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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August I, 1914. 



PEHSONAL MENTION. 



ilr. Henry C. Pearson, editor of The India Rubber World, 

 has sailed for the Far East, to attend the Rubber Congress to 

 be held at Batavia, Java, next month. This meeting of eminent 

 rubber scientists and experts will result in much interesting 

 and important information for those interested in plantation 

 rubber. 



Mr. J. C. Brady, a director in the United States Rubber Co., 

 has been elected a director in the United States Cast Iron 

 Pipe & Foundry Co., to succeed his father, the late Anthony 

 N. Brady. 



Mr. George Watkinson, that sturdy purveyor of Emarex, 

 whose exhibit attracted so much attention at the recent rubber 

 exhibition, sailed for New York, July II. 



Mr. Clarence H. Loewenthal. secretary of the United States 

 Rubber Reclaiming Co., whose stand at the London exhibition 

 was the centre of so much interest, started in the middle of July 

 for a tour of Switzerland with the avowed object of doing some 

 mountain climbing, and Mr. L. D. Plum, chemist of the same 

 company, is making a business tour of the Continent and expects 

 to return to New York about September 1. 



Mr. Frank Venn, of Maiden, Massachusetts, has been touring 

 the Provinces and is now on the Continent in the interest of his 

 rubber boot and shoe numbering machines, so generally used 

 in America and Canada, and for which a substantial request has 

 already been developed in Europe. 



Consul General Julius G. Lay. formerly stationed at Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil, has been transferred to Berlin. 



Commodore E. C. Benedict was one of the twelve lifelong 

 friends of the late James McCutcheon, New York linen mer- 

 chant and banker, who acted as honorary pallbearers at his 

 funeral on July 23, at Greenwich, Connecticut. 



William M. Ivins, well known to the rubber trade, with which 

 he was formerly associated, as president of the General Rubber 

 Co., has been retained by \\'illiam Barnes as counsel in his 

 $.S0,000 libel suit against Theodore Roosevelt, service of sum- 

 mons in this suit having been effected by his son, James S. Y. 

 Ivins, on July 23. 



Frederick D. Clayton, treasurer of the Goodyear Manufactur- 

 ing Raincoat Co., of 15 East Sixteenth street, X'ew York, has 

 been made defendant in a suit brought by House, Stowe & Co., 

 to recover $10,052, the amount of credit which they claim he 

 obtained for his company through false statements. 



James Brien, of Needham, Massachusetts, owner of the East- 

 ern Rubber Co., with offices at 72 High street, Boston, died on 

 June 30 in a hospital in Detroit, where he had gone on business 

 connected with his branch office in that city. His death was the 

 result of an automobile accident two days earlier, when a ma- 

 chine in which he and his brother, Christopher Brien, associated 

 with a Detroit rubber concern, were riding was struck by a 

 street car. Mr. Brien was 48 years old and is survived by his 

 wife. 



Mr. Edward Hughes, formerly employed for fifteen years with 

 the Mechanical Fabric Co., of Providence, Rhode Island, and 

 for ten years preceding that period with the Revere Rubber 

 Co., of Chelsea, Massachusetts, has been appointed manager of 

 the rubber thread department of Dr. Cassirer & Co., Charlotten- 

 burg, Germany. 



Mr. Frederick W. Dunbar, of the importing firm of Dunbar 

 & Co., returned to New York on July 31, after a month's stay 

 in London. 



Mr. William A. De Long, who has been engaged for more than 

 a year in settling up the aflfairs of the New York Commercial 

 Co., returned to New York on July 27 from a business trip to 

 Seattle, Washington. 



L. E. WATERMAN. 



There is an exceedmgly interesting story, in fact a real 

 industrial romance, back of the fountain pen industry in this 

 country. Nearly thirty-five years ago a man who had had a little 

 experience at a good many things (among them school teaching), 

 conceived the idea of a pen that should also contain within 

 itself the ink, so that whenever you had one you would not have 

 to search for the other, came to New York to give this idea prac- 

 tical shape. He found, however, that at least 200 other people 

 had entertained this same conception and that there were about 

 that number of fountain pens already patented. But none of 

 them would work. He examined them diligently and minutely, 

 found where tl\e trouble lay and then devised a new fountain 



The Late L. H. VVArERMAN, Founder of the 

 L. E. Waterman Co. 



pen that should avoid the defects of earlier patents. He made 

 some of his new pens and rented desk space in a cigar store on 

 Fulton street near the Brooklyn bridge. 



That was in 1883. During the first year he sold 6 dozen pens. 

 This small sale would have discouraged most men, but Mr. 

 Waterman — Lewis Edson Waterman — was not easily discouraged. 

 He knew his pen was good and would sell as soon as other 

 people found out how good it was. .\nd he was right. He 

 kept on, and in five years the sales had reached an annual figure 

 of 9,000 pens — not a very big sale and yet not bad. Twelve 

 years later, in 1900, the sales had almost reached the quarter 

 million mark — which was much better — and last year a million 

 and a quarter of the Waterman fountain pens were marketed — ■ 

 something of a jump, certainly, from that first annual output of 

 72 pens. 



Here is a reproduction of a photograph of the late Mr. Water- 

 man, who more than any other man made the fountain pen the 

 great institution that it is today, and who not only introduced a 

 very acceptable convenience for the use of the commercial world 

 but incidentally opened up a channel for the use of a considerable 

 volume of rubber everv vear. 



Henry Metcalf. Arthur C. GofT and Charles L. Cate are the 

 owners of the Rubber Specialty Co.. doing business in Paw- 

 tucket, according to statements filed with the city clerk of that 

 citv. 



