July 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE OBITUARY RECORD. 

 A PROMISING CRUDE RUBBER MAN. 



•-pHE SUDDEN DEATH by piieumoiiia, May 17, 1919, of C. J. Adams, 

 *■ as announced last month, was a shock to his many friends 

 in the rubber industry. 



Mr. Adams was engaged in the 

 crude rubber business in New 

 York City for a period of four- 

 teen years. He began originally 

 with the crude rubber firm of H. 

 Hagemeyer & Brunn, and later 

 joined the firm of A. W. Brunn 

 & Co., crude rubber brokers. On 

 the death of A. W. Brunn, he 

 continued in the business with 

 the firm of Fred Stern & Co., 

 crude rubber importers. New 

 York City. In the latter connec- 

 tion he became e.xtensively 

 known in the rubber trade and 

 was universally well liked in both 

 his social and business relations. C. J. Adams. 



A RUBBER FACTORY MECHANICAL ENGINEER. 



. Daniel J. Kirkhani, mechanical engineer of The McGraw Tire 

 & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, and Cleveland, died re- 

 cently at Battle Creek, Michigan, where he went for medical 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1 treatment. His death came after 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H a illness. Mr. Kirkham 



^^^HpPli^l^^^^^^l in Trenton, New Jersey, 



^^^^^ H^^^B ^P""'' ^' ^^^' ^"'^ ^^^ educated in 

 ^^V J^^^^H| the public schools there and at 



^^K^ ttMb. <^E^^^I ''^"^ Trenton Mechanical School. 

 ^^■^ F^^H After an apprenticeship in practi- 



^H ^ <a^^^m '^^^ shopwork at the Trenton Ma- 



^^K «~— « ^^S^^^ *='""« Works, he served succes- 

 ^^^'*' ^Mp^^^l sivcly the Quacker City Rubber 

 ^^^^/f^l^^^ ^^^m ^0'> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

 ^^^^1 I ^^^^ the United and Globe Rubber 



^^^^B^^__,^,^^^^^^| Manufacturing Co.s, Trenton, 

 ^^^^I^Hh^^^^^^^H New Jersey, and the Dunlop Tire 

 ^^^^^B^^^^^H & Rubber Toronto, 



^^^^^^^^^^^^^H^^H Ontario, Canada, where, after 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^HJ years' service, he resigned to join 

 the McGraw organization last July, 

 ed by his widow and three children. A 

 East Palestine, Ohio, and the 



D.\NIEL J. KiRKH/ 



Mr. Kirkham is sur 

 Masonic funeral was held at 

 interment was at Trenton, New Jersey. 



A WELL-KNOWN NEW HAVEN RUBBER MAN. 



The many friends of Hiram S. Raley were grieved to learn of 

 his sudden death early in June. He was secretary-treasurer of 

 the Raley Rubber Co., Riverton, Connecticut, manufacturer of 

 dipped goods and nipples. 



Mr. Raley was 46 years of age and was born at Eagle Harbor, 

 Michigan. He was an expert chemical engineer, a capable and 

 conservative manager, and for many years was associated with 

 The Seamless Rubber Co., New Haven, Connecticut. He leaves 

 his widow and four children. 



M. G., late Resident-Gen- 

 died May 3, 1919, at the 



Sir William Hood Treacher, K. C. 

 eral of the Federated Malay States, 

 age of seventy. 



He was born in 1849, the son of the late Rev. J. S. Treacher, 

 and was educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, England. He was 



appointed Colonial Secretary at Labuan, and in 1881 was made 

 the first Governor of British North Borneo. Later he became 

 successively Secretary to Government, Perak; British Resident, 

 Selangor and Perak, and Resident-General, Federated Malay 

 States. He retired in 1904, later returning to England. He was 

 one of the founders of the Rubber Growers' Association and a 

 member of its council from 1907 until about a year ago, retiring 

 because of declining health. He was a director in a number 

 of planting companies in Sumatra, Borneo and the Federated 

 Malay States, and as an author he wrote extensively of Borneo, 

 on which his intimate knowledge made him an authority. 



THE RAMSAY MEMORIAL FUND. 



A movement deserving the favorable attention of the Amer- 

 ican rubber industry is the Ramsay Memorial Fund to com- 

 memorate the thirty-five years' service of the late Sir William 

 Ramsay, devoted to the physical and chemical sciences, educa- 

 tion, and public welfare. A central committee of distinguished 

 men under the chairmanship of Lord Rayleigh and sub-com- 

 mittees in most of the great countries of the world are raising 

 a fund of £100,000 for the establishment of Ramsay Research 

 Fellowships, tenable wherever necessary facilities may be avail- 

 able, without national restrictions, and a Ramsay Memorial 

 Laboratory of Engineering Chemistry at the University of 

 London, where Sir William served twenty-six of his most fruit- 

 ful years. 



About half of the fund has been raised, but as only about 

 £1,000 has been contributed by residents of the United States, 

 the United States committee will welcome other gifts large and 

 small. Checks may be mailed to the chairman of the United 

 States Committee for the Ramsay Memorial Fund, Dr. Charles 

 BaskerviUe, College of the City of New York, or to the treas- 

 urer, William J. Matheson, 21 Burling Slip, both in New York 

 City. 



FIFTH NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES. 



What promises to be the world's greatest exposition of the 

 chemical industries is to be held in the Coliseum and First 

 Regiment Armory, Chicago, Illinois, during the week of Sep- 

 tember 22, 1919. 



Many features of general interest are being arranged in addi- 

 tion of the special programs of the several technical societies 

 which will be in convocation with the exposition. The most 

 important of these will be a symposium upon safety in the 

 plant and mine, by speakers of authority, to be followed in the 

 evening by a series of motion pictures of safety work in indus- 

 trial plants all over the country, made under government super- 

 vision. 



That the e.xposition will include much of interest to rubber 

 goods manufacturers is indicated by the following roster of 

 exhibitors identified with the rubber and allied trades: Amer- 

 ican Hard Rubber Co., Bufifalo Foundry & Machine Co., Foamite 

 Firefoam Co., General Bakelite Co., General Electric Co., Hunter 

 Dry Kiln Co., Innis, Speiden & Co., Arthur D. Little, Inc., 

 National Aniline & Chemical Co., Inc., the New Jersey Zinc 

 Co., Products Sales Co., Schaefler & Budenberg Manufacturing 

 Co., Stresen-Reuter & Hancock, Inc., C. J. Tagliabue Manufac- 

 turing Co., Taylor Instrument Companies, Werner & Pfleiderer 

 Co., Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., and Whitall 

 Tatum Co. 



These exhibits will include hard rubber and substitutes ; ma- 

 chinery of various sorts, laboratory equipment and instruments; 

 electrical apparatus, dryers and temperature controllers ; colors, 

 chemicals, accelerators and compounding ingredients ; druggists' 

 sundries and molded rubber goods; fire-extinguishers, and 

 chemical engines. 



It is to vour best interest ' 

 in W. S. S. 



ruT your liberty bond interest 



