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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1. 1913. 



OBITUARY RECORD. 



EBEN BLAKE PAGE. 



EBEN BLAKE PAGE, treasurer of the Hub Gore Makers, 

 died in Winchester, Massachusetts, on October 28, 

 in his seventy-seventh year. Mr. Page had been prominent 

 in Boston business circles for over half a century. Besides being 

 connected with the Hub Gore Makers, he was for a quarter of 

 a century one of the directors of The Rubber Alanufacturers' 

 Mutual Insurance Co., whose officers, at the time of his death, 

 paid a tribute to his memory in an appreciation and resolutions 

 signed by the president and ;ecrctary, which are given below: 



"Mr. Page, at the time of his death, was in his twenty-fifth year 

 of service as a member of the board of directors of the Rubber 

 Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Co. The last twoyears of this 

 time he was its vice-president and a member of the Finance Com 

 mittee. He was also a director in the Cotton and Woolen ami 

 the Industrial Mutual Insurance Companies. His record ul 

 service with these allied companies is an honorable and helpful 

 record. 



"Mr. Page came to Boston from Connecticut in his early man- 

 hood and his business life since has been here. At the time of hi- 

 coming Boston was a comparatively small city. Since then thi 

 city's growth, the increase in capital and the improved methods in 

 business make a wonderful stor.v. But with him it was not a 

 story, but an experience. He was in it and a part of it. and word> 

 but feebly tell of the moving — pressing — alert activities of a busy 

 life .in this city in the last sixty years. Mr. Page showed to the 

 world a cheerful and genial side, but he took his responsibilities 

 seriously. He held his honor sacred. 



"He was Episcopalian in his religious associations, a personal 

 friend of the late Bishop Phillips Brooks, and his eldest son, 

 Rev. Herman K. Page, D. D., is rector of St. Paul's Episcopal 

 Church in Chicago. His only other son, John E. Page, has been 

 his reliable aid in his business here. Both are able and worthy 

 sons of an honorable father and a Christian home. 



"Resolveh : That this estimate of the life and character of 

 Eben Blake Page, for many years a director and officer of the 

 Rubber Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company, be WTitten in 

 the records of this company as a tribute to his memory, and that 

 a copy of the same be sent to his family with expressions of our 

 sympathy for them in their bereavement." 



COUNTESS DE ALMEIDA, 



All of these who were connected with the Fourth International 

 Rubber Exposition, held in New York, will be shocked to learn 

 of the death of Countess Candido Mendes de Almeida, the wife 

 of Count Almeida, who was president of the Brazilian Commis- 

 sion and had charge of their wonderful rubber exhibit. The 

 Count and the Countess not only met most of the important 

 visitors at the exposition, but visited rubber centers throughout 

 .America and made a host of friends. 



DE. CHARLES McBUHNEY. 



Dr. Charles McBurney, the famous Xew York surgeon who 

 died November 7, at the home of his sister in Brookline, Massa- 

 chusetts, was a son of Charles McBurney, one of the founders 

 of the Boston Belting Co. Dr. McBurney graduated from Har- 

 vard in 1866, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 in 1870, and immediately thereafter took a leading place among 

 the surgeons of the United States. He held many positions in 

 connection with the larger New York hospitals, and was a 

 member of many medical associations on both sides of the 

 Atlantic. 



The November number of "R-u-b-b-e-r" published by the 

 Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., of Beacon Falls, Connecticut, has 

 a very appropriate cover show^ing a large and corpulent turkey 

 with a background of tall trees and crimson sky. The number 

 contains the usual interesting matter on various phases of rub- 

 ber shoe selling, and is illustrated by reproductions of some of 

 the most popular Beacon Falls shoes. It is a small publication 

 in size and goes easily into one's pocket, so that the retailer who 

 gets it is very likely to carry it home with him, and peruse it 

 after the lamp and his pipe are lighted. 



THE DETECTORPHONE FOR LOCATING MACHINE 

 TROUBLES. 



OSK of the greatest expense? in connection with the repairing 

 of machinery, where the exact trouble is not known, is the 

 location of the defect. This is particularly so in locating leaks in 

 a pipe line or determining what part of a machine is loose when 

 a knock occurs. Science has produced an electrical device called 

 the "Detectorphone," by means of which a leak or mechanical 

 trouble may be located within a few minutes. A more descrip- 

 tive name for this instrument would be the "Mechanical Stetno- 

 scope." 



The illustration shows an inspector using the instrument in 

 the Boston plant of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. When 

 a knock makes itself evident in a machine and the exact location 



Hl:xting Mechanic.\l Trouble with the Detectorphone. 



of the trouble is not known, the operator places the point of the 

 instrument on different parts of the machine frame, cylinder, or 

 other part where the trouble is likely to be found. .\t the point 

 where the instrument indicates the loudest noise, the operator 

 may be sure that he has located the trouble. The vibration of 

 the machine is transmitted to the receiver, and there made audible 

 by a slight buzzing sound. Any irregularity which may be in- 

 audible to the unaided ear can thus be instantly detected in the 

 receiver. The device consists of a sensitive microphone and a 

 si.x-inch dry cell inclosed in a metal cylinder, a telephone receiver 

 and two metal rods. One of these rods is screwed into the front 

 of the instrument imtil it engages the diaphragm of the micro- 

 phone. In this instrument rubber plays the part common to 

 telephone and similar apparatus. [Boston Talking Machine Co., 

 41 West Street, Bostcxu.] 



Ordinarily the running board of an automobile is finished 

 with a brass edge. This adds to its appearance and also 

 serves as a protection to the wood. But of course the brass 

 edge is rather slippery, a condition which has its disadvant- 

 ages at times. So a London company has brought out a 

 foot-board with a brass edge having a groove in which a 

 tubular strip of rubber is inserted — just enough rubber to 

 keep the foot from slipping. 



