. New England; a human interest geographical reader. rs experimenting with rubber to makeit available for waterproof shoes, clothing, and otherarticles. People thought he was crazy. A strangerwho was inquiring what he looked like received thisreply. If you see a man who wears a rubber coat,cap, vest, and shoes, and has a rubber purse without acent in it, that is Charles Goodyear. He even pawned his childrens school-books to getmoney to buy rubber for his experiments. At last,when he one day had a mixture of sulphur and rubberon the kitchen stove, he chanced to subject it to justthe right inten
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. rs experimenting with rubber to makeit available for waterproof shoes, clothing, and otherarticles. People thought he was crazy. A strangerwho was inquiring what he looked like received thisreply. If you see a man who wears a rubber coat,cap, vest, and shoes, and has a rubber purse without acent in it, that is Charles Goodyear. He even pawned his childrens school-books to getmoney to buy rubber for his experiments. At last,when he one day had a mixture of sulphur and rubberon the kitchen stove, he chanced to subject it to justthe right intensity of heat, and achieved he had patiently perfected his discovery andadapted it to different uses, sixty patents were re-quired to secure his inventions. However, because offraud and mistakes and lawsuits, he gathered littlefrom his years of toil and privation except the honorsawarded to his skill and perseverance. He gave tothe world a staple now applied to hundreds of uses,and employing many thousands of workmen in A harbor view of Bridgeport Another great industrial city on the Connecticutcoast is Bridgeport. Here are made such articlesas pianos, sewing machines, toys, ammunition,cutlery, and typewriters. This was the home ofP. T. Barnum, whose*Greatest Show onEarth had a world-widefame. The successor tohis circus still has its win-ter quarters in the Tom Thumb,one of the notable attrac-tions of the ^ Greatest
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