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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913.
WHAT ATLANTA MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS ARE DOING
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Spirit Which Makes City Famous
Prevails, and Enough Exhibitors
Sign Agreements to Take Space
to Assure Success of Project.
Decision Necessary Tuesday So
That Plans for New Commerce
Building Might Be Changed.
Manufacturers Are Responding.
It was a close shave, everyone ad
mits, but a* usual the Atlanta spirit
prevailed, and the "Made in Atlanta"
"xhlbit la assured.
Tuesday's luncheon at the Ansley
was the "clincher." Several years of
agitation, a year of actual ’ 'ork,
brought to a climax by a vigorous
campaign of three months, developed
the exhibit project to a point where
about 36 manufacturers had signed
their names to agreements bindlug
them to take floor space for a period
of three years.
Thus matters stood Tuesday. Mean
while the contractors were at work m
the new Chamber building remodel
ing it. The plans called for offices.
If a change were to be made, a deci
sion was necessary at once.
The case was put squarely up to
the Atlanta manufacturers Tuesday,
and on Tuesday’s luncheon was
staked the entire plan. The result of
the appeal was success.
To Have Four Floors.
Four floors will be devoted to the
exhibit. One floor will be given over
to the cotton industry—textiles, oils
and by-products. Furniture made in
Atlanta will take another entire floor.
Building materials probably will take
a floor, kindred lines of manufacture
will be grouped together as far as is
consistent with economical disposal
of space.
Who will be in charge of the exhibit
in the new building at Pryor street
and Auburn avenue has not been de
termined. Neither has it been de
cided when the t ihibits will be in
stalled. All this remains to be done.
This much is certain—there will
be telephone service on each floor, an
expert in charge and an intelligent
effort to make the exhibit pay ’n
dollars and cents for every partici
pant. •
Had the project fallen through, it
would have been lamentable, for
Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville,
Cincinnati, Kansas City, Hartford,
Conn., St. Louis and other cities have
such exhibits; others are planning
them, and Atlanta would, for the first
time, be forced to admit itself less
progressive than its rivals.
Those Already Pledged.
The following firms had signed for
space up to Saturday, the nature of
the business being suggested where
the name is not self-explanatory:
Southern Engraving Company.
Frederick Disinfectant Company.
.1. K. Orr Shoe Company.
E. VanWinkle Company (motor
trucks).
Atlanta Gas Lieht Company.
Southern Upholstering Company.
Atlanta Stove Works.
Southern Spring Bed Company.
Burnett, Bell & Klapper (furniture).
Gholstin - Cunningham Company
(bed springs).
All-Star Manufacturing Company
(neckties).
Byrd Printing Company.
Norris, Inc. (crndies).
Willingham-Tift Lumber Company.
Tripod Paint Company.
J. P. Stevens Engraving Company.
Atlanta Paper Company.
Atlanta Blank Book Manufacturing
Company.
White Provision Company.
Dowman-Dozier (metal workers).
Foote & Davies (office furnishings).
aolden Eagle Buggy Company.
Metzger Mattress Company.
Whittier Mills (textiles).
Marcus Loeb & Co. (overalls)
Nunnally & McCrae (overalls).
Phoenix Planing Mills.
Parian Paint Company.
Atlanta Show Case Company.
Greer Manufacturing Company
(Jewelry).
F. J. Cooledge (building materials).
M. D. & H. L. Smith (awnings).
Reed Oil Company.
Atlanta Metal Bed Company.
Atlanta Auto Top and Trimming
Company.
Moncrief Furnace Company.
Coca-Cola Company.
Walter Ballard Optical Company.
Hagan & Dodd Co. (soft drinks).
Atlanta Art Glass Company.
A. E. Hill Manufacturing Com
pany (razor blade strops).
In addition to the above, the South
ern Cotton Seed Crushers' Associa
tion the cotton oil mills, the textile
and other cotton Interests have an
entire floor, where they will exhibit
the cotton plant and all of its various
uses.
DEMAND FOR RAMIES TO
IMPROVE IN THE SPRING
The fall linen season is shaping up
well. The demand for ratines has
hurt ramie linens, but It is pointed
out that the former soil more easily
nnd do not hold their shape as well
as ramie suitings, and that a better
demand for ramies is looked for next
spring. Light blues, pinks and browns
will lead the color demand for ramie
goods.
