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HKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA., SUNDAY. MAY 2.'.. 1013.
Rhyme Invites Dixie Buyers ATLANTA BANK Gi ves City Full Credit
INDUSTRY IS T° Attend Atlanta Meeting |j|jC||y|:cj(j J|J|(] For Success of Factory
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R T j Merchants' and Manufacturers’ Bureau Expects Rlj I IRM V T ll QI V;l>. M. Blount, of Vehicle Fame, Praises Atlanta.
J\L\ 5,000 SoutItem Dealers to Come j ulLLIUIl iLnllLI His Plant Shows Interesting Processes.
Clothing Manufacturers Find This
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 a Southern industry Is tin
Manufacture of clothing, and In this
line Atlanta has several factories
i hich are convincing Southern buyers
that it pays to stock up in the Georgi 1
< ky.
Among these Is the factory of Mar
rus Loeb. 75 1-2 South Pryor Street,
rrhlch confines itself to workingmen's
Clothes entirely—mechanics’ shirts,
overalls, work trousers ami "jumpers.”
The only exception is in favor of the
children, for whom ■‘rompers’’ are
tirade.
, "These are Southern-made goods, in
the best sense of the word,” says Mr.
Loeb "The cotton is grown In the
feouth: we buy all the cloth we can
from Southern mills, even the thread
is from Southern spindles, and, In the
and. the goods are manufactured in
the South by Southern operators."
Know Southern Needs.
.„ Few York City and other Ka»tern
points long were regarded as the
teaders in this line of manufacture.
But Southern makers have gained su
premacy for several reasons. One of
these is theLr intin|nte knowledge of
just the sort of clothing needed In th'.
Cttmate. A favorite product Is tropi-
Afi weight trousers, which are decid
edly popular in all Southern latitudes
r Another great advantage which Ai-
faVita clothing manufacturer.” enjoy m
Common with all other manufacturers
fthd 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
fa Ctories 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
tVorkers' Enion. and enjoy its protec
tion. They are paid well, work but
fight hours a day and find conditions
agreeable.
Machines Are Wonderful.
i The Ijoeb 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
hating half day
As the denims, khakis and other
foods arrive in great bales and boxes
they are stored In the basement of
the plant, where from $30,000 to $40,
M0 worth of goods is kept to meet
the constant demand of the voracious
machines.
When the goods are opened and in
• pected. they are piled on low tables.
»" feet long I’nder the direction of
the cutter, who is a skilled and highly
badd workman, layer after layer of
goods Is piled up until the table
sometimes is covered a foot thick
*ith cloth
i On the top layer the pattern is
chalked Here the cutter’s skill is
displayed. He must not waste an
Inch of goods, for that Inch multiplied
by the hundreds of layers runs into
yards, and yards into money, money
info lost profits.
Cutting Machine Irresistible.
The quaint geometrical designs
gnee chalked on the cloth with the
inmost precision, a cutting machine is
Used to plow its way through the
thick layers This machine consists
pf an electric motor mounted on a
base To the motor is attached a cir
cular knife of razor edge Nothing
can withstand the tremendous slicing
power of this rapidly whirling disk of
tteel as it is guided along the chalk
lines by the cutter
.When he has finished, a surpris
ingly few useless scraps are left, des
tined in the end for the paper mills
, The neatly sliced out patterns* are
carefully numbered and sent to the
machine room. In this vast loft
thrumming with its hundreds of sew -
tng machines, the odd-shaped bits of
Cloth take shape into garments. No
pne girl makes an entire garment
JBerh performs a single operation. One
tnaehine sews the long seam of trous*
*rs, using two needlls and two threads
tb make a double, "un-rippable” seam.
Perhaps the most remarkable ma
Chine smvs on buttons It In hard to
Conceive of a machine which will sew
a double-holed button to a piece of
Cloth so tight it ne\.r will come ofl
grid knot the myriad threads on tin
tjrong side of the garment all in the
f$pace of a second
Sewing on Buttons.
