Show i LACE MACHINERY BY-MACHINERY I I Th Tho pre eminence of ur the tle French city Ity of Calais as s n a laco lace center is chiefly due to tine Iho cleverness of or Its Is lace makers It I should hould bo be borno borne In mind that that a n lace loom although of or tho tine most Intricate mechanism in iS still only an Instrument the thc production from which depends en en- en I upon the ability anti and Intel Intelligence once of oC Its Is operator Calais Catl has ambitious exists spirit pt citizens among whom a n p rivalry anti and nd a desire to excel not only financially but hut In iii art The Tho greater par part of or tho the French people bore beJ believe beJo o In having something which the they can en call cal cal their own own and aro arc not disposed dIspose to le Ic leone leono ant Their mental menta ono one man run everything up make anti and i manner o of working rend render ren ran d thOr der r monopolies s of or an Industry of this kind l impossible This characteristic alone perhaps has contributed more to the thc success of or Calais In recent years than nn any other simico lace to to- to tobe be bo beautiful beau benu- must mUl receive In Its fabrication time the tle greatest caro calO and attention which Is too often oCten overlooked In a largo large largo con con- cern Calais has hns a population of or about of oC whom gain their existence exist exist- enco ence from frol making lace Inco yet yel very cry large concerns do not not exist here On tho tim contrary there thore are GO small smal factories in Calais In many of or which tho the wife a adds altis hOI her Intelligence to that of or the time husband In making the the fl factory tory a I sue suc uc- uc cess cess made Machine mao lace Is 18 almost tine the solo sole 1010 Industry of or Calais That a n laco lace mn machine can be bo operated l successfully In tho time United States States' is 18 no nolon lon longer er an open question It I has been tried b by certain manufacturers In Philadelphia Phia- Phia Phila delphia and other oilier cities and also In time tho manufacture of or laco lace In imi New ew York Pr Pl Providence Pawtucket cl Paterson and ZIon City Already the time laco lace industry IB is of great Importance In tho the United States Slates As proof of or this tho the following statistics from a n French source may ho bo cHod For the tho fiscal year oal ended Juno 30 0 1006 the United States consumed worth of lace goods of which the tho homo home supply was as valued at that from Crom France at nt from tram Switzerland Great Grent mOO 00 tro from Switzerland Ul from Germany Gorman and from Crom rota Britain It I thus thins appears that the United States mado made for tor Itself 18 per POl cent ent of ot the lace laco consumed tH therein In lOOt Of the tho Pr French shipments worth or 1 72 per cent w was from Calais in this estimate account 1 is only only- tl taken cn of oC the time laco lace goods good tie de- cleared for Cor shipment at this consulate no account 1 boing ln taken of ot some largo large larSo houses house which declared their ir shipments at t other consulates Should tho o be he taken Into account It sho- sho t that nt C Calais Caudry CullY and St. St wO lc I Quantin t fur fur- r- r at tt t least lont SO por per of of tho ho IncA haco goods shipped during tho ho above y ar ar 1 from rom Franco France to to he SUtee Co Consular Report m I J t |