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Show 3IA.VtPACTrRK OC BOOTS AXD SHOEN. Attention bac several times been ca'led in the Herald to California an nufac lures, and amoDg others was mentioned favorably the manufacture of bo'jts and shoes. There are several larcc bhoe factories in San Francisco, md among them prominently Etaods that of Einstein Bros., & Co., whose idvertisetcent appears elsewhere in our paper this morning. This firm has two factorie?,one where they wort while labor exclusively, and another where only Chinese are employed, em-ployed, c-xoept the superintendents. About two hundred whites are usually engaged in the factory, their work roc m oeing the upper floor of a large build-on build-on taasome street, 50 by 160 feet, and from here the finest and most substantial substan-tial work is turned out. An equal umber of Chinese a?e employed, their workshop being in an entirely separate buildiog. It is really marvelous to see with what facility facil-ity tbse people adapt themselves to the various branches of labor, oi which they knew nothing until recently. In thcc factories we saw Chinamen run-- run-- oiog sewing machines, doing the finest Hutching on ladies gaiters, who but three days before landed fresh from their native country. They do every I part of the work from the cutting out I to the finishing and packing, and apparently aa skillfully and effectually i as it could be by white labor and at one i iourth the cost. The Chinese are 1 eogaged by contract for three years, at j an average cost of fifty cents each per i day. It is the employment of this j labor that enables the California mao-facturers mao-facturers so successfully to compete with eastern made goods. A groat deal of labor saving machinery machin-ery is employed in this, as in most shoe factories. In short nothing is done by hand which machinery can be made to accomplish. The most recent introduction in-troduction is a machine for screwing the soles of boots together in lieu of sewing or pegging. The materials used in this factory we are assured are of the very best quality. There is no stuffing of Boles with paper or other worthless trash; in the estimation of Messrs. Einstein Bro's & Co., for soles of boots and shoes, "there is nothing like leather." |