CLOTHING THE EXTREMITIES 



to judge, is destined to revolutionize the making of 

 that class of shoes which has heretofore been made 

 on the McKay sewing-machine. It is known as the 

 ' universal double-clinch machine,' and forms a fas- 

 tening of wire, which is taken from a coil corrugated 

 in the machine, and driven, one end being clinched 

 back into the leather of the out-sole. It is further 

 provided with an attachment which makes the channel 

 in which the fastening is driven, and afterward closes 

 it automatically. It makes a very comfortable, flexi- 

 ble, and durable shoe, and is being rapidly adopted 

 by manufacturers. 



"At the present time the genius of the American 

 inventor has provided for every detail of shoemaking, 

 even the smallest processes being performed by me- 

 chanical devices of some kind. This has naturally 

 made the shoemaker of to-day a specialist, who very 

 seldom knows anything of shoemaking apart from the 

 particular process in the performance of which he is 

 an adept, and from which he earns a livelihood. The 

 American shoe of to-day is the standard production 

 of the world. It is in demand wherever shoes are 

 worn, and although the tools which have made its 

 production possible have been perfected in the face 

 of most discouraging conditions and opposition, they 

 are to-day classed among the most ingenious produc- 

 tions of a wonderfully productive epoch. 



LASTS AND PATTERNS 



"An important feature of the boot-and-shoe indus- 

 try is the use of lasts and the system of last-measure- 



