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Show COTTOl GOODS HERE Fact Is Established by the. Records in Office of Col- i lector of Customs. GLOVES ARE RECEIVED Inference Is That Staple Is i Not as Scarce as Has Been Reported. Inconsistent with the news reports of scarcity of cotton for manufacturing! purposes in Germany, appears the record at the office of T. F. Thomas, collector of customs for the port of Salt Lalic ' It shows recent importation of cotton goods from Germany, reported to be nhort of cotton because of tho British hlockadc. The gooJs are in the form j, of women's gloves as they aro being sold in Salt Lake now. Tho record of the collector of customs huows that forty two dozen pairs of these gloves were received here on September Sep-tember 7 and an earlier consignment of twenty-three doo.i pairs on August 23 of this year. They tame by parcel post, consigned to L. & A. ( ohn 'a store from a manufacturer in Saxony, a province of the German empire. M. E. Lipman, manager for the firm, said yesterday yes-terday that there are orders to arrive yet. lint that he doubts not that they will get here safely, since hu has had word that they have already been sent. He has also received an invitation from the manufacturer to place further orders. or-ders. Process Is a Secret. The gloves are made c1' a cotton fab. ric known ns ehamoisette, tho manufacture manufac-ture of which is a secret with tho tier mans. While gloves of this material have long been made in England, says Mr. Lipman, yet the fabric, had to be imported im-ported from Germany. Now it becomes necessary to go directly to Germany to get tho gloves. The only difference now is that they come by parcel post, whereas they came before the war by freight. The only raise in the juice to the American dealer is accounted for by the war tax. the price quoted by the manufacturer being substantiall' the same as before the war. One thing was noticeable about the gloves that arrived here. They were stripped of every mark that could identify iden-tify them rs being of German make or as having been exported from Gormanv. While the gloves in tho consignments received in this city do not contain enough cotton to be of material consequence, conse-quence, yot as much delivered to every city in the United Statos and perhaps to other foreign cities of tho world would; amount to considerable, it is pointed out by those who came to know of the importations in question. Means a Sacrifice. It is suggested that the export of the cotton goods represents a sacrifice on the part of Germany in the interest of established trado: that is, as a means of protecting and holding it against competition. com-petition. Also, it was suggested that the purpose might be one or giving out an impression that there was no serious scarcity of cotton for manufacturing purposes iu Germany. In any event, the fact remains that cotton gloves of recent re-cent German manufacture and still more recent importation can be bought in Salt Lake and an invitation has been extended ex-tended by the manufacturer for further business. |