The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-27
RUBBER SHOES.
More Than One Thousand Kinds
Manufa ctured-Many Exported.


American rubber shoes have been ex.
ported to some extent for many years,
but within the past four or five years
the exports have been multiplied. Thls
has been due to the establishing in FOR
eign countries of agencies of the Amer
lean manufacturers and to the making
of increased efforts to introduce the
goo DIS; to some extent to the demand
of Americans abroad for American
overShoes. with the result that wide
awake dealers care to keep them III
stock, and largely to the goods them
selves, which, like many other Ameri'
can manufactured products. are super
Tor in style, lightness finish and dura'
bility.
Both boots and shoes are exported
but principally shoes; these are export
ed in every variety for men, women
and children. Great numbers of them
are made on what is called export lasts;
they are made to fit the shoes upon
which they are to be worn: but there
are also exported many shoes in the
same style as those worn in this coun-
try Many American shoes are now
exported, and this has helped the ex-
port of rubbers in American styles TO
fit the shoes. 1t would be quite posi-
BILE nowadays to buy in London. say,
or in Constantinople. American rubbers
Of the same light weights and graceful
shapes as are TO he found in New York.
Perhaps 10 per cent. Of the rubber
shoes now sold in Europe, outside of
Russia. are of American manufacture,
and that proportion is increasing.
Even in this country the sale of rub
Der shoes has increased greatly in COM
paratively recent years, owing not
alone to the increased population. but
to the more and more common use of
rubbers. and 10 the INFORMATION of new
kinds and STYLES. And it is Il common
thing nowadays for persons to own
more than one pair of IUlhcrovcrshOes:
as. perhaps, Il pair Of ordinary rubber
shoes. and a pair of arcticS. in some
one of the various forms III which arc
tic Overshocs are now made. and some
people have more than two pairs of
ruhhcrs. having for instance rubherS
to fit different shoes.
In their different kinds. styles and
sizes. American rubber shoes are now
made in more than Il thousand varie-
ties. They are none of them like the
clumsy shoes of oldpn times: they are
all lighter and sightller, and vastly
better adapted to their uses: and there
are many of them. among those made
for women's wear, that are quite thor
ouGhly graceful in design and artistic
Rubber shoes are made suited to the
market in various parts of the country.
fitted to the shapes and STYLES of the
shoes there worn. and ruhuerS suited
to one part of the country might not
do in another. And there are overShoes
made for special uses: as, for intance.
there is an arctic ovcrshqe made espe-
cially for the Northwestern lumber
men, which he puts on and wears over
the foot of Il high felt boot. There
are OvershoeS that sell well in some
localities. hut not st all in others: as.
for instance, there is an arctic over
shoe made high on the ankle that for
years has found favor in Boston. hut
not in New York. though the indca-
lions now are that II may come into
vogue here.
1t is an interesting fact that Womcn's
rubhcrS until within two or three
years, made on straight lasts. are now
almost all of them. rs mems rubber
shoes have been for many wears. made
in rights and leilS.
The parts of the earth in which rub
hers in one form ard another are COM
monty sold are those tha. lie in temper
ate and in colder chimes where they
have rain, sluSh and snow and ice