ENGLISH TRADE GROWS.
The July statement of English
Board of Trade shows increases of
$17,436,500 in imports and $25,880,-
000 in exports. Imports of foodstuffs
increased $8,875,000. and raw material
about SS.OOflil*"*
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llmLn 1 riflUL Buyers in Market
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Would Bring Much More if Southern
Farmers Did Not Glut Mar
ket at Harvest.
Each year the sweet potato Is be
coming of greater importance as a
money crop in the South. The value
of this crop in the United States in
1900 was $34,429,000. 90 per cent of
which was produced in the Southern
States. The total area devoted *.o
sweet potatoes in the United States
increased from 537,000 acres in 1899 to
641,000 in 1909, and the yield In
creased from 42,500,000 to 52,200,000
bushels. The-total value of the crop
increased at a much more rapid rate
than either the acreage or the yield,
showing an increase of 78.3 per cent
in ten years.
With better methods of storing and
marketing the potatoes, it is said,
their value could be doubled without
increasing the acreage or production.
This is especially true in the South,
where the potatoes are either rushed
on the market at digging time, when
the price is low, or stored in outdoor
pits or banks, where a large portion
decays.
Very few of the sweet potatoes
stored in pits or banks ever reach
the market, for from 25 to 50 per cent
spoil, and those that remain are not
of good quality. Even if the pit or
bank method of storage would keep
the potatoes, it is not economical.
Too much labor and expense are re
quired to make these banks every
year and to get the potatoes out when
wanted for market. Sweet potatoes
can be marketed more economically
and to much better advantage from
storage houses.
Stocks of Iron Not
Above 100,000 Tons
Accumulation in Yards Reduced
Rapidly'in Southern Territory.
Curtailment Continues.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.. Aug. 23.—
Small sales of pig iron continue in
the Southern territory, with a satis
factory aggregate.
The price of pig iron holds around
$11 per ton, No. 2 Foundry. There
have been a number of sales made for
delivery during the last part of the
year and some inquiries are in hand
for iron to be delivered the first quar
ter in 1914.
There still is curtailment of the
make. It Is believed Alabama will
produce during August almost as
much iron as in July. Furnace com
panies are expressing the belief that
before the end of the year a buying
movement is likely to call for an im
mense tonnage. The furnace and
warrant yards inventory will show-
now over 100,000 tons on hand. A
few months ago there were 150,000
tons on the yards.
Basic iron demand is more satisfac
tory. Charcoal iron price is above $23,
w’ith the make as low as it*ever was
in the South.
Steel operations are steady, the sev
eral plants in Alabama working on.
practically full time. Fabricated steel
is going out in all directions. Cot
ton tie manufacturers have had a
prosperous season.
Cotton Goods Buying
Seems to Lack Snap
Limited Number of Desirable Spring
Dress Fabrics Taken by Pur
chasers in East.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—While cer
tain cotton good sellers are satisfied
with conditions, nearly everywhere is
the complaint that the market is
without any snap save for a limited
number of desirable spring dress fab
rics.
A number of buyers are reported
to have gone home without purchas
ing, while others took only sample
pieces. Such wide lines were shown
that in some cases, buyers got the
impression that there was plenty of
goods back of them. This was not
the case, but the buyers were fright
ened off.
Staples are not in demand as they
should be at this time, and special
ties are holding the lead. Fancies in
ratines, crepes and voiles have shown
little tendency to lo^e their popular
ity.
According to The Textile Manufac
turers’ Journal, several larger selling
agencies have opened their spring
lines of dress ginghams, zephyrs,
seersuckers, madras, krinkles chev
iots and shirtings.
It Costs $75,000,000
To Pick Cotton Crop
Work Once Done for 35 Cents Per
100 Pounds Now Costs $1.00
the Hundredweight.
NEW YORK. Aug. 16—Within 1U-
tle more than a month there will Tie
some millions of men, women and
children in the fields of the South
picking cotton. Cotton picking Is now
one of the most expensive parts of
the harvesting -rocess.
Ten years age it was done at a cost
of, say, 35 cents per 100 pounds. Now
it costs a cent a pound, or $5 a bale,
and even more in some cases. A 15,-
000,000-bale crop wiP require a tvago
expenditure for hand labor of $75,-
000,000, or at rate of about $20,000,000
a month.
Last year's crop was worth $920.-
630,000, including both fiber and seed.
