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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[OCTODER 1, 1912 



The Brazilian Dinner. 



THE beginning of the functions that always attend so great 

 an exposition as that of the International Riihber, was 

 the Brazilian dinner given on the evening of the 7th of 

 September, the "Fourth of July" of the Republic of Brazil, to 

 celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Declaration of Independ- 

 ence of Brazil from Portugal. The Roof Garden of the Hotel 

 Aster was the place chosen for the banquet. The guests were 

 the members of the Brazilian colony of New York, the officers 

 of the International Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition, and 

 the Brazilian delegates to the exposition. 



The repast was such as would have been approved by the most 

 critical epicure. Toasts and speeches were both in Englisli and 

 Portuguese. Dr. Eugenio Dahne, the Brazilian Commissinner, 



Dr. Manuel Jacintho l-'erreira da Cunha. Consul General of 

 Brazil, and the following members of the Brazilian Consulate: 

 Dr. Garcia Leao, George W. Chester, Victor Ferreira da Cunha, 

 James G. Mee, Adry Werneck and Aluisio Martins Torres. 



Dr. Manuel Lobato. Special l^elcgate of the Governor of the 

 State of .\mazonas to the International Rubber Exposition ; Dr. 

 Carlos Cerqueira Pinto, Dillwynn ^I. Hazlett, Candido Mendes 

 de Almeida, Baron de Suassuna, Member of Congress, Brazil; 

 Jose Marcal, journalist, and Dr. Victor Resse de Gouvea. 



The following American guests were present : A. Staines 

 Manders, Director-General International Rubber Exposition; 

 Henry C. Pearson, X'ice-president International Rubber Exposi- 

 tion, Editor Ixni.v Rubber World; E. G. Unitt , William H. 



B.\xyrET OF the Br.\zili.\x Coloxv of Xew York, Hotel Astor. 



acted as toastmaster. The speakers were Count Candido Mendes 

 de Almeida, .Admiral Jose Carlos de Carvalho, Henry C. Pear- 

 son, A. Staines Manders, William H. Ukers, and many others. 



The guests, some of them accompanied by their wives, were as 

 follows : 



Dr. Eugenio Dahne, Commissioner-General, representing the 

 Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce in the United 

 States and Canada. 



Count Candido Mendes de .Almeida, Director of the Commer- 

 cial Academy and Commercial Museum at Rio de Janeiro. Presi- 

 dent of the Brazilian Commission to the International Rubber 

 Exposition, New York, and to the International Congress of 

 Chambers of Commerce, Boston, Chief Editor of the "Jornal 

 do Brazil" and "Revista da Semana," Rio de Janeiro. 



Admiral Jose Carlos de Carvalho, Brazilian Navy, Member of 

 Congress, Vice-president of the Brazilian Commission to the 

 International Rubber Exposition, New York. 



Ukers, Editor "Tea and Coffee Trade Journal" : Dr. .Vlgot 

 Lange ; C. A. Green ; E. W. Hiscox, and A. B. Lukens. 



NOISELESS STREETS. 



Efforts are being directed to make rubber pavements non- 

 slipping, and this subject is receiving attention at the Expo- 

 sition. Mr. Manders has expressed the conviction that with the 

 aid of the American inventor, he will overcome this obstacle. 

 .At no distant date, it is expected, the streets of New York and 

 other large cities will become silent and without liecoming 

 slippery. 



.\s the "Morning Post," one of the leading London dailies, re- 

 marks : "There is a prospect that the day may come, w-hen 

 streets will be paved with rubber, so that the noise and vibration 

 of traffic, which render life in a modern town so disagreeable,- 

 will be almost banished." 



