Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-07-16
MoRoCCo mEn.
John g. Baker Addresses tine semf-
.-4 Annual Meeting. ..r...


The Semi.anDual meeting Of the Mo-
rocco Manufacturers National Ex-
change was held on Wednesday even-
ing at Brighton Beach. and was atten-
ded by the following Wilmington man
ufacturers:
Winfield Scott, of Pussy, Scott & Co.,
Charles Baird, Of Charles Baird 4 Co.,
John G. Baker, Of the J. G.. Baker
Manufacturing Co., J. Parke Postles,
VIM. Y. Warner, VIM. Baedenkopf,
John Taylor, Of John Taylor & Co.,
aud VIM. V. Bond, Of C. E. Fritz & Co.
james Scott, of this city, was cleo
ted Vice President and Charles Baird, q
member Of the Executive Committee.
At the banquet, Mr.. John G.. Baker,
of this city, being called upon, respon-
ded as follows:
In the matter Of general trade and
affairs connected with the business
Of manufacturing the outlook for trains
is good. The present census Of the
country has awakened in every mans
mind an idea for making figures. The
figures that have made and the fg-
ures that have been suggested, cause
me to think Of the future that there
are "millions in it," l take it for q
fact that the present census demon
strates that we have in this country
about so, 900, 600 of people. These 50,-
100000 Of people will have to be
shod. That is an increase of 10,000,-
600 in the last ten years.
When we take into consideration the
exact number Of people wha wear no
shoes at all. the year round, and the
people that wear other stock besides
our peculiar line Of goods, we must dis
count the gross number BY about one
half. Then we got down to the fact
that there are 25,000.000 Of people in
the United States who wear morocco or
its equivalent. Give the people two
pairs of shoes year. Strike the aver
age of four feet of stock to the two pairs,
and you have in round numbers Just
100, 900, 900 feet Of leather that has got
to be produced, and will be produced
every year. Reduce that to dozens
and you have two million dozens at an
average Of fifty feet.
Now, cir, take 100 factories to work
up that two million dozens.of skins, and
you have 20, 600 dozen for each factory;
that makes daily production of Sc 2 8
dozens. Now, sir, there about 81 fac
tories in the United States, large and
small the average production Of these
factories Ia about forty to forty-fve dog
en- q day, as nearly as can be estimated.
I don't say anything about the supply,
of shoes, but it does strike me foreibly
that itrequires one hundred factoriess
producing Sc 2.3 dozen a day, to sup
ply the demand and prospective de-
mand /; how in the world can the
people be supplied by so factories, pro-
ducing As dozen q day
Now let the population Of the country
increase in the same ratio for the next
ten years, and what will be the popu-
lation 7 1t will be about sixty-fve
millions. The most Of us here today
are younS men. You can discount this
by any per cent. you chose, and make
the calculation for yourselves. We all
know when the goddess Fashion COM
mands, her votaries obey, and the fash
ion of the shoes worn by our ladies ia
making constant demands upon our
stocks and increasing our profits.
i The next meeting Of the Exchange
will be held in this city on the second
Monday in January, 1881.