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TTEARST’P SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA 0A„ SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1013.
INDUSTRY IS
THRMNG HEBE
Clothing Manufacturers Find Thi^
Good Location—Know Exact
Needs of the Section.
USE LATEST MACHINERY
Work of Twenty-five Women Done
by One Device, Which Sews
on Buttons “To Stay.”
Typically h Southern industry is the
manufacture of clothing, and in thi*-
Jfrne Atlanta has several factories
which are convincing Southern buyers
^hat it pays to stock up in the Georgi i
at y.
Among theee is the factory of Mar
cus Loeb. 75 1-2 South Pryor Street,
which confines Itself to workingmen’s
clothes entirely—mechanics’ shir's,
overalls, work troupers and “Jumpers.’’
The only exception is in favor of the
children, for whom "rompers” are
made
'These are Southern-made goods, in
the best sense of the word," says Mr
Loeb "The cotton is grown in the
South: we buy all the cloth we can
from Southern mills, even the thread
is from Southern spindles, and, in tin
end. the goods are manufactured in
the South by Southern operators.”
Know Southern Need*.
jS’ew York City and other Eastern
points long were regarded as tile
leaders in this line of manufacture
But Southern makers have gained su
premacy for several reasons. One of
these is their intinfute knowledge <>f
Just the sort of clothing needed in this
climate. A favorite product is tropi
cal weight trousers, which are decid
edly popular In all Southern latitudes.
Another great advantage which At
lanta clothing manufacturers* enjoy in
ci>rnmon with all other mu nufa- t ur< i
and Jobbers in Atlanta, is the con
venience of the city as a distributing
point, with its many railroads spread
ing out like the ribs of an umbrella
toward all sections of the country.
Skilled help. too. is to he found in
Atlanta which enables the Atlanta
factories to compete with the great
plants of the North and East. Most
of the employees are girls, who have
organized a local of the Garments
Workers’ Union, and enjoy its protec
tion. They are paid well, work hut
eight hours a day afid find conditions
agreeable.
Machines Are Wonderful.
The Loeb factory, like the others of
its kind, exhibits some of the most
Ingenious machines known to man. A
trip through the factory fills a fasci
nating half day.
As the denims, khakis and other
goods arrive in great hales and boxes
They are stored in the basement of
the plant, where from $30,000 to $40,-
000 worth of goods is kept to meet
the constant demand of the voracious
machines.
When the goods are opened and in
spected. they are piled on low tables,
90 feet long. Under the direction of
the cutter, who is a skilled and highly
paid workman, layer after layer of
goods is piled up until the table
sometimes is covered a foot thick
with cloth.
On the top layer the pattern Is
chalked. Here the cutter's skill Is
displayed. He'must not waste an
inch of goods, for that inch multiplied
by the hundreds of layers runs into
yards, and yards into money, money
into lost profits.
Cutting Machine Irresistible.
The quaint geometrical designs
once chalked on the cloth with the
utmost precision, a cutting machine is
used to plow' its w'ay through the
thick layers. This machine consists
of an electric motor mounted on a
base To the motor is attached a cir
cular knife of razor edge. Nothing
can withstand the tremendous slicing
power of this rapidly whirling disk of
steel as it is guided along the chalk
lines by the cutter
When he has finished, a surpris
ingly few useless scraps are left, des
tined in the end for the paper mills
The neatly sliced out patterns* are
carefully numbered and sent to the
machine room. In this vast loft,
thrumming with its hundreds of sew
ing machines, the odd-shaped bits of
cloth take shape Into garments. No
one girl makes an entire garment.
Each performs a single operation. One
machine sews the long seam of trous
ers, using two needles and two threads
to make a double, “un-rippable” seam
Perhaps the most remarkable ma
chine sews on buttons It is hard to
conceive of a machine which will sew
a double-holed button to a piece of
cloth so tight it never will come oil.
and knot the myriad threads on I he
wrong side of the garment—all in the
space of a second.
Sewing on Button*.
