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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-14

the manufacture Of shoe. At the time
the Eaton company came here there
was no shafting in the factory nor
We're there benches. 1t was merely n
empty shell, which was soon to be
filed with whirring machines, acting
with almost human intelligence,
turning off shoes Of all styles at very
short notice. AS soon as possible.
which was December 8. 1902. the
cutters We're started and afterwards
the fitting. making, finishing. freeing
and packing rooms We're started.
The cutting room is where the
manufacture of shoes starts 1t is
here that the leather comes for fitting
and cutting BY a system Of tags
furnished from the office which con-
stitute the orders for the work. the
work is laid out. Each tag tells a
complete story about the shoe to be
made. the way il is to be cut, the
style. etc. In this department each
man is furnished 4 certain amount Of
leather for certain number of shoes,
50 it is quite necessary that cutters
must he first class men and understand
their business thoroughly. on this
floor the cutting is done for the IS
different styles of shoes manufactured
by the concern. John Dixon is fore
man in this department and has under
him about 40 men.
There are several different kinds of
leather that go into the manufacture
Of first class modern shoes, among
them patent, Russia. box calf, Velour,
gun metal and matt calf. There are
many interesting machines in this de-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-14

one Of the industries of Augusta
which is source of great pride to the
city, an industry that lands many OF
the eagerly sought for dollars in the
pockets of our citizens and one that
should and does interest all Interested
IN the prosperity of Augusta. is the c
A. Eaton shoe manufactory. ably
managed by George NJ. Ryder. one or
the best Informed shoe men in New
England
The plant employs many hands and
all are well paid and content with their
work. The factory is one of the best
and most sanitary in New England
and the appliances used for the manu-
facture Of shoes are Of the latest de-
sign. Thus ii was that representa-
tive of the Journal. on trip through
the place. shown about by the obIjeing
and skilled heads Of departments found
the factory. 1t was in November 1902
that the c. a. Eaton Shoe Go. came
to Augusta, through the efforts of
President HichbOrn of the Augusta
Board Of Trade. using the factory
formerly used by Boyd, Corey 60 for
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cATARRH A GERM DISEASE.
Wonderful Success Of the HyomeI
Treatment. Guaranteed by Bowditch.
Webster & Co.