•2‘Once we had 50 women sewing
buttons." says Mr. Loeb. "Now two
twhiru's do it, and as the process i»$
automatic, the ,work con not he
ahghted Every button is put on with
fcjwctly the same strength Besides,
the women on the button machine*
make more money than in the hand-
Cewing days.”
• 'Quite as remarkable In its way is
the machine which cuts and sews the
bdtton holes in one operation To
tnake a good button hole and bind it
'tell takes a seamstress twentx min
tips. The machine does 30 or 4" a
nnnute
rVTo' kets of a man’s clothing must
hot rip "When is a pocket not a
pocket? When it has a hole in the
bottom.”
\ There is a machine which darts
round the edges of a pocket with
lightning rapidity taking particularly
strong thread from three giant spools
Mpd sewiqg the three into a reinforced
fcfearn of double strength.
• Another device takes suspender I
buttons for overalls, sorts them out of
A' hopper, feeds them down through
fc^Jiarrow chute and affixes them *o I
Ui* garment so tight they never can
Colne off.
Consumer# Demand Wear.
(J If a man buys a $5 shirt and a i
fcjutton comes off. he nays nothing. Bui
ft a button comes off a suit of over
W- tn * customer wifi *end the gar-
back from Texas." says Mr
"In this class of goods the
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 he field In connection
with the Convention, to demonstrate
io the visitors that there is nothing
from threshing machines to thread
that is not made In Atlanta or its
environs. .
If possible, the exhibit will he
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 this 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 he
reluctant to experiment with a new
buying center otherwise, the Bureuu
offers to refund the railroad fare of
all buyers who purchase a bIH of
goods amounting to 11,000 while they
ore in the city. The only restric
tions are that the claim must be pre-
sented within thirty days, and goods
Hold on the road, or previously or
dered, cannot be counted in the $1,000
bill.
In a clever "Jingle" the claims of
Atlanta are set forth. The "poem"
follow s :
If you keep a store in Hometown
and you stock it up with stuff bought
fiom far .and distant places. Just the
local trade to bluff; 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 foi
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, cm you kick if local patrons
follow' 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 mat); if this town
can furnish t<> you merchandise ex
actly right, don’t you think it’s,
well shortsighted, If that town you
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
ATLANTA, good and ready, with the
goods you need to buy; from her fac
tories strong arid steady she cun
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 eat,—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 soy, "This town’s a won
der^—she’s all right, she's good
enough." You would realize In-
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,
w hen w ithin 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 I esides 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 Baris and transplanted over
night. vogues and models ever chang
ing, here you find them, always
right.
Buy in Atlanta.
There’s no quarrel with the styles,
then; for Atlanta has them all,—
men’s and women’s, lads’ and 1 asses’,
for the springtime and the fall; In
no town the country over can you
beat Atlanta's lick; when it cornea
to showing fashions, she’s unrivalled,
keen and quick.
Buv in 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 and the varied lines to
choose, you can buy on closer mar
gins.—a II you gain and nothing lose.
Buy in Atlanta.
Yet. while rivals we're a unit in
the matter of OI T H TOWN; so we
join our hands together and we set
this message down: <’OME TO SEE
I S. LET I’S SERVE YOB. LET ITS
show yob coon and strong
IE vor THINK YOF HAVE TO
TRAVEL EAR TO MARKET. YOl*
ARE WRONG!
Buy in Atlanta.
And to make the point a clear one.
firmlv fixed within vour mind: we
will PAY YOE Ft 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. Gome
on,—Good Buv.
great essential Is strength. We must
figure *n every way to give the great,
est wear, or we will low the busi
ness."
One large portion of the working
force is busy constantl\ with over
alls of gayer goods than the plain
blue. These stand out vividly in the
great masses of clothing in the fac
tory ami attract notice.
"Those are the uniforms the em
ployees of a great express company
wear." explained Mr. Loeb. "We turn
out thousands a year. They meet the
hanlest kind of service, and we are
proud of the fact that we are able to
make goods which will fill the exact
ing requirements of this particular
trade."
The Union Label.
The union label goes Into all the
Loeb garments.