“Once we had 50 women sewing
buttons.” says Mr. Loeb ' Now two
machines do it. and as the process is
automatic, the work can not be
Blighted. Every button is put on with
exactly the same strength. Besides,
the women on the button machines
make more money than in the hand
sewing days'’
Quite as remarkable, in Its way is
the machine which cuts and sews toe
button holes in one operation To
make a good button hole and bind it
well takes a seamstress twenty rr\in
utce. The machine does 30 or 40 a
minute.
Pockets of a man's clothing mult
not rip "When is* a pocket not a
pocket? When it has a hole in the
bottom.”
There is a machine which' daris
round the edges of a pocket with
lightning rapidity, taking particularly
strong thread from three giant spools
and sewing the three into a reinforced
seam of double strength.
Another device takes suspender
buttons for overalls, sorts them out of
a hopper, feeds them down through
e narrow chute and affixes them to
the garment so tight they never can
come orf
Consumer* Demand Wear.
”!f a man buys a $5 shirt and a
button comes off. he says nothing. Htrt-
if a button comes off a suit of over
all*. the customer will send the gar
ment back from Texas.” says A1r.
Loeb. In this class of goods the
Great Vehicle Plant Succeeds ATLANTA BANK
+•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+
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Gives Full Credit to Location
Buggies and Wagons Made Here
Spread Fame of Atlanta as
Factory Center.
Among the factories which giv4 At- ,
lanta the right to claim pre-eminence
hs h manufacturing center, none ranks 1
higher than the Blount plants at East
R<Xint. one of tijhlch manufactures the,
Hlolmt buggies and spring wagon*,
the other, farm wagons.
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, the Car.
olinat, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas arc the States the Blount fa • I
lories claim hh. Lhgijr. ftvyji. and B. M.
Blount, president of both companies, |
as well ah P. J Zlinplemann, manager j
of the buggy factory, says the success j
attained could not have been won n
such great measure in any other city. ;
Atlanta, they declare, is the best .dJjp- j
trlbuting point of the South, and this. |
with the quality of goods, has enable 1
the Blount buggies to outdistance
com pet i tors.
From the Blount buggy factory 10,-
000 vehicles arc shipped each yea.**.
From the factory just across the
street 15,000 White Hickory wagons
are shipped every year.
To the uninitiated it may be news
that the making of the wheels, the
bodies and the irons used in buggy
manufacture are separate and distinct
industries. The business is so highly
specialized that no buggy manufac
turer would think of undertaking to
make wheels. These are bought from
factories of which the most important
are in the hardwood regions of Ken
tucky.
Wheel* Come “in the Rough.”
They arrive at the Blount factories!
by the carload just fourh wheels, the,
color gleaming white, which Is *h<?|
natural shade of fine hickory. In this
state It is easy to detect any imper
fections, such as t racks, knots or de
fective workmanship. The per/ect
wheels are painted a 1 • articula#Iy ugly
red—“primed” Is the technical word
for the process and nearly eVeryVnk^
will understand this means laying tile
foundation for the * on or eleven coats
of paint which follow and make : ^a
buggy the fine, shiny thing It Is when,
it leaves the shoo.
Long bands of steel next are cut Ibl
proper lengths, bent, welded and mam
Into tires. These tires art* shrunk onto*
the wheels by a hydraulic devi£&
which is the successor of th
B JI. BLOUNT, one of the
• city’s manufacture™, and
a strong “booster” for At
lanta.
Rhyme Invites Dixie Buyers
To Attend Atlanta Meeting
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Bureau Expects
5,000 Southern Dealers to Come
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boxes come “nested’’ and are wheeled
about the factory on ingenious trucks.
A>)JX these the painters lavish tbegreat-
t'lUC^re until they attain a real ”pia-
-ho finish.” •
Cushion* Carefully Mad®.
On the upper floors skilled leather
workers and upholsterers fashion the
cushions and tops. Real leather
Quarters are in great demand tilts
year, it seems, and nearly all buggies
joust he made in this way to please
■he trade.
» At the very last the wheels, gear,
.‘•shafts, box and top are assembled un-
method of heating l&tfhiler the severely critics! eye of an in
blacksmith
tire cherry red. putting It on the
wheel In that condition, and droppiq£ r
wheel and tire Into 'water, where i|t«
sudden cooling contracted the tire and
made it grip the wheel firmly. Y
New Device Aid* Speed.
