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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May i, 1903. 



Charles V. Meade, one of the first of Trenton's rubber manufac 

 turers. He later became superintendent of the Star Rubber 

 Co., from there going to the Hamilton Rubber Co. With the 

 formation of the New York and Boston Rubber Co., at En- 

 glewood, New [ersey, he took charge of the mechanical work 

 there, and when that company went out of existence returned 

 to Trenton as superintendent of the Home Rubber Co. He 

 held that position fora number of years, finally leaving it to be- 

 come superintendent of the Crescent Belting and Packing Co. 

 About five years ago he retired from active business, having 

 acquired a comfortable competence. Mr. Aldridge was one of 

 the old fashioned, hard working, thrifty superintendents, was 

 an expert in his line, a man who worked side by side with his 

 help, and was very much loved by them. Two daughters and 

 a son survive him, the latter, Charles Aldridge, being also a su- 

 perintendent in mechanical lines. 



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Although not actively interested in the rubber trade at the 

 time of his death, Richard R. Whitehead who was buried 

 in Trenton, New Jersey, April 22, was at one time a well 

 known figure. He was a son of James Whitehead, of Trenton, 

 and began his business career with the Whitehead Brothers 

 Rubber C ). Later he was a partner in the rubber reclaiming 

 firm of Murray. Whitehead & Murray. Some ten years ago 

 he sold his interest in that business and moved to Boston, 

 where he represented a large Trenton pottery house. Mr. 

 Whitehead was prominent, socially, and was a captain in the 

 New Jersey National Guard. He was 45 years old at the time 

 of his decease. 



Jacob D. Hollinger died at his home, on the family home- 

 stead, near Clinton, Ohio, on April 22, in his fifty-eighth year- 

 Mr. Hollinger was president and general manager of the Sum- 

 mit Rubber Co., incorporated in May, 1902, since which time a 

 factory has been established at Barberton. Mr. Hollinger was 

 engaged for many years in the drug business in Akron with 

 Augustus Warner, who still continues the business, and is the 

 vice president of the rubber company. 



The sudden death on April 9, of George H. Stedman, sec- 

 retary of J. H. Stedman & Co., Inc., of Boston, comes as a great 

 shock to his many friends. Mr. Stedman, in his younger days, 

 was clerk of the Arlington Mills, of Lawrence, from that going 

 into the manufacture of piano strings with his father. He was 

 a man of marked artistic ability and was prominent a number 

 of years ago as a character sketch artist, appearing with Madame 

 Nordica at her debut at Union Hall, Cambridge. Mr. Stedman 

 was for thirty years a member of Amicable Lodge A. F. and M. 

 of Cambridge, and also for many years a member of the Cam- 

 bridge Art Circle. The funeral held last Saturday from his 

 late residence in Belmont was largely attended by relatives and 

 friends from different parts of Massachusetts, the services be- 

 ing conducted by Rev. R. H. Coe of Belmont, and the music by 

 the Elmwood quartet of Cambridge. The deceased was 56 

 years of age, and leaves a widow, two sons, and one daughter. 



Mrs. Conrad Poppenhusen, who died on April 9. in Ham- 

 burg, Germany, in her seventy-third year, was the widow of 

 the late Conrad Poppenhusen, who, in 1843, entered the Ham- 

 burg firm of H. C. Meyer, Jr., since succeeded by the Harburg 

 Rubber Comb Co., and more recently by Dr. H. Traun & Sons. 

 In 1848 Mr. Poppenhusen came to New York, in connection 

 with his firm's branch whalebone factory at Williamsburgh, 

 Long Island, conducted under the name Meyer & Poppenhu- 

 sen. On March 22, 1852, he took out a license for the manu- 

 facture of hard rubber, under Nelson Goodyear's patent. After 

 doing some work at Roxbury, Mass., and Newtown, Conn. 

 Meyer & Poppenhusen concentrated their hard rubber produc- 



tion at College Point, Long Island, under the name of the En- 

 terprise Works, which became the leading rubber comb factory 

 in the world. The original building, with large additions, is 

 still in use by the India Rubber Comb Co., now embraced in 

 the American Hard Rubber Co. From this beginning, the hard 

 rubber industry was introduced into Germany by the Meyer 

 firm. Mr. Poppenhusen did much for the development of Col- 

 lege Point, which grew to be a prosperous manufacturing town, 

 and after his death his widow continued to manifest an interest 

 in its welfare. About ten years ago she gave a dinner to the 

 entire village. Mr. Poppenhusen was the original projector 

 of the Long Island railroad and the first president of the rail- 

 road company. He died December 21, 1883. The subject of 

 this notice was the second wife of Mr. Poppenhusen. Of the 

 second generation there is now living only Frederick Poppen- 

 husen, in business in Hamburg, a son of Mr. Poppenhusen by 

 his first marriage. 



MR. PIHRPONT MORGAN'S RETORT. 



i . |OHN K. HANGS, IN " THE NEW YORK HERALD." 



THE other day, while Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan was seated 

 in his office, at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, re- 

 organizing a couple of dozen railways, the following card was 

 brought to him by his office boy : 



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CAPTAIN kidd. 

 On L T rgent Business. 



" Show the gentleman in," said Mr. Morgan, throwing a 

 scuttleful of Colorado Coal and Iron bonds on the fire, which 

 was beginning to burn low. 



"What can I do for you, sir ?" asked the financier, as his 

 caller was ushered into his presence. 



" I want to enlist your interest in a project for the recovery 

 of my buried treasure," said Captain Kidd, affably. " Down 

 on Long Island there are $6,000,000 in Spanish silver ; in the 

 Caribbean sea I have cached about $20,000,000 worth of 

 French, English, and Portuguese gold, and in various portions 

 of the West Indies there are, I should say, between fifty and 

 sixty millions of dollars' worth of gems and trinkets of won- 

 derfully fine workmanship. In the destruction of Mont Pelee 

 at least $10,000,000 of my stuff went up in the air, but taking 

 it by and large, I estimate the treasure I can lay my hands 

 on at a round $100,000,000." 



" And what do you want me to do? " asked Mr. Morgan. 



"Swing me in my expedition to recover the treasure," said 

 Captain Kidd. 



"You've come to the wrong shop," said Mr. Morgan. "I 

 don't kesp the kind of stuff here to swing a man like you. You 

 want to go either to No. 127 Duane street or to No. 71 Broad- 

 way. The first is the Rubber Reclaiming Company and the 

 second is the Union Steel and Chain Company. They're the 

 people to swing you the way you ought to be swung," and Cap- 

 tain Kidd left the office of the great magnate cursing the chap 

 who had led him to believe that he would be a. persona grain 

 on the " street." 



In De Nieuwe Gido (Malang, Java) appears a statement of 

 the yield of three cultivated rubber trees {Ficus elastica), each 

 tapped in March, 1 901, and March, 1902, as follows: 



iqoi. 1902. Age, 1902. 



Tree No. 1 grams 2000 2385 17 yrs. 



Tree No. 2 750 917 8 " 



Tree No 3 500 654 7 " 



The yield reported for tree No. 1 was equal to 4* pounds in 

 1901 and s'/i pounds in 1902. 



