that Of the better quail
ity fibres replied that the labor cost
IN producing even poor quality goods
now makes them appear high priced
in comparison. For spring, apparently,
there will be no low priced goods on
the market, no matter what the quail
ity may be.
Each day now sees more mills al
loting spring goods to favored Gus
toners, it is said, although many of
their mills have accepted no orders
or that they ere not at liberty to dis
close information regarding the book
ing. of spring orders. Orders placed
SO Var, it is said, cover mainly the
staples, such as serges, twills, trico-
tines, ETC., which change little in color
or weave from year to year.
Both mems and womens clothing
manufacturers are displaying great In
terest in offerings of summer cloths,
such as Palm Beach, mohair, crashes,
hop -sacking, panama cloth, ETC., for
next summer Many Of these fabrics
made with a cotton warp and wool or
mohair filled offer the cutter up a
comparatively low priced medium with
which to work.
Out Of town garment manufacturers,
particularly from Cleveland, Chicago
and st. Louis, are said to be more
active in the local piece goods market
in purchasing now for next spring
than are members of the New York
trade. A large manufacturer of pile
and novelty fabrics said yesterday
that Cleveland garment makers had
ordered large quantities of his ma
terials for delivery late this year.
These fabrics, he said, would be used
in making up spring garments for the
early trade.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Out-of-Town Buying of
Fall Garments Is Brisk
New York Retailers Not Yet
Active in Market, Say
Jobbcrs

Brisk buying Of women's garments
for fall by retailers from all over the
country marked the opening of the
fourth week of the present season
Some manufacturers were inclined to
think that activities yesterday eclipsed
those of any previous day.
1t is said that the large New York
retailers have not yet come into the
market for full stocks, their purchase es
SO far being confined to relatively
small lots of the highest priced gar
ments for their early fall openings.
"The New York stores will come
into the market later" said a manu-
facturer of coats and suits yesterday
"and when they do they will pay higher
prices than the out-of-town merchants
have have paid and are paying now. The
New Yorkeys are sticking to their old
polieJ of buying in small quantities
and buying frequently, since it is easy
for them to be constantly in the mar
ket''
Buyers from out of town are show
ing a disposition to take more Of the
good quality merchandise than in
previous years. Some of them say
that last year the only garments left
oH tHclr hdHOS AT tne enQ or Cne sea-
son were of the cheap and poor quality
class: Manufacturers, quick to sense
the direction of the trade. are catering
to the demand for good quality, and sew
eral of the concerns have brought out
garments of better fabrics, style and
workmanship than ever before. The
highest price asked in this market for
a suit at wholesale is said to be $245.
A manufacturer who produces coats
suits and dresses says that the sale Of
coats and dresses exceeds that of suits
by 30 per cent, in spite Of the fact that
the strongest consumer demand is in
dicated toward suits.
Many manufacturers are reported to
have ceased taking orders for gar
ments, having sold up their possible
production for the season. The buyer
of garments, though, has no difficulty
in finding others who have merchandise
to sell.
"There is no need of any retailer
going without Stocks" said one manu-
facturer. "While good merchandise is
not abundant, it can be found, and in
greater quantities than some producers
would like to have the buyers believe
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Jewelry
British Diamond Syndi-
cate Again Aduances
Its Prices

Advices just received by importers
state that the British syndicate has
again advanced prices for diamonds
An increase of 10 per cent, it is re-
ported, has been made for large stones
and. 20 per cent for the smaller sizes.
The latter, it is explained, are becom-
ing so scarce that many jewellers have
found it necessary to substitute dia-
monds of the larger sizes in brooches
and other settings Of that class.
In general the scarcity of diamonds
in the leading markets of the world
has become so pronounced that the
British syndicate, importers assert,
holds the upper hand and is able to in
crease prices whenever it feels that the
trade will acquiesce in the advance.
With the demand for precious
stones apparently increasing on all
sides, the importers do not see any
thing to prevent further rise. All
the demand, they say, does not come
from those who buy diamonds and
other precious stones just because
they can afford the luxury of wearing
them, but good share Of it repre-
sents investment purchases. The ex-
pectation of profits by the latter class
of buyers has been fully justified in
the last few months.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Metals
Copper Prices Hold
Steady Despite Let-Up
in Demand

