OcTor.EK I, 1905.] 



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ing the year by some of the subsidiary companies as follows : 



Scottish Vacuum Cleaner Co '7/^? 



Lancashire and Central Counties Vacuum Cleaner Co io;« 



Midland Vacuum Cleaner Co i% 



Southern Counties Vacuum Cleaner Co (intf>im\ 5? 



[A furllier --■! percent, dividetid expected.] 



North Kastern Vacuum Cleaner Co No report. 



German company lo;? 



Austrian company No distribution. 



Huenos Aires company 6? 



An interesting new application of the principle of cleaning by 

 vacuum was brought up at the meeting of the British Vacuum 

 Cleaner Co., in the shape of an apparatus patented by the com- 

 pany's manager (Mr. H. C. Booth, A. .\l. I. C. E.), designed to 

 lessen the danger of e.xplosion in coal mines by reducing the 

 volume of explosive dust in them. A royal commission had 

 reported that the occurrence of such dust had been the cause 

 of very many explosions. The North Eastern Vacuum Cleaner 

 Co. were about to put down a plant under Mr. Booth's patent 

 in a mine, the owner of which had stated that if it proved suc- 

 cessful he would at once install the device in all his plants ; be- 

 sides, if it proved successful, all the other companies would at 

 once take up the invention. Another application mentioned 

 was a device for cleaning fiues and steam boilers, and plans 

 were under way for its use in connection with blast furnaces 

 and other like work. 



OBITUARY. 



JOSEPH WEST GREEN. 



THE late loseph W. Green, of whom a brief obituary note 

 appeared in the last India RuiiiiER World, was born 

 August 23, 1848, at Marblehead, Massachusetts, being the son 

 of Joseph West and Abbie Girdler Green. He received but 

 little schooling, being obliged to begin work at 1 2 years, and as 

 a boy taking responsibilities that seldom come to one so young. 

 At the age of 18 he entered the employment of Nichols & 

 Farnsworth, dealers in shoe findings, in Boston, and remained 

 with the house for 12 years, during which time he came to 

 make a specialty of selling elastic shoe gorings. 



In this connec- 

 tion he attracted 

 the attention of 

 the late Edmund 

 H. Sawyer, of 

 Easthampton, 

 Mass., and when 

 the management 

 of the Gl en dal e 

 Elastic Fabrics 

 Co. of that town 

 devolved upon the 

 latter, he sent for 

 Mr. Green. He 

 went to East- 

 hampton in 1878, 

 at the age of 30 

 years, becoming 

 treasurer and gen- 

 eral manager of 

 the company, after 

 which he was al- 

 ways in the immediate direction of its affairs. Under his man- 

 agement the company prospered and its business grew in volume 

 and importance. Not only were important additions made to 

 the local plant from time to time, but a year or two ago a large 

 mill in the same industry at Providence, Rhode Island, was 



bought by the Glendale company and since successfully oper- 

 ated by it. 



While always devoted to the success of this industry and in- 

 terested in the welfare of its employes, Mr. Green found time 

 to take an active part in the life of Easthampton apart from his 

 direct business interests. He was influential in town affairs, 

 and at the time of his death was chairman of the board of water 

 commissioneis. He was a director of the First National Bank 

 of Easthampton, trustee of the Easthampton Savings Bank, and 

 director of the Nashawannock Manufacturing Co. He was a 

 member of Ionic Lodge of Freemasons, a member of Pascom- 

 nuck Club, the leading social club in the town, and secretary 

 of the Nonotuck Club, an association of manufacturers formed 

 to provide recreation primarily for those of the townspeople 

 who were employed in the mills. He was likewise a trustee of 

 the public library. 



Mr. Green had a great talent for music, which he cultivated 

 from his youth. In Boston he had been a member of the fa- 

 mous Apollo and Orpheus musical clubs and was leader of the 

 Sunday school choir in Trinity church and an intimate friend 

 of the late Bishop Phillips Brooks, who had a marked influ- 

 ence in forming the character of the younger man. At East- 

 hampton at various times Mr. Green led the choir and played 

 the organ in three different churches, and he led the Choral 

 Union for several seasons. 



Mr. Green was married in Boston. September 30, 1889, to 

 Mrs. James H. C. Richmond, of Shulisburg, Wisconsin. Mrs. 

 Green survives him, and he leaves four stepsons and a step- 

 daughter, including James H. C. Richmond, of New York, and 

 Clifford Richmond, of Easthampton, who have long been con- 

 nected with the Glendale company, and Mrs. William L. Pitch- 

 er, whose husband is connected with the Easthampton Rubber 

 Thread Co. 



Mr. Green had been physically weak for some time, and in the 

 torrid heat of July last made business trips that were too great 

 a strain. The resultwas a series of severe hemorrhages, and the 

 end came shortly after midnight on August 28. The funeral 

 occurred on August 30. After private services at the late resi- 

 dence, the remains were escorted to Payson church by Ionic 

 Lodge and the whole body of the Glendale company's employes, 

 after which the pastors of the various churches in town joined 

 in a public service. Many of Mr. Green's out of town business 

 associates were present, and all the places of business with 

 which he been connected were closed. 



The emplo)es of the Glendale mill have taken steps to have 

 placed upon the wall a bronze tablet in memory ol Mr. Green, 

 not only as treasurer and manager of the mill, but their " fel- 

 low workman." 



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John Spencer Turner, director and vice president of the 

 United States Cotton Duck Corporation and head of the J. 

 Spencer Turner Co., of New York, died of apoplexy on Septem- 

 ber 19 at Caldwell, New Jersey, in hisseventy-fifth year. He was 

 one of the best known men in the cotton duck trade and was 

 instrumental in organizing the so called " cotton duck trust." 

 His home was in Brooklyn. 



Japan.— The Fujikura Insulated Wire and Rubber Co. (To- 

 kio, Japan) advise The India Rubber World that their busi- 

 ness during the first half of this year was very good, their sales 

 of weatherproof wire amounting in value to 90,000 yen [ = S43'- 

 920], and sales of rubber insulated wire to 160,000 yen [ = $79,- 

 680]. They hoped to do a still larger business during the 

 latter half of the year. 



