Commenting on the use of eel skin for gloves, a Gloversville correspondent says: Eel skin makes a glove that is smooth, flexible and equal in appearance to real kid, and possessed of far greater tenacity. It neither rips nor tears except under great force, and it has a quality that renders it in one respect greatly superior to other articles. It is not penetrable by water. Perspiration from the hands or water upon the outside will not injure the color or make the glove s stretch. It is believed that Yankee ingenuity has discovered a new and handsome covering for the hands that will come into general use – Rome Sentinel
Chatham Monitor, Chatham, MA, December 24, 1889