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Show HOTED DRESSMAKER SALT LAKE VISITOR Mrs. A. N. Taylor of Kentucky Ken-tucky Operates - Largest Establishment in World. Mrs. A. N. Taylor, of Bowling Green, Ky., who, with her husband, Is at the Hotel Utah, represents the largest dressmaking dress-making estahlishment in the world. Mrs. Taylor employs 250 girls and realizes $700 to $1000 per day during her drcss- malcing season. Mrs. Taylor is a frail, modest little woman, of distinguished Southern ancestry, ances-try, representing the fourtli generation horn and reared In the thriving little Kentucky town, in which she lives. "WTien asked by a representative of The Tribune how she came to start her dressmaking dress-making business, Mrs. Taylor saidr "I began as a young girl, thirty-five years ago, to make over my mother's old finery for different members of the family fam-ily and then began fashioning gowns for some of my Intimate" friends, without the least Idea of making a business of dressmaking. dress-making. Finding that I had a faculty for designing dresses, T commenced to branch out. 1 gave up the work, however, how-ever, when T married and did not resume it again until about twenty years ago, when I started my present establishment. In a email way. "My business grew to such an extent in a few years that my husband abandoned aband-oned his huslness and has since been associated as-sociated with me In the management of mlno. Patronage came from east and west, north nnd south and I have bad to increase my force from year to year, "My dressmaking rooms in ' Bowling Green now occupy a large floor space. I plan to supervise the making of every gown that goes out of mv establishment. I llnd that my strength will not permit me to keep my establishment open moro than eight months In the year, so I do-vote do-vote my summers to rest and travel. "In this way I not only get new Ideas for my business, but recuperate my strength for tho fall, winter and spring seasons. 1 usually go abroad and had engaged en-gaged passage on the Titanic for a trip to England this summer, expecting to return on the Olympic, hut. the Titanic disaster caused me to change my plans and I concluded to come west Instead I think everything Ik beautiful and wonderful won-derful out here, and I regard Salt Luke one of the pretties cities T have ever seen," Mr. and Mrx. Taylor will remain in Salt Lake until this afternoon, when they will resume their trip to the coast. |