Show Grocer Would Revive Old Art Ramapo Mountaineer Basket Art Is Goal Goo I LADENTOWN N N. Y Pincus Margulies who opened a country store here 45 years ago is attempting attempt attempt- ing to revive the lost Ramapo mountaineer mountaineer moun moun- art of making baskets scoops salad bowls spoons c chopping chopping chop chop- opping op- op ping bowls and various other wooden wood wood- en utensils Pines Store a trading post both for the mountaineers and the residents in near by movie and professional colonies has been runby run runby runby by the founders founder's son Harold since he returned from the war When Margulies arrived here in 1904 there were residents in this hamlet and in the adjacent hills mountaineers noun descended from the mixed races who ho settled there before and during the Revolutionary Revolution Revolution- ary war Scotch English and Hessian Hessian Hes Hes- sian were the principal strains with no Negro or Indian blood such as predominates with the Jackson Whites who also live in the Rama- Rama pos but miles to the west The mountaineers were making and peddling their wood products to summer visitors when Margulies and his wife came from Brooklyn He took over the trade and estabLished established established outside markets The weekly output of these widely scattered mountain inhabitants soon reached dozen baskets to dozen scoops and a miscellaneous assortment assort ment of products including colored baskets for the bon ban voyage steamship steamship steam steam- ship trade The mountaineers mountaineer's daily income soon was Margulies said I paid each only a 8 small amount in cash as they wanted to be paid in merchandise and food from th the store When they were without money I gave them flour lour tea coffee cof fee groceries tobacco and medicine medi cine chic on credit They would rather have a stock stockpile pile of materials in the fall tall and each spring I filled dozens oi oj freight cars can and their bills wert were n fd |