Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ant inPhiladelphia. He was about thirty-five years old and became interestedwith about everybody else in the wonderful trade of the many India-rubber companies that were making great quantities of goods of manykinds. Being in New York, one day, he bought one of the new India-rubber life-preservers that the Roxbury Company had just brought took it hom^, and true to his Connecticut birth, began to examine itfor the sake of seeing how it was made and if he could improve on i
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ant inPhiladelphia. He was about thirty-five years old and became interestedwith about everybody else in the wonderful trade of the many India-rubber companies that were making great quantities of goods of manykinds. Being in New York, one day, he bought one of the new India-rubber life-preservers that the Roxbury Company had just brought took it hom^, and true to his Connecticut birth, began to examine itfor the sake of seeing how it was made and if he could improve on soon made up his mind on both these questions, and before long hewas again at the Roxburys office with a plan, which he wanted them to»adopt. The company was not able to make these improved goods, but theman in charge saw Mr. Goody ears plan, and said to him: There are, Mr. Goodyear, a great many India-rubber companies inthe United States just now that seem to be doing a very fine business, but 127 ^28 CHARLES GOODYBAk. * ^V, are all a eood deal like our com- ? t :.t s .83 -i . -y GOODYEAR ACCIDENTALLY MAKING HIS GREAT DISCOVERY. machinery, but even if our shoes can bear the heat one summer, they willmelt the next. Wagon-covers, overcoats, hats, and rubber-cloth growsticky in the sun and stiff in the cold. The directors of the companydont know what to do. Theyll be ruined if they stop making, and thewhole of the winters work may melt on their hands as soon as warmweather comes. The capital of this company is already used up, and unless the trueway to use this gum is found—and that soon—the company will have to CHARLES GOODYEAR. 129 go down in complete ruin. Now, wHile the gentlemen cannot take thisimproved life-preserver of yours, if you can only find out some way tomake India-rubber that will stand the summer heat and the winter cold,they will gladly give almost anything you ask for that. It seemed like a chance talk, but it fixed the life-wor
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