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13 A HEAR ST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1013. 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. Sweet Potato Crop Yields Big Returns Would Bring Much More if Southern Farmers Did Not Glut Mar ket at Harvest. It was a close shave, everyone ad mits, but a* usual the Atlanta spirit prevailed, and the "Made In Atlanta" exhibit Is assured. Tuesday’s luncheon at thp Ansley was the "clincher." Several years of agitation, a year of actual v/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 binding them to take floor space for a period of three years. Thus matters stood Tuesday. Mean while the contractors were at work in the new Chamber building remodel ing it. The plans called for offices. If a change were to be madS, 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 exhibits 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 in dollars and cents for every partici pant. Had the nroject fallen through, it would have been lamentable, for Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Cincinnati, Kansas Ci^y, 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. J. K. Orr Shoe Company. E. VanWinkle Company (motor trucks). Atlanta Gas Light Company. Southern Upholstering Company. Atlanta Stove Works. Southern Spring Bed Company. Burnett, Bell & Klapper (furniture). Gholsfin - Cunningham Company (bed springs). All-Star Manufacturing Company (neckties). Byrd Printing Company. Norris. Inc. (erndies). 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 (mptal workers) Foote & Davies (office furnishings). Golden 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. 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 .0 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. Green Shirts Shown For Winter Wear Long-Pointed Collars in White and Self-Striped Effects Continue in Vogue. New features are noted among col lars and shirts shown by leading manufacturers for fall and winter. Imported dress shirts, in soft laun dered effects with musnroom tucks and semi-French cuffs are selling readily.. Shirts with a short stiff bosom In various color combinations are also featured. White self-striped effects in French pique with stiff and unstarched bosoms are also meeting a good de mand. A soft bosom with cross- striped plaits, in various color com binations, is a new fall feature that has been well received. Woven madras in colored effects will be strong. The demand for si k shirts is in creasing and they are becoming more of a staple than formerly. Gre^n will be a popular shirt color for the new season The long pointed collars in white and s“lf-striped effects are contin uing Into the next season. A departure in them is the wider two-inch band instead of the nariow one now worn. These new collars have a three and a h'llf inch point. The widtr band is claimed to give them more the appearance of a stand ing collar, besides causing them to sit better 1 nd afford greater com fort. ENGLISH MAKERS INVENT CAP WHICH KEEPS SHAPE 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 w'ill show how over 100,000 tons on hand. A few' months ago there were 150,000 tons on the yards. Basic iron demana is more satisfac tory. Charcoal iron price \a above $23, with 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. Fertilizer Concern Has Splendid Year American Agricultural Chemical Earns Close to 7 Per Cent on Its Common Stock. DEVELOPED 81 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 tn© buyers got fair-sized samnles of each style they bought. This is really necessary, but it is trade custom, the house fol low's 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 clothing. 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 tw’d seasons a year and 1,800 manufacturers’ accounts it is easy to see what samples 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 worst 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 worst 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. Southern Hosiery Buyers in Market Winter Goods Reported Scarce and Stringency May Become Acute by Fall. N.0.T.&M. Receiver May Ask Big Loan Frisco Subsidiary Almost Certain to Default on Interest Due Sep tember 1. 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 use 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 s 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. BOSTON, Aug. 23.—American Ag ricultural Chemical for its year to June 30 is understood to have earned something better than 6 per cent on the $18,330,000 common. In fact. It 1« 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. A very strong feature of American Agricultural operations is the high percentage of branded or trade-mark ed goods which it sells. It Is safe to state that 90 per cent of the com pany's tonnage consists of trade mark goods, which farmers buy on the reputation of a particular brand i for the specific purppse desired. 