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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1906. 



RUBBER reclaimers' CLUB. 

 The Rubber Reclaimers' Club met on November 9, at the 

 Aster House, New York, and elected Arthur W. Clapp. pres- 

 ident; Francis H. Appleton, treasurer; and R. W. Seabury, 

 secretary. For an executive committee they elected Rudolph 

 Loewenthal, John K. Mitchell, J. A. Lambert, and Edward 

 R. Solliday. They also adopted a .set of by laws. At this 

 meeting the original scheme of the club was somewhat 

 changed. Instead of admitting scrap dealers to member- 

 ship, it has been decided to invite only those who manufac- 

 ture reclaimed rubber to become members of the association. 

 The ne.xt meeting of the club will be held early in December 

 in Boston. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. 



United States KuM^er Co. : 



SECOND PREFERRED. 



Week ending— Oct. 20. Oct. 27. Nov. 3. Nov. 10. 



Sales 10 i;c)o 20 — 



High 78>^ 77 77 — 



Low l^yi 76 77 — 



Nov. 17. 

 400 

 li'A 

 75 



Nov. 2.J. 



100 

 78 



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ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO S PLANT SOLD 

 The plant of the Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co., and the land 

 occupied by it, at Cranston, Rhode Island, was sold at auc- 

 tion on November 2, to William H. Perry, for $137,000. The 

 property, sold as one lot, was described as consisting of a 

 three story brick mill, 268 X 64 feet ; boiler house 56 X 36 

 feet, connected ; three story brick machine shop, 148 X 64 

 feet ; three 175 hp. boilers ; Allis tandem compound engine, 

 450 HP. ; electric plant, sprinkler system, pumps and other 

 equipment, and the mill machinery; about 11 acres of land, 

 on the I'awtuxet river. The buildings were begun in IMay, 

 1903, and the factory put in operation within a little less 

 than a year. 



AMERICAN TIRES AT THE CUP RACE. 



AT the recent Vanderbilt Cup race. The Diamond Rubber 

 Co.'s were the only American tires used. The confi-, 

 dence shown by this company in the quality of its product 

 was justified at the Elimination contest, held beforehand, 

 for the selection of the American team. On that occasion, 

 when twelve racing machines traveled at high speed over a 

 total of nearly 3000 miles, it is stated that no defect or im- 

 perfection developed in a single tire, and no serious mark of 

 wear, except that two tires punctured and ran flat. But be- 

 fore the race proper the weather changed, making trouble 

 for all the contestants. After the event The Locomobile 

 Co. of America, who had a car entered, wrote to The Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co.: 



Owing to the slipperj' condition of the cour.se the morning of the 

 Vanderbilt race, it was necessarj' to equip our car with three nou 

 skid tires ; two on the rear and one on the front. We knew these 

 tires to be inferior to your regular tires wlien we put them on the 

 car, as we had been so advised by your firm, and while fully aware 



of this fact, we were compelled to use them in order to keep our 

 car in tlie road at speed. 



The "tire trouble" mentioned in the newspaper reports 

 was due to the non skid tires. As wheels were locked at ter- 

 rific speed to take sharp curves in the course the rivets of the 

 non skid tread bands were pulled loose, and replacements 

 were necessary. But there was no record of blowouts or other 

 troubles indicating tire weakness or defects. And the fast- 

 est round made by any contestant during the race was by 

 Tracy, after he had thrown away the non skids and used the 

 standard Diamond tires. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



nv A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



THE Rubber Products Co., incorporated in Ohio in Octo- 

 ber, with $100,000 capital, for the purpose of acquiring 

 the plant and business of the Alden Rubber Co., have about 

 completed their plans for the operation of the factory, and 

 will take possession in the near future. 



Officials of the Faultless Rubber Co. announce that with 

 favorable conditions the work on their buildings at Ashland, 

 Ohio, will have been completed by Christmas, and that the 

 company can move from Akron to their new location imme- 

 diately after the first of the year. The new buildings will 

 be five in number. The largest will be 200 X 50 feet, and 

 four stories in height, and the others 100 X 75 feet, and two 

 stories high. All are being built of brick, and are fireproof. 

 The company will invest $50,000 in machinery of the latest 

 pattern. All of the heavier machinery is at Ashland at the 

 present time. The capacity of the Ashland plant, which has 

 been operated for three years in connection with the Akron 

 factor3^ will be tripled when the two are consolidated. 



The capital stock of the Aladdin Rubber Co., which has a 

 reclaiming plant at Barberton, has been increased this week 

 from $100,000 to $250,000. Secretar},- C. M. Gilbert is au- 

 thorit)- tor the statement that a large addition is to be built, 

 and the company's facilities largeh' increased. Work will 

 commence as soon as the weather conditions will allow. 

 The companj' organized a little over a year ago with a new 

 and secret process for reclaiming rubber, and has met with 

 great success. 



After a six weeks' trip through Europe, President H. S. 

 Firestone, of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., with his wife, 

 has returned to his home in Akron, firmly convinced that 

 American methods of manufacture are superior to those used 

 b}' European makers. " This is especially true, " says Mr. 

 Firestone, "in the manufacture of the heavy truck tires to 

 which we devote most of our attention. My trip to Europe 

 was made chiefly to study tire construction, and I did not 

 find one detail of the business which I considered good 

 enough to adopt in our factories. I believe that European 

 manufacturers could be taught several things bj- Americans 

 in the building of heavy tires." 



The latest census bulletin shows some interesting statis- 

 tics regarding the manufacturing industries in Akron. It 

 shows an increase in the capital of local industries of 23 per 

 cent. Akron factories are said to have a capital of $29, 188,- 

 351, and to emploj' 10,000 wage earners. The annual wages 

 paid are $4,443,768, an increase of 163.7 per cent, in five 

 years. The value of the annual product, two-thirds of which 

 is rubber goods, is $34,004,243. 



