Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1874-09-30

W nc unGACSS lOI tiiO pui pVsc Vi glONe-
making, except of the poorer sort, and
are according thrown out, and there are
skins which, although sound as regards
strength and suppleness, have been
scratched or spotted either during or
after the life of the kid
The best of these rejected skins are
afterwards used for making undressed
gloves, in which the flesh side of the
skin is worn outside the next lot is dis
posed of to shoemakers for ladies' boots,
and the worst are sold to glue manufac-
turers.
After the skins have been dyed they
are carefully examined by the foreman,
whose duty it is to see what can be made
of each skin; whether it is more advan-
tageous to cut of it two pairs of two
buttons, or one pair of three buttons
and one pair of one button, or three
pairs of children's gloves. One skin
affords usually two pairs, and each gus
set, or finger piece which is used in the
making of glove, must he cut from
the same skin as that from which the
glove is taken, as otherwise it would be
impossible to match them perfectly.
The foreman, after careful examina-
ton, distributes the skins to the work
men, who cut them into rectangular
pieces, which are piled one upon the
other until they form a layer of about a
halt inch in thickness, and which con-
tains about six pairs of gloves. These
layers are then put under press, which
gives them certain rigidity, and when
ready to be cut they are put under a
machine, by the action of which six
pairs are cut at time. BY this means
they are cut more quickly, and more re-
gularly than by hand, a process now
long superseded. Each pair of gloves
is then taken separately by women, who
with long and sharp shears trim the
edges which the machine has not cut
with sufficient evenness.
After this they pass into the hands of
other wamesan en- who, sorting carefully the
The gloves now in readinessa for ssss
sewers.
Gloves have been and even now are
sewed by hand, and as the average which
a women can accomplish in one day is
three gloves (not three pair, J it follows
that the number of persons engaged in
this occupation must be very great.
Each manufacturer employs from ten
to twenty men, who, provided with a
horse and buggy, continually visit all
the villages, hamlets and farms within
radius of forty or fifty miles from their
residences, and in this way distribute to
and gather from the sewers the gloves
which are sent to them from Paris. A
great deal of discrimination is required
in distributing the work to be done.
The white and light-tinted gloves are
sent to those parts of the country where
the women are tidy and careful, while
to those whose reputation is the reverse
the black and dark-colored gloves only
are entrusted.
Within few years, however, it is
likely there will be revolution in this
branch of glove making, as manufac-
turers find such difficulties in obtaining
any work from the sewers in summer or
harvest time that their attention has been
called to sewing machine, by means Of
which, it is claimed, the sewing IL
stronger, more regular, and Ear more cx-
peditious than by hand.
After the gloves return from th'
sewers to the factory they are provided
with buttons, stamped and numbered
then put in shape, then put into pack
ages of half dozen, or dozen and box
ed In that shape they are ready to b
transported to the four corners OF tn
globe.
Gloves continue to be, as they hav
been, in admirable taste, in harmon,
with the toilette, and matching as nearl
as possible the color of the dress. Th
colors Of dress goods, therefore, beini
promised, that of the fashionable gloy
follows as logical sequence. Charming
hues, appropriate to fall, may be seen
which, later in the season, will be ex
changed for extremely dark oolors, iden
tical with the stylish dress materials.