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12 D HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10. 1013. 1 1 A WHAT ATLANTA MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS ARE DOING I Users of MicaAgainst Increase in Tariff — Electrical Manufacturers Say the | Raise Is Unnecessary and Not Fair to Them TRADE I KNIT [IE I FEAR F ! Mill and School Are Run in Conjunction : Disadvantages of Child Labor Offset by System Adopted by Eng lish Concern. Kid Glove Makers in Midst of Big Season Fall Buying Greatly in Excess of Ex- j pectations—Sales Are Double Last Year’s. SEVERE TESTS Prominent Display to Include All Phases of Plant From Raw Ma terial to Finished Product. At. a meeting of the cotton products committee of the Manufacturers’ Ex position Association yesterday morn ing the Atlanta Chamber of Com merce took steps toward the estab lishment In the new Chamber of Com merce Building of the largest and most complete permanent exhibition of cotton and cotton products In the world. It Is proposed to devote an entire floor of the new Chamber of Com merce Building to this exhibit. It will show cotton and cotton products of all kinds In every phase from the grow ing plant to the finished product. Soil, fertilizer, the proper planting and cul tivation of cotton will all be shown as a sort of a prologue to the otheT exhibits. Cotton lint and all Its va rious products will be shown and the processes explained. Fifty different kinds of cotton cloth and similar products will be shown. The cotton seed will be taken up In the same way, and all its products and by products exhibited, Including hulls, meal, crude oil, fine oil, cooking oil, soap, etc. Complete exhibits of this kind have been temporarily established at some of the great world’s expositions be fore, but this is the first proposal to establish a permanent one. The ex hibit w'lll be in connection with the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Expo sition. The committee meeting at which the protect was put under way was attended by Chairman M. R. Wil kinson, W. M. Hutchinson, W. H. Bchroder and H. E. Watkins, who rep resented E. P. McBurney. A subcommittee was appointed, with Mr. Hutchinson as chairman and Messrs. Schroder and Watkins mem bers. This committee will discuss the details necessary to raising money by subscription and getting up the ex hibit. and will report back to the cotton products committee at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. They will confer with the cotton crushers and oil mill men In the meantime, and the cotton spinners will be invited to attend the Tuesday meeting Special invitations to attend this meeting will be extended to Commis sioner of Agriculture J. I). Price. Mayor Woodward, members of the Fulton County Board of Commission ers and others Interested. Raw Silks Higher; Canton Stock Small Advancing Prices Recorded Both in Eastern and European Markets. Buyers Busy. “The Yokohama raw silk market Is still advancing on account of good buy ing from both Europe and this coun try,” said A P. Villa * Bros., In thelf special report. “Canton Is very firm, and the stock there Is reported to be very small. Estimates of the fourth cron place it at 6.000 bales ’’Lower prices for tsatlees and steam filatures at Shanghai have attracted a large number of buyers and that market Is stiffening up again as a result. Tus- &ahs remain unchanged European man ufacturers are buying Italian silks well, and reelers are taking a decidedly opti mistic view of the future. Higher prices are expected at Milan shortly. “The settlement of the strike at Pat erson has resulted in some buying at New York The market Is quiet, hut firm generaJly.” GEORGIA APPLE~CROP CONDITION PUT AT .52 The Government’s report on the ap ple crop in Georgia for July follows: For the year 1913, 52 per cent; 1912, 64 per cent; 1911, 40 per cent. Habersham County reports that apples promise 75 per cent normal yield, which is 50 per cent more than last. year. Probably 12 cars will be shipped, mostly Bens. Wine saps and Terrys. Fruit Is of better quality than last year. As the orchards are young not many apples have been •hipped. Electrical manufacturers and other users of mica are exercised over the action of the Senate Finance Com mittee In inserting in the pending tar iff bill a provision raising the duty on mica above the rates provided In tin measure as It was passed by the House of Representatives. Under the tariff act of 1897, and under that of 1909, the present law’, complaint has been rmide that, the duty on rough mi ca, approximating 4.000 per cent, was both unfair and absurd, especially In view of the fact that ten times as much mica is used here as can be pro duced In this country. As amended by the Senate, the pending tariff bill will provide for practically