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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1. 1913. 



OBITUARY RECORD. 



DANIEL S. PRATT. 



p\A\IEL S. PR.\TT, president of the Foster Rubber Co., of 

 *^ Boston, died at his residence in Brookline on March 15 

 after a short illness. He was well known in the rubber trade, 

 having been connected with the Elastic Tip Co., a business 

 founded by his father. He was the organizer of the Foster 

 Rubber Co. He was a member of the Rubber Club of America, 

 and had many friends in the trade. He is survived by his father 

 and his brother-in-law, Mr. Stetson, Iioth of whom are interested 

 in the Foster Rubber Co. 



FRANK E. HALL. 



Frank E. Hall, widely known among tire men as the inventor 

 of a sectional automobile tire, died at his home in VVoUaston, 

 Mass.. March 14, after a lingering illness. He was sixty years of 

 age, and had spent the greater part of his business life in rubber 

 manufacturing. He devoted a great deal of time to experi- 

 menting, and six years ago was granted a patent for a sectional 

 automobile tire. He is survived by two sons, both in the rubber 

 business — Harry, connected with a rubber house in Portland, 

 Oregon, and Stanley, connected with the Kelly-Springfield Co. 



RHODEY P. WHALEN. 



To be connected with a manufacturing company continuously 

 for forty-five years is as creditable as it is unusual in these days. 

 But Rhodey Patrick W'halcn, who died March 19, in Tuckahoe, 

 New York, had been in the employ of the Hodgman Rubber Co. 

 — whose factory is located in that town — for forty-five years. 



He was born in Ireland in 1852 — his father coming to this 

 country a year later and settling in Tuckahoe. The boy at- 

 tended the public school, and at the age of sixteen, entered the 

 service of the Hodgman company as a driver of one of its fac- 

 tory wagons. A little later he was transferred to the calender 

 room, where his efficiency soon placed him in the position of 

 foreman. Later he was made foreman of the compounding 

 room, a position which he filled faithfully and satisfactorily for 

 many years. Mr. W'halen did not confine his energies altogether 

 to his factory work, but was active in the affairs of the village, 

 serving at one time as a member of the Board of Education, in 

 his district and later as receiver of taxes for the village. He 

 was also one of the organizers of the "Holy Name" and tem- 

 perance societies of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, 

 of which he was a member. 



C. E. W. WOODWARD, PH.D. 



Dr. C. E. W. Woodward, of the Fisk Rubber Co., died suddenly 

 of heart disease on March 24, in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. 

 Dr. Woodward was one of the organizers of the Fisk Rubber 

 Co., which he formed in conjunction with H. G. Fisk and H. T. 

 Dunn in 1898, acting for the first few years as the company's 

 superintendent. Prior to that time he had been connected with 

 the Overman Wheel Co., Dr. Woodward was sixty-one years of 

 age. The funeral occurred in Chicopee Falls on March 26, and 

 the burial took place the following day in Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



THE AKRON STRIKE. 



An article in tliis issue which will prove of special interest to 

 many of our readers is the letter from our resident Akron cor- 

 respondent, giving a general survey of the strike that began 

 among the rubber workers of that city on February 12, and was 

 finally abandoned by its organizers on March 31 — a strike with- 

 out any adequate excuse, as foolish as it has proved futile, the 

 chief result of which has been to inflict great damage upon the 

 city of Akron, and especially upon the rubber workers of that 

 centre, and lasting injury upon the cause of organized labor. 



ENGLISHMEN WANT COTTON DUCKS. 



A business man in England informs an American consular 

 officer that there is an increasing demand for cotton ducks and 

 sailcloth, which are used extensively in the rubber trade for 

 sheeting, belting, hose, automobile tires, etc. The number of the 

 Consular Report is 10.528. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



H. W. DuPuy, president of the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., is 

 making a tour of the Pacific Coast and incidentally visiting the 

 branches and jobbing connections which have been established 

 by his company. 



Mr. R. P. Dowse has been appointed general sales represen- 

 tative in the Central district, with headquarters in Detroit, for 

 the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



Mr. B. VV. McCabe, who was formerly with the Swinehart 

 Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, now covers the New York dis- 

 trict for the Lee Tire & Rubber Co. 



Mr. Max Loewcnthal, of the United States Rubber Reclaim- 

 ing Co., has recently returned from an eighteen months' tour of 

 Europe. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Loewenthal left on the Caronia, 

 during the latter part of March for a Mediterranean trip. 



MR. GEORGE J. BATES GOES TO THE FIRESTONE CO. 



.Mr. Gei rge J. IjATes, who was formerly a department man- 

 ager with the Diamond Rubber Co., has recently connected him- 

 self with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron. Ohio, and 

 will liave charge of the sales department for pneumatic tires. 



COMMODORE BENEDICT TO BE THE FIRST. 



Tile society columns of a recent issue of the New York 

 "American" contained the following interesting paragraph about 

 Commodore Benedict, who is not only one of the directors of 

 the United States Rubber Co., but who has made several trips 

 up the .Amazon in his private yacht, in connection with rubber 

 planting and other enterprises in that country : "E. C. Benedict, 

 mariner of many voyages upon the Spanish Main, is to be the 

 first private yacht owner to steer a vessel through the turgid 

 waters of the Panama Canal. Nothing delays Mr. Benedict's 

 achievement e.xcept the fact that there isn't any water in the 

 canal. But the yacht guests are all invited and the trip is a sure 

 thing. Benedict bought John Hays Hammond's yacht, the 

 Atreus, not long ago, and it's the Atreus that is going to show 

 society the easiest way from coast to coast." 



MR. STONE GOES TO THE PLYMOUTH COMPANY. 



J. Everett Stone, assistant treasurer of the Hood Rubber Co., 

 who has been with that company for the past fourteen years, 

 severs his connection on April 1, to become treasurer and a di- 

 rector of the Plymouth Rubber Co. 



THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. ELECTS A NEW DIRECTOR. 



Raymond B. Price, president of the Rubber Regenerating Co., 

 which was recently acquired by the United States Rubber Co., 

 has been elected a director of the latter corporation. 



THE STEIN RUBBER PLANT SOLD TO THE MOHAWK CO. 



The Mohawk Rubber Co., recently organized in Akron, with 

 a capita! of $350.000— $100,000 in 7 per cent, cumulative pre- 

 ferred stock, and $250,000 in common stock, has bought the plant 

 of the Stein Double Cushion Tire Co The plant with its pres- 

 ent facilities has a cajiacity of about 100 tires a day. 



THE FIRE HORSE SOON ONLY A MEMORY. 



One of tlie most spectacular sights imaginable, and one which 

 never fails to arouse even the jaded sensibilities of the city 

 dweller, is the engine on its way to a fire, drawn by two superb 

 horses going at a mad gallop. But the spectacular has to give 

 way to the efficient, and one large city after another is abandon- 

 ing the horse-drawn fire engine in favor of the motor vehicle. 

 The Fire Commissioner of New York announced early in March 

 that no more horses would be added to the fire department, but 

 that they gradually would be superseded. The New York de- 

 partment now has 100 motor vehicles and by the end of the 

 \ear will Iiave 200. 



The apparatus now in the department numbers 850 vehicles, 

 and it will take about five years and cost $2,500,000 to convert 

 them all from horse-drawn to motor vehicles. New York fire 

 horses die at about the rate of sixty a j'ear, and as many more 

 are laid off for old age or inefficiency. 



