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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1914. 



Annual Meeting of Rubber Club of America. 



Till-; animal meeting of the Rubber Club of America was 

 held in the handsome gallery of the Art Club, Boston, on 

 the evening of Tuesday, April 21. 



President George B. Hodgman presided and the reports of 

 officers were read and approved. From the secretary's report it 

 was learned that the membership showed a slight gain over last 

 year, there now being 66 tirm members (an increase of 15), 200 

 active members (the same number as a year ago) and 58 asso- 

 ciate members (a decrease of four). During the year, six 

 members died. Edward B. Kelley, of the Mechanical Fabric Co., 

 Providence, an active member, and one of the most popular, died 

 May 13. 1913. Frederick M. Shepard, of New York, an hon- 

 orary member, passed away June 30. Alexander Macpherson, of 

 the Oxford Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts, an associ.ate 

 member, died October 7. Jacques Huber, an honorary member, of 

 the Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil, died at that city February 18, 1914. 

 George P. VVhitmore, of the Revere Rubber Co., one of the 

 founders of the New England Rubber Club, and its first treasurer, 

 was taken F'ebruary 22, and J. Elvvood Lee, of the Lee Tire & 

 Rubber Co.. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, a firm member, died 

 April 8. 



The treasurer's report gave an accouiU of the receipts and 

 expenditures of the club, and showed a balance of over $1,400 

 on the right side. 



THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The election of officers was the next business and resulted in 

 the choice of the following : 



President, George B. Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber Co., New 

 York ; vice-president. Frederick H. Jones. Tver Rubber Co.. An- 

 dover, Massachusetts ; treasurer, J. Frank Dunbar, Boston ; sec- 

 retary, H. S. Vorhis, New York. 



Honorary vice-presidents: Augustus O. Bourn. L. Dewart 

 Apsley, John H. b'lint, Alexander M. Paul. .Arthur \V. Stedman, 

 Henry C. Pearson and Frederic C. Hood. 



Directors: Francis H. Appleton. F. H. .Vppleton & Son. Bos- 

 ton ; H. T. Dunn, Fisk Rubber Co.. Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts ; H. S. Firestone, F'irestone Tire & Rubber Co., .Akron ; 

 George E. Hall. Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co., Cambridge- 

 port, Massachusetts ; Howard E. Raymond, The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., Akron ; Homer E. Sawyer, United States Rubber Co.. New 

 York ; Henry Spadone, Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co., New York ; Elisha S. Williams, Rubber Goods Manufactur- 

 ing Co., New York, and .Albert Zeiss, Arnold & Zeiss, New York. 



No other business coming before the meeting, it adjourned. 

 This was followed by a meeting of the Executive Committee, 

 which consisted of Frederick H. Jones, chairman, Henry C. 

 Pearson, Frederic C. Hood. .Albert Zeiss and Henry Spadone. 

 At this meeting the various actions of the directors were ap- 

 proved. It was decided to locate an office exclusively for the 

 business of the Club, at 17 Madison avenue. New York, to 

 secure the entire services of Secretary Vorhis and to join the 

 Chamber of Commerce of the United States of .America. 



The following committees were chosen : 



Nominating Committee : George E. Hall, Boston Woven Hose 

 Co., Cambridgeport, chairman : Hon. L. D. Apsley, .Apsley Rub- 

 ber Co. : Charles T. Wilson. Wilson Trading Co., New York : 

 E. E. Wadbrook. Arnold &■ Zeiss. New' York, and Russell Parker. 

 Parker Stearns & Co., Brooklyn. 



.Auditing Committee: E. F. Dewing. Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 

 and J. H. Learned, Revere Rubber Co. 



Entertainment Committee: W. H. Arnold. .Arnold & Zeiss, 

 New York, chairman : W. L. Procter, United States Rubber Co., 

 New York; Ira F. Burnham. Stoughton Rubber Co., Boston: 

 E. H. Kidder, United States Tire Co., Boston, and A. A. 



Gliddeii. Hood Rubber Co., East Watertown, Massachusetts. 



Sports Committee : William L. Pitcher, Easthampton Rubber 

 Thread Co., Easthaiupton. .Massachusetts, chairman: Francis H. 

 Appleton, Jr., F. II. .Appleton & Son. Boston; John S. Clapp, 

 New Jersey Rubber Co., Boston ; Philip E. Young, Acushnet 

 Process Co., New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Harold P. Fuller, 

 E. H. Clapp Rubber Co., Boston. 



Dinner Committee : William E. Barker, United States Rubber 

 Co., New York, chairman : Robert L. Rice, Hood Rubber Co. ; 

 Theodore W. Bassett, U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Co., New York, 

 and .Andrew II. Brown, Meyer & Brown, New York. 



Committee on Resolutions : E. E. Wadbrook, Arnold & Zeiss, 

 New York, chairman : .Arthur W. Stedman, Boston ; Henry C. 

 Pearson, The Indi.\ Rubber World, New York. 



THE DIN.N'ER. 

 It was a happy idea of the Dinner Committee to have the long 

 head table and the three radial ones set in the big picture gal- 

 lery of the Art Club, where the walls were covered with a won- 

 derful collection of examples of the graphic art from the Eu- 

 ropean centers. The tables were handsomely decorated with 

 jonquils and greenery. .At President Hodgman's right was the 

 speaker of the evening. Col. Henry L. Kincaide, of Boston, and 

 at the head table were also seated several of the honorary vice- 

 presidents. Previous to being seated, however, the president 

 proposed that in view of the happenings in Congress and in Mex- 

 ican waters, it would be appropriate to sing ".America." which 

 was done with perhaps more real patriotic feeling than artistic 

 harmony. 



■ ©f the dinner it need only be said that it was excellent, well 

 served, and highly appreciated by all. -At its conclusion, the 

 president proposed a silent toast to the deceased members,- after 

 which he delivered the following address : 



ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE B. HODGMAIT. 



"Since the last annual meeting of the Rubber Club of America, 

 held a year ago in Boston, I feel that we have been able to make 

 considerable progress along the lines suggested by our former 

 president, Mr. Frederic C. Hood, namely, that this club should 

 be of benefit and help to the entire rubber industry of the United 

 States. 



"This has been made possible by the decision to engage a 

 secretary who would give a certain portion of his time to the 

 necessary work of the club, because heretofore, even with the 

 best intentions and at the cost of much self-sacrifice, the officers 

 had not been able to give to the club's affairs the attention which 

 this work requires, for men who are engaged in active business 

 cannot without sacrificing more time than should be expected 

 of them, look after the various details of the work of a business 

 organization such as that into which our club has now developed. 

 Therefore with the efficient aid of Mr. H. S. Vorhis, who was 

 appointed secretary last July, we have been able to go forward 

 as we could not have done before. It is my intention to mention 

 briefly certain phases of our work for the past year, and to point 

 out the possibilities for the future." 



He then went on to mention the efforts made by a committee 

 appointed by the club in 1912. in conjunction with a committee 

 appointed by the International Rubber Conference held in Sep- 

 tember of that year, to decide upon some satisfactory method of 

 nomenclature for the various sorts of rubber. While this ques- 

 tion has received a great deal of attention from these two com- 

 mittees working together, it was thought, owing to the present 

 effort to standardize plantation rubbers, that the matter should 

 be left in abeyance for the present. Mr. Hodgman then devoted 

 a paragraph to the very important matter of rubber stealings. 



