The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

is a very

lasts, prepared and in ennnze o

preparation to nt rue teet of cugomers who may wish to'
have their own, or to form the sizes uQually made for the
wholesale trade, We next come to the sole-room, con•
taining an ample stock of the necessa7 sizes, rcady cut
and sorted for the subsequent processes. We pass on to,
the next room, in which is the curious machinery above
referred to. By the first. which consists of a roller, to
•hich is attached, in a very compact form, a lever power,,
' by being passed under the roller

Le is first

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once or twice, whilst the operator, by placing his foot 011
a treddle, applies to the leather a weight ofabout two and
a half tons. It is next passed under another roller, to
which is attached a table and a knife, 13: which, as the
sole passes under the strong pressure applied, the inside
part of the leather, containing the ragged skin left on the
hide when taken off the carcase, is taken off with wonder-
ful precision, coming away in one thin shaving. The sole
is then passed again once or twice lengthways under the
first roller, and the heavy pressure applied. It is next,
pressed sideways under the roller, and thus bedded per-
fectly and made ready to receive the upper L ather.
whole of these processes are ant the work of a couple
Loluresiyhtanneon--oentrit-mig
with the knife, and uttupeonirthPeakir7
stone. By the imtnense pressure applied the leather 0,
made as hard as the hardest wood, the pores cumplet,.ll
closed up, and the air and moisture expelled.
By the next machine, which is most ingenious in con
struction, but simple as can be in operation, the front
upper leather being first -placed upon a thin iron, shaped
like a nian's leg, is drawn betw, en two plates lightly
screwed together, and thus stretched sufficiently to be at
once placed upon the tree. This is the work of barely a
minute, all the stretching with plyers and tacking with
nails, used in the ordinary method, being rendered unne-
cessary.

thefitty handsemp i
employed
theo n shoemaker,
theo premises. f whom'
p
The various portions of the boot or shoe, thus prepared.
tofirst stretched over the last ; and the side
upper
then
er comelaeraet about
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having been then tacked to the bottom of the last over or
inner sole. it is pegged to that sole by a row or two of
wooden pegs. Herein, and in the next stage, consist the
peculiarity of the principle. It will be observed that there
is no welt used and no stitching required. The upper
leather is now pegged down over the inner sole, and LP
outer sole put on ; an 1 this is again pegged down, tl
upper leathers being thus held fast between the outer
and the inner soles. Mr. Cartmell guarantees that these
can never separate, by the pegs becoming loose, or other-
wise. Indeed so compressed are the boles in the first
instance, that their tightness holds the wooden pegs as fast
as if in a vice. Boots or shoes made on this principle sre
not liable to burst at the sides, which is generally
the fault of the welt; and there is no stitching to spoil
their appearance when partially worn. Wooden pegs.
moreover, do not corrode the leather, as is the case
with iron ones.

The articles are finished, according to their description,
in the very first style of workmanship; and the principle
is equally applicable to the lady's or the gentlemans fash-
inable boot or shoe as to the navigator's blucher or high-
low. A large stock of every description is kept in the sale
shop, and are well worthy of inspection. The prices we
need not say are lower than usual ; but Mr. CI
seeks rather a character for good atorkm:n and dura-
bility in wear than for cheapness of price.
The machinery and the principle upon which the mann-
facture is conducted are of American invention, and peg-
ged boots and shoes have been in almost universal wear
in that country for the last fifty years. Some of the sam-
ples, however, hitherto imported into this country, have
been of inferior quality, and very rude in finish. Should
the articles now produced prove as durable in wear as we
believe they will do, the invention threatens to work a.
complete a revolution among the sons of Saint Crispin 0
the gutta percha sole is working amongst the poor cob-
blers. The sounds of the lapstone and the hammer will
no longer be borne on the morning air, and the strap mai
be laid up in ordinary, and cease to be a ready instru-
ment of offence and a terror to shrewish cobbler's dame,
and unruly urchins.

I MANUFACTURING TOWN IN LANCASHIRE.—The die-
gontaslyteone bedroom. But wheel'
trict, you see, is not very inviting; the streets are narrosif
and a heavy smoke hangs over the place to-day. The
doors of the houses are, for -the most part, wide open i
some, you observe, have an apparance of cleanliness se&
comfort within, others are dirty in the extreme. Up those
from that are sprawling sheet
courts and alleys that run out of the main street, we will not
venture. The atmosphere will not suit your well-lose,
may revolt at the idea es
unrestrained nature. They grow up, nobody
yourself, though they are now left more to the liber1they bad a like origin with
adnt
familyhooesatrisli
streets
retsh,
eeuats
these
de?cihyzoihl:dt rrehnapvsrpresumdelicatee
leMnowthaefirt'isn
gatwshtoreeatreen
they push themselves upward through the
dirt, like so many asparagus plants. Look at those grrk
of seven or eight years old carrying about their infant bro.'
them or sisters, who
knows training
heofw ;
are almost as large as themselves
Ask them what they are doing. " Nossing aloud" (nurs-
ing the child), is the answer. " Holloa! my littletillt
what are you about ?" Down she has fallen, child toe
sfOredethmeusree
all. No matter, she picks up the bits and away she runs-
codn.
are going to make their " cortsies" to " the minister,
after having done which they will run away and laugh, as'
if they had' performed some wonderful feat. Now, whet
end." u
gWuhpa t
on earth (An those women be after at the street corner r
!They arc engaged in very earnest conversation ; somethielf
important must have occurred to draw them from home
yiyorginicbielx-,
before twelve o'clock in the day ? Ordinarily a small mat'
ter, or no matter at all, will bring them out for a discus-.
Sion at any given hour : but now an important event en'
gages them. Peggy Jenkinson has had twins, " a lad aye
a lass, fine childer, uncommon, and as like their father
beans is beans." Peggy has done the state some service'
it is the second time that this duplicate visitation has be-
fallen,, her. That fat, vivacious woman there in the check
bed-gown and linscy-wolsey petticoat, is launching cse^
into a narrative about one of her own confinements, wbee
she expected twins as a dead certainty, but only the phe'
nomenon, Billy, almost as big as two, put in his appear-
ance. 'Then, after you have noticed the three or fot!r
band-loom weavers, who are loitering about with tlief
hands in their pockets, and the man with the donkey-oar'
who is crying mussels, and cockles, and red herrings, 10r
sale i • and the ragged trader with the wheelbarrow, vihs
exchanges salt for antiquated linen, or carries on the ee,-,
spectable barter (as it is termed) of " weight for weight
you have seen a fair specimen of the out-door it. a .
manniseturing .district.---P `a Magazine,