Amsterdam Smyrna Rugs,
- t p'jpUidX liHr 11 ':.'
120 Designs
L SIZES, TSChVDI^Gr CA2PETS.
KLvJ Ut,^|(j.>tK«5 MOH.\WK MILLS THEI?. BEST EFFORTS.
^^' & J- SLOANE, ]|eci,an-, Wallin k frnuse.
'^*'"' '"-'"'• AMSTERDAM.
SOLE AGENTS. XEW YORK.
PLANET MILLS,
ESTABI-ISHED 1870.
Largest Manufacturers of Hemp Carpets and Mattings.
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Cr Villa, .... 4=4
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JKIW Planet Checks, 4=4
^^ ^ Super, . . . 4=4
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^ Napier Mattings in b.
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T. J. KEVFNEY & CO.
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INew Vork. Philadelphia. Chi
oago,
ENTAL
CARPETS, RUGS and HANGINGS.
Large Spring Stock Now Ready.
Fresh, Desirable Lots Opening Every Week.
IMPORT ORDERS. My recent important announcement is bringing me
encouraging inquiries and some orders. Buyers seem to realize the
UNUSUAL PRIVILEGES I am offering. I will take, as announced,
IMPORT ORDERS from responsible houses on the basis of a small
commission, with the understanding that if on inspection in bonded
warehouse the goods do not prove satisfactory, the firm giving such
order will not be obliged to take same.
A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED STOCK will be always found, as
before, at my spacious and well lighted stores, o^o BROADWAY and
90 LEONARD STREET, NEW YORK, and in bond. As the
LARGEST IMPORTER I always enjoy great facilities in securing
desirable lots at advantageous prices, giving the benefit of the same
to my customers, which is the secret of my success.
Note.— All goods remaining from the old tariff imports are still quoted
at old tariff prices.
H. S. Tavshanjian,
Oldest and Largest Importer,
343 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
McCALLUM & McCALLUM,
GLEN ECHO Body e'russels.
Extra Supers and |
Byzantine Rugs.
Select styles and novel creations in drawings and colorings ; also patterns which will sell anywhere.
We offer this season an entirely new fabric :
.... The Arras Tapestry,
Wholesale distributers of
Containing new features of construction and amplifying coloring effect
to the highest degree yet arrived at in a 4-4 carpet.
Sanford Tapestries and Velvets.
EXTRA SUPERS, C. C. EXTRA SUPERS, SALESROOMS:
HALF WOOL EXTRA SUPERS, COTTONS, '^H ifti? ^ TflU Chestnut St PHIIADFIPHU
SAKAI RUGS, ART SQUARES, &c., 7^^ *"*^ * ^"** ^"^^^ "^ ^^" â„¢^^^^^^^^^'
In large lines of latest patterns. ' * 1 & 3 UniOn SqUarC, NEW YORK.
Alden Sampson & Sons,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Floor Oil Cloths,
Nos. 58, 60 & 62 Reade Street,
-^.j^NEW YORK.
W. W. CORSON & CO., Boston,
New England Sellinq Agents.
L S. Higgins Carpet Co.
(Established in the year 1835)
Velvet
M-acers of j^- Caroetiflgs
Ingrain
With the advent of a high tariff on wools, some
manufacturers, in order to keep prices down to about
old values, resort to the method of reducing the quality.
Not so with us.
Our high standard
for over half a century
will positively be maintained, and every endeavor
will be made to improve our various fabrics
in quality, style and finish.
Have you seen o^c7^ nezv grade, the ^^ SultSLtl Velvet/'
a 2=shootf high pile fabric ? Now on shozv.
Superb line of patterns, comprisiitg Orieittal effects,
Persian and Floj'al Designs; also Hall and Stair.
4t Union Square, West,
(S. W. Cor. 17th St.),
And also at 07Lr Branch Offices: INBW VORK.
