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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May I, 1907. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 



THE Woven Steel Hose and Rubber Co. have coniineiiceil 

 the erection of a new building. It will be a substantial 

 one-story structure of brick, 60 x 130 feet, and will cost $6,600. 

 The site is a good one on Dale street, along a branch of the 

 Philadelphia and Reading railroad. This will give them fine 

 shipping facilities. The company expect to occupy the building 

 about July i next. The new structure is made necessary by 

 the growing business of the concern. Although the company 

 manufacture a general line of mechanical rubber goods, their 

 specialty is hose reinforced with a woven steel armor. The de- 

 mand for this hose is spreading and tlie company recently sent 

 a consignment to South Africa. 



Trenton continues to gain new rubljer companies. The latest 

 addition to the list is the Bar Lock Rubber Tile Co., which 

 was chartered in that city on April 8. It is capitalized at $75,000 

 and will manufacture and deal in rubber tiles. The incorpora- 

 tors are Thomas Hydcs. Edward Hyke, and Fred S. Wilson, all 

 of Trenton. The incorporators, when seen, stated that the plans 

 of the new company had not been fully developed. 



The Coomber Rubber Co., with headquarters at Woodcliffe- 

 on-Hudson, New Jersey, was incorporated at Trenton on April 

 17. It has an authorized capital stock of $15,000. The incor- 

 porators are Robert Rowley and J. J. Coomber, of Xo. 170 

 Broadway, New York, and .-Mfred J. Ellis and Frank C. Gruen. 

 of Woodcliflfe-on-Hudson. The charter states that the concern 

 will carry on the business of general manufacturing, with espe- 

 cial reference to rubber and its products. 



There failed to pass tlio New Jersey legislature, which ad- 

 journed on April 12, a bill in which all the Trenton manufac- 

 turers, including the rubber men, were particularly interested. 

 The measure, introduced by Senator Colby, was designed to 

 remove the barrier to obtaining damages for injury where the 

 employe continued in the defendant's employ, although knowing 

 that the machinery was not properly guarded or protected. The 

 bill was defeated in the senate. 



The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. are meeting with 

 gratifying success in the sale of inner tubes for automobile tires. 

 Placed on the market late last season as an experiment, the 

 tubes have already made a name for themselves. So thoroughly 

 have the "Trenton" inner tubes been appreciated that the com- 

 pany are tilling orders for dealers in high-class goods and plac- 

 ing the customers' name brand thereon, they backing the qual- 

 ity of the tubes. 



The Union Rubber Co. have added a new line to their busi- 

 ness, that of jobbing in a full stock of rugs. This makes its 

 business a triple one, as besides a full line of mechanical rub- 

 ber goods they handle oilcloths and linoleums in large quan- 

 tities. Wilson H. Harding, general manager, speaking of the 

 Trenton rubber trade generally, states that business is excep- 

 tionally good. Orders are coming in more rapidly than the raw 

 materials can be obtained to manufacture the goods. 



The Prudential Rubber Co., the incorporation of which was 

 referred to in The I.\di.\ Rubber World for February (page 

 160), have got to business, and the officers report that trade is 

 opening up very promisingly. The concern have organized by 

 • electing E. Furman Hooper president and Charles F. McCoy sec- 

 retary and treasurer. Mr. McCoy also has charge of the Trenton 

 office. A New England office has been opened at No. II Union 

 street, Boston, in charge of P. A. Murphy. 



William R. Thropp, manufacturer of rubber machinery, re- 

 ports that business is opening up briskly for the season, and his 

 works on East State street are unusually busy. He has just 

 completed a- contract for the Empire .Automobile Tire Co.. for 

 whom he has installed a set of automobile tire molds and has 

 also put in a new 42-inch four-platen hydraulic press. This is 

 of a special pattern with tilting tal)les. .-\nother recent order of 



.Mr. Thropp is one for the Ennis-Ruflf Tire Co., of New York 

 city. This includes calenders, tw'o mills, and several presses. 



Business is booming at the plant of the Acme Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., according to General Manager John .A. Lambert. 

 In fact, the orders are coming in so rapidly that the works are 

 being operated three evenings each week. Some trouble is being 

 experienced in obtaining raw materials rapidly enough. Plans 

 are being completed for extensions to be made to this factory, 

 and it is expected ground will be broken about July I. Then 

 the new buildings will be rushed to completion in time for next 

 season. The additions will be to the main building. The west- 

 erly end will be extended about 60 feet and the easterly exten- 

 sion will be abotit 80 feet long. Each will be three stories high. 



Two employes of the Home Rubber Co., Frank Embley and 

 P. J. McGlone, were held in $200 bail each for the Grand Jury 

 by Police Justice Frederick P. Rees, at Trenton, on April 17. 

 The charge was stealing crude rubber from the Home company. 

 They had been missing rubber for some time and an investiga- 

 tion led to these two employes mentioned being suspected. It 

 is claimed that they sold the rubber to a local junk dealer. 



Harry E. Evans, manager of the Consolidated Rubber Co., has 

 fully recovered from a three months' siege of typhoid fever. 

 He states that he finds business booming, at a rate of 20 per 

 cent, ahead of last year this time. 



The Standard Rubberized Pitch Co., which claims to have in- 

 vented a substitute for india-rubber, was incorporated at the 

 office of the secretary of state on .April 23. The concern is 

 capitalized at $125,000 and its headquarters are in Point Pleasant 

 Beach, Ocean county. New Jersey. According to the charter it 

 will manufacture and deal in rubberized pitch and all other 

 kinds of pitch ; also all kinds of tar, resin, oil, paint, stains and 

 wood preservatives. It will also conduct a general timber and 

 lumber business. The incorporators are Lena McGhee, William 

 R. Gulick, Elwood C. Jones and Frederick S. Wack, all of 

 Point Pleasant Beach. 



Quartermaster General C. Edward Murray, of the Crescent 

 Belting and Packing Co. and the Empire Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., accompanied by Mrs. Murray, left Trenton on .\pril 26 

 for an extended trip to the Pacific coast, .\fter visiting San 

 Francisco, Los Angeles and other points they will return to 

 Trenton about May 27. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN AKRON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



THE Diamond Rubber Co. are planning extensive building 

 operations in connection with their plant in this city, and 

 work on two of the new structures is already started. It was 

 to provide funds for the expense of these additions, in part, that 

 the recent large increase in the company's capitalization was 

 made. They will expend $30,000 on an addition to the power 

 plant. The new building will be 60 x 40 feet, and when com- 

 pleted will give the company one of the best and most com- 

 plete power plants possessed by any manufacturing concern in 

 the country. Work is in progress on another building, 320 -X 

 100 feet, five stories high, which will serve as a general addi- 

 tion to the tire department. A new addition to the shipping 

 room will be 160 x 80 feet and three stories in height. This 

 structure will also contain the general offices and the hose de- 

 partment. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. are preparing to begin, about May 

 I. the erection of two important buildings on property recently 

 purchased by them, lying between their factory and South Main 

 streets. It is planned to erect a four-story office building on 

 the south corner of Rubber street, the dimensions of which ' 

 will be 125 X 50 feet. On the opposite corner will be a five- 

 story factory building of about the same dimensions. Both 

 structures will be built of the new fireproof reinforced concrete. 



