New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-27

meDts to which have bad access, and account Of
the unryalled magnitude of the scale in which this
branch Of manufactures is there conducted it amount
ing before stated to half that Of the enre Union
IL is supposed that the value Of these goods forwarded
annually TO New York. at least S12OOO.0OO. the
remainder being sent not only all over the United
States but exported in great quantities to the West
Indies, South America Australia, the Sand .ich Is
lands and some even to England BY far the creator
part consist Of what termed pegged boots though
many are Of superior workmanship, fetching as high
price as any in the market. These, however, are al
exception, the remarkable che,ppess Of the majority
being the great of their universal demand hey
are many cases sold for less than would remunerate
working shoemaker only to make them, exclusive Of
the price of the materials employed
There are in NewYork $50 Boot and Shoe Ware
houses and stores dealing in goods not Of their
uacture Of which about fifty import almost exclusively
from the Eastern States and sell at trng profit to
the remainder, acting indeed, kind of shoebrokers
Some conception Of the extent Of the business opera
tons Of these great wholesale houses may be formed
when it known that the annual sales of three of the
largest average not under 81 100000 each Several
reach 100000, and others vary from 100000 to
100000. Many of the goods re-shpped hence to
oherpOrts domestic and foreign but of the leading
houses sometimes executes orders City business alone,
in one day. to the amount of 000 Some of the stores
above alluded TO- deal largely in superior and more ex
pensive article manufactured in large quantities in New
York City, and to these shall have occasion to alude
hereafter.
There are, besides, several hundred boot-mskers
whose business depends mainly goods made to order,
though some few sell also the better class Of the manu-
featured article.
Nor must we omit to mention those very useful mem
bers of the artbe members Of boots and shoes whose
numerical force must be very considerable they
to be found in almost every street in the least fashionable
quarters of the city. Unlike the ancient hero of the
nursery rhyme, they do not L" live in stal in New
York Though they are still frequently to be found in
that limited habtatOn in the European cities but gen.
orally carry business in their own rooms, which, in
too many cases. prove that the domestic economy of the
fraternity of cordwaners has not improved since the
original publication (dae unknown of the legend above
referred it them for paror for kitchon aud
all" They are, however, for the most part, very in
dusrious class of men (abe somewhat addicted the
observance Of St. Monday in many nstances) and make
on an average more than the man who works for
shop" without that compulsory irregularity in the
hours of labor which the latter frequently encounters
An article this trade would be imperfect
TO omit TO mention the dealers in what termed Boot
and Shoe Findings, and the Tree Last Makers
The findings" constitute trade of 50 much import
ance as to be carried by 81 FIRMS six Of whom are
wholesale dealers, and whose aggregate sales exceed
100000 year. They traffic in all the articles used
in the manufacture of boots and shoes, well in the
Implements wherewith they made-aws, apstones,
hammers wax, cOut-nals sparables, pegs, laces and
threads trees and ass-though some carry a trade
exclusively in these latter articles In word everything
employed by way Of materials tools in any branch OF
the business The rapidity with which wooden pegs
made and the vast numbers used are almost incredible
BY an Improvement in machinery introduced within three
wears firm manufactures fifty bushels daily. and with
on evenness and smoothnes really wonderful, only the
very choicest kind of wood being used Yet the clever
invention by which this result is Obtained is in its turn
threatened with obscurty from one exhibiting still
greater ingenuity of construction, as in addition to max
ing twill actually perform the whole process ofpeggng
a shoe in an Incredibly short space of time in style
fully equal TO that of manual labor which it pos
sesses one immense advantage the time occupied
in inserting three rows of pegs is not longer than is
quired for one. Nsw-IIampshire enjoys almost mon
opoy in the fabrication of shoepsgs Till within few
years the United States nearly entirely dependenton
foreign countries for the various articles comprising the
findings but the increase of domestic manufactures has
been so rapid that at the present day only third of
the goods used of foreign manufacture and is the
opinion of one of the most extensive dealers ia the city,
that had the tariff of 1912 remained unmOdiied, even
this proportion would have been much decreased Under
the definition findings" do not include leather for
which We are still largely indebted to France well
20 England.
There are in this City but nine manufacturers of
boot and shoe lasts the Eastern States being also the
principal producers of these articles supplying about
100000 worth annually and $4,000 worth of shoepegs
We Learn on the authority of the latest published of
fetal returns that in year there entered at the
Custom. House, in the article of tanned feathers,
dressed and undressed $50 937 lb valued at S52S))
of skins trimmed and dressed and not dressed,
1904 dozens worth 81 04 259 and of boots and shoes
1921 pairs, estimated at S54,l27. To which, might
be added large item for bOOkbinders leather as we'll
as manufactured gloves which latter alone entered
to The amount of $34,706, principally from France
Belgium and England well many other articles not
infinitely specified but estimated roughly at S27i67S
We have thus skctcheda few outlines, which will
able the reader judge of the real value and extent
Of the boot and shoe trade and other branches of in
dustry Immediately connected with it, by which it is ap
parent that the sum of $lO0,0OO,OOO would not
cover the annual outlay on these articles of dress
throughout the United States. Assuming the correct
ness Of the statement that the Bay State produces
yearly in the wholesale branch much as all the rest
of the States together and that its value is in round
numbers So 100000, We have for all the manuiactur
0OO 400 laav;no s06 0O0 O0O for all