The modern device will shrink tires
on 75 **ets of wheels a day, a set, of
course, being four wheels.
The wheels their are ready, except
for the painting, which is a long and
elaborate process. »
At the same end if the factory be- 1
gins tiie manufacture of the running
gear of the buggies. Odd-shaped
piece* of white hiekory and seem
ingly tangled pieces <jf iron take shape
under the hands of the workmen and
become the light, but exceedingly
strong link between the box and the
wheels.
The shafts come in great bundles—
fine curved and tapeying pieces of se
lected wood. The Blount factory does
what many buggy junkers do not —
puts its own Irons op the shafts The
Jipeetor, and only when he is satisfied
*».ls the buggy "knocked down” for
Shipment.
All this description applies to bug
gies but much tiie same processes are
followed with the manufacture of
light spring wagons and heavy wag
ons. except that wagon bodies are
built at the factory.
Light delivery apd spring wagons
are a new venture of the Blount fac
tories. The line was Introduced this
year and is meeting with considerable
Rubber tires are in greater demand
this year than ever. Of course, rub
ber-tired buggies are not new. They
have been in steady request from the
trade for some seasons. But no one
seems able to explain w r hy it is that
everyone wants rubber tires this year,
unless it is that the good roads move
ment has borne such fruits in the
South that it is practicable now to
use rubber tires in many districts
where this could not be done before.
Turpentine Rules
At Higher Levels
Rosins Remain Practically Unchang
ed—Much Interest Evident in
the Lumber Situation.
SAVANNAH. G.V.. May 24. The
turpentine market has been ruling at
advanced prices all tin* week. Rosins
have remained practically unchanged,
alt bough considerable Interest has
been manifested in th« offerings. The
inor«*.ise in the market values of naval
stores is due to the factors taking
the selling end of the business into
their own hands.
Activity during tin- week has been
deflected from naval stores to the
lumber side of the ’exchange, where
the tight against the operations of
tin* Merchants' and Miners' Transpor
tation Company, for alleged late dis
criminations. is being pushed with
vigor. The tight against this corpor
ation lias the backing of the entire in
dustry.
The receipts of naval stores are
growing daily.
DUNDEE DISTRICT PROSPERS.
The year 1912 was oin* of excep
tional prosperity for the Dundee Con
sular District in almost every line of
business, particularly so in the Jute
Industry, upon which the welfare of
the district so .largely depends. A
remarkable r»**H*fi • ft* the jute trade
began toward file Tatter* part of 1911
a no* eon tup led steadily tlircffighout the
past yPar.
great essential is strength \Ve must
figure *n every wa\ to give the great
est wear, or we^will lose the busi
er* * 1 V ■- t - ?
One large portion of the working
force is busy Constantly with over
all* of gayer goods than the plain
blue. These stand out vividly in the
great ^masses .(T fMothlng in -he fac-
tbfcy apd^tfUiri. tgfiotice
‘‘Those are thr* uniforms the em
ployees of a great express company
wear.” explained Mr. LobV ”\Ye turn
out thousands a year... They meet the
hardest kind of service, and we are
proud of the fact t.hiu we are able to
make goods which yfill fill the exact
ing requirements -of this particular
ACade.” . Y ’
TH©- Union Label.
The union label goes into all the
Loeb gefnronts.
“We are proud of the union label.”
says Mr. Loeb. ' It tells the consumer
that workers in our plant are well
treated and that they have good sur
roundings. Mam people do not no-
ice it.--but rcrta rnfy w no- r*trr object's ?fl
it. Gn the other hand, there are com
munities whore union-made goods
have the preference. At any rate, wo
would not be without it*”
Raises Peach Crop
Figures After Trip
Manager of Exchange Puts Estimate
at 1,947 Cars—Tells Just Where
They Will Originate.
After an inspection trip through
South Georgia and based upon esti
mates made by leading growers. Man
ager Marks, of the Emit Growers' Ex
change. gives out a definite state
ment on the 1913 peach crop. lie
expects 1,947 cars, with a possible
variance of a few more or less.
