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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Mav 1, 1913 



The Rubber Sundries Manufacturers Dine. 



OF the many successful annual dinners cnjdvcd by the Rubber 

 Sundries Manufacturers' Association, none have been 

 better than that held April 10 at the Waldorf-Astoria. 

 On the afternoon of that day the usual business meeting was 

 held. The officers elected were : Alexander M. Paul, president ; 



Alex.^nder ^[. I'all, President. 



Frederick H. Jones, vice-president; and E. E. Hubcr, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



J'he dinner served at seven had the accompaniments of fine 

 music, a wealth of flowers, and a menu that would tempt the 

 most fastidious epicure. The souvenir was what at first glance 

 looked like a cork tipped cigarette, but which turned out to be in 

 reality a very ingenious self-contained cigar lighter. 



As the newly-elected president was unavoidedly absent, Mr. 

 George B. Hodgman, the retiring president, acted as master of 

 ceremonies. With the coffee and cigars he first introduced the 

 editor of The India Rubber Wori,d. In a five minute speech 

 the speaker sketched the beginnings of the rubber sundries trade, 

 with which he had been as a boy personally identified, described 

 its present wonderful expansion, and semi-humorously pictured 

 its future "forty years hence." 



Mr. Howard E. Raymond, vice-president of the B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., was the next speaker. After touching on a variety of topics 

 of interest, he described the great floods in Akron, and the shifts 

 to which the great rubber companies were put to continue run- 

 ning. The story was most graphic, and gave one a new view of 

 the resource and alertness of the industrial chieftains of the 

 rubber city. 



Then followed an excellent vaudeville entertainment, the most 

 startling feature of which was an Oriental mind reader who be- 

 wildered all by his accurate reading of unspoken questions, to 

 which he returned answers often witty, always appropriate. 



It was unanimously conceded that Messrs. Hodgman and 

 Huber, the Committee of Arrangements, had again scored an 

 unqualified success in the 1913 dinner. 



Banquet of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Association. 



