Show the tent business in winter winter is a dull season in tho tent business in this latitude and devoted chiefly to making up stock for summer some tents are exported though not a great number they are sent to mexico central america and the west indies such tents are sold the year around they are used as quarters for laborers on railroads canals and other works the few tents sold in winter for use in this region are sold mostly to gypsies who buy in winter for summer use they buy usually secondhand tents and buying in winter the get good tents cheap but little ia done in renting tents in winter though occasionally a large tent is rented for a cornerstone laying or some public ceremony and in these modern days such tents are sometime steam heated the pipes being supplied with steam from portable boilers new york sun |