Catarrh is an insidious disease of
most destructive tendency. Its APP
proaches are unalarming and its
victims are we'll on the road to a
chronic stage or to dread consumption
before they realize their danger
1t is not blood disease, but TX
caused by germs that lodge and grow
in the air passages. causing irritation
with poisonous and offensive mucous
discharges. To cure this condition,
stomach dosing is ineffective and the
only healing agent is Hyomei. 1t goes
directly to every nook and corner OF
the air passages, disinfectng. healing
and curing To be convinced of this,
you have only to give Hyomei a trial.
and Bowditch, Webster & Co. will sell
you an outfit with the understanding
that if the trial is not satisfactory, and
the treatment does not relieve, your
money will be refunded
You cannot afford to trif1e with ca
tarrhal troubles. for if neglected they
grow worse and the annoyance and
danger rapidly increases. 1t is best to
get Hyomei at the first symptoms of
catarrh such as stoppage Of the nose.
offensive breath. raising of mucous.
droppings in the throat. spasmodic
coughing. The sooner YOU use
Hyomei. the sooner YOU will be freed
from all these troubles. Remember
that it will not cost you cent to try
Hyomei unless the treatment helps
YOU. for Bowditch, Webster & Co.
guarantee is clear and plain to refund
the money of Hyomei does not give
satisfaction.
Sold and guaranteed in Waterville
by Geo. w. Dorr and in Gardiner by
C. H. Beane.
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partment, as there are for that matter
in all the departments, one of these
machines cuts the waterproof Innings
for the toes of box toed shoes, SEEM
ingly unimportant but, really very i'm
portant. All the various parts of the
shoe are assembled here before going
to the next department. which is called
the 'skiving" department. One of the
duties If the skiver is to make the
edge Of the leather of sufficient thin
ness To bend easily. About this time a
tip pcrforatur comes into play and
makes the holes in the tips that many
have noticed as part Of the adornment
OF the toe of the modern shoe.
The fitting department is one Of the
most important in a shoe factory, for
here the good fit of the shoe is assured
in a great measure. This part Of the
c. y. Eaton Shoe Co.'S plant is in
charge Of J. w. Mllett shoe man Of
great experience. Here the table
system is used. a Very familiar
term To the manufacturers of shoes.
bur for the benefit 1T the laymen it
may he we'll 70 explain that it means
the laying out Of each DAYS work on a
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the sole next the heel, which is called
making joints. Then the welt and
edges are FURNISHED on machines heat
ed by gas flames, which is simply
another part of the finishing process.
From this part of the factory the
shoes go to another part where they
get the real and final finishing that
makes them shine and glisten, ready
for the prospective purchaser to look
at. admire and buy. 1t is here that
they are subjected to strenuous
securing and cleaning, backing and
staining, so that when they arc finished
they are not only objects of merit but
are also beautiful to look upon. 1t Is
in this department at this stage that
they are wheeled" or in other words
the beautiful lines of many kinds are
put upon the solos with Instruments es-
pecially designed for the purpose. Then
the welt is brushed and a young man
feels in the inside of the shoe for lacks
that may have been left and that
might cause great discomfort to
purchaser if left in the shoe. The
firm name is then stamped on the sole
or it may be the name of the shoe in
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! leather are the well known Boston and
/ Lufkin makes.
| Many have wondered how the little
strap that comes in the back of the
| shoe is put in place and how it is
made. Right here another of those
very Intelligent machines steps in and
! cuts the pieces of tape the desired
( lengths, prints the name of the shoe
and any other information desired on
| the strap, and delivers il ready for
assembling.
| The buttons are not sewed on the
shoes, as many fondly imagine, by
hand. but are put on with Il machine
| that docs the Job neatly and with dis
patch The work of vamping is the
last job done OH the shoes in this room
In the stock room the goods are as
sonlhled ready for the lasterS who work
in teams of three men, and there are
several Of these teams. One man is
known rs the "puller," the second as
| the side laster'' and the third as the
Operator" The lasting is done by bed
machine presses the puller pulls the toe
and the side laster pulls the side In AMI
lacks while the operator wipes" the
toe and heel pieces on machine Then
boys pun the lacks used to hold the
leather sort of Il ''basting' process. in
way of explanation. and then the weller
takes a hand in the work. The welt is
quite an important part of shoe and
this part Of the work requires ccnsid-
cradle skill. as do nearly all the pro-
cesses employed in the manufacture of
shoes
The next operations are known as
seam trimming. tack knocking welt
beating and slashing. This latter pro-
cess makes the welt lay down in place,
which is very important
The last operation on this floor is
putting in the shanks and putting
ground cork and cement on the other
part Of the inner sole over which the
outer sole is to be placed later on.
| This ground cork and cement prevents
the shoe from ''squeaking." very I'M
desirable feature that at one time in
| the early days OF shoe making was con-
sidcred very desirable, showing that the
welrer possessed high grade footwear,
The making room consists OF two
| floors, the one just mentioned and the
floor below. Here the bottoms are
cementod and then comes the sole lay
shortly after comes the rough round
! ing. Then forepart trimming, which
means sort Of finishing process that is
not done in all factories but which has
tendency to make Il better shoe in the
end. 1t is at this stage in the process
Of manufacture that the celebrated
| Goodyear machine stitches the sole to
| the welt and then comes channel GEM
enting and laying. The next process is
stitching separating the extension edge
of the shoe. which is quickly and easily
accomplished on a machine made es-
pccialy for the purpose. That man
| may walk "on the level" another ma
chine comes into play here and the bot
tom Of the shoe is leveled and then the
shoe goes to the heeling department,
where the heels are put on after going
| through several interesting processes
After the heel is put on the shoe goes
to man who. with a very sharp knife,
trims some of the waste leather from
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separate table These tables are
grouped in the center Of the room and
each employee goes TO his table sor
work to perform. The manufacture
starts on table No | and continues
daily for five days when the first table
is cleared for the sixth days work
Using this method confusion is
avoided. each mans work is cut out for
him in advance and the shoes are con-
tinually in progress of construction
without and unnecessary delays. There
are many sewing machines in this
portion Of the factory. the Singer and
Union Special being the makes used.
They are used for tip stitching and
another machine puts in the eyeletS
with great speed. Another very inter-
csting machine in this department is
the button hole machine that makes
button holes faster than any good
housewife ever dared to think they
could be made. This machine has
seeming human intelligence and cuts
the hole out, stitches the edges and
cuts tho thread in a tWinkling. Still
another machine that can do about
everything except talk puts cord
about the BUTTON hole to make it
strong and prevent it's tearing out
when the shoe is buttoned At the
present time there is great fad for
buckled shoes and it is thought that it
will increase instead of diminish next
summer. This style is very popular
among young men. especially college
men and seems to be a revival Of the
styles Of our grandfathers. The
folders used on this floor to fold the
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stead, or both, at the option of the
buyer or manufacturer.
1t would seem by this time that the
shoe was about finished but as a mat
ter If fact there are still several in
teresting processes for it to pass
through. large repair department.
Is maintained, for in many cases re-
pairs have to be made on shoes before
they can be allowed to pass as perfect.
This is the case in all well appointed
Shoe factories. 1t is a common occur
ence for a patent tip to get cracked In
the process Of manufacture and when
this happens it is given to the repair
department and the matter Is carefully
looked after. There are three subdi-
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PICTORIAL make US have great confidence IN
II for coughs, colds on the chest, bronchitis
hoarseness, weak threats, weak lungs. Asb
your doctor to tell you his experience With
it. II satisfactory, then you will certainly
have every confidence in il, &c. Aver Co..
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19
CREATURE OF AFRICAN JUNGLEs
SNAPPED BY CAMERA.
For First Time in History This Rare
Animal Has Been Seen Alive
by a White Man and His
Picture Taken.