no reduc tion of the duty on the product. A representative of one of the larg est electrical manufacturing concerns in the United States said that the blame for increasing the duty on mica in the Senate rests on Senator Sim mons, chairman of the Finance Com mittee. Most of the mica produced in this country, he rays, is found in the Senator’s own State, North Carolina. As an evidence of the injustice of the prevailing, and proposed, rates of du ty on mica in the rough, a recent test case was cited. This case involved Importations from Canada. The Judges of both the Board of General Apprais ers and of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, while confirming the high assessment, condemned the hardship imposed on importers by such an unreasonable duty. Tele grams have been sent by many of the electrical manufacturers to their Senators asking that the Simmons amendment be dropped from the bill now before the Senate, and that the rates In the Underwood bli), or low’er rates, be substituted. Silk Handbags Are Replacing Leather Knitted Girdles Three Yards Long and Eight Inches Wide Also Are Featured. The fancy goods and notions trade reports general activity. Buyers now in the market are ordering freely and prices are about, the same as pre vailed last season. Knitted girdles in high colors, about three yards long and eight Inches wide, are being featured. Cape-girdle effects In solid colors are also well thought of. One Importer says that silk handbags in color combinations would largely replace leather varie ties, although a good selling move ment Is reported in the latter In the new envelope-shape bags. Another leather bag shown Is cir cular in shape and has a single pan nier handle In the center. A new style in belts is the wide seven-inch girdle effect, fastened with one large buckle or two smaller ones. NTew bead necklaces are 27 Inches long and are shown In coral and amber. Ban deaux of aluminum and others with beaded and rhinestone effects are leading features among the newer hair ornaments. Detours ou Hartford Greenfield Route An Automobile Club of America road car has Just traversed the main route from Hartford, Conn., to Green field. Mass., and the crew reports poor going, the road undergoing construc tion at four different places. Leaving Hartford, rough and worn macadam Is followed for seven mllop. Here the road is under construction for one mile, but Is open on the sld *. Fair macadam, with short rutted stretches. Is encountered to Windsor Locks. Mostly good macadam, with some rough spots, leads to Spring- field. The next nine and one-ha‘f miles to Holyoke Is fair macadam and followed along the Connecticut River a worn stretch about one mile long. From Holyoke good macadam is to Mount Tom, and from Mount Tom to Northampton the road Is entire f closed and will not be open all sum mer. A detour is necessary over rough dirt and worn macadam via Easthampton. Now comes three miles of rough and worn macadam, and then a detour is necessary over a rut ted sandy road to Hatfield. Bight miles of good macadam is then fol lowed to South Deerfield, where a de tour is made over a poor sandy road- to Hatfield. Eight miles of good macadam is then followed to South Deerfield, w here a detour is made over a poor sandy road to M apping. Retailers Know No Limit in Ask ing for Credit on Returned Goods. According to one of the best known knit goods wholesalers, there is ap parently nothing in the way of ille gitimate business that is not done in that field. To illustrate how things went on there, he cited the following insta nces: ”A small local retailer came into this store the othe r day with eighteen dozen pairs of hose that he had bought from us about January 1 of last year, and which had actually lain on his shelves since the middle of February, 1912. Apparently without the least sense of doing anything out of the ordinary he told me that the goods were rotten and that he was returning them and wanted credit. He would not accept my side of the matter at all, and when J refused to credit him for the goods be vowed that he was through buying from us. The goods were rotten, all right. They were in perfect condition when they left us, but we were unable to convince him that Wf> were not re sponsible for their condition after they had lain on his shelves for sev enteen months. “In another instance ft case of ho siery was returned to us with the complaint that they were not line toe sample from which they were sold. It happened, however, that these samples had been taken from the very case which was shipped him after the sale waamade, had been re turned to the cu#, and shipped with the balance of the goods. There w’as absolutely no Justification for the claim made, but the account being very good, we could do nothing but take the goods back. “Here Is another case: Late last season we bought a heavy bill of silk hose from a prominent New England manufacturer at $7.50 a dozen, which was a good reduction from the manu facturer’s regular price. The goods did not move well, however, and, get ting a chance to dispose of fifty dozen of them to a retailer in the Middle West, I made a price of $6.75 on them. 1 was willing to lose 75 cents a dozen to get from under.’ Imagine my surprise to-day, when I got a letter from this retailer saying that we were in error on the price we had billed him. He maintained that the salesman had made the price $6.50. To settle the rratter in as friendly a way as possible he notified me that he could get the same hose from another source at $6, and sug gested that I tell him by return mail that this price would he satisfactory to me. The goods are now on the way back to New York, and that ac count is crossed off the books.” Shadow and Oriental Laces Lead Market Regular Embroidery Lines Opening Well, as Are Many of the Novelties. NEW YORK, Aug 9.—-Fall buying In the lace and embroidery market is open ing well, and dealers expect a good sea son. On acount of light duplicating during the spring, orders are being booked at satisfactory rates, making the merchandise very tempting to buyers. Most trading done so far has been with merchants in tin* region from Denver west to the coast, although buyers from the Middle West art* coming In. Many novel effects in lace are shown, and reported to be taking well. Light- weight shadow and Oriental effects In a Hovers and flounces are also in demand Regular embroidery lines are opening well, as are the many novelties in various designs of Swiss embroidery in edgings and sets. The high-color Bal kan effects are pot moving strongly with the dealers this season. QUITS BIG EXCHANGE: BUYS CONSOLIDATED SEAT A. R. Allan, of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Maynard & Allan, which was dissolved, purchased a seat on the Consolidated Stock Exchange for $1,200, including the transfer fee This Is the first time in a long while that a member of a New York Stock Exchange firm has secured a member ship on the "Little Board." Evasion Simple Through Sending Goods Abroad Again and Re importing Them. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Few of the importers owning the seventy-odd million dollars’ worth of merchandise that is now lying in bonded ware houses In this city w’altlng the pas sage of the Underwood-Simmons tar iff bill regard seriously the amend ment offered by Senator Sutherland, of Utah, to make these goods dutia ble on entrance at the rates prevail ing under the present law. There is a strong feeling that the amendment will never be taken up for serious consideration oy Con gress, There is a stronger feeling that If it should be passed by any chance It would prove Inadequate to do the work that was intended for it by Its sponsor. To justify the first contention it is pointed out that never in the history of the country has any merchandise brought in under a new tariff been dutiable at the rates of the old. To prove the second. It is argued that, the goods never having been entered and no duties paid on them, It w’lll be a comparatively easy matter to ex port them to their original shipping point, or some foreign port nearer by, and reimport them under the new rates. This is nn especially attractive way of “beating” the measure for import ers who bring in goods on which the duties are lowered sharply In the new bill. Discussing this phase of the ques tion, E. H. Van Ingen, of E. H. Van,- Ingen & Co., importers of woolens, said yesterday. “On every thousand dollars' worth of woolen goods, foreign cost, the du ty under the present law is over $900. Under the Underwood-Simmons bill the duty would be $350. What would the loss of time for three weeks and the cost of two freights amount to compared w'ith the $550 saved by ex porting and reimporting the goods?” The following Is the way one spe cific case of reimporting would work out. In figuring It a foreign invoice covering a shipment of several cases of w'oolen goods was chosen: The foreign invoice value of the goods in question was $4,055, and the original freight charge on them was slightly over $75. The duty on them under the pre.sent act (based on an average duty of 90 per cent) would be $3,649.50, making the full landing cost $7,779.50. If brought In under the new tariff at a duty of 35 per cent, the tax would he $1,419.25 and the full landing cost would be $6,- 549.25, or a saving of $2,230.25. If the goods now' entered In bond w r ere exported and shipped back to this country under the new tariff, this sav ing would be diminished only by about $150 for freight and some inci dental warehousing charges. On bulky goods, which would mean greater freight charges.