The statement gives these details
showing the location of the crop:
Central of Georgia (south of At
lanta ) 100 cars.
C. R. & S. Division of the Central
of Georgia (Griffin to Chattanooga) —
30 cars.
A & F. Division of Southern Rail
way (Atlanta to Fort Valley) -149
cars
Columbus Division of Southern
Railway—43 cars.
Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic
(Atlanta to Way cross)—42 cars.
Macon and Birmingham Division
Southern Railway (Macon to La-
Grange)—72 cars.
Georgia, Southern and Florida (Ma
con to Cordele)—26 cars.
Georgia Railroad (Atlanta to Au
gusta and Macon to Carmack) 150
cars.
Augusta Southern (Augusta to San
dersville) i» cars.
Southern Railway (Atlanta to Chat
tanooga) 75 cars.
S mthern <At!'***u to Charlotte)
95 cars.
Western and Atlantic (Atlanta to
Chattanooga) H>() cats.
Charleston and Western Carolina
(Augusta to Anderson. S. C.)--30
cars.
Tennessee. Alabama and Georgia
(Chattanooga to Gadsden)—25 cars.
Manager Marks says that the crop
is in sound condition and that weath
er conditions are now excellent. Al
though the crop will be small, he be
lieves that it will be as well devel
oped and as free from rot as any
crop the State has ever produced.
Railway officials decided that the
Southern will maintain the same
schedules in -effect during last year's
j peach season.
JAPANESE RAW SILKS HIGHER.
V s'ight Increase in Japanese raw
I silk Prices is reported from Yokohama
as a result of improved European
buying. The Chinese demand at Can-
! Ion and Shanghai is increasing aid
j price* are very firm. This condition
j is also in evidence at Milan. New
Yo k business is alow, and there will
probaM\ be no change until the strike
j is settled.
Clearings Represent Only Thirty
Per Cent of Total Transactions,
Estimate by Cooper Shows.
Atlanta doe* a business through
the banks of nearly two billion dol
lars a year.
The bank clearings represent only
about 30 per cent of the business
done through those institutions.
Country clearings are perhaps
$140,000,000 yearly.
The astonishing figures are the
estimate of Waiter G. Cooper. Secre
tary of the Chamber of Commerce.
He believes he lias good grounds to
consider them conservative, big as
they look.
Atlantans always have been in the
habit of pointing to the city's clear
ings with much pride, as exhibiting
in remarkable degree the size and
growth of the city's business.
Makes an Experiment.
A little clear thought convinced
Mr. Cooper that these figures could
not, in thfe nature of things, repre
sent the real volume of banking busi
ness He talked it over with the
president* of two of the largest banks
in the city, and they agreed to keep
watch of their business for a certain
number of days, to see what propor
tion went through the clearing house.
The result Surprised them and Mr.
Cooper as well. One of the largest
banks found that 28 per cent of its
business only w’erit through the clear
ing house; the other found the figure
a little over 29 per cent.
Taking these banka as representa
tive. Mr. Cooper gets his assertion
that the clearings represent only 30
per cent of the business done by the
banks.
Since that time, how’ever. the
country clearing department has
swelled the city’s total clearings. It
is estimated that in 1912. country
clearings amounted to $140,000,000.
Now as to the two billion dollar
estimate.
Clearings last year were $691,941,-
254. Deducting the country cheeks,
the city business is left at $551,941,-
254.
According to the experiment men
tioned, this represents 30 per cent
of the bank;' business. Total busi
ness. therefore, is around $1,839,-
000.000.
Fully 25 per cen of the retail busi
ness of Atlanta is cash business. This
cash Is deposited with the banks, and,
Of course, does not figure in the
clearings.
Many Accounts in Same Bank.
Tt is evident, too, that a large num
ber of the checks which come in to
a business house must be on the same
bank as the one in which lhe firm
carries its own account. The firm
deposits these, and of course there is
no necessity for clearings in this case.
There is no way to arrive at the
volume of such business, but as there
are seven clearing house banks, all
doing their fair share of business, it
might “be estimated roughly that one
out of seven city customers would
happen to have an account in the
same bank as any one firm with
which they deal.
