April i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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=:During March the Philadelphia store of John Wanamaker 

 celebrated its "silver " or twenty- fifth anniversary. One fea- 

 ture was an exhibition of various manufacturinfj processes, 

 covering lines of goods largely handled in that store. Andrew 

 McGowin, head of the shoe department, had a rubber shoe 

 making exhibit set up, with the cooperation of George Watkin- 

 son & Co., who sent a dozen operatives to the store, where 

 "Thistle" rubber boots, shoes, and arctics were made for 

 several days, Watkinson wagons being employed to convey the 

 goods to the rubber factory, to be varnished and vulcanized- 

 There was also an exhibit of rubber, crude and in the various 

 stages of preparation for shoe making. 



=iThe Byfield Rubber Co. (Providence, R. I.) have estab- 

 lished agencies in London and in Melbourne. Australia. 



= The annual meeting of the Gutta Percha and Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. will be held at the company's ofhces, in 

 New York, on April 3, at 12 o'clock, noon. 



= The Durham Rubber Co., Limited, have removed their 

 offices from No. 60 Yonge street, Toronto, to their factory at 

 Durham, in order that the work of receiving and filling orders 

 may be brought nearer together. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



In regard to the accident sustained by Mr. J. H. Seiberling, 

 president of The Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co., men- 

 tioned in the last India Rubber World, his con.pany write : 

 " The only injury Mr. Seiberling received was a broken leg, 

 and as the bone is knitting as rapidly as can be expected in 

 one of his age, we think he will be able to attend to business 

 again in several weeks." 



= Mr. Walter S. Ballou, president of the Joseph Banigan 

 Rubber Co. (Providence, R. I.), accompanied by Mrs. Ballou, 

 has been, for several weeks, traveling in the west, going as far 

 as California. 



= Mr. S. H. C. Minei, president of the Granby Rubber Co. 

 (Granby, Quebec) recently spent a week in Boston. 



= Mr. Robert D. Evans, the picture of health and content, 

 plans to spend the coming summer in Europe. 



= Mr. Ralph Frankenburg. son of Isidor Frankenburg (Sal- 

 ford, England), the largest manufacturer of mackintoshes in 

 Europe, was a recent caller at the oflSces of The India Rub- 

 ber World. 



=Mr. H. C. Norton, of the Pacific Coast Rubber Co., is in 

 the East on a brief visit. He is so delighted with San Fran- 

 cisco that he denies that he has been homesick for a moment. 



=Mention was made in the last India Rubber World of a 

 visit to New York of Seiior Enrique C. Creel, a prominent 

 banker of Mexico, and particularly of a dinner given in his 

 honor by Charles R. Flint. Later the news came from Mexico 

 city that the return of Seiior Creel to his home had been fol- 

 lowed by the visit of an agent of Mr. Flint to Mexico to co- 

 operate with leading capitalists there in combining the leading 

 factories in the cotton manufacturing, cigar, and some other 

 industries. 



=The will of the late William Bernard Banigan, of Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island, whose death was reported in the last 

 India Rubber World, dated July 31, 1899. gives to his wife 

 and to his daughter each one half of his estate. The widow is 

 named as sole executrix of the estate, with no inventory or ac- 

 count to be filed. 



=Mr. Herman Barnes, son of Mr. George Barnes of the 

 Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co. (Akron, Ohio), has built 

 a beautiful model of the Maine from plans obtained from the 

 navy department, the working scale being ]i inch to the foot 



=A 'letter to The India Rubber World from Memphis, 

 Tennessee, mentions The Business Men's Club of that city as 



" one of the liveliest organizations in the South." It was 

 through their suggestion recently that an invitation was ex- 

 tended to President McKinley to visit Memphis in May next, 

 during the Confederate Veterans' reunion. A committee of 

 Memphis business men went to Washington to deliver the in- 

 vitation, in a private car provided by the Southern Railway 

 Co. While Mr. McKinley could not accept, he promised to 

 visit Memphis later. The committee included Mr. H. N. 

 Towner, secretary of The Business Men's Club, and head of 

 the rubber house of Towner & Co., and also Mr. H. J. Fosdick, 

 president of the club. 



= The New York Times prints a statement by Niels Gron, a 

 native of Denmark, who visited the United States in 1897 to 

 arrange for the sale of the Danish West Indies to this country. 

 He says that he interested with himself H. H. Rogers, of the 

 Standard Oil Co., and Charles R. Flint, as a committee to deal 

 with the government, on the understanding that the committee 

 were to receive 10 per cent, of the price paid, which price was 

 expected to be $5,000,000. He says that when the sale was 

 almost consummated war broke out with Spain, when Den- 

 mark dropped the matter, fearing that the cession to the United 

 States at that time of the harbor of St. Thomas, which was 

 near Cuba, would be regarded by Spain as an unfriendly act. 



= Mr. William Howard, a stockholder and Director of the 

 Lycoming Rubber Co. (Williamsburg, Pennsylvania) and one 

 of the organizers of the company, died March 5 at Emporia, 

 Florida, where he had gone in the hope of restoring his health, 

 after an extended illness at home. 



=:Mr. Harry Herman, son of Mr. M. J. Herman, of the 

 Brockton Rubber Scrap Co. (Brockton, Mass.) and Miss 

 Fannie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Brams, of Lowell, Mass., 

 were married on March 20, at the home of the bride's parents. 



=Mr. and Mrs. Elisha S. Converse spent the winter in 

 Florida and will stop for awhile at Lakewood, New Jersey, be- 

 fore returning to their home in Boston. 



= William J. Bowes, manager of the Lawrence Felting Co., at 

 Millville, Massachusetts, died at his home there on March 18. 

 He was born in Ireland November 20, 1842, but came to 

 America at an early age and was educated at Lawrence, Mass., 

 where he became employed in the textile industry. He be- 

 came superintendent of the Lawrence Felting Mill, and even- 

 tually part owner. In 1877 the factory was removed to Mill- 

 ville and 1893 was purchased by the United States Rubber Co., 

 Mr. Bowes remaining in charge all the while. He was a close 

 friend of the late Joseph Banigan, and was a director of the 

 Woonsocket Rubber Co. for fourteen years. He was the most 

 prominent resident of Millville. In i868 Mr. Bowes married 

 Miss Kavanaugh, at Auburn, New York, who survives him, 

 with four sons and a daughter. 



= Application has been made to the Connecticut legislature 

 for a charter for an industrial and educational institute at Tol- 

 land, in that state, which Mr. Ratcliffe Hicks, president of the 

 Canfield Rubber Co., purposes to endow liberally. 



NEW RUBBER SHOE CATALOGUES. 

 The illustrated catalogues of the various companies compris- 

 ing the United States Rubber Co., dated April i, 1901, and 

 now ready for distribution, are even handsomer than usual 

 outwardly, and embrace the customary details regarding the 

 companies' products. The " Woonsocket," " American," and 

 " Meyer and Jersey " catalogues have been received so far by 

 The India Rubber World, and Mr. John P. Lyons, adver- 

 tising manager of the United States Rubber Co., is to be com- 

 plimented not only upon having given each a distinctive ap- 

 pearance, but in making each so unlike its predecessor.^^The 

 Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of "Toronto, Lini' 



