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THE INDIA RUBBER AA/^ORLD 



[September i, 1901. 



OBITUARY.— STEPHEN BALLARD. 



STEPHEN BALLARD, who died at his home in Brooklyn, 

 New York, on August 11, was a native of Andover, Mas- 

 sachusetts, where he was born 86 years ago. After having 

 demonstrated his capacity as a business man nearer home, he 

 removed, in 185S, to New York, where he engaged in the 



leather belting busi- 

 ness as a member of 

 the firm of Stearns & 

 Ballard. Their office 

 and store were in 

 Pearl street, in the 

 Harper & Brothers 

 building. Later Mr. 

 Ballard conducted 

 the business alone, 

 under his own name, 

 then as Stephen Bal- 

 lard & Co., and finally 

 as the Stephen Bal- 

 lard Rubber Co., a 

 line of belting and 

 other goods in rub- 

 ber having been ad- 

 ded to the business. 

 The latter name was 

 adopted in 1883. In 

 September, 1897, the 

 business was incor- 

 porated under this 

 name, in New Jersey, 

 STEPHEN BALLARD. at which time Mr. 



Ballard retired. The president and secretary of the corpora- 

 tion is Silas B. Brown, who had been associated with Mr. Bal- 

 lard as a partner. The business was, at various times, con- 

 ducted at several different numbers in Chambers street. Mr. 

 Ballard was the organizer of the White, Porter & Paige Manu- 

 facturing Co., in the lumber manufacturing business, in Brook- 

 lyn, and was the treasurer of that company at the time of his 

 death. But his chief interest for many years had been in 

 philanthropic work. He was the founder of the Ballard 

 School for Colored Persons, at Macon, Georgia, where thou- 

 sands of young people have been provided with an education 

 during the last fifteen years. He was a liberal contributor to 

 many other institutions, educational, religious, and charitable. 

 He was a member of the Central Congregational church. He 

 was twice married, but leaves neither widow nor child. Fu- 

 neral services were held at the late home of Mr. Ballard on the 

 evening of August 12, by the Rev. Willard P. Harmon, of the 

 Central church. The interment was in his native town of 

 Andover. Mr. Ballard, by his will, left his estate to various 

 institutions in which he was interested, after making specific 

 bequests to a surviving brother and sister, and to his house- 

 keeper. The portrait above appears through the courtesy of 

 the Brooklyn Eagle. 



JAMES LYALL. 



James Lvall, president of J. & W. Lyall, cotton manufactur- 

 ers, died at his home in New York, on August 23, aged 65 

 years. He was born in Scotland, was brought to the United 

 States in childhood, and devoted his life to the cotton industry, 

 in connection with which he made many important mechanical 

 inventions. His firm are owners of the Brighton Mills, located 

 for many years in West Twenty-third street. New York, and 



since January i last, at Passaic, New Jersey. The Brighton 



Mills have been the largest producers in this country of tire 

 fabrics, and the firm came in close contact with a certain 

 portion of the rubber trade through cooperating with it in the 

 development of the pneumatic tire industry. 



RUBBER INDUSTRY IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



THE Massachusetts bureau of labor statistics has issued a 

 comparison of returns for 1899 and 1900, from a great 

 number of factories reporting for the two years. The report is 

 not a complete census of Massachusetts manufacturr s, but it 

 is sufficiently full to indicate the tendency of changes in indus- 

 trial conditions from year to year. Forty two rubber factories 



give returns comparing as follows : 



1S99. 1900, 



Capital employed |:ti,8i7,027 $11,804,952 



Value of stock used Si4.556i07l $13,661,362 



Amount paid in wages % 3,898,556 $ 3.555,633 



Value of goods made 823.838,400 ^22,863,098 



Average number of employes 9.223 8,608 



Average yearly earnings $422.70 $413 06 



Average number of days in operation 269.46 265.72 



Proportion of business done to capacity. . .. 71.18 6377 



While the figures in this report are presented without com- 

 ment, it may be mentioned that they conform to the indica- 

 tions already pointed out in The India Rubber World, that, 

 considering the rubber industry in the United States as a 

 whole, 1899 was a " record " year, the results of which were not 

 equalled in the following year. The following comparison of 

 average yearly earnings in rubber factories in three States in 

 1899 is also gained from the Massachusetts report : 



Massachusetts. Connecticut. New Jersey. 



I422 70. $481.70. $431.31. 



The complete report of the Massachusetts state census for 

 1895 is now published. Seventy-six rubber manufacturing 

 establishments are taken into account, but some of these could 

 not have been very important. The figures for 1895 follow: 



Capital employed $12,038,874 



Value of stock used $15,588,553 



Value of goods made $24,967,119 



Amount paid in wages I'4. 555.991 



Average number of employes 10,504 



Average yearly earnings $43374 



Average number of days in operation 270.3 



Proportion of business done to capacity 62.67 



THE NEW MEXICAN RUBBER PLANT. 



A CORRESPONDENT of The India Rubber World 

 writing from Saltillo, state of Cuahuila, Mexico, says 

 that Dr. Juan Cabello Siller, of that city, is trying to form a 

 company to erect a factory for extracting the product of what 

 Is known locally as the "guallule " plant, being the same as the 

 shrub described as " hule " in The India Rubber World of 

 June I, 1901 [page 264]. It is understood that the free impor- 

 tation of all necessary machinery will be allowed by the gov- 

 ernment, with exemption from taxes for five years. This new 

 Mexican rubber producing plant will be exhibited at the Texas 

 state fair, at Dallas, this month. A factory is already in oper- 

 ation for utilizing this plant, at San Luis, in the state of San 

 Luis Potosi, Mexico, which has been referred to in this journal. 



A TRAY made of rubber for flower pots has the advantage 

 that it does not scratch or mar any wooden surface upon which 

 it may be placed, as is likely to happen in the use of earthen- 

 ware or fiber trays. Such an article is made in different sizes 

 to retail at from 8 to 15 cents. 



