India rubber world . ade and organized the Cellu-loid Novelty Co., which afterward was merged into The Cel-luloid Co. (Newark, N. J.) He was a director in the lattercompany at the time of his death. = Vernon Bickford, who had been for thirty-six years a fore-man for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., died on February was a brother of Erskine F. Bickford, managing directorof the Boston company. =Joseph W. Smith, who died at Newton, Massachusetts, ouMarch 21, in his sixty second year, was president and treasurerof the Smithmade Suspender Co., a business which he had con-ducted with success for mo
India rubber world . ade and organized the Cellu-loid Novelty Co., which afterward was merged into The Cel-luloid Co. (Newark, N. J.) He was a director in the lattercompany at the time of his death. = Vernon Bickford, who had been for thirty-six years a fore-man for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., died on February was a brother of Erskine F. Bickford, managing directorof the Boston company. =Joseph W. Smith, who died at Newton, Massachusetts, ouMarch 21, in his sixty second year, was president and treasurerof the Smithmade Suspender Co., a business which he had con-ducted with success for more than thirty years. = Henry C. Dimond, of the firm of H. C. Dimond & Co., Bos-ton, rubber stamp manufacturers, died on March 1, in his six- tieth year. He had been in the stamp trade about twenty-fiveyears. He made many inventions connected with rubber handstamps, and invented the life line pistol, for the throwing ofthe line from a lite boat to the vessel needing its assistance. THE LATE CHARLES AS mentioned in the brief notice of the death of Charles , in the last India Rubber World, he was wellknown to the rubber shoe interests through his connectionwith aluminum lasts and trees, which he invented, and whichwere very favorably received, although not as yet widely adopt-ed. He was alsoproprietor of theMetal Last andTree Co. (Boston).He died at hishome in Somer-ville at the age of76 years and 6months, and, de-spite his age, wasvigorous and ac-tive to the knew the shoebusiness from thebench up. Born atHolliston, Massa-chusetts, in 1826,he was the son ofJohn Parker andMary Ann (Fales)Parker, bothcharles f. Parker. members of fami- lies well known in the early shoe trade. Charles Parkersfirst employment was that of a cutter in the factory of Kimball& Robinson, at Brookfield. About 1850 he went to Boston asa salesman for the same firm, and later became a partner. Whenthe civil war began he was representing his firm in the West,and was at Toledo, Oh
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