Copper selling agencies show no In
clination to make price concessions,
although the market has quieted down
considerably in the last week. The
leading interests yesterday quoted spot
copper at 23A to 1914 cents a pound;
August delivery at 1914 to 23% cents,
and September at "a cents. Few Of the
large producers are quoting metal much
beyond September delivery.
Announcement that the government
surplus Of 100000 pounds Of cop
per had been sold did not cause much
comment in the copper trade. 1t was
known last month that practically all
Of this stock Of the metal had been
sold at considerably less than 20 cents
a pound. Most Of the copper that has
been sold above "a cents pound has
been metal owned by the producers.
Predictions were made In the trade
yesterday that copper would be bring
ing 30 cents pound before the end Of
the year.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Export Buying Often
Conceals Its Identity
Many Clocks Bought by Job.
bers and Mail Order Houses
Find WAY Abroad

When is domestic order not a do.
mestic order? This question was an
swered yesterday by representative
of one of the largest American clock
companies.
Manufacturers" he said, "are list
ing all goods sold to jobbers and mail
order concerns as domestic. This
should not be. Foreign buyers who
have been unable to place their orders
with these manufacturers have visited
the jobbers and, although they are
paying IN some cases as much as 20
per cent more than they would pay to
the manufacturer, are placing heavy
orders. Mail order concerns are also
doing considerable business through
export channels. These companies
place enormous orders with the manu-.
facturers, who list them as domestic
while the goods are really being sent
to foreign countries.
"Of course this does not mean that
the American clock dealers are suffer
ing any harm through these foreign
transactions. If these jobbers and
mail order concerns did not purchase
IN such large amounts as they are now
doing the American clock making in
dustry would certainly not be 80 pros.
porous as it now is"
Manufacturers are said to be accept.
ing few foreign orders directly. The
so-called domestic orders come first
after which foreign dealers who have
been customers of the clock market
in this country will be supplied. In
other words, a merchant in foreign
country who has suddenly decided tc
patronize the American market afte,
purchasing goods for years in the other
markets of the world will have consid
cradle difficulty in placing orders. Do
mestic orders now in sight will, 1t is
said, keep American factories going fol
another year at least.
European clock factories not disor
ganized by the war are, it is explained
in the trade here, under the handicap
of being compelled to buy most of theil
supplies from this country under E
heavy import duty. They consequently
find themselves at a disadvantage II
competing with American manufact
urers despite the higher prices the
latter are getting for their clocks.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

than We imagined. Furthermore, the
prices Germany will ask for these ex-
ported colors Will be exceedingly high
The Germans must pay a heavy in
dtemnity, and they will attempt to make
those with whom they trade pay part
OF 1T by putting up prices on any
necessities they have to offer, such
as dyestuffs. Another argument for
high prices is the increase in overhead
charges since 1914, due to te rise in
salaries, the prices of raw materials
and restricted production.
Germany is at another great disad-
vantage: The ranks of herlvast army of
chemical and dyestuffs experts were
greatly depleted during the war. 1t
will take years to train a new corps of
chemists to bring the dyestuffs indus
try up to the efficiency it had attained
by 1914"
Asked to account for the shortage
Of Swiss colors in this country at
present Mr.. Lippold said that it was
due largely to the delays in transpor-
tation.
"There is great demand for Swiss
co1ors now," he said. "In fact the de-
mand far exceeds the supply. Because
of poor transportation facilities and
other difficulties of manufacture which
beset Swiss dyestuffs makers the sup
ply is low and the prices are very
high"
Mr.. Lippold does not believe the
Germans can sell dyes under Swiss
labels.
every dye manufacturer in every
country" he explained, "is known to
the trade. All the colors that he makes
are listed. ANY attempt on the part OF
Swiss manufacturers to resell German
colors would be detected Immediately
Furthermore the game is not worth
the candle"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Govt Leather Stocks
To Be Sold at Auction
Million of Feet Will Be
Offered at Sale Next
Month

Beginning August the government
will auction its vast stores of leather.
Millions of feet of this commodity are
to be offered at public sale to be
held at the General Army Supply Depot
at Chicago. The sale will continue
daily until the quantity of leather on
hand has been disposed Of.
Under the conditions of sale lots will
go to the highest bidder. Leather will
be offered by tannage and no bid will
be received for less than 1000 pieces.
unless the quantity is below that
amount, IN which event the bid will
carry an option for the entire tannage
OF the lot offered. Sales will be made
"lthout recourse to quality, grade
or designation. All leather must be
removed from the government ware
house within thirty days. Samples of
leather are now on show at the buyers
rooms.
The. following approximate quanti
ties Of leather are to be offered:
Russet harness backs, 1914 .763 mounds .
russet harness sides. I7s277 uds pounds !, !,
russet strap backs, 438,775 feet: russet
strap sides, 803,137 feet: russet hso
leather sides, 16,20s feet; smoked Elk
sides, 1915 it.; latigo backs, 9o,768 f.:
latigo sides, 227,15c feet; rawhide calf.
skin hides, 1,036,252 feet; sole leather
union backs, 27,986 pounds; fnished
russet calfskins, 23,298 feet; black
strap leather, $500 feet; chrome re.
tan upper leather. 26,502 feet: ierkin
feet.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Foreign Buyers
Clear Market of
Low Grade Shoes
July Shipments of Factories
to Other Countries, Ex-
porter Predicts, Will
Establish a 'R cord
Demand Still Active

