Show no straw to ine ha nail nad A gentleman desiring to buy a straw hat for his sort son stepped into a large hat store down town the other day and ascertained certa ined much to his surprise eur prise that straw hats bats were actually scarce in the market lie ho asked for a 6 njg 78 hat and was informed that tho the firms supply of that particular size of hats bats was completely exhausted lie he sought another hat store and received similar information and a few hours later a visit to a largo large up town store met with the same result tile tho gent lemans curi curiosity clity ly was aroused anil and he asked se several veral question il he learned that the demand for straw hats has been large this season and that the supply of certain grades and sizes is 13 almost exhausted the bize of 6 OJ aj is always in active demand mandana man dand and the supply has f alien fallen short this year the stocks of straw hats are dewind lin ling 0 rapidly in every quarter explained a well known hat dealer I 1 and we cannot replenish this year for the reason that the factories have made up all of I 1 their straw and shut down next nest season they will probably increase their output anzi tile the craze for straw hats hetts may give way to something else that is the things run in trade generally the scarcity of straw stra bats has caused a slimp p advance antho in the prices of certain grade of straws new york T times |