November 



1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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from the Rubber Goods corapanj', forfive years, while ilu lit 

 ter agreed to pay an annual rebateof S2oo,oooon such business 

 for the same period. The basis of the first suit referred to 

 above was the $200,000 rebate alleged to have been due on 

 November i, 1902, and not paid. The American Bicycle Co. 

 meanwhile had failed, and been succeeded by the I'ope Man- 

 ufacturing Co. , and the Rubber Goods companj- were advised 

 by counsel that the contract with the American Bicycle Co. 

 had ceased to be valid, and was not transferable. The mat- 

 ter was allowed to jfo to the courts, therefore, and a year later 

 a second suit was brought, for the rebate claimed for the year 

 ending November i, 1903. 



RUBBER SHOE SEASON EXTENDED. 

 TiiK announcement is made by the ITnited States Rubber 

 Co. that the opening of ne.xt season will be deferred until 

 March i, instead of occurring on January i, as was expected. 

 The announcement has been well received in the trade, par- 

 ticularly as this postponement carries with it the extension 

 of the guarantee given in the company's contracts so as to 

 cover goods in the dealers' hands up to Februarj' 28. It was 

 natural, when the guarantee terminated on December 31, 

 that dealers should be a little careful about carrying too 

 large a stock over into the new year, with the uncertainty as 

 to what the new year would disclose in the matter of prices. 

 Now that the guarantee cariies until the end of February, 

 which is very close to the end of the rubber season, dealers 

 can laj- in their stocks with a better feeling of confidence. 



STAFF OF MORGAN & WRIGHT. 

 Thk corporation Morgan & Wright, whose new rubber 

 factorv at Detroit, Michigan, is now in operation in the vari- 

 ous departments, is incorporated in Michigan with $i,Soo,- 

 000 capital. The directors are: Charles II. Dale, Lester 

 I.eland, John J. Watson, Jr., Charles A. Hunter, Charles J. 

 Butler, .Arthur I. I'hilp, and Frank W. Eddy. The oflicers 

 are: Charles J. Butler, president and general manager : .\. 

 I. Philp, secretarj- ; Nicholas B. Feltes, treasurer; John 

 Carlson, assistant treasurer; Herbert Bowen, counsel. G. 

 A. Burnham is factory manager ; A. A. Templeton, super- 

 intendent ; William McMahon, assistant superintendent ; 

 G. A. Reeves, general foreman mechanical departments ; 

 T. H. Henderson, general foreman mill, calender, and com- 

 pound rooms ; William Shearer, master mechanic ; F. O. 

 Smith, purchasing agent. The selling department is in 

 charge of. \. I. Philp. The men in charge of the manufac- 

 turing departments are : Charles Measure, automobile tires ; 

 H. L. McLaren, vehicle tires ; M. E. Mason, bicycle tires 

 and accessories ; W. M. Gunlock, horseshoe pads and rubber 

 heels ; D. J. Norbury, mechanical goods ; G. W. Seiberling, 

 hard rubber specialties. 



HIGHER PRICES FOR MECHANICALS. 

 A NUMBER of leading manufacturers of mechanical rubber 

 goods have withdrawn all prices, notifying their patrons that 

 new prices will be furnished on application. The reason 

 given is the continued increase in the price of materials. 

 One circular states that cotton duck has advanced 40 per 

 cent, within two years pa.st, and 20 per cent, within the past 

 year, and other materials in like proportion. The Peerless 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. announce that their advance in 

 prices will be as small as is consistent with the cost of mate- 

 rials, " ranging from 5 to 8 per cent." 



C. E. FftR^INOTON. 



MR FARRINGTON MAKES A CHANGE. 



Mr. Chari.es E. F.'^rrington has severed his connection 



with the Massachusetts 

 Chemical Co. and the 

 Walpole Rubber 

 Works, and opened an 

 office in Boston as con- 

 sulting engineer, his 

 specialty being trans- 

 mission problems and 

 chemical engineering 

 as it relates to the rub- 

 ber manufacture. He 

 will also devote special 

 attention to rubber re- 

 claiming problems. Mr. 

 Farrington has had un- 

 usual e.x])erience and 

 opportunities for the 

 studj' of rubber factory 

 methods and electrical 

 plants, both in this 

 countrjand in Europe. 

 He has also contributed very many articles to scientific re- 

 views which have attracted much attention. As an inventor 

 several of his insulating compounds have been most suc- 

 cessful . 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Mr. Harry Grkenleu has accepted a position as general 

 sales agentofthe American Belting Co. (Youngstown, Ohio). 

 He was formerly in the cost department of The Republic 

 Rubber Co., of the city named. 



= Mr. Charles Hardin has accepted a position as New 

 York manager for The Republic Rubber Co., taking the 

 place of Mr. Willis A. Darling who is now in business for 

 himself selling mechanical rubber goods. 



= Mr. Emil Grossman has retired from the position of gen- 

 eral manager of the Continental Caoutchouc Co., the Amer- 

 ican branch of the Continental company of Germany, to de- 

 vote his time to the affairs of the Motor Car Equipment Co., 

 the National Sales Corporation, and the Rojal Battery Co., 

 all of New York, and of all of which he is president. 



=A representative of the J. P. Devine Co. (Buffalo, New 

 York) started recently for the Guaj-ule rubber producing 

 district of Mexico, in the interest of the vacuum drying ap- 

 paratus marketed by that company. Elsewhere in this is- 

 sue will be found references to the successful employment of 

 this system on rubber plantations in the Far East. 



O. C. Pike, No. 12S West .South street, .Akron, Ohio, is 

 conducting a business in jobbing druggists' sundries and 

 other rubber specialties, his stock being derived from lead- 

 ing manufacturers. 



= Charles Niedner (Maiden, Massachusetts) has applied 

 for a building permit for a three story brick addition to his 

 fire hose factory, to be ready by January 1, to be 60 X 60 feet. 



= The British Insulated and Helsby Cables Co., Limited, 

 have declared an interim dividend on the ordinary- shares at 

 the rate of 8 per cent, for the half year ended June 30, the 

 rate being the same as last year. 



= W. T. Glover & Co., Limited, have issued ^80,000 in 

 5 per cent, second mortgage debenture stock, at 95 per cent, 

 being part of an authorized issue of ^100,000. 



