| Show x x AMERICA HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE CHINAS BOOTS 1 seems capable of demonstration IT that an enormous market will lie be developed for Or what may he be termed army armp boots boote These boots art are cut tut on the same attern ne those for ordinary wear but are ure made mostly ot of leather The soles coni consist 1st ot of two pieces ot of thin leather with Il a third piece In sated at tho ho heel to give glo a spring t X walking Above thIs I Is II a layer of raS raSor rags or paper Per and c cotton cloth Is placed next to the toot Smooth leather presumably Imported Is used anti and like nil all other footwear worn by the tho natives ot o China these thue boots are hand handmade made The Tho r retail price Is can a pair but II a reduction I is made mado when wholesale orders are placed In recent recen t army maneuvers near Tien tsin It was estimated that there were VerI ChInese troops In the field neld This Vue regarded a as the nucleus ot of II a stand standIng standing Ing army which the empire purposes to maintain In the tho future The Tho size ot of thIs army anny It Is obviously impossible even approximately to estimate but It Itma ma may be safely that It will be large to a Calculation as to the tho minimum number of 01 pairs of boots that will bo be required and the amount that will be e annuallY both Interesting and tire tho to AmericAn manufacturers ThEl Th Importance of 01 an immedIate In ot of this hy by on an ex cx rort port cannot be too strongly emphasized If this his ot cc the COst ot of production lion tion transportation handling and In IncIdental expenses him that boots boats and shoes similar liar In hi all respects to those now nOlI used In China could bo be laid down there nt at a 11 price comparing with that now paid no time should be lo t In Introducing them It zany may be set dOwn os ne an Incontro incontrovertible tact fact that In the opening up ot of ofa f a market In China tor now goods ot of whatever description ot of foreign manu mane the chop or trademark lu iii the tho Ibid the tho tastes lusts the re requirements the whims the prejudices the tho Purchasing purchasing power or of natives nalles will become so firmlY established and so popular that subsequent attempts to It by competing nations will ho bo II a long tedious arid In i nil all nn an unsuccessful task i The Tho feasibility of the Introduction ot of boots bootA ant hoes dines or of Chi Cht rieso patterns for tor Chinese wear was freely admItted hy by the business ano inch ot of tho em empire 11 I 11 of nation and they It Il t comprehend why hy experts had not nl dl ready n IL more morl thorough lion Of at the tho with D a to taking advantage ot of this enormous and con constantly expanding market |
