June i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER CLUB OF AMERICA— ANNUAL. 



""THE annual meeting of the Rubber Club of America (for- 

 * merly New England Rubber Club) was held on Friday 

 evening, May 13 — having been postponed from April 18 — at the 

 American House, Boston. A quorum being present, the meeting 

 was called to order by President Pearson at 6:15. 



The first business was the reading of the Secretary's report, 

 which was unanimously accepted and ordered placed on file. 

 The second business was the reading of the Treasurer's report, 

 which was unanimously accepted and ordered placed on file. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Another year having passed, the Club enters on its eleventh year in fine 

 condition, under the name of the Rubber Club of America. The Club 

 has a membership of 248, there having been 45 new members added during 

 the year, while five have passed to the great beyond. 



There have been two entertainments (during the year, the usual summer 

 outing held at the Riverside Recreation Grounds on July 13, and the 

 Mid-winter Dinrer at tie Algonquin Club, Boston, on December 13. Eoth 

 were much enjoyed by members and friends, and pronounced successful. 



At the business meeting, held at the Riverside Recreation Grounds on 

 July 13, it was voted that the name of our organization be changed from 

 New England Rubber Club to Rubber Club of America, and that a charter 

 be secured under the Massachusetts laws. The committee appointed to se- 

 cure this charter attended to its duties promplly and thoroughly and the 

 charter has been granted. 



At a regularly called meeting of the Executive Committee held on Decem- 

 ber 1, 1909, members of the New England Rubber Club, approved by the 

 committee, were elected to membership in the Rubber Club of America. 



Our membership in the Massachusetts State Board of Trade has been 

 maintained. 



The past year has taken from us five esteemed members: George M. 

 Allerton, Robert D. Evans, Wallace F. Foster, James B. Forsyth, and 

 Joseph Davol. Their absence from our meetings will be a great loss, and 

 their memories will long be cherished. 



There is strong good fellowship among our members, and under our 

 charter as the Rubber Club of America, the prospects are bright for a 

 furtherance of educational and scientific research in india-rubber production 

 and manufacture, and for the social -ntei course among gentlemen con- 

 nected with the rubber industry. Respectfully submitted, 



GEORGE H. MAYO, Secretary. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Balance on hand, April 21, 1909 $618.87 



Received — Initiation fees $105.00 



Annual dues 770.00 



Assessment for banquet and outing 1,261.00 



Interest on deposits 1 1 -45 $2,147.45 



Total $2,766.32 



Paid Out. 



Banquet $2,492.68 



State Board of Trade 25.00 



Incorporating Rubber Club of America 30.00 



Printing, etc 97-45 $2,641-13 



Balance, April 4, 1910 121. 19 



Total $2,766.32 



J. FRANK DUNBAR, Treasurer. 



The next business was the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year. President Pearson then read the report of the nominating 

 committee appointed at the last annual meeting, consisting of 

 Hon. L. Dewart Apsley, Homer E. Sawyer, William H. Gleason, 

 Charles J. Bailey and Elston E. Wadbrook. The committee 

 recommended, in view of the successful administration of the 

 officers of the Club during the year 1909-10, that the present 

 officers be reelected to serve during the ensuing twelve mouths. 



On motion, the Secretary then read the names of the officers 

 and by unanimous vote was instructed to cast one ballot for the 

 following, to serve for the year : 



President — Henry C. Pearson. 



I 'ice President — Frederic C. Hood. 



Treasurer — J. Frank Dunbar. 



Secretary — George H. Mayo. 



Assistant Secretary — Frank D. Baederston. 



Honorary Vice Presidents — L. Dewart Apsley, Augustus O. Bourn, 

 George H. Hood, Henry C. Morse, John H. Flint. Alexander M. Paul and 

 Arthur W. Stedman. 



Directors — Costello C. Converse, Elisha S. Williams, Ira F. Burnham, 

 G.-orge P. Whitmore, Frederick H. Jones, Robert I.. Rice, and Elston E. 

