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[April i, 15 



wage earners who make up the industrial army which he has 

 mobiHzed at that model manufacturing encampment, the Draper 

 town, "Hopedale.' Not only does he thus serve the wage earner 

 locally, but broadly throughout the state, through the office of 

 lieutenant governor which he dignifies. Gentlemen, I present 

 to you the next governor of Massachusetts." 



Lieutenant Governor Draper in a very happy vein "poked 

 fun" at the club members concerning the alleged formal dinner 

 which he was then attending, wondering what their "informal" 

 dinners were, the point being that the spirit of friendly in- 

 formality had so taken possession of members and guests that 

 the social instincts of all present were very much in the ascendant 

 — not that the diners were not orderly, for when the speaker 

 outlined his ideas regarding such organizations as are called 

 "trusts," the unionizing of the labor classes, state regulation of 

 railroads, practical preventatives of public ownership, and sub- 

 jects of that type, they listened most attentively and appreciated 

 his telling points with generous applause. 



The next speaker, the Hon. George A. Hibbard, mayor of 

 Boston, was thus introduced by President Stedman ; 



"There comes a time when every city awakens to the real- 

 ization of its needs, particularly for a competent, honest busi- 

 ness like executive. 'Bigger, better, busier Boston,' once an 

 alliterative catch phrase, has suddenly become an established 

 fact. Friends and foes of the present city administration know 

 full well who is responsible for this change. As there are only 

 friends here to-night, perhaps his Honor, the mayor, will lay 

 aside his habitual reserve, and tell us how he has done so much 

 in so short a time." 



Mayor Hibbard, the reform mayor of the city of Boston, is 

 possessed of a visage that is a joy to the caricaturist. He knows 

 it and enjoys it himself and his stories of jokes on himself were 

 irrepressibly funny and put him instantly on the best possible 

 terms with the diners. The mayor carefully avoided politics in 

 his speech, because he said he did not know anything about 

 them. He did, however, show where he stood on the question 

 of municipal ownership, and incidentally made an appeal to the 

 business men of Boston to take a more vital interest in the busi- 

 ness end of their own city. At the close of his speech he was 

 tendered a most enthusiastic ovation. 



He was followed by the Hon. Louis A. Frothingham, former 

 speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives, whom 

 President Stedman thus introduced : 



"I will now call upon a gentleman who, while he has passed 

 but a comparatively few years upon life's journey, has, during 

 those few years, accomplished much. Ever ready to do his duty, 

 he responded without hesitation to the call of country and of state, 

 serving both with ability and with sacrifice of self. The people 

 of Massachusetts are only waiting for the polls to open to de- 

 clare him lieutenant governor. I take pleasure in presenting the 

 Hon. Louis A. Frothingham, ex-speaker of tlie house of rep- 

 resentatives." 



Mr. Frothingham spoke but briefly as he claimed that he was 

 most anxious to listen to the speech of the special guest of 

 the evening, General Charles H. Taylor, of the Boston Globe, 

 whom President Stedman introduced as follows : 



"As our minds range far afield towards England, the car- 

 toonist's likeness of 'John Bull' at once appears in the form of a 

 jolly, rotund Britisher, H we think of our own country, we 

 have depicted the lean, cadaverous, hawk visaged 'Uncle Sam.' 

 So too, in New England a certain happy looking individual, 

 alert appearing, of wondrous girth, wearing besides his ex- 

 pansive smale, a broad belt, upon which is displayed the mystic 

 words, 'Tlie largest circulation in New England,' typifying a 

 great Boston daily, and that man is General Taylor. Look at 

 him with the eye of intellectuality and you observe the girth, 

 meet him as we do here and you cannot fail to enjoy the smile. 

 Gentlemen, I am proud to introduce to you General Charles H. 

 Taylor, proprietor and editor in chief of the Boston Daily Globe." 



General Taylor spoke on modern newspapers and gave to the 

 listeners an hour's talk that for rhetoric, interest, and sparkle, 

 could not be improved upon. Although the hour was late when 

 he began, none left the room, preferring to lose their trains 

 rather than miss a word of the general's speech. When at last 

 he sat down everybody was sorry, or, as one gentleman put it, 

 "I could have listened to him all night." 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



A LFRED PE.A.BODY, the youngest son of Henry W. Pea- 

 ^* body, died on February 27 at the home of his father, in 

 Beverly, Massachusetts, aged 28. Several months ago he bought 

 a controlling interest in the Sterling Manufacturing Co., for- 

 merly of Salem and now of Gloucester, Mass., and engaged in 

 producing a rubber substitute. He held the office of treasurer 

 in this concern. 



Wilson B. Solliu.w, a prominent resident of Easton, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and a brother of Edward R. Solliday of Trenton, New 

 Jersey, died March 8 at his home, aged 69 years. Edward R. 

 Solliday is a member of the New Jersey Rubber Co., at Lam- 

 bertville. The deceased was also an uncle of Quartermaster Gen- 

 eral C. Edward Murray, of Trenton, one of the proprietors of 

 the Empire and Crescent plants in Trenton. The funeral of Mr. 

 Solliday was held on the afternoon of March 10, from the resi- 

 dence of his son in law, W. F. Packer Allis, at Easton. 



John Harter G.^kley, father of Clifford H. Oakley, formerly 

 general manager of the Grieb Rubber Co., and still identified 

 with the rubber industry of Trenton, New Jersey, died at his 

 home in Cleveland, Ohio, early in March. His death was caused 

 by bronchial pneumonia. 



The many friends of Mr. A. D. Thornton, superintendent of 

 the Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, were shocked 

 recently to hear of the death of Mrs. Thornton, which occurred 

 very suddenly at their home, after an illness of only a few hours, 

 following an entertainment at tea on the preceding afternoon of 

 a few friends. Mrs. Thornton was Miss Susan Avery Nimano, 

 daughter of the Rev. Mr. Nimmo, of Brockville, Ontorio. 



Frederick A. Claflin, treasurer and general manager of the 

 Avery Chemical Co. (Boston), a concern numbering among its 

 products a line of chemicals for the rubber industry, died in 

 Boston on iMarch 14, in his sixtieth year. Mr. Claflin was ac- 

 tive in various business channels, but since 1897 he had given 

 his whole attention to the Avery company, with which he held a 

 nominal connection before. A son of the deceased, Alan A. 

 Claflin, is president of the Avery Chemical Co. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE Se..\mless Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut) have 

 issued a new catalogue of Fine Rubber Goods and Drug- 

 gists' Sundries, liberally illustrated with cuts of their principal 

 products. A marginal inde.x facilitates ready reference to the 

 catalogue. [6%"x9J4"- 117 pages,] 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) issue a new cata- 

 logue of Mechanical Rubber Goods, embodying details regard- 

 ing an increased line of products commensurate with the growth 

 of the factory, which employs more than ten times as many 

 workers as were on the payroll nine years ago. In addition to 

 the staple and special lines of mechanical goods, the catalogue 

 includes a number of items of hard rubber— a line not usually 

 found in connection with this branch of the industry, [5" x 7". 

 127 pages,] 



The Gutta-Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co, of 

 Toronto, Limited, issue their 1908-09 catalogue of Maltese Cross 

 Rubbers, illustrated as usual with excellent cuts of their exten- 

 sive line of boots and shoes. [3-54" >= 6", 72 pages,] 



Also KECEIVED, 

 A. T, Reach Co., Philadelphia. = 190S Spring and Summer Sports. 41 

 pages.' I'"all and Winter Sports, iqo7-o8, 34 pages, 



Osgood Sayen, Philadelphia, = "Everlasting" Blow-off Valve, 12 pages. 



