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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



915 



Under his able leadership the combine grew and prospered. 

 From a $50,000,000 company doing an annual business of only 

 $25,000,000 the business was so expanded that the last annual 

 report showed a total capital stock of $146,277,200 ; assets and 

 liabilities, $389,252,696; business for the year 1920, $256,150,130. 

 Meanwhile the operations of the company had embraced, in addi- 

 tion to the manufacture of rubl)er goods, the growing of crude 

 rubber, reclaiming of scrap rubber, weaving of cotton fabrics and 

 the supply of other allied materials, while the product of its 

 forty-seven factories and numerous subsidiaries in many states 

 and employing more than 20.000 persons, had been extended to 

 include nearly everything made of rubber, and was marketed by 

 branches throughout the world. 



For nearly eighteen years Colonel Colt continued in the presi- 

 dency, until in 1918, in order to relieve him somewhat from many 

 onerous duties, and that he might devote himself exclusively to 

 direction of the firm's financial policy and to special work for the 

 benefit of the company, he was elected chairman of the board of 

 directors, Charles B. Seger succeeding him as president. 



Throughout this period his duties as active head of the greatest 

 rubber concern in the world left him little time for outside in- 

 terests, although in 1503, against his wish, he was persuaded to 

 accept the Republican nomination for governor of Rhode Island, 

 but was defeated. Governor Garvin being reelected by a majority 

 of only 1587 votes. Again in 1908 his name was placed in nomina- 

 tion before the Rhode Island Legislature for United States sena- 

 tor, but he withdrew his candidacy. 



Colonel Colt's ample personal fortune permitted him to indulge 

 in many generous acts. Bristol, Rhode Island, wanted a high 

 school and he presented to the town the Colt Memorial, a hand- 

 some white marble structure, as a free gift, a memorial to his 

 mother, which, with the site, entailed a cost of about $150,000. He 

 acquired the 300-acre farm on Popasquash Neck, a peninsula jut- 

 ting out into Xarragansett Bay, which he converted into a beauti- 

 ful park, placed in it valuable works of art in marble and bronze, 

 erected a big tower as a free observatory, and threw it open to the 

 public. 



When President Faunce of Brown University. Providence, Rhode 

 Island, announced his desire for a memorial library to John Hay, 

 the distinguished alumnus of that college, Colonel Colt immediately 

 sent a contribution of $10,000 to start the fund. He also purchased 

 a large part of Mt. Hope, overlooking Mt. Hope Bay and Fall 

 River, one of the historic spots of Rhode Island in connection with 

 the Indian War, with the intention of making it a public park. 

 His donations to the Actors' Fund of .\merica and numerous other 

 charities were generous and unheralded. 



Colonel Colt was married in 1881 to Elizabeth M. Bullock, of 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, daughter of J. Russell Bullock, former 

 judge of the Supreme and the United States District courts of 

 Rhode Island. She survives him, as do his two sons, Russell 

 Griswold Colt, of H. L. Horton & Co., stock brokers. New York, 

 N. Y., who married Ethel Barrymore. the actress, in 1909, and 

 Roswell Christopher Colt, assistant secretary and director of the 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, Montreal, Canada ; 

 also his brother. United States Senator Le Baron Bradford Colt. 

 formerly judge of the United States Circuit Court. 



He was a member of the Metropolitan, Athletic, Republican, 

 Lawyer's and East Indian clubs of New York, N. Y., and of the 

 Squantum, Hope, University and Country clubs of Providence, 

 Rhode Island ; also of the Rubber .Association of America and the 

 National Foreign Council. 



The funeral was held from "Linden Place," Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, August 16. In attendance were executive officials of the 

 United States Rubber Co. in a body, representatives of the rubber 

 industry and trade organizations, and many friends prominent in 

 public life. Out of respect to his memory the general offices of 

 the United States Rubber Co. were closed all day, and all branches 

 at 3 o'clock. 



