Show r q qI L EEE EEE E E E E E EE EEE EE QC C CC I EEE EE t t If c G w h f fl tr l r CARPE R TELLS IT IS n n 0 t HE GREAT AMERICA 1 1 N SHOE HOE s ITS WAY INTO ALL PARTS OI OF EUROPE EU OPE tv I sh C Sg G 9 D G a Cs 9 r bc 8 G c rc b i aps G jt r 9 GL G GL 6 3 0 1 1 a r h a r y a a L I y a ya a c l Special Correspondence of the DesereE News by Frank G 0 Carpenter r r H z t ii 1 rill 1 i I fi A At Ar I i t r ra raw w wi I c k r II Mu Mut I t i ig ir iy 1 f I II g y il j r I kw A i r I H t i i H H H I CARPENTER MR TRYING ON HIS CENT CLOGS Mom Mons Belgium Dec have come from Switzerland Q t to Del glum and nm am now In Mons on the southern cd edge or of this country countr Nona has hns people but the about IR l one village rand I can ree rec the or of an lOIl or of goods Del glum lulI Is one olle or of the most t populated l or of the world I luw rev trav reveled the millions or of and India but nowhere have round found the he peo Ie much thicker than here heir Tho coun country country try roads are aro with blocks block ot of otone one and ond two story houses and al every or so there Is It a village I took fI a days walk through the country countr last w week ek Every o very hour haul or EU ea I 1 went hy by n fI coal roal mino with n a mountain ot of refuse behind It and amI a a lol large collection ot of houses under Its Ita shallow shadow The toads are thronged with men Women Ind Nearly nil all walk and a 11 willmon sight Iii Is u a woman lUll and n a dog a 1 cart art harnessed up UI stun by side I the dog Is lu hi the tho and tho hi woman pulls with a rope OIe nt at other the woman Is sIn sInthe to the rho shafts and the dog tolls along be behind hind bind under the bed ot of the tho cart l to 10 the n axle Il The fleida are aro full rull of wo we women men working They spade the ground Ulcy dig dl and they hoe h Sometimes they carry arry great lords 10 1 along the routis or across the fields on their backs ks like try beasts or of burden AMERICAN GOODS IN A BELGIAN tOWN row t I doubt tt If many Americans Americana have ever er been here The tourists pass paSil Hone by b altho gh It Is 18 one or of the oldest lawn or of northern Europe and full of at Interest Julius ar had R Fortress here when he Will was lighting the Sauls rend and Mons was bathed in III blood In 1 the struggle of oC the and William or of Orange There Is II a ral In th the city whIch Will was building l n out to America merica A and a monument to IX who took par In the th and who In I 1205 05 became Emperor of at Con Can Ste while trying to wrest hi his soul from the and the tho holy lund rum rom the Turks lurks rho fhe Mane tIC a however Is III more interested In the die this ot of the living than thanIn thanIn In the has of dammed It 11 la III th the center or of the chief coal min minIn In Ing section or of ot of otOn coal On I I rise up everywhere It standing Ilk like Ir great at cores COIlS high about ullo the tho and villages The city Is ono o hilia and bellows Its streets tH et me of cobbles 8 Its as you OU would expect to find And In n a noal acon con oal mining center centerI I took II a room ot at the Grand Hotel ds near the depot and then out ont to see It If I could coul lied somo ome of the American Idd I dd not nol expect much for I knew knell that ot of the I it were and man many of thorn exceedingly pour This Is my lust city In hr and as the ha no consul I could find nothing about it In our state tie de reports lei My knowledge ot of French Is 18 not over good and lid that of oC my son s n Jack Jaek a boy who Is with me letter better still we rot long lone In finding the tho AmerIc tracks The Th first store we entered WM was that or of II a next door to the lintel hotel I dropped In and asked for some Mme American cigarettes The maiden mulden In charge promptly mo me three lilt lerent bo boxes ep all made In and later Inter on told In me that she sold chiefly the or of our tobacco trust trustA A little on I saw n a large sales salesroom room filled with