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Evening Star, Issue 8399, 27 December 1890, Page 2

Every shoe (says an American paper) passes through the hands of forty • five people—twenty-five in the fitting room and twenty elsewhere. The usual time of, completing a pair of shoes, in tb,e ordinary line df work—that w, from the rough material to the finished prodnot, and without giving special attention to haste—is about eleven days; but, if necessary, a pair of shoes oould be cut, put together, and finished, complete in fifty minutes, or even lots if special effort were made, One of the health inspectors of New York is authority for the statement that not lesa than 200 widows and poor wives support their children by plucking live poultry the Hebrew butohers and provjfipa dealers in Essex, Forsyth, Baxter, and Norfolk streets in that city.