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New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
COLORS-SnlaH Lots OF
S,0iss Dyes Firmly Held

Imported Swiss co1ors of all kinds
continue scarce, owing to the limited
shipments from abroad during the past
few weeks. Imports have been de-
layed because of strikes and disorder
at the manufacturing plants and be-
cause of inadequate transportation
facilities. Local dealers who hold
supplies display a tendency to keep
them off the market in the hope that
higher prices will soon be reached. In
quirles were noted yesterday for patent
blue, Bismarck brown, malachite green
crystals. wood green's, victoria blue.
direct black and Congo red.
Domestic consumers, according to
dyestuffs merchants, continue to buy
only sufficient amount of colors to
meet immediate requirements. No i'm
portant contracts for future delivery
nave been reported Of late. Labor un-
rest and general uncertainty as to the
future for business seem to be reflected
in the adoption of cautious buyinr
policy by manufacturing concerns.
Exports to the Orient and South
America continue firm Dealers state
that the shipments of bright colors
which have been made recently have
served as an Offset for the poor
domestic business. Stocks are moving
quite rapidly with no large accumu.
lations anywhere in tho market.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
CHEMICALS-Trode Curbed
BY Industrial Uncertainty

Dulness in the heavy chemical mar
ket yesterday was attributed to the
labor unrest and the possibility of
government investigation Into indus
tries. Leading factors stated that q
decided drop had taken place in both
inquiries and orders, but expressed the
belief that the lull would be only tenn
porary.
Borax was wanted by glassmakers
and manufacturers of soap, pottery
and enamel ware. Offerings were light,
crystals being unobtainable, while the
granular form was quoted at S1s cents
pound in carload lots. The export
demand for boric acid was unusually
good, with prices quoted at 1874 to
Is cents pound, according to guam
tlty. The domestic demand has i'm
proved lately because of the scarcity
OF cltric in the spot market.
Citric acid was quoted at S11S a
pound Yesterday, a cent advance over
last weeks closing price. The guam
tlty on the market is limited and the
demand from soft drink people and
druggists continues heavy.
Dealers report an active export busi-
ness to South America in sulphate of
alumina. The domestic call is prac-
tically negligible, but the orders from
South American paper mills and other
Industries keep prices firm.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Says Packers Should Not
Engage in Tanning Leather

Charles H. Jones, president of the
Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Com
pany of Boston, in statement pre-
pared for the "Shoe Retailer" agrees
with the Federal Trade Commission
that it would be a good thing for the
shoe manufacturers and retailers if
some way could be found to prevent
the packers from engaging in the tan
ming business.
II think" he says, "that practically
every member of the leather and shoe
trades would agree to the wishes of
the recommendation by the commission
that those in control of the hide mar
ket should not themselves be tanners.
OF course, there is no law against this.
The packers have every right to tan,
if they wish to, but an observation of
this practice over a long term of years
has convinced the trade generally that
1T is against public policy. 1t places
in the hands of one group of men a
share of control over an important
industry far too large to be in the gen
eral interest, and if such methods we're
forbidden by law the leather and shoe
trades and he public would undoub-
edly be benefited"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
FURS-Skins Used for
Trimming Become Scarcer