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, "w r hen we might alinoet 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 Ipse wealthy, who 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. But a change came about. The wisest mer chant, whoever he was, decided there were people in town with money to spend, even in the summer time. "He themed out the w r ay to get it, w'hich is followed almost universally by Atlarita stores nowadays. "To make the story short, he of fered bargains so attractive that shoppers simply had to come to town for the August Bales. The custom has grown until to-day the things which have no season of necessity have been exploited so skillfully that the public believes summer is the sea son for them. "That may sound pbscure, but I do not intend it to be. "Take furniture, for instance. There ia no more reason w r hy one should buy furniture In January than in Au- gupt. Nor is there any reason w r hy 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 w r ait 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 les9 an ideal state of affairs. "The customer, likewise, is win ning. She effects economies by mid summerbuying of furniture and blan kets, and distributes her expenditures more evenly over the year." Textile Furs Being Featured for Fall Wide Variety of Pile Fabrics Shown in Cloaks for the 1913-14 Season. NEW YORK Aug. 23.—Southern hosiery buyers are visiting the local market. Although mill agents report cheap goods sold up, some provision 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-nccdle *bundle goods, as they predict low'er 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, ns extracts are made up only to order, and customary buyers 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. 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 in 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 w'ere shown that, in some cases, buyers got th* 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 lose their popular ity. According to The Textile Manufac turers’ Journal, several larger selling agencies have, opened their spring linos of dress ginghams, zephyrs, seersuckers, madras, krinkles chev iots and shirtings. NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—As soon as New Orleans, Texas and Mexico re- oeivers 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- Columbta-Knlckerhocker Trust Com pany Is making temporary loans to the receivers comprising $100,000 for debt falling due August 1, and about $200,000 additional to middle of Sep tember. 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 years would be consumed In putting the line on its feet, and between $2,- 000.000 and - $3,000,000 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 sgiid that any other course would be Improper. KNITTING YARNS SLOWER BECAUSE STRIKE IS ON NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—Buying of knitting varns 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 Is 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 quiet, the small demand for them being attributed to the spinners’ high prices. Weaving yams 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 still lower prices. • There were no changes in Southern frame-spun knitting yarns, hut there was less activity noted in the < oarser counts of single combed yarns. 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 plushes and velvets are also shown for vestings, collars and cuffs. A new item is the jasper effect, which has a rich woolen appearance and is featured for cloakings. The fabric is of an indefinite striped appearance, and is shown in black i and white and blue and brown mix tures. Imitation Persian lamb is also pop ular among the more expensive fab rics. being made to retail at about $7.50 for 50-inch widths. 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 else 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 with by local mer chants for some time to come. LONDON STYLES FAVOR LOOSE ENDS FOR TIES FRENCH CALIC0MAKERS MAKE 20-YEAR COMPACT Several years ago an attempt w r as 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 Tlssus Fran- cals Imprimees. According to the Dally Consular and Trade Report, the agreement is I for twenty years. SMALL TOWN SECURES NATIONAL BANK CHARTER STOCKTON, CAL., Aug. 23.—An- nouncement is made that application the firm big rubber factory to be es- at Riverbank has been granted. This is the first time in (’allfomla that a town of 600 inhabitants has secured a charter for a national bank. The bank is capitalized at $25,000. TURNING TO FRENCH MODELS. Fall models for men's lounge suits show complete ignoring of English fashions and tend tow'ard 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. According to a London report there will be increased activity In the neck wear trad there this fall. The marked style tenuern y now is not toward color, but toward shape. The loose ended knot is favored, but many four- in-hands are also shown. Various shades of blue and gray c<*istitut© the color trend at present In l^mdon 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 ideas advanced by English haberdashers. Once-overs and Ascots are being revived in a small way. FINANCIAL NOTES. The United States ranks fourth as purchaser of English goods, with $146,000,000 last year. