Arizona republican., 1921-09-01
LETTER FROM LEIPZIG
 R.L. BALKE'S JOURNEY

l.. M. Byrd of the Byrd Tailoring company has just received a letter rom R. L. Bake from the city of Leipzig, in which he says:
 The weather has been very bad ana lots of rain and we have had steam heat turned on in our rooms, put now the weather is fine and we are on the move all the time
 Just got back from Berlin last week and I bought several snappy patterns; something very different rom what you have and no two alike. !! am very careful about buying goods that l do not get any two suit pat terms alike. and you will have some thing very, exclusive for your trade.
 T find that the big manufacturers are only too glad to sell us I had no idea until I went on this buying trip that there was as much goods made for tailors. Practically every Well-dressed man in Europe wears tailor made clothes; they do not know what ready made clothes are In Berlin there are 1.043 tailor shops and they all work several tailors The telephone list is very near as big as the telephone book in Phoenix.
 am going to a big affair here oAA NBS -SlIl Ol AuSuSl NH6I6 dIl man. ufacturers of goods and other prod ucts will be and I expect to buy a lot of very fine worsteds. That kind of goods wears and gives wonderful service.
 T can ship goods from Holland to San Pedro cheaper than I can ship goods from New York by rail to Phoenix, and we can buy these goods at about one-half the price that we would have to pay in New York. You can sell an imported suit for $60 to SIS where all other fine tailors will have to get s75 to s100 Of course. if l was charging the store for my trip it would cast more, but not one cent will the customer have to pay for buying these goods, as I am over here on a pleasure trip and I am only too glad to do this for you and no charge for it.
 T do hope you have received the two bales of woolens by now, as they are very fine worsted and you ought to sell these goods no matter how tough the times are in Phoenix. Phoenix has never had such goods before at the price you will sell them. They are about the same price as we sold suits in 1914. We can get these goods very reasonable. I know you are up against it for tailors as Los Angeles is getting very much more for its clothes than you and tailors are hard to keep in Phoenix when they are paying $50 per week in Los Angeles for tailors. I think you can sell these tailor made suits $20 cheaper than your competitors and about the same price as ready made kind and you know everybody knows that tailored suits are worth s20 to ss0 more money than ready made suits.
 We find that wool is about the only raw material that they have plenty of here and that is why I can get such fine woolens at the price and I was very much surprised to find transportation charges from Flu rope to San Pedro cheaper than from New York to Phoenix.
 T have a Mercer car hired and the driver, gas and oil for $500 marks per week, which in our money is. about $40 per week, that is about what you would have to pay for car a day in America. If you have cash YOU can buy things here very reason able and they would call it in Amer ica very cheap. Everything is made of the very best and labor is very cheap.
 T have spent about 500,000 marks for goods and you shouIu nave tHe finest wooden stock in the Southwest when you receive these goods l do know that you have the finest stock of imported woolens that has ever been in Phoenix.
 We find that they are short on copper and cotton but they have no money to buy, but if they could get six months credit so that they could manufacture things. the whole of Europe would get on her feets.
 Let me know if you have received the woolens sent you and how they are selling.
 T have bought five pieces of Irish linen canves; something that will make fine fronts in your hand d-tail- ored coats. Also got some fine wool serge lining and alpaca fancy colors.