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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1. 1911. 



EDWARD J. Mccormick. 



Edward J. McCormick, president of the E. J. McCormick 

 Rubber Co., of New York, died October 29 at his home, No. 89 

 Keap street, Brooklyn, New York. He was born in Great 

 Harrington, Massachusetts, 56 years ago and had lived in the 

 eastern district of Brooklyn for many years. 



Mr. McCormick's first business connection was with the late 

 Eugene Doherty, of Brooklyn, with whom he was associated 

 nearly twenty years. For a short time he was with the Boston 

 Rubber Co., and later went to Germany, where he made the 

 acquaintance of the late Dr. Heinrich Traun, of Hamburg, 

 under whose patronage on his return to the United States he 

 established the dental rubber business conducted under the name 

 ■of Excelsior Rubber Works, now known as the Traun Rubber 

 Co. Mr. McCormick's connection with the Mattson Rubber 

 Co. commenced January 1, 1890, the business then established 

 being known as the Imperial Rubber Works and incorporated 

 under the present name of the E. J. McCormick Rubber Co. on 

 January 23, 1911. 



He belonged to Washington Council, K. of C. ; St. Vincent 

 de Paul Council, C. B. L. ; the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and 

 the Church of the Transfiguration, where a requiem mass was 

 said. The interment took place in Holy Cross Cemetery. 



JOHN M. BRENNAN. 

 John M. Brennan, for a number of years foreman of the 

 American Rubber Co., died recently at his home in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. He was born in Ireland 80 years ago, but came 

 to America when a young man. He was a veteran of the Civil 

 War and a member of William H. Smart Post, 30, G. A. R. 

 The funeral took place in St. Patrick's Church, Cambridge, and 

 the burial in Maiden, Massachusetts. 



CLARENCE A. HAYWAHD. 



Clarence .'\. Hayward, one of the best-known rubber men in 

 Rhode Island and the organizer of the Goodyear Rubber Co.. 

 Providence, died at his home, 273 Massachusetts avenue, Sunday, 

 November 19, after an illness dating back more than a year. He 

 was 60 years old. 



Mr. Hayward was a sufiferer from Bright's disease, but it was 

 not until within the last few months that his condition became 

 serious. He was able to be about until a short time ago and was 

 confined to his bed only a few days. 



He was born in Boston in 1852 and came to Providence in 

 1881. He engaged in the rubber business and opened a store on 

 North Main street, which he conducted successfully for several 

 years. The business expanded to such an extent that he formed 

 a co-partnership with his brother, J. Francis Hayward, under the 

 firm name of the Goodyear Rubber Co. This business continued 

 for a long time and eventually became the Hope Rubber Co., one 

 of the largest retail concerns in Providence. 



In 1887 Mr. Hayward severed his connection with the Good- 

 year Rubber Co. and again started in business for himself. He 

 opened a store in the Conrad Building, Providence, under the 

 firm name of the Hayward Rubber Co., which he conducted for 

 several years. He also had stores in Pawtucket, R. I., and 

 Taunton, Mass., under the same firm name. 



In 1880 he married Clara E. Stearns. She died in 1902. One 

 son, Albert S. Hayward, and a daughter, Clara A., survive. The 

 funeral was held Wednesday, November 22, at 2 o'clock, with 

 services at the Woodbury Memorial Church, Providence. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



Mrs. Abby Freeborn Piper, mother of Walter E. Piper, super- 

 intendent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., died quite suddenly on 

 October 30 while visiting relatives in her native town of Warren, 

 Rhode Island. Services were held at the home of her son at the 

 Fells, Melrose, Massachusetts. Mrs. Piper was 69 years old and 

 had been a resident of Melrose for the past nine years. 



""PHE Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, 

 Limited, Toronto, Canada, are sending out a very artistic 

 catalog of their sporting shoes, illustrating both styles, bal- 

 morals and o.xfords, in their different yachting, vacation, bath- 

 ing and tennis shoes. These shoes are made in a variety of 

 styles and colors. They are made of white duck with white 

 rubber, tan duck and tan rubber, green duck and green rubber, 

 white duck and black rubber and various other combinations in 

 color effects. A net price list insert accompanies the catalog. 



Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., Beacon Falls, Connecticut, 

 sends out regularly its little monthly publication called 

 "R-u-b-b-e-r." It contains some pages of display advertising 

 and a few pages of readable text. 



The United States Tire Co., New York, has circulated a little 

 booklet, vest pocket size, entitled "The Tale of a Tortured Tire," 

 which contains a short allegory in which the improperly inflated 

 tire soliloquizes on its unhappy fate and its untimely blowout. 

 It is designed to give the users of tires a better idea of how to 

 use them. 



The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston, Massachusetts) has recently 

 issued a booklet entitled "What He Knows About Her Rub- 

 bers." It tells in narrative form the story of the manufacture 

 of a rubber shoe from calabash to the carton. The story is a 

 fairly familiar one, but the setting in this instance is somewhat 

 out of the ordinary — the scene being laid at an afternoon tea. 

 One of the guests about to depart assures her hostess that the 

 rain outside has no terrors for her as she is shod in an excel- 

 lent pair of rubbers. That introduces the subject. After a brief 

 discussion they appeal to the lone man present and ask him if 

 he can tell them anything about rubbers. Fortunately he is 

 able to do so, having observed the gathering of rubber milk in 

 the Brazilian forest and being familiar with all the factory 

 processes. He gives them the story — with great discreetness not 

 making it too prolix. The little book has a number of illus- 

 trations. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (.'\kron, Ohio) has just issued a 16- 

 page pamphlet, printed on heavy paper of a fine quality, calling 

 attention especially to its solid tires made for brewers' trucks. 

 The pamphlet has a front cover design of a handsome stein and 

 is labeled "Prosit," the German student's equivalent for "Here's 

 luck to you." The book illustrates the trucks of various brew- 

 ing concerns equipped with the Goodrich tires and gives a few 

 testimonials, one brewer writing that on his three-ton Packard 

 truck his front tires traveled 15,000 miles and his rear tires 

 10,000 miles without getting out of order. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. (Ashland, Ohio) has issued an 

 exceedingly handsome — one might say impressive — catalog of 

 its sundry, surgical, specialty and novelty rubber goods. The 

 catalog is 10 x 14 inches in size, containing 46 pages, printed in 

 red and black, on heavy paper of fine quality, with read leather- 

 ette cover stamped in gold. There was no skimping expense 

 in the printing of this catalog. It gives a great variety of il- 

 lustrations, some of them in colors, of the goods made by the 

 company, including water bottles, all kinds of syringes, rubber 

 gloves, rings, shields, covers, cushions, ice bags, tubes, sheeting, 

 blankets, aprons and everything else used in surgical work — and 

 a variety of toy balloons — which are some distance removed 

 from surgical work. The catalog also gives prices of the vari- 

 ous goods illustrated and many tables, and much other informa- 

 tion. 



The Luzerne Rubber Co (Trenton, New Jersey) issues a small 

 catalog, printed in bufif and black, illustrating the company's out- 

 put, including battery jars, syringes, knobs, insulators, handles, 

 discs, pen stock and a great variety of other articles. 



Send for Index (free) to Mr. Pearson's "Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients." 



