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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Rubber
Tire Making Plants Are at
Full Capacity; Supplies
of Crude ample

Imports of crude rubber during
April, according to dealers, were about
equal to those of March, when 2S. 223
tons set a new record. Normally be-
fore the war the monthly arrivals av-
eraged about $4,000 tons. Recent heavy
arrivals are due to the movement
OF large accumulations stored in the
Far East during the period when the
government restricted crude rubber
imports to this country
Anticipating lower prices and be-
cause they were receiving shipments
of crude bought in the Far East, rub
Der goods manufacturers displayed lit
tie interest in the local market until
late in the month, when they were re-
ported to be buying quite freely
AS reserve for expected heavy de-
mands TINS summer and fall. tire man
ufacturers are working their plants to
full capacity. Tire retailers have been
making unusually heavy sales, but job
bers and dealers are said to be show
ing a tendency to limit their purchases
to the covering of their immediate
needs. After the leading manufacture
ers of mechanical rubber goods had
lowered their prices slightly early in
April there was a slight stimulation in
business, out conditions are said to be
Tar from active in that branch of the
rubber industry. Manufacturers are
optimistic, however, and expect that
within a few months business viii
show marked Improvement.
Drug sundries makers also made
price concessions in certain lines dur
ing the month and succeeded in stir
ring up little sales interest 1t was
reported last week that several of the
large concerns are contemplating the
making of lower price lines, with the
expectation that these may develop
more active buying by jobbers and re
tailers.
In the rubber footwear trades buying
has been decidedly light. Rubber shoe
retailers have refrained from adding
TO the heavy stocks carried over from
last winter, and the tennis shoe deal
ers, anticipating lower prices, have
bought sparingly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Leather
No Relief From, Shortage
Of Upper Leather;
Imports Small

Shortage of the better grades of
upper leather continues to present a
problem for shoe manufacturers. Tan
ners and hide and skin importers de-
clare that nothing has developed to in
dictate a change in this situation for
some time to come. Consignments of
goatskins, sheepskins and calfskins are
regularly received in this country, but
they are not large enough to make any
impression on the market condition in
general
The entire goatskin market continues
strong, with additional advances being
recorded during the last week on some
lines. The leather market is strong
and active, with tanners reported be-
hind on deliveries. In the wool sheep
skin market the small arrivals have
been quickly bought up. 1t is reported
that there is plenty of the poorer
grades of sheep and goat skins avail
able, but that manufacturers have re-
Trained from buying freely of this
stock. With the scarcity of better
quality continuing it is believed that
the shoe manufacturers will be forced
to depart from their policy of buying
only first grade material if they want
to continue factory operations.
Among the shipments OF hides and
skins reaching New York last Friday
were 534 bales of goatskins
Considerable speculation has de-
veloped over the announcement that
President Vogel of the Tanners Council
would issue statement covering the
general leather situation during the
coming week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Rubber Men Doing Share
To Help ':F1inish the Job
Supporting Government by Full Subscription to
Victory Notes; ''Coo Business Says W. J.
Kelly, Chairman of Trade Loan Committee

for the drive, and there are
seven division committees, each with an
active chairman, working to reach their
individual quotas.
aside from patriotic motives and the
unusual attractiveness of the Victory
notes as an investment proposition, the
men in the rubber industry feel that 1t
is good business to support the govern
ment at this time and. as the slogan Of
the campaign reads, Finish the job!
While in many respects the production
of the various manufacturing plants
was restricted during the war, the IN
dustry as a whole did a good business
and made money. There were no serious
setbacks caused by the wartime condl-
lions under which the rubber goods
manufactu rers were forced to work.
with the war over and the oppor-
tunity now offered US to again start
working back to the stable conditions
of several years ago, the rubber 1ades
men, as we'll as those in other fields,
are certainly obligated to pay their
share of the bill rendered for victory.
Our industry has been generous in its
support of other loan drives. 1t Is just
as anxious to play its part in making
the present campaign the success that
it surely will be. On the whole the
larger concerns in our industry are
subscribing to the Victory Loan on
relatively the same basis as they did
to the other four loans. This means
that our quota undoubtedly will be
reached "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