For furs suitable for collars, cuffs
and banded trimmings on either fur or
cloth coats, manufacturers and garment
makers are ready to pay almost any
price asked when they find a dealer
who has available stocks of desirable
skins.
Nutria, South American fur, now
popular in trimmings, is said to have
advanced in price 100 per cent. in the
last few weeks. First grade skins are
now bringing as high as S425 a skin.
Five months ago they could have been
bought in the open market here for
about s1.S5. The highest grade of
skunk skins, also used as trimming as
we'll as for scarves and muffs, are
quoted at $11 to $12, having jumped
to this point from S5 and s6 in March.
No large sales of skins have taken
plies are widely scattered. Dealers
stocks OF muskrats are particularly
low, it is said. and manufacturers who
are in the market for additional sup
place recently, it is said, because sup
plies arc paying as high as 81 or
more for seal dyed skins.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Fall River Cotton Mills
Pay Larger Dividends
Average Quarterly Rate of Dis
bursements for 38 Corpora.
tions 1886 Per Cent
Business NeWs Bureau.
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FALL RIVER, Aug. 10.-Increased
prosperity of the cotton manufacturing
concerns of this city is demonstrated
in the amount of dividends disbursed
during the third quarter Of the year
just completed. In the aggregate the
thirty-eight corporations have dis
tributed the sum of $1,194,388 on capt.
tai stock of 33,460,O00, marking an in
crease of S63,204 over the amount paid
out in the first quarter and being S426,-
779 larger than the second quarter.
Boom prices for cotton goods, Incl
dentally higher than those set by the
government during the war, have been
reflected in the margins left for dis
tribution among the stockholders de-
spite the heavy inroads made on the
earnings by Federal taxes.
The total for the quarter is the
fourth largest in the history of the
trade in Fall River. the largest-$2,-
439, 4O9-being the corresponding quar-
ter of last year, an average of lit
tie over 6 per cent. The average for
the current quarter of this year works
out at 1896 per cent. The most popu-
lar rate of dividend has been per
cent, while the highest paid was per
cent, four concerns paying 5 per cent.
OF the thirty eight corporations thir-
ty-one increased their dividends from
last quarter, three made slight re-
duction. while the remaining four held
even. Four paid only their usual rates,
while thirty-four disbursed more than
what were their former rates.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
METALS-Copper Prices
Lo,uered in London Market

A break Of SIS ton in spot copper
and SIS ton in futures in the Lon
don market yesterday was attributed
by the American selling agencies to
the easing off in quotations here at
the close of last week.
The large producers and sellers of
copper here held firmly to their quo
tation of 23M cents pound for
August copper and 237a to "a cents
for September.
Advices from Europe indicate that
there is a large surplus of copper in
France and the French government
has a considerable amount of metal
in storage, which will be sold in the
course of the next few weeks prob
ably at prices under the prevailing
quotations here.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Craze for SILK Shirts
S,ueeps Ouer the Country
Workers in City Are Competing With Those
the Farm for What the Market Has to
Offer in the Way of Elaborate Patterns

shirts Now they are buying them in
way that heretofore seemed the priv
ilege of the wealthy class only.
"Men who few years ago COM
planned because they could not get
cotton shirt for less than dollar are
now buying three and four silk shirts
q season and paying from ten to four
teen dollars apiece for them.
"Even the farm laborer is wearing
silk. Dealers from out of town tell
me of calls for silk shirts from men on
the farms, and say it is the first time
since they were in business that has
occurred.
NATURALLY, this tremendous demand
has had it's effect on supply with the
resulting increase in prices: Eight
months ago good silk shrting sold
wholesale for $l.25 a yard. To-day
that same material is worth $2.25, and
the top has not be reached yet.
"This demand does not appear to be
just seasonable one. Already we
are bcseigcd with inquiries for goods
to be delivered in the spring. Prices
then will be higher than they are now.
"The more elaborate the pattern the
greater the demand for it, although the
we'll dressed man is beginning to re-
vert to the plain white patterns"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
ALBANY. Aug. 1.-THE following char
tors were issued to-day by the Secretary

