The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-08-08
Shoe Trade Notes.
Chuzzlewit

Manufacturers OF high class riding
boots and Of farmers high boots,
hunting boots and leather leggins
in the east are literally swamped
with fall orders, one firm having to
reject an order for $50 900 worth of
boots because of the large amount
OF orders on b and.
Plowshoes are made in Georgetown,
Mass. which has been noted for
more than a century for such shoes.
Heavy waterproof boots for fisher
man, lumberman and prospectors
are made in the town of Rowley,
Mass, and are sent to Alaska and
the Canadian Northwest and to Nor
way and Sweden as we'll as to fish
ing, mining and numbering districts
of this country.
The International Shoe Co., of
St. Louis. with it's capital stock of
1875 100000. may not stand alone in
its bigness. Reports are circulated
that the American Standard Shoe
Co., is to be organized with capt.
tai stock of $5O,OO0,0OO and to in
clude the Commonwealth Shoe and
Leather Co., Regal Shoe Co., w. L.
Douglas Co., and w. H. McElwain
Co. The scheme is of course new
and it is hardly likely to materlalize
at once.
Statistics from the thirteenth CEN
sus of the U. S. show that the city of
New York, with one..twenty-f fifth of
the population of the entire country
is doing two and one half times her
share of it's business. The fourth
place in the city's industries is
slaug htering and meat packing, the
product being valued at $95 $685. 900.
Included in other principal activi-
! ties were boots and shoes with val
ne of $1S,376,00O and leather goods
$17,775,OOO.
School kids want to be very
watchful this coming season Of the
way they conduct themselves, for
Lynn, Mass, shoe manufacturer is
placing on the market shoe made
and designed especially for school
teachers. A chief feature of this
new shoe, which is likely to please
school teachers, is the silent tread"
get on to that Johnny: silent
tread;" it has live rubber heel and
sole of leather which is very f1exi-
BILE. Flexible" Johnny, so be careful.
New England makes every kind
of shoes that may be wanted by all
sorts and conditions of men. 1t
makes shoes of all prices from Is
cent soft sole to the $50 bejeweled
shoes that society women wear to
the opera. 1t makes all sizes of shoes
from the nursery shoe for infants to
No. Ii shoes for dark1es of south
ern plantations. 1t makes first step
shoes for children beginning to walk;
kindergarten shoes. school shoes,
baseball shoes and play shoes, gym
asium shoes, stage and ballet shoes,
college shoes, work shoes, shopping
shoes, freside slippers, nurses
shoes and comfort shoes for old folks.
A hundred years ago there was
no such thing as standard sizes"
and the question of fitting was a diff
fcult one, except where the foot was
measured first and the shoe made
from that one order. But even this
did not guarantee foot comfort to
the average buyer. There were no
rolling machines then to make plant
the leather, no soft stays and lining,
no welt sewing. And the lasts were
exceedingly few and simple in de-
sign. In those days also the whole
family often took part, as is Illus
trated by the famous picture of
Hannah at the Window" binding
shoes. But since those early days
of hand labor the introduction of |
machines has wrought revolution
airy change for shorter hours, larger
wages and perfected shoe product
Until after the revolution when
the introduction of machinery and
the development of steam engine
power and its transmission began
to revolutionize commercial meth
DDS. shoe making was done entirely
by jourDeymen, by the members of
the family, or by bag bosses" on
contract. The bag boss was the
forerunner of the wholesaler or