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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May I, 1909- 



Essex Rubber Co Mr. C.H Oakley. 



Mercer Rubber Co Mr. J. E. Clancy. 



Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co Mr. J. H. Lambert 



Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing Co Mr. W. .'~. Hlodgett 



United and Globe Rubber Mfg. Cos 

 Woven Steel Hose and Rubber Co 



( Mr. W. il. Linburg. 



( Mr. John S. Broughton. 



Mr. J. Russell Kelso. 



Mr. W. H. Linburg presided, with Mr. C. H. Oakley as 

 secretary. Mr. Bruce Bedford was appointed as chairman of a 

 committee to provide a suitable floral tribute to the memory of 

 Mr. Cook. It was unanimously resolved that the rubber mills 

 of Trenton close at noon on the day of the funeral Thursday, 

 April 22. 



A committee composed of Mf. W. W. Blodgett and Mr. C. H. 

 Oakley was instructed to provide for the proper engrossment 

 of a set of resolutions expressing the keen sence of regret on 

 the part of the rubber manufacturers of Trenton at the loss 

 of their fellow manufacturer, and conveying to his family their 

 tribute of sympathy, one copy to be sent to the family and one 

 copy to be tendered the Chamber of Commerce. 



It was resolved that a copy of the minutes of the meeting be 

 mailed to each rubber manufacturer. 



attention to duty he succeeded in working his way to the front, 

 as well as into the hearts and confidence of all with whom he 

 came in contact. Stricken by tuberculosis four years ago, he 

 lived for a time in Arizona in the hope of recovering his health. 

 He was laid away to rest in beautiful Lakeview cemetery on 

 April I, mourned by his associates, and followed to the grave by 

 a large number of employees of the factory. A wife and two chil- 

 dren survive him. 



JACOB NEUMAN. 



Jacob Neum.\n, who died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, on 

 March 2~, in his forty-third year, was vice-president of the Stein 

 Double Cushion Tire Co., of Akron, of which he was one of the 

 founders in 1901. He had filled the same office in the company 

 since the beginning, just as Charles K. Sunshine has been presi- 

 dent continuously. For several years Mr. Neutnan filled also the 

 office of general manager of the Stein company, and spent most 

 of his time in Akron. The funeral services at Cleveland on 

 March 29 were attended by a delegation of the Akron office staft. 

 A brother of the deceased, M. M. Neuman, is secretary and 

 treasurer of the Stein company. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



ZIBA C. KEITH. 



ZIBA CARY KEITH, who died at his home in Brockton, 

 Massachusetts, on April 5, was a leading citizen of that 

 place. He was the first mayor of Brockton, which position he 

 filled for several terms, rendering the city a notable service. At 

 various times he served in both branches of the Massachusetts 

 legislature, and in several municipal offices other than the 

 mayoralty. He was a director and treasurer for more than a 

 dozen years of the Monarch Rubber Co., organized by John 

 Thomas Robinson in 1892 to conduct a proofing business, and 

 incorporated in 1893. Mr. Keith was also a director in several 

 banks and other corporations. He was born July 13, 1842, and 

 married in 1865 to Miss Jackson, who survives with one son. 



JAMES COKNOLLY. 



The death of James Connolly, manager of the druggists' 

 sundries department of the Mechanical Rubber Co., occurred on 

 March 30, at his home in East Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Connolly 



James Connolly. 



was a young man, not yet 37, but had been identified with the 

 rubber business for many years, having started as office boy 

 with the Cleveland factory in 1885. By great industry and strict 



NO GUAYULE COMBINATION. 



TO THE Editor of The India Rdbber World: On the loth 

 of this month a report was published in a number of news- 

 papers in this city and abroad, purporting to come from Mexico 

 City, to the effect that Messrs. Madero & Co. had sold their 

 guayule interests to the Continental Rubber Co. for $15,000,000. 

 I was quite sure that there was no truth in the report, but tele- 

 graphed immediately to Mr. Ernesto Madero, who replied at 

 once that it was a pure fabrication, and also telegraphed to the 

 Associated Press here asking them to make a denial. There 

 have never been any negotiations for the sale of Messrs. Ma- 

 dero's guayule interests, and there is not the slightest reason to 

 think that such a sale will ever take place. As I have had 

 numerous inquiries from rubber factories in this country in- 

 quiring about the correctness of this report, I would thank you 

 to inform the trade through your paper that there is no truth 



in it. ED. MAURER. 



[Representative of Madero & Co., Mexico.] 



New York, April '19, 1909. 



[Inquiry at the offices of the Continental Rubber Co., in New 

 York, brought a firm denial of any knowledge of a combination 

 of interests of that company with any other.] 



THE AGE OF EXPOSITIONS. 



IT is plain from reading the Journal dcs Expositiones that the 

 era of national and international expositions is not over. 

 Founded 67 years ago, this journal continues to chronicle existing 

 and to advise in regard to prospective expositions, the sum total 

 of which constitutes one of the great educational agencies of 

 modern times. A recent number of the Journal, published now 

 in Brussels, has articles on no fewer than 25 expositions now 

 being organized, in 14 different countries, in North and South 

 .America, Europe, and Asia. The Brussels Exposition of 1910 is, 

 of course, treated prominently. Not least in importance of the 

 enterprises under way is the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 

 to be held at Seattle, United States, from June to October, this 

 year. Damascus is organizing an exposition; so is Quito, and 

 Brazil, Norway, and Russia are on the list. W'hile it does not 

 appear that especial attention is to be given to rubber at any of 

 the prospective expositions, except perhaps that at Brussels, 

 rubber is certain to figure largely, in an auxiliary sense, at most 

 of them. This will be true, for example, of the international 

 exposition of aeronautics at Frankfort o/M. this year. 