It is a general practice, too. for
out of wn firms to remit to Atlanta
jobbers and manufacturers in Ne :
York exchange. This again, obviates
the necessity of clearing.
Mr. Cooper, therefore, thinks it
easy to understand why two banks,
presui tbly typical of all the others,
found that only 30 per cent of their
business Went through the clearing
house, and thinks he can demonstrate
clearly that Atlanta’s business, done
through the banks, is close to $2,000.-
000.000 yearly.
FOREIGN SITUATION STILL
SHOWS SIGNS OF STRAIN
Although some improvement took
place in sentiment abroad up to the
very end of the week, there are con
tinued indications of strain. Monejr
in Berlin. Paris. Vienna and other
leading centers is scarce and dear.
The private rate of discount in Berlin
is 1-8 higher at 5 1-8 per cent, and in
Vienna rules still higher. There ap
pears to be no immediate prospect of
getting much of the hoarded money
out of the stockings. Berlin is re
ported to have been bard hit. espe
cially by the serious decline in Cana
dian Pacific, in France distrust of
the German armament policy is still
evident. The Paris Figaro editorially
suggests caution by the French Gov
eminent regarding the Chinese loan.
COFFEE SUPPLY GETTING LOW.
A further material reduction of the
world's visible supply of coffee will
no doubt be experienced during the
remaining two months of the crop
year, according to Henry Nordlingcr
^ Co., and it will be a reduction suf
ficient to bring the world’s stock be
low 10.000.000 bags. Of these, about
3.150.000 bags belonging to the Sao
Paulo government are not available
for the trade. Altogether about 5,500,-
000 bags are available in the consum
ing markets. Tn accordance with
present conditions, the market’s po
sition during the next crop year, they
say, appears to be assured in the
respect that there will be no addi
tion to existing stocks. The world’s
production will not he in excess of
the consumption.
AMERICAN ’PHONES LIKED.
A telephone system. American
throughout in equipment and provid
ing a service equal io that of any city
in the United States, has recently been
installed in Behia. Brazil, and is giv
ing complete satisfaction to subscrib
ers.
NIGERIA WANTS FISH.
The Lagos Customs and Tra ie
Journal calls the attention of British
merchants to the expanding and al
most undeveloped market in Nigeria
for cured fish, imports -of which have
increased from $330,000 worth in 1911
to $377,000 in 1912.
Five thousand Southern merchants
are expected to gather In Atlanta
during the week of August 4. when
the Merchants’ and Manufacturers
Association will undertake to con
vince the dealers from cities and
towns all over the South that they
will profit by stocking up in Atlanta.
It is altogether probable that an
exhibition, similar to the one held
last year, will be held in connection
with the Convention, to demonstrate
to the visitor* that there is nothing
from threshing machines to thread
that Is not made in Atlanta or Its
environs.
If possible, the exhibit will be
made even more complete than the
one given last year, and Harry T.
Moore, Secretary of the Association,
has hopes that some time, this ex
hibit will be made a permanent fea
ture.
“It will pay you at full rates to
take t hi is trip twice a year, you can
not lose when it is free.” says the
Bureau, in making the announcement
of the Convention. In order to at
tract buyers who perhaps might be
reluctant to experiment with a new
buying center otherwise, the Bureau
offers to refund tiie railroad fare of
all buyers who purchase a bill of
goods amounting to $1,000 while they
are in the city The only restric
tions are that the claim must be pre
sented within thirty days, and goods
sold on the road, or previously or
dered, cannot he counted in the $1,000
bill.
Tn a. clever “jingle” the claims of
Atlanta are set forth. The “poem”
follows:
If you keep a store in Hometown
:-nd you stock it up with stuff bought
from far and distant places, just the
local trade to Jduff; if you skip the
near-by market and you travel far
to buy, is it fair to scold the natives
if the same trick they should try?
Buy in Atlanta.
If you pay out extra dollars for
big freights and travel too. if you
spend your local money in a section
far from you; if you boost the far-off
market by bestowing there your
trade,—can you kick if local patrons
follovy out the plan you’ve laid?
Buy in Atlanta.
