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IHE IISiDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1905. 



OBITUARY. 



COLONEL W. G. WINANS. 



WILLIAM G. WINANS, for a number of years identified 

 with the rubber trade in New York, and for the last 

 six years a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, died in that city 



on March 12, at the 

 age of 62 years. Mr. 

 Winans belonged to 

 a wealthy New York 

 family, his father hav- 

 ing been president of 

 the Hamilton Life 

 Insurance Co., and 

 he himself occupied 

 the position of secre- 

 tary for some 1 9 years. 

 :\\. the beginning of 

 the civil war he en- 

 listed as private in 

 Company A, Light 

 Guards, Seventy-first 

 regiment American 

 Guards of New York 

 city. He served with 

 distinction and was 

 promoted to adjutant 

 WILLIAM Q. WINANS. and at the close of 



the war was colonel of his regiment. 



His entrance to the rubber trade came about through the 

 death of his brother, whom he succeeded as treasurer of the 

 Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. in 1890. Through unfor- 

 tunate investments he lost not only what property that had 

 been bequeathed to him but was forced to sell his holdings in 

 the Peerless company, and in order to again build up his lor- 

 tunes went to Florida with the idea of becoming a fruit grower 

 on a large scale. In this he was unsuccessful, and so chagrined 

 was he by his lack of success that he withdrew himself from 

 all intercourse with his friends and even his family heard of 

 him but rarely. 



During the days of his prosperity Colonel Winans was a mem - 

 ber of the Old Guard, Union League, Colonial, Lotos, and other 

 clubs in New York, and was a prominent Mason. It was through 

 this latter organization that his relatives heard of his death 

 some two months after it occurred, when his body was conveyed 

 to New York, where the funeral services were held, the inter- 

 ment taking place in the Old Collegiate cemetery, in Second 

 street, in the Winans vault, which was constructed nearly 100 

 years ago. 



GEORGE LANGDON. 

 George Langdon died on May 28 at his home in Plymouth, 

 Connecticut, in which town he was born August 4, 1826. His 

 father was Edmund Langdon, who married Emeline, daughter 

 of Timothy Gates, of East Haddam. He was prepared for col- 

 lege in Mr. Hart's school, at Farmington, and was graduated 

 from Yale in the class of 1848. In the same year he engaged in 

 business in Colchester as a merchant, but afterwards he be- 

 came a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and connected 

 with the India-rubber industry. 



He was interested from the beginning in the Novelty Rub- 

 ber Co. — at one time one of the most successful concerns in 

 the hard rubber industry — ana for awhile was secretary of that 

 company. In 1857 he returned to Connecticut, and was inter- 

 ested in the old American Hard RubberCo., whose factory was 

 at Beacon Falls. Mr. Langdon became interested also in the 



New York Rubber Co. at an early period of its'history, and re- 

 mained a shareholder in it until his death. 



Two of Mr. Langdon's friends, in his native' county in Con- 

 necticut (Litchfieldt, became successful New York merchants, 



and they were likewise interested in the Novelty Rubber Co. 



John C. Calhoun, one of the founders of the still successful dry- 

 goods house of Cal- 

 houn, Robbins & Co., 

 in NewYork, and 

 Lucius P. Porter, 

 who, in addition to 

 being concerned in 

 the Novelty Rubber 

 Co., was president of 

 the Norfolk and New 

 Brunswick Hosiery 

 I Co.. with an adjacent 

 ' lactory — a concern in 

 which several prom- 

 inent rubber manu- 

 facturers were at one 

 time shareholders 

 and which is still in 

 existence. 



Mr. Langdon rep- 

 resented Colchester 

 in i853and Plymouth 

 QfORQE LANQDON. in 1859, in the Con- 



necticut legislature. In Plymouth he was selectman, school 

 visitor, town treasurer, and grand juror. He was a member of 

 the board of trustees of the state reform school. He was also 

 a deacon in the Congregational church and a member of the 

 Connecticut Sunday School Association. He married, Sep- 

 tember 3, 1851, Miss Elizabeth A. Chapman, of Colchester, who 

 survives, with two sons— George E. Langdon, who holds a po- 

 sition in the custom house at New York, and Lucius P. Lang- 

 don, of Plymouth — and a daughter. Miss Ellen Langdon. 



THE RUBBER SHOES WORN IN CHINA. 



TH E United States consul at Amoy reports : " While under 

 the present system of noting imports it is impossible to 

 ascertain the country of origin of most goods from abroad sold 

 in China, except by their particular brands, it appears that Ger- 

 many is supplying the Chinese at the present time with consid- 

 erable in the way of rubber shoes and boots which ought to be 

 supplied by the United States. The reason German goods 

 have been preferred emphasizes what American consuls in 

 China have been saying for years, viz., that the Chinese market 

 must be studied if American trade in it is to be furthered 

 With ordinary Chinese dress it is impossible to wear rubber 

 boots of the sort usually made in the United States. The Ger- 

 mans make a short half boot or elongated gaiter of light-weight 

 rubber and line it lightly. These meet the Chinese require- 

 ments and are growing very popular. Some Chinese men are 

 wearing ordinary American style ' rubbers' in damp weather. 

 All these goods are worn without other shoes or boots." 



RuiiHER Nei KWEAR. — Rubber collars have long been a fa- 

 miliar sight, but rubber neckties are more of a novelty. The 

 flat ascot ties commonly worn by automobile drivers and coach- 

 men, and usually made of white pique, have now been repro- 

 duced in white rubber. They are easy to adjust, do not wrinkle, 

 and are easily kept clean — all of which qualities appeal to the 

 ordinary coachman. — New York Sun. 



