Show BUILT UP GREAT BUSINESS frederick mayer boot and shoe cam cm pany a monument to german thrift and industry that the lev to real bus ness success eucce ssi is i often b based t ed on a sound pr nc ne pie rather than money is de dest a t illustrated by the re product on of tl ti a follow follon ng b cal sketch of ck mayer founder of the F mayer boot sloe oe bom company reproduced DYG from an issue of ave the german erman american Amei ican nat onal UI ance fieder e d e r ck maier a r fo n ader d leinoW of the he fac torl tor e es s a at t ekl M I 1 vau kace an and d S seattle e eft noy be bear ng I 1 a name came to tl a countie from N ernste n hessen daresta it in may 1851 and dimmed abely proceeded to M igau kee W n where he entered the em ploy of r salim as a journeyman shoemaker the bp sp nt rit that prompted h b in to seek his fortune in the new world was soon res despotis ble for another change and n 1859 a year later he embarked in bus n ness ess on h a 0 in ni accord making boots and shoes to order as only a german apprenticed arti san knobs kno a how subsequently a stock of gooda was carried and a reta I 1 bus ness con boods ducted until 1880 when the manufacture of shoes was mas engaged in at wholesale to the trade in 1890 the bus ness A as well established the foundation firmly la d and the pol cy uell iv ell det determined ernine d from that time on the gro ath a ii as more rap d the capacity of tle tl e present mayer factories fac tones at M 1 and seattle is 9 pa r per day g v ng em to an army of people ople 0 i o ing an dually over a x hund hundred thousand Z tda dollars ollars in wages and employ ng sixty fiNe fil e salesmen who travel 21 24 states in the interest of maver rhoel freder ck mayer d ed on 1 march f a re h 16 1893 after bu id ng up a lar large e a and n d su successful i tea bus ness he ile is succeed led by h 9 eons s ceorge rge P maer er fred J A mayer a e r and adam J ii er who by r eidly maintain ng the pol I 1 c cy of the founder I 1 lave av e succeeded in br r ng ng the bus ness u up to ita its present ma magn tude where it stan stands as a monument of german erman theft ahr ft and industry |