-and on goods where the reduction in duty is not great, this method of avoiding the power of the Sutherland measure would not result in savings so great as those in the illustration, but in any event the importers see little rea son for worry in the Senator’s at tempt to save the Government several million dollars in revenue that would be lost under the present provisions of the new r tariff. Small Rubber Tires For Teething Babes G. A. Sohl, manager of the local branch of the Republic Rubber Com pany, is distributing a novel souvenir among the automobile owners of At lanta. It is a miniature Staggard Tread Republic tire. The tire is about five inches in diameter and can be worn as a watch fob or makes a very serviceable paperweight. Mr. Sohl recommends the little tire very highly as a teething ring for babies, claiming that his two little In view of the widespread agita tion against child labor, interest at taches to a recent report by Consul Franklin D. Hale at Huddersfield, England, on a plan providing educa tion and employment for children at The same time: “On© of the English district factory inspectors reports specially in regard to half-time labor ofr childrtn of school age, taking one* instance of a school In connection with a textile factory where 35 children attend school tw'o and a half hours daily and work in the mill five hours, with a complete rest every alternate week after 3 p. m. and from Friday until 9 a. m. the following Monday. The inspector noted the bright, healthy and intelligent appearance of the chil dren. and says: " ‘The schoolmistress informed me that these children made as much progress in their education as the or dinary full-time scholars and inva riably earned the full Government grant which depends both on attend ance and scholarship, and obtained very good reports from the inspector of schools. They are necessarily very regular in their school attendance, because lost attendance has to be made up before they can renew their work at the mill. The fact that they earn $1.10 a week probably accounts for their being better fed and clothed than other children of the same class.* ’* Cheaper Carpets in Good Demand Now Higher Grades of Goods Quiet. Trade Comes Chiefly From Mail Order Houses. Trading in better grade carpets and rugs is quiet, although the cheapei grades are active. The demand for the latter i.s chiefly from large mail order houses and considerably ex ceeds the supply, according to a prom inent New York selling agent. Lower grade goods are principally In the jobbers’ hands, and they are selling freely at a small margin. Stocks in retailers’ hands are light There is a shortage reported in small rugs. Nearly all looms working low- end seamless tapestries and velvets are sold up to their capacity. Unique Auto Record By Denver Concern As an indication of the constant im provement of the automobile business, the Willys-Overland Company, of To ledo, Ohio, points to the record estab lished by its Denver distributor, the Overland Auto Company, during the season of 1913. The western concern’s original order for 1913 Overlands called for 400 cars, but within a very short time after the announcement of the model this was increased to 500, with a request that if possible it was to be al- lowed 100 additional cars. Because of the gr eat demand for Over lands. the extra allotments could not be made. On July 4 the factory received word from Denver that but 23 '‘of the 500 Overlands remained unsold. "These will be gone long before the new cars com#. We will need a greatly increased allotment for 1.914 and are tell ing you about it this early so that we will not be overlooked.” wrote W. J. Carter, of the Denver firm. HERE IS BEST WAY TO APPLY A TIRE. Before applying tires, remove rust and all other foreign matter. If the tire has been ridden deflated at any time, mud may have accumulated on the rim and unless this is removed the tire can not adjust itself properly. Soapstone dusted on the rim will act as a lubricant and make it much easier for the tire beads to slip into their correct position, thereby reduc ing the danger of pinching the inner tube. Before placin^lhe inner tube inside of case, inflate Just enough to round it out. Do not use a tube of the wrong size and be sure that the spreader of the valve is adapted for the par ticular type of case, whether regular clincher, quick detachable clincher or Q. D.' cable base. Dust tube and in side of case with talc, which will re duce the friction and prevent adhe sion of the tube to case after heated in service. If too much talc is used, however, and any water should work its way on t^e inside of the tire, there is danger of grit and attending injury to the tube. Powdered graphite is not quite so nice to handle as talc but is a much