ALBANY. Aug. 1.-THE following char
tors were issued to-day by the Secretary
Allen Warlng Auto Co.. $4,000 Man
haitian; Walter G. Allen, a. D. Waring.
Harry Blur. $50 West seventy-flfth Street.
New York City.
Inc: $50. 600: New New YORK S's County; tys Jame: me"
fop 500 essph @ss 1s7th Hasty styse New" New York
City.
The Credit Guide Bankers. Commercial
Richard Tarr. Irene Harris. Nathan Cert
ier,., 17l7 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn.
Brooklyn; Philip Novlck. Nathan G. Hell
man, Rudolph Berkowitz. Al Park Row.
New York city
Of Rochester, N. Y: 81. 900, 900: Rochester:
Charles d. Brown, Stella S. Brown. Arthur
NJ Moulton. 124 Trafalgar Street. Roch-
81. $1,000: .{f y MYIanhsttan; - EawaTd Weber.
so Church Street. New York City
Stony Brook OIL & Gas Co.. Inc, 800,
900; Angola: Frank E. Candec. George E.
faO
stoddardt Bros. Inc. 500. 900; Buffalo
drugs; Charles Stoddart. Thomas Stod
dart, j. 7. Stoddart. 7e Seneca Street Buf-
falo.
uaaSs9n Mfsnss,um rTeducts snso Co. ne
Gold Seal Carpet Co.. Inc. SO. 900; Man
City.
Manhattan: Meyer Heller. Morris I:r Vein.
stein. Morris Fishback. so Fifth Avenue
New York City.
Steel Spring Piston Ring Co, Inc. $50
900; Manhattan; Albert J. II. kuhsck
Arthur Mayer, Alfred Gluck, "a Maurer
Street. Brooklyn.
Crown Costume Co, Inc. 10000; Man
Street. New YORK. City. '' "
tam 0uas msns sSa soys chidrsns i suits Ioais
B. Lyons Irving Lyons. Morris Potash. 6lo
Concord Avenue. Brooklyn.
Manhattan; manage theatres; James
si,esgrecn. Frederick Calvin and Alfred L..
Rss. 1882 Broadway, New York CITY.
pany. Inc. 10000; Manhattan; hardware
Maurice Brandt. Maxwell Sparrow and
Samuel Friedman sos fremont Avenue.
Bronx.
Welcher Amusement Enterprises $50
900 Manhattan: Eric A.: Welcher Joseph
Harris and Max Vohs, 45S Third Avenue.
Fifteen sixty Broadway Theatre Ticket
Company Ing Siooo; Manhattsn NH SAM
Belts. 602 West Forty second Street. New
York City.
Dress manufacturers Realty Company.
Inc. $4,000; Manhattan merchand ise.
stocks and bonds; Maurice Mantel, II. II.
Bernstein and David Schwartz. o39 Kelly
Street. Bronx.
Kahn Bros, Inc. $4,000; Manhattan;
drygoods; Adolf Kahn. John Kahn and
Adolph Oltmann. 467 Broadway. New
York City.
The Wonderly Company. Inc. 500. 900;
Kingston; drygoods; clyde E. Worderly.
w. Anderson Carl. Herbert Carl, Kingston.
N. Y.
Cardum Contracting Company. Inc.
$4,000; Brooklyn; Joseph Carrizzo. V. j.
Durack James c. Kruger. 737 Eighty first
Street, Brooklyn.
Gibraltar Luggage Corporation. $1,000;
Manhattan; Jacob Newman. Nathan Ballin,
Winifred Fuchs 33S F'iftieth Street. Brook
lyn.
Mammoth Trading Company, Inc,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
SILkS-Buyers Assume
More Consecutive altitude

The general demand for all classes
Of goods, which has prevailed on the
silk market during the past few weeks,
appeared yesterday to have given way
TO more conservative buying. While
there were some large sales reportcd d
hy converters and jobbers, there was
more disposition to hold off purchases
in anticipation of lower prices.
Buyers from the Pacific Coast pre-
dominated among the out Of town pur-
chasers and their buying was usually
confined tc requirements of staple line :,
for which immediate delivery was re-
qucsted.
Japanese silks were popular among
jobbers and convcrters, pongee and
habutae being especially sought. Con-
verters are favoring the habutae for
lining material, owing to the scarcity
and high prices of American fabrics
Used tor similar purposes.
The strong demand for satin faced
goods, which featured buying for some
weeks, has quieted down. and only
cured stocks Of this fabric made pur-
chases.
Some jobbers are confidently pre-
pairing for lower prices this spring.
They maintain that some OF the mills
are holding more of their production
than is acknowledged and falling ut Of
market activity will cause these goods
to be offered for sale.
Sales in the raw silk market yester-
day were quiet. Despite the recent de
cline in prices, manufacturers antici-
pate still lower quotations and the few
stocks bought yesterday were sufficient
for only few days operation. This
condition is expected to continue until
g i,Xed price is settled on the fall crop
of cocoons, which is rapidly being ab-
sorbed by buyers and which, it is said,
will exclude the possibility Of serious
fluctuations in raw silk prices.
Italian silk, which is being received
in the market, was sold in small guam
titles yesterday for $l0.35 pound. The
stocks thus far received are in good
condition and have been FOUND to be
especially adaptable to single weaving
Japanese cables reported little buy
ing in the Yokohama market, where
Shinshui No. was offered for 1925 a
pound, a reduction of 10 cents over
last weeks closing quotations.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
interpretations ms

