Show Shoes and fchoemnkers Shades of St Crispin what progress In shoemaking shoe-making 1 Time was not so Ions ago when the hand worker in footwear used in trace parlance to Whip the CatL c travel from house to house with hIs kit of tools making and mendIng mend-Ing for families Down to this day the make toorder shoemaker consistently sticks to his last pursuing old methods necessarily the most expensive He still makes the whole shoe and charges accordingly ignoring the fact that the world of shoemaking moves But it does The best and most stylish shoes are now made In factories on a large scale by manufacturers who strive to earn a reputation for reliability A highpriced artisan is employed to study styles shapes effects etc These once decided upon a team of about thirty persons take the shoe in hand each doing their separate parts oft of-t expeditiously and welL As they do this one kind of work exclusively and continually they naturally learn to excal in it and as Improved machinery is used wherever it can be with advantage ad-vantage the result must bo better cheaper and handsomer shoes for the great majority of peo pie > who wear them The Idea that the hand shoemaker has drifted Into the large factories Isa fallacy He rarely gets or desires to get there He Is not expert cnouch in manipulating any one part to make It pay It is the old story of fighting windmills His competitors are as thirty to one and that one is ho largely and in infinitesimal infinite-simal minority as a result Spencer oS Lynch 160 Main street represent the largest manu acturcrs and are sole agents for Laird Schoe ber k Mitchell Krippendorf Dittman k Co J Banister Lilly Brackett Ii Co Hathaway Soule oS Harrington Woodman Howes and J and F Cousins |