February 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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his death. He was patient and oon.-.iderate. a tireless investigator, 

 an admirable counsellor, and lived a life of intense business 

 activity. 



Senator Grouse's whole life was spent in .Akron and Summit 

 County except the years on the battlefield and in the halls of 

 Congress. His achievements in the upbuilding of large enter- 

 prises, his helpfulness to young men struggling for success in 

 commercial enterprises, and the high type of citizcnsliip for which 

 he stood, make his loss exceptionally felt. 



JOSEPH B. SPARKS. 



Joseph B. Sp.\rk.';, aged 74, fur 26 years an expert calender 

 man at the plant of the National India Rubber Company, Bristol, 

 Rhode Island, a fonner president of the Bristol Town Council 

 and well known G. A. R. veteran, died at his hoine in the Rhode 

 Island town on the morning of January 9 after a two weeks' ill- 

 ness. The funeral was held three days later. 



Mr. Sparks was a member of a well-known family and leaves 

 many relatives who are prominent in Bristol affairs. He was a 

 member of Babbitt Post, G. A. R., and served in the Civil War 

 from May S, 1861 to June 17, 1864. He took part in many 

 battles, from the first at Bull Run to the campaign in the Wilder- 

 ness where he was slightly wounded in the ankle by a stray 

 bullet. 



EENNIS F. SCANLON. 



Dennis F. Scanlon. who for a .lumber of years was a fore- 

 man in tlie plant of the National India Rubber Company at 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, died at his home in that town January 14 

 from a paralytic shock. During his younger days Mr. Scanlon 

 was prominent in sporting circles. He was 47 years old. 



His widow, Mrs. Julia Scanlon, and two children, as well as 

 two brothers and three sisters, survive him. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



JOS. FYNNEY & CO., india-rubber merchants and importers, 

 of Liverpool, sent as a New Year's token to their rubber 

 manufacturing friends, a very handsome little pocket diary, 

 enclosed in a leather case, containing various compartments for 

 tickets, stamps, etc. The book, wliich can be removed from the 

 covers for the insertion of a new one at the end of the year, 

 contains in addition to a diary for 1912, a great deal of valuable 

 statistical matter, especially covering "Loss in Washing" tables 

 as follows : 



"Loss in Washing" table. Equivalents of English s. d. per 

 lb.; in cents per lb.; in francs per kilo; in tnarks per kilo. 



English weights table in kilos ; total Para receipts and values ; 

 total -Antwerp receipts and values; and monthly Para receipts 

 and values. 



Naturally, they have had a great demand for this little book, 

 and have been obliged to confine its distribution solely to their 

 friends in the rubber manufacturing trade. 



John Royle & Sons, manufacturers of rubber tubing machines, 

 insulating machines, and other machinery, Paterson, New Jersey, 

 liave distributed to their customers a neat little leather bound 

 pocket diary for 1912, including many pages of valuable statistical 

 matter, covering weights and measures, percentage tables, rate of 

 income and stocks, population of the principal cities of the 

 LTnited States, rates of domestic postage, and other similar 

 matter. A very convenient little book, 



J. W. Coulston & Co., importers and manufacturers of dry 

 paints and colors, 136 Liberty street. New York, have distributed 

 to users of their products, a small desk memorandum pad, each 

 page covering one week. Alternating pages give much informa- 

 tion regarding the products and importations of this concern. 



The Adamson Mfg. Co., makers of rubber working machinery, 

 Akron, Ohio, have favored their customers with a handsome 

 wall calendar, 12 x 15 inches, the upper half of which shows a 

 reproduction in color photography, of a painting by the well- 



known Scottish artist, H. J. Dobson. The title of the picture is 

 'In the Days of Auld Lang Sync." It shows a humble Scottish 

 kitchen with an old man playing the familiar tune on his ancient 

 violin, while his wife sits by in rapt appreciation. 



The Rubber Regenerating Co., Ltd., Alanchester, England, has 

 distributed to users of regenerated rubber a fine wall calendar 

 12 X 16. At the bottom of the calendar there is a pad with a 

 page for each day. .As the figures are 4 inches high, and are 

 legible at a considerable distance, this calendar will be particu- 

 larly serviceable in large offices. Above the pad there is a repro- 

 duction of a painting by Sanderson Wells of a hunting scene 

 entitled "The Favorite Meet." With the huntsmen in their red 

 coats, and the hounds alert for the trail, it makes a lively and 

 attractive picture. 



The Omo Mfg. Co., Middletown, Connecticut, is sending out 

 its catalogue for 1912. It is a particularly handsome booklet 

 6 .X 9 inches in size, printed in three colors, on heavy coated 

 paper of superior ciuality, and lias an attractive cover in gold, 

 white and blue, deeply embossed. The catalogue which contains 

 52 pages, describes and illustrates on every page one of the great 

 variety of dress shields made by this company. The Omo Com- 

 pany, by the way, has recently completed an addition to its plant, 

 which more than doubles its former capacity. 



The Iroquois Rubber Co., Buffalo, New York, is distributing 

 to the trade a catalogue of 80 pages entitled "Mechanical Rubber 

 Goods of Quality." It illustrates and describes rubber belting, 

 rubber packing, valve disks, rubber hose, steam hose, and many 

 other kinds — rubber tubing, perforated mats and corrugated mat- 

 ting, drain boards, and various other mechanical goods made of 

 rubber. 



The December number of "The Chemist-Analyst" comes to 

 hand a few days late owing to the great number of new requests 

 received by the publishers, J. T. Baker Chemical Co., Phillips- 

 burg, New Jersey, for this little publication. It is now being 

 sent to 10,000 people who are interested in chemical analysis. 



THE tJNITED STATES KUBBEK CO.S 1912 CATALOGUES. 



The LTnitf.d States RunBER Co. distributed, early in January, 

 hs catalogues for 1912. These catalogues consist of a very hand- 

 some series of 10 books of uniform size, 4'4 -x 8,'/^ inches, contain- 

 ing from 52 to 64 pages, and bound in very artistic covers. The 

 10 covers are all distinct and individual but uniformly fine in de- 

 sign and color effect. A catalogue is devoted to each of the 

 following brands : American, Banigan, Boston, Candee, Glove, 

 L\-coniiug, Maiden, Meyer, Wales-Goodyear, and Woonsocket. 



The inside of the catalogues is of the same quality of work- 

 manship as the covers. The paper is heavy and of superior 

 finish, the typography is most tasteful and tlie half-tone repro- 

 ductions of rubber boots and shoes are exceptionally good. As 

 they are made direct from photographs, with practically no re- 

 touching, they give an exact reproduction of the goods they 

 represent. 



In addition to these 10 large catalogues, there are 2 small ones, 

 also illustrated, one devoted to the "Empire" brand of rubber 

 footwear and the other showing the miscellaneous footwear made 

 by the company, including wool boots, lace felt boots, khaki 

 boots and arctics, and showing also a new boot called the 

 "Acido" boot, intended for workmen in acid works and powder 

 factories where the boot naturally comes in contact with sul- 

 phuric acid. 



The company follows the plan adopted last year of issuing 

 these catalogues without prices, but with very full descriptions 

 and illustrations, not with the intention of having them dis- 

 tributed to the retail trade, but simply for limited distribution 

 among jobbers, to assist them in the preparation of their own 

 individual catalogues. Further to assist the jobber in his cata- 

 logue work, the company is preparing, for immediate distribu- 

 tion, a new edition of its electrotype catalogue, which illustrates 

 all the electrotypes which the company is prepared to furnish the 

 jobbing trade for catalogue use. 