$4,000; Manhattan; deal in mercha ndisee.
realty; William S. Monk NJ. r. Gusdorf.
A. l.. Casscn. 43 Leonard Street, New York
Pyramid Tire and Rubber Company. Inc,
$40 900; Joel Jacobs. Sydney Bernheim.
Walter Loewrnthal. 1877 Broadway. New
ls hests Motors; 1ns-; s:5.ooq; Manhattan;
j. whssn 4S West pl5s
Street. New York City.
Bele Hotel Company. Inc. $4,000: Man
haitian; Alexander Bekassy. Charles Leo
K & A. Realty Company. Inc. $4,000;
sach H. B ass naI y%an W.T.
Street. New York City.
Brandenm ran constructjon Corporation,
brandt, e. b. Brouard, Elmhurst. Long
Island.
poa'sss sF"s W
snyder. Henry Iundbcrg, r. F. Carlne, II
Battery, Place, Now York City.
900 Manhattan pavid Wiancr ms
Cluck. Saml Schroeder. 1850 Lafayette
Avenue, Brooklyn.
Company, Inc. amusemcnt business; $40
600: Manhattan f. w. Pinner, Thomas f.
Garrity, H. K. Mohr 80 Broadway. New
Smith Street Company, Inc. real estate
and brokerage; $4,000; Hampstead: John
TsrSs m Grass
iyn
coulabar Commercial corporasttion. gen
sral sn "a, mercantlle S, business; $1,000; Man
Coula pidcs. Luis r. Cuchi rs Beavcr
Street. New York City.
sampson Shirt Company, Inc, $4,000
Manhattan; Aaron Gottlieb, Jonas Shen-
man. Leon Gartenberg, 306 Haven Avenue,
New York city
George c. Woolf. J. 81 Zinaman. s Beck,
man Street, New York City.
The Unique Bakery and Restaurant Com
pany, Inc: $4,000: Manhattan; Harry
GohHn. smon Mpern;. Harry Kammerling
Pass Leather &C Goods DDS" COMPANY, or n any Inc.
$500; Manhattan; Harold Pass. Annie
Pass Morris Cohen. 1888 Longfellow Ave
Ithaca Navigation Corporation. $1,000
lthIci bostw,sl l. & nGs,wcs tsns~a e H. Bostwick
Brooklyn; Contracting. construction; % Sam Sam
He1 Hs1 Weisoers' Frank seigman; Martin
Brooklyn.
Commercial Cooperagc Company. Inc
ness; Louis Dinetz. samuel ZameK. JACOB
krakower. SO West l14th Street, New York
The Twibill Farm Company. Inc: IS. 900
Hartford Cortland County; Harry Power
Frank Power. Catharine Palmer, Mount
vernon and Grant, Columbus. o.
League Cloak and Suit Company, Inc =:
slo.ooo New York County; Aaron l., Sha-
PRO, Isaac Naiburg, Hynan Engelman
4So Sackman Street, Brooklyn.
NJ. I. y. Trucking Exchange Inc $500;
Manhattan Barker d. Lcich, NJ. d. Prem
dergast, Is. f. Brown 1890 Broadway. New
York.
Albert De Barry, Jr., Inc; import and
export merchandse S2o5 900; Manhattan;
Albert DE Bary. jr., Abram d. Bradie. l..
J. Toinpkins. 81 Cedar Street. New York.
Sargent Service Corporation; stock and
bond brokers'; $1,000; Manhattan; LEROY
Sargent. Is. w. Seymour. H. f. Martin.
Mount Vernon. n. Y.
Charles a. Grce & Co. Inc: manufac-
ture power presses pumps engines. etc
Sz'ooo Manhattan; Charles a. Crico, John
). King. Standish Chard, As East Sixty.
second street New York
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
LEATHER-Export Embargoes
AdrOc0fed to Check 4duance

Embargoes on exports Of leather and
leather goods were advocated by some
dealers and jobbers yesterday to check
the rising tendency of prices for those
commodities. There is, they assert,
sufficient leather in the market to
satisfy domestic needs, but not enough
to supply half the world. Foreign
buyers when taking part in the bid
din gagainst domestic consumers, they
said. are usually given preference on
purchases. 1t was explained this is
due to the fact that they pay cash for
goods. Another reason why domestic
leather dealers give foreign buyers
preference is that they hope to build
up large export business and extend
their trade
Jobbers stated they are CARRYING
small stocks of goods. The great de-
mand for leather and the apparent
shortage of supply has made it impos-
sioie to hold goods any length of. time
or even to get in an adequate supply.
One man stated that whereas he usually
has $4,000 worth of leather on hand.
ne now has less than fourth that
amount, with orders coming in so ran
idly he has difficulty in keeping that
amount of stock on his shelves.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Search for Spring
Woollens Grows Keen
Garment Manufacturers I'm
able to Discover Any
"HOarded" Sunnlies