When statistics are compiled it will
be found that more shoes have been
exported from this country during the
month of July, 1919. than in the whole
Of last year, according to W. E.
O'Reilly. who handles the export busi-
ness for several large shoe manufact-
pring concerns.
Foreign buyers, he said yesterday
have operated so heavily in the New
York jobbing and exporting market
during the last month that almost all
of the so-called dead stock" seconds,
old styles, heavy work shoes. etc, have
been sold What the foreigners wanted
and bought were medium grade shoes
in conservative styles, wholesaling at
from 50 to S5 a pair, for immediate
>shipment Having taken up most of
the available supply of this class of
merchandise, it is expected that buy
ers from abroad will go into the better
grades and place orders for shoes that
will have to be made in the American
factories for future delivery. This
price of more fashionable footwear to
still higher figures, in the opinion Of
Mr.. O'Rellly.
Some Large Transactions
To give some idea of the extent of
the last month, Mr.. O'Reliy cited some
large orders which either had been
placed with him, or of which he had
direct information.
"One Turkish buyer alone" he said,
bought 100000 pairs of medium and
low grade shoes in this market in
July. 4 single shipment to big Per-
sian buyer amounted to $175,000. Buy
ers from Serbia, Smyrna and Poland
took smaller amounts. On the first
steamer for Jugo-Slavia there were
10000 pairs of Amer can made shoes.
Lsrge amounts of shoes are going into
Murmansk district, to Finland and to
Vladivostok.
Buying by English, French and
Italian merchants has been restricted
by the licensing of imports into those
countries, but these restrictions are
being lifted and soon greater quanti-
ties of shoes than ever will be going
into France, England and Italy. Buy
ers from those countries are now in
the market and are making arrange
ments for heavy purchases.
Germany Prospective Customer
"All the foreign buyers say they
will purchase our higher grade shoes
when the available supply of the
medium and lower grades gives out
Old stocks which have been in the
hands of jobbers for many years have
moved out rapidly to foreign countries
Army rejects, seconds, small sizes ane
shoes of style that is-aot readily
saleable in this country along with
heavy work shoes have formed the
bulk of the shipments to foreign coun-
tries."
Germany is looking to this tountr.
for shoes. and it is reported some buy
ag already has been done by German
Merchants through the medium Of
american salesmen who have been in
hat country sincs theariiddle Of May
These deals are financed by American
firms with German connections.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Silks
SI0,U Deliveries From,
Mills Hamper Trade in
Fall Fabrics

:. Orders for dress silks yesterday we're
limited. Although a number Of visit
ing buyers arrived in the city during
the. day, they seemed more disposed to
look around the market to size up con-
ditions than to place orders. Sellers
still complained of the shortage of
merchandise, which, if it continues,
will greatly hamper trade Deliveries
of fall staple fabrics are coming in
slowly, and on that account most Of the
mills are not anywhere near ready to
do more than discuss business for next
spring.
Leading jobbers stated that they were
having trouble enough in trying to
supply the near future needs Of their
customers without giving concrete
thought to the forthcoming season.
Now that the forty-four-hour working
week has been granted to the mill
operatives at Paterson the trade is
wondering what effect the shorter hours
will have upon production. The new
schedule is to go in force on October r
10 next, unless peace is officially pro-
claimed before that date, in which
event the reduced working hours will
become operative tho frst Monday af-
ter the issuance Of the Presidents
proclamation.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Retail Prices in France

=, A recent letter from our manager at
Marseilles, after mentioning that
money. seems to be plentiful. gives the
following interesting retail prices:
Mems and women's shoes, 45 to 81
frances mems day shirts, ordinary. IL
TO 10 francs, better quality up to 25
francs; mems wool underwear, waist.
coss and trousers, so francs per pair;
trousers. 16 to 20 francs: mems cus.
tom made suits from IT'S to 400 francs
mems cotton socks, 2 to 6 francs ne,
palr.--American Express Company For
eign Trade Buulletin.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
The News of Business
Not Afraid of German
Competition in Dyestuj3s
American Industries, Dealer Says, Will Not Gain
Anything by Holding Back Orders in the Expec-
tation of Large Supplies From Rhine District