If within your own home section
there’s a town of life and snap, in
which town they do a business that
has’put it on the map; If this town
can furnish to you merchandise ex
actly right, don’t you think it’s,—
well, shortsighted, if that town von
calmly slight?
Buy in Atlanta.
If you have, in easy distance, base
of requisite supplies, don’t you think
you ought to buy there? That's the
place for you,—get wise. Here’s
Big Implement Men
Do Business Here
Turned to Atlanta as Hub of the
South—Trade Now Is of
Vast Proportions.
Atlanta Has 175,000
Customers on Record
M. F. Holahan. head of the Atlanta
branch of the International Harvester
Company, which lays claim to being
the largest farm Implement manufac
turing and selling concern in the
world, has a simple explanation of the
International’s action in establishing a
house in Atlanta.
“When the business men North and
East think of the South they think of
Atlanta,” says Mr. Holahan. “In fact,
many times they think of Atlanta be
fore they think of the South, just as
you »think of Chicago before you re
member that it is in Illinois.
“Why did the International Har
vester Company come to Atlanta?
That's easy. The implement business
in the South was growing, and showed
the greatest field for future develop
ment. It was necessary to come
South. And I do not suppose that any
other city was considered for an in
stant.
"Atlanta's residents and its press so
consistently ' and persistently have-
talked of its advantages, of its growth
and its future that every Northern
and Eastern business man knows At
lanta is the hub of the South. He
be surprised to hear that any
other city laid claim to pre-eminence.
All Follow Suit.
"We came here somewhere around
1900. All the other really big imple
ment concerns came at the same pe
riod. or a little later. Whether they
th mght we had reasoned it put and
picked 'A tin hi a as the best place for a
Southern agency, or whether they,
like us, were unable to think of the
South without thinking of Atlanta as
its center. I do not know.
“At any rate, we all are here now.
and the marvelous growth of the farm
implement business in the Southeast
is ample justification for our presence.
Our stock and our warehouse here are
as big as in Minneapolis, center of the
great Northwest.
"Now. these are just rough esti
mates, but. I venture that they are
not far wrong. In 1900, 1 would say
that 15.000 feet of floor space sufficed
for all the implement and farm ma
chinery business, exclusive of cotton
gins, done out of Atlanta.
“To-day the various agencies here
use 250,000 feet at the very least, not
to mention manufacturing plants .n
the same lines.
“1 suppose $150,000 would cover the
.sales in these lines out of Atlanta for
1900. Sales in 1912 were at least
$2,500,000.
"Ten men. perhaps, gained their
livelihood from supplying farmers
with machinery in this city thirteen
years ago. Now there are 175 men
employed, and, with their families,
they would fill a small village.
Sales of Binders.
“I think the sales of binders in 1900
could not have been more than 100
machines. Last year 500 of these ma
chines were sold out of Atlanta, and
for this year the sales will reach 1,000.
“Of course, the growth in the sales
of binders is not normal. It is healthy,
though, for it is due to the increased
acreage In oats, and increased feed
crops are to be the salvation of the
State.
' Big traction engines, big threshers,
riding cultivators, real plows with
mold boards, shredders, stalk cutters
—these are a few of the things we sell
now that a Southeastern farmer
would not even have been interested
in ten years ago.
“Why. I remember back in ’98. when
I was on the road. I sold six mowers
in Augusta. I got a personal letter
from the big boss himself commend
ing this as good work. Forty mowers
in the Northwest at that time would
not have attracted his attention. And
ion now In an Augusta season would
not. The six mowers, you see, were
an opening wedge.”
I RA D. GREEN, formerly of
J. P. Allen & Uo., who will
leave Atlanta to enter the
furniture business in Macon.
South's Investors
Enter New Fields
ATLANTA, good and ready, with the
goods you need to buy; from her fat
torie* strong and steady she can
Dixie’s wants supply.
Buy in Atlanta.
She can furnish shoes and shovels,
silks and syrup, shirts and strings,
overalls and hats and cook-stoves,
yes, a thousand other things. She
can furnish fads and fancies, clothes
to wear and food to cat,—everything,
in short, that’s needed to make up
your stock complete.
Buy in Atlanta.
