The sun., 1910-07-03
SHOES m rHE BILLION.
scores of NcN England Towns MakIng
Footwear for the world.

There are more than hundred cities
AMI towns IN New England where shoes
and slIpUrrs ~ made Since the close
~ m" civil war these have manufactured
and shIpTs'd no fewer than s.OaD.'OO, 900
y .irS Il shoes. nf which thrrr- four. lrs IA ave
Gun" through what AdrdHcc Nsr Eng
land calls that wonderful nerve centre
"f our les.thar and footwear industry.
Boston
R,-tpn may we'll pride Itse,f on boing
TIA" worlds lsldinR shoe and s.ther mart.
or ~ ~ to-day tho head quarters o! $50
- A." manufacturing concerns. 40 leather
companies End firms. iO7 dealers in shre
mrnuf-CiurrrS Roud-. a. shcc manufac-
'ur"rS' agents. - GLAZED kid concerns.
~ hid" and skin dealers and brokers. -
shoe machinery makers and dealers and
nearly 3sJ miscellaneous concerns.
Will" comparatively small quantities
W either leather or shoes are manu-
iacturei IN Bnston itself. 1. Is the great
buying. selling distributing and financial
centr" of the industry and has heen such
frr many years.
The STATISTICS ~ the industry for Mas
saCAGSst'S alone are stupsndous. In
ilSN. arcnring to the report of the direc-
tyr of the Massachusetts Bureau 81 Stat
,-ticS. ~" total capital invested in the
manufacture of boots and shoes. ciIf stock
and findings was about t:.,Oo.OCO and
the total value of the product for thai
y.sr WAS apprut lmateIy SiTO. 900 OO
Lynn. the great centre for the manufac
tat. Ot women : tpntwear Oh inns an an
nu-l urvdur' 4 81 90. on counting the
collateral intu-tuss. whose name ~
legion. Brpck'on leads IN" world In the
manufa cturr II mon = shoes and has iSS
factories IN which footveer and acces-
-ori"- are pr0duCet. List year u -hIpTrd
SpO.unp CaSss or - ~ OD pairs. valued
" sS3G0 ,S an Increase ~ Sl2 'D0 nO
fur the year Its 1900 workers re-
c,'iye 50 ns Un N w g''S annually. Brock
ton also pUsSeSse- the largest heel factory
IN existence. dong \ business of about
81 0sp 90 -nnuaHv
HavcrhIll the worlds Leading slipper
city. has been dahhling in leather and its
products since i5,3 this - no infant indus
Try IN New England aid to-day IL has
lOp factories TroduCin 2o.DN.GH pairs Of
slippers and low cut shoes year, Of a
vahie of sso,.o.VD Nothing decadent
about this
HaverhIli. Lynn. Peabody the great
leather tanning town, salem. Beverly.
nanverS Msrhlehead and Ne~huryport
all having zom- connection with this
industry. arr located IN a Massachusetts
county Es~eN which produces one-s-v-
"nth II all fhe shoes and leather made
IN the lntcI states
There ar" \ good many other things
about tho New England shoe business
that the New England public doesn't
r.alIy" How many. fo- example, know
hat they ar" making shoes ont ~ Panama
hats IN Lynn or that one ~ the blR
concerns ia that city on Cahl.-d order
frpil England mad a large uuAntIt" Of
morning shoes mad" "a y from an instantly
created style and IN readiness for shI Ipinent
- England in connection with the obse-
JuI.S Of King Edward VII within a week,
one Of tho most marvellous develop
n,-nts of the shoe industry has h-en the
perfection 81 the almost human ma
Chtr"ry that now peri orns more than
a hundred Of the operations re luired IN
'ashtonIng IN" modern shoe THIS repre-.
-..nt- auo'a.~ New England triumph.
Tor most uf this wonderf IL macuInsry
- mad" n ght here lU MaSsa rhus"'t- and
practically all Il Il has been invented 10y
%. ,y"- New Euglaniers