Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-11

Gloversville's industry had widened. But.
behold how of necessity every silver
lining has its cloud, male fingers were
far too rough and clumsy, to sew the
delicate skins into the slender shapes
required for feminine hands.
So from the manufacturers cry arose
for girls, more girls-and still moro girls.
The work was light and easy, the wages
high from all the villages roundabout
the country iasses responded to the call,
until the population of the town rose by
leaps and bounds to 10000.
The disgruntled men, finding their oc-
cupation gone, moved fer the most part
westward, where the heavy glove trade
has been gradually drifting. At first this
masculine emigration was noted with
naught save natural feeling of triumph
by the superseding female. But, alas!
as time crept on, many former belle
found her partners at the dances grow
ing few and far between, until so des-
perate Is the situation become that Mar
tina Watson bids fair to prove the hardy
pioneer Of a new invasion, OF love
iorn maids, disconsolate in the quest of
the single man.
That this history of the causes pro-
ducing the surplus Of females in Glovers-
Vile is no idle speculation is easily
proved by statistics. 1t seems almost
indicate to treat these fair victims Of
unrequited passion as mere figures. like
so many head Of cattle or bales of hay,
yet the fact remains that the last census
revealed a falling off in the female
population of every hamlet in the county
where Gloversville is located, which has
been almost exactly balanced by cor
responding increase in the city Of Glovers-
Vile itself.
II there still remains any lingering doubt
that the situation has been exaggerated,
a stroll through any one of the 10 glove
factories in the place will prove con-
vlncing.
Down both sides of the large well
lighted rooms a hundred or so machines
work bus1ly away at their task OF sew
ing together the dozen or more pieces
that go to make up a modern glove.
There are all sorts and conditions OF
stitchers, big clumsy machines that rat
tie noisily through the heavy driving
glove leather like so many pompoms;
quiet, ladylilke machines that purr softly
as they glide swiftly over the intricate
seams on ladies' hand wear; queer voiced
and queerer looking machines that sew
with lightning-like rapidity long rows of
over and over stitches that finish the bot
tom of the wrists-but all alike fed by
the slender, deft, white fingers Of hun
ireds of busy girls.
In other departments are still more
pretty maidens. pasting the thin silk lin.
ing 10 SQudTG plcC0S VI hAu SAS
pattern is stamped out, sewing on the
buttons, or affixing the patent clasps,
as the case may be. But all are alike
attractive and almost all downright good
looking,
There are men working in the factories,
to be sure, but they are dull appearing.
unimaginative males Of well advanced
middle age, rot,nd of girth and bald of
head, who stand each before his stamp
ing block cutting out the patterns from
the endless variety of skins that have
come from all over the world, with
certain stolid delibera ton that marks
them as men whose Eighty days of gay
young bachelorhood have been left be-
hind many, many years ago.
It is only occasionally among these
worlkmen that you find, still wearing,
even during his working hours, that look
of worried indecision, the still unfettered
male They do not make the thriftiest
element, for even as they toll their
chances may be seen TO wander down
that long line of whirring stitchers.
where sit all 30 equally attractive the
zen unluclSy females that are his share
to choose from. osy i
They are not puffed up or vain, these
hesitating bachelors of Gloversville, nor
have they any cause to be. The at
tempt to manage one fair. female has
some time or other humbled the conceit
of the best OF us, and If you vain, I'M
married masculine reader think that the
handling of ten capricious, willy, delicious
bits of femininity who one and all re-
gard you as their lawful spoil, is easy.
why, Just go to Gfoyersvllle and try 1t.