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation is seeking bids in Englanfi and Ireland to build nine iron ore carriers of 15,- 000 tons dead-weight capacity. The Canadian Government, in con tract with the United Fruit Company of Nova Beotia, has established a new steamship line between Canada and England, in order to secure more satisfactory access to the English market. The Chicago and Northwestern, with proceeds of $4,000,000 equipment trust certificates recently sold, will pay for switching engines, 2,000 gon dola cars and 2,005 box cars. Soaring Prices of Meats Bringing South American Product to the United States Meat is going tip, 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 i»ackers, 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 "U. S. Inspected and Passed," the labels hoar the stamps. "Inspected under th*i Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1908" —in other words, the customs service now does the Inspecting instead of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Never before, so far as anyone re member*, 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 meatB 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 corn 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 their cattle, not deplete their herds, and to fatten them for market at home instead of selling them loan for fattening in the West and North. Women's Footwear Seen in Many Colors Leather and Cloth Combination* Shown—Men's Shoes Made Along English Lasts. Imported models on which fall and winter styles for women’s evening slippers are based are leather arid doth color combinations, among which red, green, gray, white 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 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 Louis-Cuban. Featured sued* Ingenious Woman Contrived Fa miliar Article to Lessen Amount of Washing in Home. The detachable collar no-r warn by men the world round was the in vention of a thrifty housewife S3 years ;;g*>. It sprang from sheer ne cessity, and yet it w^s so simple *n article of wearing apparel that Its first maker never looked upon her production as an Invention, and It slippers nre of t-upe, also with color doubtful if the other early manufac turers thought of patenting the idea. combinations. Women’s street shoes shown have the long French vamp and square throat combined with cloth top color combinations/ They are made with a plain toe, are fitted with the full Louis-t’uban heel and are of the but ton variety. Men's shoes for fall and winter are made along the straight, laced, Eng lish last, and the color tendency is to ward dark tan and gunmetal. Low, flat heels are shown almost exclu sively. The blucher style is taboo. 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 th e mill will be ground into small particles and forced by means of ('(impressed air through the long pipe to the paper manufacturing plant. This paper mill is Said to he the only plant in the world that makes paper from yellow pine pulp It has a dally output of thirty-three tons of wrapping pa per. 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 And do not hold their shape as well as ramie suitings, and that h better demand for ramies is looked for nex* spring. Light blues, pinks and browns will lead the color demand for ramie goods. • Arizona Grows Fine Egyptian Cotton Salt River Valley Experiments Reach Stage Where Gin and Oil Mill Are Needed. Excellent results are being 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 plunted 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 per cent, but that our progressive farm ers, although handicapped by the quality of our soil as compared with that of the Nil* Delta, can bring our long staple cotton yield per acre up I to that of Egypt’s. Long staple cotton brings from 21 I to 25 cents a pound on the spot. Already the irrigation system em- I 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. 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 bet er thaji current values. The first ball 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 Semalne racing 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 harmotilze with each dif ferent gown. During the succeeding rears. In which the manufacture of collars and their allied products has become a. great industry in 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. Tt 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 was a large man, very particular in 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*o nn item in the work of the house hold. Mrs. Montague was resourceful, and In endeavoring to lighten her hous - 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 irone i separately Before this time, wheo the collar was soiled, the whole shirt had to be washed, but by this device two or three collars might be used to one shirt. Acting upon the idea w'hich 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 t1a about the neck. This w'as the origi nal string collar. Thus through the resourcefulness of a woman the mode*- detachable col lar was evolved. To Atlanta is avail able to the mer chant who buys an adequate bill from the members of the Merchants’ Asso ciation. Write to H. T. Moore SECRETARY. Rhodes Building, Atlanta. ENGLISH TRADE GROWS. The July statement of English Board of Tr&do shows increases ol $17,436,500 in imports and $25,880,- 000 in export* Imports of foodstuffs Increased $8,875,000, and raw material about $5,000,000, RUBBER FACTORY FOR BRAZIL. Within a year the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company wil have in 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. DIXIE PICKLE AND PRESERVING CO. Manufacturers of Pure Apple and Distilled Vinegar, Cataup, Pickles, Mustard, Pepper Sauce, Sauer Kraut, Jelly, Etc. CANNED GOODS 364 to 378 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. Write for our latest Catalogue. The leading; merchant* are adding the 5c and 10c department*. Why not one for your town? 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