June 



1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



323 



=The regular semi annual dividend of $3 per share has been 

 declared on the preferred stock of the Boston Woven Hose and 

 Rubber Co., payable June 15. 



= Captain John M. Connery, who recently resigned as pay- 

 master at the factory of the National India Rubber Co. (Bris- 

 tol, Rhode Island), to accept a position in another line of bus- 

 iness, was presented on May 22, by the employes of the com. 

 pany, with a gold watch and a purse containing $100. 



= The resignation is announced of John S. McClurg, super- 

 intendent of the Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio), to 

 take effect on July 1. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The Hon. L. D. Apsley, of the Apsley Rubber Co., at the 

 recent Republican convention in the fourth Massachusetts dis- 

 trict, was elected delegate to the forthcoming Republican na- 

 tional convention at Chicago, by acclamation. 



= Mr. C. Edward Murray, of Trenton, treasurer of the 

 Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co., and of the Crescent Belt- 

 ing and Packing Co., at the Republican convention in the 

 Fourth congressional district of New Jersey, on May 10, was 

 elected delegate to the Republican national convention at 

 Chicago. 



= Mr. William T. Rodenbach was elected warden of the bor- 

 ough of Naugatuck, Connecticut, at the annual election on 

 May 2. He has been for 16 years a member of the local school 

 board and is now president of that body. Mr. Rodenbach, who 

 is a native of New York city, is treasurer of the Goodyear's 

 Metallic Rubber Shoe Co., general manager of the United 

 States Rubber Co.'s rubber reclaiming plant at Naugatuck, 

 president of the Naugatuck Manufacturing Co., and a trustee 

 of the Naugatuck Savings Bank. The office of warden was 

 filled previously at one time by Mr. F. F. Shaffer, superintend- 

 ent of the Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co. 



= Mr. H. Stuart Hotchkiss, vice president and secretary of 

 L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), lately returned 

 from a trip to Mexico. 



= Mr. Kimball J. Fenno, formerly assistant treasurer of the 

 Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., is devoting himself to 

 public accounting, with offices at No. 53 State street, Boston. 



= Mr. Ralph W. Stewart, Jr., of the Scottish Central Rubber 

 Co. (Dunfermline, Scotland), who is on a visit to the United 

 States, during which he will see the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 

 sition, recently favored The India Rubber World offices 

 with a call. 



= Mr. Frederick Thomas Ryder, secretary of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., was married on the evening of Tuesday, 

 May 24, to Miss Blanch Bales Wise, of Maplewood, Massachu- 

 setts. The wedding reception, which was held at the residence 

 of the parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Parker Wise, 

 was a most brilliant affair and attended by a host of friends of 

 both bride and groom. 



= Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clark, of Natick, Massachusetts, have 

 issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter Helen 

 Isabel, to Mr. Frank Blake Hopewell, on June 1, at 7.30 p.m. 

 Mr. Hopewell is conected with L. C. Chase & Co. (Boston). 



= Mr. G. Edward Habich, salesman for George A. Alden & 

 Co. (Boston) was married April 30 to Miss Margaret K. 

 Shepard. 



= Mr. W. A. Joubert, who was formerly interested in Balata 

 in the Guianas, has associated himself with the Tulija River 

 Plantation Co., of Boston, whose plantation is in the state of 

 Chiapas, Mexico. 



= Benjamin B. Converse, long identified prominently with 

 the leather trade of Boston, died at his home in Newton, Mass- 

 achusetts, on May 14, in his eighty-first year. For 40 years he 



was president or director, at different times, of two Boston 

 banks. He retired from business two years ago. He was re- 

 lated to the Hon. Elisha S. Converse, both having been grand- 

 sons of Deacon Jonathan Converse, of Thompson, Connecticut 

 [born 1760— died 1845]. 



= Alfred H. Smith, importer of toilet brushes, No. 84 Cham- 

 bers street, New York, died of pneumonia in Paris, on May 9, 

 in his sixty-first year. He was a native of Bridgeport, Con- 

 necticut, and had been engaged in the same business for 40 

 years. The house will be continued under the old name by a 

 son, Roland H. Smith. The house has the American agency 

 for the Russian rubber sponges. 



= According to a Brussels newspaper, " Le Colonel Samuel, 

 president dela U. S. Rubber Cie.," declares the sales of rubber 

 shoes in this country last year to have realized " plus 1 50,000,000 

 de frances." 



PARA RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



THE International Rubber and Trading Co.,which formerly 

 was the Para Rubber Plantation Co., has undergone 

 another reorganization. Mr. John Cudahy, of Chicago, has 

 been succeeded as president by Mr. Harvey Harding, of the 

 banking firm of Bradstreet, Harding & Co., of Boston. A visit 

 to the office of the company, at No. 52 Broadway, New York, 

 found Mr. W. H. F. Holmes in charge, with the designation of 

 managing director. Mr. Holmes said to The India Rubber 

 World's representative : 



" Mr. Cudahy has resigned the presidency because he has not 

 the time to give the attention necessary to the affairs of the com- 

 pany. He is still a director, and has not disposed of a dollar's 

 worth of his interest. Mr. Harding, our new president, belongs to 

 a banking house in Boston, which will be the fiscal agents of the 

 company. The company has had many rebuffs and setbacks, but 

 we believe we have a good proposition. We have a clear title 

 to all the property along the Casiquare river, and are persuaded 

 that there are millions of rubber trees on it. The difficulties, 

 we appreciate, relate to labor and transportaticn. In regard to 

 the former we have experienced many delays. We had once 

 organized a band of 300 or 400 laborers when the revolutionary 

 troubles in Venezuela scattered them. As long as their is dis- 

 turbance and war there these men are liable to be impressed as 

 soldiers. We hope, however, to have a force ready in the near 

 future to begin the business of opening rubber camps and 

 marking out cstradas. As for transportation, we do not feel 

 that it will be an insurmountable obstacle when once we can 

 arrange for gathering the rubber. The Casiquare is navigable 

 for small, light draught craft during the entire year, and so is 

 the greater part of the Orinoco. One of our agents, who start- 

 ed from Manaos, went up the Negro, through the Casiquare, 

 and down the Orinoco, reports that there is rubber on the 

 ground in great quantities, and that the way is open." 



" Are you still selling stock ? " Mr. Holmes was asked. 



" We are not selling stock right now, but after a while we 

 will offer some to the American public. I have placed a con- 

 siderable amount of the stock abroad, in France mostly. In 

 fact I have been abroad on this business for the greater part of 

 two years." 



Mr. John Cudahy, when seen by The India Rubber 

 World's Chicago correspondent, said he had no statement to 

 make regarding the change in the company's affairs, but that he 

 might have after getting information expected from the East. 

 Mr. Cudahy states that he has disposed of the greater part of 

 his interests in the company. He resigned the presidency the 

 latter part of January, but it was not accepted at the time and 

 the matter was kept quiet. 