A MEXICAN manufacturers who need
~ dyestuffs are not likely to gain
much by continuing hand-to-mouth
buying policy in the anticipation of
large supplies coming in from Germany
at low prices. In voicing this belief
yesterday Benjamin F. Lippold, pres
ident of the Acme Dyestuffs Com
pany, Inc, stated that besides the re-
strictions on expectation under the
terms of the peace treaty Germany
out and these will probably command
high prices.
"The domestic dyestuffs Market
said Mr.. Lippold, appears to be mark
ing time because Of the tendency
among industrial concerns to hold back
on large orders until it is proved that
American dye merchants can success
fully meet the test of supposed Ger
man competition. In reality there Is
slight possibility of German competi-
tion in the domestic dye market, and
the sooner the heads of American
industries get this fixed in their minds
The dye industry in this country has
grown from infancy in 1914 to a great
business that for the fiscal year of
1913 practically supplied the world
with colors. We can now produce
nearly every color that formerly came
from Germany.
"There will not be a great quantity
Of dyes brought into this country from
Germany. That country almost ceased
to stop the manufacture of dyestuffs
during the. war, and the large accumu-
lated stocks Of which one hears so
much talk will probably, when the
truth is known, prove to be far less
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Furs
alaskan Sealskin Coming
Back Into the
Market

Real Alaskan sealskin is back in the
fur market, being used for coats and
said to be making rapid strides be-
cause Of the general shortage Of musk
rat skins from which tho popular
"Hudson seal" Is made. Thus the orig
inal comes into the market some VIII a t
in the nature of substitute for Its
own substitute.
In the st. Louis spring sale 10000
Alaskan scalskins we're sold for the
United States government and 100 for
private accounts. Most Of these skins
are said TO be In the hands OF manu-
featuring furriers now and arc being
made up into garments. Real seal has
not advanced In price during the last
six months TO the extent that muskrat
skins haye.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Business Money

Commercial borrowers found an
ample supply of credit available yes
terdae at 51s per cent, the same rate
that has been in force for several
weeks. A few prime bills are moving
on 5A per cent discount basis, but
these are rare, and the general mar
ket is higher.
Bankers generally expressed salts
faction at the clear exposition of the
Federal Treasury's financial needs dur
ing the next few months as set forth
by Secretary Glass. According 10 his
estimate only about S500,0o0,O00 will
be added to the funded debt as a re-
suit of future short-tcrm borrowing
operations contemplated by the Treas
ury. This is really less than has been
expected. The department plans to
sell semi-monthly issues of certifcate
of indebtedness on the first and ff-
teenth of every month. Each issue is
not to exceed s5oo,o0ooo0 and after
September they will be reduced to
$25O,000,0o0. The banks are expected
to contribute 1.6 per cent of their
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Leather
Fancy Leather in Active
Demand Despite High
Prices

Manufacturers Of fancy leather for
bookbindings, pocketbooks, upholstery
and dress suitcases state that business
at present is more active than it has
been for years. Dealers are purchas-
ing, despite high prices, more fancy
leather than ever before. owing to the
Increased use of this class of goods
in the last few years.
European buyers are also big factors
IN the market. They are over here to
purchase large quantities at anv nrices
asked because of the paucity of sup
plies abroad.
While substitutes are used exten.
slvely in place Of finished leathe,
goods, manufacturers of the real prod.
uct have not felt any inroads made on
their business.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

gross resources for each semi-monthly
issue during August and 8 per .ent in
October, November and December, Of
the $3,500,000,OOo to be sold, approx
mately $3,0000o0,0O0 will refund ma
turing certificates.
This borrowing programme Of the
government, bankers say, means that
money for commercial and other pur-
poses will continue firm. These GOV
eminent operations will come at time
OF year when the normal trade de-
mands are heavy and when large
amounts of credit are required 20 move
the crops. With prospects of ,arge for
eign credits in addition, the indica-
tions, 80 some Of the bankers believe,
are that money rates may go higher
and the stringency affect commercial
borrowings to an important degree.
Everything will be done, however, to
see that commercials borrowers are
provided with adequate funds . con-
duct their business. If there is any
pairing of credit ALLEGATIONS it will be
the stock market that will suffer first,
| 1t was asserted.