These were gathered from an area of
34.283,000 acres.
Below are areas and crops of lint
and seed produced in each of five pre
ceding picking seasons:
Seed,
Acres. Bales. Tons.
1912.. . 34.283.000 14,090.863 6.104,000
1911.. . 36,043,000 16,109.341) 6.997.000
1910.. . 32.403,000 11,265.962 5,175,000
1909.. . 32,044.000 10,386.209 4.462,000
1908.. . 32.444,000 13,432,131 5,904,000
This season’s acreage, over whicn
picking operations extend is some
what larger than that of 1912, but
smaller than that of 1911. Govern
ment’s June estimate of area was
35,622.000 acres, or 2.5 per cent larger
than last season, when the crop was
14,090,863 bales and the cotton seel
picked totaled 6,104,000 tons.
Dealers Feel Something Should
Be Done to Stop Incessant
Drain on Their Profits.
There is strong feeling in dry goods
circles that something should be done
to curb the increasing demands of
buyers for samples. In most quarters
there is a strong opinion expressed
that the giving of samples is a neces
sary evil up to a certain point, but
there is also a strong opinion that this
point has long since been passed.
Few manufacturers and wholesalers
take the trouble to find out just what
samples cost them. In only a few-
cases are definite records kept and the
cost of the samples figured.
A New York silk firm gets out about
250 styles a season and the buyers
got fair-sized samnles of each style
they bought. This is really necessary,
but it is trade custom, the house fol
lows the general path.
A big woolen firm in New York
which does business with the cutting-
up trades and larger retailers is one
of the best informed on the subject
of sample expense.
“On our books,” the head of the
firm said, “there are about 2,500 ac
counts. Of these about 1,800 are man
ufacturers of c ! othing. To each man
ufacturer we give five or ten sample
books. The cloth in each book is val
ued at about 20 cents, and the ex
pense of getting them up brings the
cost to about 50 cents. This means
that each manufacturing account
costs us about $3.75 a season for sam
ples. With two seasons a year and
1,800 manufacturers’ accounts it is
easy to see what samnles mean to
us without trying to figure the cost
of samples for the retail accounts.”
In another quarter of the woolen
goods trade it was said that the sam
ples given out mounted up to a tidy
sum in the course of a year, but that
the expense had not been so great of
late because several houses had
agreed to make clothiers pay for most
of the samples they got.
“One of the wqrst features of the
sample business in this industry “ this
agent said, “is the way some members
of the clothing trade use them. Many
of them have no scruples at all about
taking our samples to a competitor
and asking him at how much less
than our price he can get the goods
made up by his mill. This is a little
off the subject, perhaps, but it illus
trates one of the w'orst phases of the
woolen industry.”
Among the cotton goods houses the
evil is seen in its worst form so far
as quantity is concerned, but the
cheaper qualities of these goods tends
to lessen the aggregate loss as com
pared with wool and silk goods. Lace
and embroidery firms also pay tribute
to the sample god at the rate of sev
eral hundreds to several thousands of
dollars a year.
Last, but not least, comes the big
department store. Inquiry at several
of them in New- York brought out the
assertion that samples cost them from
$30,000 to $60,000 a year. Only 15 to
20 per cent of the people, who take
these samples from the stores really
buy anything afterward, and the re
sultant loss necessarily Is heavy.
ENGLISH MAKERS INVENT
CAP WHICH KEEPS SHAPE
A problem that has engaged Eng
lish cap manufacturers for some time
has been how to produce a cloth cap
that will keep its shape after it has
been in u«3 for some time. An en
terprising firm of manufacturers now
claims that they have solved the
problem and that the shape of their
caps is not affected by rain. The
idea introduced consists of placing
a flat plate of straw plait In the cap
between the •lining and the cloth
crown.
This makes the top of the cap sit
flat, and as the straw Is not affected
by wet it is said the cap can be
worn for a much longer period than
the ordinary kind.
LONDON STYLES FAVOR
LOOSE ENDS FOR TIES
According to a London report there
will be increased activity in the neck
wear trade there this fall. The marked
style tendency now is not toward
color, but toward shape. The loose
jnded knot is favored, but many four-
in-hands are also shown. Various
shades of blue and gray constitute
the color trend at present.
In London men are wearing either
a jacket suit or a frock coat with
a small black bow tie. The start
with black will probably extend to
other colors as the season continues.