1t was for many weeks the habit Of
people connected with the market for
business money to attribute the lack
of demand for it to poor business
That was natural because it is the
normal experience of commercial pa
per brokers and banks that the volume
of borrowing expands when business
becomes good and falls when business
is bad, varying almost in direct rat D.
Doubtless there has been an element
of truth in this belief as applied to
present conditions. Certain lines of
business were and still are hesitant
They have been mainly deferred from
going ahead because they were waiting
for peace problems to be settled and
for the lifting of blockadcs and war
restrictions. More important than
that, they hesitated to take on sup
plies of raw materials because they
feared a precipitous decline of prices.
Nevertheless, the belief in poor bust
ness did not jibe in we'll with current
statistics, with unprecedented bank
clearings, with unprecedented foreign
trade, with the undeniable prosperity
of retailers, with the smallest number
of failures on the records of the com
mercial agencies. The widely growing
belief now is that business is not Dor
rowing because it has such remarkable
reserves of cash. individuals and cor
porations, instead of going to banks,
have been carrying on business with
their own money. Collections were
never so prompt.
One business house this week, when
told by its commercial paper broker
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Only Six Concerns
To Make PetticOats
Of 'Heatherbloom'
Firm Controlling Trade Mark
of Popular Material Linn
it's Use to Prevent Public
From Being Defrauded

Only six concerns in the country
hereafter will manufacture petticoats
from "Heatherbloom" material. The
Waters Weismann Company, Inc, which
bought the rights and name of the
Heatherbloom" method of finishing
cotton fabrics for petticoats, has Ii
censed five other skirt concerns be-
sides themselves to make Heather
bloom" petticoats. This action was
taken as a result of the difficulty the
company has had in preventing the
fraudulent use of "He atherbloom'
labels
The companies granted licenses are
uring Company, New York; Lewis-Leo-
pold Skirt Company, New York Peer
less Petticoat Company, Boston; We'll
Keller Manufacturing Company, st.
Louis, and the Western Garment Com
pany, Chicago
These five concerns, together with the
Waters Weismann Company, will OPP
crate on the manufacture of petit
coats and exchange information con-
corning trade trends and styles, so
that higher efficiency in the manu-
facture of petticoats bearing the
"Heatherbloom" name may be OBJ
tanned.
The Waters Weismann Company pur-
chased the rights to the Heather
bloom" name and process from A. G.
discontinued business early this year
The New ork Offices of the Waters
Weismann Company have been re-
moved from 225 Fifth Avenue to 234
Fifth Avenue. The factory is located
at Binghamton, N. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Taking up their quota of Victory
Liberty Loan notes is considered good
business by the men in the rubber
industry, in the opinion of W. J. Kelly,
chairman Of the Victory Loan COM
mittee for the rubber industry In
previous loan drives the various
branches of the rubber trade came
through with flying colors, and it is
believed that their good record will
stand after the present campaign
closes
"In this drive" said Mr.. Kelly yes
terday, 1--WE are after subscriptions to-
falling $G,500,000. We already have
passed the SO per CENT mark. and each
day the Victory Spirit is becoming
more evident among the people we
are canvassing. At the start of the
campaign our daily totals Jagged
slightly behind those of former drives,
but before the end of the first week
conditions changed and subscriptions
came through more freely.
THE rubber business is one of the
top-notch industries of the country, and
it is only fitting that it should hold in
the drive place corresponding to this
industrial position. Judging by the
pace it is now setting, it should easily
obtain the desired amount. Our indus
try covers q wide range of activities,
from the importation of the crude rub
Der to the manufacture and sale of the
finished goods. Each branch has been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Manufacturers .SeIect
1acelre Colors for
the Fall

