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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1904. 



and Herr Dr. Soetbeer in his capacity as business manager of 

 the Centralverein Deutscher Kautschukwaaren-Fabriken had 

 arrived to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased. The 

 decorations, palms, flowers, and wreaths were innumerable. 



The funeral cortege was headed by the band of the Harburg 

 Pionier Battalion, followed by the society of the guard reserves, 

 whose senior was Carl Maret (he served his military duties 

 during 1850-51— a one year volunteer — in the guards), a dele- 

 gation of the employes of the Harburg rubber works, bearing 

 the floral tributes of the board of directors; then the hearse, 

 followed by the near relatives of the deceased ; the chiefs of the 

 imperial and municipal governments, the municipal council of 

 Harburg, the fire department of the Harburg rubber and other 

 factories. Then the branches of the Vereinigte Gummiwaaren- 

 Fabriken Harburg-Wien, business friends and representatives 

 of the firm, the whole office force, and the entire corps of em- 

 ployes of the Harburg works. About 2000 persons were in line . 

 Herr Konistorialrat General Superintendent Remmers preached 

 the funeral sermon, after which the coffin was lowered to its 

 resting place. 



TRIBUTE FROM THE RUBBER ASSOCIATION. 



On January 22, occurred the death, in his seventy-fourth year, of the 

 president of our society, Imperial Councillor of Commerce and Senator 

 Herr Carl Maret, member of the board of directors of the Vereinigte 

 Gummiwaren-Fabriken, Hat burg Wien. 



When, in the year 1895, the Verein Deutscher Kautschukwaren-Fab- 

 riken was founded, he was elected the first president, and when, in i8q8, 

 this society and the Vereinigung Deutscher Gummiwaren-Fabriken were 

 fused into the Centralverein, no doubt existed that in this greater society 

 the presidency belonged to him. As director of the largest German 

 establishment in the rubber industry, aided by years of successful expe- 

 rience in this branch, endowed with exceptional gifts of mind and char- 

 acter, he enjoyed the implicit confidence of his associates. The pre- 

 dominant features in his adminstration of the affairs of the society were 

 his keen intellect, the broadness of his judgment, the combination of 

 moderation and firmness of his nature, his personal amiability, and his 

 great faculty to reconcile opposing factions and point out to them their 

 allied interests. In high esteem and love, the Centralverein will ever 

 preserve his memory loyally and indelibly. 



CENTRALVEREIN DEUTSCHER KAUTSCHUKWAREN FABR1KEN. 

 R. Hoffmann, Vice President. Dr Soei beer, Secretary. 



Herr Maret has been succeeded in his position in the board 

 of directors, and in charge of the mechanical operation, by 

 Franz Stingl, Imperial Austrian Councillor. Herr Stingl has 

 been connected with the company for 33 years, and has been 

 mechanical superintendent of the Wimpassing factory for 25 

 years. 



DEATHS IN THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



Wilder F. McClintock, vice president and assistant mana- 

 ger of the Stoughton Rubber Co., and in charge of their office 

 at No. 232 Summer street, Boston, died on February 5. About 

 a week previously he had a rupture, and submitted to an opera- 

 tion, which was successful, but he took cold immediately after- 

 ward which developed into pneumonia with a speedily "fatal re- 

 sult. Mr. McClintock was born 58 years ago at Wiscasset, 

 Maine. About twenty years ago he became connected with the 

 Portland (Maine) store of the Hall Rubber Co., of which he was 

 manager when that company, in 1900, was absorbed by the 

 Stoughton Rubber Co., after which he was transferred to the 

 Boston store of the latter. About four months ago Mr. Mc- 

 Clintock was elected vice president of the Stoughton company. 

 The funeral was held at No. 31 Lincoln place, Boston, on Feb- 

 ruary 7, and the interment was at Wiscasset on the next day. 

 He leaves a widow and one son, Edward H. McClintock, of 

 Beverly, Massachusetts. Mr. McClintock was a mason and be- 

 longed to the Seaside Lodge of Booth Bay Harbor, Maine. Mr. 



McClintock had been a member of the New England Rubber 

 Club since March, 1900, and the Club sent a floral offering to 

 the funeral, besides adopting the following resolutions: 



Whereas : Death has removed from our midst our friend and fellow 

 member, Wilder F. McClintock, we, the members of the New England 

 Rubber Club, are moved by our sense of losstorecoid the following res- 

 olutions : 



Resolved : That in the untimely death of our friend, the trade of New 

 England loses an honorable representative, and our Club one of its 

 valued members. 



Resolved : That we extend to his family and to the corporation with 

 which he was for many years so closely identified, our deep sympathy. 



Resolved : That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the 

 Club, and copies engrossed and be sent to his family and business asso- 

 ciates. 



Committee on Resolutions: Arthur W. Stedman, Eugene H. 

 Clapp, George P. Whitmore. 



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Mark R. Hayne, secretary of the Alden Rubber Co. (Bar- 

 berton, Ohio), died at his home in Akron on January 27, of a 

 complication of diseases, after an illness of more than six 

 months. He was born in New York state 56 years ago, and 

 had lived in Akron about 25 years, during which he had be- 

 come one of the prominent men of the city, through his con- 

 nection with a number of manufacturing establishments. Mr. 

 Hayne was a man of fine intelligence and cultivated tastes, 

 having a love for the antique and being considerable of a col- 

 lector. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revo- 

 lution. He is survived by his wife and a daughter, and mother 

 and brother. Funeral services were held in Akron on January 



29, and the interment was at Glendale cemetery, in that city. 



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Joseph Buckingham Canfield, son of H. O. Canfield, the 

 rubber manufacturer at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and superin- 

 tendent in his father's factory, died accidentally on the night of 

 February 18 at his home as a result of asphyxiation from coal 

 gas from the house furnace. Mr. Canfield was 33 years of age, 

 a college graduate, a member of the Algonquin and Bridgeport 

 Yacht clubs, and, like his father, prominent in Masonic circles. 



LECTURES TO RUBBER WORKERS. 



THE course of lectures maintained by The Canadian Rubber 

 Co. of Montreal for the benefit of their employes, and 

 mentioned in the last India Rubber World, is proving a suc- 

 cess. Mr. D. Lome Gibbon, general manager of the company, 

 reports: " I am glad to say that the lectures are being well at- 

 tended, and I already notice a disposition on the part of the 

 younger element to acquire further knowledge." Regarding the 

 motive for establishing this lecture course, Mr. Gibbon says : 

 " When I assumed the management of this company I was par- 

 ticularly struck with the lack of knowledge of rubber manufac- 

 turing by the general public, and more particularly the people 

 who used the manufactured articles. It occurred to me that 

 those who used rubber goods would be interested in knowing 

 more about it, and the only feasible plan I could think of, was 

 to have our staff acquire more knowledge and be in a position 

 to impart it to our customers and prospective customers. The 

 principal reason, however, that prompted me to give a course 

 of lectures to employes was my desire to interest them in their 

 work, as in my experience, no man can make a success of his 

 work unless he is thoroughly interested in it." 



Under the new Cuban tariff act, the import duty on manu- 

 factures of India-rubber and Gutta-percha the duty has been 

 advanced 30 per cent. 