"We are proud of tlie union label,
say® Mr. Loeb. "it tells the consumer
that workers in our plant are wed
treated and that they have good sur
roundings. Many people do not no
tice It. hut certainly no one objects to
It. On the other hand, there are com
munities where union-made goods
have the preference. At any rate, we
would not be without it.”
JOBBERS WANT HOUSEHOLD
LINENS.
Linen importers in the local mar
ket are receiving inquiries for addi
tional lots of housekeeping goo Is
from jobbers for fall deliver'. Pros
pective buyers seem inclined to ex
pect lower price®, but considering the
cost of Max and various labor diffi
culties there is slight possibility /ir
a drop for some time. Dress linen
factors report an improved demand
for colored and natural goods. Busi
ness in bleached and unfinished linen®
is expected to drop off during the next
few weeks, as fair-sized stocks are in
the hands of both jobbers and mer
chant®. The buying now In this end
of the market is said to be below av
erage
HARD COAL SITUATION UNSET.
TLED.
A feeling of uncertainty pervades
the hard coal trade. Many shipments
are falling behind April’s at some
point®, with the result that there Is
less free coal offered than when the
spring circular went Into effect.
Requisitions for certain grades ar>'
subject to indefinite delays. On the
other hand, rumors are current that
some producers are finding it difficuB
to get orders enough to cover their
production. In the coastwise bitumi
nous trade, according to Goal Age,
the larger buyers are beginning o
lo®e hope of compelling the operators
to recede from their high price® »n
contracts, and some have signed up
for a short time.
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 <»f
a ®iati»lieian who shows that the
number of sheep raised here has de
clined about 3.000.00a in the last
thirty-three years. And that In th->
face of a high protective tariff, x-
cepting under three or four years of
the Wilson schedule Save in the
Mountain States Montana. Idafi *.
Wyoming. Colorado. New Mexico,
Arizona. Utah and Nevada—there ha-’
been a sharp and steady decrease in
the number of sheep raised through
out the country. in those states,
however, trie number raised between
the years 1880 and 1910 nearly triple J. i
Atlanta Has 175,000
Customers on Record
Atlanta merchants, jobbers and
manufacturers Have done business
with 175,000 customers in the past
few years, according to elaborate and
cemprehensi ve records kept by the
Atlanta Credit Men’s Association.
Eradstreet’s figures show there are
312,491 dea'ers 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
'"Atlanta. This figures out some
thing like 79 per cent.
ENGLISH EYES ON SCHEDULE K.
, TLIs extrm-t from one of the leading
English trade papers alves 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 sav that they
wtl! have nothing to do with laving
themselves out to cater for this mar
ket beyond their customary arrange
ments for the home and Continental
irade. others arc going right out to
capture what trade there is going to
be done there. Some will lav down
new machinery, open new mills or ro-
open those which have been lor som.
years closed. Others more cautious
will get all the looms they can in com
mission, until they fee! sure tha"t the
business with the States will be mor.
or less of a permanent character."
JAPANESE PAW SILKS HIGHER.
A alight Increase In Japanese raw
silk prices is reported from Yokohama
as a result of Improved Kutopeatt
buying. The Chinese demand at Can-
ton and Shanghai !g Increasing an]
prices are very firm. This condition
is also in evidence at Milan New
York business Is slow, and there will
probably be no change until the strike
Is settled.
Clearings Represent Only Thirty
Per Cent of Total Transactions,
Estimate by Cooper Shows.
Atlanta does a business through
the banks of nearly two billion dol
lars a year.
The bank Hearings represent only
about 30 per rent of the business
done through those institutions.
Country clearings are perhaps
$140,000,000 yearly.
The astonishing figures are the
estimate of Walter (i. Cooper, Secre
tary of the Chamber of Commerce.
He believes he has 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 Hear thought convinced
Mr. Cooper that these figures could
not, in the nature of things, repre
sent the real volume of banking bus!
ness. He talked it over with the
presidents of two of the largest hanks
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
hanks found that 28 per cent of its
business only went through the Hear
ing house; the other found the figure
a little over 29 per cent.
Taking these hanks as representa
tive. Mr. Cooper gets his assertion
that the Hearings represent only 30
per cent of the business done by the
ba nks.
