Review of reviews and world's work . olonel McKay (who was, it should be said,more of an exploiter than an inventor), inrapid succession there were put on the mar-ket machines for welting, pegging,—indeed,more than a score for performing all thosecomplicated operations by which the modernready-made shoe is built up. P^ver since thedays of McKay there has prevailed a peculiarsystem among shoe machine manufacturers ofrenting but never selling their apparatus. Tothis day the shoemaker does not buy themachines to do his work; he rents them fora term of years, paying a royalty on each shoemade,—abo
Review of reviews and world's work . olonel McKay (who was, it should be said,more of an exploiter than an inventor), inrapid succession there were put on the mar-ket machines for welting, pegging,—indeed,more than a score for performing all thosecomplicated operations by which the modernready-made shoe is built up. P^ver since thedays of McKay there has prevailed a peculiarsystem among shoe machine manufacturers ofrenting but never selling their apparatus. Tothis day the shoemaker does not buy themachines to do his work; he rents them fora term of years, paying a royalty on each shoemade,—about three cents on a pair ofw^omans shoes and from four to five centson a pair of mans. When the United ShoeMachinery Company was formed by a com-bination in 1899 this method was per-petuated. Although New England has the honor ofbeing the first seat of the shoe industry, andalthough it may still be said to hold itsprimacy in the number of shoes manufac-tured, New York and Pennsyhania earlv in 456 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REl^ From Nelsons Encyclopedia. THE ANALYTICAL DIAGRAM OF A SHOE. their history acquired a pre-eminence in thetanning end of the leather business and alsoin the purely mercantile phases. It was,moreover, as is pointed out in another place,from central New York that the Americanglove business started. The leather mer-chants of New York have always stood highin the communitj^ and for many years intheir close association in that district in NewYork City which was and still is familiarlyknown as the Swamp there was perhapsa touch of clannishness which is more char-acteristic of the trade guilds of the OldWorld than of American business life. THE VAST BUSINESS OF SHOE-MAKING. History does not record a time when agoodly proportion of mankind did not wearsome sort of foot covering. Even in the mostancient times, when the ordinary individualwent barefoot, folks of quality wore footcovering of some sort, whether for comfortor ornament. Even in the earliest times
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