Show INCREASED DEMAND FOR FOE COSTLY GEMS New Ne York March 9 George Mindel jewelry examiner of the public stores in this city in a report lo t It Appraiser Wakeman on the importation of pre precious precious precious cious stones for the month of February shows that there is an enormously in increasing increasing increasing creasing demand for costly personal adornments by the fashionable and wealthy classes throughout the United States which is significant of prosper prosperity prosperIty prosperity ity In the trade During last month the shortest in inthe inthe Inthe the year precious stones and pearls aggregating in value were entered at this port from abroad the greater portion of which were con consigned consigned consigned signed to merchants in this city Min Mm dels ders figures show sho an increase last month over February 1900 of nearly and over more than In any February in the past five years The appraisement in this city last month for cut stones was and for uncut ones |