The Washington times., 1910-09-09

I'd -Ee magnitude OF the operation car
% q on within its walls
There are seventeen acres OF floor
pace and walk through the work
I1ms % the factory means SIX miles
three thousand five hundred people are
-1ployed in the factory The weekly
-es exceed nfty-five thousand dol
lrs- In the stock room eighty LhOus-
ll different parts OF machines are
aLUrCG- Machines to the mum Der Of four
.-unc red and fifty a week are shipped
20 cut Each machine performs the
81 ork OF from one 10 dozen men
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
luEuCS OF steel q week Is CT DSuue1- The
-5uHdry produces thirty tons Of castings
day The Drop Forge Department
makes sixty thousand pieces a week
The consideration OF the officers OF
tle company Tor the comfort OF the en-
.-oEeS IS demonstrated by the perfect
appointment and the provisions for the
health. happiness. and safety Of the en-
t5oyes- Under the auspices Of the com
l1uy. the employees have savings bank
md insurance facilities The company
provides country club, a gun club,
and opportunities for cooperative farm
Ing The salaries and wages paid are
Nigh The conditions for the help are
ia cal
Upon the organization OF the -nlted
Shoe Machinery Company 2 new J4is-y
was inaugurated. New machines were
not allowed to stand because they
seemed to be doing perfect work A
stan OF inventors was UlaTshaled and
has since been maintained These in
NentOrs are charged with the task OF
diSpiaCinS obsolete machines and i'm
proving ma chimes which are far from
obsolete A new invention. tested and
found practical Is instantly Installed
upon the initiative Of the United Shoe
Machinery COMPANY Thus the shoe
manufacturer finds himself always
equipped with the latest devices for per
-Tl7e sIloe manufacture. in his dealings
with the United Shoe Machinery Com
pany. is fortunate in that he does not
have 10 tie up his capital By the pug
chase Of his machines Instead he pays
for the use Of the machines q certain
small sum on each 81 0e mae or buys
from the company furnishing the ma
chine certain findings essential 10 its
operation This system has resulted IN
the furnishing of a better service and
equipment year by year at 8 constantly
diminishing expense to the leSSees OF the
machines The royalties have never
been fncrea Sed BY the company and the
rates are now lower than at the time the
company was organized The average
ROYALTY acCruiuC TO the conf aur for all
classes of shoes IS less than two and two
thirds cents per pair and this covers
machines. and supplies, improvements.
and maintenance, and adminiStrati ton
More shoes and better shoes are turned
ont by the machines at smaller price
so advantageous to the shoe manufaC-
turer was not devised by the United
shoe Machinery Company The royalty
system and the system Of leases have
been in vogue with every successful
maker OF shoe machinery since the time
Of Gordon Mckay and shoe manufaC-
tsfrers are on record in its favor as
AGAINST that of purchase
The existence OF the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company, extending over d
period Of eleven CD years. has been
marked by striking prosperity in the en-
tire shoe industry OF the United States
I The Federal Government Is authority for
statistics which tell the story.
In 1890 the volume Of business Of the
industry in the United States aggregated
! 500 SO 25S %: the number of people en-
ployed was 1Se SIS. as tb~ capitalization
was S95.2S2-511-06
IN 1900 (ten years later the volume Of
/ business was S25S 969, 5000 the number of
people employed was 1889, and the
capitalization Of the industry was S99.-
sig, zee, showing an increase in capital
invested of but and $40 per cent.
During the first FIVE years OF the ex-
istenCe of the company the growth in
capital was % and 40 per cent In
Z the year 1903 the number of concerns
/ manufacturing shoes in the country
= was Isis. the output in pairs was 242--
1 1905: the volume of business was S330.-
107, $500; the number Of people employ