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Mr. Plamondon was recognized, for many years, as one of 

 the foremost rubber e.\perts in Canada, and was frequently con- 

 sulted by the Faculty of McGill University, and also by many 

 American authorities on the chemistry of rubber manufacturing. 

 He retired from active duties ten years ago and since then had 

 received a pension granted him by the company, in view of his 

 long and faithful services. Of a quiet, unassuming and jovial 

 disposition, Mr. Plamondon made many warm friends. One of 

 his sons, Joseph E. Plamondon, is city salesman for the Canadian 

 Consohdated Rubber Co., Limited, of Montreal. 



SEABURY A. FORD. 



Seabury A. Ford, who had been identified with Adams & 

 Ford. Cleveland, Ohio, for over SO years, serving as president 

 of the corporation for many years, died on May 12, in the 

 eightieth year of his age. He had not only been a prominent 

 figure in the rubber footwear world for many years, but was 

 well known in the social life of his city; being one of the charter 

 members of the Union Club of Cleveland, and a member of 

 the Chamber of Commerce. His funeral took place at his 

 home in Cleveland on May 14. 



EDWARD A. STRANG. 



In the paragraph above, the death is mentioned of S. C. Ford, 

 president of The Adams & Ford Co., Cleveland, Ohio. By a 

 most remarkable coincidence, Edward A. Strang, vice-president 

 of that corporation, died on May IS — three days after the death 

 of Mr. Ford. Mr. Strang's death occurred most suddenly, and 

 was caused by heart disease. He had been identified with Adams 

 & Ford for a number of years, and was widely and favorably 

 known to the rubber footwear trade, both by reason of his 

 business ability, and his attractive personality. Mr. Strang was 

 largely instrumental in the successful exploitation of the "Ever- 

 Stick'' rubber, the patent rights of which were purchased about 

 five years ago by The Adams & Ford Co. 

 LOUIS H. AYME. 



News comes of the death in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 16, 

 of Consul General Louis H. Ayme, from locomotor ataxia. 



Mr. Ayme was a native of New York, but spent many years 

 in Chicago, where he was engaged in newspaper and scientific 

 work. He served as press editor at the World's Columbian 

 Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, and also acted at one time as 

 special ethnologist for the Smithsonian Institute. During the 

 last 12 years or more of his life he had been connected with 

 the U. S. Consular service. He was consul at Para three 

 years, from 1903 to 1906, and while in that position made a 

 careful study of rubber matters on the Amazon. The Indi.-^ 

 Rubber World of August, 1905, contained his report to the 

 United States government on "A New Source of Amazon 

 Rubber." He was promoted from this position to the consulship 

 in Lisbon in 1906. 



LUDWIG EDLEE VON KEITHOFFEE. 



The death is announced on April 19 at Vienna, of Herr Lud- 

 wig Edier von Reithoflfer, in his 92d year. His name is con- 

 nected in the closest manner with the history of the Austrian 

 rubber manufacturing industry, of which he has been regarded 

 as the practical founder ; having effected in 1872 the fusion of 

 the firms tlien existing, of Menier, Harburg, and of J. N. Reit- 

 hoffer, Vienna, under the style of the "United Rubber Goods 

 Factories, Harburg-Vienna, formerly J. N. Reithoffer." The 

 company thus formed was hence the direct successor of Johann 

 Nepomuk Reithoffer, who had established the firm bearing his 

 name. 



Far beyond the limits of Austria the deceased was known as 

 an enterprising manufacturer and as the head of the Austrian 

 rubber industry. It was reserved for him to witness its devel- 

 opment, from its early days to its present flourishing position. 



His work met with the highest official recognition, various 

 honors being conferred upon him by the Emperor of Austria. 

 In him the poor lose a generous benefactor, while his death is 

 mourned by a large circle of business and personal friends. 



JOSEPH FYNNEY. 



Among the victims of the ill-fated "Titanic" was Joseph Fynney, 

 principal member of the firm of Joseph Fynney & Co., Liverpool, 

 England, crude rubber merchants. Though Mr. Fynney was a 

 comparatively young man — being only in his thirty-si.xth year — 

 he had an extensive knowledge of the rubber trade and was 

 himself widely known in rubber circles, not only in England, but 

 on the continent and in America. His business career was one 

 of marked success. He did not, however, permit his commercial 

 interests entirely to monopolize his time and attention ; he took 

 tlie deepest interest in the Young Men's Club, connected with 

 St. James' Church at Toxteth (a suburb of Liverpool), and 

 devoted much time to the interests of the club and to the welfare 

 of the young men and boys who belonged to it. His death — 

 particularly occurring in this tragic way — has ' caused great 

 sorrow among his business associates and friends. His body 

 was among the few recovered. 



ALEXANDER WARDROP. 



Much regret has been expressed at the death in his 53d year of 

 Alexander Wardrop, of Kandy, Ceylon, secretary of the Ceylon 

 Planters' Association ; the cause being heart faihire. due to 

 aneurism of the aorta. He started his planting career in 1880, 

 and in 1907 succeeded Edgar Turner as secretary of the Ceylon 

 Planters' Association. As a polished and vigorous speaker he 

 rendered valuable services to the planting interest in dealing with 

 the government, and with individuals, and his loss will be 

 keenly felt. 



SAMUEL EMERSON. 



Samuel Emerson, who was for a long time connected with the 

 .Apsley Rubber Co., and has since been engaged in various en- 

 terprises, principally textile manufacture, died at his home, 

 Lunenburg, Massachusetts, May 2. 



Mr. Emerson was born at Pascoag. Rhode Island, and was in 

 his sixty-third year. His first business venture was as owner of 

 a store at Millbury, Massachusetts, after which he became asso- 

 ciated with the firm of Jason Emerson & Son in manufacturing 

 textile goods, with mills in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The 

 firm lost heavily in the Boston fire of 1872. Later he entered the 

 retail clothing business at Providence, but went to Boston soon 

 after as proprietor of a store. It was after his Boston venture 

 that he became connected with the Apsley Rubber Co. 



JOHN F. PETTY. 



John F. Petty, who for 40 years was a foreman and master 

 mechanic at the plant of the National India Rubber Co., Bristol, 

 died at his home on Cook street in that town on April 24. He 

 had been ill for four years. Mr. Petty was appointed foreman 

 of the machinists' department of the factory in 1869, and con- 

 tinued at work there until his illness began. He was a native of 

 Tiverton, Rhode Island, was in his 79th year, and on September 

 15, 1907, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary. 



ERNEST E. BUCKLETON. 



Ernest E. Buckleton, general manager of the Northwestern 

 Rubber Co., Ltd., Litherland, Liverpool, England, who has re- 

 cently crossed the United States on his way home from a visit 

 to Japan, sailed from New York on the "Lusitania," May 28. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



BAILEY'S RUBBER STORE, Boston, Massachusetts, con- 

 trolled by C. J. Bailey & Co., has distributed quite a large 

 edition of a small pocket catalog of 32 pages and cover, de- 

 scribing and illustrating the great variety of rubber goods han- 

 dled by this company, particularly rubber clothing suited to all 

 occupations — automobiling among others. 



