The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-29

explanation, and showed that our New England man
ufactursrs labor. least FAR as tho the goods are
concerned, under disadvantages which also tend Tor
ever in opposition 10 others conversed with,
that though pretty corrupt IN other matters, Amer.
would always continue 10 make them 50.
LKATHER THE LEADING INDUSTRY
The leading industry however IN the State Of MAS.
Of boots shoes II distances The manufacture Of
goods by about $l2 900 In tne value Of the
tabIisneo at Lynn In 1886, aud shosnaking began
there aud az Salem m 1855 To-day the state of Mas.
sachusests alone msouiactures annually ~ uoo' Voo
OF boots and Shoes at average value VI ~ xo
manufactures leather 20 tho value Of nearly
So 000, 600 per annum, and begins 70 supply me
world, not only with tho leather, Of which sue ale
ready exports enormous quantities, but also with the
machinery for making boots and shoes
Fifteen years said Mr. A. l. Coolidge, ono Of
Tho Commissioners 10 the PARIS xposilon yesterday.
ssquite business done IN importing caiiskins 70
tins country. We imported also large quan,isy o.
goods from abroad for the retail bus-
ness. All this - changed now; instead Of I'M
porting we export We arc exporting leather very
contiu ually improved Our machinery has multiplied
= labor lcniold and labor AZ u stands - roaiy
cheaper here .ns% ~ - R@S.y per cent
OF all work boots and shoes - nov dous ~ VA
cnincry There 70 no country IN the worid Una. can
com poto with u.s. with the aid Of tho twenty seven
trims right around US here doing nothing else than
selling boot and shoe machinery we can tn moment
have all defects rsmedied; ani IN fact hardly week
passes but these mon improve machinery. TEcn
nrnIn out Of tho 500 nrms In engaged
In the manufacture and sale Of boots AUD snoess Al
most everybody has speciality
AGE OF spEcIALTIEa
"This Is an ago speciattes and u is also the same
In khn trade. Some OF the manufacturers mako noth.
ing else than certain kind OF boot or Ah0e Tor other
men women or children. BY applying themselvcss *
cIusivcy 10 this specially they only become pcv-
feet in the manufacture OF this particular ine bus
when they 70 the leather market thcy can purchase
juss VIVA! they want ana relec. wnss y .0i .n No
facturer compelled 70 take ALI sorts OF leather,
whether bio wanted u for mons boots or chldren's
sppor& To-day no lust picks out what 20 needs Tor
his speciality and there waste The result s that
our OF these speciaties IN tho boot ana
shoc line have attracted great attention over sincc tho
Sweden even and from Norway, ~ we'll ~ IRON Ger.
many and Holland. not only because our boots and
SHOES are better made than theirs, but Also because
now VIC can afford 10 make Thorn cheaper twas only
month ago that man from Peru camc here.
He had heretofore bought br0gans IN England Dus
was attracted by thS EXHIBITS Pniladephia and TINS
time instead OF going 10 Old England ho went 10 New
England Tor his brogans We took ms osder LOT ~ wv
pairs the Peruvian government ~ oighty cents
per PAIR. II ne should ccms buck now no can nave
brogans on new order Tor eighty cents THIS
business OF exporting boots and shoes H. however,
yet IN its infancy; but Us to leather the exports
have been enormous during the past TWO years. tho
exports Of sole leather especially have been very
largo It's value 1877 amounting 20 over $6OOo,OO0
Why, there firms IN Boston now, threcfourths OF
whose sales OF caher are 70 foreign countries mostly
split and bun leather That business is now pretty
well established, though we also hear good returns
from the samples OF boots aud shoes VIC have sent ou
msnutacursrs do no. make eight Or ton different
Kinds GOODS but only particular article and no
other, is helping the export trade ana = w mot DC
long, that our prices are on specie OASIS before
this business WILL DO greatly Increased.
NAcuISRRY VERSUS MANUAL LABOR.
Mr.. Coolidge, who u large manufacturer, Will IN
few days leave Tor Paris, In accordance with tho re-
quiremsnss OF tho appointment conferred upon him
Iy The COULD nowsSsr 10. ,a 20
per cont OF I'LL boots and shoes nos wore made oy
machinery what terrible biow this machinery mad
afflicted upon manual labor. In looking over tho
statistics OF labor which State 10 thc Union has SO
carefully collected Massachusetts, undcr the guild
o. MI Casro q Sos h nd sbos
the state, 81. 81 persons were employed IN these
establishments, while to-day with 900 establish.
persons engaged Ia the manufacture Ut boots and
SHOES This more than anything have soen IN my
investigations. the most startling result OF machin
cry And that the empioys cd this trade ike Ut
Lynn Tor instance alone there over 0CO Of
them 50 engaged, arc educated workmsn 10 evidsnosd
By the only three per cent of their number
cannot read write. might add, Incidentally, that
Massachusetts has no lees than 1882
Industries unable read write. and that tho per-
centage oil these uiiterats operatives ~ the cotton
mills reaches tho irishtiui figure o. thrseea ap-
posrs thorsforc, that tho snOemakcrs, noxt 70 tho
musical instrument makers are the bcst educated OF
New Ena.and's opera.ivsG owing to the steady In
10 other trades, not lew even having engaged ths
manufacture Of shoe machinery, which aiono u quite
:. = sxLLsp voRrrox LABOR.
In convcrsing with Mr.. Wright On the statistics
which he mad gathered In regard 70 industrial pur-
SUITS no pointed OF Z2S IT'S opera
tives employed Massachusetts only l36. sos were
natives 90 foreign born workinen. This
gave TO the question whether mere In Aassachu-
sets well otn~r States these skilled foreign
wor kmcn might not be 10 The majority. IL cannot Be
denied that there are amy number OF prominent mon
to-day who maintain that tho Puritan element 10
steadiiy the decrease among tho iandholders OF
but no data statistics arc ~ hand
provo This assertion made, however, BY men foremost
Ia this state still that the skilled element In tho FAC
tories Is bong and moro made up Of foreigners
IL proven by Mr. Wrghps carefully collected figures.
AND LABOR.
Another very Important lesson can be drawn from
tho facts gathered nj the Massachusetts Bureau or
Labor, u department. that should DO model for New
York, 50 as 10 knock the bottom oil fAliHcios
frequently preached by .omagogucs. We oiten are
told that are injury 10 tho masses OF
men. aud that wherever thoy control there 10
no chance individuals Now lot Us look Ut figures,
winch probably have never told such startling
suit, the worry coutrary oil popular belief. Here IN
TINS State thoIe 10,9l5 manufacturing estabsb-
insnts OF which $50 corporations aud TO- 1876
private establishments firms. The ~. Ss5 private
embellishments employ l66 5SS persons; the $40 cor
porasions employ l0l,337. Well may ME- Carol d.
Wright the chiel OF ylis bureau repeat ~ ho docs In
his latest report to tho Massachusetts, Legislature,
Napoieon's maxim, "slatistIcs mean tho keeping OF
M account OF nations affairs, und without such
account tbcro Is no safety"