Since that time, however, the
country clearing department has
swelled the city’s total clearings. It
is estimated that In 1912, country
clearings amounted to 8140.000,000.
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 3»» per cent
of the banks’ business. Total busi
ness. therefore, is around $1,839.-
000,000.
Fully ”5 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.
It is evident, too, that a large num
ber of the check® which come in to
a business house must he on the same
bank as the one in which the, firm
carries its own account. The firm
deposits these, and of course there is
no necess ty 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
mu of seven city customers would
happen to have an account in the
same bank a 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 New
York exchange. This again, obviates
the necessity of clearing.
Mr. Cooper. therefore, thinks it
easy to understand why two banks,
presui :bly typical of all the others,
found that only 30 per cent of their
business went through the clearing
house, and thinks he can demonstrate
•dearly that Atlanta's business, done
through the banks. Is close to $2 000 -
000.000 yearly.
TUNGSTEN MINING INCREASES-
In the calendar year 1912 1.861.98
shmt tons of wolframite (tungsten
urn. vajued at $698,185, were export
ed f»cm the Province of Burma as
compared with only 995 short tons in
1911.
DUNDEE DISTRICT PROSPERS.
The year 1912 was one 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
^markable revival in tiie jute trade
began toward the latter part of 1911
and continued steadily throughout the
past year.
FOREIGN SITUATION STILL
SHOWS SIGNS OF STRAIN
Although some improvement took
place in sentiment abroad up to the
very end of the weHy there are con
tinued Indications of strain. Money
in Berlin, Paris. Vienna and drher
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 hard 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
ernment 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 Nordlinger
& 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 5,600,-
000 bags are available in the consum
ing markets. In 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 be in excess of
the consumption.
AMERICAN PHONES LIKED.
A telephone system. American
throughout in equipment and provid
ing a service equal to that of any city
in the Enited States, has recently been
installed in Bahia. Brazil, and Is giv
ing complete satisfaction to subscrib.
Among the factories which give At
lanta the right to claim pre-eminence
as a manufacturing center, none ranks
higher than the Blount plants at Fast
Point, one of which manufactures the
Blount buggies and spring wagons;
the other, farm wagons.
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, the Car-
oHna®. Mississippi, Louisiana arpi
Texas are the States the Blount fac
tories claim as their own, and B. M.
Blount, president of both companies,
as well as R. .1 Zlmplemann, manager
of the buggy factory, says the success
attained could not have been won ; n
such great measure in any other city.
Atlanta, they declare, is the best dis
tributing point of the South, and this,
with the quality of goods, has enable!
the Blount buggies to outdistance
competitors.
From the Blount buggy factory 10.-
000 vehicles are shipped each year.
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 tire separate and distinct
industries. The business is so highly
specialized that no buggy manufac
ture' 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. '
Wheels Come ”in the Rough.”
They arrive at I He Blount factories
by the carload—just Touch wheels, the
color gleaming white, which is *!ie
natural shade of fine hickory. In this
state if is easy to detect any imp. :-
fections. such as cracks, knots or de
tective workmanship. The perfect
wheels are painted a • articularly ugiy
red—-"primed” is the technical word
for the process -and nearly everyon'
will understand this means laying the
foundation for the »en or eleven coats
of paint which follow and make a
buggy the line, shiny thing it Is when
it leaves the shoo.
J.ong bands of steel next are cut io
proper lengths, bent, welded and made
into ♦‘res. These tires are shrunk onto
th: reels by a hydraulic device
wh. is the successor of the old
blacksmith’s method of heating the
tire cherry red. putting it on the
wheel in that condition, and dropping
wheel and tire into water, where the
sudden cooling contracted the tire and
made it grip the wheel firmly.
New Device Aids Speed.
The modern device will shrink tires
on 75 sets of wheels a day, a set, of
course, being four wheels.
The wheels then are ready, except
for the painting, which is a long and
elaborate process.