Steps were taken toward the stand
ardlzation of colors in the women's
garment industry by the announcement
yesterday of fall colors chosen by the
United Waist League of America and
the National Association of Sweater
and Knitted Textile Manufacturers
Twelve colors were chosen bv the
color committee of the waist LEAGUE TO
comprise the fashionable fall shades
after conferences with silk and cotton
manufacturers, and cards OIL which
these colors are shown in true shades
Wall be distributed to the trade to-
morrow. The colors chosen are ivory,
flesh, pearl, bisque, Dane blue. true
blue, mahogany, taupe, prune, seal,
navy and black. Of these Dane blue
true blue and mahogany are new
shades.
Fashion does not enter so much in
lhe twenty-five or thirty colors chosen
by the sweater color committee as it
does IN the waist colors The work
OF this committee began during the
war IN an effort to economic bv re-
Strlctlng the number Of colors used
by sweater manufacturers, was more
IN the direction of standardizing the
different shades. In explaining the
ner in which the standard colors are
to be used bulletin issued by the
ASSOCIATION says:
Fashion and demand call for GER
tam number Of appropriate colors and
the committee devoted itself to the
selection of one representative shade
OF each, which could be used as a stand
ard throughout the country, so that
when buyer asks for a certain color.
IN the absence of special match, he
Will be understood as referring to the
standard. In this way one manufac-
turer when ordering color from one
dyer will receive the same shade as an
other manufacturer ordering that same
color from another dyer
The dyer, too will benefit from
such standardization, as it will enable
HIM to concentrate upon the standard
colors and do his work more efficiently
and economically.
This is not intended to prevent any
dyer from using special dyes if man
ulacturer finds 1T necessary to do so.
ut is contemplated that under the
supervision of an appropriate commit
tee of the National Association of
sweater and Knitted Textile Manufac-
turers, the colors may be revised and
relssued from time to time as may be
found most convenient"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
The Tribune's Page of Business News
Furs
More Profit in Double
Skin Scarfs, No,U Much
In Fashion

Increasing popularity of double skin
fur scarfs, which are displacing the
old single skin silk or satin lined gar
ments, gives satisfaction to both retail
furriers and manufacturers. The
double skin scarf takes almost twice
as much fur in the making as single
SKIN garment, with consequent in
creased profit.
Even the popular sable "chokers"
are now being made of double skins,
several new models lined with ermine
having been shown last week. 1t is
predicted that the coming winter fash
ions in furs will favor the double skin
scarf in fox and other large animal
furs.
A fair sized shipment Of furs from
London arrived in New York last Fri
day. 1t included three cases of fox and
mole, one case of mole, seven bales of
opossum skins, eighty-one cases and
bales OF rabbit skins and two bales OF
seal skins.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Weights and Measures
Men to Hold Mees;po

For the first time since 1915 officials
from all parts of the county who have
supervision over weights and measures
MI wlii meet at Washington on May 2l.
ing by the National Bureau Of Sad od-
ards, will last for four DAYS. The
meeting is expected to be one of the
most Important of it's kind ever hold
Problems that have arisen out Of tho
war will be discussed and attemnts
made to find solutions for them. Ff.
forts Will be made to assist American
manufacturers in the solution of some
OF the weights and measures problems
which have arisen since their entry
INTO keener competition far foreign
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Jewelry
Mesh Bags for Wedding
and Graduation Gifts
Sell Readily

Unparalleled prosperity in the jew
elry industry is shared by manufac-
turers of mesh bags and chains. Re-
tailers of these lines have just about
finished making purchases for the late
May and June sales, and it is said that
manufacturers are pressed to fill their
requirements. Silver mesh bags are
considered in the light of appropriate
graduation and wedding gifts and, as
result, will be sold in large numbers
during the next two months.
Little change has been made in the
price of these articles during the last
year, and the manufacturers have been
selling their merchandise Just as
quickly as they could produce it. Ma
terials are reported to be plentiful, but
the makers have been handicapped
through the shortage of skilled labor.
But the release Of men from service
is making it possible to hire a larger
number of competent workmen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Raw Silk Holding Firm
New Japanese Supplies Are
Expected in August

