December i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER >A^ORLD 



93 



= C. S. Van Auktii has been appointed receiver of the 

 Mexican Phintation Co. of Wisconsin, at La Crosse, Wis. 

 The appointment was made by Judge J. J. Frnit of the cir- 

 cuit court on October 27. He informs TliK lsm\ Rudbku 

 World: "It is not my intention to operate the plant in 

 Mexico but simply to conserve the property for the benefit 

 of the bondholders and creditors." 



= Wallace I.. Cough & Co. have entered the business of 

 merchants in India-rubber, Gutta-percha, and Balata, at No. 

 108 Water street, New York. 



= Mr. A. Valladares, of Peru, a nephew of President Pardo 

 of tliat country, who has been for some weeks in New York, 

 has returned home, taking with him Mr. George E. Heyl- 

 Dia. The gentlemen are going to examine carefully a large 

 wild rubber concession, owned by the father of the one first 

 named, with the idea of at once taking steps to gather the 

 ru1)ber. The concession is.a very large one, is stated to have 

 millions of Ilevca trees on it, and also some " Gutta percha," 

 liv wliich is meant doubtless Balata. Mr. Heyl-Dia will 

 probably be absent for four months. 



= Colonel Samuel P. Colt is rei)orted to have purchased a 

 controlling interest in the Bristol and Warren Water Works 

 Co., which supplies the two Rhode Island towns mentioned, 

 and also the town of Barrington, with water. 



= The Pennsylvania Rubber Co. (Jeannette, Pa.) now have 

 branch stores in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, 

 Buffalo, and Atlanta. About November i the New York 

 branch will move into a large new building at No. 1741 

 Broadway, especially built for its convenience. The Boston 

 branch will move from Oliver street to No. 20 Park square> 

 where it will be in the center of the retail district. 



= The following notice was posted at the factory of the 

 Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) on November 

 6 : " The working hours of the Apsley Rubber Co., from this 

 date will be from 7 a. m to 12 m., and from i l>. M. to 5 i'. m., 

 54 hours a week, with no reduction in paj'." This notice 

 includes the employes in the last factory, box factory, and 

 clothing department, as well as in the boot and shoe depart- 

 ment. 



= In a notice of a memorial service that took place at Dal- 

 las, Texas, during the recent convention of the International 

 Association of Fire Engineers, all the papers that reported 

 that event by some mistake inserted the name of Isaac B. 

 Markey, of New York citj-, as one of those who had died 

 during the past year. But Mr. Markey at the time was 

 mingling with his friends in the convention, very much alive, 

 as every one who has had business with the Eureka Fire 

 Hose Co. knows to be his normal condition. 



= Mr. F. Ephraini, formerly in the rubber goods business 

 in San Francisco, is now in Mexico, interested in Guayule 

 ♦ rubber. Though not connected with any rubber extraction 

 company, he informs The Indi.v Rubber World that five 

 such companies are paying a royalty for the use of his Guay- 

 .ule extraction patents. 



= The Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal have obtained 

 from the city of Winnipeg orders for 5000 feet of 3V2 inch 

 pressure hose for fire protection, and 5000 feet wax and gum 

 treated " Keystone " fire hose. 



= The 9 hour day went into eftect on November 5 at the 

 factory of the National India Rubber Co., and a week later 

 at the factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. The hours 

 are from 7 a. m. to 5 i>. m., instead of to 6 i". M., as formerly. 



=A quantity of merchandise discovered in storage at Na- 

 tick, Massachusetts, under suspicious circumstances, em- 

 braced rubber boots and shoes valued at $Sooo which were 

 replevined by the Hood Rubber Co. The marks had been 

 removed from the cases, and the goods were suspected to be 

 part of the stock of a firm which failed at Natick recently. 



=The Munger Vehicle Tire Co. on October 30 allowed a 

 judgment to be entered against them, in a New York court, 

 forJii.SSi, in favor of Louis De F. Munger, formerly a direc- 

 tor of the company, for breach of contract for services for five 

 years from December 12, 1899, at a salary of $3000 per year 

 and a commission on the profits of the company. He sued 

 the company for $875 salary earned, and §20,000 damages 

 for dismissal, and a compromise was agreed upon at $1 1,881. 

 The company, organized to market a rubber tire invented by 

 Mr. Munger, have not been in active business for some time. 

 — Parker, vStearns & Co. (New York), in addition to their 

 widely known lines of druggists' and stationers' sundries, 

 are producing high grade seamless inner tubes for motor 

 tires, under the " Alpha " brand. 



-=The formalities connected with the taking of title by 

 The B. & R. Rubber Co. (North Brookfield, Massachusetts) 

 to their factory site and buildings were completed on Novem- 

 ber I. 



= The Davidson Rubber Co. (Charlestown, Massachusetts) 

 have awarded a contract for a two story addition to their 

 factory, 53 a 69 feet. 



= A British patent (No, 10,779 of 1906) has been granted 

 to Addison T. Saunders, of Akron, Ohio, for improvements 

 in pneumatic playing balls. 



= Mr. JohnO. DeWolf, at one time assistant superinten- 

 dent of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., has gone 

 into partnership with Mr. John S. Bridges, Jr., under the 

 firm name of John O. DeWolf & Co. , who are located at No. 159 

 Devonshire street, Boston, their specialty being mechanical, 

 electrical, and mill engineering. One of the first commis- 

 sions that Mr. DeWolf has taken on is the installing of new 

 machinery for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 (Cambridgeport, Mass.) 



= One of the more recent acquisitions of the machine works 

 of John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersey) is a show- room 

 in which a line of their tubing machines has been effectively 

 displayed, together with a representative assortment of fix- 

 tures. 



= The Consumers' Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) 

 have reduced the work day at their factory from 10 to 9 

 hours, without changing the wage scale. The company are 

 reported very busy in insulated wire work. 



— The baseball team of the " .\lice " mill of the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co. won the championship in the league ex- 

 isting this year among the employes of the different facto- 

 ries at Woonsocket, and on a recent Saturday evening Su- 

 perintendent Schlosser, of the rubber factory, by direction of 

 President Samuel P. Colt, gave a banquet to which all the 

 members of the league were invited. The affair was en- 

 joj'ed by 230 guests. 



= Mr. J. Schnurmann, an extensive rubber scrap merchant 

 in London, was a recent visitor to the trade in the United 

 States. 



=The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., Joseph V. Sel- 

 bv, Pacific coast manager, are now located at No. 48 Stew'- 

 art street, San Francisco. 