more durable lubricant. English Engineer Says Americans Are Neglecting Profitable and Growing Close Market. A big market for certain lines of goods of American manufacture is lying undeveloped in Peru, according to Richard T. Hird, sanitary engineer for the Provincial Council of Callao. Mr. Hird says that a demand has sprung up for all sorts of sanitary materials and appliances, and that absolutely no attempt has been made by American manufacturers to cater to it. Mr. Hird. who is an Englishman, has been working on the new water and sewage works of the port of Cal lao. which have just been completed. Every coast town in Peru, he says, is getting ready for the opening of the Panama Canal, and the whole country expects tremendous benefits from the completion of the great waterway. “Callao has been making provision for the commerce which it is believed will come to It,” said Mr. Hird. “The improvements which have just been finished are based on a population of 50,000. At the present time there are about 34,000 inhabitants. Ships Not To Be Delayed. “Now’ the authorities are started on a general clearing up of the town, in fact, of all the coast towns. It is realized that ships must be able to proceed straight from Callao to Pan ama without having to be delayed by long stops in quarantine. “One thing the city of Callao itself is about to do is to put in modern street paving and a modem slaughter house, the latter with a capacity of 45,000 cattle per annum. Most of the animals that will be slaughtered here will be Peruvian or Chilean eattle, which w'ill come to Callao from the smaller ports to the south. Sanitary Materials Needed. “While there is a good number of Englishmen and Americans down there, there is now’ a distinct trend of Germans to the country. What I would like to see now is something like active appreciation on the part of American manufacturers of san itary materials, and of the great op portunity Peru now presents for tho sale of their products. There is a great dearth of sanitary material to be had in the country. There is a first-class opportunity down there now’ for sanitary wares of various kinds. The Government is insistent that sanitary works be installed, and no matter which party has been in office, we have never had any diffi culty in getting money to prosecute the works we have been carrying on. We are carrying a loan of $500,- 000 furnished mainly by French. Peru vian. and English capitalists. Most of the piping material for general work we have been using has been of Eng lish manufacture, though w'e have had to get not a little from Austria. We have installed a hydro-pneuinatic pumping station for getting rid of the sewage, which Is assembled in two distinct sections and thrown out on two sides < f the town, thence going by gravity to the sea. "There is a big chance down there for some American company that would like to undertake the repaving of cities. Not only the whole city of Callao is to ba repaved, but other towns will make similar improve ments.” CROPS DOING WELL. COLUMBUS, GA.. Aug. 2.—The con dition of crops has improved wonder fully during the past ten days, since the rainy weather began. "Where It was thought impossible to make a crop of corn, planted early, It now looks as the yield will be heavy, while late corn Is doing remarkably well. Throughout 30 counties embraced in the Columbus territory. It 13 considered that the rains have Improved the condition of cotton materially, and that where It. was at least two weeks late prior to the rains, is now about as forward as usual. CUBISTS IN MILLINERY FIELD. Cubist roses are the new’est thing in the millinery world. These are silk flowers with square petals and foliage. Part of the rose is in one color and the rest of another shade. The color schemes are varied, and various shadings are grouped, some times harmoniously and sometimes in a way to create a clash of colors. The cubist wing has also made its appearance, and some observers look for a season of “square” millinery ornamentation. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Manufactur. ers of kid gloves are experiencing trouble making deliveries, as the fall selling has greatly exceeded expecta tions. One maker says his sales were , double those of 1912. Lamb skins are scarce and high, necessitating large advances. Kid skins are plentiful, but no lower. Raw materials here are thought to be fairly well sold up. On account of the tariff bill, it is F Many Concerns Purposely Mak® Tryout of Employees Harder said that strikes are prevalent in Eu rope, the strikers w’apting to share the increased profits made possible by the lower tariff. According to another dealer, if the bill is not passed by September 15 the losses to manufac turers in America W’ill be heavy. Im porters are unwilling to deliver