Show SEEK TO REWARD RUBBER O PIONEER Planter Who sho Set Sept Seeds to En England land Got Little for Efforts BOSTON Dec C-By C 4 By The As- As Associated As Press Press Pecuniary reward for tor a a deed that gave cave ae Inception to present rubb rubber r Industry Is virtually complete completo after 18 years or of effort by a a Boston ship broker Alex Alex- Alex Alex- Alexander Alexander Fitly Fifty years ears ago Henry ander Wickham an In gave lIae the world the seeds from which now comes 31 94 4 per cent of Its rubber supply Quincy Tucker the tho American who h has s been so- so soliciting soliciting so soliciting private and official gifts for tor Wickham announces that his campaign Is near Its close cA GAlE n SEEDS TO ENGLAND D Wickham In was 85 a small all planter miles up the thi Amazon river when Ihen he was asked by the India Office of ot London to obtain Hevea rubber tree ree seeds which were cro then guarded as s a Brazilian The Tho germin germin- germinating germinating germinating lIfo life of the tho seeds was wae only three weeks so he chartered a mall tramp steamer obtained Im Immediate Im- Im Immediate immediate mediate clearance by telling ship ship- shipping ship shipping pin ping authorities ho he was carrying rare and perishable botanical specimens ns to the tho Que quern n and raced rac d to The seeds Meds were rushes rushel rush l to Gardens London Only a traction fraction tion of the seeds germinated they gave birth to the tho plantations in Malacca Java Ceylon Celon and Sumatra When 60 years old had had little to show for his me lit Tucker lucker visited the Amazon 1 1904 and carried away a dream drea dreano m of a a rubber empire for tot AmerIcan industry He became acquainted pith nith Wickham and In 1908 be- be began began began gan his campaign to obtain fi- fi recognition for tor the Eng Eng- Englishman lishman As a result the Rubber Tubber Grow l era Crow era ra association of ot London in 1911 gave J WICkham and a gold goldmedal medal In 1920 the aged man marmat nU knighted by the tho British gov- gov government government gov government The Dutch rubber growers ha have hae e since contributed 2600 and the Rubber association of Am America voted a semi annual semi gift of ot This summer In re- re response re response to American planters Ed- Ed Edgar Ed Edgar gar B Davis Is of ot Brockton Mast gave The Malayan gov government gov- gov government in October donated 40 40 40 Tucker has sent I a final ap- ap appeal appeal ap appeal peal suggesting a Dutch govern govern- government government ment reward of ot 2 GOT The r reason ason I have ha plugged away at this project for tor 18 years Ls LI that bound up In tn my hopes for AmerIcan participation In the tho Industry In- In Industry In Industry has been the haunting re- re remembrance remembrance re remembrance that Goodyear one ot of our pioneers died In debt d bt said laid Tucker This other pIoneer should have something more than thana thana a post mortem monument 00 |