AucvsT 1. 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



759 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



PRESIDENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO. 



H.NRRv Wilfred DuPuy, president of the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co., leannclte, Pennsylvania, died July 4 at the French Hos- 

 pital, New York City, where he had been taken following a stroke 

 of apoplexy eleven days previously 

 while on a visit to New York. 

 ^^■■^^^^ He was only thirty-nine years old. 



^IHH^^^ For the past year he had been in 



f ^^^^^^ l"^*"" health and had planned to 



\ <^^^^H *''''' ^°'' ^ '"^'P '° Switzerland with 



fjttm^/^^^/ti '"^ family on July tenth. 



^^^^^^ Born at Pittsburgh in 1880, Mr. 



DuPuy was educated in the high 

 school at Pottstown, Pennsyl- 

 \ania, and in 1903 was graduated 

 from Yale University with the de- 

 cree of B. A. The following year 

 he started in business with the 

 Pennsylvania Rubber Co., first in 

 the testing department, then ad- 

 vancing to assistant treasurer, 

 later treasurer, and finally to pres- 

 ■ ■ ident and treasurer in 1912. 



Before the United States en- 

 tered the war, Mr. DuPuy trained at Plattsburg, New York, for 

 his commission, and entered the service in 1917. The arduous 

 nature of the training which he again underwent, both at Platts- 

 burg and Fort Niagara, it is said, left its permanent imprint upon 

 him, and was indirectly the cause of his illness. He was a mem- 

 ber of The Rubber Association of America, Society of Automo- 

 tive Engineers, .'\ssociation of National .Advertisers, .Aero Club 

 of .America and Motor and .Accessory Manufacturers. 



Mr. DuPuy is survived by his father, Herbert DuPuy, chairman 

 of the Pennsylvania company's board of directors, and by his 

 widow and son, all of whom live in Pittsburgh, where the family 

 is active both in a social and business way. His brother, Charles 

 M. DuPuy, is vice-president of the Pennsylvania company. 



A PROMINENT SHOE TRADE JOURNALIST. 



Frederic Farley Cutler, who was prominent in shoe trade 

 journalism, died July 16, 1920, at his home in Newton Centre, 

 Massachusetts. Since last December illness had prevented his 

 being active in business. He was in his fifty-fifth year. 



Mr. Cutler was born in Boston in January, 1866, and 

 graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1885, but, after 

 taking the entrance examinations for Harvard University, de- 

 cided to enter business and took a position with the leather 

 firm of Proctor, Hunt & Haskell. Five years later he entered 

 the field of trade journalism and became manager of the Shoe 

 and Leather Reporter Company, and in 1901 became president 

 and treasurer of this company, afterward becoming the owner. 

 In 1898 he established "The Shoe Retailer," and was also owner 

 of that publication. 



Mr. Cutler held membership in The Country Club, the Brre- 

 Burn Country Club, Algonquin Club, Boston .Athletic Associa- 

 tion and in several other clubs in Newton, also in Hyannis, 

 where he had a summer home, and at Pinehurst, North Caro- 

 lina. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity. 



A PROMINENT GERMAN RUBBER MAN. 



The last copy of the "Cumini-Zeituiig" to hand contains the 

 ncw-s of the dciith at the age of 68 years of Commercial Councilor 

 Friedrich Bayer, second chairman of the board of the Farben- 

 fabriken Friedrich Bayer & Co., in Leverkuscn, near Cologne, 

 and son of the founder of the enterprise. 



UNITED STATES IMPORTS AND EXPORTS-NEW CLASSIFICATION. 



Tables showing the imports into and the domestic exports 

 from the United States in the calendar year 1919, stated in the 

 terminology of the classification adopted by the International 

 Statistical Congress, are issued by the Division of Statistics of 

 ihe Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Commerce. 



Quantities arc shown in United States denominations and 

 values in dollars and in "Pan .Americanos," a proposed inter- 

 national money of account equal to one-fifth of a dollar. The 

 import values represent the wholesale price of the merchandise 

 at the time of exportation in the foreign countries from which 

 imported, including the value of containers. The value of ex- 

 ports represents the cost of the merchandise at the time of ex- 

 portation in the ports of the United Staes from which shipped. 

 The ton equals 2,240 pounds. 



The classification and figures relating to rubber are : 



III. Materials, raw or partly manufactured. 



Libstitutes (including scrap). Unit of 



Pan ' " 



Valu 



PRINTERS' ROLLERS OF RUBBER. 



It has been known tor mere than a generation that the printer's 

 roller is an unsatisfactory product. Made of glue, molasses and 

 glycerine, it spread the ink well, but was subject to changes of 

 temperature and must be often renewed. Makers of these com- 

 position rollers all had their own special formulas. The simplest 

 were about equal parts of glue and molasses for summer but for 

 winter twice as much glue as molasses. One formula called for 

 the addition of a little Paris white, while another maker added 

 linseed oil, whiting and rosin. 



From time to time rubber manufacturers sought to oust the 

 glue and molasses roller by supplying one of rubber. For a 

 long time these attempts were futile. Success has, however, at 

 last been attained. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. are now supplying a roller of rubber, 

 the "One-Set," that is soft and pliable, not destroyed by ink, dis- 

 tributes perfectly, is unaffected by winter's cold or summer's 

 heat, requires no adjusting when properly set, and outlasts by a 

 big margin the old-time roller. .Another signal triumph for 

 rubber. 



BENT RIMS CAUSE MUCH TIRE TROUBLE. 



Many motorists, were they to examine the wheels on their 

 cars, would be surprised to notice that their rims are bent along 

 the edges. Bent rims are a direct cause of rim cuts, of tires 

 blowing from the rim, and of the breaking of the wire cables at 

 the base of the tire. 



When the wheel Iiits a frog or a switch of a street car track 

 or a hole in the road, there is a tendency to flatten the rim, 

 especially if the tire is under-inflated. The support of the rim 

 is essential to the life of a tire. If it is bent so that it does 

 not fit the tire and allows the sidewalls to bulge, trouble is to 

 be expected unless immediate precautions are taken. 



The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, issues a timely warning 

 that by truing-up their rims, motorists can prevent much tire 

 trouble. .A good rule to follow is to have both tires and rims 

 inspected fortnightly. When rim trouble is found, it may usually 

 be corrected by careful tapping with a ball hammer. 



The State Savings & Trust Co.. .\kron, and the Merchants 

 National Bank, Massillon, have been appointed receivers of the 

 Biltwell Tire & Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio, due, it is said, to 

 money stringency, though the company claims solvency. 



