New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-07
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A GREAT SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.

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hooYes The people of the South to foster more than
ever all branches of mechanical industry that exist
or may be inaugurated in the South, we take an
e8pccia! pleasure in calling attention to an estab.
lishment which we visited few daJ ago. It is no
more nor less than factory in which plantation
brogans are made by steam. The planters Of the
South will at once perceive that here is something
to engage their immediate attention; and when
they thoroughly comprehend, their patronage will
be pretty sure to follow.
Some six months ago, two enterprising gentle
men of this city, Messrs. George H. Rozet and
Paul Queyrouze, conceived the idea which they
have now developed and put into actual and sue
cegsful operation. They went to work quietly and
have worked quietly, their intention being to make
their business public only when they got it into
actual operation. Only within the last fortnight
has their enterprise become known beyond the
circle of their immediate friends, and only within
the last few days has it been permitted to anybody
to witness the marvellous process of making shoes
by machinery. The thing is now under way, and
challenges alike the admiration and the patronage
of the South.
The factory occupies a large double threestory
brick building on st. Ferdinand street, the
levee, in the Third District. The capital invested
is upwards of 600. To give our readers as
much of an idea possible of this novel enterprise,
we will describe it as we saw it, under the polite
guidance Of Mr.. Rozet Most Of the machines are
Of Yankee inventions and in their operation here,
they will doubtless help to teach the Yankees that
their Judgment in voting for President is far be-
meath their ingenuity in contriVing machines. The
machinery fills all three stories Of the building and
is propelled the cotton factory principle, by
steam engine in the basement. We shall sketch
the machines, beginning at the basement and wind
ing up in the third story.
No. is a machine which cuts the mostened sole
leather into STRIPS the width Of each strip being
the length of mans foot. The proprietors have
the patent right for this machine.
No. 2 is a machine which shaves the soft side OF
the above strips, in such manner as to render
the leather of perfectly even thickness.
No. 5 is a rolling machine, through which the
strips pass, coming out as hard as if hammered on
the lapstone for a week.
No. is a machine which chops the strips into
soes correctly shaped at the rate of 1000 pair
per day. The proprietors have the patent right
for this machine.
No. is handwork, man with steel dies and a
mallet chopping heetaps out of the remnants
| which come from the sole cutting machine. A
machine for the heeltaps will be fixed up after a
while.
No. is a machine which cuts leather into wels
with lightning rapidity.
No. 7 is a machine which trims or 90 feathers y
the inside edge of the soles, also with great
| raPidity. The proprietors have the patent right
| for this machine.
| No 5 is handwork, where men cut the upper
leather into vamps and quarters the uneveness O.
this kind of leather rendering it impossible to dt
the cutting by machinery, with any guaranty as tt
the strength of the shoe when made.
Nos. 8 and 10 are rather wonderful SEWN!
machines; each provided with big coil of waxe'
| thread, or rather, endless "waX-end ~ one stitch
ing the vamps and quarters separately, the othe
sewing them together, and both working as rapid
as sewing machines of the ordinary kind.
No. IL is sewing" machine, which does til
pairing around the soles, ordinarily done by han
with knife.
No. II is handwork, rvetiEg and punching-put
ting rivet on each side of the uppers, to keep tn
| connections of the Vamps and quarters from eYel
| tearing.
| No. l3 is handwork, where men tack the insid
sole on the last draw on the upper leather ant
tack on the outside sole.
No. II is the pegging machine, the most wonder
full of all. 1t is a machine which punches the hole
makes the peg and drives the peg in, at the SAM
| instant 1t works somewhat the sewing ma
chine principle, but the thread is coil of prepared
wood, bevelcd on the lower edge; every time th
needle or the awl comes down it splits off a peg
whilst a punch Immediately behind it drives tn,
peg into the hole previously made. The machn,
is truly admirable; it cannot be described very in
telligibly.
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| No 16 is Il machine which shaves the edges O
the solcs and heels perfectly smooth and even tt
the shoe, after the pegging and mailing is done
The propretors have the patent right of this ma
chine for the United States; it is the only machine
of the kind in the country.
No. II is a machine which "bufs the soles-
q revolving cylinder covered with sand-paper-ant
brushes them smooth with stiff revolving brush
Ne. Is is a machine, revolving disc of polished
marble, which gives the final burnsh to the edges
| of the soles and heels.
No. 10 is handwork; driving nails into the toe
of the soles, stamping the manufacturers stamp oil
them, and punching holes for the strings, thougl
this last is rapidly done with little hand machine
| No. 20 is the finish, where the lasts are takel
out, the strings put in and the shoes paired to
gether and hung up to dry, in readiness for pack
| ing.
| When finished, the shoe is admirable in all re
spects No handwork in plantation brogans can
begin to compete with the machine work in neat
ness, and cannot excel in strength or durability.
With a5 men and boys the whole operativ
force, from the bottom of the building to the top
the factory now turns out, easily, GOO pairs o
shoes per day. If the proprietors meet with th
encouragement which they have reason to expect
| they will, with some few additions to their machin
cry and the employment of 100 men, boys ant
girls, be able to manufacture 1000 pairs of shoe
| per day.
This is an enterprise which appeals to the plant
ing interest of the whole South Messrs. Rozet an
| Queyrouze guaranteeing that their shoes shall b.
fully as cheap and seryiceable as anything of thu
kind that has ever yet come from the North
Planters in the city will do well ;f they visit tn
| manufactory and examine the shoes made.
The place is at Nos. 10 and 2l St. Ferdinan,
| street, Third District.
N. O. TYP OGRAPHlCAL UNION.
This body yesterday elected the following gen
tlemen to serve as officers for the next six months
S. A. Gray, President; Gerard Stith, VicePresi
dent; 7. H. Draper, Recording Secretary 7.
Tracy, Financial Secretary; H. G. Powers, Cor
responding Secretary; H. L. Kelsey, Treasurer