Shoe making, old and new

Shoe making
Old and New
FRED A. GANNON
A short history of the
American Shoe Manufacturing Industry.
The marvelous progress that has been made
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS.
Part 1. First shoes and shoemakers in
America. Indians and moccasins. First
shoemakers came on Mayflower.
Part 2. Colonial shoemakers. Their
hard struggle for existence. Shoemakers
cut hair, pulled teeth and did other things.
Part 3. The time of the "Ten Footers." Shoemakers used the lap stone and
flat face hammer.
Part 4. Union store period. Shoemakers were paid in groceries and dragged
them home in a cart.
Part 5. Story of Ebenezer Breed, who
established the protective tariff on shoes,
and died in an almshouse.
Part 6. Howe's great invention of the
sewing machine. His dream of what his
genius failed to discover.
Part 7. John B. Nichols made the
Howe machine sew leather.
Part 8. Blake's great invention of the
McKay machine, and the revolution in
shoemaking that it caused.
Part 9. The story of the lasting ma-
chine, showing how a genius from Dutch
Guiana revolutionized the lasting of
American shoes.
Part 10. The general development of
machinery, Including the Goodyear ma-
chine and the pegging machine, and the
benefits from it.
Part 11. American leather making. The
story of the chrome process
Part 12. Organization of the factory
system, showing how the individual work-
man became a part of an organization
and how he was benefitted.
Part 13. The Greater New England
movement.
Part 14. Organization of the machinery system of shoemaking by the U. S.
M. Co. and its benefits to the trade and
the people.
Part 15. Development of transportation of shoes from the time of the "bag
boss" to modern swift express service.
Part 16. Development of shoe styles
from colonial to 20th century fashions,
the use of blacking, of laces and but-
tons and the development of the modern
repair business.
Part 17. Clogs, pattens and goloshes
and modern rubbers. The story of Good-
year's invention of the method of vulcanizing rubber.