Show SHINED BY ELECTRICITY SHIED j 1 A New ew Style Stylo of or Introduced In a Q Brooklyn Shop On the tho plate glass glas window of ot a n modest modest- looking shop about a block up from the bridge entrance In Washington street street Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook rook rooklyn lyn Is enameled the sign Electric shine Sc Now step up and have havo your shoes shIned by as IS it were shouted a vigorous looking young man who stood beside be be- be side aide a curious like box box arrangement says the New Now York Sun The box was four feet or so high the same wid width th and a n foot deep across the top Two large lorge oval holes were in the tho middle of the f front front of ot the box hex and there were two others somewhat smaller directly under them Iron levers were vere attached ido of the structure On the box were iron boxe with wih cranks on on way which was was the advice Pull Pul knob this No ono one seemed to have a desire to try tr tho the new finagled machine Finally Finaly a n large red- red faced laced man with wih side whiskers pushed his hi way through the curious crowd and sat in the arm armchairs armchairs armchairs chairs placed before the apertures Stick your boots In the tho large largo holes advised theman tho the thoman thoman man in charge With Wih some somo difficulty this thi was was done Then the man in charge pulled the knob Jcob and from behind a screen which reached from the tho box to the rear icar of the store came a a buzzing sound The Tho man pulled his feet out Evidently there was wa something strange in tho the box all right hurt burt you er ex exclaimed claimed the man in charge Soon the man took his feet out and placed them m in I the smaller holes boles When he next took them out the shoes boes were highly polished and he be paid his nickel and departed amid the cheers of the crowd Took just justa a minute and anda a a half hal Any ono one else said the operator A him Bum reporter tried to push his shoes into tho large holes Something pushed them back baek The reporters reporter's feet wei-e wei not heavy beavy enough to withstand the thc shock whIch they received Put em in the hole again and grasp that handle said the operator anti and Ill I'll regulate the tho speed a bit The reporter braced himself hImsel and felt something something some some- some thing swishing around his s shoes This something was an oval brush Inside of It was a revo revolving ving wheel heel The he brush first cleans the shoes Ihen Then from a n tin Un box within the structure liquid blacking drops down upon the shoes The Thc brush again comes into inlo servIce service ser ser- vice and polishes the tho shoes Only the sides of nf the shoes arc are ato polished however Sticking the shoes Into the tho lower Jower and smaller smaller holes boles the toes ar are cleaned and polished Before the reporter left lef the store the machine machine machine ma ma- chine was doing a rushing business |