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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1901. 



attachments may be removed, and the bag used (or a hot water 

 bottle. The utility of this bathing arrangement is expected to 

 appeal especially to persons traveling, and thereby liable to find 

 themselves without convenient bathing facilities. But it has 

 many advantages even at home, one of which is that with ils 

 aid ladies can take a shower bath without disarranging or wet- 

 ting the hair. [Gorrien's Portable Shower Bath Co.. Minne- 

 apolis, Minnesota.] 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



JAMES FREEMAN BROWN, of New York, the sad news 

 of whose death was recently reported in the daily papers, 

 was a gentleman well known to the rubber trade. For many 

 years he had handled fabrics very largely and was known as a 

 conservative and successful business man. Personally, he was 

 a man of unimpeachable integrity and of singular uprightness 

 in everything. He was related by marriage to Mr. George A. 

 Alden, of Boston. Mr. Brown was 38 years old and a native 

 of Brookline, Mass. He was a member of the Calumet and 

 Merchants' clubs of New York. 



^Mr. Chauncey Howard White, a director in the Seamless 

 Rubber Co. (New Haven, Conn.), aged 45, died suddenly 

 August 25, at a summer resort near Waterbury, Connecticut. 



= Mr. Chauncey M. Warren, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, died 

 at Middletown on August 31. He was long prominent in busi- 

 ivess and political affairs in Connecticut, and for ten years was 

 confidential agent and secretary for Ratclifl Hicks, of the Can- 

 field Rubber Co. For several years past, however, he had been 

 incapacitated for business by ill health. 



=The many friends of Mr. Fred. E. Ranney, of the Akron 

 Commercial Co. (Akron, Ohio), will sympathize with him in 

 his recent bereavement, in the death of his wife, which occurred 

 September 8. Mrs. Ranney had been an invalid for eighteen 

 years past. Just prior to her death she had gone to a hospital 

 for special care, and it appeared that she might recover. Her 

 death was sudden and came as a great shock to her husband 

 and friends. 



The Business Men's Club of Memphis, Tennessee, met on 

 September 17 and passed resolutions of regret and sympathy 

 at the death of President McKinley, which were ordered to be 

 engrossed and bound in black morocco and sent to Mrs. 

 McKinley. It was the Business Men's Club that invited Mr. 

 and Mrs. McKinley to Memphis last May and entertained them 

 while there. Mr. H. N. Towner, the senior member of the 

 rubber jobbing firm of Towner & Co , and secretary of the club, 

 was one of the committee which prepared the resolutions. 



New Cable Injured.— A press dispatch from Port Town- 

 send, Washington, dated September 25, says : "The passengers 

 returning on the steamer Oregon report that the cable between 

 St. Michael and Cape Nome is a failure. In several places the 

 ice has cut the cable. It has been ascertained that there are 

 nine breaks. The gap was supplied with a new cable, but it 

 has been so badly damaged as to be practically worthless." 



"Caoutchouc " Becomes Slang.— Speaking of rubber, an 

 American in Montreal recently couldn't at first imagine what 

 the people up there meant by saying " caoutchouc " on every 

 possible occasion. They at length explained to him that it was 

 French-Canadian for "rubberneck." The American admitted 

 that it was the neatest of translations; quite in line with the 

 Boston infant prodigy who can say " rubberneck " in seven dif- 

 ferent languages.— AVa/ York Evening Sun, 



Rubber Shoes Indispensable.—" The maker of fine shoes 

 will probably tell you," said a shoe dealer, " that rubber over- 

 shoes have gone out of style, and that no well-dressed man 01 

 woman wears them nowadays. Well, from his point of view 

 the man is right. His customers have substituted extra heavy 

 nd cork-soled shoes, and inasmuch as the pople do not 

 tramp about the streets much in rain, snow, and slush, the heavy 

 shoes are a good substitute. Even the people who tramp over 

 a golf course in bad weather rarely think of wearing rubber 

 shoes, and many who would like to do so fear that their friends 

 would ridicule them if they did, and so get their feet damp and 

 grin and bear it. These people all have many pairs of shoes at 

 home, and can well afford to sneer at the people who wear 

 ' gums.' But the general public has only one pair of shoes 

 apiece, and that pair must be kept dry ; and for that reason 

 more rubber shoes are sold now than ever before, although 

 shoes are made heavier than ever, and the demand for ' water- 

 proof goods is increasing every day." — St. Louis Star. 



Specimens of crude rubber from Mexico are shown at the 

 Pan American Exposition, at Buffalo, in the exhibit by that 

 rep.ibiic in the forestry building, by the following: 



Barron Forbes & Cia., Tepic, state of Tepic. 



I. Camacho, Las Conchas, Chiapas. 



Government of Chiapas, TuxtlaGutierrez, Chiapas. 



Government of Tabasco, San Juan Bautista, Tabasco. 



Ramos Hermanos, City of Mexico. 



L, Robles, Sinacomitlan, Colima. 



Several of these exhibitors, and also others, display speci- 

 mens of Chicle. 



Ecuador exported, during 1900, 1,103,511 pounds of India- 

 rubber, valued at 1,076,068 sucres (=about $460,000, gold). 

 These figures are larger than the average for a good many 

 years past. The exports from Guayaquil in 1876 reached. 

 1,013,000 pounds, after which there was a heavy falling off, only 

 380,300 pounds having been exported in 1893. ' A recent 

 visitor to The India Rubber World offices is about to begin, 

 in company with some other Americans, the planting of Castil- 

 loa elastica rubber near Guayaquil. 



The rubber hand stamp trade of Westfield, Massachusetts, 

 has been " put on its feet," according to the Huntington 

 Herald. " For many years back the rubber stamp trade in 

 town has been handled in an indefinite sort of way by persons 

 having no headquarters, and consequently hard to find." But 

 now rubber stamps are made there boldly, and without any 

 attempt at concealment, and the stamp makers are not lynched. 



The estate of the late William Erskine Bartlett, managing 

 director of the North British Rubber Co. (Edinburgh, Scotland), 

 amounted to ^51, 795 (=$258,975). Mr. Bartlett was a native 

 of Massachusetts, and remained a citizen of the United States 

 throughout his life. 



The directors of the Vereinigte Gummi-Waaren-Fabriken, 

 Harburg-Vienna, will recommend, at the meeting of the com- 

 pany on October 26, a dividend for the year of 20 per cent., 

 against 17^^ per cent, last year and 12 per cent, the year before. 



A NEW edition of the New England Rubber Club's list of 

 officers and members has been issued, giving the names and 

 addresses and business connections of 116 members. 



At public auction in New York on September 25, there were 

 sold 1609 shares of stock in the Manaos (Brazil) Railway Co., 

 (or $1609 (or the lot. 



