The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
SHOES FOR MEN WITH BUT oNELEG
Dealers Nowadays Find a Profit in
Catering TO CrippIes.
From the New York Sun.


From the New York Sun
There are in New York shoe stores at
which a one-Iegged man can buy a single
shoe pair being divided to give which
ever shoe he wants. One legged customers
are not common by any means, but sim
in the big stores where their wants are
supplied they are not so rare as to excite
comment when they do come, and a sim
gle Shoe is sold without hesitation or ques-
ton. The price charged is a little more
than half the price of a pair. The re-
naming shoe is sent back to the factory
ana there mated up again. There is no
chance or guesswork about this The
new shoe Is made, if not on the identical
last upon which the original shoe was
made then upon one absolutely like il
and from precisely similar materials: IL
matches the odd shoe PERFECTLY, and the
restored pair goes back into stock as well
mated and matched as the original pair
Sometimes a pair of shoes of different
sizes are sold to man whose feet are OF
different sizes, two pairs of shoes being
broken for this purpose, the remaining
two odd shoes being matched up.
While one-legged men thus not uncom-
monty seek a single shoe, and are readily
accommodated few one-armed men seek a
single glove, for which fact there appear
10 De various reasons. Even If they were
sought singly gloves would not be divided
as shoes are, because they could not be
mated with the same facility and PROMPT
ness as shoes More of the gloves worn
in this country are made here now than
ever before; but many are still imported
and such gloves ID would take longer TO
mate; and then a much larger proportion
of gloves than of shoes are not black but
in colors, which 1t would be more difficult
no OF nal
gloves anyway is much less than that of
shoes, and nobody expects that gloves will
be divided; and so, commonly, the one
armed man when he buys gloves, buys
a pair just as anybody else would do 1t
may be that his lost arm has been re-
placed by an artificial hand. Having no
substitute for the lost arm and so no use
for the glove that would ordinarily be
worn or that hand that glove would com
monty be simply thrown away; though it
might be that a man who was sensitive
about the loss of a hand would carry the
glove that would otherwise have been
worn upon ID in his gloved remaining hand
as men with two hands are sometimes seen
carrying a glove. One-armed men com
monty buy gloves of comforta bic size so
that, If they can put their gloves on them
selves, their size would be such as TO ia
cihtate the operation.
But while very few one-armed men seek
such a call, and in the very largest stores
in which gloves are sold IL would very
likely be possible TO supply such de.
mand from among the old gloves. Where
large gloves are kept and many gloves are
sold there always accumulate some odd
gloves; every pair Of gloves is fastened
toge Their, but gloves will become separat-
ed in the handling of them, especially i'm
the rush at busy seasons; among gloves
for instance that were placed i'm ouan-
titles upon a counter Gloves become sep
arated here, and odd gloves gather as a
result In ways that are very simple and
vet curious. 1t might be that thief
would nip a pair of gloves or try to do
So and get but "a single glove: separating
a pair in pulling at them. There would
be an odd glove left It might be that
in a hurry a customer would pick up two
gloves, both rights or both lefts, or a
pair composed of q right and a left that
were mismated as to size, and might take
these gloves off into the country some-
where or 1t might be to Europe: not a
common thing to happen, perhaps, but
not impossible of happening and here
would be odd gloves as result of this
In a great retail glove stock that part
OF the stock In which gloves are more
likely 10 become separated is gone over
every morning. and whatever separate
gloves there may be are taken out and
removed from it TO be put in order Gloves
that have simply been pulled apart are
tied together again and these constitute
the bulk of the seDarated gloves, but des-
pite the utmost vigilance and care there
will accumulate in very large glove stocks
some odd gloves. From these pairs can
sometimes be made by cutting down a
larger glove to make a smaller one, which
could not be done, Of course, unless the