, 1885-08-28
woneN.s SECOND HAND SHOES
Great Advantage Of tho Tranie To Pol
Women and Young Girls,
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Women and Young Girls
New YORK sun1
st is astonishing how much money
poor folks can save by buying things
second hand said a Harlem house
keeper to q Sun reporter tho other day.
"My ehambermaid was badly off for
clothes when / hired her not long ago.
Yesterday she came to me and begged
an advance of soventy-five cents in
order to bay n pair Of shoes. you can
got nothing worth having for that price, ?
said !. Better take n couple Of dollars,
which you are welcome to But no.
10 cents was all the advance she would
take, and / gave it to her.
lu the evening she exhibited a pair Of
apparently new and really stylish and
seryiceable shoes, for which she said
she had paid only 90 cents. They're
second hand, ma m, she explained, in
reply TO the surprise | expressed, and
then uIon examination, | found that
they were so, but so skillfnlly repaired
and renewed as to be almost rs good as
new, while originally they must have
been q lady's fine street shoe, worth 81
or 81. Mary then went on to inform
me that she was in tho habit of buying
mani articles OF her wardrobe second
hand, and that, If q poor girl only knew
how to buy with judgment In that way,
she could keep herself respectable look
ing on n surprising small outlay. | am
ready TO believe her now, though |
would never have thought it before"
The reporter obtained the address OF
the secondhand shoe dealer with
whom the lady's servant had dealt, and
on tho following day visited him at his
shop in West Forty Eighth street. The
dealer was a shrewd, good humored lit
tic man. and he was also communica-
tive. His shelves were covered with all
styles of women's and girls shoes, nicely
repaired and re6tted, ranging in price
from . cents TO $3.50, and by his work
lench in the rear Of the shop was q
great pile of d%ilapidated shoes recently
selected from the wagons of the eollec-
tors and awaiting renovation.
II have been in the business about
twenty-five years, said the dealer, in
answer TO numerous leading questions.
and, Of course, | make it pay,
or I'd be in something else.
Collectors get these traps from
nil sorts of places. Some OF
those uncommonly mean ones were like
enough picked out of ash barrels and
refuse heaps. Then they go from house
to house and from tenement TO tene-
ment buying up what they can get.
The very best Of cast-of shoes won't
fetch more than a few cents, while
there s many fair to midling ones can be
had for the asking, and the owner is
only too glad to get them out of sight.
Then, for a small advance on what the
collectors paid, | get the pick of their
loads, and | neither know nor care
what's done with my leavings. But
then don't leave many out of a fair TO
decent wagon load, and let me tell you
that it'yan ALFRED mean, ~busted-out
pair of ladies' shoes that / can't make
something attractive blocking out Of, es-
pecially to a thin purse, with n set OF
toes upon foreground. Examine these
The dealer took down a pair of neatly
mended, well polished No. 8 of sub.
stantial but graceful build. They n
labelled 80 cents, as you see, and that
sort of shoe | always have a steady de-
mand for, chiefly from poor servant
girls and young workwomen. Well,
that pair cost tho collector 4 cents, and
| gave him . for 'om. A fair profit fol
mei Well, | should say so, or what am
| hero fori Now, take n look at those
black satin slippers. This is the second
time they've como back to me, worn and
repaired as you see, and l may sell EN-
over and over again, at 90 cents a pop.
and never bought 'em back for more
than 10, either"