November i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



57 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BY A RICSinENT CORRKSI'ONDKNT 



''T^IIE Crescent Belting and Packing Co. and the Insulated 

 -*- Wire and Cable Co., of which Oiiartcrniasler General 

 C. Edward Murray is general manager, liave just completed 

 a three-story brick addition, 60 by 75 feet. It is substan- 

 tially constructed and has been equipped with the most 

 modern machinery for the manufacture of insulated wire. 

 The company has also just completed another addition of 

 brick, one story high, 60 by 22 feet, to be used as a tinning 

 shop for the insulated wire department. The first named 

 addition will give the company a main building about 300 

 feet long and three stories high throughout. Two large 

 wings connect with this and there are other minor buildings. 

 A spur siding now connects the buildings directlj- with the 

 main line of the New York division of the Pennsylvania 

 railroad. 



The Crescent Helting and Packing Co. is just sixteen j-ears 

 old and General Murray tells your correspondent that he is 

 proud of the child of his early commercial experience. Com- 

 mencing with a modest factory in iSgo, the concern has 

 grown steadily to its present commanding position among 

 the rubber works of the city. At the beginning mechanical 

 rubber goods onlj' were manufactured. Then the insulated 

 wire department was added and the Crescent Insulated Wire 

 and Cable Co. organized as subsidiary to the other company. 

 The present officers are John J. Miller, president ; E. T. 

 Phillips, vice president ; General Murray, treasurer and 

 manager. 



Following the litigation involving the Trenton Rubber 

 Reclaiming Works, in which Samuel Baron, a member of 

 the company, applied for the appointment of a receiver, and 

 in which the decision was against Baron, the latter has 

 organized a new company for rubber reclaiming, which was 

 incorporated in Trenton October 18. The new concern is 

 called the Trenton Gutta-Percha and Rubber Separating Co. 

 and is capitalized at $100,000. The incorporators are Samuel 

 Baron, Manfred Naar, and Edgar L. Kerns. The companj- 

 has elected Baron president, Naar secretary, and Kerns treas- 

 urer. Naar is a lawyer and justice of the peace, and Kerns 

 conducts a large bottling establishment. The company has 

 secured a building at the foot of Perrine avenue, Trenton, 

 along the tracks of the Pennsjlvania railroad where manu- 

 facturing will be begun as soon as the machinery is installed. 

 Baron claims to have a secret process for separating scrap 

 rubber. 



The lyuzerne Rubber Co. are just completing a brick ad- 

 dition to their plant at a cost of S,S,ooo. The company be- 

 gan business about one j'ear ago and are manufacturing 

 hard rubber goods. 



The damage done by the recent fire at the plant of the Dy- 

 son Rubber Co., on Paul avenue, is being repaired, and the 

 w^rkswill soon be in operation again. 



The Home Rubber Co. are having a great run at present 

 on two lines of packing of which they make a specialty. 

 These are the " N. B. O." black sheet packing, for steam 

 and oil purposes, and the " O. I. M. " high and low pres- 

 sure packing. 



The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. have become 

 quite a factor in the automobile inner tube business and are 

 turning out a fine high grade tube. 



IIY .\ RKSIDUNT CORRESPONDKNT. 



^ I ''WO companies have been incorporated lately by a firm 

 -^ of Akron attorneys, under titles which indicate that 

 they are to be interested in rubber, but thus far the promo- 

 ters are not disposed to make public any information regard- 

 ing their objects. First was announced the Panama Crude 

 Rubber Co., which was incorporated with a merely nominal 

 capital, which has since been increased to $150,000. It is 

 common report that the purpose of this company is to acquire 

 control of rubber plantations in Mexico and Central Amer- 

 ica, and thatoptions on a number of plantations have alreadj' 

 been secured. The other companj- referred to bears the 

 name The Independent Tire and Rubber Co., concerning 

 which it is rumored that their intention is to utilize the pro- 

 ducts of the plantations controlled by the Panama Crude 

 Rubber Co., and that ultimately the two companies may be 

 brought under one control. The second company named, it 

 is reported, will erect a factory either in Akron or at Youngs- 

 town, Ohio. The incorporators of the two companies, under 

 the laws of Ohio, are George G. Allen, H. E. Andress, F. E. 

 Whittemore, F. II. Waters, and E. A. Oviatt. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. have practically completed a new 

 concrete six story building, and it is announced that another 

 building of the same type is to be started at once and com- 

 pleted before the beginning of winter. 



It is stated that, since the Vanderbilt Cup race, the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co. have booked orders for automobile tires 

 to the amount of more than $1,000,000. Most of these or- 

 ders are from automobile manufacturers, many of whom ar- 

 range foi their year's supply at this .season. 



Mr. H. C. Corson, formerly vice president of The B, F. 

 Goodrich Co., and still a shareholder in that company, has 

 been making a visit to Akron. During the past five years 

 he has been spending his summers at his home in Nova 

 Scotia and his winters in Europe. 



The plant hitherto occupied by the Faultless Rubber Co., 

 in Akron, has been purchased by the E. A. Pflueger Co., 

 manufacturers of fishing tackle, hardware, and hotel special- 

 ties. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. have been busj' of late arranging 

 for homes in Ashland for 50 or more families of their em- 

 ployes who will go from Akron to that place, on account of 

 the concentration of the company's business at Ashland. 



Rubber Tree Seeds. — The well known Ceylon seedsmen, 

 Messrs. J. P. William & Brothers, at Heneratgoda, is.sue 

 new editions of their circulars : No. 30 — Hevea Brasiliensis ; 

 No. 31 — Manihot glaziovii ; and No. 32 — Castilloa elastica. 

 Prices are given of seeds and stumps, and notes on recent 

 success in shipping to distant points. They have supplied 

 seeds of //(?Z'M, for example, to tha United States govern- 

 ment for use in Hawaii. 



Germ.^nv VV.\nts Chewing Gu.m. — The bureau of manu- 

 factures of the United States department of commerce and 

 labor announces: "A German confectioner would like to 

 hear from American manufacturers of chewing gum, with 

 a view to importing same, there being quite a demand for 

 this article in Germany every year from tourists and resi- 

 dents." 