BOSTON: CHICAGO: PHILADELPHIA:
61 1 Washington St. 835 Marquette Bldg. 604 Bourse.
The R. H. & B. C.
New Process.
Standard Goods.
Finest Designs.
REEVE COMPANY.
m;anukacturers ok
Floor Oil Cloths.
iVlIUUS: OAMDEIN, IN. J.
Sole Selling Agents for Floor Oil Cloth : W. & J. SLOANE,
Broadway, 18th and 19th Streets, NEW YORK.
The R. H. & B. C. Reeve
are now ready with their SPRING LINE of
LINOLEUM
1^
QENERAU SALESROOMS;
Qualities: A, B, C, D, E.
Widths: U-U, 5-A, e-U, B-U, lO-a.
THE R. H. & B. C. REEVE CO.,
801 Hartford Building:, 41 LJnion Square,
INEW VORK.
A. E. HAND,
602 Bourse, PHILADELPHIA.
GEO. WEHN & SON,
713 Penn Avenue, PITTSBURG.
EVOY & FLANICAN,
186 Market Street, CHICAGO
HOWARD D. THOMAS & CO.,
916 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO.
t^" Please address all Correspondence to CAMDEN, N. J.
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GULLABI GULBENKIAN & CO.
^.^PRING ^TOCK
598
Oriental Rugs
AND
Carpets.
This season our stock is enlarged by our
exclusive NEW MAKES of AZIZIYE
and KUTAHIA and a large assortment
of Indian Carpets; also B05S0RAH
RUGS imported by us for the first time
from that refrion.
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While Words Tell, Statistics Prove :
We still Jead as the largest importers of Oriental Carpets and Rugs,
as proved bv CUSTOM HOUSE statistics.
Salesroom:
55 CEDAR ST, NEW YORK.
The Product of 200 Looms.
Ingrains and Art Squares.
18Q8 Spring Styles of Amber nills.
SAVON ART CARPET. ^lade in 9 and 12 feet widths — all lengths. All in one piece.
FERNBROOK ART SQUARES.
INGRAIN CARPETS in Sevellan, Patented Weave, Fernbrook Extra Superfines, Amber Extra
Supers, Manhattan Extra Supers, Amber Extra Super C. C, Plymouth Unions, Standard
Cottons, Star Cottons, Elgin Cottons, Stair Ingrains to match, Fernbrook Art Squares.
NEW PATTERNS in every grade, in great variet)-.
THE LARGEST INGRAIN PRODUCTION IN PHILADELPHIA.
C. H. MASI-AND & SONS, 1
MANUFACTURERS, "
MILLS : Amber, Westmoreland and Kennedy Streets,
... . , oi/^AMCT <c^^^PHIUADEUPHIA. J
W. & J. OLUANL, SOLE SELLING AGENTS. 1
Broadway and 19th Street, NEW YORK.
Ti 1%/IMC rfcinr7 Jt :::;: Carpet and Rug Manufacturers.
KMfjjffn r(\ Wiltons, Brussels,
i ^*^^^^*^*^ m»» ingrains, Art Squares.
Columbians and Extra Supers.
Bundhar Wilton Rugs.
9x12 Carpet Sizes and upward A very heavy lock weave.
In design, fastness of color and general appearance almost
equaling antique Oriental Rugs of many times the price.
AI.I- THE PATENTED HARDWICK WEAVES.
The Ivins, Dietz & fletzger Co.
Main Office: 1220 & 1222 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA.
DISTRIBUTING STATIONS:
PHILADELPHIA: 1220 A. 1222 Mark«t St. BOSTON : 739 Washington St. DETROIT, MICH.: 29 & 31 State St.
NEW YORK : 874 Broadway. CHICAGO : Lees Building, 147 Fifth Ave.
W. & J. 8L0ANE,
SELLING AGENTS
ALEX. SMITH & SONS CARPET CO.
Savonneries, Axminsters,
Gobelins, Moquettes,
Velvets and Tapestries.