If you’d come and see these factor
ies where they make this goodly stuff,
you would say, “This town's a won
der. she's all right. she’s good
enough.’’ You would realize ln-
stanter that Atlanta, close to home,
is the place for Southern merchants.
there’s no need for them to roam.
Buy in Atlanta.
What’s the use of plodding north
ward, going West or traveling East,
when within so short a distance., right
at home, there’s such a feast? What’s
the gain to you in going far away at
costly rates, when besides the cost
of going, there's the added cost of
freights?
Buy in Atlanta.
Styles you get in eastern markets
are no newer, no more chic than the
styles Atlanta offers.—fresh and novel
take your pick. Modes that find their
birth in Paris and transplanted over
night. vogues and models ever chang
ing,—here you find them. always
rigiit.
Buy in Atlanta.
There's no quarrel with the styles,
then; for Atlanta has them all,—
men's and women’s, lads’ and lasses’
—for the springtime and the fall: in
no town the country over can you
beat Atlanta’s lick; when it comes
to showing fashions, she’s unrivalled,
keen and quick.
Buy i.n Atlanta.
In Atlanta there are rivals, eager
for your steady trade; competition’s
sharp and lively,—so the prices right
are made Thus, besides the great
assortments aijd the varied lines to
choose, you can buy on closer mar
gins,—all you gain and nothing lose.
Buy in Atlanta.
Yet. while rivals, we're a unit In
the matter of OUR TOWN; so we
join our hands together and we set
this message down; COME TO SEE
US. LET US SERVE YOU. LET US
SHOW YOU GOOD AND STRONG,
IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE TO
TRAVEL FAR TO MARKET. YOU
ARE WRONG!
Buy in Atlanta.
And to make the point a clear one.
firmlv fixed within your mind; we
will PAY YOUR TRIP’S EXPENSES,
when to buying you’re inclined, if you
come to ATLANTA lay in adequate
supply. You will find the deal a
square one.—here’s our : word. Come
oh,—Good Buy.
Popular Shoe Man to
Enter Macon Business
Ira D. Green Buys Interest in Fur
niture Store—Leaves Many
Friends Here.
Ira D. Green, assistant sales man
ager of the shoe department of J. P.
Allen & Company, has disposed of
his interest in that concern and will
leave Atlanta for Macon. Mr. Green
pas bought an interest in one of
the largest furniture stores in that
city and in the future he will devote
his entire time to building up that
concern. -
Mr. Green has a host of friends
here both in the business and the so
cial world who will hate to see him
go. Before taking up his work In
Macon Mr. and Mrs. Green will spend
a few weeks in the mountains.
Atlanta merchants, jobbers and
manufacturers have done business
with 175,000 customers in the past
few years, according to elaborate and
comprehensi ve records kept by the
Atlanta Credit Men’s Association.
Bradstreet’s figures show there are
312,491 dealers in all Southern States.
Fifty-six per cent of the dealers in
Southern States, therefore, find it
profitable to do some, if not all, of
their trading in Atlanta.
In Southeastern States, there are
116,448 dealers. Of this number, 87,-
336 have bought or are now buying
in Atlanta. This figures out some
thing like 79 per cent.
SHEEP-GROWING DECLINES.
Those who take the position that
free wool will mean the end of the
sheep-raising Industry of this coun
try receive a setback at the hands of
a statistician who shows that the
number of sheep raised here has de
clined about 3,000,000 in the last I
thirty-three years. And that in the
face of a high protective tariff. \-
cepting under three or four years of
the Wilson schedule. Save in the
Mountain States—Montana, Idah •.
Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexic \
Arizona, Utah ana Nevada—there has
been a sharp and steady decrease in
the number of sheep raised through
out the country. Ih those States,
however, the number raised between
the years 1880 and 1910 nearly tHpled.
ENGLISH EYES ON SCHEDULE K.
This extract from one of the leading
English trade papers gives an idea of
how the woolen goods manufacturers
of that country are preparing to take
advantage of the opportunities that
may be afforded them under the new
tariff:
“Some manufacturers say that they
will have nothing to do with laying
themselves out to cater for this mar
ket beyond their customary arrange
ments for the home and Continental
trade. Others are going right out to
capture what trade there is going to
be done there. Some will lay down
new machinery, open new mills, or re
open those which have been for some
years closed. Others more cautious
will get all the looms they can in com
mission. until they feel sure that the
business* with the States will be more
or less of a permanent character."