That interesting creature the okapi,
allied to the giraffe, and discovered
by Sir Harry Johnston on the eastern
border of the Congo forest (near the
Semliki river, which joins the Albert
Nyanza and the Albert Edward lake,
had never been observed and studied
by white man In its living state until
five months ago--when young calf
okapi about a month old was obtained
by Sigsor Ribotu at Bambilli, on the
Evelle river (about 400 miles north.
west of the original locality.
The skins and bones of the opaAi
which have been sent to England have
invariably been obtained by travellers
from the natives. No sportsman or
naturalist has shot an okapl or even
seen one alive. The halfbreed servant
of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander saw and
tracked for two days with natives an
okapi on the Evelle river, near the
spot from which the photograph from,
which our picture was made comes.
The natives dug pit trap for 1t and
speared it. Boyd Alexander did not
see it until it was dead, Tho timidity
of the okapi, It's rarity, and the re.
moteness of the Congo forest, the
fringes of which 1t inhabits, are the
reasons why white men have hitherto
not seen the okapi alive.
Special interest therefore attaches
| TO Signor Ribotti's photograph. This
young calf was brought in by natives
to the stockaded and wellprovided set
| Element at Bambilli last April 1t was
about u month old, and between two
and three feet high. After living u few
weeks in captivity 1t died, but It Is
not at all improbable that live speci
men will before long be successfully
managed, and make its appearance IN
some of the ZOOS of our large cities
The difficulty will be to find vegetable
food which will suit the peculiar taste
of this forest-dwellng ruminant, will
its small, delicate front teeth, suitet
only to cropping young and soft vege
tation.
There is no doubt that the Pygmie
of the Ituri forest use the name o
"Okapi" for this animal. IL have shown
the photo of the okapi and also bands
of the striped skin and the stuffed
specimens in the Natural History mu
scum to the little people from tn
Congo brought to London by Colone
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19
SPENT FREELY IN PROSPERITY.
Spectator seorned TO Make Provision
for Lean Years.

