The Delta independent., 1890-10-28
BUILDING UP INDUSTRIES.

BUILDING UP INDUSTRIES.
The Work in Which Omaha Manufac.
turers Are Now Engaged.
The Number of Operatives Employed
The Wages They Receive and the
Marvellous Dexrerity They Attain
I'm Handling Improved machinery.
Eight hundred thousand dollars worth
of leather!
More than enough to carpet tia
heart of the city, and then shoe every
man, woman and child in Omaha-yes,
and all the human beings in Douglas
county.
This is the quantity of leather mado
into foot covering and sold every year
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 as near being model whole
sale and manufacturing establishment
as can be found between the oceans.
The firm pays out moro 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 Oftheir 200 employees about
60 per cent are girls, who earn from
IS to SIP u week, according to their
competency; and brighter, moro in
telligent and more thoroughly skillful
company of young women would be
difficult to find.
OF the $500. 200 worth OF boots and
shoes sold every twelve months by w.
V. Morse & Co.. $500. 900 worth. or
100, 900 pairs are made entire in the
firms establishment ut 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 our afterward and find that their
ord, rs had been filled that the boots
and shoes they had ordered had been
made during that one short hour. II
l-D
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, 600 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 pefcctly fitting and artistic US 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
she 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 tho
public to be the newest and most novel
Of all the little features in connection
with this great factor in Omahas pros
perity and advancement is this:
BY a singularly ingenious, accurate
and complete system, this firm keeps
. record OF the name Of every work.
man who has anything to do with the
manufacture Of shoe, and year or
more afterward by looking ut the shoe
and then turning to this system OF rec.
ord the firm can tell the names OF every
one Of the fifty or more who had
to do with its manufacture, and just
which one performed this, or the one
who performed that part OF it's con.
struction. This system is of the Mt.
most Importance and value to the firm
in determining the skill and, caro- oI
its employees. II shoe is returned by
a retail dealer who, in turn. has haG
It thrown back upon him by reason o
q defect in the construction. the man.
;, ufacturer turns TO his record, finds out
which of his employees has blundercC
and deals with him accordingly.
PnIcKLY ASH BiTrERs is a vegetable