November i, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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=The vacancy in the office of president of the Mishawaka 

 Woolen Manufacturing Co. (Mishawaka, Indiana) due to the re- 

 cent death of Martin V. Beiger probably will not be filled before 

 the regular annual election, in January next. 



■=Charles W. Barnes, who has been connected for several 

 years with the Boston offices of the United States Rubber Co., 

 has removed to New York, where he will fill the position of as- 

 sistant to Edward R. Rice, manager of the branch stores of the 

 company since June, 1902. On the evening of October 9 a 

 complimentary dinner was given to Mr. Barnes, at the Algon- 

 quin Club, Boston, by a number of his friends in the rubber 

 business in that city, on which occasion a handsome scarf pin 

 was presented to Mr. Barnes as a testimonial of their regard. 

 The presentation speech was made by George P. Eustis, of the 

 American Rubber Co. 



=The firm of Lamkin & Foster (Boston), wholesalers of 

 boots and shoes and rubbers, whose embarrassment was re- 

 ported in The India Rubber World for August, has been 

 succeeded by Lamkin & Foster, Incorporated, with a charter 

 under Massachusetts laws dated October 13, 1903, with an au- 

 thorized capital of $200,000, in equal shares of preferred and 

 common stock. Alfred S. Foster is president, Charles A. 

 Mooar vice president, Laurence A. Mooar treasurer, and Guy 

 Lamkin and Clarence T. Mooar additional directors. 



= It is stated that the showing made of the business of the 

 United States Rubber Co., at the monthly meeting of directors 

 on October 15, showed that the business of the company for 

 the four months ended August 1 was the largest for the same 

 period in any year of the company's history. 



= Frank E. Hall, who for so many years past has been con- 

 nected with the rubber trade, has designed a new type of gaso- 

 line engine for automobiles, and has incorporated the Hall 

 Gasoline Engine Co., with a plant at Wollaston, Mass. It will 

 be remembered that Mr. Hall is the inventor and patentee of 

 the Hall sectional tire. A set of these tires is now running on 

 a large delivery wagon owned by R. H. Macy & Co., of New 

 York. These tires are said to be the largest ever made, each 

 block weighing 10 pounds, the four tires weighing 700 pounds. 

 The load which they carry is about 19 tons and the tires have 

 now been in use about five months. 



=The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) are distributing to the 

 stores handling their boots and shoes some attractive advertis- 

 ing pictures. One, framed under glass, is labeled " Above All 

 Others," and shows a case of " Hood rubbers " carried far 

 above the earth in a balloon. 



= E. A. Sprague, formerly with Richard Levick Sons & Co. 

 (Philadelphia), and prior to that a well known salesman of 

 rubber goods to hospitals and the druggists' trade in New Eng- 

 land and New York, has accepted a selling position with Mul- 

 conroy Co., Inc. (Philadelphia). 



= William J. Kelly, who has been connected for several years 

 with George A. Alden & Co. (Boston), as their New England 

 salesman, has accepted a position with Poel & Arnold (New 

 York). Mr. Kelly's many friends in the New England trade, 

 while regretting his removal, wish him the best of success in 

 his new position. 



= R. L. Chipman, who for more than two years has been the 

 resident agent at Akron, Ohio, of George A. Alden & Co., and 

 the New York Commercial Co., has returned to Boston to fill 

 the vacancy in the Alden forces made by the resignation of W. 

 J. Kelly. It is understood that Harold W. French will go from 

 the Boston office to Akron to replace Mr. Chipman. 



=The place of business of I. Fajan's Electrical Construction 

 Co. (No. 42 East Twenty-third street, New York) has been at- 

 tached on two executions, one of which, for $1108, is in favor 



of The India Rubber and Gutta Percha Insulating Co. (New 

 York). The company was incorporated in 1901, with $5000 

 capital. 



= Mr. George A. Lewis, president of the Beacon Falls Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls. Conn.) and president of the Nauga- 

 tuck National Bank, has just returned from the annual national 

 Bankers' convention in San Francisco, California. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. John C. Wilson, president of The India Rubber Co. 

 of New Brunswick, N. J., and Miss Grace L. Hall, daughter of 

 Mr. John H. Hall, of Hartford, Conn., were married in the latter 

 city on the evening of October 7th, in the church of the Good 

 Shepherd, the rector being assisted by the Rev. Charles E. 

 Woodcock, Mich., an old friend of the bride's family. Mr. 

 Lewis D. Parker, president of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., 

 was best man ; Miss Emma Rutherford of New York was the 

 maid of honor, and Miss Margery Parker the flower girl. 

 Among the wedding presents were several from the company 

 of which Mr. Wilson is president. 



= The Governor Betts named in a recent despatch from the 

 Philippines, reporting the end of an uprising in the province 

 of Albay, is Mr. Arlington U. Betts, who used to be engaged 

 extensively in the rubber cement trade at Toledo, Ohio. He 

 has now been governor of Albay for more than two years. His 

 territory embraces 15,000 square miles, in the southern part of 

 the island of Luzon, with about 183,000 inhabitants, engaged in 

 hemp growing. 



= Mr. Henry H. Holland, who has been formally appointed 

 manager of the European depot of the United States Rubber 

 Co., in London, to succeed the late John W. Knott, whose 

 assistant he was formerly, is making his first visit to the United 

 States, with a view in part to visiting the company's factories. 



= The engagement is announced of Mr. Clarence E. Hill, 

 traffic manager of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., Boston, and 

 Miss Alice H. Robinson, of Providence, Rhode Island. 



= Mr. G. Louis Richards, formerly Boston city sales agent 

 for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., is now president of a New 

 York real estate corporation. 



=The will of the late Martin V. Beiger, president of the Mis- 

 hawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co., who left i2>< percent, of 

 his estate to De Pauw University and 5 per cent, to the New 

 York Chatauqua, is being contested by his widow, who filed 

 papers to that effect at South Bend, Indiana, on October 7. 



=Mr. Herbert F. Moore has resigned as instructor in machine 

 design at Cornell University to accept a position as mechanical 

 engineer at Riehle Bros. Testing Machine Co. (Philadelphia). 



BALATA FROM DUTCH GUIANA. 



THE Balata industry in Dutch Guiana in 1902, according to 

 a British consular report, was more prosperous than for 

 several years past, the exports being stated as follows : 



1899. 1900. i9or. 1902. 



Pounds 260,922 459,371 521,400 728,200 



The latter figure is only a little smaller than the highest pro- 

 duction ever reached (in 1896), and brings up the average for the 

 above four years to the usual average for the colony, thus off- 

 setting the depression in the output a few years ago. A pecu- 

 liar fact stated in the consul's report is that much Balata is lost 

 in transit between the " bush " and the seaport, which is lead- 

 ing the traders to insure their produce. The report reads : 

 " It is difficult to say how much was lost in this way, but within 

 six months claims were made against a single insurance com- 

 pany for about ,£7500, the value — insured — of some 90 tons lost 

 in the rivers by the upsetting of the boats." 



