Ai'Rii, I, 1905.] 



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terested in Chicle gum (the product of Achras sapo/a), and be- 

 came convinced that it was not h useless product of nature. In 

 1869 he began the manufacture, in a small way on Vesey street, 

 of his "New York " chewing gum, in competition with the 

 spruce chewing gum then so popular. He was successful, and 

 the business began to expand. He obtained a patent in 1S71, 

 and in 1872 the " Tuttitruti " was introduced, and other brands 

 followed until they numbered a dozen or more. From Vesey 

 street the business was removed to Murray street, New York, 

 and thence in 1888 to Sands street, Brooklyn, where a very 

 large establishment was erected. In May, 1903. the business 

 was removed to Newark, New [ersey. First conducted by Mr. 

 Adams under his own name, the business came in time to be 

 known|as Adams & Sons, succeeded in 1891 by the incorporat- 

 ed Adams & Sors Co. Meanwhile, other chicle chewing gum 

 factories came into existence, and other patents were granted, 

 and in 1899 six concerns were consolidated under the name 

 American Chicle Co., with $15 000 000 capital, which has proved 

 one of the most successful industrial combinations in the coun- 

 try. Mr. Adams retired from active connection with the busi- 

 ness several years ago, but his son Thomas Adams is chairman 

 of the board of the American Chicle Co., and Henry Rowley, 

 who was associated with the original Adams company, is sec- 

 retary and treasurer. Mr. Adams is survived by a widow and 

 seven sons and daughters. [See " The Basis of the Chewing 

 Gum Trade," in Thk India Rubber World, November 10 

 1895— page 43] 



THE LATE MR. YEOMANS. 

 At a meeting of the executive committee of the New England 

 Rubber Club, on March 15, the following tribute to the late 

 Almeron H. Yeomans, a member of the Club, whose death was 

 reported in the last India Rubber World, was adopted : 



Whereas, Our friend and fellow member, Almeron H. Yeomans, has 



been removed from our midst by the hand of death, we, representing 



the New England Rubber Club, hereby adopt the following resolutions: 



Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Yeomans our Association has lost 



one of its most loved and valued members. 



Resolved, That the rubber industry as a whole has been deprived of 

 one of its most respected and valuable members — upright, kindly, able, 

 and the friend of all. Associated with great enterprises, widely known, 

 an authority in his especial field, his passing has saddened all hearts ; 

 his memory is to us all a precious legacy. 



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

 his high character and our heartfelt sympathy in their loss. 

 L D. Arsi.EV, President. 

 ARTHUR w STEDMAN, Vice President. 

 GEORr.E p WHiTMORE, Treasurer. 

 HENRY c. PEARSOiN, Secretary. 

 E. E. WADBROOK, Assistant Secretary. 

 * • * 



The death is reported of Mr. T. P. Bruce Warren, chief 

 chemist to the India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph 

 Works Co., Limited (Silvertown, London), in his sixty-eighth 

 year. Mr. Warren began as early as 1862 his connection with 

 the production of electrical cables, with the founders of the 

 present Hooper's Telegraph and India Rubber Works, Limited 

 (London), and in 1S75 began his connection with the Silver- 

 town company, establishing the labratory at the works and de- 

 voting the remainder of his life to its successful development. 

 Besides his professional work, Mr. Warren was a frequent 

 writer on technical subjects. 



J. L. Lyons, for eight years salesman for the Home Rubber 

 Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) on the Pacific coast and in the ex- 

 treme Northwest, died on March 12 in Chicago of appendici- 

 tis. Mr. Lyons was born in Chicago 31 years ago, and was an 

 exceedingly active and popular salesman. His devotion to 



business was so marked that he refused to give up when first 

 attacked, and kept about his usual duties until finally forced by 

 his friends, to go toa hospital. His death came as a great 

 shock to his many friends. 



VicroR C. \'ANr Worn, 4.6 years old, president of the Vant 

 Woud Rubber Co. (No. 88 Reade street. New York) a jobbing 

 house in the druggists' sundries line, died suddenly of heart 

 failure in a Brooklyn trolley car, on the afternoon of March 25, 

 while nearing his home, No. 617 Hancock street. A widow 

 and a daughter survive. 



We regret to have to record the death, in her eighty-secord 

 year, of Mrs. Mary Kelly Vermuele, wife of Mr. [ohn D. 

 Vermuele, president of the Goodyear's India Rubber Glove 

 Manufacturing Co., which occurred on Friday, March 17, at 

 their home in Staten Island. Mrs. Vermuele was the daughter 

 of Mr. Kelley, a prominent Philadelphia merchant, and was 

 married in 1846. Funeral services were held at the Staten 

 Island residence on Monday, March 20, and the interment was 

 at Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. 



BRITISH OPPOSITION TO THE METER. 



THE British Weights and Measures Association " has been 

 formed," one of its pamphlets states, " for the purpose of 

 opposing the introduction of the meter or any of its derivatives 

 into the United Kingdom, and for so standard! zing and simplify- 

 ing British weights and measures that we may obtain all the ad- 

 vantages the metric system gives, without the disadvantages." 



The secretary, Mr. George Moores, i". S. s. (25, Victoria street, 

 S. W., London) has forwarded to The India Rubber World 

 some data showing the comparatively small area of the globe 

 over which the metric system is in general use, and the slow 

 growth of its introduction, and particularly the great prepon- 

 derance of British trade with inch-using as compared with 

 meter-using peoples. Doubtles a similar showing might be 

 made in relation to the foreign commerce of the Unites States, 

 But as is pointed out by the British association : 



" The above considerations only take into account our ex- 

 port trade. Our home trade, which would also be revolution- 

 ized [by adopting the metric system], and that of our colonics 

 and dependencies, is many, many times greater than the total 

 export trade, whilst the ratio of home trade to export of the 

 United States is reputed to be in the proportion of 95 to 5." 



The India-rubber trade is represented in the executive com- 

 mittee of the British association named above by Mr. Robert 

 Kaye Gray, managing director of the India-rubber, Gutta-per- 

 cha, and Telegraph Works Co., Limited, and past president of 

 the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Reference may be 

 made here to the result of a canvass made by the National Asso- 

 ciation of Manufacturers of the United States, from which it 

 appeared that its members were overwhelmingly opposed to 

 any proposal to make the metric system compulsory in this 

 country. Thirteen American rubber manufacturers were in- 

 cluded among those whose views were expressed on that occa- 

 sion. [See The India Rubber World, June i, 1904— page 

 307.] 



James hopes to become rich.— James McNamara was 

 down from Chicago over Sunday. James is interested in a new 

 material to take the place of rubber, to be used as tubes, rails, 

 etc. The new substance is a composition of some kind and is 

 as hard as iron. A stock company has been formed to manu- 

 facture the new discovery, and James hopes to become a rich 

 man through it, — Maroa {Illinois) Times. 



