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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1904. 



= In the United States court at Denver, Colorado, Judge 

 Hallett recently dismissed a suit brought by the United States 

 Rubber Co. to enforce the collection of a claim for §40,000 

 against a customer, on the ground that the plaintifT company 

 had failed to comply with the Colorado statute requiring cor- 

 porations formed under the laws of other states to pay a cor- 

 poration tax there and to name a local agent to sue or be sued. 



= Fabric Fire Hose Co. (New York) have been distributing 

 to their friends in the trade a handsome souvenir in the shape 

 of a leather card case, embossed with the company's trade 

 mark. 



= The regular quarterly dividend of lyi per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred shares of the American Chicle Co. is payable on Octo- 

 ber I. The regular monthly dividend of i per cent, on the 

 common shares was paid on September 20. 



= W. H. Salisbury & Co. (No. 107 Madison street, Chicago), 

 so long engaged in the distribution of mechanical rubber 

 goods, have taken the account of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. 

 (Jeannette, Pa.) 



= Mr. H. M. Sadler, Jr., formerly general manager of the 

 United States Rubber Co., and for some time past engaged in 

 the banking business in Wall street, it is reported, is about to 

 become connected with the Banner Rubber Co. (St. Louis). 



= Mr. R. M. Howison, of R. M. Howison & Co., Snow Hill, 

 London, European agents for the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. 

 (Jeannette, Pa.), was a visitor to the United Stales during the 

 latter half of September. 



= C. W. Barrett, who has for some time represented the Bos- 

 ton Woven Hose and Rubber Co, in the southwest, will here- 

 after represent them in St. Louis and adjoining territory, with 

 headquarters at St. Louis. 



= Labor day (September 5) was celebrated at Lambertville, 

 New Jersey, with a carnival in which the whole city took part, 

 instead of the celebration being confined to a demonstration by 

 organized labor. There was an oration by the Hon. Francis 

 B. Lee, of Trenton, on the industrial progress of the city, and 

 a procession through streets decorated in gala attire. Prom- 

 inent features of the procession were floats representing the 

 Lambertville Rubber Co. and the New Jersey Rubber Co. 



= The New York branch of the Tennant Auto-Tire Co. 

 (Springfield, Ohio) reports having equipped to date over 800 

 automobiles with the Tennant puncture proof tires. The com- 

 pany expect next year to turn out a full line of tires built on 

 the same principle for motor cycles. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Herr Arthur Kr.aack, manager of the Russian-American 

 India-Rubber Co. (St. Petersburg), was a recent visitor to the 

 World's Fair at St. Louis, and while in the States favored the 

 offices of The India Rubber World with a call. 



= Recent visitors to The India Rubber World office have 

 been Mr. Francis Crosbie Roles, editor of the Times of Ceylon 

 (Colombo), who came to America as official visitor to the Cey- 

 lon Court at the World's Fair, and Mr. M. Kelway Bamber, 

 government chemist for Ceylon, who also was on an official 

 mission to the fair. 



= Mr. Isidor Frankenburg, the head of the important rubber 

 manufacturing firm of I. Frankenburg & Sons, Limited, of Man- 

 chester, England, and a member of the Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry, was in attendance at the society's annual meeting in 

 New York, which was begun on September 7.=^-^Mr. Walter 

 F. Reid, of Surrey, a consulting chemist and the inventor of 

 " Velvril " and some other compounds of intefest to the rubber 

 trade, was also in attendance, the British visitors in all number- 

 ing about a hundred. 



= Mr. George H. Hood, of Boston, so long a prominent 



figure in the rubber industry, has returned from an automobile 

 tour of Europe, which consumed most of the summer, and 

 extended through Great Britain, Fiance, Switzerland, and 

 Belgium. 



= Mr. Ephraim L. Corning, a director in the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., who for a number of years past has resided in Swit- 

 zerland, is making one of his periodical visits to the United 

 States. 



= Mr. Isaac B. Markey, secretary of the Eureka Fire Hose 

 Co. (New York), whose illness was reported in the last India 

 Rubber World, has since recovered sufficiently to allow him 

 to return to his office. 



— Mr. James Bennett Forsyth, of the Boston Belting Co., 

 has had printed a strong argument for more liberal treatment 

 by the government of the merchant marine, in a little pamph- 

 let bearing on its cover a picture of the United States flag, with 

 the inscription : " The flag that is about to become extinct upon 

 the ocean highways of the world." The contents are made of 

 pointed paragraphs of which this is a specimen : 



The delegates to the Pan American Congress in this country had to 

 travel by way of Europe to reach America, and we are thousands of 

 miles nearer in a direct line. 

 Of what use is a Pan American Congress without ships? 



= It is reported that the executors of the estate of the late 

 Elisha S. Converse have discovered personal property to the 

 amount of Si. 500.000. the existence of -which was not before 

 suspected by them. It does not appear that the property was 

 concealed in any way, but the executors learned of it only by 

 going over the details of the estate. 



= Mr. Harold P. Fuller, of Boston, one of most popular of 

 the young men in the employ of the New York, New Haven 

 and Hartford Railroad Co., has given up railroading to enter 

 the rubber business, having accepted a position as salesman for 

 the products of the E. H. Clapp Rubber Co. 



A VISITOR FROM SILVERTOWN. 



Mr. Robert Kaye Gray, managing director of the India- 

 Rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraphs Works Co., Limited 

 (Silvertown, London), was in attendance last month at the In- 

 ternational Electrical Congress, at St. Louis, as one of the del- 

 egates from The Institution of Electrical Engineers of Great 



Britain, of which distinguished 

 body he is the president. Mr. 

 Gray has been closely identified 

 "-CS^ .^S ■ * ^''^ "-^^ submarine telegraph 



from the days when it passed 

 "^ from the stage, of experiment to 



^ that of commercial and engineer- 



ing development. His father, 

 .J Mr. Matthew Gray (1821-1903). 



was long the managing director 

 of the great Silvertown cable 

 works, and it was here that the 

 son received a thorough training 

 ROBERT KAYE GRAY. in everything relating to sub- 



marine telegraphy, and became identified with the engineering 

 side of the art. He was a pupil of Sir Charles Bright, with 

 whom he went out in 1870 to lay the first West Indies cable. 

 At this time, in addition to the office which he fills in the Sil- 

 vertown company, Mr. Gray is chairman of the Spanish National 

 Submarine Cable Co. and a director in several other companies 

 owning and operating submarine cables. He has been presi- 

 dent of the Electrical Engineers since March, 1903. The por- 

 trait presented herewith is used by the courtesy of the Electri- 

 cal World and Engineer, of New York. 



