Round-Up | 1896-12-25 | Page 2 | Chinamen as Shoemakers

Chin arrien us as shoemakers chinese shoemakers are said to be patient diligent and excellent workmen while they are the keenest tradesmen lit in the world bound together liv by a sort of freemasonry which takes tile the place of the that Is lacking in ili tile the Clai chinese clearn character eter they are a formidable class in foreign countries nine tenths of the chinese in ill calcutta are shoemakers in tile the PhIllip pines they are monopolizing tile the trade out of t the h L total of shoemakers in manilla are in mexico are shoe factories owned and managed by them and they in turn out goods at 2 a pair that in point of workmanship far exceed anything that could be produced in any ally european country at a considerably higher price it Is the same lit in jouquin touquin