THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1909. 



Hon. Paul Morton, president Equitable Life Assurance 

 Society ; 



Lester Leland,* second vice-president United States Rubber Co. ; 



Gordon Abbott, president Old Colony Trust Co., Boston; 



Commodore E. C. Benedict;* 



D. Lorne McGibbon, president Canadian Consolidated Rubber 

 Co., Limited; 



Edward R. Rice;* 



Daniel G. Wing, president First National Bank, Boston; 



Theodore X. Vail, president American Telephone and Tele- 

 graph Co. ; 



William H. Truesdale,* president Delaware, Lackawanna and 

 Western Railroad Co.; 



James N. Wallace, president Central Trust Co.; 



Alfred L. Ripley, president State National Bank, Boston ; 



Albert H. Wiggin, vice-president Chase National Bank; 



Richard V. Lindabury, New Jersey counsel United States Rub- 

 ber Co. ; 



John J. Watson, Jr.,* treasurer United States Rubber Co.; 



Julien T. Davies, counsellor at law, New York ; 



Arthur L. Kelley ;* 



J. Howard Ford;* 



Hon. Charles H. Allen, vice-president Morton Trust Co. ; 



Hon. LeBaron B. Colt, United States circuit judge ; 



Homer E. Sawyer,* general manager United States Rubber -Co. ; 



Stephen O. Edwards, counsellor at law, Providence ; 



Hon. Edwin Aldrich, United States district judge, New 

 Hampshire : 



Henry L. Hotchkiss;* 



Walter F. Angell. counsellor at law, Providence ; 



Walter S. Ballou ;* 



Calvin S. May, m.d., New York; 



Howland Davis, of Blake Brothers & Co., bankers ; 



Nathaniel Myers, counsellor at law, New York; 



Samuel Norris, secretary United States Rubber Co. ; 



Philip Stockton, president City Trust Co., Boston; 



Frank S. Hastings ;* 



Colonel Harry E. Converse ;* 



Gates W. McGarrah, president Mechanics National Bank; 



Ernest Hopkinson, general counsel Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co. ; 



Edgar B. Davis, vice-president General Rubber Co.; 



John D. Carberry, assistant secretary United States Rubber Co.; 



Charles MacVeagh, counsellor at law, New York; 



Russell G. Colt, of H. L. Horton & Co., bankers, New York ; 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt,* president United States Rubber Co. 



A List of the Toasts. 



"Brotherhood and Trade" The Rev. Dr. Stires 



"Corporations and Taxation" Mr. Julien T. Davies 



"Timber and Lumber" Mr. Thomas H. Shevlin 



"Industrial Combination" Mr. R. V. Lindabury 



"Insurance and Banking" Mr. Paul Morton 



"Tariff and Currency" Senator N. W. Aldrich 



"Law and Business" Mr. Francis L. Stetson 



"Rubber and Canada" Mr. D. Lorne McGibbon 



"Judiciary and Commerce" Judge LeBaron B. Colt 



Floral Decorations. 



The floral decorations were elaborate. The center of the 

 large table was ornamented by a large rubber plant, around 

 which was a circle of rubber leaves and branches, tastefully 

 arranged and sprayed on the cloth. 



On a center line and to each end of the table was placed a 

 large centerpiece of American Beauty roses, with asparagus vines. 



Four smaller baskets of lilies of the valley, with delicate 

 greens, was placed respectively between — but to each side of the 

 two ends and the middle centerpiece. 



Choice hot house fruit was also placed on the table. 



The walls of the room were festooned with Southern smilax, 

 and large rubber plants were placed at the windows and in suit- 

 able corners. 



Dinner Souvenirs. 



The dinner souvenirs, furnished by Tiffany & Co., were in 

 exquisite taste. They consisted of a hand painted menu for 

 each guest, bearing his name in gold scroll work, above which 

 was a single leaf of a rubber tree in green. In the upper right 

 hand corner was the Colt coat-of-arms in gold. The menu was 

 a four-page folder of heavy bond paper bound with a knotted 

 golden cord. On the second leaf appeared the menu, on the third 

 page the list of toasts, and on the fourth the musical program, 

 which was furnished by the Van Baar String Sextette. The 

 menu itself reposed in a green beaver cloth lawyer's bag, tied 

 with green ribbons, through which, interwoven with a narrow 

 white silken ribbon, was caught the personal card of the giver 

 of the dinner. As a further souvenir, a hard rubber fountain 

 pen and filler nestled in a neat white box, each pen having 

 around it a broad band of gold, upon which was engraved the 

 initials of the guest and the date. As a suggestion of the 

 industry to which Colonel Colt has devoted so large a part of 

 his life was another box in which were a pair of miniature 

 rubber boots and rubber shoes. 



The ices were served in small silk covered boxes in green 

 with "Metropolitan Club" on gold letters on one side, and on 

 the opposite side the date — November 23, 1909. The box itself 

 was surmounted by a sphere of white rubber, around which was 

 a ribbon in red, white, and blue. The upper part of the sphere 

 bore the name in green "United States Rubber Co." 



The musical program rendered was in keeping with the gen- 

 eral charm of the entertainment. 



THE ELECTRICAL INTEREST. 



THE longest submarine cable in New York was laid 

 lately for replacing the old telephone service between 

 "Broad" exchange of the New York Telephone Co. and 

 the United States immigration station on Ellis Island. 

 The new cable was purchased by the government, and is 

 public property. It is described as being 9,000 feet long, and 

 3^2 inches in diameter; weighs 86,000 pounds, and cost $17,- 

 300. It is made of jute, tar, rubber compound and ground 

 glass, and is designed to stand the hardest submarine wear. 

 The binding is two layers of % inch wire, wound crosswise 

 to one another, and between them is a coating of jute. 



One of the largest orders ever placed for paper insulated 

 submarine telephone cable, it is said, was that completed 

 recently by the Western Electric Co. (New York) for the 

 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Its use is to connect 

 San Francisco with Oakland, California, by way of Goat 

 Island, beneath the waters of San Francisco bay. The total 

 length of cable is 16,300 feet [=3.087 miles] ; diameter 2% 

 inches, with 69 pairs of telephone wire — 26 pairs of No. 13 

 B. & S. and 43 pairs of No. 19 B. & S. The weight was ap- 

 proximately ioiJ4 tons. 