POPULAR GOODS, READY SELLERS.
The new line is now ready, and shows a decided advance over all previous
seasons \n both dark and light colorings, particularly the former.
l\UffS, Imperial, Moquette.
Smith's Axminster Rugs,
6.6x4.6; 10.6x8.3; 1 2.0x9.0.
lYlRLtillffS, China andJapan.
THE NAIRN LINOLEUM, ENGLISH INLAID.
COCOA MATTINGS AND MATS.
REEVE'S OIL CLOTH. CARPET LININGS.
NEW YORK.
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Monitor Carpet Mills,
Howard, Oxford and Mascher Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA.
Three Ply Carpets, All Wool, C. C. and Union. 4-4 Brussels, 6 Frames Weft.
Extra Super Carpets, All Wool, C. C. and Union. 4-4 Brussels, 5 Frames Weft.
Stair Widths to Match. 4-4 Brussels, 4 Frames Weft.
DOUBLE-FACED (REVERSIBLE) TERRIES OUR PATENTED SPECIALTIES.
Solid Color Plain Terries 50 Colorings usually in stock.
SALESROOMS :
Bourse Building, PHILADELPHIA. /y/ Fifth Avenue, CHICAGO.
io8 Worth Street, NEW YORK. 53 Flood Building, SAN FRANCISCO.
DORNAN BROS.
HUNTER & WHITCOMB
Sole Agents in the United States for
ALEXANDER MORTON & CO.,
.. ^ ^ , Darvel, Scotland.
Manufacturers of
Axfflinster Whole Carpets and Rugs,
vUridinS and IJpilUlSlCriCbj Ivi/VDRAS CURTAINS and YARD GOODS,
INDIA CRAPE CURTAINS and YARD GOODS.
Also Sole Agents in the United States for
NEWMAN, SMITH & NEWMAN,
^.anufacrers ot Cretoniies dfld Velvets-
Agents for I^OHAIR RUGS, in Solid Colors and Self Shadings.
Office and Salesroom : 874 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
ATTENTION, ALL!
Great Auction Sale
-OK-
For the Account of WJiom It May Coficem,
Thursday, March 24, 1898, at lo o'clock,
AT
364 & 366 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.
THE entire stock of Carpets saved from the fire of JOHN & JAMES
DOBSON, Philadelphia, consisting of some 11,000 rolls and
half rolls and pieces of Carpets, Matting, &c. (the sound value of the stock
stored in the building at the time of the fire being over $600,000), and
comprising all the different qualities in Velvets, Wiltons, Axminster,
Brussels, Tapestries, Carriage Carpets, Ingrains, &c., will be sold at Public
Auction for the Account of Whom It May Concern, flarch 24, and
continue each day until the entire stock is sold, at 364 & 366 Broadway,
New York City. The goods will be ready for inspection, with Catalogues
giving full description of the same, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
flarch 22 and '23.
TOWNSEND & MONTANT, Auctioneers.
By order of UNDERWRITERS' SALVAGE COMPANY, of New York.
J. F". APPLETOIV, Manager.
Picking Up a Tack
is not half so bad as picking up a lot of
stickers at off prices and then
donating them to church bazars.
All Our Patterns are
Up-to-Date. Inspect them !
Look at Our Line of
Large Carpets and
Art Squares.
Smyrna Carpets, in four Grades: Regent, Royal Axminster,
Keystone and Kurdistan, and in All The Large Sizes.
Smyrna Rugs in all sizes.
Medallion Centres are the latest novelties in INGRAIN ART SQUARES.
We also have Art Squares in a big array of other handsome patterns.
Sizes : 3 and 4 yards wide and any length.
Chenille, Tapestry and Lace Curtains.
Also CHENILLE and TAPESTRY COVERS. Six Grades and Six Prices.
If you will look at our line you will surely place an order,
and then repeat it. We Always Protect Our Jobbing Trade.
