220 CAOUTCHOUC AND GUTTA-PERCHA. 
chiefly to the enterprising spirit of Charles Morey, who, having bought of 
Goodyear the exclusive privilege of the use of his invention for fifteen years, 
has shared it with many others willing to pay for it. Thus the French-Ameri- 
can Company, which owns a large factory at Beaumont, in the department of 
Seine et Oise, possesses the exclusive right of manufacturing combs, for which 
production the first class medal of the French exhibition was awarded to it. 
The French company, which has factories at Lille and St. Dennis, has the ex- 
clusive right of manufacturing handles of knives and other cutlery, while the 
Goodyear company has alone the right of preparing all kinds of hard caoutchoue 
substitutes for whalebone in its various applications. Other privileges are 
similarly distributed. Charles Morey himself lately founded a factory at Metz, 
which produces a numberless variety of articles of caoutchouc, as well as gutta- 
percha. 
The chaotic variety of articles manufactured in France of common or vulean- 
ized caoutchoue and gutta-percha is almost bewildering. Elastic textures of 
every description, (silk, linen, cotton,) elastic stockings for persons suffering with 
the gout, gaiters, garters, suspenders, drawers; elastic bands, cords, belts, 
telegraph wires; aprons, window shades, carpets, gloves; stopples, bungs, diving 
apparatus, life-boats, bathing tubs; mattresses, pillows, tents; numberless articles 
for hunters, fishers, travellers, and photographers; utensils for the preservation 
of acids, bottles of every kind, cases, balloons, doll-heads, spinning cards, hurdles, 
troughs, pumps, umbrellas; these, and a thousand other objects, were shown at 
the Paris exhibition in the most charming disorder. 
