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THE INDIA rue; 



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99 



tbe fire was confined to neij;hbonn2 stores, ac r 

 loss was S200. due to the flooding of fail baaetne- 



= . At the state election in New Jersey on N , th« 



successful candidate for governor was Edward C. St 

 was mentioned in the last In'DIA Rl'BBEK Wokll ^^ .-^. .« 

 been attacked by the Robber Workers' Union of Trenton on 

 account of bis attitude toward the rubber workers' ' 

 winter, while an officer of one of the njb*j>?r rrsr 

 companies in Trenton. On the morning , . tne 



newspapers published a "Final Appeal o: , •:;rs," 



signed by officers of the Trenton anion, repeating the attacks 

 upon Mr. Stokes. Prior to that date " - = " ■ = 5. reputed 

 prominent labor unionist, was solicits : »I party 



opposed to Stoke's election to get at the licis re* t :a.t- 



ter's attitude to tbe strike, with the result tha: - ir.eji 



rr.i'le a report exonerating Stokes. Sow MuUaney is being at- 

 '.i.citn by labor interests, it being asserted that he is not even 

 a rr.emb'irof a union, and that he was working in the interest 

 of Mr. Stokes's election, [t is not intimated that the result of 

 the election will be affected by the tempest in a teap<jt now in 

 progress in labor anion circles. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHA.X<2 TRANSACnOMS- 



Uxited States Rnbb«r Co. : 



DATES. 



O>«xo». 



Sales. 



Higiu 



LOTT. 



Week eading Oct. 32 12.120 [ 30 

 Week emfing Oct. 29 7,oSo 1 28 Ji 



Week ending N'oT. 5 4,170 

 Week ending Nor. 12 11 600 

 Week ending N'ot iq 26.900 

 Week ending Not. 20 12.050 



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*1% 

 27« 



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RtTBBELR Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



PESISON.AL MEjmOS. 



Mr. EDW.4ja) VALrrnfE Carey, a rubber planter from Se- 

 langor. Federated Malay States, who was mentioned in Mr. 

 Pearson's recent series of letters from the Far East, has late- 

 ly been a visitor to the United States, taking occasion to spend 

 a few days at the St. Louts World's Fair. Mr. Carey will spend 

 some time in Europe, and 00 finally reaching his home in the 

 Malay states will have completed a tour of the globe. Mr. 

 Carey was for seven years chairman of the Selangor Planters' 

 .Association, and afterward for four years chairman of the 

 United Planters' .Association of the Federated states. 



=The Hon. L. D. .-Vpsley, president of the .\psley Rubber 

 Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts), and Mrs, .\psley spent Thanks- 

 giving day with Mr. .\ps!ey's father. George .\psley. at Lock 

 Haven. Pennsylvania, who is S7 years of age. The employes of 

 the Apsley company were not forgotten in the absence of the 

 president, each receiving a handsome card of Thanksgiving 

 greetings, enclosed within which was enough money for the 

 purchase of a turkey. 



= Monsieur .Alfred Grisar. of .Antwerp, who visited the 

 United States recently, crossing tfaecontinent and stopping for 

 a few days at the St, Louis World's Fair, on reaching his home 

 during Kovember. completed a two years' tour of the world. 



It em - • 



of 



lijuiC Waives BtrrrEStwoaTH. foaodcr and chief owiierof 



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I- 



icer. 



i.of 



24. at tuc a^e •Ji o«i. ne tS Suxv^w^u Cty <=. Si-^.^s?. a v 

 and two sons -.h» :x-- 'arter, .Albert P. and 'Z-'-.''.—. ?. Butter- 

 worth, ha' -ciated with hin: -is. Mr. 

 Bjtterwort.:: ~^ . .^^^.i ,a the w-' '■--■- ■ ^ .1 m Cin- 

 cinnati for 35 years, and settled - e years a^o. 

 estab' - 1 his two sons and n. •'/ . —^iiij, th« 

 above ■: 



■=]i. ' dieii ar na 



home.--- -'-: ;-—_-.- c . -^ - : - _ ; - icr 7. He was 



long established at So. 210 Canal Kreet, New Torfe cicy, amS 

 t'-t ^ :c3 were bumei " :" - "i--- ----_ '- -'--- ^; 



TT - : - : -ibber jeweir;; - . : - ^ -t - 



of laii Ciasi extensively. b%iViag a_s m^ter.i- .roci -:^r 



factories ; later he devoted his atieatioQ to horr =-- . 



=John .A. Gram, formerly local manager, at ? 

 g-- -.-.-» t;.--- ~- •;^- Rnbher Co., died on No.c — 

 c : 42 vears. He had a will drawn up 



the -iy ;e:;re, ;_: pci^:- ' ' ■ _ -:il next - - - — 



when tt was too late. 



^Moses Bensinger. pr^ -swick-BaLte-Coi- 



lender Co. (New ■Vork;, Ci- _._._.. .. .....ird tables and bar 



equipment, died on October 14, at French. T.irfc Springs, la&- 

 sjra- Heart failure, following a slight iHness, ca- — ' 



=John E. Thropp, of Trenton, New Jersey, wh : :en- 



ly on Novem'oer z±. was the father of Wu'.isrr R. T ' -^n- 



ton'i. the work of w'nose foundry in bailding — - - _ cor 

 rubber work has made him well known in the trade. 



=John Kashaw. for more than ;o years the coacdeirtial sec- 

 retary of all the various rubber corporations which, iiave suc- 

 ceeded one another at Setauket. N'ew York, died : ire 

 on Xovenber ■:: i,^er a brief illness, and w.: : at 

 Setauket. 



=Josepc .;, „..-.::..:5,:Ale, a prominent drygQods merchant 

 of Sew York, who died on November 21, was the vice president 

 of Combination Rubber and Belting Co. (Bloomlield, Xew 

 Jersey) for three years, from .April, loor. 



An expectation that [:dia-r-;ber wil. ';ec: — e an important 

 product of the Egyptian Sudan is indicated by the action of 

 the government in making regulations in regard to it. The 

 official SaJax Gaaette (September i, 1904) publishes an ordi- 

 nance filing a " royalty " of not more than 2a nor less than 10 

 per cent., ^d valareiK. on crude rubber coming from any part of 

 the district, on a fixed valuation to be announced from ume to 

 ttme by the government. For the present the maiimnni rate 

 wiU be levied, and the value filed is i[ia Egyptian per haiiiar 

 [=$50.38 W per too poandsl- 