It Is thought, however, that this
vogue will not be generally adopted,
as it is entirely out of keeping with
the fall idea*« advanced by English
haberdashers
ANXIOUS FOR COTTON BILLS.
In circles where foreign trade Is
financed, the appearance of cotton
bills in the New York market is al
ways looked forward to as the be
ginning of a period of relief. It will
be especially so in this season, when
the crop is pretty well cleared up, on
account of the steady demand in the
late old-crop months for th e staple
for export purposes. During both
May and June this year exports were
67,304 bales larger than during the
corresponding months of 1912. when
the exports were nearly 2,000,000
greater for the season.
RUBBER FACTORY FOR BRAZIL.
Within a year the Goodyear Tire
and Rubber Company wll have m
operation in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil,
first big rubber factory to be es
tablished on the South American con
tinent, to cost $1,300,000.
DEVELOPED 81
Winter Goods Reported Scarce and
Stringency May Become Acute
by Fall.
August Dullness of Years Ago Is
Overcome by Teaching Public
What to Buy Then.
“Summer isn’t the terror to us that
It used to be,” remarked a white-
haired veteran of the department
stores of Atlanta—a man who is an
Interesting talker and a consistent
Advertiser, but who keeps his own
name and his own personality per
sistently in the background.
“There was a time,” he went on In
reminiscence, “when we might almost
as well have closed up the store dur
ing July and August. That was years
ago.
"In the summer all the well-to-do
customers went out of Atlanta, and
did not return until fall. Fall was a
mad scramble for customers and
stores alike.
“The less wealthy. w r ho stayed in
town, did little shopping. Everyone
thought it was too hot. No one ever
paid any attention to buying in mid
summer. The stores were unattrac
tive. Usually the proprietor was va
cationing—if that’s a good word—
himself.
"I do not know who had the In
spiration first in Atlanta. Put a
change came about. The w'isest mer
chant, whoever he was, decided there
were people in town with money to
spend, even in the summer time.
“He schemed out the way to get it,
w'hich is followed almost universally
by Atlanta stores nowadays.
“To make the story short, he of
fered bargains so attractiv© that
shoppers simply had to come to towrn
for the August sales. The custom
has grown until to-day the things
which have no seas ,u of necessity
have been exploited so skillfully that
the public believes summer is the sea
son for them.
“That may sound obscure, but 1 do
not intend it to be.
“Take furniture, for instance. There
is no more reason why one should
buy furniture in January than in Au
gust. Nor is there any reason why
one should buy furniture in August in
preference to January.
“But the summer furniture sale has
become so much a fixture in the lead
ing stores that people wait for it. It
is good business for all concerned.
The merchant is striving toward the
ideal condition, which would be sales
and collections of an unvarying
amount every month in the year—
unattainable, but none the less an
ideitl state of affairs.
“The customer, likewise, is win
ning. She effects economies by mid
summer buying of furniture and blan
kets, and distributes her expenditures
more evenly over the year.”
Women’s Footwear
Seen in Many Colors
Leather and Cloth Combinations
Shown—Men's Shoes Made
Along English Lasts.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—Southern
hosiery buyers are visiting the local
market. Although mill agents report
cheap goods sold up, some {revision
is evidently being made for the new
comers. The Southern jobbers have
waited this year until the indica
tions of the cotton crop were fairly
certain before operating. They are
not taking 84-needle bundle goods, as
they predict lower prices on those
lines. There are said to be fewer
orders for extracts booked this year
than formerly.
This is not affecting the valume of
sales, as extracts are made up only
to order, and customary buyerp of
those lines are simply seeking a dif
ferent finish. Winter goods are al
ready reported scarce, and, as the du
plicating period has not yet begun,
the stringency will probably be acute
before the end of the fall.
Textile Furs Being
Featured for Fall
Wide Variety of Pile Fabrics Shown
In Cloaks for the 1913-14
Season.
Many new effects in pile fabrics are
being featured for the fall and win
ter seasons. Matelasse plushes in
brocaded effects and high colors, to be
used for cloakings and millinery, as
well as other brocaded effects, are
prominent features in present trad
ing.
There is also a tendency to moires,
in Scotch plaids and checks, for
dresses, cloaks and trimmings. A
wide variety of Oriental and Bulgari
an effects in plushe# and velvets are
also shown for vestings, collars and
cuffs.
