Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-13
Local Capital Becoming Interested
Officials of the Ariston Marble Company Here Explain s
Merits With View Locating Plant in This Ciy-What
the Product Is

Alter having been away for a few
days. George G. Hemenway, secretary
| AID sales manager OF the Ariston Mar
PIE company. returned on Tuesday ano
today It is expected that General
I manager Alfred B. Perkins will be In
Town In connection with raising funds
Ior the location Of the concern in this
city. A number of citizens have be-
come interested in the project ana Ii
| Is thought that sufficient money will
| be secured to start the company here
Tor the manufacture of Arjston mar
| BILE. which is not the so called artificial
marble, but marble manufactured from
| solid rock without crushing, grinding,
| moulding OF pressing. The president
| of the company is Edgar C. Reibe OF
| Concerning the product, Mr. Hemen-
way in an interview had the, following
| to say:
The stone commonly known as mar
ble has a crushing resistance of from
5000 to 1900 pounds per square inch,
and 1t has hardness of three plus,
Mob scale As is generally known, 1t
is found in colors very nearly white,
blue white with black and gray veins,
times browns and reds. The colored
marbles, however, are rare. and the
finer grades of marble are all imported
end command much higher price
than domestic marble according to
their quality and the size of the blocks
required.
Aside from quarried marbles, there
have for several years been on the
market various artificial substitutes
made usually from substances ground,
pressed and sartiicially colored. Such
limitations are never entirely SatiSfac-
tory, even when new and soon lose
the superficial polish which makes
them passable at first. They are
neither marble or stone, but are always
cClored plaster in some form or other
with no pretense to strength or perma-
nence-
Ariston marble Is a solid stone and
not a composite. 1t is produced from
x psum which is found very generally
tin CUghout the United States in large
quantities. usually in pure white. but
occasionally with gray notified
markings. Gypsum can be bought at
anywhere from one-tenth to one
twentieth of the cost of ordinary mar
bic, and can be cut, turned and carved
with ordinary wood working tools.
Ariston marble is cut-not nodded or
pressed-and converted into marble in
a solid block
The process used by the Ariston
Marble company is one that has been
long sought for, but never before dis
covered. The stone is first cut and
and fooled into shape, then thoroughly
hardened until it is strong and per
nlanent as a bowlder- 1t may be used
in its natural tones of white or gray,
but after long efforts and much ex-
pense a method has been discovered
by which it can be uolored by the use
CT mineral colors SO that the grain of
the stone is thoroughly permeateG. The
result is such that any color scheme
that may be desired may be produced
il solid stone. This result is uniform
and certain and the colors viii not
fade
Three consecutive tests of Ariston
marble made at the Columbia uniVer-
sity testing laboratory and certified to
by DIR. Ira WooIson and Professor Mac
gregor show a crushing resistance of
6 010, 11,I40 and 1854 pounds per
square inch. The hardness test certi-
fed to by Professor Moses of Columbia
is three plus. 1t will be
seen, therefore, that Ariston marble