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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I July i, 1909. 



Dewart, assisted by the Rev. Daniel Dulaney Addison, of All 

 Saints' church, Brookline. The Albion Male Quartette sang 

 "Rock of Ages" and "Nearer My God to Thee," in addition to 

 the music rendered by the church choir and organist. The Rev. 

 Mr. Addison read Tennyson's poem, "Crossing the Bar." 



Mr. Forsyth was one of the most interesting figures that the 

 rubber trade has known. His strong acquiline features, black 

 eyes and wealth of wavy black hair, in which there was hardly a 

 thread of silver, made him a notable figure anywhere. The 

 company which he built up was his idol, and he sacrificed him- 

 self to it. After a long day at the factory and office, he often 

 worked far into the night. No amount of persuasion could pre- 

 vail upon him to take a vacation. He had a vague plan for the 

 purchase of a farm on which he would one day enjoy life, but 

 was never quite ready for it. 



One of his most lovable characteristics was his friendliness. 

 Scores and hundreds sought his advice and found him always 

 interested, always the comforter and helper. His industry and 

 pertinacity were wonderful. Once embarked upon a policy he 

 followed it to the end, at no matter what cost in money or 

 effort. 



With the many basic lines in rubber manufacture that have 

 today grown into separate industries, he was not only familiar, 

 but he had in many cases developed them experimentally years 

 before the world was ready for them. 



Tribute of the New England Rubber Club. 



It is with profound sorrow that we, the committee representing the New 

 England Rubber Qub, learn of the death of our fellow member and Hon- 

 orary Vice President, James Bennett Forsyth. Seldom is it given to a 

 man in any industry to be at once a pioneer, founder, and successful 

 administrator. In intimate connection with the rubber trade for half a 

 century, the originator of many of its most valuable processes, the builder 

 of a great and successful business, he was a merchant-manufacturer of the 

 highest type. Capable, conscientious, courteous, of infinite industry, a wise 

 and careful counsellor, ever loyal to friend, to his business associates, and 

 to the industry that he helped to create, his loss will long be felt. It is 

 therefore 



Resolved^ That in his death our association and the trade at large suffer 

 an irreparable loss. 



Resolved, That we extend to his family our appreciation of his noble 

 character, and of our sympathy for them in their great bereavement. 



GEORGE P. WHITMORE, 

 E. E. WADBRO'OK, 

 A. M. PAUL, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



Boston, June 21, 1909. 



HOLLAND BENNETT. 



Holland Bennett, a well-known young Boston lawyer, who 

 died at sea on the steamship Berlin, which arrived at Genoa 

 from New York on June 11, was the son of Josiah Q. Bennett, 

 who is connected with a number of important corporations, in- 

 cluding the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., of which he 

 is a director and secretary. The deceased was a member of the 

 legal firm. Furbish & Bennett. Mr. Bennett was married on 

 May 12 and his bride was on the steamer with him. 



GUSTAV AMSINCK. 



The passing of Gustav Amsinck removes perhaps the last sur- 

 vivor of the rubber importing regime in the United States of a 

 half century ago. Born in Hamburg in 1837 and educated in 

 Germany, he came to America at the age of 20. Three years 

 later he joined the banking and commission house of L. E. Am- 

 sinck & Co. (New York), founded by his brother, as a partner. 



The firm by this time had become interested in the importation 

 of crude rubber from Para sufficiently to be mentioned along 

 •with the older houses of H. K. Corning and James Bishop & Co., 

 both of whom had extensive dealings in rubber. In 1874 the 

 firm became G. Amsinck & Co., with the subject of this sketch 

 at its head — which position he held to the end of his life. The 

 Amsinck firm have continued to import rubber to an important 

 extent to the present, keeping in touch with the changed condi- 

 tions which time has brought about, while developing on an ex- 



The Late Gustav Amsinck. 



tensive scale other departments of trade with Central and South 

 America. 



Socially Mr. Amsinck became prominent in the older German 

 set in New York, and belonged to the more important German 

 societies ; he was also from an early date a member of the 

 Union Club, joining later the Down Town Association and 

 Baltosrol Golf Club, the Vaudeville Club, and so on. He was 

 a member of the Coffee and Produce exchanges, and a director 

 in various banks and insurance companies. 



In October, 1904, Mr. Amsinck and Mrs. James Hude Beek- 

 man, a member of one of the oldest families in the city of New 

 York, were married at Geneva, Switzerland. They established a 

 home at No. 25 East Forty-seventh street. New York, where a 

 delightful hospitality was dispensed, and here Mr. Amsinck died 

 on the evening of June 8. Funeral services were held at St. 

 Thomas's Church (Episcopal), on June 11. 



MRS. J. OLIVER STOKES. 



The host of friends in the trade of Mr. J. Oliver Stokes, of the 

 Home, the Stokes and the Thermoid rubber companies, will hear 

 with very deep regret of the death of Mrs. Stokes, which 

 occurred in New York on June 7. Mrs. Stokes was Miss Sara 

 Phillips. The funeral services in the State Street Methodist 

 Episcopal church, at Trenton, were conducted by the pastor. Rev. 

 John D. Fox, D. D., assisted by the Rev. John Y. Dobbins, who, 

 as the former pastor of the church, married Mr. and Mrs. Stokes 

 in 1883. The interment was in the Stokes family plot in Green- 

 wood cemetery, Trenton. 



The recent disaster at sea by which the steamer Republic nar- 

 rowly escaped loss with her passengers, their preservation being 

 credited to the successful call for aid through the medium of 

 wireless telegraph, leads an English contemporary to remark 

 that whatever its success in its proper field, wireless has not been 

 proved to be adapted to carrying on a busy inland traffic. It is 

 Telephony that comments thus after quoting from the record of 

 the wireless operator on the Republic, most of whose work dur- 

 ing several hours seems to have been in urging some of the 

 other boats with wireless outfits to "keep quiet." He referred 

 to one boat which, "using stronger current, drowned everybody," 

 so that the Republic was at times cut off from communication 

 with those it was most important to reach. Our contemporary 

 is of the opinion that with hundreds, instead of a few, wireless 

 messages being transmitted at once in the same atmospheric area, 

 there would be simply hopeless confusion. 