W. T. Smith & Son,
Textile flanufacturers.
BRANCH OFFICES:
PHILADELPHIA: 1209 Market St. ST. LOUIS: Odd Fellows' Block.
BOSTON: 611 Washington St. ^ ST. PAUL: 35 Davidson Block.
CHICAGO: 147 FIHh Ave., 69 Lees Building. DENVER: 808 Sixteenth St.
Mills and Main Office :
Third St. above LcliigiiAYeM
BRANCH HOUSE : 5 Sansome St., SAN FRANCISCO.
New York Salesroom: 337 Broadway.
The Geo. W. Blabon
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Company,
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MANUFACTURERS OF • •
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Floor Oil Cloths
Linoleum.
V3 "nd
'*vV5'-5'-5-5'^-'5'-'^^^-**
Table and Stair Oil Cloth.
Linseed Oil and Oil Cake.
'>=yjy^t^^-c.-^.^^«s
34 North Fifth Street, 110 Worth Street,
PHILADELPHIA. S^ NEW YORK.
A. & M. KARAGHEUSIAN,
365 & 367 Broadway,
^^NEW YORK.
Oriental
and
Carpets
ZT affords us great pleasure to announce to
the trade that in addition to our banking
and export business we have opened a large
Oriental Rug and Carpet Department,
under the management of Mr. V. li. Jinish=
ian, who has just returned from an extended
trip to the Orient after securing exceedingly
tempting lots.
We open with 250 Bales of judiciously
selected stock, both antique and modern.
Our salesroom is centrally located and is
the best lighted and most spacious in the
trade, affording every facility for making
satisfactory purchases.
/^^WING to our close connections in the Orient,
established during half a century's business
existence, we can secure most desirable lots at prices
much less than those paid when purchased through
the usual channels of trade.
We shall always carry a select stock of Antique
Irans, well assorted Caucasus Rugs and all weaves of
Anatolia Rugs; also all grades and sizes of Turidsli,
Persian and Indian Carpets.
Turkish,
rsian and
Indian
Carpets.
We shall try to make the main features
of our New Department
SELECT GOODS, MODERATE PRICES.
JOHN H. BROMLEY.
. . ESTABLISHED 1845.
EDWARD BROMLEY.
John Bromley & Sons,
MANUFACTURERS OF
SMYRNA xRUGS -°
CARPETS, » ... MATS.
Lehigh Ave., below Front, and Front, York and Jasper Sts.,
PHIUADBUPHIA.
SOLE AGENTS,
Thomas B. Shoaff & Co.,.
No. 935 Broadway, New York.
ROCK p:,s:; MILLS
PRODUCTIONS:
Squares in .... & 4-=-4- Cai*pet.s in
BARODA.. I IRAIN.
IRAN. I EXTRA SUPER.
MEDALLIOIN. i EXTRA SUPER C C
EXTRA SUPER. 1 JVlEDIUiVl SUPER.
EXTRA SUPER C C I UINIOIV.
SWIRE & SCOTT,
M a n ufsctu rers.
MOP. ..a M.„. .,..0. 3..«..3 PHILADELPHIA
Br3nch Solesroom : 682 Bourse Building,
W. W. CORSON & CO.. 564 Washingion Street, BOSTON, Sole New England Agents for Art Squares.
THE
PATTERNS on
EXHIBITION.
BEST
Arral
Carpets,
Agfa
Carpets,
Calmuck Carpets,
Alta
Carpets,
Plain
Terries,
Exti-a Supet-s,
Extna Supet- C
C's.
Extra Super
Art Squares,
Agra Art Squares,
Calmuck Art Squares,
Alta Art Squares,
Aleppo Art Squares.
Jllbion Ingrain
Carpets
AND
m Squares
ARE MADE IN LAT-
EST PATENTED and
REGULAR WEAVES.
ORIGINAL, HAND-
SOME PATTERNS
FOR HIGH CLASS
AND POPULAR RE-
QUIREMENT.
