One Trade Busy

"My trade has been bígger and better in the last two dull years than ever ii was before," satd a Columbus aveuue tailor who foliows the useful business of mending men's clothes, to a vev York Sun reporter. "Look at the piles olgarments upon these shelves awaiüng my needie. I never knew of such a rush at any other time since I became a boss in the tailor's trade as that Lor two years. I have had, and yet have, , to give out jobs enough to keep een ! men and women at work. People come in here with coats and trousers and vests who never used to do it, and hardly ever had any mending done, or ever thought of a patch. They have been getting out their old stock to be fixed up on a ?ount of tlfe hard times. Some of th?m who would' not be seen in here, se :id around their garments by a messenger boy or a servant, and I can furn out some things so sw v be better than they were when ne-. ■, I would not give vou the names t.y customers. but I can teil you that tne of them pass for riah. That summer suit belongs to a man who is believed ie oe a miiiionaire, and he has worn it for two seasons, and when I send it back to him, he can wear it for twc more. Some men whom you'd never suspect of being hard up must be dow u on their stumps, or perhaps they are practicing economy without any need for it. "Lots of New Yorkers are mighty foolish about their clothes. They will throw away a coat or a pair of trousers when they are not half worn out. Another thir.i, new clothes are cheap nowadays, but it is a fací that they are not so cheap as last year's when you can get them mended and cleaned for a dollar or two. Nearly all the merchants in my line are busy, and we have had good times all through the bad years. The extravagant and wasteful people have had a useful lesson."