The late Townsend Percy, specu.
lator and promoter, who made and lost
more than one fortune in the course
of his life, used to be fond of repeating
some of his mothers witticlsms at his
expense, generally brought about by
his extravasances during his periods
of prosperity. Once Percy had driven
four-in-hand for year, when an I'M
fortunate deal" made it necessary for
him to reduce expenditures and sell
his horses, on which occasion she said
to him:
Townsend, don't you think that 1t
would be better TO drive one horse
four years, instead of four horses one
year?"
Another time. when on the verge OF
financial crash Percy still owned a
considerable stable. and gave no out
ward sign of pecuniary embarrass-
ment. His mother met an old friend
of the family about this period, who
congratulated her on her sons sue
cess in life. II am glad that Townsend
is doing so WE'LL" said the friend.
Yes. indeed remarked the old
lady. Townsend has six horses and
seven carriages and eight dollars. -
Harper's Weekly.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19
HOW AND WHERE THIS INDUSTRY
is CARRIED ON.
Provides Employment for Many of the
Women and Children Of the
Sunny Land-From Co.
coon to Fabric.

How many ladies think of the won
derful transformation through which
the golden thread, the precious prod
uct of the laborious silkworm, must
20 before the woven material reaches
their hands? Yet to study the manu-
facture of silk, step by step, in every
phase, from the cocoon state until the
silk is made into skeins ready for the
weaver, is both interesting and in
structive. Italy stands first in Europe
in the silk spinning manufacture; then
come France, Germany, Austria and
Spain. Hungary has only lately taken
to the rearing of the silkworm. Eng
land cannot do it on account of her
cold climate. The greatest part of the
silk produced in Italy comes from the
Lombard and Venetian regions; but
Piedmont produces a quality of silk
superior TO any other.
Those who have never visited an
Italian spinningmill can have no ade-
quate idea of the lives led by the
many women (of from IL to so years
of age) employed. Few of us think
of the obscure existence of these wom-
en- when the wonderful products of
their work are before us. Most of the
spinning-mills in Italy are in villages
or small towns, and the workers are
generally girls from the same place,
or from the neighboring villages.
These poor girls earn from so cen
times to franc a day at most; they
walk for miles to reach the mill early
in the morning, and go home at dusk.
On their way they sing popular songs.
However scanty the wages may be,
some peasants are so poor that they
are glad to earn them, working II
hours a day, in excessively heated
rooms, in which even in winter the
heat is oppressive.
The cocoons, when first sent to the
spinning-mill, are spread over table
TO be selected. From the bright yellow
= cocoons very fine quality comes, and
from the faulty ones, of course, an
inferior quality. When the choice is
made, the cocoons are washed in hot
water, and are left in it for some time
to get cooked" After the washing
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19
HAD M TIME FOR eALLANrRY.
Occasion Was One for Sweetheart to
Wonders.

A writer who IL not even ordinarily
clever can make wonderfully lnterest.
ing stories out of surgery and astrono'
my, because those subjects are 'ca.
vaire to the general" We love to revel
in mysteries. The astronomer tells us
that there is no science so exact as
astronomy; and as | assume that
every one believes the weird state.
ment that the sun has just coughed up
streak of flame that travelled 10000
miles minute and attained an eleva'
ton of nearly $4,000 miles. You
could almost light your cigarette on
the tip of Tint Another statement: "a
giant negro. working in cut, had n
chunk of earth fall upon him weigh
ing eight tons. The impact ilattened
him and squashed his heart out with
such force that it flew through the
air distance of 97i5 feet. When we
picked it up it was beating at the rate
of 63 to the minute and its pulsations
continued for thirteen minutes /
guess we all believe that, too!
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19
SEEKS PIRATE GOLD

