India rubber world . s Bastos. and 4082 forothers.— Wireless. DECREASING PROFITS ON CONGO RUBBER. THE general meeting of ABIR. one of the large <r(;nf^«/i;-wrt/r^ companies trading in rubber on the Congo, was heldat Brussels on June 5. The report for the fiscal year 1904 showedprofits of 1,201,400 89 [=$231,]. The dividends for theyear amount to 400 francs per share (of 500 francs); of this 250francs have been paid already, and 150 francs are due from JulyI. In a single year (1900) the profits were 4,873,356 francs[=1940,]. The company gathered 445 tons of rubberand 9^ tons of i
India rubber world . s Bastos. and 4082 forothers.— Wireless. DECREASING PROFITS ON CONGO RUBBER. THE general meeting of ABIR. one of the large <r(;nf^«/i;-wrt/r^ companies trading in rubber on the Congo, was heldat Brussels on June 5. The report for the fiscal year 1904 showedprofits of 1,201,400 89 [=$231,]. The dividends for theyear amount to 400 francs per share (of 500 francs); of this 250francs have been paid already, and 150 francs are due from JulyI. In a single year (1900) the profits were 4,873,356 francs[=1940,]. The company gathered 445 tons of rubberand 9^ tons of ivory in 1904. The report makes favorablemention of the prospects of the rubber plantation in the MalayStates in which the company invested two years ago. Dr. Alberto Pirelli, of Pirelli cS: Co., the rubber manufac-turers of Milan, Italy, and the factory superintendent, SignorEmilio Calcagni, were expected to sail from Liverpool for theLInited States on June 28. 328 IHE IISiDIA RUBBER WORLD [July i, 1905. COLONEL W. G. WINANS. WILLIAM G. WINANS, for a number of years identifiedwith the rubber trade in New York, and for the lastsix years a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, died in that city on March 12, at theage of 62 years. belonged toa wealthy New Yorkfamily,his father hav-ing been president ofthe Hamilton LifeInsurance Co., andhe himself occupiedthe position of secre-tary for some 19 years.:\\. the beginning ofthe civil war he en-listed as private inCompany A, LightGuards, Seventy-firstregiment AmericanGuards of New Yorkcity. He served withdistinction and waspromoted to adjutantWILLIAM Q. WINANS. and at the close of the war was colonel of his regiment. His entrance to the rubber trade came about through thedeath of his brother, whom he succeeded as treasurer of thePeerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. in 1890. Through unfor-tunate investments he lost not only what property that hadbeen bequeathed to him but was forced to sell his holdings inthe Peerless c
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