July i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^A^ORL^ 



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= The directors of the Dunlop Company of Australia, Lim- 

 ited, at their recent half yearly meeting in Melbourne, declared 

 interim dividends at the rate of 7 per cent, yearly on the cumu- 

 lative preference shares, yyi per cent, on the deferred prefer- 

 ence shares, and 5 per cent, on the ordinary shares. It is ex- 

 pected that the new factory which this company are erecting 

 will be able to earn good returns by reason of the Australian 

 mport duties on rubber goods, apart from any other reason. 

 INDIA-RUBBER AT THE PAN-AMERICAN. 



While the rubber industry as a whole cannot be said to be 

 adequately represented at the Pan American Exposition, at 

 Buffalo, creditable exhibits are made by a few leading firms. 

 Besides the Banigan rubber footwear display, referred to in 

 another column of this paper, the following firms may be men- 

 tioned as making exhibits of rubber goods: 



Boston Belting Co. 



New York Belting and Packing Co , Limited. 



Revere Rubber Co. 



Pennsylvania Rubber Co. 



Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. 



American Wringer Co. 



Robins Conveying Belt Co. 



The Bridgeport Gun Implement Co. exhibit golf balls. The 

 exhibit of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. includes insulated 

 wire. An exhibit is made by the Emery Tire Co. Further 

 references to these displays will be made at a later date. In 

 the way of crude rubber, specimens are shown in the Mexican 

 exhibit, and doubtless others will appear later in the special 

 buildings being erected by other Latin American countries. 

 PLYMOUTH RUBBER CO.'s NEW LINE. 



The Plymouth Rubber Co. — A. Sydemann, president and 

 treasurer — of Stoughton, Massachusetts, who have had much 

 experience in the manufacture of rubber heels for the trade, 

 have decided to go mto the business of manufacturing these 

 articles under their own name, in view of the marked increase 

 in the demand for rubber heels. They have experimented with 

 compounds for these goods until they have succeeded in find- 

 ing one especially adapted to the purpose, and at a price which 

 will appeal to the public, while en abling the shoemaker to 

 make a profit on applying them. The two specialties made in 

 this line are called the " O. K." whole heel, which includes the 

 rand, and the " Star," which is a lift heel. 

 PERSONAL MENTION. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, on returning to his home at 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, from New York, where he had been 

 elected president of the United States Rubber Co., was wel- 

 comed by the employes of the National India Rubber Co., of 

 which belong has been president. The employes, headed by a 

 band, marched in a body from the factory to the train, and es- 

 corted Colonel Colt to his home. 



= Mr. H. C. Corson, vice president of the B. F. Goodrich Co, 

 (Akron, Ohio), has gone to his summer home. Cape Breton, 

 there to remain until the cold weather. 



= Edgar Munson, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a director 

 in the Lycoming Rubber Co., of that place, died May 26, of 

 apoplexy, in his eighty-first year. He was president of the 

 Williamsport National Bank, and interested in other impor- 

 tant business enterprises. 



= Mr. R. W. Evans, treasurer of the Picher Lead Co. (Chica- 

 go), sailed from New York for Southampton on June 5, to look 

 after the interests of sublimed lead in England and on the con- 

 tinent for a couple of months. The desirability of using sub- 

 limed lead as a compounding material is becoming appre- 

 ciated in England, France, Germany, and Russia. Mr. Evans 

 was accompanied by Mrs. Evans, and they are expected to re- 

 turn early in August. 



-=Mr. A. H. Marks, vice president of the Diamond Rubber 

 Co. (Akron, Ohio), has gone to Moosehead Lake, Maine, for a 

 two months' vacation. 



= The annual convention of the Southern Industrial Associa- 

 tion was held this year at Philadelphia, beginning June 1 1. It 

 was well attended by representatives of commercial bodies from 

 all parts of the south. Mr. H. N. Towner, the Memphis rubber 

 jobber, and secretary of the Business Men's Club of that city, 

 as usual, took an active interest in the proceedings. Mr. Towner 

 was quoted in the Philadelphia North American as saying: 

 " The south has never had such a propitious opportunity for 

 presenting its claims before a northern audience. The result 

 will be the inauguration of a more prosperous regime for the 

 southern states." 



= Arlington U. Betts, some time engaged in the rubber busi- 

 ness at Toledo, Ohio, became a soldier when the war with Spain 

 began, and in the Philippines won the rank of captain in the 

 Forty-seventh volunteer infantry. He has now been appointed 

 by the Philippines commission as civil governor of the province 

 of Albay, in the southeast of the island of Luzon. The capital 

 of Albay is the city of the same name. 



=J. Herbert Foster, of the Rubber Alphabets Co. (Meriden, 

 Connecticut), left that town on June i to go to Mexico to in- 

 vestigate the rubber planting situation. Should he make a 

 favorable report, it is understood that several citizens of Meri- 

 den are prepared to invest in the business. Mr. Foster's destina- 

 tion was TIacotalpam, state of Vera Cruz, which is near the Gulf. 



FRANCIS H. HOLTON. 



Probably no man in the druggists' and stationers' sundries 

 line is better known than the subject of this sketch, Mr. F. H. 

 Holton. He was born as long ago as 1 831, in Northfield, Massa- 

 chusetts, and it is interesting to chronicle just here that he is a 

 cousin of the late Dwight L. Moody, and that both of them 

 were clerks together in Boston when young. Mr. Holton's first 

 rubber experience came when he was quite a boy, when he 

 went to work for his uncle, Mr. Fred. Holton, who was then 

 with the Hayward Rubber Co. His first work was scrubbing 

 the sulphur from rubber shoes, and also " blocking " old-fash- 

 ioned pure gum 

 shoes. In 1854 he 

 went to New York 

 and obtained em- 

 ployment in a 

 small hard rubber 

 factory owned by 

 a man named 

 Hering. There he 

 met Charles Good- 

 year and became 

 further interested 

 in the future of 

 India-rubber. A 

 little later he was 

 able to secure a 

 partner, a Profes- 

 sor Parmelee, and 

 together they 

 started a small 

 FRANCIS H. HOLTON. rubber factory at 



the corner of Thirty-seventh street and Broadway. This part- 

 nership continued until i860, when Mr. Holton decided to carry 

 on the business alone and moved his works to Adams street, 

 Brooklyn. Eight years later he took a Mr. Gray in as a partner, 

 the firm name being Holton & Gray. Mr. Gray remained a part- 



