Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES SKETCHES- DES Fitted Many Notables Notable Salt Laker Made Shoes for Famous Men and Women S 1 Boots Boot and shoes shoe have played an important im- im por nt part In lit the life lIte of Charles Ulrich lunch Edith Zdith avenue For 30 years year he has hu measured feet manufactured manufactured shoes shoe with the best bet grade leather and wooden pegs and sold thousands thousand of pairs paira to satisfied cut cut- tamer lomers In those 30 years year Mr Ulrich fitted shoes shoe on governors two men who later became presidents of the United States noted actresses world famed prize fighters lighters hundreds of infants infant and at least one convict Learning hI his trade in a factory at Utica N. N Y V. Mr Ulrich moved to Albany upon becoming a journeyman to o engage In the retail business of selling custom built shoes hoes It was wu there he sold shoes regularly to Theodore Roosevelt Jt Grover Cleveland Cleve land and David Hill when they were In the capital of ot the Empire state Strangest Pair I Ill 1 b believe the strangest pair of shoes I 1 ever eve sold were those purchased purchased pur pur- chased by a man after alter I 1 came to Salt Lake recalled Mr Ulrich These Thele shoes were size 14 on a triple A last the he narrowest last used wed In those days I remember the shoes distinctly because be cause they later figured in a circumstantial circumstantial circum circum- case which c c convicted that man of murder He killed a cab cabdriver cabdriver cabdriver driver who took him to Bingham where a quantity of vatu valuable able ore specimens was stolen Footprints of the he murderer were the first tangible I clue officers had to work upon Bob Jim Jeff Jeffries ries Eva and Maude Adams were among other notables Mr Ulrich told sold custom built shoes to after coming to I Salt Lake Luke in 1902 I 1 had patent leather cloth top buton but but- I ton on shoes of Identical design made for Mr Fitzsimmons and md Mr Jeff Jeffries rica when they came to Salt Lake on a national tour said the veteran sales sales- I man For years year afterward Mr Jeffries Jeff ries rica had shoes made to 0 order through the same lame agency I rc represented Long Cloth Tops Top Miss MiS shoes shoel or rather boots were of a type professional women of that time wore Mr Ulrich remembers They had long cloth tops ops nearly to the knees and were laced The fabric was of the tho same Ilme color as women's short skirts skirt used wed for bicycle riding at that time and invariably invariably in in- variably the shoes hoes had to match the skirt Mr Ulrich was probably the first firstman firstman man mart in Salt Lake to commercialize Dr Stork In connection with a are re retail retail re- re tail taU business By closely following birth records record and guessing as to the corm normal a development of a child chUd he heI I was wac able in scores of cases to present infants with their first shoes These S cw 4 I were always alway a gift of t the e house home which employed Mr Ulrich or from him personally to th the child It made a great hit with parents and in not nol a few cases w was a factor in the recipient becoming g a 3 regular customer for many years ears Mr tr Ulrich added The custom has been used wed in dozens dozen of ways since Mr Ulrich established it |