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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1910. 



THE LATE SAMUEL F. RANDOLPH. 



OAMUF.L F. RANDOLPH, who died at his home in New 

 *~* York city on January 9, of heart disease, was for many 

 years widely known in the rubber gcods trade, particularly in 

 the district of which New York is the center. Mr. Randolph 

 was born in New York and was in his sixty-sixth year. Mr. 

 Randolph was hardly grown before he enlisted in the army in the 

 period of the civil war. At the conclusion of his military service 

 he entered the hardware trade, and was connected for some 

 twenty-five years with the New York firm of Durrie & Rusher. 

 Later he became associated with the Stokes interests of Trenton 

 in the rubber goods trade, and for a number of years was at 



land parentage. Tit- was educated at Worcester, Massa- 

 chusetts. In 1876 he married Emma, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs Henry Endicott, of Cambridge, and removed to Chicago, 

 where he engaged in the woolen trade. Returning to Boston in 

 1890, he was connected successively with the wholesale shoe 

 firms of Haynes, Sparrell & Co., and the Rufus Warren Boot 

 and Shoe Co., of that city. About two years ago Mr. Marean 

 organized the Pilgrim Rubber Co., at No. 566 Atlantic avenue, 

 Boston, of which he was president at the time of his death, and 

 also president of the Barre Shoe Co., of Burlington, Vermont. 

 Mrs. Marean survives, with four sons and a daughter. One 

 of the sons is Parker Marean, superintendent of the B. & R. 

 Rubber Co., at North Brookfield, Mass. The interment was at 

 Mount Auburn cemetery, Cambridge. 

 * * * 

 William T. Jenney, at one time connected with the Enterprise 

 Rubber Co. (Boston), died on January 8 at his home in Medford, 

 Massachusetts. This business was founded in the summer of 

 1891 as a co-partnership, the leading member of which was 

 William E. Barker, later president of the incorporated Enter- 

 prise Rubber Co., and now at the general offices of the United 

 States Rubber Co. Mr. Jenney joined the business as a partner 

 in June. 1892, and continued for six years, after which he 

 entered another line of business. 



the head of selling agencies in New York for the disposal of 

 their products. One of these agencies, with wholesale and 

 retail stores, was conducted under the style of the Common- 

 wealth Rubber Co., of which Mr. Randolph was president or 

 treasurer or both from October, 1890, for something more than 

 six years. Mr. Randolph reorganized his connection then, and 

 the business was known for some years as the World Manu- 

 facturing Co. This house took on the sale of bicycles as well 

 as rubber goods, and ultimately Mr. Randolph became identified 

 with the automobile trade. 



In 1005 he became superintendent, and later general manager, 

 nf the Metropolitan Garage, at Broadway and West Seventy- 

 seventh street. New York, and by his tireless energy and genial 

 nature built up a most successful garage business. 



Mr. Randolph was of a very cheerful and optimistic dis- 

 position, and leaves a host of friends. In his latter years he 

 sustained a great bereavement in the death of his son. Samuel 

 F. Randolph, Jr.. which was reported in The [ndia Rubber 

 World June 1, 1908 (page 313.) Mr. Randolph was a Royal 

 Arch Mason and a member of the Hardware Club. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Joseph Mason Marean, who died suddenly of heart failure 

 at Cambridge. Massachusetts, on December 20, was born at 

 Van £uren, Arkansas, September 2, 1849, of New Eng- 



ADDITIONAL TRADE NOTES. 



THE monthly journal Gummi-Markt, published for two or 

 three years past in Dresden, has changed owners, and is now 

 under the editorial direction of Dr. Werner Esch, a widely 

 recognized specialist in rubber, who may be expected to be a 

 liberal contributor to the columns of the paper. The head- 

 quarters of the paper are now in Hamburg, of which city Dr. 

 Esch is a resident. 



An order issued by the United States treasury department 

 provides for a drawback on automobile tires manufactured for 

 export by The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), in respect of 

 any imported leather butts and metal rivets or studs used 

 therein. 



NEW TAXICAB COMPANIES. 



The Public Automobile Service Corporation was registered in 

 Xew Jersey on January 8, with an authorized capital of $2,coo,ooo, 

 half of which has been paid in, to operate a taxicab service 

 "wheresoever it is required." William R. Buchler, No. 150 

 Nassau street, New York, is named as the owner of all the 

 common stock ; the other incorporators are Charles E. Thorne 

 and Ernest D. Kahn, also of Xew York. 



The Taxi-Service Co., of Baltimore, filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion in New Jersey on December 29, with $500,000 capital 

 authorized. Incorporators : Frank C. McKinney, James R. 

 Mapletoft, and Raymond E. Taylor, all of No. 525 Main street, 

 East Orange, New Jersey. 



personal mention. 



Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, who was elected president of 

 the Bar Association of New York at the annual meeting on 

 January ii, has been a director of the United States Rubber 

 Co. since 1902. besides which he is a director in a number of im 

 portant banks and railway companies. He is a member of the 

 New York law linn of Stetson, Jennings & Russell. 



A recent visitor to the offices of Tin: India Rubber World 

 was Mr. Albert Waterhouse, of The Waterhouse Co., Honolulu, 

 who, with the other members of the firm, is interested to an 

 important extent in rubber plantations, not only in Hawaii, but 

 in the Malay peninsula. Mr. Waterhouse was on his way home 

 from Singapore, via London and New York. 



Mr. Henry A. Reed, president of the Bishop Gutta Percha 

 Co., New York, started on the 20th ultimo for a three months' 

 sojourn in Florida. 