treasure lies, so feet below, buried in
Quicksand.
AS the story goes, the pirate La
trobe on the night before his execu-
ton at Kingston, Jamaica, placed in
the hands of a boy who had been
forced into service on his ship a pack
ct of papers, and these it seems he
kept until as an old man he died on
board a ship in the Pacific ocean. Into
the hands of a young DR.. Davidson,
who attended him in his last illness,
this old sailor placed the packet of
papers. Thirty years afterward, in
1888, DR.. Davidson fitted out an ex-
petition and visited the spot where
the gold is supposed to be buried. but
it was found that the quicksands
bafIled their efforts and DR.. Davidson
and his crew were forced to return
home empty handed.
Eight years elapsed. Cornelius
Healy had been with the expedition,
and he tried to get up another one in
1906, but he couldn't raise the money.
And so nothing was done until w. II.
Small, a Lancashire man who has
spent most of his life in the United
States, got hold of the packet.
He wasn't well-to-do, but he man
aged to get enough together to buy
the 45-foot yawl Catherine two years
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19

speech, being tabooed by modern
science in the bringing up of the
infant. According to the curious fash
ion of New York, the visitor was then
taken to visit the cemeteries In the
vicinity. Near the entrance to one
of them a florist does thriving trade.
Entering here the visitor and his es.
cort were conducted through wilder.
ness of blooms by polite salesman
to department in the rear, where,
to the VISITORS astonshment, was b
row of miniature graves decorated In
different styles according to the Gus.
TONER'S desire. This" said the pc.
lite salesman, lis myrtle; this ivy,
and this is the plain green sod" The
visitor gazed in wonder while he de.
clared it had been truly said America
carried commercialism even to the
grave.--N. Y. Times.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19

ago. She was in pretty bad condition,
having been laid up for several years.
But Capt. Small got to work with his
own hands and finally he had her At
to cross the Atlantic. He even at
tended the Liverpool Nautical college
to get further knowledge of naviga-
ton. Work and study took all Of
eighteen months. Then he was ready
to start Oh his journey of 7,139 miles,
starting for the Honduras coast by
way of New York, in his little yawl,
with one man, Angus Horn, as crew.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19

thread is treated. The thread is wound
round spinning wheel with mano-
meter, which is put into motion by
handle. The skeins are at last twist
ed and thrown into baskets. After be-
ing carefully weighed they are sent to
the weaving-mills. All these operations
are for the finest silk, used only for
expensive materials. The coarser silk,
which is used to make cravats, shawls,
bed-covers, and sometimes ladies'
blouses-blouses that in appearance
are of the finest quality, but are done
for after fortnight's wear-is treat
ed somewhat differently. And what
becomes of the industrious little worm,
the patient, untiring creature that for
many days has worked hard to con-
struct it's golden prison? Even after
death, after being cooked and re-
cooked in boiling water, the worm is
worth something; it makes an excel
lent manure for hemp and fax plan
tations.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-12-19

to n sacred mystery, they say to me,
as we look at the stuffed skins in the
museum, I suppose there is no doubt
that 1t is hybrid a cross between a
zebra and antelope--or did you say
giraffe?' 1t Is in vain that | have put
up special label warning the obser-
want against this popular but tena-
cious error. Only n few weeks ago
an eminent person insisted to me
that he was right in holding the okapi
to be a lusus naturae--a hybrid.
Why, there is no room for doubt
about It, he said. You can see the
zebra coming out in the stripes on
his legs, and yet he has the head and
hoofs of an antelope AS matter of
fact, no hybrids are known to occur
at all among terrestrial animals in %
state of nature"