Show I A BILLIARD BALL Care Cale and Time Required to Produce the White Spheres It takes more than a year year year-to to make a a. billiard d ball ban Few Tew devotees of the game probably are aware of the infinite pains that have to be expended on this Important Import Import- ant utes rs part to rh their of fr frt t the tho entertainment te equipment lg t that contributes contribUtes contrib contrib- o Billiard balls are made from elephants' elephants tusks and only the small tusks from four tour to six inches In their thickest diameter will I do for O these furnish the e best Ivory T The Tho price ic of h this I fi Ivory has eg g greatly iI In Increased increased in- in I creased of late lat and and the demand Is far In excess e of the supply This s stringency In Inthe Inthe f the market a has hs Induced a prominent bli- bli hard company compary to offer for foi a a. perfect substitute for The Tho elephants' elephants tusks come to the fac factories factories fac- fac tories cut t up lIp in sections each having I b been J fi cut Just large enough to allow I of the turning of a single ball Only skilled labor laboris is employed to work upon It The exact it f f center of the piece must first be 11 discovered ered b by me measurement mee It Is then placed In a socket and one-half one of the ball bail is l turned n by a S sharp edged Instrument n The Ivory is then hung up dt in a net tu for a tI time e Later the Second half Is 19 turned and the ball bali again hung up as before tore In a room where the temperature 1 is from GO CO to 70 degrees The ball mu must mu-ct t be kept thus suspended for lor about a a. year ear when It Is rubbed and nd polished to as near a certain certa weight as s possible and to a a. diameter of two and three-eighths three Inches Even with the greatest car care It Is impossible to make malte two balls of exactly the same samo weight The life of a billiard ball after It Is placed In- In use Is an uncertain quantity If the room In which it Is la k kept pt Is too tao hot the fhe I pores of th the Ivory mA may close and a crack crak ensue Then It U b has baa to be returned to o the J T 7 r. r i factory where It Is shaved off oft and consequently cons congo reduced In size elze A second-rate second room billiard gets It next By and by It develops another crack and again goes back to the factory where this time It ItIs itIs Is probably fixed i up for a a. cue ball n In pool l el Pu When it has readier c Its last st limit of usefulness usefulness use use- l e as a a. ball bali It Is l bought by dealers ea ti f f r in bone e and Ivory and turned Into buttons but but- tons Philadelphia North American |