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foreign countries where these products can be obtained. Accordingly an 

 arrangement was entered into with responsible houses to carry a full line of the 

 Bausch & Lomb manufactures in Paris ; Tokio, Japan ; St. Petersburg, Russia ; 

 Barcelona, Spain ; London, England; City of Mexico; Toronto, Canada; and 

 Brisbane and Sidney, Australia. A complete stock of the Bausch & Lomb 

 photographic, microscopic and field glass products, as well as eyeglasses and 

 lenses of various kinds, is thus available in these countries. 



In addition to these houses that carry complete stocks, and are therefore 

 supply depots for the countries, the company maintains trade relations with the 

 leading houses dealing in optical goods everywhere. 



In looking back over the record of facts in these fifty years of struggle, the 

 things which most impress one are the innumerable difficulties which have been 

 surmounted, the tenacity and intensity of purpose to produce better articles than 

 have ever been produced before, regardless of the sacrifices necessary in pro- 

 ducing them, and the determination to produce every part under one roof, in 

 order that its quality be known and may contribute to the production of a whole 

 of known excellence. 



In commemoration of the completion of their fifty years of business, the 

 Bausch & Lomb Optical Company tendered a complimentary entertainment to 

 their 1200 employees, and to about one thousand invited guests in the Lyceum 

 Theatre. The exercises were opened with an address by Hon. A. J. Rodenbeck. 

 mayor of Rochester, in which he reviewed the history of the development of the 

 company from its small beginning to the present time, and referred in a touch- 

 ing manner to the fifty years of congenial association which Mr. J. J. Bausch 

 and Mr. Henry Lomb have enjoyed, and to the growth of the industry which has, 

 in its own developments and in the development of the allied industries which it 

 has made possible, made Rochester the optical center of the world. 



Judge William E. Werner also made an address, reviewing the relations of 

 the industry with the development of the optical trade, and development of opti- 

 cal sciences. 



In addition to these addresses, a choice musical program, interspersed with 

 monologue, dialogue and other entertaining numbers, was rendered. During the 

 intermission. Senator W. W. Armstrong appeared on the stage and requested 

 that Messrs. Bausch and Lomb be brought before him. When they had been 

 escorted to his presence by two of the oldest employees of the company. Senator 

 Armstrong uncovered three massive, golden loving cups, which he presented in 

 the name of their 1200 employees, one to Mr. J. J. Bausch, one to Mr. 

 Henry Lomb, and one to the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. The cups 

 presented to Messrs. Bausch and Lomb had etched on one panel a representa- 

 tion of their first humble factory, and on another the present structure. On the 

 third panels were presentation inscriptions which read : "Presented to Mr. J. J. 

 Bausch in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of his association with Mr. 

 Henry Lomb, and of the founding of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, by 

 their employees — 1853-1903," that presented to Mr. Lomb being similarly en- 

 graved with the substitution of his name for that of Mr. Bausch. The cup pre- 

 sented to the company was engraved on one panel with the first and present 

 factory buildings, on another with the profiles of Mr. J. J. Bausch and Mr. Henry 

 Lomb, and on the third with a presentation inscription, which was : " Presented 

 to the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company in commemoration of their Fiftieth 

 Anniversary, by their employees — 1853-1903." 



At the door of the theatre each guest was presented with a large envelope 

 containing a beautifully engraved and embossed announcement of the comple- 

 tion of fifty years of optical manufacture ; a souvenir brochure containing an 

 historical sketch of the development of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company's 

 manufactory from its beginning to the present time, by L. B. Elliott ; and a 

 program of the evening's exercises. 



