The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-24
AMERICAN RUBBER SHOES
Moro Than Ono thousand Kinds Now
Manufactured-NIany Exported.

| Manufactured-DIany Exported.
American rubber shoes have been exported
| TO some extent for many years, but within the
| past four hve years the exports have been null
! tlplied. This has been due TO the establishing
| in foreign countries of agencies OF the American
manufacturers and to the making 81 increased
efforts TO introduce the goods TO some extent TO
tho demand Of Americans abroad for American
overshoes with the result that wide-awake deal
ers came to keep them in stock and largely to
the goods themselves, which. like many other
American manufactured products. are superior
| In style, lightncss, finish and durability. Where
ever they have been introduced their sales have
increased, and American rubber shoes may now
be bought in every European country but Russia.
In which there is tariff high enough to keep
out foreign rubbcrs. and the trade is held by
factory established at ST. Petersburg.
Both boots and shoes exported, but prin-
cipally shoes; these arc exported in every variety,
for men, women. and children. Great numbers
OF them are made on what called export lasts;
thcy arc made TO a. the shoes upon which they are
to DO worm but there also exported many shoes
in the same styles as those worn in this country;
many American shoes are now exported and this
has helped the export Of rubbers in American
styles to at the shocs II would be quite possible
nowadays 10 buy in London. say, or in Constan-
tinople American rubbers of the same light weights
and graceful shapes are to bo found In New
York
Perhaps 40 per cent. Of tho rubber shoes now
sold in Europe, outside OF Russia, are OF American
manufacture. and that proportion is increasing.
The weather conditions in Europe are such as to
make that part OF the earth good natural market
for rubb shoes; but taking tho people the coun-
tries through. they wear proportonately fewer
rubber shoes than arc worn in this country The
people in many regions cling to old ways; but as
tho advantages Of rubber shoes become apparent
TO them they buying more and more OF them,
and more and more of American manufacture
Even in this country the sale Of rubber shoes
has increased greatly in comparatively recent
years. owing not alone to the increased population
but to the more and more common use of rubbers
and 70 the introduction OF new kinds and styles
And il Is a common thing nowadays for persons
10 own moro than pair Of rubber oyershoes; as
perhaps pair OF ordinary rubber shoes, and a
pair Of arctics In some one of the various forms
in which arctic overshoes are now made; and some
people have moro than two pairs Of rubbers hav-
ing for instance rubbcrs to at different shoes.
In their different kinds styles and sizes American
rubber shoes are now made in more than thou
sand varieties. They none Of them like the
clumsyelshoes Of old tines they all lighter.
and sightlier and vastly better adapted TO their
| uses: and there are many OF them, among those
made for women wear. that arc well thoroughly
graceful in design and artistic.
Rubber shoes arc made suited to the market
in various parts Of the country, fitted to the shapes
and styles OF the shoes there worn, and rubbers
suited to part OF the country might not do
in another. And there overshoes made for
special uses: as, for instance, there is arctic
overshoe made especially for the Northwestern
lumberman. which he puts on and wears over
the foot of high felt boot There oversh oes
that sell we'll in some localities but not at all
in others; as for instance, there is arctic over
| shoe made high on tho ankle that for years has
| found favor in Boston, but not in New York.
| though the indications now are that il may come
| into vogue here
1t is an interesting fact that women's rubbers.
| until within two or three years made on straight
lasts, are now almost all Of them, mems rubber
shoes have been for many years, made in rig hts
| and eftS.
The parts Of tho earth In which rubbcrs in ono
| form and another commonly sold those
| that lie in temperate and in colder chimes, where
they have rain, slush and snow and ice