The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
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street works.
At Goddard & Stones, corner Of
Austin and Oxford streets, The Spy re-
porter learned yesterday of an interest.
ing experiment in developing manufac-
turing in South America, which was
made some years ago at Caracas. Vene.
zuela. firm under the title OF
Paul & Co. established a shoe factory
there, and sent agents to Massachu-
sets to secure operatives. AS Wor-
cester has a worldwide reputation for
producing the most skilled shoemakers
the bulk of the operatives We're Sc
cured in this city. The agent whose
name was Gordon, established head
quarters at the City Hotel, and adver-
tised in The Spy and other papers for
men to go to Venezuela.
The picturesqueness of the idea, the
possibility OF adventure and the OPP
portunity to see a strange and almost
unknown country, appealed strongly
to. the shoeWorkers, and they came in
droves to Landlord Kessells hosiery
to see Gordon. He was commissioned to
accept none but the most skillful men,
and with a large number of them he
sailed for Venezuela. Since that time
number of these shoeworkers have
returned home, but some Of them are
in Caracas yet. The wages paid were
high, the men were treated like lords,
but the climate and their inability to
appreciate the manners and customs of
/ the natives, made many homesick.
The object of Paul & Company was
to have these skilled men teach the
trade to the natives and this, accord
ing to the information received by The
Spy man, has been attended with much
fa, 1,a ~
Chinese, are a very adaptive race.
Now the manufacturers of this coun-
try do not wish to see any develop
ment in this line in South America.
They prefer to supply the markets
there themselves, and President Comins
of the board of trade expects that the
results of the Philadelphia congress
will be exceedingly fruitful. At present.
manufacturing is almost unknown in
South America. The people are almost
exclusively engaged in the grazing and
agricultural pursuits, and despite eff
forts to establish industries, hava
nown an aversion to indoor, productive
labor
Secretary Squier of the board of trade
has taken a great interest in the COM
ing congress at the Quaker city, and
is looking forward to it with expectant
posed to do, is to place in every large
South American commercial house,
cabinets carefully indexed, that will be
repositories for the cards of American
manufacturers. In way this has al
ready been tried and the results have
been wonderful. An extension of the idea
cannot fail to be productive of great
good and an increase in American
trade.
Another hing-information bureaus
that can be maintained at slight ex-
pense by the American manufacturers
are to be formed in great centers of
South American trade, and all inform
alton relative to American industries
will be kept, as it were, on tap for the
benefit of the Latin American trades
men.
The carrying trade of South Ameri-
ca is largely done in foreign bottoms,
and to this is attributed much of the
neglect Of American manufacturers
there. The congress will take hold of
this matter, too, and plans will be
considered that may tend to restore
the American flag to its proper place
over the ships of a great merchant ma
rine.
For it's size, Worcester is counted
the greatest manufacturing city In The
United States. diversity of industry be-
ing taken into consideration. Here can
be found everything that is the result
Of human skill. AS they say at the
board of trade, "a commercial traveller
can find everything In Worcester, from
a needle to an Atlantic cable" Even
tually South America will be driven IN
self-defense TO go extensively into
| notwithstanding, but until that time the