Show INDIA RUnS MADE IBE MADEl l BY AMERICANS r Factories in Under Under'S S 'S f Control of Yankee o S Capital 5 5 b Consul General William Wllliam II 11 Michael reports from rom Calcutta that American enterprise within the last lust few v ew years rs has given an to the tho manufacture S of rugs rug's in India In 1 M o. there were manufactured In Iii India and exported carpets and rugs to time the value of or UlO I of which In iii value valur went to tho tue United J Kingdom and In value to the tho I tC United States Most of or the tue fittest rU rugs 15 that thal were shipped to the tho United States i r. r of ot Indian manufacture were made In lu S factories controlled by American capi capi- S V tal tol One alone alono controls ten factories fac mc- tories one each In Hydera bad and the tho others being Ing scattered scat teat t I T 01 toned over two thirds s of India I i linn half o ot oh I S whom arc females engaged In spinning and the tho other oilier half on tho ho hand S S Practically all the thc rugs rUJI made by this thui firm are arc manufactured on designs that thai S were vero worked J out In the United States State J I and ind ar are arn Intended to meet tho the American I S I demand The colors Used UHel are arc Inell cn ous ti min lv I aro am upon i n formulas r t sti that h have bc been been ri handed down for fOI centuries from father to son This his firm would bo he glad Iad to do the manufacturing man in iii u the United States but It itS S has lias been found impossible to Induce any my considerable number of ot expert rug rug- makers to emigrate mIgrate to the United S States even If It there were no le legal al In tho ho way and ani It Is Imro Impossible to induce Americans to engage o in iii n making mak Jn ing ru rugs s by uy hand hund as they are made in India so that It would be he a matter of or S genuine pride to Americans to tn know that their countrymen are arc leading to the tho enterprise of ot In India and are arc the first to enter the time domain domainS S of f to en engage ngo In manufacture Whim While the thc rugs are arc not of purely Oriental Oriental Ori Ori- de designs yet to a cultivated taste tasteS S they are arc much more artistic than the time Oriental rugs lug This hl t firm rm however 1 lis is S able to Imitate the lie antique Oriental designs designs de tie- signs so 60 perfectly that the only difference difference differ differ- ence nce discernible to the average a person S would be the higher finish o of 01 the Imitation There would be the same samo number of ot knots to the square UlO rich inch the same colors prepared of oC the S sama samis ingredients and the same dee de- de e Cl and l the t t work wo- wo would be bo done o I I I precisely In tho the same wa way va that the old oldest est cst ru rugs were made The fhe rugs for or the United Stated tateS' lra trade t arc c mostly mantle made on designs prepared b by American artists The carpets and ancl rugs rug sent to time the United Kin Kingdom arc are made b by n natives JI cj who vito sell to brokers for export Some of these goods good lied way through u h London Into the time markt and are aro offered for sale Gale as superior Indian rugs ruC's which they t. t K hUt nou tS nS a matter mattel o of tact act this class clasH of goods has greatly Injured tho lie reputation tation of Indian U rugs J. J than which when made under the scrutiny of or American superintendents and amid as the In Indian lan lU rug rug- makers dell delight ht to make them theme no or 01 more e durable arc made mado any any- where New tW v Isow loric Telegram I |