July 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



501 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



S. LEWIS GILLETTE. 



Q LEWIS GILLETTE, for many years manager of the cloth- 

 '-'• ing department of the American Rubber Co., died at his 

 home at Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 19, 

 in his sixty-third year. He was born in Colchester, Connecticut, 

 but came to Boston at the age of 18, and entered the employ of the 



S. Lewis Gillette. 



C. M. Clapp Co., jobbers in rubber goods; remaining with that 

 house for fifteen years until the formation of the American 

 Rubber Co., in 1882, when he joined that corporation and as- 

 sumed charge of its clothing department. He remained in this 

 position up to four year ago, when he was obliged to retire 

 because of faihng heaUh. He was continuously in the rubber 

 trade for forty-one years. He was widely known in a social way 

 in Boston, being a member of the Algonquin, Corinthian Yacht, 

 Chestnut Hill, WoUaston. and Padisco Golf clubs. His funeral 

 was held at Waterman's Chapel, Roxbury, on the afternoon of 

 Thursday, June 20, and he was buried at his old home in Col- 

 chester, Connecticut, the following day. 



Mr. Gillette was one of old time New England rubber men. 

 Although he served his apprenticeship under C. M. Clapp, and 

 later was associated for years with R. D. Evans, he had none of 

 the marked characteristics of either man. He was quiet, unas- 

 suming and retiring. Methodical, conscientious, conservative, he 

 was yet possessed of energy and strong common sense. He 

 made few close friends, and no enemies. The trade had seen but 

 little of him for the past few years as he was a real though un- 

 complaining invalid. 



CHARLES H. BISHOP. 



Charles H. Bishop, who since the first of January, 1904, had 

 been connected with the Hodgman Rubber Co., New York, as 

 a salesman, for a number of years past being their representa- 

 tive in the South and Southeast, died June 6 at his home, 227 

 Brooklyn avenue, Brooklyn. 



Mr. Bishop was born in Brooklyn 50 years ago. He had been 

 associated with the rubber trade for 28 years. In 1884 he be- 

 came connected with the Metropolitan Rubber Co., New York. 

 A few years later he went into business for himself in connec- 

 tion with two others and formed the Sterling Rubber Co. He 

 later became associated with the Crescent Rubber Co., where 

 he remained for 8 years — up to the time of his joining the Hodg- 

 man company. 



He was taken ill with a hemorrhage of the stomach while 

 in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 22. As soon as it was prac- 

 ticable, he was moved to his home in Brooklyn and appeared 

 to be regaining his health, but the sudden recurrence of his 

 trouble terminated fatally. He leaves a widow and a son, 

 Charles H. Bishop. The funeral was held at his home on Sun- 

 day. June 9, and the burial took place in the Cypress Hills 

 Cemetery. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE Mechanical Rubber Co. (Chicago Rubber Works), Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, has issued a forty-page catalog devoted to 

 plumbers' rubber specialties. This booklet illustrates and describes 

 a great variety of plumbers' supplies in the line of stoppers, tank 

 balls, washers, packers, cushions, gaskets, bumpers, drain boards, 

 mats and tubing. The catalog is indexed for quick and easy 

 reference. 



"The Inventors' Outlook"' is a new monthly magazine, the May 

 number being its first issue, intended, as its name implies, for the 

 special benefit of the inventor. It will cover both domestic and 

 foreign matters of interest to inventors and others concerned in 

 the general progress of the arts and sciences. There will be a 

 department in which court and patent decisions will be reviewed 

 and hearings on the Oldfield Bill for the revision of the patent 

 laws will be fully discussed. The editor and founder is Joseph 

 J. O'Brien, author of "The Inventions of Edison," "The Depart- 

 ment of Public Works," and several other books. The initial 

 number contains an interesting paper entitled "What Edison 

 Thinks About the Patent System," being his answer to a number 

 of leading questions propounded by the editor. It is published in 

 Washington, D. C. 



A BAHIGAir BANNER AND A CANDEE CARD. 



The art mills of the United States Rubber Co. have been very 

 industrious of late. Early in June the company sent out a banner 

 advertising the Banigan brand of rubbers. It is a handsome 

 piece of lithography, 20 x 30 ins. in size, printed in at least ten 

 colors — possibly more — and shows old Silas Green of Andover 

 on his way home from town in his one-horse sleigh. He has 

 obviously been making some purchases. Just back of the seat 

 is a large can full of oil; close beside him on the seat is a large 

 jug — contents unknown — and in the back of the sleigh and 

 forming the most conspicuous part of the picture, is a case of 

 Banigan rubbers, indicating that Mr. Green is wiser than his 

 name implies and gets Banigan rubbers in quantity, for himself 

 and all his family, and possibly for the neighbors. Some rude 

 boys are snowballing the old gentleman, which serves to add 

 life and interest to the picture — if not serenity to his feelings. 

 It is a fine country winter scene, and makes an attractive picture 

 for wall or window. 



Closely following the Banigan banner The United States 

 Rubber Co. issued a card advertising the Candee brand of foot- 

 wear. This is of a totally different character from the style of 

 art described above. It is a card about 14 x 21 inches in size, 

 printed in four or five colors, showing a quiet ocean scene with 

 some sail boats in the distance, and in the immediate foreground 

 a wonderful pickaninny submerged to his neck. His head, which 

 is about half life-size is set off with a delicate fringe of wool 

 over a lofty forehead, and further embellished with eyes that 

 show a great deal of white and a mouth made conspicuous by a 

 strong set of glistening teeth. Nothing more is seen of this 

 young person except three toes of his right foot which emerge 

 just far enough above the water to enable him to balance a well 

 proportioned storm slipper on his great toe. Above the head are 

 the two words "Candee Rubbers" and in the lower corner the 

 Candee trade mark. It can hardly be called a thing of beauty, 

 but it certainly is a striking advertisement and cannot well avoid 

 attracting attention. 



