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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1906. 



= Incorporation papers were filed in Maine on September 

 12 for a conipaiiv under the name Port of Para, witli Jiy.ooo,- 

 000 capital aulhori/.ed, none of which had been paid in. The 

 papers were filed by The Corporation Trust Co., memliers of 

 which concern fill the offices for the present. Information 

 regarding the objects of the company was refused. 



= The Biggs Boiler Works Co. (Akron, Ohio) are doing 

 good work in supplying rubber manufacturers with vulcan- 

 izers. Not only are their customers found in their vicinity, 

 but through New England, down in Pennsylvania, and in 

 the far west. 



= The Miller Rubber Co. (Akron. Ohio), manufacturers of 

 druggists' sundries and rubber specialties, have enjoyed an 

 exceeding!}- active trade of late, which showed no diminution 

 even during the heated summer months. 



= Colonel Frank E. I,ocke, of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., mentioned a few months ago as having gone to the 

 Pacific coast for the benefit of his health, has returned home 

 greatly improved, and is in charge of the company's Factory 

 No. 2. 



= The Vinet detachable rim tire, brought into such promi- 

 nence at the Grand Prix contest in Paris last summer, is to 

 be manufactured for the American trade by the Hartford 

 Suspension Co., who will also continue making the Truffault- 

 Hartford shock absorber. 



THE RUBBER FACTORY AT NORTH BROOKFIELD. 



The illustration on this page gives a view of the building 

 which has been purchased by The B. & R. Rubber Co. (North 

 Brookfield, IMassachusetts), a new company the organiza- 

 tion of which has been reported already in these pages. The 

 building was formerly known as the E. & A. H. Batcheller 

 shoe factory. It contains about 155,000 square feet of floor 

 space and was up to a few years ago the largest shoe factory 

 in the world. The building is of heavy mill construction 

 and was fortunately built upon a rock, so that it is suitable 

 for the heavy machinery which it is necessary to use in the 

 manufacture of rubber goods. The company are putting in 

 about 200 tons of machinery, all new and of the latest pat- 

 tern. It is expected that the equipment will be ready for 



the manufacture of goods about November i, when the com- 

 pany will begin making rubber heels, soles, horseshoe pads, 

 mats, and matting, tubing and the like, with the idea of 

 adding other linss within a few months. Mr. Thomas G. 

 Richards is president of the conqjany and Mr. Charles C. 

 Beebe treasurer, their initials being used to form the name 

 of the companj'. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mk. CiiAUi.iCS C. Ebekhart, for some time connected 

 with the Tinited States consulate general in the city of Mex- 

 ico, has been appointed consul at I(iuitf)S, Peru. This is the 

 first time that an American consul has been stationed at 

 Iquitos, which is becoming a port of increasing inq)ortance, 

 on account of the exportation of rubber from there. Mr. 

 Eberhart sailed for his post on Sejjtember 15. 



= Colonel Samuel P. Coll, president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., returned early in the month from a protracted 

 visit to Europe. His son, Russell Colt, and John J. Wat- 

 son, Jr., treasurer of the United States conqianj-, returned 

 on the same steamer. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



American Pen and Pencil Clip Co., August 31, 1906, un- 

 der New York laws ; capital $5000. To make metal and 

 rubber goods. Incorporators: J. Fuchs, P. Cohen, and 

 D. E. G.oldfarb, all of New York city. 



= Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., September 11, iyo6, under New 

 Jersey laws; capital, $400,000. Incorporators: W. G. Grieb, 

 Henry Grieb, of Philadelphia ; C. H. Oakley, of Trenton; 

 H. De Lisser, of New York. 



= The Cushion Wheel and Tire Co., September S, 1906, 

 under New York laws; capital, $100,000. Incorporators: 

 Edward Mitchell, No. 218 Hudson street, Syracuse, N. Y. ; 

 Thomas H. Ward, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Edward D. Wood, In- 

 dianapolis, Indiana. 



= The Atlantic Rubber Manufacturing Co., September 10, 

 1906, under New Jersey laws; capital authorized, J;i25,ooo. 

 Incorporators: Leander J. Buckley, Glen Ridge, N. J.; 

 Ernest L. Baldwin, No. 153 Monmouth street, Trenton, 

 N. J.; Benjamin Shea, Portchester, N. Y. 



FAirORr OF THE B. & R. RUBBER CO. (NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASS.). 