At the same end of the factory be
gins the manufacture of the running
gear of the buggies. Odd-shaped
pieces of white hickory and seem
ingly' tangled pieces of 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 tapering pieces of se
lected wood. The Blount faetorv does
what many buggy rpakers do not—
puts its own irons or. the shafts. The
boxes come "nested" and are wheeled
about the factory' on ingenious trucks
On these the painters lavish the great
est eare until they attain a real "pia
no finish."
Cushions Carefully Made.
On the upper floors skilled leather
workers and upholsterers fashion the
cushions and tops. Real leather
quarters are in great demand this
year, it seems, ami nearly all buggies
must be made in this way to please
the trade.
At th* very lest the wheels, gear,
shafts, box and top are assembled un
der the severely critical eye of an in
spector. and only when he is satisfied
is the buggy "knocked down” for
shipment.
All this description applies to bug-
gi* s but much the 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 and spring wagons
are a new venture of the Blount fac
tories. The line was introduced this
year and is meeting with considerable
favor.
Rubber tires are in greater demand
ibis 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 why 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 'i is practicable now to
use rubber tires in many’ districts
where this could not be done before.
Big Implement Men
Do Business Here
Turned* to Atlanta as Hub of the
South—Trade Now Is of
Vast Proportions.
POOR FIREWORKS MARKET.
The sal*' of fireworks in Norway is
limited, and consumption seems to re
main stationary. This is probably
due to the fact that there are only
tun days in the year when they are
used to any extent. Midsummer Day.
June 24. and Liberty Day, May IT. I
NIGERIA WANTS FISH.
The 1 »a go® Customs and Trade
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.
M. F. Holahan. head of the Atlanta
branch of the International Harvester
Company, which lays claim to being
the largest farm Implement manufac
turing find selling concern in tfu
world, has a simple explanation of the
International’s action in establishing a
house in Atlanta.
When the business' men North and
Fatst 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 show* d
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
would be surprised to hear that any
other city 'aid claim to pre-eminence.
Al| 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
thought we had reasoned It out and
picked Atlanta as the best place for a
Southern agency, or whether they,
like us. were unable to think of tne
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.
Dur 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. I 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.
"I 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 siy»plying 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.
"1 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 fe-vi
•‘tops are to be the salvation of th?
State.
Big traction engines, big threshers,
riding cultivators, real plows with
mold boards, shredders, stalk cutters
—these are a few of the things we se'l
now that a Southeastern fa me
would not even have been interested
in ten years ago.
"Why. T remember hack in '98. when
I was on the road. 1 sold six mowers
in Augusta. 1 got a personal letter
from the big boss himself commend
ing this as good work. Forty mowers
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 F'ruit Growers' Ex
change. gives out a definite state
ment on the 1913 peach crop. He
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. & 8. Division of the Central
of Georgia (Griffin to Chattanooga) —
30 cars.
A. K 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
ders vi lie) 15 cars.
Southern Railway (Atlanta to Chat
tanooga)—75 cars.
Southern (Atlanta to Charlotte)—
95 cars.
Western and Atlantic (Atlanta to
Chattanooga)— 100 cars.
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
peach season.
SUMMER COATINGS WANTED.
Wholesalers of dress goods are at
present experiencin'? a ‘rood demand
for summer coatings. Soft-finish H
velours and polo cloth, both In s^ft
evening shades and brilliant color
ings. are well up among the most-
wanted fabrics of this kind.
“TANGO" CHANGES SKIRTS.
The much-abused "tango” an!
other freak dances are blazing the
way to wider skirts for women. Some
skirts especially designed for dancieg
are now being shown on the othe-
side. While their fullness Is said r o
be cleverly hidden, the added yard
age is there to help manufacturers
and wholesalers.
LIGHTWEIGHT FABRICS DULL.
Following the recent auction of
lightweight stock men’s wear fabrics
by one of the leading houses in th^
trade, other merchants are trying t »
unload. On the whole, however, buy
ers are disinterested, and concessions
amounting in some cases to 20 and
25 per cent of the original values of
the goods are liberally disregarded.
in the Northwest at that time wouin
not have attracted his attention. And
100 now in an Augusta season would
not. The six mowers, you see, were
a.n opening wedge."
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