A new item is the Jasper efTect,
which has a rich woolen appearance
and is featured for cloakings.
The fabric is of an Indefinite striped
appearance, and is shown in black
and white and blue and brown mix
tures.
Imitation Persian lamb is also pop
ular among the more expensive fab
rics, being mad© to retail at about
$7.50 for 50-inch widths.
Fertilizer Concern
Has Splendid Year
American Agricultural Chemical
Earns Close to 7 Per Cent on
Its Common Stock
Imported models on which fall and
winter styles for women’s evening
slippers are based are leather and
cloth color combinations, among
which red. green, gray, whited and
champagne are to be featured in strap
and colonial effects.
There is a tendency to drop cut
steel buckles, and those of jet will
be much used. Another popular buckle
will be of oxidized silver, in colonial
design, with a satin filler to match the
panel.
Panel effects are featured in the
smartest slippers. A model well
thought of is of patent leather, has .x
modified duck bill, too, and a Jet
buckle filled with satin matching the
narrow panel extending from the
buckle to the side seam. The heel is
full Louls-Cuban. Featured suede
slippers are of t upe, also with color
combinations.
MEN WANT AMERICAN
STYLES IN THEIR CLOTHES
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 — During the
past few weeks several English cloth
ing manufacturers have had repre
sentatives in the local market with
their garment samples. While some
interest was displayed, it was mostly
for obtaining information.
The sales made were principally on
overcoats, and were intended only to
add a few imported garments to the
lines regularly offered. The English
salesmen learned that the majority of
retailers In the larger cities of the
United States prefer American styles.
A local manufacturer said that for
eign competitors will have to realize
this still more and make their cloth
ing which they intend selling here
more on American lines, or els© there
will be little business developed in
this country.
He also said that foreign ready-to-
wear garments would not have to be
seriously reckoned w f to by local mer
chants for some time to come.
TURNING TO FRENCH MODELS.
Fall models for men’s lounge suits
show complete ignoring of English
fashions and tend toward the French
for the first time in many years.
Cheviots yield to unfinished worsteds,
and the colorful textures to the plain
er. The popularity of dark greens
and browns in “off” shades is evi
denced by the earlier selections of
tailors, while inconspicuous plaids
and gun club checks are also well
in demand.
ROADS BUY LOCOMOTIVES.
Ten Mikado locomotives have been
ordered from Baldwin Locomotive
Works by Pere Marquette Railroad.
The Canadian Northern is in market
tor 30 locomotives and the Norfolk
and Western for 10.
BOSTON, Aug. 23.—American Ag
ricultural Chemical for its yeex to
June 30 is understood to have earned
something better than 6 per cent on
the $18,330,000 common. In fact, it is
barely possible that the final figures
will come nearer 7 per cent on this
issue.
Unless conditions in the fertilizer
trade become very much worse than
for the last two years, the company
can continue to earn and pay the
present 4 per cent dividend. This
dividend rate is, by the way, a testi
monial to the wisdom of directors in
making the initial distribution on the
common stock rather modest. If a
5 per cent or 6 per cent rate had been
adopted two years ago, the future
outlook would not be nearly so hap
py as It Is to-day.
FRENCH CALIC0MAKERS
MAKE 20-YEAR COMPACT
Several years ago an attempt was
made to organize the French calico
printing trade, a cartel being formed
which included the principal produc
ers, and an effort was made to fix
standard prices. The results were not
altogether satisfactory, and the agree
ment was allowed to expire. The
matter was taken up again recently,
and it is now reported that a new
cartel, comprising seven of the lead
ing French firms whose works are sit
uated in Rouen. Epinal, Bolbec and
Valenciennes has been formed.
A central sales bureau, which will
transact the entire selling business of
the concerns interested, has been es
tablished under the style of the
Comptoir de Vente des Tissus Fran-
cals Imprimees.
According to the Daily Consular
and Trade Report, the agreement is
for twenty years.
SMALL TOWN SECURES
NATIONAL BANK CHARTER
STOCKTON. CAL., Aug. 23.—An-
nouncement is made that application
the first bie rubber factory to be es-
at Riverbank has been granted.
This is the first time in California
that a town of 600 inhabitants has
secured a charter for a national bank
The bank is capitalized at $25,000.