JAS. & GEO. D. BROMLEY,
MAINUF'A.CTLJRERS.
Mills: Adams and Jasper Sts., PHILADELPHIA.
T. J. Keveney & Co.,
Philadelphia. Chicago.
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QUALITIES,
rVew Vork.
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SRR/NG RATTERNS, 1893.
Victoria Mills .. .
Extra Supers
ARB RBADV.
An exceedingly choice line of Patterns and Colorings, ALL NEW.
Also large line of New Effects in every grade.
BAGARIA WILTON INGRAIN,
AKOLA CARPETS,
VICTORIA EXTRA SUPERS,
VICTORIA C. C. EXTRA SUPERS,
IMPERIAL EXTRA SUPERS,
IMPERIAL C. C. EXTRA SUPERS,
HALF WOOL UNIONS,
QUARTER WOOL UNIONS,
HALLS AND STAIRS
TO MATCH ALL GRADES.
e<^
THOS. DEVELON'S SONS,
Mill and Office : Lehigh Avenue and Hancock Street,
'^^-^PHJLADELPHIA.
NEW YORK: 709 Hartford Building.
OFFICES: J^ CHICAGO: 66 Lees Building, 147 Fifth Avenue.
CINCINNATI: Room P, Palace Hotel Building.
ST. LOUIS : 307 Mermod & Jaccard Building.
ST. PAUL: i5 Davidson Block.
PITTSBURG: 803 Hamilton Building.
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BIQELOW CARPET COMPANY.
AXMINSTER,
WILTON AND BRUSSELS
- ^) CARPETS, v^
The Carpets made by this Company have received the highest award wherever exhibited,
including Gold Medals at the Paris Exposition, 1878, and at the Centennial, 1876.
Their deserved reputation for excellence of fabric, richness and durability of color, novelty and
beauty of design, has led to frequent infringements, and inferior goods have often been palmed off
in their stead. For the protection of the public the Company has adopted as a trade mark the word
" BIGELOW," which will be woven (at every repeat of the pattern) in white capitals into the back
of the fabric. Customers will therefore have merely to examine the back of a carpet to be certain
that they are getting the genuine Bigelow goods.
THESE GOODS CAN BE HAD FB03I ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS.
9)
THOMAS HIRST,
ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER OF
Smyrna Rugs and Mats.
SEE OGR NEW PATTERNS IN CARPET SIZES.
fit '^^ — . ^-y,^— 1 9? r^ -^^_ -^ _J— The Standard Quality, as they have always been.
iltJ^Cil OldllCji All sizes up to 9x12 feet.
fii fJi I o'hliliV^ " Dv^O n/^^"^ "^^ popular selling grade.
nLIOLlvI/l Ol dl ILI Best Value in the Market.
8END FOB OUR PRICES.
New York Salesroom: 337 Broadway.
MILLS: VINELAND, N. J. C. W. BOGERT, Representative.
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FRIES-BRESUN CO.,
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MANUFACTURERS OF
^^^___^ Smyrna Carpets,
Alats . . .
. . and
THREE GRADES MADE IN CARPET SIZES:
E. ' / PA^/: ^^. mndc in .-ill s/zc\< up w 12 \ IS.
AlONARCHS, made in all sizes up ro 9 x 12.
ORIEWALS, nwdc in nil sizes up to \ 12.
MILLS AND MAIN OFFICE: CAMDE\, .V. J.
CHICAGO OFFICE:
iBt^ Market St.
E\"o\- & Flanigan. Agents,
NEW YORK OFFICE :
Hartford Building.
Broadway and lyth St.
BOSTON OFFICE:
?;64 Washington St.
