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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



March i, 1907. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



It is stated that the Glcnark Knitting Co. (Woonsocket, Rhode 

 Island) will not start their Glcnark mill before a year, and that 

 they prefer to sell it. 



The Omaha Rubber Co. (Omaha, Nebraska) are reported to be 

 planning a new building, larger than that now occupied by them, 

 and to cost $60,000 or $70,000. This corporation some time ago 

 acquired the business of E. H. Sprague & Co., jobbers of rubber 

 footwear and waterproof clothing, founded in 1897, Mr. Sprague 

 reinaining in charge. It is now proposed to take on a general line 

 of rubber goods. 



Mr. Frank K. Hadley, connected formerly with Hadley Cement 

 Co., has become factory superintendent of the St. Louis Rubber 

 Cement Co. 



Sherwood B. Foote. receiver of the Falcon Rubber Co. (New 

 Haven, Connecticut) recently applied to the court for permission 

 to pay a dividend of 40 cents on the dollar — the first payment in 

 respect of liabilities amounting to about $18,000. 



The latest "rubber trust" rumor comes from Lynn, Massa- 

 chusetts, and relates to a proposed combination of rubber cement 

 factories. Standard Oil Co. interests being concerned. 



The "Marvel" whirling spray syringe is reported to have been 

 awarded the gold medal offered for goods of its class by the 

 Societe d'Hygiene de France, at Paris. 



A fire occurred on Sunday, February 10, in the basement of the 

 rubber goods store of John W. Buckley, No. 69 Warren street. 

 New York. The damage to property was not great, but several 

 firemen were temporarily overcome by fumes from the burning 

 rubber. 



Eastern Talc Co. (Boston) are making two grades of talc 

 from their mines at East Granville, Vermont. One is sold to the 

 bulk of the rubber trade, as suitable for the majority of niechan- 

 ical goods. The other, bolted through 200 mesh cloth, is suitable 

 for the finer work, such as druggists' sundries. Each particle of 

 this will pass through an aperture 1-40,000 square inch in cross 

 section. 



The main building of the new plant which Jenkins Brother? 

 (New York), valve manufacturers, are erecting in Montreal, will 

 be 200 X 50 feet. There will also be a foundry 150 x 64 feet, and 

 an engine and boiler house, 60 x 45. Later they intend erecting 

 another foundry, 100 x 60 feet. 



The Sears, Roebuck Co., a mail order house whose dealings 

 in rubber goods alone would equal the business of a good-sized 

 store, report total sales for January of $3,278,435, against $2,742,- 

 236 for the same month last year. The net profit for the second 

 half of 1906 was $1,837,237 — divided between dividends, $,^49,982. 

 and surplus, $1 487,255. The cost of advertising for the six 

 months was $1,544,763. 



Angle W. Pierce, who resigned as superintendent of the drug- 

 gists' sundries department of the National India Rubber Co. 

 (Bristol, Rhode Island) in December, 1905, has returned to that 

 position. Previous to the date mentioned he had been contin- 

 uously in the employ of the company since September 6, 1865. 



It is stated that approximately 75 per cent, of the world's sup- 

 ply of pencil graphite is furnished by the mines of the United 

 States Graphite Co. in the Mexican state of Sonora. 



The various branch managers and department heads of the 

 H. W. Johns-Manville Co. held their annual convention at the 

 headquarters of the company. No. 100 William street. New York, 

 during the last days of January, concluding with a banquet at 

 the Waldorf-Astoria on the evening of February I. The com- 

 pany have factories in four cities and branch offices and ware- 

 houses in fifteen. 



The new United States pure food laws are now attacking an 

 industry that is somewhat akin to the rubber business. Accord- 

 ing to report manufacturers of chewing gum will hereafter be 

 barred from adding talc to their product, as health experts hold 

 <hat it is not nutritious. 



TBAOE NEWS NOTES. 



The Globe Mills Rubber Co. (Lawrence, Massachusetts) plan 

 this year to more than double their output of 1906. The company 

 are busy now getting out footwear samples tor the coming sea- 

 son's trade. 



The new "Revelation" comb made by the Harburg Rubber 

 Comb Co., being hollow backed, is lighter in weight than other 

 combs, possessing the distinct advantage that, like ivory soap, 

 "it floats." 



Mr. Myles Percy Fillingham, who for twelve years was with 

 the Farrel Foundry and Machine Co., has connected himself 

 with the Alton Machine Co. of New York and Harrison, N. J., 

 having taken charge of the rubber mill machinery department. 



.•\ new rubber factory is in prospect for San Francisco, which, 

 It is said, will be devoted to the manufacture of mechanical 

 rubber goods. It will be under the control of one of the most 

 important jobbing houses on the Pacific coast, and will cater 

 especially to Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, and Australian trade. 



The Wellmar. Sole Cutting Machine Co. (Medford, Massachu- 

 setts) have adopted the shorter name, Wellman Company, and 

 hereafter all correspondence should be addressed accordingly. 



Mr. Frederick T. Ryder, Jr., has resigned a position in the 

 offices of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., to take charge of the 

 rubber department of the Charles D. Griffith Shoe Co. (Denver, 

 Colorado), makers of leather footwear and large handlers of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co.'s products. 



The Automobile and Power Boat Show, to be held in Boston, 

 in the Mechanics' and Horticultural buildings, on March 9-16, is 

 expected to be larger than last year, while arrangements are 

 under way for making it, in the matter of appearance, the most 

 attractive automobile show in the country. 



The rubber exporting firm at Para and Manaos, with whom 

 Poel & .Arnold (New York) are affiliated, exported last year 

 21,600,000 pounds of the total of 76,600,000 pounds going out of 

 the Amazon to the United States and Europe. 



Officials of The B. F. Goodrich Co. announce that work upon 

 their proposed new office building will be started as soon as the 

 weather will permit, and that the structure will be one of the 

 finest in the city. When the new building is completed, the differ- 

 ent offices, which are at present distributed about the factory 

 and are known as department offices, will be gathered under the 

 same roof with the others. 



Peter S. Sherbondy, who was an employe of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co. for 32 years, and who had been on the company's list of 

 pensioners for several years, died recently. Mr. Sherbondy was 

 75 years old, and had made Akron his home all his life. 



The certificate-holders of the Monte Cristo Rubber Plantation 

 Co. (Greeley, Colorado) have been informed that the next 

 inspection, in their behalf, of the company's property at Palenque, 

 state of Chiapas, Mexico, will be made by George P. Avery and 

 S. A. Rice. Forty acres have been planted to rubber, and 300 

 acres additional cleared. 



.\ party of visitors to the plantation of the Batavia Co., Inc. 

 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, left for 

 that place about the middle of February. It included Mr. Ceylon 

 E. Lyman, president of the company, and a score of others from 

 Minneapolis, St. Paul. Chicago, Milwaukee and Los Angeles. 

 The party expected to witness the first tapping of a few hundred 

 of the six-year-old rubber trees on the plantation, and if results 

 warrant several thousand trees of this age will be tapped lightly 

 later in the year. 



.■\ petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the Munger 

 Vehicle Tire Co. (New York), by three creditors, the principal 

 one being Louis de F. Munger, a former director, and in whose 

 favor the company, in November last, confessed judgment in the 

 sum of $11,881. in his suit for breach of contract for services. 

 The company formerly manufactured tires, but has not been 

 active for several years. 



