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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1907. 



Df.riiot McEvov. 



DEHMOT McEVOY. 



Dermot McEvoy, the new general manager of the Derby Rub- 

 ber Co., rubber reclaimers, at Derby, Connecticut, was born at 

 Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, England, in 1871. He 

 attended Lancaster school in Cambridge, but later obtained a 

 scholarship in King Edwards grammar school at Birmingham, 



where he remained 

 until 1886. Articles 

 of apprenticeship were 

 signed with the Birm- 

 ingham Central Tram- 

 way Co., binding him 

 to work for three 

 years in their ne\f' 

 locomotive r e p a i f 

 shops, to the end 

 that he might lay 

 the foundation of a 

 mechanical engineer's 

 education. The work 

 in these shops em- 

 braced the making 

 necessary running re- 

 pairs to, and the re- 

 building of, the small 

 high pressure loco- 

 motives used on this 

 system, which has 

 since been electrified. 

 The work was hard 

 .Tud the hours long, but the lessons learned apart from ma- 

 •cliinery were patici'.ce, resourcefulness, and the many sterling 

 qualities of the wage earners with whom he wa-s thrown in 

 daily contact. In 188S his father, Bernard McEvoy, moved to 

 Canada, and became editorially connected with the Toronto 

 Mail and Empire, in which position he became well known. 

 The subject of this sketch followed when his apprenticeship 

 was finished, and connected himself with the Poison Iron 

 Works, at Toronto, where he worked at first as a journeyman 

 fitter and erector. In less than a year he was taken into the 

 drawing office, where his shop experience stood him in good 

 stead. As a draftsman he worked with many firms, gaining 

 experience and knowledge of man. The Welland Iron Works, 

 in Toronto; The Walker Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, Ohio; 

 Tlic Turner Vaugh.n and Taylor Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio ; 

 The BulTalo Engineering Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ; and the Canadian 

 General Electric Co., Petersborough, Canada, were the firtns 

 in whose service he was prior to 1895, when he became assistant 

 to Mr. E. C. Shaw, at that time consulting engineer for The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., of Akron, Ohio. The work of remodelling 

 the factory was begun, and large additions were about to be 

 made. In 1896 Mr. McEvoy's health rendered a change neces- 

 sary and he went west to a Colorado cattle ranch. Ret\irning 

 in the fall he opened an office as mechanical engineer in 

 Toronto. One of his first clients was the Gutta Percha and 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of that city, who were contem- 

 plating changes in tlieir factory. His plans were accepted, and 

 Mr. McEvoy gave up his office to become chief engineer for the 

 company. Many changes and improvements were made during 

 his occLipancy of this position, which terminated in 1903. In 

 this year Mr. D. Lome McGibbon was planning to remodel the 

 plant of the Canadian Rubber Co., of Montreal, and he se- 

 cured the services of Mr. McEvoy as engineer in charge of 

 construction. Many additions have been made since that time 

 including a new reclaiming plant, wash house and dry rooms 

 boiler house and cement factory. The work of changing tlie 

 general plants had to be made while they were in full opera- 

 tion, and Mr. McFvoy was consequently in close touch with 



the details of all lines of manufacturing in every rubber factory 

 with which he has been connected. His latest move is 

 chronicled at the beginning of this article. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The directors of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 have declared the regular semi-annual dividend of $3 per share 

 on the preferred stock, payable December T4. 1907, to stockholders 

 of record December 5. 



Wallace L. Gough Co. (New York and Boston) announce that 

 W. G. Ryckman, who has become well known to the trade 

 through his connection with the Continental Rubber Co., in the 

 introduction of Guayule rubber, has resigned from that company 

 to take a similar position with the house of Gough. 



Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Co. ( Mishawaka, Indiana) 

 are reported to have purchased some additional water rights and 

 to be making an extensive increase of their factory capacity, for 

 which purpose new machinery is being installed. 



Electrose Manufacturing Co. (Brooklyn) announce that in- 

 sulators of electrose have been adopted for the overhead third 

 rails for the electric traction system in the new "Belmont" 

 tunnel, under the East river. New York, in view of the favorable 

 results shown by a series of tests of this material in work of thi^ 

 kind lasting for 13 months. 



The Fairfield Rubiier Co. (Fairfield, Connecticut), at the be- 

 ginning of the past month, resumed a schedule of work on full 

 time. 



Mr. Edward H. Opcnsliaw. a very well known mechanical goods 

 superintendent, has accepted a position witli the Cincinnati Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., as superintendent of their works in Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton. general manager of the Northwestern 

 Rubber Co., Limited, of Liverpool, was a visitor to the States 

 during the past month. 



MR. REIMERS AND HIS HOME. 



Herm.an Reimers. breez}^ jolly, wholesome, has been again in 

 America on a "vacation trip." Since his retirement from the 

 crude rubber business he has made his home in Honnef. Ger- 

 many, a beautiful town on the Rhine, with the "Seven Moun- 

 tains" in the background, where he has built a fine home. Here 

 he lives, when not motoring over Europe or traveling and sight- 

 seeing. Not tliat he is German in the slightest degree. That 

 he is still an .American is attested by the big United States flag 

 that on a lofty staff flies above his lawn. His old friends have 

 given him the heartiest kind of welcome, and his fund of stories, 

 quaint observations, and jolly descriptions of doings and sayings 

 of others the w'orld over prove him to be the same friendly, alert 

 diffuser of cheerfulness that he was when he was at the head of 

 the house of Reimers & Co. in New York. 



Home of !\Ir. Reimers, un the Rhi.ne. 



