Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1924-09-11


first heel tap; rubber heels put or
(by hand); final edging (S000-900C
revolutions); bottom finishing;
securing heel edges; blacking heels;
SECURING bottom of soles; staining
them; polishing bottoms; polishing
heels; cutting and asserting soles
marking inner soles; trimming
same; heel factory and processes
polishing; boxing. But these are
only part of the processes. We
found the work done a good deal as
it is in slow old England, but more
speed is made in some lines. A cur
ious machine receives a hide be-
tween two large rolls like clothes
iwringer and automatically computes
the area as it passes through. The
soles are stamped out with different
sized dies while the British maker in
his smaller shop used one set of dies
and reduced the soles to proper sizes
with a kind of lathe. A machine
which puts in both sets of eyelets at
once is a time and labor saver. One
machine laces and ties the tempor-
ary string quick as scat Sewing
machines with two needles are used.
The Douglass factory was founded
July 6, 1876, by w. L. Douglass, a
poor boy, whose father was drowned
in the sea. He began pegging shoes
when not many years old and is still
identified with the business which
normally employees 5000 hands.
During the war, some of his retail
dealers wanted to advance the price
to handsome figure, but he insisted
that no shoe was worth more than
$40, and that was their highest
price. Having made an eminent sue
cess in business and been elected
governor Of his state, Mr.. Douglass
is standing example to the poor
boys of today, lesson to them that
but can be honorable, successful and
respectable even without being fed
from a silver spoon.
We touched in all the New Eng
land states; saw the new capitol at
Providence; stopped little in
Bridgeport, P. T. Barnum's old
town where 1 had preached more
than 20 years ago; visited friend
in Yale University and had an enjoy
able experience in this interesting
place and ran over to New York in
time to go to Sunday morning meet
ing at the Rockefeller church on
Park avenue. In the afternoon /
preached in the Church of Christ in
another part of the city and spoke
in home at night. / also gave an
address on Monday night.
Aye, New York is a big place. It's
our biggest place and some folks try
to handle the boundary lines so as
to make this New Amsterdam"
larger than smoky old London. Cen
trail Park, Thos. Cook & Sons, the
postoffice, Woolworth tower, Bat
terry park, publishers of the revised
Bible, office of "Our Hope" the
Grand Central terminal, woman
with three children and another
with three dogs; horseback riding in
Central park, the w. T. Sherman
equestrian statue, etc.,-yes, we saw
a few things.
The Woolworth building, 60
stories high, is called the cathedral
of commerce." and trip to the OBJ
cost. We had been higher in the
Eiffel Tower, but that is little more
than skeleton, while this is a mod
ern office building serviceable from
lowest basement to flagstaff. The F.
W. Foolworth Co., which has been
built up from small beginnings, has
offices on the oath floor. The
building is 1872 feet, l inch high, the
tallest structure on this continent
the highest building, l suppose, in
the whole world. The foundation
caissons, 19 feet in diameter, go
from 10 to 130 feet deep-to the
rock. In one year, the Woolworth
stores (more than 1000 in number)
sold 90,000,000 pounds of candy,
enough to load freight train "a
miles long. Twenty million pieces
of enamel ware and 100000 barrels
of glassware are items of years
business. Young people should not
despise the day of small things. The
5 and DC store idea started off in a
small way. Do what you can and do
it mighty we'll This will help you
on better than most anything else
Imaginable. The $50 1000, 900 Equit /
able Life building can accommodate !
10000 people at once 1t has SO /
acres of floor space, and 100000 en- |
ter and leave it daily. The archi-
lecture of New York is wonderful. |
One of our experiences there was to
travel entirely around the Hudson
river. 1t was done by going over to
Jersey by the tunnel under the river
and coming back on top of the
stream by the ferry.
When you come to Philadelphia,
he birthplace of the Declaration,