Prices offered on cotton. sock:
ranged from 11.8 to 17 cents a pair
Domestic woolen socks were offerec
at from 20.9 to 28.5 cents a pair
Socks made from all foreign wool

| both onan ‘ond Acicieaihe -'wools
ranged from 27.4 to 27.5 cents 4
| pair. .

The Quartermaster awarded con
tracts today for 295,000 out of a re
quested 500,000 pairs of unlined
horsehide .riding gloves, on 600,000
{pairs out of a requested 2,000,000
pairs of canvas leggings and ior
815,000 out of a- requested 900,000
yards of 36-inch water-repellen
olive drab cotton duck. It is expected
that these deficiencies in Arm
requirements wa.ll be re-aavervised
for shortly, when the government
hopes to get better prices.

The . following recommendations
for contract awards have been made
to Washington. by the Corps Quar-
,;termaster here:
‘| Schedule No. 608, wool bunting T
-|Annin & Co., less 2 per cent 10, (7) 1,000
‘yards of yellow bunting at 40 cents a
yard; American Woolen Co., net, (8) 10,-
‘}000 yards of Scarlet cloth at $2, 90, and

ne og fags Sie Mets cloth at $3. 70a
yard; D. ills, net, (9) 200 yards
of wnite loth, at $4.15 a yard; Premier
Worsted Mills, net, (11) 8,000 yards of
élastique, 15- -ounce, ‘at $3.89 and agi ae
yards of elastique, 21l-ounce, at $4.2.
yard,, and J. Wallworth Sons, Inc.,: as
1 per cent 10, (14) 1,000 yards of fleece
wool lining at $1.65 2 yard.

Schedule No. 609, for 50,000 yards of
green flannel: Rock River Woolen. Mills,
net, entire quantity at $1.97 a yard

Schedule No. 610, for cotton alotbes Ba-
tavia Mills, less one-tenth of 1 per cent
10, (1) 6,000 yards of green Italian cloth
at’ = 47 cents a yard; George Wood Sons
& Co., net, (2) 50,000 yards of tan sateen
eect at 15.86 cents a yard; ere oa

ess one-twentieth of 1 per c
(5) 60,000 yards of green igiona at 1S. 128
cents a yard.

Bohedite No, 617 for rubber boots, coats

Endicott Johnson

 

of 1 per cent 10, (3), 12,500 coats at $3.62
each, (4) 1,900° hats at 49 cents each
and ‘Converse Rubber Co., net, (5) 1, 700
pairs of arctics at $2.10 a pair.

Bids were opened at the Marine