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CORNED M
Soaring Prices of Meats Bringing
South American Product to
the United States
Salt River Valley Experiments Reach
Stage Where Gin and Oil
Mill Are Needed.
Meat is goirtg up, and up, with no
end in sight.
This has led to a curious state of
affairs. Corned beef, peculiarly a
product of the United States, now is
being Imported from South America
in great quantities, and Libby, Mc
Neill & Libby, the Chicago packers,
advise their representatives In Atlan
ta, H. H. Whitcomb & Burke Com
pany, that nothing but the South
American product now is to be had.
The quality is declared to be ex
cellent. The steers of the Argentine
prairies are fully equal in quality to
those of our own Western ranges, and
the only difference the consumer can
detect is that instead of saying “tJ.
S. Inspected and Passed,” the labels
bear the stamps. “Inspected under the
Food and-Drug Act of June 30, 1906”
—in other words, the customs service
now does the inspecting instead of
the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Never before, so far as anyone re
members, has it been profitable to
Import tinned meats. This could take
place only under exceptional condi
tions such as the present, when
corned beef in 14-pound containers is
quoted to retailers at $37 per dozen or
thereabouts, while two years ago it
was quoted at about $21.
Libby, McNeill & Libby were among
the first to foresee the inevitable
shortage of American meats and to
establish a packing house on the oth
er side of the equator. They now
are reaping the benefit
While it is believed that corned
beef never before has been Imported
direct from South America, last year
the same packers, after shipping large
quantities of the product to Europe,
reimported it at a profit because of a
sudden bulge In prices in the United
States.
Vienna sausage and potted ham.
the Whitcomb company advises, have
advanced 5 per cent in the past ten
days, and pork sausage, pure, has ad
vanced 28 per cent in three weeks.
Temporarily, the live stock market
is depressed by the heavy shipments
from the West, East and South, due
to the great damage to the com crop
in the West and to the hay crop in
the East. The shipments from the
South were attracted by the high
prices buyers paid when they made a
“raid” on Southern cattle a month or
so ago, which attracted the attention
of the United States Government.
The Government warned the farm
ers of Georgia and Florida to keep
'heir cattle, not deplete their herds,
and to fatten them for market at
home instead of selling them lean for
fattening in the West and North.
KNITTING YARNS SLOWER
BECAUSE STRIKE IS ON
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Buying of
knitting yams has slowed up, due to
the knit goods strike in New York and
Brooklyn, but prices show no change.
Just how the strike will affect the
market i* a matter of conjecture, al
though most dealers admit that prices
will drop if it Is continued.
Spinners were unwilling to raise
quotations on worsted yarns mate
rially, as it would result in advancing
the prices for worsted goods and so
kill the prospective demand for them
Cotton yarns were qaiet, the small
demand for them being attributed to
the spinners’ high prices. Weaving
yarns were selling at lower figures
than for several weeks, but only
small orders were placed. Buyers,
Influenced by favorable cotton crop
reports, were holding out for *Ut!
low-er prices.
There were no changes in Southern
frame-spun knlttlngayams, but there
was less activity noted in the coarser
counts of single combed yarns.
Excellent results are beine obtain
ed in the growing of long staple
Egyptian cotton In the Salt River
Valley of Arizona. Under the direc
tion of Mr. E. W. Hudson, of the De
partment of Agriculture, the industry
has ocme to include over 4,000 acres
in planted cotton, yielding in most
cases a net profit of $100 an acre.
While the severe drouth throughout
the entire West has made inroads on
every other crop, the Arizona cotton
has prospered to such a degree that
a ginning plant and an oil mill to
make use of the cotton seed are to be
established by the time the crop is
ready.
The subcommittee of the American
commission which has been making
a study of cotton growing and cotton
marketing in Egypt shows that not
only can American methods applied
to the raising of Egyptian cotton re
duce the cost approximately 50 r»cr
cent, but that our progressive farm
era, although handlcapeed by the
quality of our soil as compared with
that of the Nile Delta, can bring our
long staple cotton yield per acre up
to that of Egypt’s.
Long staple cotton brings from 21
to 26 cents a pound on the spot.
Already the irrigation system em
ployed In the Delta lands has been
employed in Arizona. The rest must
be worked up by American intelli
gence and American industry', for
Egypt with her antiquated methods
of cultivation offers little further
guidance.
