September 1, 1913.] 



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the interests of the colony as regards publicity ; the issue of 

 the Handbook belonging therefore to its regular functions. 

 The committee in 1909 brought out a work of this description, 

 but as the issue was rapidly exhausted it decided upon publish- 

 ing a larger edition in more condensed form. This intention 

 has been carried out by the publication of the above volume. 



The Handbook sub-committee was composed of Professor 

 J. B. Harrison, Mr. Frank Fowler and Mr. J. Wood Davis, 

 while the general editorial work has devolved upon Mr. .Mleyne 

 Leechman of the Department of Science and .Vgriculture, with 

 the assistance of various prominent otflcials. 



The scope of the Handbook includes four divisions; The 

 Country, Political, Economical and Statistical. In the opening 

 section the history of British Guiana is first dealt with, its 

 geography and geologj- following and the division concluding 

 with the climate and hygiene of the colony. From the geographi- 

 cal section it is seen that British Guiana has a coast line of 270 

 miles and an area of 90,277 square miles. 



Under the political heading we find that the population in 191 1 

 was 296,041, of which number 126.517 were East Indians and 

 115,486 blacks and Africans, Europeans only representing 3,937. 

 Immigration is next treated, followed by details of the constitu- 

 tion and government, this section terminating with a description 

 of the educational system. 



In the economical section are grouped the various subjects 

 affecting the productiveness of the colony and which go to make 

 up its eleven million dollars worth of annual exports. Imports 

 represent about nine million dollars a year. The agricultural 

 products of British Guiana are next passed in review, including 

 sugar, rum, rice, cocoanuts, cacao, cofifee, plantation rubber, limes, 

 fruits and fibers ; while the next chapter takes up the forest in- 

 <lustries, including balata. wild rubber and timber. The con- 

 sideration of the mining industries closes the discussion of the 

 economical resources of the colony. A brief but suggestive 

 chapter deals with the manufacture of sugar and rice and calls 

 attention to the special opportunities existing for the establish- 

 ment of factories in various lines. 



In the statistical section a number of interesting tables give 

 figures of immigration, rainfall, revenue and expenditure, im- 

 ports and exports, etc. One table shows the average yearly 

 exports of balata for quinquennial pcrinds to have been: 1893- 

 1897, 226,625 pounds; 1898-1902. 401,956 pounds; 1903-1907. 

 497,790 pounds; 1908-1912, 1,075,216 pounds. The bulk of the 

 balata exports is to the United Kingdom, but increasing quan- 

 tities are now being shipped to the United States. The exports 

 to that market increased from 9 per cent, of the total in 1904-5 

 to 15 per cent, in 1911-12. 



Trade with the United States, according to -American returns, 

 is far from having attained its possible development. Of the 

 nine million dollars of British Guiana's imports this country 

 furnishes only Ifi millions, while we take only about l]4 million 

 dollars worth, out of total exports from the colony of 11 millions. 



OBITUARY RECORD. 



MR. ANTHO^'Y N. BRADY'S WILL. 



The will of the late Anthony X. Brady was made public 

 August 4. The widow receives $1,000,000 and an annuity of 

 $60,000. together with the Brady residence in Albany and all 

 its contents ; $100,000 is given to charitable institutions, being 

 equally divided among the Albany Hospital, Albany Hospital 

 for Incurables, St. Peter's Hospital of Albany and the Homeo- 

 pathic Hospital. The rest of the estate — which is variously esti- 

 mated at from $75,000,000 to $100.000.000— is divided into six 

 equal parts and becjueathed to his two sons, three daughters and 

 to a granddaughter, the child of a deceased daughter. It is 

 estimated that nearly one-third of his fortune was represented 

 in his tobacco interests. His interests in the rubber trade, es- 

 pecially in the United States Rubber Co., General Rubber Co. 

 and Rubber Goods Mfg. Co., are known to have been very large. 

 but just how large has not been divulged. 



JOHN D. CHEEVER. 



""PHE death of John D. Cheever occurred very suddenly on Au- 



•*■ gust 16, at Coburg, Ontario, where he had gone a few days 



before for a short summer vacation. Mr. Cheever was formerly 



a prominent figure in the rubber trade but retired from his 



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 active interests in this industry about ten years ago. Mr. Cheever 

 was born in New York City in 1859 and was the son of John 

 H. Cheever, founder of the New York Belting & Packing Co. 

 He was a graduate of Trinity College, and upon leaving there 

 became connected with the New York Belting & Packing Co.. of 

 which his father was then president. Mr. Cheever continued 

 his connection with the company imtil it became a part of the 

 Rubber Goods Corporation, when he becam.e identified with 

 the Mechanical Rubber Co., of Cleveland, remaining with that 

 concern for a short time. Subsequent to this. Mr. Cheever be- 

 came associated with Henry \V. Poor & Co.. with which house 

 he remained for four or five years, this constituting the last 

 of his active business career, tho for a number of years after- 

 wards he gave attention to his important iron ore interests. 



He was a director of the Okonite Co. from its inception until 

 the time of his death. Mr. Cheever was one of the originators 

 of the National Horse Show Association, the organizer and 

 first president of the Rockaway Hunt Club, and a member of 

 the Union. Racket and Tennis. New York Y'acht. Brook, and 

 Turf & Field clubs. 



He left an estate said to be "at least $50,000." the principal 

 beneficiaries under the will being his widow, his daughter, Mrs. 

 Gertrude G. Porter, 969 Park avenue. New York, and his 

 brother. Henry D. Cheever, who, in conjunction with Clifton P. 

 Williamson, is an executor of the estate. 



MR, F. H. SHEPASD'S WILL, 

 The will of the late Frederick M. Shepard was admitted to 

 probate in Newark, New Jersey, on July 31. Under its terms, 

 the estate — the value of which is not given — is left to the widow 

 and five children. The widow is bequeathed the home in East 

 Orange, stocks and bonds of the Orange Water Co.. stocks of 

 the East Orange Safe Deposit and Trust Co.. and a parcel of 

 land in East Orange. The rest of the estate is divided equally 

 among his five children, except that his daughter, Annie R. 

 Shepard, receives in addition his real estate at Delaware Water 

 Gap. and his daughter, Edith M. Shepard, all his real estate at 

 Norfolk, Connecticut 



