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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1914. 



THE RUBBER SUNDRIES MANUFACTURERS DINE. 



""pilK fourteenth annual dinner of the Rubber Sundries 

 ■* Manufacturers' Association was held on .^pril 9 at the 

 Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Twenty-seven members and guests 

 were present, and they sat around a large, round table hand- 

 somely decorated in red and green, chrysanthemums supplying 

 the red and smilax the green. It was announced as a purely in- 

 formal dinner, without oratory of any sort, and this promise 

 was lived up to, as there was a noticeable absence of set ad- 

 dresses; but Mr. F. H. Jones, retiring vice-president, who acted 

 as chairman for the evening — in the enforced absence of the presi- 

 dent, .•Mexander M. Paul — made a few spontaneous remarks and 

 then called upon Mr. Howard E. Raymond and Mr. George B. 

 Hodgman. the chairman of the Entertainment Committee, for 

 brief contributions suited to the occasion. Both responded in 

 happy impromptus inspired by the time and place. 



The distinctive entertainment of the evening — that is, apart 

 from the social enjoyment of the dinner itself — was the very 

 successful demonstration of Edison's wonderful new Kinetophone, 

 which we have all been reading about for some time — for the 

 great inventor has been working on it for some years — but which 

 very few of us have seen — that is, in successful operation. This 

 invention has now obviously reached a practically perfect stage, 

 as was shown at this "Sundries" dinner, where the words were 



of Parker, Holmes & Co., president, and Chas. J. Davol, of the 

 Davol Rubber Co., vice president. E. E. Huber was re-elected 

 secretary and treasurer, in which capacity he has served for 

 many years. 



NEA' RtJBEEE IMPORTING HOUSE. 



A new rubber importing company — Uuiibar & Co. — was incor- 

 porated April 25, under the laws of the State of New York, with 

 an authorized capital stock of $2CX),000. The company has taken 

 offices at 290 Broadway, New York, where it will deal in crude 

 rubber and allied products. 



The active members of the new organization are Frederick \V. 

 Dunbar and J. Frank Dunbar, both of whom have been well 

 known to the trade for years. The former was connected with the 

 New York Commercial Co., from 1892 until that concern went 

 into liquidation last year. For several years hi. lived in Para and 

 managed the Brazilian end of the business, but more recently he 

 has lived in New "^'ork, superintending the buying and selling of 

 rubber for the New York Commercial Co. J. Frank Dunbar was 

 for a number of years connected with A. H. .-Mden & Co., of 

 Boston, and has long acted as treasurer of the Rubber Club of 

 .■\mcrica. 



It is the intention of the new concern to maintain a department 

 of information for the benefit of customers, where they may at 

 all times be informed as to market conditions. 



AxNU.\L Dinner of the Rudber Sundries ^I.\nit.\cturers' .\s.soci.\tiox. 



so perfectly timed to the movement that the actors in the film 

 pictures became to all interns and purposes living beings. Every- 

 one was intensely interested, naturally, in this feature of the 

 evening's entertainment, which lasted nearly an hour and included 

 a number of short plays. 



The officers elected for the current year are : Russell Parker, 



BALATA BELTING MACHINERY MADE BY DAVID BRIDGE & CO. 



The machinery for the manufacture of balata belting used 

 in the plant of the Manheim Manufacturing & Belting Co., 

 Manheim, Pennsylvania, was made by David Bridge & Co., 

 Castleton, England, and was put in place under the personal 

 supervision of John Bridge, a member of the firm. 



