MASSACHUSETTS— BEEHIVE OF BUSINESS 



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Photograph from American Woolen Company 



INSPECTING THE FINISHED CEOTH IN A WOOLEN MILL 



In weaving it is inevitable that threads occasionally break and that knots appear. Expert 

 menders go over the cloth yard by yard and mile by mile, with eagle eyes, for defects that 

 they mend with astonishing speed and skill. 



being made than in any other city on the 

 globe. It is interesting to journey there 

 and see how modern men are shod. 



First of all, it will be discovered that 

 Brockton is preeminently the man's shoe 

 town. Lynn claims first place in the 

 manufacture of woman's shoes, and 

 Haverhill prides itself upon being the 

 slipper city of the world. 



Being the greatest shoe-wearing as well 

 as the leading shoe-producing country in 



the world, the American market is such a 

 large one that not only do cities specialize 

 in types of shoes, but manufacturers 

 carry the specialization even further. 

 Massachusetts makes more shoes than 

 Great Britain or Germany and has an ex- 

 port -trade that reaches ninety countries 

 and colonies. 



Following a stream of shoes through a 

 factory from uncut leather to ready-to- 

 wear product may be rather a long ram- 