American sewing ma 1111 and next doer was II re sell Ins photograph cameras from Roches Rochester tr ter N Y 1 I waa wondering as to foodstuffs when Jack called me across the street to see FCC a grocery where the hells lay eggs for you you OU walt wall I went over oer and looked In I t EEE E O 9 I 7 f EC EC E E EE O fCC EE EElie E C I w lie Finds It Crowding the Clogs in Belgium and Holland Climbing the Alps Swiss w and Walking the Carpets Carpels of England and Talk With a European n Tanner h hon on American the English arc Fattening on American Brains The french Market and flow lIow to Work to Make Your Shoes e t Vear Pictures of Southern Belgium Etc 1 1 1 u In Iii the gins gin z the round Brat of oe eggs sat looked Ilk like z 1 live hen hll In the act of laying The fowl rowl end feathers bloo red tL l comb and real Ilal liens eca a eggs WeN n If and It took rna 18 12 seconds be bc before fore rore I realized that the tuns only stuffed and tint It waa VUR merely to advertise the freshness o of the eggs eKI Nearby Norby were yellow porcelain butter tolls rolls and In nn an adjoining I sol ease the words Oats and some Lags o of flour from Now New Turk In the hardware stores I 1 found tools and n a lain mower which woe In a 0 and to til which was WIlS nailed the words Very Veri AA a table Turning the tho corner I 1 was o t F Itc the tice r or c r f new ne buildings elf of toru Thle Is II a great I t telephone 11 with th a 11 sell 11 o of l I In n t w are re sat l the or of lieU Pell and otter itt In n a store tar far away I saw w notions and tops painted red white while AA aAA TT COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE COMING t r ri i 1111 r ns a N NI I J Aj r a d e r t I Ir r 3 f ft j 1 r 1 t i 1 i t n Ili wf s t Nr r r Ili I y Y w a t r The Countess Doni de who was formerly f Annn Anna Gould of oC New York daughter of the late lato Jay the great financier Is III coming to the United States Stales on a visit As Ae n a result or of a Jill bill now note pending In the line French Chamber Sties or of may be abolished altogether In France This will I I deprive Anna Gould or of her title the pretty appendage which It to slated was vas the attraction she 1111 saw w In the little Count Doni Boni T and blue AMERICAN SHOES IN LAND LANDOF OF CLOGS I did not expect to find American shoes herr here The Netherlands which broadly speaking Include and Belgium are the tho homes or of the wooden shoe The common people Wear clogs AA v T T N ADMIRAL ADMI AL DEWEY IN SUPREME COMMAND I I l I r t r I I 1 t t F f thY M i r C t sr I f t f 1 J t tT Q N k II 1 J 2 I 1 A 1 V z I tY tJ c B Bc c v vt t t I hp J r and nl rr o bona bob 1 I Stat navy are i roIlS of oC the The warships of ul all the At la J winter Inter naval go down to hit tory as tine tIll most extraordinary naval great n assembled In the sea seB to In the commanders are there George e Delle Dewey who Is I In All 11 Americas famous navel attempted hy by the American navy In time lime vC of ll tear ar the started MondAY D 1 and for weeks to come demun demonstration The he fA u In the great supreme command takes the strongest personal Interest Int reat arid experiments IC ot of along the coasts cont attacks attAck on ports will be save with nasal evolutions do day and night I 01 ot of the Islands The Tb whole w orld witch watches this remarkable e 1 but nevertheless 9 American shoes aliI and or of them are sold n the shoes nl are labeled Veritable mer canes In somo or of lie stares I 1 saw shoes r I t ed n ruu u Una r which Jack Jad promptly toM told mo meant American veal Val lint hut I rather think was Willi Intended to convoy convey the 1111 luau that they were of oC AmericAn A The leather was undoubtedly a pour poor Imitation or of ours but the fact that It 11 teas as such lIuch shows what It Is thought or of leather Indeed I got one or of the merchants to give me mea mea a label It reads Veau enu Solid Ile Which means that these the e shoes lire are recommended us as of 01 genuine American