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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1915. 



MB, MARKEY CELEBRATES HIS S2ND BIRTHDAY. 



Isaac Belknap Markey, vice-president of the Eureka Fire Hose 



Manufacturing I \tw York, who recentlj celebrated his 



eight) second birthday, has been connected with the fire hose in- 



eai Eoi 25 years of which time he was a traveling 



salesman. He has occupied his present position in the Eureka 



ior a number of years. Mr. Markey is one of tin 1" 31 



hi supplj men in the country, and the appreciation in which 



he is held among fire department heads was fittingly evidenced 



in the presentation to him at an international Fire Association 



i few years ago of a .1i.uii.hh1 studded badge. 



COLONEL COLTS ANNUAL CAMPING PARTY. 



Following hi> custom for a number of years past, Col. Colt 

 spent ten .lays of June at Camp Colt, his hunting lodge, at Mor- 

 at the foot of Mt. Katahdin, Maine. He left Bristol with his 

 party in a private car on the first of )ui\l\ Mis guests this year 

 included Walter S. Ballon, president of the Woonsocket Rub- 

 ber Co., and Nathaniel Myers, counsel for the United Slates 

 Rubber Co. The other members of the partj were his brother, 

 Senator LeBaron B. Colt; Reverend Or. George L. Locke. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Wallis E. Howe and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Weeks 

 Anthony, of Bristol; Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Harrows. Colonel and 

 Mrs. H. J. Gross and Mrs. William Beresford, of Providence; 

 Countess Elinor Moroni, of Montreal, and Dr. Calvin S. May. 

 of New York. 



MR. IVINS' HEALTH DELAYS ACTION IN RUBBER SUIT. 



It was expected that the action brought by William A. Evans, 

 as trustee, against the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co, to 

 settle certain differences over stock subscriptions would come 

 before the Supreme Court of Xew York in June, but it had to 

 be postponed owing to the health of Mr. William M. Ivins. the 

 chief witness for the defense. Mr. Ivins' physician sent an af- 

 ndavit to the court saying that, owing to the extremely laborious 

 work that devolved upon him in the libel suit which he con- 

 ducted for William Barnes against Col. Roosevelt, he bad suf- 

 fered a collapse. Mr. Ivins in his affidavit said: "I began the 

 preparation of the case of Barnes against Roosevelt about the 

 rirst of this year, and concluded the trial at Syracuse May 19. 

 the whole matter having been a long and exceptionally heavy 

 strain upon me." 



COMMODORE BENEDICT ENTERTAINS MUSICIANS. 



Commodore Benedict gave a luncheon on June 9 at his resi- 

 dence at Indian Harbor, near Greenwich. Connecticut, to the 

 Mendelssohn Glee Club, of New York City. Eighty-four mem- 

 bers of the club — who were carried from Xew York to the Com- 

 modore's home and back on his famous yacht, the "Oneida" — 

 together with 50 other guests, were present. 



WAS MTTLLER. THE SPY. A RUBBER MAN? 



Several weeks ago F. Robert Muller was arrested in London, 

 together with two other men, Hahn and Kuepferle. all being ac- 

 cused of acting as spies for Germany. They were convicted of 

 sending military information by means of invisible ink. Hahn 

 was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude ; Kuepferle . 



d suicide during the progress of the trial, and Muller was 

 sentenced to death. He was executed June 23 in the Tower of 

 London. 



It has been generally believed that this was the same F R. 

 Muller who was a rubber dealer in Boston a few years 

 being connected, very briefly, with one of the larger importing 

 houses and then operating as a dealer on bis own account. 

 Friends of the former rubber dealer maintain, however, that he 

 is not the man recently executed and show, in substantiation of 

 their contentioi lived by a B. ston lawyer about a 



month ago from the Muller formerly of Boston saying that b< 

 a private in the British army. 



MR. LOEWENTHAL ENGAGES IN CHARITABLE 

 WORK. 



A DEPARTI Kl from the usual methods in the collection of 



funds for charitable purposes is noted the work oi The 

 United Hebrew Charities of the City of Xew York. This organ- 

 ization maintains an industrial department at 37 39 Green< street 



which has recently 

 started a movement 

 to increase the funds 

 for relief of the 

 needy by the collec- 

 tion of wasti ma- 

 terials. The chair- 

 man of the commit- 

 tee hat -. f this 

 • Max Loew- 

 enthal, vice-president 

 S Rubber 

 Reclaiming ( i ., Inc., 

 of 30 F2ast Forty- 

 d street, New 

 Under bis 

 tion tin- work 

 ■ i illecting waste 

 materials and selling 

 them to the mills 

 will no doubt result 

 Max Loewenthal. in material assist- 

 ance to the p. 

 The plan adopted in this work is simple. Cotton bags are 

 sent t.. householders, accompanied by letters requesting that all 

 kinds of old materials, such as old rubber goods — w-ater bags, 

 rubber hose, rubber shoes, wringer rolls, etc. — be saved. An ad- 

 dressed card is enclosed in each letter, so that when the bag is 

 full the Department may be notified to call for it. 



Apart from the charitable purpose for which this enterprise 

 has been started, employment is thus given to numerous collectors 

 and others, and economic waste is avoided. Up to the middle of 

 June several thousand of the 25,000 bags distributed had been 

 returned. 



Mr. Loewenthal has been an important figure in rubier re- 

 claiming fur many years. Together with the late Theodore S. 

 Bassett, he founded the United States Rubber Reclaiming Works, 

 at Shelton, Connecticut, in 1895. When, in 1900. this company 

 was merged with thi Loewenthal Rubber Co. of Jersey ' u 

 and the combined corporation, under its present name, the 1 S 

 Rubber Reclaiming Co.. Inc.. was moved to the large plant in 

 Buffalo. Xew York, which it has since occupied, he became the 

 treasurer, later b< ing i lected president. But two years ago, while 

 retaining a directorship and the vice-presidency of the company, 

 he retired from active participation in its affair- rder that he 



might devote the greater part of his attention to charitable work. 



The J. Silencer Turner Co.. of 86 Worth street, Xew York, 

 i of the International Cotton Duck Mills and also of the 

 Mt, Vernon- Woodbury Cotton Duck Mills, has been advised bj 

 the latter concern that after July 1 it will sell all its product 

 direct to the trade. The product of these mills consists large!) 

 of wide duck, numbered duck and sail and army duck. The J, 

 Spencer Turner Co. will, however, continue the sale of hose and 

 belting duck, together with the various kind- f duck and fabric 

 used by tin rubber trade and made at the International mills. 



Robert B. Baird, of the Rubber Trading Co., of New York, 

 who with Mrs Baird has been taking a vacation tour of the 

 West, viewing the sights of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, ami ng 

 other things, is expected to return to New m the 10th 



of the month. 



