Show LEATHER ADVANCING shoes have already been advanced in price fifty cents new york oct 21 the advance in the price of leather of all grades which has been steady and continuous for the past wo months has reached a point where the manufacturers of leather goods are taking alarm and beginning to talk of raising prices all along the line says journal of commerce already the chicago shoe manufacturers have advanced their prices fifty cents per pair and there was talk hero yesterday to the effect that eastern manufacturers would follow suit within a few days quotations have risen so persistent ly and strongly and it is becoming so apparently easy to get higher and higher prices that dunles wisdom and restraint prevail between buyers and sellers there is danger ahead never in the history of the leather trade have the prices of hides been so high tor a continuous period it has been an extraordinary situation and its existence is charged up to chicago packers |