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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1902. 



fullest confidence of the directors. He lived to see the capital of 

 the company increased from $100,000 to $300,000, made from the 

 profits of the factory, in addition to paying dividends of 5 to 50 

 per cent, a year. Besides his connection with the rubber com- 

 pany, Mr. Spader at various times served as superintendent o( 

 public schools for North Brunswick township, alderman in 

 New Brunswick, and water commissioner, and from 1862 to 

 1872 he was United States commissioner of internal revenue 

 for Middlesex county. In April, 1862, he was commissioned 

 by the governor of New Jersey as major of the third regiment, 

 Middlesex brigade. New Jersey militia. Mr. Spader was a 

 deacon in the First Reformed church at New Brunswick. On 

 April 4. 1855, he was married to Miss Mary E. Franken.ol New 

 York, who survives, with one son, William V. Spader, of New 

 Brunswick. 



ROBERT C. HELM. 



Robert C. Helm died March 15, at New Brunswick, New 

 Jersey, where he had lived since 1840, at the age of 77. His 

 first employment was in an iron foundry on premises in that 

 town owned by Horace H. Day. At the age of 17 he began 

 work in Day's rubber factory, continuing three years. He next 

 entered the retail shoe trade. Beginning in 1861 he worked in 

 a rubber factory owned by William Judson, and of which John 

 Murphy was superintendent. Many army blankets were made 

 there during the civil war. In 1865-66 Mr. Murphy, in con- 

 nection with Timothy Cornwall and Dexter Bennett carried on 

 the manufacture of elastic goods. The business then took the 

 name Manhattan Rubber Co. and embraced a general line of 

 rubber goods, coming to an end in 1867. Mr. Helm, who had 

 remained with Mr. Murphy, then worked with the Eureka Rub- 

 ber Co., who tried to make white hard rubber, and later, for a 

 year, with Prentiss & Heath (Newark), in the rubber carriage 

 cloth trade. John Murphy was by that time superintendent of 

 the Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co.. then located 

 in West Twenty-fifth street. New York, where Robert Helm 

 secured employment on March 9, 1874. The works were burned 

 the same year, and the present factory, in Brooklyn, was opened 

 in April, 1875, where Mr. Helm was in charge of the calender 

 room, and in other ways assisting the superintendent, until his 

 voluntary retirement in the fall of 1807. He owned his home 

 in New Brunswick, where he took an active interest in the wel- 

 fare of the community. He was an alderman for two years, in 

 one of which he served as president of the board ; was at one 

 time foreman ol a local fire company and later chief of the fire 

 department; was sometime captain of the Morgan Rifles— a 

 local militia company then the pride of the town; and was a 

 charter member of Palestine lodge, F. and A. M. He was 

 buried with Masonic honors on March 17. Mr. Helm lost his 

 wife about eight years ago and is survived by three sons and 



two daughters. 



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John Stearns, father of Edgar G. Stearns, of E. G. Stearns, 

 rubber shoe jobbers in Chicago, died at his home in that city 

 on March 3, after having suffered a stroke of paralysis. He 

 settled in Chicago in 1864, having been born in New York 

 state nearly 80 years ago. Before the Chicago fire Mr. Stearns 

 had one of the largest planing mills in the West. Later he en- 

 gaged in the coal trade, retiring about ten years ago, since 

 which time he had made his home with his son. 



The Candee Rubber Co. will soon issue to the shoe trade' 

 a very convenient little pamphlet showing th(2 different widths, 

 sizes, and toes in which their various goods are made, and 

 giving also the packing scale. The book will be illustrated 

 with cuts showing all the different styles of toes made by the 

 company. 



EXPORTS OF AMERICAN RUBBER GOODS. 



DURING the first seven months of the current fiscal year 

 compared with the three years preceding, as officially 

 reported by the customs service : 



(a) Included in "All Other*' prior to July i, i8gg. 



[Exports to Hawaii and Porto Rico not included.] 



Exports of boots and shoes amounted to 2,159.757 pairs, 

 against 1,212,297 pairs in the seven months ending January 31, 

 1901, and 487,531 pairs in the corresponding of the year before 

 that. 



CANADIAN RUBBER IMPORTS. 

 [For Si-x Months Ending; December 31 — Officially Stcted,] 



19CO. 1901. 



Crude : 



From United States $1,290,328 $835,483 



From Great Britain 78 4.773 



From other countries 9,012 12,418 



Total $1,295,631 



MaiiuJiictiiriJ : 



From United States $196,382 



From Great Britain 58,246 



From other countries 7,870 



Total. 



$262,498 



$852,674 



$289,597 



93.185 



9.012 



$391-794 



JAPANESE IMPORTS OF CAOUTCHOUC WARES. 

 (By Calendar Years. Compiled from Official Reports 

 From— 1900. 



Austria 7.818 



Belgium 26,163 



France 34,lS8 



Germany 1/2,254 



Great Britain 75,983 



Holland 



Italy ... 1,516 



United States 14,453 



Other countries 479 



Total 332,859 204,581 



[The present value of the Yen is 49.S cents.] 



279.954 



AMERICAN RUBBER GOODS EXPORTS TO JAPAN. 



[By Fiscal Years ending June 30 ; officially stated. The Classification of Rubber 



Goods Ditlers t'rom that current in Japan.] 



Years. Value. Years. Value. Years. Value. 



1893 $27,984 1896 $37,833 1899 $57,579 



1894 12,699 1S97 42.000 1900 83.060 



1895 19.441 i8g8... ... 68,440 1901 94,750 



AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN RUBBER FOOTWEAR TRADE. 

 [Official Statement. Weights in Kilograms. 1 



1900, 1901. 



Imports 264,800 491,500 



Exports 200,400 711,200 



Imports during 1901 included : Russia, 160,200 kilos ; Germany 

 7500 ; Great Britain, 6900 ; United States, 9400. 



Exports included ; Germany 141,400 kilos ; Great Britain, 87,200. 



ITALIAN IMPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS. 

 [Officially Stated. Weights in Kilograms.] 

 From — 1897. 



Germany 153,200 



France 41,000 



Great Britain. . 43,800 

 Switzerland . . . 20,600 

 Other countries 33.500 



Total 292,100 270,100 281,500 309,200 333,800 



