Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-05
Governor FernaId For Shoes.

Turning over the pages of the Fall
Trade Number of the Boot and Shoe
Recorder which incidentally we may
observe weighs three and one-half
pounds, and contains much informa
ton regarding the manufacture of
footwear, we discovered among the il
Illustrated pages devoted to the New
England states. the following letter.
Executive Department.
State of Maine.
Maine stands pre- eminent in its
waterpowers and it's forests.
Low cost power, good railroad facili
ties, the working population of very
high average intelligence makes Maine
turing.
Shoes We're made here long before
the invention of shoe machinery.
Conditions for shoe manufacturing
| in Maine are not only good for these
manufactures already here, but offer
an inviting field for others to locate
and establish new shoe enterprises.
BERT NJ. FERNALD
Governor Fernalds crisp and con-
else plea in behalf of Maine as a shoe
manufacturing State is one of the best
of the letters from New Englands
Governors in the book
Governor Fernald might have very
appropriately added that Names
climate in itself is of especial value.
not only to the manufacturer of shoes
but to the producer OF other manu-
featured goods. The late General
Thomas w. Hyde. the founder of
Names great steel ship building
plant at Bath, says that Names
climatic conditions in the building of
the Kennebec Valley from the supply
sources of coal and steel The free
dom in Maine also from labor troubles,
is another factor which gives Maine
an advantage over other states,
and which is one great cause for shoe
manufacturing plants moving from
Massachusetts within our borders
More and more the shoe manufactur-
ers of Massachusetts are learning
that they can manufacture footwear in
the State of Maine owing to climatic
advantages Maine offers them and are
seeking sites for their business in our
Maine cities, villages and towns.
In addition to our work stimulating
climate and freedom from labor
troubles is the question of the high
grade labor which shoe manufacturers
well as other manufacturers are able
to obtain from the individuals of both
sexes in our State. 1t may not be
generally known but it is, neverthe-
less, fact that very large proper
ton of the leading shoe manufacturers
of New England. and by this we mean
not only the owners of plants but the
overseers and superintendent of the
shoe manufactures in other New
England states, are Maine men and
women.
Just here We recall that the largest
shoe mandatory in the whole world
is that of Thomas G.. Plant in Jamaica
Plain. Massa chusetts, who is Bath
boy of whom all Maine is proud, and
i'm passing we may say that Mr. Plant
is not only the worlds biggest manu-
facturer of shoes but he makes his
own machines to make the shoes
Maine with its healthful cities and
wholesome climate and it's superb
system of education, its waterways
for the bringing in of coal, its water
powers, it's many churches and social
advantages in addition to 100 other
| reasons should make of the State one
great beehive of manufacturing inter-
ests. On our kennebec river already
are thriving shoe factories in Augusta,
and Gardiner and Bath during the
present temporary depression. has
awakened to the desirability of OBJ
| tanning similar plants.
BY all means. gentlemen i'm the shoe
business. come to Maine where you
will find waiting you the glad hand
of welcome and where you surely can
manufacture at a profit the best of
shoes.