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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1903. 



=The Gorham Rubber Co. (San Francisco and Seattle) will 

 be represented at the industrial exhibition which opens on 

 March 1 at Osaka, Japan with lines of rubber goods from lead- 

 ing manufacturers in the United States. 



= Israel Suchman has withdrawn from the copartnership 

 hitherto between him and Benedict Rels. manufacturers of 

 mackintoshes, as the Neptune Rubber Co., No. 295 Grand 

 street, New York. The business is continued under the same 

 name, at the same address, by Benedict Reis, who assumes the 

 liabilities and assets of the copartnership. 



=rA jobber on the Pacific coast advises The India Rt/BBER 

 World that his territory has been flooded with circulars from 

 jobbing houses further east, announcing a " War in Rubbers" 

 and advising retailers not to place orders without waiting to 

 see how cheaply they can buy from the authors of the circulars. 

 He says that the jobbers in question evidently are endeavoring 

 to take advantage of the fact that jobbers are not restricted 

 this year as to prices, to gain an opening in territory not theirs 

 by right, and he fears demoralization of prices. 



= The Woodruff Automobile Co. (Akron) are building es- 

 pecially for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. a touring car 

 on which the latter will make practical tests of their different 

 makes of tires. An automobile for this purpose is also owned 

 by The B, F. Goodrich Co. 



= The official report on a test of Milnes- Daimler mail vans 

 between Liverpool and Manchester — fitted with Goodyear solid 

 tires — says : " The Goodyear tires have been a revelation. 

 They have worn splendidly ; in fact, the molding on the treads 

 are not yet worn down." The mileage made by each van in 

 the test was 800. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



O. C. Barber, largely interested in the Diamond Rubber Co. 

 was reelected president of the Diamond Match Co., at their an- 

 nual meeting in Chicago, on February 4. He has held that 

 position since the organization of the company, nearly twenty 

 years ago. 



= Dr. W. M. Habirshaw, of the India-rubber and Gutta-percha 

 Insulating Co. (New York), has gone on a trip to Cuba. 



= Colonel Sever, of Paris, a former member of the French 

 chamber of deputies, was in New York early in the month, 

 en route for La Paz, Brazil, being a member of the " Mission 

 topographique Hatchett," interested in the development 

 of certain railway concessions through the rubber and min- 

 ing regions. 



= Mr. R. A. Loewenthal, vice president of the U. S. Rubber 

 Reclaiming Works (New York), sailed early in the past month 

 for Europe, to be absent for several weeks on a vacation from 

 business. 



OBITUARY. 



Henry Hering died at his home in Hasbrouck Heights, 

 New Jersey, on February 24, of pneumonia, at the age of fifty- 

 six. Mr. Hering was born in Hamburg, Germany, and, coming 

 to the United States when a young man, became interested in 

 the rubber industry. He started at the Lambertville (New 

 Jersey) works of the Goodyear Rubber Co. He was the first 

 superintendent of what is now the Hartford Rubber Works, 

 which position he held for eight years. He was next engaged 

 in an important capacity at the factory of the Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co. During the last two years he had re- 

 sided at Hasbrouck Heights with his son, Henry F. Hering, 

 who is connected with the New York Rubber Co. Mr. Hering 

 was always very popular with his associates, on account of his 

 sterling qualities and his willingness to lend a helping hand. 

 He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows, and 

 Independent Order of Red Men, and was a member of the 



Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Hering is survived by a 

 widow and the son mentioned above. 



Joseph Drew Thomas, who was superintendent of the fac- 

 tory of the Para Rubber Shoe Co. (South Framingham, Massa- 

 chusetts), from 1886 to 1892, died at his residence in Liverpool, 

 England, on February i, in his sixty-seventh year. He was a 

 native of Barnstable, England ; sometime assistant superin- 

 tendent of the Liverpool Rubber Co.; and later filled an im- 

 portant position in the works of the Russian- American India- 

 Rubber Co., in St. Petersburg, after which he took charge of 

 the factory at South Framingham. In 1893 he returned to 

 England. He is survived by a widow and two daughters. He 

 left property in the United States and in England, and by his 

 will Walter Adams, a lawyer of Framingham, is made an ex- 

 ecutor. 



Charles Fales Parker died February 20, at Somerville, 

 Massachusetts, in his seventy- eighth year. He was well known 

 to the rubber shoe trade through his invention of aluminum 

 lasts, and was the proprietor of the Metal Last and Tree Co. 

 (Boston). He is survived by a widow and two daughters. 

 Another daughter was the wife of Major Harry P. Ballard, 

 treasurer of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Mr. Parker was an 

 uncle of Homer Sawyer, selling agent of the United States 

 Rubber Co. 



THE RUBBER SCRAP MARKET. 



A SLIGHT advance isapparent in pricesof old rubber boots 

 and shoes — say '/% cent per pound over the quotations of 

 one month ago. There is a report that the Russian govern- 

 ment has decreed an export duty on old rubber shoes of 1% 

 rubles [=t6% cents] per pood [ = 36 pounds], which would be 

 at the rate of 2^ cents per pound. The date when this regula- 

 tion will take efltect has not been announced, which lends a 

 new element of uncertainty to the market for foreign scrap. 

 The importance of the projected measure will be seen when it 

 is considered that the great bulk of the rubber scrap imported 

 by the United States is of Russian origin, even if purchased 

 elsewhere, and it is reasonable to suppose that the amount of 

 the Russian levy will have to be paid by the buyer. Hitherto 

 the importation of European scrap, at the prices which the col- 

 lectors have been willing to accept, has exerted an important 

 influence in keeping down the prices of American scrap. If, 

 now, the Russian product is to be materially increased in cost, 

 the effect must naturally be felt in time in higher prices for 

 domestic stock. 



New York quotations — prices paid by consumers: 



Old Rubber Boots and Shoes — Domestic 1^ @ 7% 



Do — Foreign b^ @ t% 



Pneumatic Bicycle Tires 5^ 



Solid Rubber Wagon and Carriage Tires 6^ 



White Trimmed Rubber 9^ @ 9H 



Heavy Black Rubber 4^ 



Air Brake Hose 2^ @ 3 



Fire and Large Hose 2}i 



Garden Hose I'/i 



Matting I 



The government of Peru are publishing a series of " Immi- 

 grants' Guides "to various regions of that country, with a view 

 to the encouragement of colonization. Of one of these, devot- 

 ed to the region of the river Pichis, and reached by the Centra 

 railway via the port of Callao, an English translation has been 

 received. It is interesting to note that among the special in- 

 ducements offered to immigrants is the opportunity for gather- 

 ing rubber, and the government regulations for the leasing of 

 rubber lands are given in full. 



