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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1907. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



Mrs. Adelaide E. Pearson, wife of Henry C. Pearson, Editor 

 of The India Rubber World, died on the morning of August 

 16, at No. 14 Olmstead street, Jamaica Plain, Boston, vvhicli had 

 been their home for twenty years. Mrs. Pearson was a native 

 of North Norway, Maine, and the daughter of M. Osgood French 

 and Betsey Pierce French. She was engaged in literary work in 

 Boston before her marriage, and later was identified actively with 

 various forms of religious institutional work in that city. Funeral 

 services were held at North Norway on .August 18. 



THE LATE HENRY F. DOHERTY. 



A VERY wide circle in the trade will learn with regret of 

 ■*»• the death of Mr. Henry F. Doherty, a director in and 

 sales manager of the Davol Rubber Co., which occurred on July 

 31 at his home in Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Doherty was 

 fortunate in having won both success in life and very many de- 

 voted friends. These gathered in large numbers to pay their 

 last tribute, on August 2, at services held at the late home of 

 the deceased, the Rev. S. H. Webb officiating, after which the 

 interment took place at Pocasset cemetery. Providence. 



Mr. Doherty was a native of Providence, and in his fifty- 

 seventh year. He 

 has been described 

 as the best known, 

 the most popular, 

 and the most suc- 

 cessful seller of 

 goods the druggists' 

 sundries trade has 

 ever known. The 

 following notes "In 

 Memoriam" have 

 been supplied by a 

 friend of longstand- 

 ing, Mr. Theodore 

 E. Studley, of the 

 New York rubber 

 trade : 



"When Mr. 

 Joseph Davol took 

 Mr. Doherty from a 

 printing office and 

 sent him out to sell 

 rubber goods, it was 

 a case of natural selection, as Mr. Doherty had no knowledge 

 of either the goods or the trade. 



"At that time, I was the buyer of large quantities of rubber 

 sundries, and a mutual friend gave Mr. Doherty a card of in- 

 troduction to me. His genial manner and transparent ignorance 

 of the work he had undertaken appealed to me, and I coached 

 him then and afterwards to his and my own great satisfaction. 

 His success in the business showed his eminent fitness for the 

 position, as well as the splendid support given him by the com- 

 pany he represented. For about twenty-five years, he has visited 

 the trade, making new friends and keeping his old ones, holding 

 their business against all competitors, by his absolute straightfor- 

 wardness and honest business methods. His last trip to New 

 York was in the first week of May, at which time he was ill, 

 but kept up and attended to some business after his return to 

 Providence. But the last of May, he was prostrated, and from 

 the 30th of that month till his death was unconscious most of 

 the time. 



"He was an all around good fellow and will be most missed by 

 those who best knew him, which is the highest compliment pos- 

 sible for any of us." 



Henry F. Doherty. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Jo.sKi'H WiLi-KiT Clati'. who died on August 17 at Ashland, 

 .Massachusetts, in his seventieth year, was the father of Walter 

 A. Clapp, who has been connected with the rubber goods selling 

 trade in New F.ngland and in New York state for a number of 

 years. Mr. Clapp was connected with the Portland and Kenne- 

 bec railroad as early as 1853, and later with the Maine Central 

 road, after which he was in business in Bangor, Maine, and in 

 Boston. The interment was at Bangor, on August 20, with 

 Masonic ceremonies. 



Abiel Copelin died at his home in Maiden, Massachusetts, on 

 July 8, in his seventy-third year. He had been employed for 

 42 years by the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., during the greater 

 part of the time as an overseer, and was recently retired by 

 them on a pension. 



IN THE AMAZON RUBBER COUNTRY. 



AN ENGLISH COMPANY "MAKES GOOD." 



DE MELLO Brazilian Rubber Co., Limited, an English com- 

 pany formed in 1906 with £4.95,000 [^$2,408,917.50] capital, 

 to acquire the rubber estates of Sebastiao F. de Mello in 

 the Acre country, apparently have made a good beginning. Ac- 

 cording to the company's prospectus, the production of these es- 

 tates had shown for five years an average output of nearly 300 

 tons of rubber per annum, rising in 1905 to 383 tons. Reports from 

 Manaos indicate the receipt at that port by this company, during 

 the twelve months ending June 30 last, of 565^ tons as follows: 

 Rubber, 1,064,279 pounds ; Caucho, 180,387 pounds ; total, 1,244.- 

 666. This was produced on the Acre river, with the exception 

 of 4030 pounds of rubber from the Javary. The exports from 

 ^Manaos, on account of the company, amounted to about 560 

 tons, through Dusendschon, Nommensen & Co. The firm of 

 Mello & Co. continue in business at Manaos and received during 

 the last crop season 2,208,943 pounds of rubber and caucho, 

 mainly from the river Jurua, they ranking third in importance 

 among the rubber receivers at Manaos. This business, by the 

 way, is distinct from that of the De Mello Brazilian -Rubber Co. 



RUBBER OTTTPUT LIMITED BY LABOR. 



The rubber situation was discussed by the chairman of the 

 .\mazon Steam Navigation Co., Limited, at the last annual meet- 

 ing of the shareholders in London. Speaking of the Para rub- 

 ber output for the past year, which was the largest on record, he 

 said : "The present range of values is one to give every stimulus 

 to production, and production is practically a question of labor. 

 The extent of the yield is dependent on the number of men 

 employed upon it, and the supply from Ceara (from which state 

 nearly all the men employed in rubber collecting come) seems to 

 be fairly abundant. With regard to the production of rubber in 

 the East, of which accounts frequently appear in the press, it 

 must be many years before this can compete seriously witli the 

 Amazon." 



COLOMBIA ENCOURAGES RUBBER PLANTING. 



Under a decree published at Bogota on July 20, 1907, the 

 government of Colombia offers a bonus of $4 (gok'l per quintal 

 [^110.23 pounds] on all plantation or cultivated rubber exported 

 within seven years from the date of the decree. 



SALE OF AMAZON RITBBER CAMPS. 



One may see frequently in the Para newspapers the advertise- 

 ments of a seringal (rubber camp) for sale, generally at auction, 

 due to a liquidation in business. The lands as a rule are not 

 privately owned, but one who opens a seringal, cutting out estra- 

 das (paths), and putting up a barracao for the workers, is recog- 

 nized as having proprietary rights in such improvements, and 

 these are transferable. A rubber property recently advertised at 

 auction in Para was located in Chaves, on the island of Marajo, 

 and The India Rubber World took the pains to inquire as to the 

 result of the sale. The price realized was 50 milreis per estrada 



