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14 n 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 T 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." J V) Jack London 06 '// li a w 9 9 ro) Begins in the American SUNDAY MONTH LY MAGAZINE on, June 1st. This Monthly Maga zine is given FREE HHEARSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN Publication Begins Sunday, June 1st. Order Your Sunday American Now The new Jack London story is the best he has ever writ ten. Don’t miss the first issue Manta " r