Show GOODYEAR WELT SYSTEM In Exhibition Given at HoblnaoiV Uros Slice Store Robinson Bros the enterprising shoe firm on West First South street are exhibiting the Goodyear welt eys tern in their shoe window and all afternoon af-ternoon yesterday a curious crowd wa = > investigating the process from the sidewalk side-walk The machines and methods were exhibited ex-hibited at the Worlds fair T E Johns represented the Goodyear shoo firm of Chicago and Is establishing he instruments in the work shop above he Robinson shoe store William Clayton an Englishman has been engaged en-gaged to operate them and the firm is now prepared to turn out a better ar tide of shoes at the same money than it has ever sold before In the window are exhibited the welt sewer which performs the work of sewing a sole to an upper a task that consumes two hours of the time of a skillful shoemaker in eight seconds The other and smaller machine which is seen in the window is the rapid stitcher air instrument that stitches the sole along the outer edge doing the same work in eight seconds svhicni cannot be done by hand in less than threequarters of an hour Upstairs in he workroom are the welt beaters and rouyids machines that make an equal saving of time and do their work fault essly This system said Mr Johns gives the advantage of handwork done by machine YV do not claim that the work done is better than the best done by hand but it is equally as good and can > be done at a much less expense to the purchaser The Goodyear Shoe company gets a royalty of S cents oni each < pair of shoes manufactured by this system aria the machines are leased for 300 The system combines well with the other appliances in the workshop and ia a great improvement in the way of labor saving and excellence of work |