May I, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



159 



EnNIS-RuFF TlKF. 



AU UNPUNCTURABLE INNEB TUBE. 



The Victor Auto Tire Repair Co. has been organized at 

 Passaic. \. }., with $50,000 capital, to make an "unpuncturable" 

 felt tread inner tube for motor tires, which is being marketed 

 as the "Victor"' tube. James Maitland is manager and Samuel 

 W. Male secretary of the company. The oftices are at N'o. 220 

 Madison street, Passaic. 



FIRST RUBBER TIRE FACTORY AT NEWARK. 



The Ennis-RulT Tire Co., incorporated under the laws of New 

 York to make and sell the spring tire patented by Frederick A. 

 Ruff, of Detroit, first brought their product before the public 



at the Boston .\utomobilc 

 Show, in March, since 

 which time it has rapidly 

 been winning favor. As in- 

 dicated in the cut, the novel 

 feature of this tire is the 

 triple layer of highly tem- 

 pered steel spring located 

 within the tread. The resil- 

 ience of this tire is referred 

 to as being practically the 

 same as that of other 

 pneumatic tires, while less 

 air pressure is required, 

 and for this reason the lia- 

 bility to blowouts is less- 

 ened. The Ennis-RutT Tire Co.'s offices are located in the new 

 "Auto-Mart" building. Sixty-second street and Fifth avenue, 

 New York. They are establishing a factory for the production of 

 the rubber treads and inner tubes at No. 22 Commercial street, 

 Newark. N. J. 



OBITUARY. 



Mrs. Mary Marvin Goodrich, widow of the late Dr. Benjamin 

 F. Goodrich, founder of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), 

 died at her home, in New York city, on April 15. She was 

 born at Jamestown, N. Y., being the daughter of Justice Richard 

 Pratt Marvin, of the New York supreme court, and Isabella 

 Newland Marvin. On November 14, 1869, she was married to 

 Dr. Goodrich, tlien engaged in business in New York, and in the 

 year following accompanied him to Akron, where he laid the 

 beginnings of the rubber industry in that city. After the death 

 of Dr. Goodrich, in 18S8, his widow resided for a few years at 

 Cambridge, Mass., before finally making her home in New 

 York. The burial took place at her native place, Jamestown, 

 N. Y., which was the last resting place of her husband, Mrs. 

 Goodrich is survived by two sons and a daughter — Charles C. 

 Goodrich, of The B. F. Goodrich Co., at .\kron ; David M. Good- 

 rich, of New York, and Isabella, the wife of John C. Breckin- 

 ridge, of New York, Richard Pratt Marvin, a brother of Mrs. 

 Goodrich, died in 1906, at which time he was secretary of The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co. 



RUBBER FACTORY FOR SALE. 



The receivers of the Electric Rubber Manufacturing Co. will 

 offer, at public sale, on May 3, at 2 p. m., on the premises at 

 Rutherford, N. J., the plant of the company, consisting of three 

 acres of land, with buildings and machinery and other equip- 

 ment, particularly for the manufacture of rubber tires. 



The property for sale embraces a large modern brick factory 

 building, two-story office building; machinery for the manu- 

 facture of motor tires (capacity 75 to 100 tires per day) and 

 full line of mechanical rubber goods; 300 H. P. steam engine, 

 electric lighting plant, and in general a complete rubber factory 

 equipment. The location is favorable in all respects. Further 

 details appear in an advertisement in this paper. 



The Electric company were reported, at the time nf their fail- 

 ure, to have important orders on hand, but lacked capital. 



TRADE NEWS M01 IS 



ilixRv l.KAiii, for many years pruprKior of the Waterbury 

 Rubber Store, at Waterbury, Conn., and one of the oldest busi- 

 ness men in the town, has sold his stock and fixtures to The 

 Ailing Rubber Co., to be combined with their store at No. 139 

 Bank street, and will retire from business. 



The Plymouth Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Mass.) have increased 

 their capital stock to $50,000. They have also added to their ca- 

 pacity by erecting new buildings during the past year and put- 

 ting in additional machinery. Besides proofing for the trade they 

 are making such specialties as re<l discs, beer tubing and sheet 

 packing. 



The Phillips Insulated Wire Co. (Pawtuckct. Rhode Island) 

 have voted to petition the state legislature for permission to in- 

 crease their capital stock from $i,ooo,coo to $2,000,000. 



Mr. William Neidncr, general manager of the linen fire hose 

 manufacturing plant of Charles Niedner (his father), at Maiden, 

 Massachusetts, has been elected an alderman for the city of 

 Maiden, after having served for two years as councilman. He 

 has been made chairman of the important committee on public 

 property. 



W. D. .Mien Manufacturing Co. (Chicago) have become the 

 largest makers of lawn sprinklers in the country and have the 

 largest line of sprinkling devices made by any firm in the world. 

 They have been particularly pleased lately to see the recognition 

 which their sprinklers have received in the eastern states as indi- 

 cated by their large shipments to Boston. 



The Pittsburgh Rubber Supply Co. have completed their first 

 year, and Mr. W. P. Cowell, the manager, reports a highly satis- 

 factory condition of business. 



The Standard Underground Cable Co. (Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

 vania) declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per cent., payable on 

 April 10. 



The St. Louis Rubber Cement Co. have planned to erect build- 

 ings to cost $6,500 at No. 3046 Lambdin avenue, St. Louis, 

 which will take the place of the premises damaged by fire in 

 February. 



A. G. Spalding & Brothers Manufacturing Co., manufac- 

 turers of sporting goods and golf balls at Chicopee and Stough- 

 ton, Massachusetts, are incorporated under the Massachusetts 

 laws. The business is conducted separately from that of .A. G. 

 Spalding & Brothers, of New York, and succeeds the Lamb 

 Manufacturing Co., of Chicopee. 



.Alexander O. Holroyd, who caine to the United States from 

 England in connection with the Dunlop tire interests, being 

 identified with the .American Dunlop Tire Co. from its begin- 

 ning and since with the Dunlop department of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co., has gone to Columbus, Ohio, as vice presi- 

 dent of the Midgley Manufacturing Co., of which Thomas 

 Midgley, lately president of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., 

 is the head. 



Mr. Julius Lehmann. manager of the india-rubber depart- 

 ment of George Borgfeldt & Co., .\inerican representatives of 

 the Hanover Rubber Co., accompanied by his wife, sailed on 

 the Kaiser WUhclm II. on April 10 for a three months' vacation 

 in Europe. 



The iMsk Rubber Co.'s New York branch is expected, by 

 June I. to be installed in a new building now being constructed 

 for its use at Fifty-fifth street and Broadway. J. W. Bowman 

 has resigned as manager of the New York branch, being suc- 

 ceeded by F. A. Drake. 



Mr. Otis R. Cook, who for twelve years was general repre- 

 sentative of The B. F. Goodrich Co. and later general western 

 representative of the International Rubber Co., with offices at 

 518 American Trust building. Clsveland. Ohio, has retired from 

 the latter connection to become general representative of the 

 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., retaining the oftices mentioned 

 above. 



