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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1911. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



JOSEPH T, HAHT. 



JOSKPH THO.MAS HART died on Ueccniljcr 28 at the Lake- 

 wood Hospital, in Cleveland, Ohio, a few days after under- 

 going an operation for a malady from which he had suffered for 

 about two years, though it had not prevented his attention to 

 his duties as superintendent of the footwear department of The 

 Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio). 



Mr. Hart was born in Liverpool, England, October 18, 1869, 

 being the son of George Hart, who was connected with the rubber 

 industry there, and wlio came to America with his family three 

 years later. George Hart, after being connected with the Good- 

 year Glove company at Xaugatuck, became factory superin- 

 tendent of the Lycoming Rubber Co.. at Williamsport, Penn- 

 sylvania, where he still re-if'i-<^. 





Joseph Thom.\s 11.\rt. 



Joseph T. Hart began his work in rubber at the age of 16, 

 under his father, at the Lycoming factory, in which he achieved 

 such efficiency as to enable him to accept the position of superin- 

 tendent of the boot and shoe department of the Canadian Rub- 

 ber Co. of Montreal. Afterward he went into the last business 

 at Granby, Quebec, and then was factory superintendent of the 

 Merchants Rubber Co. at Rerlin, Ontario. Three years ago he 

 became general manager of the La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La 

 Crosse, Wisconsin), which position he left in August, 1909, to 

 organize the footwear department of The Diamond Rubber Co. 

 Mr. Hart was an able and practical footwear manufacturer and 

 had many friends in the trade. 



Mr. Hart married Miss Margaret Annie Stewart, June 24, 1903, 

 while living in Montreal, who survives together with a son, by 

 his first wife, liis remains were interred at VV'illiamsport. 



PAUL MORTON. 



P.MJL MoRTO.\ died suddenly in New York on January 19, in 

 his fifty-fourth year. He was the son of a Cabinet minister, and 

 himself became secretary of the navy of the United States 

 after a brilliant career as a railroad president. At his death 

 he was president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, of 

 New York, which position he had filled for more than five 

 years. He was a director of the Intercontinental Rubber Co., 

 and chairman of the executive committee. 



THEODORE J. ACKERMAN. 



Theodore J. AckcTman, formerly cnKagi'd in business as a 

 manufacturer of rubber goods, died at his home in New Haven, 

 Connecticut, on January 8, after a brief illness, in the ninetieth 



year of his age. One of New Haven's oldest residents, the son i;f 

 Jonathan C. Ackerman, one of the original directors of the Peiui- 

 sylvania Railroad, deceased, was born in New Brunswick, New 

 Jersey, and settled in New Haven in 1872; with his brother, War- 

 ren Ackerman, he was engaged in the drug business in New York 

 at the time of the Civil War, when his brother obtained a patent 

 on a rubber blanket that came into extensive use with the soldiers 

 in the field. Three factories were kept busy supplying the de- 

 mand for them, and of one of these, located at Naugatuck, 

 Connecticut, the deceased had charge. After the war the demand 

 for the blankets ceased, and Mr. Ackerman engaged in other 

 business, from which for several years before his death he had 

 retired. A widow and daughter survive him. 



ROBERT WINDER JOHNSON. 



Robert Winder Johnson, senior member of the long-established 

 Philadelphia firm of Laurence Johnson & Co., who have figured 

 in an important way in the crude rubber trade, died on December 

 28. The business will be continued under the same style by 

 Antonio Sans, Lawrence J. Morris, Russell H. Johnson, Lawrence 

 Johnson, Jr., all surviving members of the former firm, and 

 Morris Winder Johnson. 



CHARLES F. BAKER. 



It is with regret that we have learned, just prior to going to 

 press, of the death of Charles F. Baker, of the Baker Rubber 

 Cement Co., Incorporated, of 50 Lincoln street, Boston. The 

 deceased was recognized as a man of many sterHng qualities, who 

 enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who knew him. 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



/^FFICIAL Statement of the values of exports of manufac- 

 ^^ tures of india-rubber and gutta-percha for the month of 

 November, 1910, and for the first eleven months of five calendar 

 years : 



Belting. Boots All 



Months. Packing and Other Tot.\l. 



and hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



November, 1910 $159,021 $187,055 $506,407 $852,483 



January-October 1,759,590 1,906,961 4.687,399 8,353,950 



Total, 1910 $1,918,611 $2,094,016 $5,193,806 $9,206,433 



Total. 1909 1,637,018 1.474,559 3,978.186 7,089.763 



Total, 1908 1,131,272 1.224,799 3.255.507 5,611,578 



Total, 1507 1.294.460 1,532,595 3.643,744 6,470,759 



Total, 1906 1,083,228 1.137,445 2,593,804 5,214.477 



The above heading ".Ml Other Rubber," for the last five months 

 includes the following details relating to Tires : 



For All 



Months. Automobiles. Other. Tot.\l. 



Julv fahics $146,080 $56,096 $202,176 



August 151,468 71,486 222,954 



September 133,735 39,457 173,192 



October 103,788 33,469 137,257 



November 160.214 37,962 198,176 



Following the example of many other large cities through- 

 out the country in adopting self-propelled apparatus for extin- 

 guishing fires, the New York fire department will have to be 

 reckoned with in the future as a factor in the rubber market. 

 Rubber tires, of special make and size, will be required for its 

 ponderous vehicles, while at the speed with which they travel 

 over pavements not always of the best, which with the possi- 

 bilities of the automobile will be greatly accelerated — the pneu- 

 matic tires will be subject to tremendous stress and wear. Taken 

 together with the rubber that enters into the rubber lined hose, 

 the department uses in such large quantities, it will readily be 

 seen that the protection of New York from the fire fiend is going 

 to help boom the price of this commodity, the supply of which 

 is short enough as it is. 



