Show OLD BOOTS AND SHOES The Manner in Which They arc made Into Embossed Leather Hundreds of men women and even boys in New York are engaged in the business of collecting old boots and shoes which they take to the wallpaper factories where they receive from five to fifteen cents per pair Calfskin boots bring the best price while cowhide ones are not taken at any figure These boots and shoes are first soaked in several waters to get the dirt ofl and then the nails and threads are removed and the leather is ground up into a fine pulp is a ground of Then it pressed upon heavy paper which is to be used in the manufacture of embossed leather Fashionable people think they are going back to mediseval times when they away libraries and i have the walls of their covered with this and remain diningrooms main in blissful ignorance that the shoes threw and boots which their neighbors before now month into the ash barrel a adorn their walls and hang on the screens their from the fire which protect eyes Carriagetop makers and bookbinders and shoes the former also buy old boots and for carriages to make leather tops latter leather bindings for the cheaper the of leather grade of books The new style frames with leather mats in them are entirely of our castoff covering o tirely made of the feet |