Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-01

horns in the world Among other csriesi-
ties i sour milk bag from JeruSAlsA- n
is made by pulling the meat out Il the
skin Of goat by main strength. instead Of
by taking the hide Of with knife in the or
dinary way. Goat-skin water bags and
wster-bot.le~sr are shown In profusion- We
pause for moment to look At . patch
work table cover made Of 5000 pieces OF
leather, and the craSisst GUILT that our
grandmothers ever knit had not more
startling array Of colors. A curiosity noe
pleasant to look upon, and yet which 10
much looked at, Is . mummided head
of woI an, about four inches In
diameter, ON the headwaters OF the
Amazon SJuth America shows US some
fine anaconda skins and the hides Of liz
ards, which have considerable value In
commerce, and the skins Of chameleons -
well
The carriage feathers alone are worth an
hours inspection, and in this art America
is certainly = long ways ahead Of all com
petitors. As tanners we take very high
rank. In the making Of betting Of course
no other nation can compete with US, One
betting exhibit here Is said to be the finest
and most costly that WAS ever shown, and
10 contain the largest belt that was ever
manufactured. BY the way, one could
write book about the things to be seen
in this exposition which are the largest
things of their class the world ever knew.
This excelsior belt is twelve feet wide and
more than 30 feet long Its value is 80 50
per foot, and the whole piece is worth
more than & W0. On a reel near by is
shown belt that is more than two miles
long This exhibit, though occupying only
a little corner, is worth $4,000. II you
have ever bought betting you will know
that it is an article which runs into money
very rapidly. The most popular form Of
betting now appears to be that manufact-
ured of myriads Of little pieces Of leather
fastened together with metal links. 1t was
q smart Yankee who saw that tons Of
scraps from the boot and shoe factories
were going to waste, and who designed a
belt that would consume these remnants
economically. Hence the link belt of COM
merce, which now drives a large per cent.
of the machinery Of the United States.
The largest collection Of footwear ever
brought together Is shown in this build
ing. 1t is in series Of glass cases running
along the wall In scopeit runs back four
thousand years and shows us how. the an
clients dressed their feet. 1t goes into all
lands and among all peoples. In all there
are / 800 typical articles Of foot-gear in the
collection, to which Chief Collier has de-
voted two years Of the hardest kind Of work.
and which is deserving Of mention as one
of the most admirable features of the ex-
position.
Near the north entrance to the main
floor you will see in scores Of beautiful
cases the products Of hundreds of Amer
lean shoe factories. Here you will be led
to an appreciation Of the fact which hith-
erto may have escaped you that in shoe
making America distances the world. No
other people have developed II third part
the ingenuity of our Yankees in design,
materials, combinations, embellishments.
Go to the gallery and see u shoe factory
in operation, with fifty or sixty men and
women at work, and producing u thousand
shoes per day The machines are ingen-
ious, the processes interesting, the results
one Of the most important Of all the con-
tributions to American wealth.