Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-14
ANNE lee MEMORIAL IpAFF cos Shoes BOOST
Alexandria in every Section of the
country-output of 5000 Pairs
per Week is Distributed From
Coast to Coast

From the French Market in New
Orleans to the sardine factories in
Lubcc, Maine, and from the Golden
/ Gate to He'll Gate, little toddlers
wear the shoes made in Alexandria,
bv the Paff Shoe Company, the firm
being composed Of Charles Bend
helm, Judge Louis C. Barley and
Congressman C. c. Carlin. These
three men, through their investments
in the company. are carrying the
name of Alexandria into practically
every city and village of the United
States. And because of the fact that
the Paff shoes are known as good
shoes they are making the name OF
Alexandria we'll and favorably known
Turning Five Thousand Pairs of
Shoes Week.
The average output Of the Patf
Shoe Company is 5000 pairs Of shoes
per week. Throughout the South they
are sold direct to the trade by corps
of sixteen statesmen who work from
California to the Atlantic coast. IN
the North the output Of the factory
is handled Trough jobbers. Since
the organization of the company
there has been a steady demand for
it's output as quality has always been
one of the prime considerations of
its owners and officials.
The factory, a large square brick
building is located on south Wash
ington street block below the tan
merry of c.. C. Smoot and Sons, AL
thought it has been standing some
years, it has all the modern, i'm
provements in the shape of plenty
of large windows, wide floor space,
high ceilings and adequate heating
and ventilating systems. The effect
of these is seen in the manner and
appearance of the hundred and more
sfrre.r and women, -most Of them Joung,
who comprise the working force Of
the factory.
Alexandrians Hold World Record.
In the plant are many of the very
latest machines known to the sLoe
world. There are ingenious, almost
human fingered machines. with deli
cate steel mcchanisms which drive
seven and nine tacks homo in an in
stant and with precision that would
be impossible to human fingers, That"
the men operating these take pride
in their work was recently amply
demonstrated when it was found thai
the force engaged in the work Of
turning the shoes, for example,
achieved what is considered to be a
worlds record. It has, in any event,
been so declared in the journal of
the United Shoe Machinery Company,
published in Boston. The nine men
composing the crew Of the pulling
over machine, which does away with
the old lasting process, hasidled zoos. ,
pairs of shoes in nine hours. This (
record has not yet been beaten.
There is an old joke about paper.i
in shoes. Just now the shoe, men say
That such paper as they have to use,
but not to go in the solcs, as is popu-
larlv Supposed has advanced, some {,
thing like one hundred per cent. And
leather. At mention of this they I
simply throw up their hands. q
Leather From All Parts of the (,
World.
Il has probably not entered into
tho minds Of the great majority OF
people that any other than the skin,
of che cow, or mayhap the kid, en- !
ters into the composition of their
shoes. They do not know that they
NAV he walking about in leather THAI
came from India or China, or the
Russian steppes or the Scotch hills.
or the mountain passes OF little
known Persia.
AS matter Of fact colt and sheep
o,d ,.o.t ir addition to calf and cow
rrins, are used in the various grades
of shoes made in the Patf factory.
And one of the causes of the scarcity
and high price of leather just now
lies in the. fact that many huge car
poes from Europe and points in Asa
have been held up in the warehouses
of England and the steamers which
we're carryin gthem DETECTED to moro
warlike purposes. And so, because OF
! the insufficient supply of leather Tor
certain special kinds of shoes, there
is ample excuse for the advance IN
the price of footwear, at least.
The Work Rooms.
On the top floor of the plant aro