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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1906. 



=The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, R. I.) will make 

 quite an extensive exhibit of its carriage cloths, including 

 ducks and drills, both bright and dull finish, and leather 

 and pebble grain embossing, at the Convention of the 

 National Carriage Builders' Association, which will be held 

 in Atlanta, Ga., October 23-27. 



= The Boston Automobile Dealers' Association, Inc., an- 

 nounce their fifth annual automobile and power boat show, 

 Mechanics Building and Horticultural Hall, Boston, March 

 9-16 (inclusive) 1907. Application for space should be ad- 

 dressed to Chester I. Campbell, general manager. No. 5 Tark 

 square, Boston. 



=The yacht Arrow, one of the fastest in the world, built 

 for Charles R. Flint and now owned by E. F. W'liitney, was 

 the subject of newspaper mention in New York earl5- in the 

 month. Her propeller becoming entangled in some floating 

 lumber in the East river, the yacht was slightly damaged 

 and came near sinking. 



= In a New Jersey court a verdict for Siooo was rendered 

 in the suit of Daniel Cane, who sued for damages for the loss 

 of two fingers while at work in the factory of the Voorhees 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. 



=The Bristol Co. (Waterbury. Connecticut), manufacturers 

 of Bristol recording thermometers, have opened a branch 

 ofBce in Chicago, at No. 753 Monadnock building, to enable 

 them to supply more promptly their growing trade in the 

 West. 



= Mr. E. S. Benson, manager of the New York branch of 

 the Hartford Rubber Co., has resigned to go to Indianapolis, 

 to join the staff of J. D. Anderson, president of the G & J 

 Tire Co. He has been succeeded by E. S. Roe, lately of the 

 Hartford company's uptown branch in New York. 



= The Healy Leather Tire Co., No. SS Gold street, New- 

 York, have established a selling branch at No. 1906 Broad- 

 way, in order to be nearer the automobile district. 



= A11 Cadillac cars for 1907 will be equipped with the 

 Hartford universal rim, for either Hartford clincher or Dun- 

 lop tires. 



=The Aladdin Rubber Co. have recently added exten- 

 sively to the capacitj- of their rubber reclaiming plant at 

 Barberton, Ohio. The company reclaim by a non acid pro- 

 cess which has produced the most satisfactory results. The 

 company's offices are located now in the Hamilton building, 

 Akron, Ohio. 



= Hastings Hose Reel Co. (Hastings, ISIichigan) are mak- 

 ing a very satisfactory line of hose reels, varying in size and 

 price to meet an3' demand. 



=The Republic Rubber Co., (Youngstown, Ohio), are re- 

 ported recently to have received a large order from the Pan- 

 ama canal commission for air brake hose and other rubber 

 supplies for use on the railway crossing the isthmus. 



= Mr. W. J. Oby, formerly general manager of the Canton 

 Rubber Co. (Canton, Ohio), is now practicing law in Cleve- 

 land. His successor is Mr. W. J. Ellis, for many years with 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



= Mr. M. Traub, of Behr & Co., Singapore, was a recent 

 caller at the office of The India Rubber World. He ex- 

 pressed himself as believing that Singapore vi^ould shortly 

 become a great center for crude rubbtr, and his errand to the 

 United States is to get in touch with rubber manufacturers 

 and know their wants in the way of crude rubber, in order 

 that he may supply them direct. 



= Mr. Fred D. Zeigler has succeeded W. C. Peters as man- 

 ager of the Goshen Rubber Works (Goshen, Indiana). The 

 other officers now are H. C. Zeigler, president ; H. R. 

 Brackin, vice president : C. W. Kinnan, secretary ; Jerry 

 Hayes, treasurer. 



=The regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, of the Hood 

 Rubber Co. was payable on October i. 



= A dividend of 2 per cent, on the preferred stock of the 

 Manufactured Rubber Co. was payable on October 10. 



= The Durham Rubber Co., Limited (Bowmanville, On- 

 tario) have opened a branch for the sale of their mechanical 

 rubber goods at Winnipeg, with Mr. B. C. Clarke as man- 

 ager. The present address is No. 45 Notre Dame avenue. 

 East. 



^The Dowswell Manufacturing Co., Limited (Hamilton, 

 Ontario), makers of wringer rolls, will erect a warehouse at 

 a cost of $8000. 



Mr. William J. Gorham, president of the Gorham Rubber 

 Co. (San Francisco) sailed from New York on October 9 for 

 a visit to Europe. 



^The Rubber and Celluloid Harness Trimming Co (New- 

 ark, New Jersey) are interested in a rubber plantation in 

 Honduras from which thej- are receiving more or less culti- 

 vated rubber. They find that the Central rubber from that 

 region is excellent for their rubber specialties. 



^The specialty factory of the A. W. FaberCo., at Newark, 

 New Jersey, has lately received substantial enlargement 

 through the construction of a large three story brick build- 

 ing. This company, by the way, not only manufacture 

 pencil tips, erasers, and rubber specialties for the great Faber 

 business in the United States, but they also make all of the 

 rubber goods for the German, French, and English Faber 

 factories, and in addition supply the Egyptian government 

 and the government of India with the special rubber bands 

 made under government specifications and stamped with the 

 broad arrow. 



=The P. F. U. Rubber Co. (Durango, Colorado) are still 

 at work extracting rubber and carrj-ing on extensive experi- 

 ments, which \\\\\ go to show whether the "rabbit weed " 

 can be successfully cultivated. The first rubber that thej- 

 got out cost them considerablj- over j;i a pound and they 

 have reduced that cost now to So cents. The rubber samples 

 which they show are valued roughlj- at the rate of §1 a pound. 



=The Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Co. (Toronto), who 

 advertise e.xtensiveU' throughout Canada, have adopted in 

 all their advertising matter the "simplified spelling" to 

 which so much attention has been attracted lately by Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt's advocacy of it. 



= Mr. Paul Lacroix, of Paris, France, a personal repre- 

 sentative of the Michelins, is now visiting the United vStates. 

 ;The Michelin Products Selling Co., Inc. (New York), 

 have opened a pneumatic tire agency at No. 3804 Olive 

 street, St. Louis, Mr. H. L. Doyle being the manager. 



= Mr. E. D. Winans has resigned his position as general 

 manager of the Michelin Products Selling Co., Inc. (Nos. 

 31-33 West Thirty-first street. New York). Mr. Winans is in 

 ill health and will go to California for a rest. Mr. Edward 

 W. Elverson, treasurer of the Michelin Products company, 

 has taken control of its affairs as general manager, succeed- 

 ing Mr. Winans. 



=Mr. Charles Motz, of Akron, Ohio, is at work on a new 

 solid tire, which he expects shortly- to put on the market. 



