November 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



89 



The Obituary Record. 



AN AUTHORITY ON PLANTATION RUBBER. 



CHARLES Arthur Lampard, whose death is chronicled in the 

 English press, was one of the best known men in the rubber 

 plantation industry of the Far East. Starting in business with 

 a tea importing house in London, he later connected himself with 

 the important lirni of Harrisons & Croslield, Limited, devoting 



his attention to their 

 foreign business. He 

 made frequent visits 

 to the various coun- 

 tries of Europe and 

 to America, and in 

 1895 went to the Far 

 East, establishing 

 houses in Ceylon, 

 India, the Federated 

 Malay States, Su- 

 matra and Java. 



Early appreciating 

 the importance of 

 the plantation indus- 

 try, he devoted his 

 attention mainly to 

 this branch. He be- 

 came chairman of 

 the Rubber Planta- 

 t i o n s Investment 

 Trust, Limited, and 

 at the time of his 

 death was a director 

 in no less than 29 of 

 the most successful rubber companies. It is stated that the asso- 

 ciation of his name with any new venture connected with the 

 rubber plantation industry was a guarantee of soundness and 

 that his unflinching optimism was a valuable asset to the industry 

 during that period of doubt and difficulty which followed the 

 collapse of tlie first wild boom. In his position as chairman of 

 the Rubber Plantations Investment Trust, Limited, his addresses 

 at the opening of the annual meetings were quoted far and wide, 

 and many of his estimates and predictions as to the future of 

 plantation rubber were suljsequently verified with remarkable 

 accuracy. 



Mr. Lampard was not a believer in the practicability of the 

 commercial production of synthetic rubber. He was one of the 

 first to urge the advisal)ility of forward rubber contracts and 

 he foresaw the present situation of .American consumers buying 

 rubber in the East and ship|)ing direct, thus eliminating the added 

 expense of doing business through London. 



Although still comparatively young, since tlie loss of a son in 

 the present war Mr. Lampard's health had steadily declined, 

 and in the early part of this year he relinquished his directorship 

 of Harrisons & Crosfield and gradually curtailed his activities 

 in other directions and practically retired to his estate in Home 

 Park, Rotherfield, Sussex, where his death occurred as above 

 stated. Mr. Lampard was one of the keenest and most far- 

 sighted men of the rubber planting world in London, and by 

 his death the trade loses one of its leaders and most striking 

 personalities. 



last 23 years. He was held in high esteem by his business asso- 

 ciates and by all with whom he came in contact. 



C. A. La.mi'.ard. 



WELL-KNOWN WASTE MATF^tAL MAN. 



M. Kaufman, head of the waste material house of that name 

 in Chicago, Illinois, died in that city late in September, aged 17 

 years. Mr. Kaufman had been in the waste material business in 

 Chicago since 1866, but during the past 10 years had not been 

 active in the management of the business. He was highly es- 

 teemed by many in his own and other lines of business. 



INVENTOR OF LIQUID INSULATION. 



Henry Splitdorf, whose name is associated with Morse, Clark 

 and Edison as inventor of important electrical devices, died 

 in New York City on October 16, in the eighty-third year of 



his age. Mr. Splitdorf 

 was born in Germany, 

 came to this country 

 at the age of 14 years, 

 and was apprenticed 

 to the machinist's 

 trade. Later he en- 

 tered the electrical 

 business. Although 

 he had but a common 

 school education, by 

 assiduous and concen- 

 trated study of elec- 

 trical matters he be- 

 came an expert and 

 jnany of his inven- 

 tions were of great 

 importance in the 

 fields of electricity 

 and telegraphy. Of 

 especial interest is the 

 fact that he was asso- 

 ciated with Samuel 

 F. B. Morse in the 

 development of tele- 

 llt.\KY Si'LiiiiuKh. grajihic apparatus 



a n d in connection 

 with Clark he developed the Clark repeater, which made it 

 possible for Thomas A. Edison to invent the multiple 

 system of telegraphy, and at the time of his death Mr. 

 Splitdorf had been working upon a storage battery which, 

 however, had not been |)erfected. It was he who intro- 

 duced asbestos as an insulating material and he was the in- 

 ventor of liquid insulation of magnetic wire which has prac- 

 tically replaced the more expensive silk insulation used pre- 

 viously. It is through this invention very largely that present 

 perfection in insulated wire has been attained. 



Mr. Splitdorf was a constant attendant at St. Peter's Epis- 

 copal Church at Westchester, New York. Until old age over- 

 took him he was a member of the Arion Club and the Lieder- 

 kranz. He leaves two married daughters and two sons, one of 

 whom, Charles Splitdorf, is vice-president of the Splitdorf Elec- 

 trical Co., of Newark, New Jersey. 



HANDLED TIRE FABRICS. 



W. H. Tobey, Chicago manager, and director of J. H. Lane 

 & Co., well known in the rubber trade, died in that city on 

 October 3. after a long period of illness. He was about 44 years 

 of age, and had been connected with J. II. Lane & Co. for the 



A POPULAR PURCHASING AGENT. 



Nelson W. Saylcs, purchasing agent of the Republic Rubber 

 Co., Youngstown, Ohio, died in New York City October 14. 

 He had been in declining health for a number of months. While 



