. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . cisco. Theyemploy regularly about 125 hands, and at times many more. Theoutput approximates from f 100,000 to {150,000 a year. New ma-chinery is being added as additional facilities are required to meetthe demands upon them. Their trade extends over the UnitedStates with an increasing export demand for many of their novelties. intend to protect this reputation, and have already arranged forspace at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893. The capacitvof their factory is 4,000,000 pounds per year. Licorice was used by the ancients as well as in ou
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . cisco. Theyemploy regularly about 125 hands, and at times many more. Theoutput approximates from f 100,000 to {150,000 a year. New ma-chinery is being added as additional facilities are required to meetthe demands upon them. Their trade extends over the UnitedStates with an increasing export demand for many of their novelties. intend to protect this reputation, and have already arranged forspace at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893. The capacitvof their factory is 4,000,000 pounds per year. Licorice was used by the ancients as well as in our moderntimes as an article of materia medica. It was always consideredemollient, demulcent, and useful against catarrh and irritationsof the raucous membranes. In England the cultivation of the licorice plant is at least as oldas the times of Elizabeth. The licorice roots have been extensivelyimported by brewers. The black inspissated extract of those rootsis known as black sugar, and is the stick licorice so common through-out the THE MELLOR & RITTENHOUSE COMPANY Whose office andlaboratory occupy thebuildings from 214 to220 North Twenty-second street, Phila-delphia, was estab-lished in 1863 and in-corporated in officers are, AlfredMel lor, president;William B. Ridgely,secretary and treasu-rer, and Robert Cole-man, Jr., firm as first or-ganized was knownas Parrish & Mellor,and under that nameit was continued for a year. The firm name was then changed to Mellor & Rittenhouse,and under that title it operated until 1S87, when it was re-organized with the Mellor & Rittenhouse Company. The businesswhile including the manufacture of various chemicals was princi-pally concerned with the manufacture of licorice in its variousforms: as Spanish and Turkish licorice paste, powdered extractlicorice, powdered licorice root, selected licorice root, peeledlicorice root (powdered), M. & R. stick licorice, licorice fact, licorice is here made in every f
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