LIGHTWEIGHT FABRICS DULL.
Following the recent, auction of
lightweight stock ir.en’s wear fabri s
by one of the leading houses in the
trade, other merchants are trying t »
unload. On the whole, however, buy
er* are disinterested, and concessions
amounting in some cases to 20 and
25 per cent of the original values cf
the goods are liberally disregarded.
Project* Launched During Week In*
eluded Everything From R*M*
road to Terrapin Farm.
BALTIMORE. May 24.—Among the
many Southern industrial and other
developmental enterprises reported in
this week's issue of The Manufactur
ers' Record are the following
C. A. O’Neal. Andalusia. Ala., and
asrociates. purchased 23,000 acres of
timber land in Tuscaloorn County.
Alabama, and propose to cut and saw
timber and ship to River Falls. Ala.,
for finishing
Arkansas Fertilizer Company. Ar-
genta. Ark., will expend about $200 -
000 to rebuild it® burned plant and
include equipment to manufacture
sulphuric acid. »
Tidewater Securities Corporation
Mobile. Ala., was organized with
$100,000 capital stock to develop
Dauphin Island as a deep-water port
and terminal for rail and water line*
from Birmingham and to establish
other enterprises.
Lockhart Power Company. Lock
hart. S. C., awarded the contract to*
construct a solid masonry reservoir*
dam across Broad River. 1,500 fee;
long by 14 feet high, to cost $150,000.
Columbia Receiptograpli Compan.
Columbia. S. C.. was incorporated.
w r ith capital stock of $200,000, to man
ufacture receipting machines for
pocket use.
Southern Cotton Picker Company,
Dallas. Texas, was incorporated, with
capital stock of $100,000, to manu
facture cotton pickers.
C. H. Smith. Chattanooga, Tenn., in
association with Cumberland Land
Syndicate, plane to construct a by
product coke oven.
Diamond Back Terrapin Company.
Beaufort. N. C., was incorporated,
with capital stock of $32,000, to prop
agate terrapins.
Sterling Anthracite Coal Company.
Clarksville, Ark., was incorporated
with capital stock of $50,000. This
company is a reorganization of the
Union Anthracite Coal Company.
Neuse Realty and Brick Company.
Newbern, N. C„ was incorporated with
$50,000 capital stock to manufacture
bricks.
Townsend Buggy Company, Reids-
vtlle and Winston-Salem, N. C., was
incorporated with capital stock of
$50,000 to manufacture buggies.
Farmers’ Cotton Oil Mill Company.
Rogers, Texas, was organized with
capital stock of $50,000 to establish
cotton-seed oil mill.
A FREE TRIP
To Atlanta is
available to the
merchant who
buys an adequate
bill from the
members of the
Merchants’ Asso
ciation.
Write to
H. T. Moore
Secretary .
Rhodes Building Atlanta
High Grade Monumental
mm ' and Cemetery Work
Artistic Designs
Best Workmanship
Satisfaction Guaranteed
173 E. Hunter St.
Bell Phone Main 1129
ATLANTA MARBLE & GRANITE CO.
V
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riVUl I JAKj, L, 1 L. RETAIL MERCHANTS
Our traveling men are now showing, among other pood things,
the best makes of Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses. Fruit Jar Rubbers, etc..
%t very attractive prices to the* trade. We specialise on E Z Beal
and Queen Fruit Jars.
Wholesale Showrooms
57 North Prvor Street
DOBBS & WEY CO.
Varnish, Not Polish
WATER-PROOF
DUST-PROOF
HEAT-PROOF
No brush marks Dries In five hours. TACCO will make your furniture
look like NEW. Don’t have to rub off.
THE AMBER CHEMICAL CO.
Office: 603-4 Forsyth Building. Phone 3131 Ivy
Laboratories: 91 Piedmont Avenue.
For sale by Alexander-Seewald Company and King Hardware Company,