goods and stand any advance in tariff, and retailers will v not take merchandise unless they get the benefit of any downward revision. Road business coming into the fab ric glove market for 1914 shows a con siderable increase over last year, the demand for lisle and chamoisette goods being especially large. White goods are most in demand, but there is little or no activity In colors. Plan to Mark Sizes On Shoes Is Opposed Most Retailers Appear to Prefer Code Instead of Plain Figures and Letters. Shoe manufacturers and retailers have joined in a movement to have sizes and widths marked In shoes by a plain and uniform system. There is api»arently a litLe reluctance on the part of the retailers to abandon wholly the system of "blind” or code maikings, which mean nothing to the ultimate consumer, in favor of the sys tem of plain markings, with the various sizes and widths indicated by numerals and letters. The national organization of retailers has adopted resolutions favoring uni formity, but also asking the manufac turers "to select the most practical code, preferably the one most commonly used at this time, as a general code for re tailers, who prefer to have the sizes on their shoes indicated by a code, instead of a plain marking.*’ ROAD UNDER CONSTRUCTION. The touring department of the Au tomobile Club of America reports a road under construction from Mill- wood, N. Y., through Chappaqua, con necting with King street for Port- ch ester. The road is to be macadamized and when completed will afford a direct connection from lower Long Island Sound points to the Harlem Valley and along the Hudson River. Long Island motorists will also ben efit greatly by the new road, since connection can be made from Long Island by the Rye-Seacliff ferry. \ A prominent manufacturer saya that fully 90 per cent of the men that prove satisfactory during th© first few weeks of their employment can afterward keep their positions as long as they desire. Most houses have tests to try out new employees, and these are nearly always more se vere than the work they are required to do regularly. “In my offices,” he said, "new men are required to do disagreeable, un important tasks. I give some the privilege of straightening out the most disagreeable complaints that come in. It show’s whether they have any executive ability. “Many take positions believing that it is not well to set an example for hard work because the employer will think better of them if th© work is done easily. A man must work hard at a new job at first because he has friction with older employees and lack of knowledge of numerous de tails of the work to contend with. I think more of the new man for work ing overtime trying to overcome these obstacles than of the man who ap parently goes through his work with no effort. “I recall the case of a man who mad© a good record in a position where a number had failed before him. He studied the business, and interviewed as many of his prede cessors as possible to ask their rea sons for quitting before he made his try at it. ’ After making notes of the others’ reasons he went to work well fortified with a knowledge of the ex isting conditions and made good in a big way. IRISH LACE INDUSTRY. “It may not be known generally,** says Dress Essentials, “that modem Irish lace making had its origin in the failure of the potato crop that caused th e famine In 1846. Th© abbess of a convent in County Cork, looking about for some lucrative em ployment to help the half-starved children who attended her schools, unraveled, thread by thread, a scrap of Point do Milan, and finally mas tered the complicated details. She then selected the girls who were quickest at needlework, and taught them what sh© had so painfully learned. The new industry prospered, and one of the pupils, in a character istic ‘bull,’ declared that ‘if it had not been for the famine w’e would all have been starved.’ ** IMPROVED ROOFLESS PLATE Made of gold or aluminum, no gums, no roof. Truly Nature's du plicate, made only by us. Perfect fit or no pay. GOLD CROWNS r (SO WHITE CROWNS - BRIDGE WORK [ VU 20-YEAR GUARANTEE IIIITII AIIPIIOT 1 EiL We will continue to make our Whalebone Ever- un I IL AUuUo dill st,ck Suction Plate for $3.00. The lightest and Wl, v nwwwvi I VIII 8trongest p)ate known. 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We want you to go to our Modern Shirt Factory—the only one in the South—and there, at first hand, see our famous “Aragon Brand” line of shirts made; visit our Factory No. 2 and see cut and finished hundreds of dozens of “Aragon Brand” Trousers, Overalls and Work Shirts. A CORDIAL WELCOME AWAITS YOU A. M. ROBINSON COMPANY DRY GOODS JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS 61 NORTH PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, GEORGIA isms