dOAC ~ IlSCOVCE Ally
"Hoarded" Supplies
Indications that the production Of
woolen and worsted fabrics for spring
will be from 10 to 25 per cent below
normal, are driving the garment manu-
facturers to the cloth markets in
search of goods. The few mill agents
who have been able to offer spring
goods are besieged with customers.
Since the spring business is being
transacted almost solely upon the al
lotment basis. the customers come into
the agents Offices armed with bills and
other documents to show how much
they bought Of the house in former
years and how promptly they paid
their bills. Most of the agents refuse
to open new accounts.
Prospects of governmental inves-
legations into high prices are not be-
ing relied upon to bring any great
quantities of WOODEN fabrics out Of
hiding. If there are any surplus
stocks of these materials being
boarded for higher prices the trade in
general seems unable to locate them.
Buyers who formerly sought "soft
spots" in the market, now seek only
sources of supplies.
Flannels and cassimeres for spring
appear to be more plentiful in the
offerings than worstcd goods. AS
near as can be figured now, fannels
have increased in price about rs per
cent over the prices quoted on fall
goods.
Jobbers report many calls for serges
by the clothing manufacturers, who
desire to stock up on staples for spring.
Eleven or twelve ounce serge serves
equally we'll in q winter or summer
suit, and many yards of this sort of
cloth originally destined for fall and
winter clothing, it is said, will be Of
fered to the consumer in the shape of
suit in the spring or summer of 1920.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12

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Hattie Goldsmith = Material
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New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
JEWELRY-Wotch Factories
Still Short of Skilled Workers

Shortage of skilled labor continues
to prevent manufacturers of watches
from bringing their production to
point where the retail trade can get all
the supplies necessary to satisfy their
good watchmakers, as the holiday season
approaches, it is reported, grows greater
instead of less, despite the fact that
many men formerly engaged in that
trade are being mustered out of the gov
ernment service. Manufacturers saw
that the outlook for immigration into
this country, for some time at least.
OF men skilled in topography. is not
encouraging. This places the situation
they assert, up to the few neurological
schools, as we'll as the concerns where
appren es are educated to supply the
greater part of the increasing demand
Tor watchmakers for the future.
Although watch and clockmakers were
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12

DEVELOPMENT of a nation wide
- craze for luxuries is reflected in
the phenomenal demand for silk shirts
that has swept through the country
this summer. Merchants and manu-
facturers declare it is typical of the
desire for spending money that has
seized the people of the United States,
especially the laboring classes.
This new craze is not confined to
any particular locality, but is general
throughout the United States. Men,
who have never before wor.r silk shirts
are buying them this season, not only
one or two at time but in half dozen
lots, and the consumption has been
so great that the local market is almost
bare of stocks.
Discussing the new craze, I. Bruck,
of the Regal Silk Company, manufact-
urers of extensive lines of silk shirt
ing, yesterday said:
This sudden craze for silk shirts is
due to the fact that workingmen are
making vastly more money than ever
before. War time wages filled the
pockets of workers in the big munition
centres, shipyards and like places.
These men have been enabled to real
ize some of their long cherished de-
sires, one of which was to wear silk
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12
Standard Color Card for
Spring Shoes Is Approved

Standard color cards, presenting the
correct shades of leather approved for
use in all shoes for the spring of 1920
season have been prepared by the Tan
ners' Council of America and are now
ready for distribution. These cards
serve to standardize the colors recon-
mended and serve as a guide for tan
ners in matching shades selected.
1t is the intention of the Tanners
Council to secure samples of the colors
Of feathers selected as the guide for
the standard list and send them to
tanners, SO that the latter shall have
before them cuttings of leather of the
shades which the industry desires to
have for making shoes for the coming
spring season.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-12

placed on a shorter working day
schedule a short while ago, rumor
persists in the trade that the workmen n,
beginning late IN September, will de-
mand a thirty-nine hour week. While
this could not be confirmed, manufact-
urers admit that the report may have
some foundation.