Mkssrs. Editors
w|j0 cut
require payments striotly in advanoe, in all I thousand able to cut without tbem and make
uniform shop work or good fits without them
which can be proven by asking a shoemaker
to make you & an unusual shaped shoe, or one
of unusual site.
There Is perhaps no
mechanical business so little understood by
those conducting it, as boot and shoe manu
facturing.
This arises ia part, if not altogether, from
the method of instructing apprentices, tbey
being taught simply to put the work togeth
er, without obtaining any knowledge of the
manner of ootting and fitting the same, this
being performed by the boss or foreman,
who, as a general rule, are unable to execute
any other part of the bonnesa it being a
proverb among shoemakers, that "a jour
who cannot hold a seat of work would make
a good bossoonsequently the business of
cutting and fitting up work is done to a
great extent by the art of guessing. And 1
h&a own patterns, nor one in a
My object in this communication is through
yout valuable paper to make known a new
Invention by Mr. Henry Still, of our city,
whereby any one oan out any kind or eiie of
shoe in any proportion and if generally
adopted will prove the greatest beaefit of the
age to the "craft."
1 have secured A set of his scales, and am
now cutting by them, and having tested tbem
b* diff«r*nt
to suit themselves. We said that they also Portions with the same aocuraoy.