calf calC guaranteed fat its durability softness and Impermeability to water Another slice shoe store advertises Boston rubbers and fn n a barber shop next door I sa sawa a razor strop for sole marked made In America SHOES l onT F CENTS A PAin PAIL There is III no doubt but that a 0 cheap American shoe will sell here herl Tu better belter classes will buy It and It Ir enough It might command sous I among the tho miners Still no Inane shot shoe can compare In price with t tI I wooden clog which the most or of tor I people During Durin m my walk wait walkIn In the country countr I bought hought 1 a pall pair or of shove b bror far la 10 cents cent The They were werl clogs h gc enough to fit n a IO old ho ar af II d I 1 en lr boys bOR wa I r g lr shots I pricer a pall pair or of mil inn 1 loge 1018 had leather Inv In steps They were wert offered l for tor 3 31 teats acid I 1 them on Th They were not u and 1 them In III decd dace nn ar net act hall bail to wear all ail They air Olf much lighter than hot ho null nail boots or oven Nl than lions It ilah a h r shoes They are impervious Im to wet and mor durable than leather Ito in h men lIllI Women omen wear them and sat lIa for th the Ihl they make UW do WI verb will The hf have ao t i 1 In then I 1 see e them run rill running ning null and and I tar rf with c clogs IU in and nil as tar far as T I ran h the they as well us mu Ann loan Ican children shod with lIh I it II must n a with It II th ram fern lIy Ily expenses ell of at the miner II mum mal a perhaps from 40 10 to 61 h rents II a da day and who there therefore tort cannot afford to 10 I am a am m to 0 cents to 10 n dollar to bae h et etin I In pc ec his shoes half ct c y few Weeks l MERICAN IN I have been n much In Ih Ib European invasion ot of the 11 shoe h It Is an article that has walk d t the hearts or of the people the or of th the ers end shoe boe dealers Maiers or of SwItzerland and England I 1 found large shoe stores mall In nil the hl big l clues III There lire are scores of them tn in london and theIr business Is II enormous shoe manufacturers have been big American I leather and machinery bur JUt the they are not able niM to make shops shoes equal to ours nc hc te are towns In like ilkI TeI It rester whIch are almost given UP to t f and shoes tester cesler having halo members r In Its hoot and ShOt Shoe Trade association Such towns town feel teel the effect or of Amer mtr Icon for It wu wee only a few years RO ago that was WIlS shipping shoes to 10 America Now ow that town ton hues Amerlean machines and other from Poston BOlton and else llIe whet It II Is using leather teather styles and It has haa I 1 Iam am told a number or of American hands hand to teach the En English Klish hectic how to tomake make mck the genuine American article sl 7 lis He shoes are arc otters otten sold as shoes shoes are oro sold In Hollum ahlo by Ride with clogs and gome omo of tho loral local more thoro have machinery IY I mII can shoes lu In nod nn It Is nil nn trouble to tn buy them In Paris IN One or of the most Interesting men I havu nut met la In t with Ith this shop shoe business Is It Mr W H fI urn h loather leather exx rt Is If connect connected ed II with one or of tine Iho biggest tanneries or of at J France Mr r lreeves has hall hlen making and selling loather all his life liCe and vas vasa a I expert Sold hl he heThe The leather business is 18 rapidly In nil 1111 parts or of Europe Until Intel done dona h b tinIs or III In I n au nul 1 We SeIn hall i d nil r u n I or of little tanneries and petty Ilott rs rile IlS so IU to some ome ex extent JC i tent ht but tho were to grasp the tho idea ot of the tho hilt big I tannery and the big factory The They had of Dr hides and alan thu which furnish tire hark so tho they could produce leather In quantity lit at a 11 cheap rate Their labor however poor rend the first leather sent to was so RO III ugly and stiff lint tho Gm I would not nol have havo It Now leather or of lint quality better hetter I