Fortune in the Streets.
-~m * •' Would you believe it, sir," said a well-known Strand bootmaker the other day, " that some 8,000,000 of people walk about the streets of London daily, and in so doing wear away a ton of leather from their boots and shoes." "Is that really a fact?" '■'• Really," was the emphatic reply. '■ •' And the amount would be greater if the, streets were not so well paved and attended to. The ton of leather I have just spoken of would in a year form a leather strip lin. wide, and long enough tc extend from London to New York." "And what would be its value 7'f- *' Well, estimating this great iamounfc of disintegrated sole leather at 5d a pound, what it costs Irnsumers, its value would be £100,---000. If it could be recovered from the streets a fortune might result to someone in the shoddy leather line. Bul| : unfortunately, there seems no means of recovering all this valuable leather, and so no doubt it will always be swept up in the dust and dirt. " But," he reflectively added, •' if a process by which this leather can be separated from the dirt is disooveied, the inventor would be at Qnge a rioh man." — Million. I
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Manawatu Herald, 17 May 1894, Page 3
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206Fortune in the Streets. Manawatu Herald, 17 May 1894, Page 3
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