W . W. Corson & Co., Agent;
^cbofielb, /nbaeon & Co.,
DELA //ARE CARPET \A\LLS
vS"
Sampliss may h* s««:n at Wi* Mill* ,SaJ«r«-
«oJ5 VVrrrth «t., NEW VOkK.
hWS(>\A>, C/fSS'tAhiJl 6 CX>,,
/Jr<>a<l*(/'ay an/1 s'/th St.,
^
W. W, aiVS^j.". & 0(t,,
Ftir Chic&%r, and th<e N^yrtliwe**,
w. (f, snnti,
«47 Ffftii A vs.,
CHfCAflO, JU„
WM. MACIilE,
SAS FkAHCiSCf), CAL,
,it .^ -> r/iArruFAcrfjpEP3 of ,^ .^
FrNR
^>^
Wilton and Body Brussels Carpet^
IN fllf. Wf. 1. 1. -KNOWN - - -
Delaware and laeonv Qualities,
^ ^,'' ^.- ^.-^ ^
Currjb^rb-nd St.reet.j ab-y/e Fih.h^
.^ .^ .^ -M -M J^liil.Abl-LPfn/-.,
^Sl
John Crossley S Sons,
Ll^li'IfJ),
MAI. If -AX, f ^.'Nf jl .A>.I>.
Original Effects
ENOLISH CAf^f^ETS.
Especially Attractive \evv Lin-:; for Sprin^^ Trade, l¥j^ ^^^
VELVETS,
TAPE.5TPIE5,
TAPESTpy PL 05
and MATS.
V-lLfr/. IjAOMESTAN rltls,
\'J)i^\ji.i^i-J) .SEAMI-ESS CARPETS
in Wilt/jM, HrW'ifieU and Tape*,try.
SiZfcft from <» ft. 9 in. % <J ft. in. Vj 12 x J5 Jt.
IiE.\f^V BflUrnif.L, :~r.U:A'//:nt.,l()'J rjnd 111 Wfjrth Strf:f:t,.\'f:W yrjf^K
We are
OPENING
a very large invoice o
f
Oriental Rugs
and Carpets.
ANCIENT GHIORDES.
^^^
ALL SIZES AND MAKES.
A superb collection of
FINE ANTIQUE PIECES.
ANCIENT AND MODERN COLORINGS AND DESIGNS.
THOUSANDS OF SMALL SIZES,
No Dealer Can Afford to Let This Opportunity Pass.
LOW PRICES.
T^l:^
^^^
Joseph Wild & Co.,
82 and 84 Worth St., NEW YORK.
611 Washington St., BOSTON, MASS.
ANTIQUE PERSIAN.
THE
Carpet and Upholstery
trade review.
TOL. XXIX.
I«^EW TOEK, MARCH 15, 1898.
1^0. 6.
Carpet and UpholsteryTrade Review.
The Carpet Trade,
The Carpet Trade Review,
Consolidated
Established August 1870.
Established December, 1873.
July, 1882.
WILLIAM BERRI,
EDITOR.
ISSUED ON THE FIRST AMD FIFTEENTH OF EVERg MONTH.
— BY THE —
REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY.
SHEPPARD KNAPP, President. EDWARD H. BAILEY, Treasure
EUGENE D. BERRI, Vice-President.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
SHEPPARD KNAPP, EUGENE D. BERRI,
EDWARD H. BAILEY,
WILLIAM BERRI, JOSEPH M. GOONEY.
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Upholstery Department, Page 51.
°Our readers are urged to remember that we are
always desirous to receive communications of interest to
the carpet or upholstery trades, such as changes in firms
or managers, the building or opening of new stores,
improvements in old ones, the adding of new departments,
improved methods of doing business, new inventions, sug-
gestions as to the cutting, making and laying of carpets,
the designing and fitting of draperies, or inquiries and
dissertations relating to the technical or commercial details
of the trades to which this periodical is devoted.
THE TRADE SITUATION.
r^ETAiL trade has not been particularly active during the
r*^ past fortnight, but dealers never expect any marked
increase in business before the latter part of March.
