1'ebkiarv I, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



189 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



In the sketch of Dr. Joseph Torrey in The India RunnKR 

 World of January i (page 132), a shght error occurred. Instead 

 of what was printed there it should have been stated that while 

 at Harvard he took an "assistantsliip," which was followed 

 by an "instructorship," which continued nnlil he left the univer- 

 sity, in igco. 



Mr. Lester Leland, second vice-president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., is spending the winter abroad, having sailed from 

 his home in Boston just before New Year's. 



Mr. Francis L. Hine, who for some years had been vice- 

 president of the First National Bank of New York, was 

 elected president at the annual meeting on January 12, to 

 succeed Mr. George F. Baker, resigned. Mr. Hine is serving 

 for the sixth year as a director in the United Slates Rubber 

 Co., and he is connected with many other important corpora- 

 tions. He was president for some years of the Nashawan- 

 nuck Manuiacturing Co., makers of narrow textile fabrics, in 

 which men of prominence in the rubber trade have been in- 

 terested from the time that the late Christopher Meyer filled 

 the office of president. The Nashawannuck company was in- 

 corporated by Chapter 132 of the laws of Massachusetts for 

 18.SO. 



Mr. .A. M. Stickncy, president of the Wellnian Sole Cutting 

 Machine Co. (Medford, Massachusetts), is enjoying a winter 

 vacation in the south of France. 



At the eleventh annual dinner of the Victorian Club, the 

 leading British club of New England, Mr. Elston E. Wad- 

 brook, of Poel & .Arnold (Boston), whose nomination to the 

 presidency of the organization was noted in a previous issue 

 of this paper, was unanimously elected president. 



The town of Marion, Massachusetts, is to have an industrial 

 educational institution, with which an employment bureau 

 may be connected, as the result of a movement initiated by 

 Mrs. Harry E. Converse, wife of the president of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., whose summer home is^i Marion. 



Mr. Isaac Crocker, of Providence, Rhode Island, the head 

 of an important chain of retail rubber stores in New England, 

 accompanied by a few friends, is mentioned by the Laconia 

 (New Hampshire) Democrat as having made lately an excep- 

 tional catch of trout and pickerel from Lake Winnipesaukee, 

 near Glondale, New Hampshire, where Mr. Crocker owns several 

 cottages. Part of the catch figured in a dinner given by Mr. 

 Crocker at Wolfe's Hotel in Providence, on January 5. 



Mr. Kenzo Okada, general manager of the Fujikura In- 

 sulated Wire and Cable Co., Tokio, Japan, who underwent 

 quite a serious operation at tlie Tokio Hospital, is fully re- 

 covered and again at the helm in the Tokio factory. Mr. 

 Okada will be remembered by many friends whom he made 

 while sojourning in the United States for some years. 



A round of presentations at the factory of the National 

 India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) on the day pre- 

 ceding Christmas, was an occasion of much enjoyment to 

 all concerned. To the general agent, Mr. Le Baron C. Colt, 

 was presented a beautiful sterling silver pitcher, on behalf 

 of the management and salesmen. Mr. Walter De F. Brown, 

 the secretary and treasurer, received a handsome cane from 

 the office force. Nearly all the oflficials and foremen were 

 remembered, and some of the older employees, who received 

 presents from the younger workers in their respective de-' 

 partments. 



Mr. Jiihn J. Voorhces, president of the Voorhces Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City, New Jersey), lectured on the 

 evening of January 19, before the Men's Club of the Bergen Re- 

 formed Church, on the subject of "Rubber," giving an interesting 

 account of how this material is obtained, in the first place, and 

 tracing 'the various stages through which it passes until developed 

 into factory products of almost inlinite variety. 



PERSONAL MENTION, 



Thk most exciting general news of the past month related to 

 the accident at sea near the New England coast to the steamer 

 Republic, the passengers on which, fortunately, were rescued be- 

 fore the steamer went down, through the aid from other ships 

 secured by the medium of wireless telegraphy. One of the pas- 

 sengers was Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, an authoress of distinction, 

 who fell into the sea while being transferred from the sinking 

 Hcpuhlic, but was rescued. The lady is the widow of Henry 

 Earle, who was the founder of the rubber brokerage lirm of 

 Earle Brothers, of New York. 



After the tiresome work of taking inventory, at the end of 

 the year, the officers of the Fairfield Rubber Co. (Fairfield, Con- 

 necticut), together with the whole clerical force, dined at the 

 Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport, going later to the theatre. The 

 pleasure of the reunion was contributed to by speeches made 

 by Major W. W. Harral, manager of the company; Frank 

 Hotchkiss, superintendent, and Secretary Goodcll. Mr. C. Har- 

 ral, son of the president, pleased the company with several 

 songs. 



Major J. OrlDii Kcrl^c-y, formerly United States consul at 

 Para and now conccted with the International Bureau nf the 

 .American Republics, and whose name is familiar to India Ruuber 

 WiiKiii readers, was invited recently to deliver an address on 

 Brazil before the boys of Peddie Institution, located near 

 Princeton, New Jersey. The International Bureau, by the way, 

 has devoted itself unceasingly to bring about closer relations be- 

 tween educational institutions in the various republics contribut- 

 ing to its support. 



Mr. William J. Slater, lately advertising manager, Fire, 

 stone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), has severed his 

 connection with that company to take up the general manage- 

 ment of the Kalamazoo (Michigan), Telegraph, a newspaper in 

 which he has recently become financially interested. 



CALENDARS FOR 1909, 



1 Iazard Manufacturing Co. (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 

 send out a calendar designed expressly for them, composed of 

 a separate sheet for each month, 17 x 22 inches, and each illus- 

 trated differently, to indicate the character of the company's 

 production of insulated wires and wire rope. 



I'he Adamson Machine Co. (Akron, Ohio) send out a calen- 

 dar ornamented with a reproduction in colors of Carl Fedeler's 

 painting, "After the Storm." 



The Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co. (Jonesboro, Ind.) 

 send out a calendar mounted on a large card giving a good 

 view of the works of the company. 



Apsley Rubber Co. ( Hudson, Massachusetts) send out a cal- 

 endar, the illustration on which is a picture, full of life, of a 

 Saturday night scene in a New England country store. 



James Boyd & Brother, Inc. (Philadelphia), sent out a cal- 

 endar arranged with one leaf for each week in the year, in the 

 same attractive and convenient style that they have used for 

 this purpose for many years past. 



'i'he Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey) have sent us the smallest calendar for the new year re- 

 ceived to date, but one of the most attractive, it being em- 

 bellished with a reproduction in miniature of a famous painting 

 by .-? French artist. 



Joseph Fynney & Co., of Liverpool, have again rendereil the 

 trade a service by bringing out at the usual date their "Diary for 

 1909, With 'Loss in Washing' and Parity Tables and Statistics." 

 The whole is compact, well arranged, and evidently accurate, 

 and is sure to be appreciated by every buyer of raw rubber for- 

 tunate enough to secure a copy. 



Elmer E. Bast, Chicago manager of Hamilton Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., and The .American Belting Co., sends out a taste- 

 ful new calendar ornamented by a photograph of a pretty girl — 

 ".Suzanne." 