N. 0. T. & M. Receiver
May Ask Big Loan
Frl»co Subsidiary Almost Certain to
Default on Interest Due Sep
tember 1.
Ingenious Woman Contrived Fa
miliar Article to Lessen Amount
of Washing in Home.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.—As soon as
NeA Orleans, Texas and Mexico re
ceivers know whether Frisco receiv
ers will or will not pay the *700,000
Interest due September 1. they will
make application for permission to Is
sue approximately $1,000,000 receiv
ers’ certificates. In the meantime th-
Columbla-Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany is making temporary loans to
the receivers copiprising $100,000 for
debt falling due August 1. and about
$200,000 additional to middle of Sep-
tern her.
The engineers employed to examine
the properties which make up the
Frisco’s South Texas lines have not
yet made their report, but the most
favorable statement would show that
at least 18 months of steady work and
adequate funds would be necessary to
put New Orleans. Texas and Mexico
In a position to earn interest on its
bonds. Others believe at least three
veals would be consumed in putting
the line on its feet, and between *?.-
000,000 and *2,000,000 expenditures
would be needed.
Under these circumstances assump
tion Is made in certain quarters that
Frisco will default Its guarantee of
the interest due September 1. In fact,
it is said that any other course would
be Improper.
The detachable collar now worn by
men the world round was the in
vention of a thrifty housewife 33
years ago. It sprang from sheer ne
cessity, and yet it was so simple an
article of wearing apparel that Its
first maker never looked upon he-
productlon as an Invention, and It ,i
doubtful If the other early manufa -
turers thought of patenting the ides.
During the succeeding years. In
which the manufacture of collars and
their allied products has become a
great industry l n and around Troy.
N. Y., the incident of the invention
of the collar had almost been lost un
til recently brought to light by the
unearthing of a family tradition.
It Is now certain that Mrs. Hannah
Lord Montague was the maker of the
first detachable linen collar. Mr. Mon
tague was engaged in the manufa -
ture of fine shoes for women. He w.<*
a large man, very particular ln mat
ters of dress, and in those days before
the Invention of the sewing machine
and before great public laundries
were established, the making, washing
and ironing of the shirts formed qui’e
an item in the work of the house
hold.
Mrs. Montague was resourceful, and
ln endeavoring to lighten her house
hold duties she : it upon the idea of
a detached collar, which could be
fastened to a neckband of her hus
band’s shirt and washed and ironed
separately. Before this time, whea
the collar was soiled, the whole shirt
had to be washed, but by this device
two or three collars might be used l->
one shirt. Acting upoh the Idea
which had come to her. Mrs. Mon
tague went to the patch bag, selected
a strip of white linen, which she cut
and shaped to fit the neckband of her
husband’s shirt, sewed it, turned it
inside out, and attached a narrow-
string of braid at either end to tie
about the neck. This was the origl -
nal string collar.
FIRST BALE BRINGS 12 CTS.
PER POUND IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Aug. 23—Before the
entrance to the Cotton Exchange the
first bale of upland cotton grown in
Chatham County was auctioned. The
bale brought 12 cents a pound. 3 cents
better than current value?. The first
bale was grown by W. M. Kennedy
and ginned by Floyd & So. The sta
ple graded good middling.
FANCY SHOE BUCKLES.
The wearing of elaborate slipper
buckles was particularly noticeable
during the Grand Semaine raring
week, as the prevailing style of short
skirts allows the entire shoe to be
seen. The custom is now quite the
craze, and many society people are
adopting special buckle designs to be
worn with various costumes. They
are appearing daily with a different
^buckle to harmonize with each dif
ferent gown
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able to the mer
chant who buys an
adequate bill from
the members of the
Merchants’ Asso
ciation. ' -^7," >
Write to “ ' f
H. T. Moore
SECRETARY.
Rhodes Building,
Atlanta.
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NEW KIND OF PIPE LINE.
One of the most remarkable me
chanical devices ever used in connec
tion with the manufacture of paper is
being installed at Orange. Texas.
This is a “blower,” more than a mile
long, through which the waste yellow
pine timber from a local lumber mill
will be sent to a paper mill. The
slabs as they come from the mill will
he ground into small particles and
forced by means of compressed air
through the long pipe to the paper
manufacturing plant. This paper mill
is said to be the only plant In the
world that makes paper from yellow
pine pulp. It has a daily output
of thirty-three tons of wrapping pa
per.
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