Is IH slipped over In vast quantities It ItI the solos soles ot of our boots bootH anti and I we buy JU It for Leicester and nm 1 Later on 1 Mr the Iho Americans Invented machinery to toI their leather Tle They took a 1 l French I I for splitting bother louther and inn I proved upon It and tint lint ot of that th Rr grew the grant leather trade of today You n call It satin and spilt leather You finished U It and sent It over oer mere here In such that list It Injured our trade trado with l nUll and TIlE rIlE rm CH AND D OUR oun CN CAN KID lion HolI about t 2 T 1 naked France I does docs nut not use much American spilt leather said Mr It Is too und and greasy tor this hla mark market l It If your our people Wall world III 11 modify od IC It In these respects which they could easily do clo you could sell el It for it 15 per cent more maIo you are nrc now 1101 getting hi England and Your hower dont 8 seers to know It It Put nut lire tho French have hao tin the reputation or of molting excellent leather said 1 So they tin Tine The milk make Imo Iho French Icid and the French calf which Is tamed with the bark Jark of at lie Our 1 klI 11 t waR ens n once exI 1 to nail I all parts or of the worM world hut but the Amerl cans applied tine chrome process to kid and tine the of o gill glazed zed kill kid which Is III to French Irenah kid With this leather you lave driven out our calf anti our kill kid and you now s send kid lyre re reto to o rr France aura The chrome process was ten an Amen Amerl can cau It not No said Mr 11 Grooves The process was Invented hi by a 1 German but tilt the AmerIcans Americana made It n a sue suc eves tl II In 14 tint a named Knapp found that pelt could i bo turned unto Into leather b by or of potash and nn acid neld no lie dill l with the discovery but hul a German American named Schultz used It to tomake make covers cover for tor corset ribs Then rhen IL a aPoston Poston firm put forum a chromed tanned leather and ailed It box calf and willow calf calC They mode Knapps discovery discover a commercial and their work hits hall been treed In all Parts or of Europe The Germans have taker It up they hid fair to monopolize the tho I European trade in such leather FATTENING ING ON O Just JURt Irene here said Mr OIl Greeves T I want to 10 say that lint you Americans make u 11 great mistake In hr away your Ideas and amI experience You sell tlell your Our to us and we ure aro now making American split heath heather tr er In nil all parts of IC Europe rho rhe Anell J can eun bruin brain II Is nuns now going all over tho Ise world amid the ne are getting nothing out or of It l Europe hI ha fattening upon It aid It will be more so o ht th the future You even send your hr tel to show the th people irony hull to IR your our You glo lIa away your trade radii secrets and upon the basis of oC those thole the tho are e which eventually laud to the toss loss ot of your foreign trail trade I I dont believe We the will lose our furn ir trade said I 1 Wo u are malIng now all the thou and wo we II h 11 I continue to improve raster faster titan Europe can 1811 copy You Yuu maY sold Sr Mr Jut but It scans to give 80 o much when you youa OU Jet et roil n n In Iii ti ru turn The Tho English g u a n go 10 n to to America hand the secrets or of the work are shown thom them Americans como come cometo tf to I England and amt they cant calIt let get the I know u a hi big l English tan an annor nor who went vent to tho United States and visited the lice largest tanneries After Arter go goInG gong InG ng through ono one where he had been lIeen es especially well treated h he ennui to the line pro I mope hOlo you OU will come to Dug ng mail land lint and let u ua chow you what we are lIro doing Two years later Inter the American did I come Ire He was received with kind words and red somo fomo hospitality but buthot hot a 11 word teas WIlS said about the tan tannery nery At tho ho last the tho American asked 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