 Wadbrook. 



There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned 

 at 6:25. 



The meeting was followed by a dinner, after which members 

 and guests were addressed by President Pearson on his recent 

 extensive trip up the Amazon, illustrated with a complete set 

 of lantern slides. This interesting and instructive talk from one 

 so well equipped and familiar with the situation in Brazil, was 

 very much enjoyed, and all left with the feeling of having spent 

 a most satisfactory and pleasant evening. 



Following the annual meeting the Executive Committee was 

 convened, when the usual committees were chosen : Nominating, 

 Dinner, Sports, Entertainment, Resolutions, and Auditing. 



Nominating. — Hon. L. Dewart Apsley, chairman; Homer E. Sawyer, 

 Charles J. Bailey, William H. Gleason, Elston E. Wadbrook, secretary. 



Dinner. — Francis H. Appleton. chairman; Charles A. Coe, Eugene H. 

 Clapp, William E. Barker, Joseph W. Work. 



Sports. — Frank D. Balderston, chairman; R. E. Paine, R. L. Chipman, 

 William J. Kelly, Wallace G. Page. 



Entertainment. — George H. Mayo, chairman; Charles J. Bailey, James H. 

 Learned, George E. B. Putnam, William H. Palmer. 



Resolutions. — George P. Whitman, chairman; Elston E. Wadbrook, Alex- 

 ander M. Paul. 



Auditing. — William H. Gleason, chairman; J. Everett Stone. 



THE SINGLE TUBE TIRE PATENT DEAD. 



ONE of the longest and most vigorous legal contests in re- 

 spect of the rubber industry, and which certainly was the 

 most important tire patent case in the American courts, was 

 that based upon the single tube tire, for which a patent was held 

 by Pardon W. Tillinghast— No. 407,971, dated May 23, 1893, and 

 expired May 23, 1910. The history of the litigation over this 

 tire, which type was the one principally used on bicycles in the 

 United States, was recorded fully in the pages of The India 

 Rubber World. 



The late Colonel Albert A. Pope, in connection with his 

 development of the bicycle industry, and the late Colonel 

 Theodore A. Dodge, as a rubber manufacturer, were both in- 

 terested to an important extent in the Tillinghast tire patent, 

 and it was Colonel Dodge who founded the Single Tube Auto- 

 mobile and Bicycle Tire Co., which company has continued to 

 exist, with Colonel Dodge as president, until his death in October 

 last, with an interest held by the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co. The royalties collected on this patent must have amounted 

 first and last to a very important sum. Of course, the manu- 

 facture of single tube tires is now open to the -whole trade. 



Despite its popularity in America, this type of tire found little 

 favor in any other country. It was patented in few countries, 

 if any, outside of the United States, and particularly never was 

 protected by a patent in Great Britain. In that country one 

 Boothroyd described a single tube tire in an issue of The Cyclist, 

 published on December 3, 1890. In the litigation in which the 

 Tillinghast patentees sought to establish their rights, the de- 

 fense in part was priority of Boothroyd's publication, but the 

 court accepted evidence that Tillinghast had invented his tire 

 and disclosed it to others as early as the summer of 1890, al- 

 though his application for a patent was not filed until September 

 2, 1892. Mr. Tillinghast died about four years ago. 



A royal decree in Belgium provides that from July I next 

 there shall be levied on rubber other than plantation product 

 exported from the Belgian Congo, in addition to the regular 

 export duty, a tax of 75 centimes per kilogram [= about 6 cents 

 per pound] when the rubber is from trees or vines, and of 50 

 centimes on so-called "root rubber." 



A patent issued to Philip L. Wooster, of Yonkers, New York, 

 relates to hose pipes, consisting of an absorbent woven fabric 

 body portion, which has been saturated with a solution of 

 asphaltum and dried. 



