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Popular Science Monthly 



The Traveling Shoe- 

 Repair Shop 



In the truck are units for stitching 

 theoutsole, nailing soles and heels, 

 trimming edges, finishing and 

 stitching patches. There are four 

 workbenches. All of the machines 

 are run by power from the truck 

 engine, which also charges the 

 storage batteries for the lighting 

 system. The trailer serves as a 

 warehouse, as a clearing house for 

 the shoes and as comfortable sleep- 

 ing quarters for the eight men 



What Does an Army Need Most? 

 "Shoes," said Napoleon 



THE first traveling shoe-repairing equip- 

 ment to be used by any of the armies 

 of the world has been presented to the 

 Massachusetts' troops of the United States 

 Army by the United Shoe Machinery Com- 

 pany, of Boston, Mass. The equipment, 

 which consists of a motor-truck and a 

 trailer, is fitted with special shoe 

 machinery to permit a crew of 

 six men to repair from four 

 hundred to six hundred 

 pairs of shoes a day. 

 It is designed to go 

 forward with the army 

 as far as practicable 

 and repair the shoes 

 of the troops on the 

 spot and thus elim- 

 inate the cost of main- 

 taining huge shops 

 back of the lines and 

 the cost of getting the 

 shoes there and back 

 again to the front line 

 trenches after they 

 have been repaired. 

 The quick machine 



work of the motor-truck 

 outfit has one great, advan- 

 tage over the present method 

 of sending the shoes to 

 shops far in the rear, in 

 that the soldier will always 

 be sure to get his own par- 

 ticular pair of shoes back 

 after they have been re- 

 paired. A soldier is as fussy 

 about his shoes as he is 

 about his tooth brush. 

 When a pair is returned to 

 him that does not fit, which 

 is often the case under the 

 present method, his fighting 

 efficiency is greatly reduced 

 and his marching ability 

 impaired. 



Since the truck and its 

 trailer are like thousands of 

 others used for hauling am- 

 munition, men and food to 

 the trenches, the shoe outfit 

 is assured of getting as near 

 the lines as is desirable in 

 order to serve the troops effi- 

 ciently. Again, the mobility 

 of the truck will enable the 



outfit to be withdrawn to safety quickly. 

 The motor truck part of the outfit carries 



all of the shoe-repairing machinery and the 



trailer serves as a warehouse, as a clearing 



house and as sleeping quarters. 



The spout at the 

 bottom of the 

 pouch serves as 

 a trough down 

 which the to- 

 bacco slides di- 

 rectly into the 

 bowl of the pipe 



A Pouch Which Will Not Spill 

 Your Tobacco 



r I ^HE combined tobacco 

 A pouch and pipe filler il- 

 lustrated at left will prevent 

 you losing even a little of 

 your precious "fillings." 



The pouch has a spout at 



the bottom which serves as a 



trough, and then doubles up 



again and fastens over the 



pouch opening. When 



the pouch is opened 



and slightly squeezed 



the tobacco slides 



down the trough into the 



pipe. 



This pouch serves equally 

 well, of course, for making 

 cigarettes. In either case 

 the operations are simplified 

 and you will make a neat 

 job of the filling. 



