New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-21
NEW INDUSTRIAL EPOCH
City to Have More important
Place in Shoe Trade.
LARGER FOREIGN ORDERS
Hides Valued at S25,000,00O
Received at This Port
Last Year.
BY the Industrial Bureau Of Merchants
Association,

BY the Industrial Bureau Of Merchants
Association.
II has just been announced that the
National Leather and Shoe Finders AS
ISOLATION will hold it's next annual meet
ing in New York City.
II seems particularly appropriate that
this large and powerful trade association
| should hold its annual meeting here at A
time when New Workers feel that the
| city is about TO enter upon period OF In
7 dustrial and commercial expansion which
has been unequalled by its growth In the
past.
| Brockton. Lynn and Hsverhill are
names almost synonymous with the words
| boots and shoes" These towns have for
decades been one, two. three or two. one
| three in the shoe industry Of the United
! States. They have alternately held the
lead in the value Of shoes produced. New
York. Chicago. Boston and Philadelphia
also ran" but were A considerable dis
lance behind the leaders.
| New York City has maintained her place
in the industry. as have the shoe towns
Of Massachusetts,: but our friendly rivals.
Chicago and Philadelphia, are nov repos-
ing respectively in the ninth and thir
teenth places.
The shoe manufacturers OF New York
have earned a reputation for producing
the very best grade of shoes manufact-
ured in the United States. For fine shoes.
especially for women. New York is un-
edualled. The majority OF the fa~ories
which have built w this enviable reputa-
tion are located in the Borough of Brook
! Ign.
! The most rapid development in the shoe
business and one which has taken place
within the last two decades, is its growth
| in the Middle West, particularly in St.
Louis. That city was ninth in 1890. but
in 1876 had attained, and still holds, the
third place among the cities of the coun-
| try, being surpassed only by Lynn and
/ Brockton. The development Of st. Louis.
! however. does not Seem 10 have made in
roads on the older manufacturing centres.
| The development OF these Western CEN
| tres, particularly of st. Louis seems TO
have come about through the natural in
crease OF the business. and their products
seem to have found ready market in
the West
II is likely also that the business in the
Middle West has grown on account OF its
nearness to the raw materials. for there
has been notable increase in the amount
of leather tanned in that part Of the
country.
New York City, however, looks forward
TO a tremendous increase in the shoe bust
ness because of forces which are now
operating and which are likely to benefit
New York.
II is worth noting in passing that only
| about two-thirds of the hides used in the
United States are of domestic production.
| The remaining one-third is imported a
| large part coming from South America.
particularly Argentina. These imports Of
cattle hides amounted in 1912 10 more than
S3s 90. 600 Of which over 100000 worth
came into the port Of New York AS a
matter OF fact, New York is the only port
OF the United States which has direct and
! regular lines OF steamships connecting
with the principal sources of production
! of hides.
There is no doubt in the minds OF those