Orders already placed keep the looms fairly well em-
ployed, but our advices indicate that retailers generally
are well supplied with goods, and that therefore duplicate
orders may not be given very freely until their stocks are
reduced.
Domestic manufacturers of rugs have no reason to com-
plain of the results of the season to this date nor of the
outlook in their branch of the trade, while, as our adver-
tising pages show, the demand for Oriental rugs is con-
stantly growing, new firms are entering the trade and the
older ones seem to be continually expanding their business.
THE PROJECTED INGRAIN COMBINATION.
AROUND of the Ingrain manufacturers shows conflict-
ing views regarding the possibility of forming a
combination, and its success if formed. There is a
strong feeling among the larger manufacturers that some-
thing ought to be done to improve the condition of the
Ingrain business, and the unsatisfactory state of prices,
as well as of the volume of business, has caused several
manufacturers to listen for the first time to overtures
regarding a combination. On the other hand, there are
manufacturers who so far doubt the possibility of consum-
mating a mutually satisfactory organization that they do
not feel disposed to entertain the project.
Others positively state that they would not enter a com-
bination under any circumstances, considering that their
co-operation would be more beneficial to some unsuccess-
ful manufacturers than to themselves. An argument used
in promoting the plan is that the property would be taken
at a sound market valuation, free from all exaggeration,
and hence the stock issued would represent actual value
and make each manufacturer's plant worth as much as part
of the organization as it is now individually. There is no
gainsaying the fact that the Ingrain manufacturers are not
obtaining anything near an adequate return from their
business, doubtless being worse off in this respect than
manufacturers of other grades of carpetings, -perhaps ex-
cepting exclusive Brussels manufacturers. The aims of
the promoters are not to seize the Ingrain industry as a
means of gaining inordinate profits, but rather to preserve
the industry and obtain a fair margin for the labor and in-
vestment of the manufacturers. The idea is that by
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amalgamating, say, 75 per cent, of the Ingrain machinery
of the countrv, the proposed corporation would be able to
sell at the closest prices and yet make a fair profit through
the minimum expenses and cost of materials
The conservative opinion, however, is that the task is
too great to be accomplished, at least without a long lapse
of time and endeavor. Many new features may also come
up before its accomplishment, which might change the
opinion of those most in favor of the combination at the
present time.
CARPET WOOL MARKET.
THE OUTLOOK FOR INDIA RUGS.
A WELL informed Oriental rug man makes the statement
that if the rug weaving industry spreads over India
it will create the strongest competition ever experienced
by Turkish and Persian rugs. He says it is impossible to
get all the India rugs and carpets which can be sold in this
country. The product is now limited, as there are not
sufficient natives skilled in rug weaving and the trade is
confined to a few districts. With labor in India at G cents
a day compared to 30 cents per day in Turkey, and the
greatest cost in a rug being labor, it can be seen what
India competition means.
Another reason for the restricted product of India rugs
is the lack of sufficient wool supplies at the places of manu-
facture. The right kind of wool for an increased product
would have to be raised or brought from other countries.
Rug weaving has existed for centuries in Turkey and
Persia, while it was the Parsees who introduced it into
India and it is there a comparatively new industry. Our
informant thinks, however, that the manufacture of
rugs in India is bound to rapidly enlarge, and predicts
great changes within the next five years. He says there
is a ready market for first-class styles, as the value is un-
surpassed, while India rugs in bad styles have to be sold
at a big sacrifice.
Dealers are advised to send for the new price list of the
Goshen Sweeper Company, of Grand Rapids, Mich. This
list was issued on March 1, and shows reductions in a
majority of the grades, which will give greater induce-
ments than ever to handle Goshen sweepers.
Referring to the coming production of whole-piece pile
carpets by a concern in Philadelphia, a contemporary
states that it will be the first output of large whole-piece
carpets in this country. This is incorrect, as the Hartford
Carpet Company have been making three and four yard
wide chenille pile carpets in one piece for the past two
years, and have kept their production sold up to the fullest