28 WILLIAM GOSSAGE 



Having in their possession a thoroughly 

 good article, the firm did not fail to make its 

 qualities known by widespread advertisement. 

 It was exhibited in London at the International 

 Exhibition of 1862, and was one of the soaps 

 that won a prize medal for "excellence in 

 quality." Notwithstanding the great competi- 

 tion which has sprung up during the last few 

 years, especially among soap manufacturers, 

 and the excellent makes which are presented 

 to the public, nothing has been found to 

 supersede, in popular estimation, Gossage's 

 mottled soap. 



Up to this period, the story of Mr. Gos- 

 sage's life had been the expenditure of time 

 and money on experiments and inventions, 

 many of which had proved most profitable to 

 his competitors, but costly and exhaustive to 

 himself; but it is satisfactory to record that 

 the soap business was a turn in the wheel of 

 fortune, and that his sons and those associated 

 with them found themselves heirs, not only to 

 a heritage of famous inventions and a name 

 of renown in the chemical world, but also the 

 possessors of a property capable of great 

 development and extension. At the time of 

 the Jubilee Exhibition at Manchester in 1887, 

 it was stated that since 1862, over 200,000 



