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Cambridge, Massachusetts, on " Methods of Controlling Pro- 

 duction, Wages, and Waste." This was one of a series of lec- 

 tures in factory economy, designed for superintendents and 

 foremen. 



=-A lecture on the processes of manufacturing rubber goods 

 was delivered by Mr. Andrew McTernan, superintendent of the 

 Tyer Rubber Co., on the evening of January 21 before the 

 Burns Club, a social and literary organization of Andover, 

 Massachusetts. 



= Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton, general manager of the North 

 Western Rubber Co., Limited ( Liverpool, England ), paid a fly- 

 ing visit to the United States during February. He sailed from 

 New \'ork for home on the Oceanic on the 15th. 



= Messrs. Charles lung, general manager, and William 

 Hausser, superintendent of factories, of the Societe Industri- 

 elle des Telephones (Paris and Calais, France), an important 

 concern in the insulated wire industry, were visitors to the 

 United States during the past month. 



= Mr. Frederick S. Minott, of New^ York, and Mrs. Marion 

 Lowry Michlerwere married at Florence, Italy, on February 11. 

 Mr. Minott was attended by his brother, Joseph Otis Minott, of 

 New York. Mrs. Minott is a daughter of the late Commodore 

 Reigert B. Lowry, u. s N., and is the widow of Colonel Francis 

 Michler. Mr. Minott is the son of the late Joseph A. Minott, of 

 South Orange. New [ersey, whom he succeeded as secretary of 

 the Goodyear Rubber Co. (New York). He is a graduate of 

 Princeton University, in the class of '89, and is a member of 

 the University, Princeton, and Strollers' clubs, of New York, 

 and the Rockaway Hunt Club. Mr. and Mrs. Minott will take an 

 automobile trip through Europe before returning to the United 

 States. 



= Mr. William D. Owen, of the Ubero rubber plantation 

 properties, was reported recently to be at Cairo, Egypt, on ac- 



count of his health, with the date of his return to the United 

 States uncertain. 



= Laurence W. Ahrens, of the L. W. Ahrens Stationery and 

 Printing Co. (New York), died on February 14, in his forty- 

 second year. The company referred to for a number of years 

 held contracts for supplying the municipal government depart- 

 ments with stationery, including rubber goods. 



ELEAZAR BUTTIN' IN. 



Eleazar (♦God-hath-helped) Ke.mpshall whose hundredsof 

 golf ball patents, with their thousands of claims, were supposed 

 to secure to the Kempshall Manufacturing Company, to whom 

 they were assigned, any and all new ideas in their line, is out 

 with his old company and also out with a new ball. He has 

 with speed and dispatch organized another company, Maine 

 laws, $1,000,000 capital, and says he is working under patents 

 not owned by the Kempshall company. That company say he 

 is a doubly hyphenized infringer, and by the help of the court 

 have temporarily injuncted him. One who knows the insides 

 of golf balls as few others do, asserts that the new ball has 

 for a center, a shoe button, upon which the resilient material 

 for the ball itself is " moulded, pressed, wound, twisted, braided, 

 knit, tied, stretched, stuck, cemented, pasted, glued, soldered, 

 laid, placed, put, nailed, tacked, spiked, bolted, pegged, dropped, 

 planted, rolled, squirted, jabbed, dabbed, hung, (lung, photo- 

 graphed, or otherwise attached." And it is quite likely true. 

 Shoe buttons, oyster crabs and seed warts are almost the only 

 available centers not covered by the Kempshall company's 

 patents. Eleazar is just the sort of genius to butt in with a but- 

 ton. Now, with a button hook driver, a shoe horn putter, and 

 a nine hole course of button holes, what a game golf will be ? 



♦Literal interpretation of the name ICUazar. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



THE upward tendency of values, which has been in prog- 

 ress for some time past, and received a new impulse 

 about the 20th of the past month, has reached a point 

 where we have to report higher prices for both Para 

 and medium sorts than have ever been recorded in these pages, 

 with the exception of our report on December i. Ths extreme 

 figure reported at that time was 1.3010 1.32 for new Upriver 

 fine, compared with which we now report 1.28 to 1.29. with pro- 

 portional figures for other Par4 grades. 



Advices received February 18 stated: " At present there is 

 no stock at Manaos unsold, but a liberal quantity is soon to ar- 

 rive there, for which there are waiting orders with all the ex- 

 porters. The advance in values since February i was due to 

 the necessities of the exporters at Manaos ; that is, to secure 

 an increased quantity for certain buyers it was necessary to ad- 

 vance the market." A Para advice, dated February 1 1 said : 

 " With the increase of receipts the tone of the market began 

 to lose buoyancy, the demand showing sign of weakness and 

 prices becoming easier, but a fresh revival has taken place 

 which has brought all favorable features to the surface again, 

 as evidence that, whatever the course of events may be later on, 

 at present the larger receipts, far from being an incumbrance, 

 are a welcome feature." 



The arrivals of Pard at New York have been very large, but 

 for the most part have been delivered on contracts, leaving 

 moderate lots for sale. The total receipts at the mouth of the 

 Amazon to date appear in excess of the arrivals at the corre- 

 sponding date of several years past, but the increase has not 



been sufficient to lend hope that the season's production as a 

 whole will show an advance. There yet remain of the season 

 only four months, and usually March is the last month to show 

 large receipts. The continued activity of the consuming mar- 

 kets coupled with the small visible supplies makes it impossi- 

 ble to predict an early decline in prices. 



Attention may be called to the fact that our quotations 

 for African sorts this month are considerably higher than have 

 been reported at any previous time. Several important grades 

 of Africans are quoted at over $1, and even Assams as high as 

 99 cents. Reference to the first issues of The India Rubber 

 World, (in 1889) shows that Sierra Leones were quoted at 35 

 @ 44, Congo sorts at 39 @ 42, and Assams at 55. which fig- 

 ures, compared with those now prevailing, indicate a much 

 more marked appreciation in the value of African sorts than of 

 Paras, which is due doubtless to the fact that manufacturers 

 have made great advance in adapting these sorts to use. 



Following is a statement of prices of Pard grades, one year 

 ago, one month ago, and on February 28 — the current date. 



PARA. Mar. i, '04. Feb. I, '05. Feb. i8. 



Islands, fine, new 102(8103 I2i@i22 125(8126 



Islands, fine, old @ none here none here 



Upriver, fine, new 106(21107 I24@I25 128(31129 



Upriver, fine, old 108(^109 none here none here 



Islands, coarse, new . 66(867 To@ "I 1S@ 76 



Islands, coarse, old ...none here none here none here 



Upriver, coarse, new 83(8 84 q2(8 93 94(8 95 



Upriver, coarse, old 85(8 86 none here none here 



Caucho (Peruvian) sheet 66(867 7I<^ 72 725(8731 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 76® 77 80(881 79J@ 80 