Despite light buying of raw silks for
future delivery the standard Japanese
grades scored an additional advance of
D cents pound. Reports from Yoko-
hama indicated that the market at the
city was higher, although trade had
decreased. Business during last week
was fair, but not so active as it had
been IN the preceding week. 1t was
conceded by importers that the advance
OF about SLIGO a pound since the
middle OF March had made American
manufacturers less keen about nlacinu
orders calling for deliveries beyond
the month of June. Stocks of desir-
able grades, both locally and in Yoko-
hama, have fallen to unusually low
levels, and little expansion is antici-
pated until the new crop of Japanese
reellngs arrives here some time in
August
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Textiles
Southern Jobbers OF Cot.
ton Goods Heavy Buyers;
Prices Tend UpaUard

Business in colored goods continued
active yesterday with some of the
mills seemingly anxious to advance
prices. Buying of bleached fabrics,
after having receded on Friday, again
expanded Bag manufacturers placed
some orders for four-yard wide un-
bleached coarse sheetings, and the So
called clothing styles, sateens, twills
and plain cloths, were in active de-
mand at higher quotations. 1t was
said that business in dress fabrics,
voiles, lawns and organdies, which are
derived from fine combed yarns that
are mostly turned out by the New
Bedford mills. was abreast of the
supply
ABUNDANT orders, evidence that some
OF the mills had sold their entire out
puts of colored goods for fall delivery
ard increased prices featured the mar
lset for finished cotton fabrics last
week. Orders came from all sections
of the country, and especial stress
was laid upon the energetic buying of
Southern jobbers. 1t was suggested
that the purchases of these merchants
were actuated by their belief in high
quotations for raw cotton as the re-
suit of the supposed reduction in the
area sown to cotton. Ginghams,
blankets and colored shirtings, the
latter for use in the spring of 1920,
were bought literally. 1t was report
ed that bleached goods were taken on
large scale at advanced prices, and
some of the mills seemed loath to
book orders for delivery beyond Sep
TENDER, the impression being that
prices the coming autumn will be
higher than those now prevailing.
Most of the unbleached fabrics were
purchased in a large way, demand for
clothing Innings having been conspic-
uous, but later on the sales of print
cloths decreased.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Meetings and
Conventions

The National Leather and Shoe
Finders Association will hold a con-
vention June 16, II, 18 and 10 in Gin
cinnati at the Hotel Gibson
An acceptance convention will be
held in Detroit, Mich, Monday, June
8, under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Acceptance Council, in connection
with the annual convention of the Ma
tioal Associatio Of Credit Men, which
convenes on the same day. Bankers
acceptances will be the topic for the
morning session. trade acceptances for
the afternoon and a general confer
ence will take place in the evening.
Headquarters will be at the Hotel
Statltr.
The National Fire Prevention Asso-
citation will hold its annual meeting in
Ottawa, Canada Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of this week. The SEES
sions will take place in the Chateau
Laurier and in the Collegiate Insti~
tutc.
Garment manufacturers will gather
in Chicago May IS to 16, inclusive, for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
May Is Summer Hat DAY.
Milliners Advised to Keep
New Models Back Till Then

May Is will be Summer hat dayv
for the women, as we'll as the men.
this season, as most of the retail mil
liners have tentatively agreed upon
that date for the initial showing ~
summer hats in the pastel shades. II
is reported through the Retail Mill
merry Association Of America that
few retailers who placed the pastel
shade on exhibition in April were dis
appointed in the small number Of sales
that resulted. All members of the as
ISOLATION have been advised to with
mold the showing of real summer mil
linery until May Is, except in the ex-
IRENE South
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Sale of Sugar Machinery in
British West Indies Trcrea,

American machinery for the manu-
tacture of sugar is finding a ready sale
in the British West Indies, where the
industry is reviving. The manufactures
of rum is also increasing and equip
ment made in the United States Is
largely used in its production. The
manufacturers in this British posses
SION nave turned to the American mar
ket for their machinery because If 10
dislocation of shipping from Jamaica
to European and especially British
ports. Orders for machinery which
were first placed in small quantity with
American makers are now being gjven
by sugar manufacturers in the British
west Indies in larger volume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Silks
High Watcr Mark Reached
in Silk Goods Trade
Last Week

