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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October I, 1911. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



James H. Stearns, treasurer of Parker, Stearns & Co., died 

 on September 9, at the Pine Grove Springs Hotel, Spofford, New 

 Hampshire. He was bom in Brattleboro, Vermont, 69 years ago. 

 In addition to his interests in the firm of which he was treasurer, 

 he was president of the Pine Grove Springs Company. He was 

 a member of the Union League Chib, Brooklyn ; the Veterans' 

 Association of the Twenty-third Regiment, and the Empire State 

 Society of Sons of the American Revolution. 



Mr. Stearns is survived by a widow, one son, E. Ward Stt-arns, 

 who was associated with him in business, and one daughter Miss 

 Edna Stearns. 



James H. Ste.\rns. 



The funeral services were held on Tuesday, September 12, in 

 the family's summer home in Spofford, the Reverend Mr. Watson, 

 of the Universalist Church, officiating. There was a very large 

 attendance at the services, not only of the people of Spofford 

 but of friends from Brattleboro, Mr. Steam's birthplace and from 

 the neighboring towns of Keene, Hinsdale, Westmoreland and 

 Chesterfield, while many of his old friends from Boston, New 

 York and Brooklyn were also present. A large part of those who 

 attended the services, especially the residents of the village where 

 he had spent so many summers, followed the body the entire 

 distance, a mile and a half, from the church to the cemetery. 



Mr. Stearns was a large man, quiet in his tastes and ways; not 

 much of a talker, but a very clear and sane thinker. He was 

 naturally friendly, especially towards young men in whose careers 

 he took a deep but unobstrusive interest. Nearly twenty years 

 ago he was warned by physicians that his span of life was to be 

 but brief, but by a temperate out-of-door life, he not only greatly 

 prolonged his days but was most comfortable and happy in so 

 doing. 



The trio who made up the firm of Parker, Stearns & Sutton 

 were of a type that is unusual among American business men. 

 They were exceedingly well adapted for co-operative effort — one 

 clear-headed, unemotional, with an intuitive knowledge of just 

 how and where to find markets for almost any products, another 

 a thoroughly capable and successful factory manager, and the 

 third an impulsive, brilliant inventor. Their beginnings were 

 small, but as the business grew and became protitaMe they 

 developed their unusualness. Instead of allowing the business to 

 absorb the whole of their lives and be master, they secured com- 

 petent assistants, and selecting a section in New Hampshire bought 

 all of the land that enclosed a beautiful lake. There they built 

 summer homes, and lived in the open for four or five and often 

 six months of the year. Messrs. Parker and Sutton were 

 content with elegant villas surrounded with fine grounds, with 



motor boats, horses and automobiles. Mr. Stearns, however, 

 enamored with the lake and mountain scenery, wanted the whole 

 world to share it with him, and erected a great summer hotel 

 which his many New York friends were glad to flee to during 

 the hot months. With it all the three took infinite comfort, and 

 no doubt added to their years notably by their wise living. Mr. 

 Sutton passed away September 23, 1908. Henry Burton, their 

 chief assistant, adviser and friend died May 10, 1910, and now 

 another has gone. To the remaining partner bereft of his life- 

 long associates and friends, lonely and stricken, the deep sym- 

 pathy of the whole industry is extended. 



JAMES F. CUSACK. 



James F. Cusack, superintendent of 

 Company, Canton, Mass., died suddenly 

 \isiting his father at East Manchester, 

 was born 38 years ago in Manchester, 



the Plymouth Rubber 



on September 4 while 



New Hampshire. He 



New Hampshire, but 



liad lived during the last 11 years in Stoughton, Massachusetts. 



CHARLES E. YOUNG. 



Charles E. Young, who for the last 15 years was manager of 

 the rubber department of the jobbing house of L. P. Ross, 

 Rochester, died September 12, after a protracted illness resulting 

 from ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Young was born in Watertown, 

 N. Y., November 20, 1857. He was not only v.idely known in 

 rubber footwear circles in the Middle States, but was very 

 active in many enterprises outside of his business — particularly 

 in church affairs in Rochester, being at the time of his death 

 superintendent of the First Baptist Church Sunday School. He 

 was a man of unusual ability and of fine character. 



EXPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS TRIPLED IN 

 TEN YEARS. 



OV comparing the figures shown in the September issue of 

 ^ The Indi.\ Rubber World, [page 504], it will be seen that 

 within the last ten years the exports of belting, packing and 

 hose were more than tripled, those of rubber boots and shoes 

 more than doubled and those of all other rubber manufactures 

 almost quadrupled, the aggregate results being: 



1901-02 p,462.402 



1910-11 10,947,248 



That the annual totals show a steady increase year by year 

 .iffnrds convincing proof that this progress is not caused by 

 "dumping" American goods in foreign markets, with the conse- 

 quent reaction, but indicates a growing appreciation in all parts 

 of the world of those intrinsic merits upon which American 

 rubber manufacturers have built up and held their trade. 



.\ccording to the latest details available (those for 1909-10), 

 there had been during that period a marked development of 

 liusiness with the .\ustralian markets, as compared with 1908- 

 09, shown by annexed figures : 



A.MERIC.^N EXPORTS OF RUBBER MANUFACTURES TO AUSTRALI.\ AND 

 NEW ZEALAND. 



1908-09. 1909-10. 



Belting, hose and packing $98,171 $148,687 



Boots and shoes 173,450 205,567 



All other rubber goods 120,357 168,395 



Total $391,978 $522,649 



One important feature of the Australian trade being that the 

 seasons are inverted as compared with this country, this fact 

 would enable manufacturers to follow up their campaigns here, 

 \\ ith others at the Antipodes. Of course preparations for the 

 latter would have to be made ahead, but the prospect of thus 

 getting extra trade just when it is most needed, should en- 

 courage American manufacturers to try for their share of busi- 

 ness with the .Australian markets. 



