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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1908. 



individual in them, other than to give them greater opportunities. 

 The management will be continued under my administration in 

 future as in the past." 



An idea of the amount of detail involved in Mr. Dale's work is 

 indicated by the fact that in addition to the positions mentioned, 

 he was president of the New- York Belting and Packing Co., 

 Limited, and the Mechanical Rubber Co., the latter corporation 

 comprising a half dozen concerns which formed the nucleus of 

 the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. Nor were his official posi- 

 tions merely nominal. He instigated and planned in the larger 

 sense the building of the great jNIorgan & Wright rubber factory 

 at Detroit, ^Michigan ; he superintended the merger with the 

 Rubber Goods company of the tire factories acquired from the 

 American Bicycle Co., finally reorganizing all of the latter, in- 

 cluding the Hartford Rubber Works Co. 



In addition to the business connections already noted, Mr. Dale 

 was a director in two New York banks — the Merchants' Ex- 

 change National and the Century Bank. He w-as a member of 

 the Union League Club, New York Yacht Club, Larchmont 

 Yacht Club, the Automobile Club of America and the New York 

 Athletic Club. Mr. Dale was prominent among New York 

 yachtsmen and his yacht, The Whim, attracted no little attention.' 

 He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity. His town 

 house was at No. 131 West One Hundred and Nineteenth street. 

 Funeral services at the Larchmont residehce on the afternoon 

 of July 20 were attended by the executive officers of the 

 Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. and the directors of the 

 United States Rubber Co. The interment, which was private, 

 was at Woodlawn Cemetery the next forenoon. The offices and 

 branches of the various rubber companies with which Mr. Dale 

 was connected were closed throughout Monday and during the 

 time of the interment Tuesday. Mr. Dale is survived by a widow 

 and daughter. 



"Charley Dale," as his friends loved to call him, was ever a 

 most forceful character. He despised pretense and hypocrisy and 

 bluntly made the fact known whenever those twin vices showed 

 their heads in his presence. He was a good organizer, and while 

 able to do an immense amount of detail work, did not enjoy it. 

 He hated delays, and fretted under them. To his energetic con- 

 ception, Rome should have been built in a day, or a w-eek at 

 most, and he would have seen to it that it was done. He was 

 a very firm friend, and tender-hearted to a degree that would 

 surprise those who only saw the positive, business-like side of 

 his character. Hard worker, clear thinker, plain speaker, loyal 

 friend, all who knew him will long regret his untimely death. 



Mr. Dale throughout his life maintained relations of friendship 

 with railroad people whom he had known before he became a 

 rubber man, and likewise many acquaintances of later date. He 

 was for years a member of the Conductors' Association of New 

 York, and on retiring from the highest position in that body, in 

 1893, was presented with a handsome gold watch by the mem- 

 bers. 



INCREASING YIELD OF BALATA. 



'XV/HILE the returns of production of balata gum leave 

 *'' something to be desired in the way of definiteness, they 

 at least demonstrate that a steady increase has taken place in the 

 yearly sales of this material. The principal sources of balata — 

 all in South America — are 'Venezuela and the Guianas. The 

 volume of exports from each of the producing countries is re- 

 ported with reasonable exactness, but there is some interchange 

 between the countries which doubtless leads at times to the 

 duplication of small quantities. 



To go back twenty years, British Guiana in 1887 exported 

 80,942 pounds of balata and Dutch Guiana 1093 pounds — total, 

 82,035 pounds ; 'Venezuela exported none. By 1896 the figures 

 had grown to 332,262 pounds for British Guiana, 433.999 for 

 Dutch Guiana, and 165,000 for 'Venezuela — total 931,261 pounds. 



During the past si.x years the yearly output of the three countries 

 named has been as follows (.in pounds) : 



Year. British Guiana, Venezuela. Dutch Guiana. Total. 



1902 388.037 1,796,854 706,200 2,891,091 



1903 743o53 2,408.073 814,000 3,965,626 



1904 800.133 1,993,028 569,800 3,362.961 



1905 774.665 2,816,169 536,800 4,127,634 



1906 728,231 2.710,726 594,000 4,032,957 



1907 834,728 3,203,141 765.120 4,802,989 



The figures in the table are given for calendar years for 

 Venezuela and Dutch Guiana, and fiscal years for British Guiana. 

 The exports of balata from British Guiana during the calendar 

 year 1907 amounted to 987,225 pounds, the largest for that colony 

 for any year yet recorded. The exports for the calendar year 



1906 were 630,036 pounds. 



French Guiana has some balata, but it has been exploited to a 

 very small extent. Beginning with 1901 small shipments have 

 been made annually, but not to exceed 16 tons in any one 

 year. British import returns include balata in gutta-percha, and 

 hence credit gutta-percha to all the countries and colonies 

 above named, and also to Panama and Colombia. These two 

 countries appear to have supplied Great Britain, in 1906 and 



1907 respectively, with 14,672 and 33,040 pounds of gutta-percha. 

 Of course it was not the article known commercially as gutta- 

 percha. If it was balata, it was in addition to the production 

 recorded in the preceding table, no matter what its source. 



The American market does not yet call for a great deal of 

 balata, though the figures are larger now than a few years ago. 

 The customs service records the importation of 374.220 pounds 

 in the fiscal year 1905-06 and 799.201 pounds in 1906-07, but as 

 between different grades of india-rubber — and this is what it 

 amounts to — the classification is not likely to be very exact. 

 [See The Ixdi.\ Rubber World, July i. 1901 — page 295,] 



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