In the passing of Colonel Colt his associates have individually 

 lost a good friend, his company an able and conscientious executive, 

 and the rubber industry its most distinguished leader. Personally 

 an exceedingly pleasant man to meet, very popular socially, carry- 

 ing his honors easily, having the rare faculty of combining un- 

 varying courtesy with commercial dispatch, and manifesting un- 

 failing kindness toward those around him, he held the respect, 

 trust and esteem of his business associates and the warm friend- 

 ship of many men in all walks of life here and abroad. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE 



"THE Dl.SE.XSES AND PESTS OF THE RUBBER TREE." BY T. 

 Petcli. botanist and mycologist to the Government of Ceylon. Macmil- 

 lan ,Si Co.. Limited. St. .Martin's street. London. England. Cloth, 

 27S papes, 6 by 9 inches. 



ClNCE the publication, in 1911, of the author's former volume, 

 ^ "The Physiology and Diseases of Hevea Brasiliensis," the in- 

 vestigations since made, warrant the publication of certain data. 

 Tree surgery, for instance, has received much attention in very 

 recent years, and has made wonderful advances in its particular 

 province. Recent developments in this science have been studied l)y 

 the rubber planter with encouraging results. Preventive meas- 

 ures generally instead of remedial, and various new ideas in re- 

 gard to sanitation, have not been neglected. Some of the results 

 of such studies have been embodied in the present volume. 



Its value has been also enhanced by many excellent illustra- 

 tions, while a brief summary of the diseases described, with ref- 

 erences to these illustrations, has been added to each of the 

 principal chapters. An extended bibliography, which includes 

 the more important papers which have been published on the sub- 

 ject since the beginning of the plantation rubber industry, con- 

 cludes the volume. 



"BROWX B.AST— AX IXVESTIG.ATIOX IXTO ITS C.M'SES AXD 

 Methods of Treatment." By A. R. Sanderson, F. L. S., and H. 

 Sutcliffe. A.R.C.Sc, F.R.M.S.. mycologists to the Rubber Growers' 

 .Association (Malaya Research Branch). Rubber Growers' Association, 

 Inc., 38 Eastcheap, London, E. C. 3,, England. 1921. Cioth, 71 pages, 

 6 by 10 inches. 



In the volume under consideration the authors hold, as do other 

 investigators, that the disease of brown bast is physiological, and 

 is due to the operation of tapping. The frequency of tapping, 

 the age of the tree, and its susceptibility to disease, must all be 

 considered in outlining atiy course of treatment. The authors 

 describe a number of cases where brown bast has occurred, and 

 illustrate their subject with many photographs. Their field ob- 

 servations have covered many parts of the Malay Peninsula, 

 Ceylon, and India. 



The conclusion reached is that stripping, properly carried out. 

 is both the easiest, most effective, and least expensive of rem- 

 edies. There is need of good judgment, however, in entering upon 

 this procedure, which, although drastic, is the only form of 

 treatment that is likely to be generally effective. 



The book contains an appendix dealing with the subject of 

 "dry" trees, in which the details and significance of the incidence 

 of this symptom are considered. 



"CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AST> ANALYSIS OF OILS, F.ATS, 

 and Waxes." By Dr. J. Lewkowitsch, late consulting and analytical 

 chemist. Macmillai & Co.. Limited, St. Martin's street, London, 

 Englaifd. 19.*i. Three vclumcs. Si.xth edition. Volume 1. cloth, 682 

 pages, 6 by 9 inches. 



The first volume of the sixth edition of a work, originally 

 published, in 1895, in three volumes, has recently appeared. "Chem- 

 ical Technology and .Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes" by Dr. 

 Lewkowitsch, is a standard publication, exhaustive in treatment, 

 and broad in its scope. This sixth edition, published since the 

 death of the author, has been carefully edited, rewritten and en- 

 larged by George H. Warburton, who was long associated with 

 Dr. Lewkowitsch in his analytical practice. Mr. Warburton notes 

 the progress made by scientific investigators in their studies of 



