Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1925, Page 21

SEEK NEW MEANS 10 BOOST SALES Department Store Heads Now Expect 1925 to Be Best Year Ever Known. BY J. C. ROYLE. Bbeclal Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July an ever before. Scores king a prac icited on or what amounts to con signment,” to individual retail buyers with no more assurance of getting back their goods or the money than the fact that Americans are instinc- tively honest and I New Sales Method ‘Tested. One Buffalo neckwear manufactur- wple, has flooded the met- strict with consignments neckties which hi nds to a wide lis 2 asking the wants the ties ignee if he likes and send him a check for $1.50 plus postage. If he does not want to buy the ties he is requested to send them back. In many in- stances consignees have sent a check as less trouble than repacking the merchandise and dispatching it by parcel post. This does not reflect on the quality of the goods. It simply indicates the desire of American buy- ers to take “the easiest way out.” Grocers Urge Phone Orders. Buyers have discovered that in the present state of street and transporta- tion c tion it is easier to write or tele The mz ler houses have made fnroads into the busines: in all sections that adopting the salesmen. Grocers, who formerly laid stress on the cashand-carry plan of personal buying, now are urging customers to telephone for their dry goods and groce e This has necessitated a radical change In methods, but the merchants declare they have found it distinctly worth while. the latter are methods of the mall Answer Own Letters. Box manufacturers here, who make a practice of mailing quotations to regular customer: ve adopted a of answering their own let- thereby lightening th the ‘executive to whom th dressed. They send a telegraph blank attached, addressed and signed by the firm who is to receive it and so printed as to tell the manufacturer, by striking out one or two lines, when the customer will be in the market, whether he considers the quotation out of line or to list an order. Public Dictates Prices. g the dominat- akably. This The public is becom ing factor in t | has been emphasized to a marked de- |gree in the results of the reduction {in woolen and worsted fabrics by the American Woolen Co. Dealers are still awaiting the open ing of the “fancies, which are ex d to appeal most strongly to the , and are dispo: uts made in the so-called staples, h the public has not rushed to It is notable that raw wool s were totally unaffected by the for cloth announced. July department store business has been slightly smaller than that of June, but for many merchandisers 1925 will be a record year. (Copyright. 1925.) OIL DIVIDEND TO STAND. NEW YORK, July 29 (#).— Wickett, chairman of the Pan can Petrol Co., said today though the d not disc dividends he saw no reason for change in the $1.50 quarterly dividend rate at the next meeting. The com- H. meri- op personally. | pany earned $3,000,000 net a month in h|the first half of this year and gross s ran at the monthly rate of $10,000,000. COMMODITY NEWS WIRED STAR FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY MOULTRIE, Ga., July 29.—Twenty- two bright leaf tobacco markets were in Georgla. Festivals, pageants and barbecues are being ar- ranged for each market. The crop is estimated at from 50,000,000 to 75,000- 000 pound. -Average quality New Riv selling at $5.55 per gross ton on cars, Boston, with higher grade material at $5.60, an advance of about 25 to 30 cents a ton over prices a month ago. Dealers are predicting & price of $5.75 a ton by September 1. ATLANTA, July 20.—Heavy rains in’ the Southeast, coupled with the latest Government crop report have sent spot cotton prices up. Picking is well under way in the southern dis- tricts of the belt NEW ORLEA. July 29.—The Southern Pine tion mills in the last week cut 68,000,000 feet of lum ber, shipped 72,000,000 feet and re- ceived orders for 74,000,000 feet. PORTLAND, Ore., July 29.—The Oregon Prune Crop is estimated at 35,000,000 pounds. Washington prune prices now range from 7% to 11 cents. GREEKS REPORT BETTER FINANCIAL CONDITIONS The Greek legation announces a marked improvement in the financial conditions In Greece, owing to the application of a new additional tax, an Athens cable says: “Treasury receipts show an increase of a million drachmae daily. The ad- - | ditional tax of 10 per cent, whose col- lection is .intrusted to the National v | Bank of Greece, gives a receipt of one and a half million drachmae per day. These results have produced a marked improvement in the treasury situa- tion, making absolutely useless the is- suance of new paper money." STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. C. C. TURNS DOWN UNION STATION PLEA The complaint of the Oklahoma Cor- poration Commission asking that rail- roads entering Oklahoma City be re- quired to construct a union passenger terminal was dismissed today by the Interstate Commerce Commigsion, which held that while it had no juris. diction to require the building of such a structure the evidence in the Okla- homa case did not “‘justify lending ap- proval” to the demand of the city and the State commission. ELECTRICACEQUIPMENT IN LARGER DEMAND | = Special Dispatch‘to The Star. NEW YORK, July 29.—The new business departments of Cities Service Co. show an increase of 27.4 per cent in appliance and installation sales of electric ice machines, frons, house wiring, gas ranges, water heaters and hair curlers :n the first half of 1925, when the total reported was $3,326,203, as compared with $2,690,794 for the six months ending with June, 1924, SAVAGE ARMS COMPANY OVERCOMES DEFICIT NEW YORK, July 29 (#).—Net loss of $20,176 reported by Savage Arms for the first quarter this year was overcome in the second quarter, with net earnings of $276,276, equal after preferred dividends to $3.14 a share on the common stock. Net profit for the half year of $255,950 was equal after preferred dividends to $2.86 a share on the common, against $451, 067, or $5.50 a share, a vear ago. BUILDING BOOM BREAKS. DETROIT, July 29 (Special).—Con- struction in Detroit has shown a de cided drop recently. Permits issued in the last week entailed expenditur: of $1,5674,385, as ¥ D. 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