New-York tribune., 1920-04-20
TIFFANY &CO.
FIFTH AVENUE &37HSTREET
PARIS, Is Rue DE APNN LONDON 22l REGENT STREET
PEARLS DIAMONDS JEWELRY
SILNERMARE STATIONERY
Elephants and Connolly
Measured for OueraHs
Neither Pachyderms Nor President of Queens Are
Able to Get Denim to Fit Them, They Ask
Tailor to Get Them Ready for the Big Parade

Four hlppodrome elephants and Bor-
ough President Connolly Of Queens
were measured for overalls yesterday
The elephants are to lead the great
overall parade that will march down
Fifth Avenue next Saturday morning
with every man and boy in line clad
in the profiteer-busting blue denim
That's why tailors armed with survey
ing chains went over them yesterday.
Mr.. Connolly was measured for the
same reason in part that the pachy-
derms were. He couldn't find ready to
wear overalls large enough to fit him,
and as one of the leaders of the clothes
saving movement that has swept
through the Borough Hall, the courts
and the houses and apartments of
Queens he has just got to get into
overalls as soon as possible.
Several hundred thousand New York
ers are fired by Mr.. Connoly's spirit,
but most of them are finding no diff
Guilty in getting the denim garments
to fit them. Among the organizations
that will march in Saturdays parade
are De Witt Clinton High School, ia
maica High School, the Bronx Business
Mems League, the Holy Gross Lyceum.
City College, Columbia and score of
other organizations Headquarters for
the paraders have been opened at 154
West Fortysixth Street. Other citi-
zens who wish to appear in overalls
for the inspiration of the public and
confusion Of the tailors should call
Bryant $3.50 for details.
AS to the actual effect the campaipn
may have on clothing prices, the trade
opinion is not pessimistic, except from
the general publics view
Ely Strook, executive of a Broadway
firm, says ut will have no effect on
the general market values unless the
overall fad becomes serious and econ
omy garments are worn by all for sew
eral months"
Scheme Is Called "Absurd"
David H. Mosessohn, executive of the
National Chamber of Commerce of the
Dress Industry, is more definitely hos
tile to the movement, although he also
thinks it cannot effect any general
downward revision of the present pric
scale. Mr.. Mosessohn called the scheme
absurd" when he was asked yesterday
for an opinion.
"The overall movement, in nv
opinion, is nothing more or less than
a perlodlc tad which appeals to the
sense of humor of the American peo-
pie, and which will die natural death
in very short order" he said.
THE only effect the movement, if it
grows to any serious proportions, can
nave is to throw small merchants into
bankruptcy; but the insolvency of a
few hundred small merchants will net
solve the problem, and after all that
Is the big ISSUE"
Boy Scout uniforms are in favor at
the Brooklyn Boys High School, and
the employees in the Offices of the
Serbian Relief Welfare organizat ton
are working in MILDLY blouses instead
Of georgette.
Public officials In the Rush
Public officials everywhere got their
embonpoints bruised in the rush to
don overalls yesterday In Queens, Mr.
Connolly was disconsolate because he
was unable to buy suit big enough
to fit his waistline, and announced his
intention of having a suit made to his
outsize measure. Judge Bert j. Hum
phrey ascended the bench in the
Queens County Court completely out
fitted for tough plumbing Job, and
Magistrate Thomas Doyle announced
that he would follow overall suit to-
day.