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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



I N'lA'EMIiER I, 1910. 



will not crock, and can be sponged, washed and pressed, as 

 neither water nor heat can harm its histcr or durability. 

 [Neuss, Hesslein & Co., No, 43 White street. New York.] 



NOVELTIES IN RUBBER FOOTWEAR. 



The rubber footwear catalogues for igii will show a new 

 line of men's rubbers made on the "Military" last, which is 

 designed to be worn with the "Military" leather shoes now con- 

 siderably affected in different parts of the country, especially 

 in the West. This new Military line in rubbers has a thick toe 

 and a high heel. It will appear in practically all the catalogues 

 issued by the United States Rubber Co. 



Most of the new catalogues will show, in addition to the 

 "Military" last, a medium high heel, whicli the American com- 

 pany calls the "Suffolk," the Banigan company calls the "Hud- 

 son." the Candee company calls the "Autocrat," and tlie Woon- 

 socket company calls the "Fulton." 



A number of the new rubber catalogues will show a variety 

 of new women's lasts to cover the various degrees of high 

 heel which are now made in leather shoes for women. For 

 instance, the Woonsocket catalogues will show a Cuban lieel 

 last, which is what might be called the first stage of the high 

 heel — that is, high heel in its lowest form. The ne.xt grada- 

 tion is covered by the "Ashley" last, which has a heel of medium 

 height. The extreme high heel leather shoe has its counterpart 

 in rubbers in the Woonsocket "Vesta," which has a short vamp 

 and a heel nearly two inches high. These three lasts are made 

 both in croquets and in storm rubbers. 



The introduction of these new high heel rulibers in various 

 forms shows how closely rubber manufacturers follow the new 

 styles in leather footwear, even when these styles go to extremes 

 which naturally have only a temporary vogue. 



A new 4-buckIe gaiter will appear in most of the catalogues 

 for the coming year for the first time. It is called the "Wal- 

 rus," and is a 4-buckle snow excluder made entirely of rubber. 

 This is made with an ordinary sole, and is also made with what 

 is known as a "Railroad Sole" — that is, a full double sole. An 

 illustration of this "Railroad Walrus" will appear in the Boston 

 catalogue. 



AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE RITBBER FORCE CUP. 



The "Little Giant" household pump, the salient points of which 

 are a patent lift and force cup, is said to be exceedingly effective 

 in the removal of obstructions in waste pipes. [J. E. Kennedy, 

 New York.] 



THE CEYLON RUBBER MARKET. 



ducted in the Chamber of Commerce rooms there for the past 

 25 years. 



OBITUARY. 



AN important feature in the rubber trade of the Far East will 

 ■** be the installation on November 4, of weekly auction sales 

 at the Chamber of Commerce sale rooms, in Colombo. The 

 effect of the fortnightly auctions in London and Liverpool for a 

 number of years past has been to fi.x prices of crude rubber, not 

 only in those markets but elsewhere, to an extent which could 

 be arrived at probably by no other means so satisfactorily. 



When actual rubber is offered at a London auction, if sold, it 

 brings a price which marks its real value to consumers, and while 

 prices may change before the next auction, the result attained at 

 any given sale forms a basis for any transaction which may take 

 place privately up to the date of the next sale. The advantages 

 of this method of arriving at rubber prices have been appreciated 

 by the interests back of the newer rubber market at Antwerp — 

 where all the rubber arriving is first offered at auction — and still 

 later at Havre, F.ordeaux, and Amsterdam. Colombo is becom- 

 ing a central market for plantation rubber in the Far East, its 

 shipping facilities giving that port an important advantage, in 

 addition to the fact that so much rubber is now being produced 

 on the island of Ceylon. 



One stimulant to the organization of rul)ber sales at Colombo 

 has been the success of the weekly tea sales which have been con- 



DEXJAMIX F. JACQUITH. died at Swan's Island, Maine, 

 *-' on September 29, in his eighty-ninth year. Born at 

 Andover, Massachusetts, on February 14, i8j2. he went at an 

 early age to Boston, where he found employment in the shoe 

 jobbing house of T. C. Wales, who was one of the first, if not 

 the first, to import into the L^nited States the crude rubber shoes 

 made by the natives of the Amazon region. In time Mr. Jacquith 

 engaged in the footwear trade on his own account, but always 

 making a specialty of rubber boots and shoes. In 1892, by which 

 time he had established important houses in Boston, New York, 

 Chicago, and Des Moines, he turned over the business to his 

 sons, retire from active control of affairs. He had a wide- 

 spread acquaintance with the trade, and his friends were legion. 

 He was apparently in good health when he went away for a 

 vacation in the past summer, and his final illness was of short 

 duration. Funeral services were conducted at his late residence, 

 Xo. I Exeter street, Boston, by the Rev. George A. Gordon, of 

 the Old South Church (of which he was a member), and the 

 interment w-as in the family lot at .Andover. Mrs. Jacquith died 

 some five years earlier. 



FRANK N. WHITE. 



The news comes from London just as The Indi.«i Rubber 

 World goes to press, of the death in that city on September 26 

 of Frank N. White. He was long identified with the rubber trade 

 in the United States, after having first been interested in the 

 bicycle business. He was in charge of the New York Tire Co. 

 for several years, their tires being made by the Revere Rubber 

 Co., and when the Tire company was taken over by the Revere, 

 as their lire department, Mr. White continued as their manager. 



Frank Newton White. 



Later he promoted the .\tlnntic Rubber Shoe Co. During late 

 years he spent most of his time in England, wliere he was in- 

 strumental in placing tire and tube making machinery invented 

 by Henry J. Doughty, with such companies as the Dunlop Pneu- 

 matic Tyre Co. Mr. White was a natural promoter, optimistic, 

 of good address, with a firm belief in any project that he was 

 backing, and with a natural faculty for presenting its claims. 

 He was New Hampshire born, and about 60 years of age at the 

 time of his death. 



