The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-02
WHAT GOES INTO SHOES.
Many Things from Many Lands Are
Used in Making Them.

To those who think that the United
States is Independent of the world
when it comes to the matter of making
shoes, the following proof of depend
ency on other countries furnished by
The Boot and Shoe Recorder, is apt to
come somewhat as a shock.
Examine a mans high-grad shoe,
for instance a shoe with "a patent
leather vamp and dull leather top. The
vamp is made of Russian horsehide,
tanned i'm this country with bichromate
of potash from Germany The top is
in all probability of goatskin, raised in
South America, and tanned in Phila-
delphia with gambler brought from
the East Indies. Wool oil from Michi-
gan renders it soft and pliable. The
brilliance of the patent leather was OBJ
tanned by polishing it with compost
ton containing lampblack and turpen-
tine from North Carolina, linseed oil
from Ohio, damer from New Zealand,
couchone and asphalt from South Am
erica, wood naphtha from Michigan,
benzine from Pennsylvania, amber
from the shores Of the Baltic Sea, san
darac from Africa, mastic from the Is
land of Scio, Greece, ilemi from Asia,
and Cuban lac.
The outer sole is furnished from the
back of a Texas steer, and bark from
Tennessee tans it in Kentucky. The
inner sole is made from the home-tan-
ned hide of California cattle. The lifts
| for the heel are made from the skin or
| the Calcutta buffalo of East India The
dextrine which holds them together
comes from Illinois cornfields, while
the leather was partially preserved,
before leaving India, with chenang
The sole of heavy oak is stitched to
| the welt. and the welt To the insole and
the upper, with linen thread spun In
| Scotland. This thread is fabricated and
| strengthened with wax made from res
| in and tar extracted from the pines Of
| North and South Carolina. The cement
which holds the thread channel around
| the edge of the sole owes its origin to
| Brazilian rubber tree sap. The leather
| for the box toe was hardened by shell
| lac hailng in it's crude state from
Siam.
The Australian kangaroo furnished
| the hide for the tongue. The cork
which keeps out the moisture came
from the cork tree of the Portugal for
ests. The bright polish of the sole is
due to a coat of bayberry tallow made
| from the fruit of the Indian bay tree,
mixed with native honey, beeswax, and
| turpentine TragGcanth from Persia
cleaned the top and the tongue.
The twill for the inside lining is
| made from cotton grown i'm Texas,
woven i'm Massac husetts, stiffened in
| Philadelphia with paste from Kansas
| wheat flour. Thread spun from Sea
| Island cotton supplies the top stitching.
| The felt heel pads are made from the
| wool of Ohio sheep, felted in New
| York State town, distributed in Boston,
and glued in place with gum arabic
| from Egypt.
The shoe lace is made from native
cotton thread colored with logwood
| from Yucatan, aniline blacks and other
ingredients. Silk from China provides
| the maker with the tag on which is
| embroidered his name Iron ore dug
in Sweden supplies the nails which
fasten heel and shoe together. a GER
| tain steel, especially made for that
purpose in Pittsburgh, is used for the
nails which hold the top layer on the
| heel The lacing hooks and eyelets
were fashioned in Connecticut, n com
| bination from the mines of Joplin and
copper from the Lake Superior depos-
its of that metal providing their foun-
dalton material Agatine, an ebony
| like substance of eight distinct and
separate constituents gathered In
South America, Asia, and the United
States, covers them and gives them
their darkened CLEAN.