San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-06
lOTH|NC NOT
% BE Sd HIGH
JAS EXPECTED
RENE Change Does Not
Follow Rise of
Wool.
$3.50 A GARMENT
'lroads Push Construc-
ion Program-Spent
Millions.
$3.50 A GARMENT
By j. c. ROYLE,


tw York, March 6. - Extreme
changes in the price of clothing
Ee~a and women through the
tg, summer and fall. due to the
pf raw wool aud Of wooden. clothes
not be expected. The custom
rs of the country gathered here
|oice their opinions as TO how
u a well dressed man should
h to replenish his yearly ward
/ but TO the great bulk of the
ling trades and to the public
|ge, price estimates of the cutters
Ing over $4,000 a year represent
rather than expectations.
|Ptail clothiers say that it is n
ion of how carefully man may
rather than how extensively or
bly,. The majority of the ready
clothing manufacturers already
CONTACTED for their supplies of
for summer and fall. Manu-
rers also in most eases have laid
pol stocks 10 see them well into
heavyweight season. These raw
|rials and cloths have advanced
|me extent but the increases have
rather less than expected.
Manufacturers Revise Ideas.
|nufacturers of ready-made cloth
|vho early in the year talked of
|ases of 50 a garment TO the con-
|r, as a result of the rise in raw
|rials and labor costs, have re-
their ideas and there seems
nsus of opinion that the added
consumers will be asked TO pay
hot be more than half that sum-,
nufacturers of wooden cloths are
watching the market closely bht
the figures showing the world
|lction of raw wool in 1922 arc
lbtedly low, the supplies of for
WOODS are such that a definite
seems to be set TO the extent
+ advances which domestic grow
|inay expect for their clips in
Retailers of clothing have re-
ID themselves TO lessening the
| d between the producer and con-
r. instead of widening il.
Eht on Boil Weevil Unchecked.
e split between the American
IN Association and DIR. Miller
: Hutchisou will not affect the
ELy of cotton growers of the
against the boil weevil. accord
% dispatches from Atlanta. Hut
In heads an association organ
In Atlanta and friction developed
meeting between the men behind
and the American
I'm Association headed by j. $.
|hamaker and Harvie Jordan of
Mathews, S. c., at a meeting
compromise has been reached
Erning over to the American As
|tion the funds raised in New
by their representatives. Each
continue to fight the boil weevil
Pill the Cooperative Cotton As
|tion, a marketing association
b diclaims affiliation with either.
railroads Buying Equipment.
|e extent of the equipment pur-
I'd by railroads has been thor
" emphasized by the orders re-
ID by the Baldwin Locomotive
IS this week. The Southern Pa
Company has placed an order
Baldwin for 40 locomotives. cost
81, 100000 and another for ten
les with the American Iocomo-
illus i. Krutschnitt, chairman of
Southern Pacific board, an
ced that work was started today
of n 100-milc gap
b will connect the Southern Pa
of Mexico with the National
Ways of Mexico lines. This work
cost between SS,000.000 and $10.-
400. About S3,000.000 also will
pent by the company in double
Ting two pieces of track in Cali
a TO accommodate expected
BIT increases next fall.
Ie Atlantic Coast lines also has
ed 30 locomotives from the Bald
works at cost of S2,300,000,
Louisville & Nashville has author
the purchase Of SO locomotives.
coal cars, 200 gondolas and 81
niger cars. The Gulf Coast line
| spend S1.000,000 in improve
: in Louisiana and Texas and
Pere Marquette will spend S10.-
300 in improvements and new
,ment this year.
Ie Great Western Sugar Company
pay an additional S2,000.000 to
sugar producers of the West
.. as a result of the increased
$ for sugar. The growers are
under a sliding scale. This,
yer. is not the final settlement.
le proposal to increase the capt.
alton of the American Telephone
Telegraph Company TO one bill
dollars was regarded today as n
nj development in view of OK
ion and large betterment pro-
projected for this and coming
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