Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-06
BLlLDING UP INDUSTRIES.
The Work In Which Omaha Manufoc
turers Are Now Engaged,

turers Are Now Engaged.
The Number Of Operatives Employcs-
The Wages They Receive and III.
Marvellous Dexterity They Attain
i'm Handling Improved Machinery.
Eight hundred thousand dollars worth
of leather!
More than enough to carpet ths
heart OF the city, and then shoe everv
man, woman and child in Omaha--yes
and all the human beings in Dougla,
county.
This is the quantity of leather made
into foot covering and sold every wear
by w. V. Morse & Co., of that city.
Their big, handsome five-story and
basement building at the the southeast
corner Of Eleventh and Douglas streets
comes rs near being model whole
sale and manufacturing establishment
as can be found between the oceans.
The firm pays out more than $780,
600 in cash every year for wages to its
employees.
Nearly two hundred people are EN-.
ployed within the four walls of this
| magnificent establishment, to say moth.
| ing of the travelling men employed by
the firm. OF their 200 employees about
60 per cent are girls, who earn from
IS to $l2 week, according to their
competency; and brighter, more in
telligent and more thoroughly skillful
company of young women would be
difficult to find.
OF the $500 900 worth of boots and
shoes sold every twelve months by w.
V. Morse 4 Co., $500, 1000 worth, or
$50. 600 pairs are made entire in the
firms establishment at the location
named.
A more thoroughly supplied and sys.
tematic factory cannot perhaps be
found in the United States A party
of sixty ladies and gentlemen, whether
easy to please or Of the most fastidious
tates, might call at the factory any
hour of the day, leave their measure
for pair of boots or shoes, and return
an hour afterward and find that their
orders had been filled--that the boots
and shoes they had ordered had been
made during that one short hour. II
the party had remained to see the 12O
boots or shoes manufactured the ladies
of the company would have noticed
that sixteen different pieces of goods
were put into their foot coverings,
while the gentlemen would have dis.
covered that only nine were put into
each of theirs. Their guests would
also have observed that each boot or
shoe passed through fifty different pairs
of hands, that 100 different machines
costing from $50 to 81, 900 apiece and
} operated by electricity were called in
to use to accomplish the work and that
big bolts of linen, silk, satin and pat
ent leather had been heavily drawn
upon in the operation.
And then if after every one of the
sixty ladies and gentlemen had put on
their footwear and gone away they
would find themselves walking in boots
or shoes that were as easy as old ones,
as perfectly fitting and artistic as ever
, they had worn in their lives.
> The establishment occupies the base
ment and entire five floors. and to the
, casual observer it would seem to be
about time the firm added at least
two more stories to its building. since
every foot of space is crowded with
goods, machinery and employees. In
the basement is found the immense
stock of rubber goods; on the first floor
the Offices. packing and sample rooms;
on the third, merchandise. while the
fourth and fifth floors are given up ex-
clusively to manufacturing.
What perhaps, will prove to the
, public to be the newest and most novel
!, of all the little features in connection
with this great factor in Omaha's pros
I perity and advancement is this:
. BY singularly ingenious. accurate
and complete system, this firm keeps
a record Of the name of every work
man who has anything to do with the
: manufacture of shoe. and year OF
more afterward by looking at the shoe
!, and then turning to this system of rec
u ord the firm can tell the names Ofevery
/: one of the fifty or more who had
> to do with its manufacture, and just
{ which one performed this, or the one
y who performed that part of its con-
!. struction. This system is of the ut
most importance and value to the firm
= in determining ths skill and care Of
its employees. If a shoe is returned BY
retail dealer who, in turn, has had
l. it thrown back upon him by reason o.
7. a defect in the construction, the man;
y ufacturer turns to his record. finds out
q which of his employees has Numbered
d and deals with him accordingly.
Trouble with = Badger.
u Friday morning Master G. A. Wal
O iaCa saw In a fiold mint ha f00k to lS