American silk manufacturers hooked
more business last week than ever be-
fore in similar period, according to
local selling agents for leading con-
Germs. Silk goods of all kinds were
bought in unprecedented volume.
mainly for future delivery. Hence
forth the chief problem will be to
fill orders now on the books of the
leading selling agencies, rather than
10 get additional ones. Dress goods,
goods and slllrtings were purchased on
an extensive scale. and increased
prices, particularly for dress fabrics
and shirtings, instead of serving to
reduce orders, seemed to have made
buyers more anxious to get goods.
All sections of the country figured
IN the buying movement, and travel
ing statesmen apparently found little
dlfflculty IN getting orders, especially
from merchants located in the smaller
cities of the United States. The
"craze" for silks has developed the
most cheerful prospects the trade has
ever had to look forward to at this
season.
Even yesterday, short business day.
selling agents for the leading silk
mlllS booked large volume of or
ders, Western buyers being present
IN the market in large numbers. Many
local dress and waist manufacturers
were also buying. While most of the
orders called for fall weaves, the city
costumers bought summer fabrics in
liberal volume. Stocks of the light
weight goods have been greatly d.
unfinished The sales agents asserted
that business would have been much
larger were it not that previous heavy
buying had cut existing supplies to
levels that rendered it imprudent for
them to accept further large orders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
British Ironmasfers Advance
Prices on Open Order,

American exporters of iron products
consider their position improved fol-
lowing the action of the Staffordshire
lronmasters, who, according to cable
advlces from England, at meeting in
hlrmlngham yesterday, directed an ad-
tor bar iron and strips made on q fuc-
tuatlng basis. The new price goes
into effect as of May 1.
The advance in price of the British
product, it was declared, will go far
toward offsetting the handicap of high
freight rates to European markets IN
der which American manufacturers
have been laboring.
Marked bars are now quoted in Eng
land at f23 net per ton at makers
works. The manufacturers of steel
hoops also advanced their price s2 los
per ton on undelivered balances of or
ders already placed, as we'll as on fu-
ture business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Silverware Men Want
Stamping Law CHANGED

Members Of the Sterling Silverwnre
Manufacturers at the recent quarterly
meeting of their organization recon-
mended that the present national
stamping law be amended so that it
will also provide for the stamping Of
silverware with the word Silver" The
law now requires that silverware Of
certain standard be stamped STERLING"
or COIN" and as result it is permits
sible for manufacturers of plated ware
to mark their product "silver." This
practice is said to have been abused
and to have caused confusion in the
minds Of purchasers, who believed that
because articles were stamped Silver"
they were made of that metal. Other
o1sa aza .a in the jewelry industry
and are planning campaign to have
the law amended at tho next session
Of Congress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
To Expand Tin Plate Plants

Plans have been perfected and con-
tracts will be let at once for the en-
largement Of the plant of the Mans
field Sheet & Tin Plate Company. of
Mansfield, Ohio. Four additional hot
mills and an equal number of cold
mills will be installed. together with
the necessary furnaces and other
equipment. The enlargement of the
plant has been necessitated by the
growth of the company's business. With
the additions to be made the comnanv
will be equipped with sixteen hot mills
and eighteen cold mills.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Citric Acid Lower

Competition in the sale Of citric
acid by dealers has led the manufact-
urers OF that chemical 10 reduce their
price from s116 to $1.l2 pound.
Large importations Of citric acid from
England and Italy have been made in
the past few weeks by second hands,
and considerable quantities of the
commodity are said to be on their
way to this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Popular Colors in Millinery

White, shell pink and orchid are the
three prcdominating colors in womens
summer millinery, according to one of
the prominent New York hat manufact-
urers. Although he is showing line
which includes complete range of
pastel shades, he says that more than
7e per cent Of his business Is confined
to these three colors.