August i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEW CONSTRUCTION. 



The Bridgeport Elastic Fabric Co., Inc. (BridRcport, Con- 

 necticut) have added to their plant a brick one story build- 

 ing, 100 X 55 feet, to be used for weaving. They are install- 

 ing machinery which will add 25 per cent, to their produc- 

 tion, and the additional room will enable them eventually to 

 increase 50 per cent. The company were incorporated in 

 June, 1902, and make narrow elastic goods, mostly for hose 

 supporters and garters. 



The West Point Manuf.icturing Co.. of West Point, 

 Georgia, are erecting a new mill between West Point and 

 I-angdale, Ga., in addition to their already extensive mills, 

 which will be the largest plant in the world devoted to the 

 manufacture of cotton duck. 



Para Rubber Works, a new company, with temporary 

 offices at No. 97 Warren street. New York, plan the erection 

 of a factory in the western part of the State for rubber in- 

 sulated copper wire. Francis Granger, well known in the 

 electrical field, is prominent in the company. 



LEO F. NADEAU, CONSXTL. 



The president of Guatemala has 

 created a consulate for that republic 

 at Providence, Rhode Island, and ap- 

 pointed as consul Mr. Leo F. Na- 

 deau. Mr. Nadeau lias spent consid- 

 erable time in Guatemala, where he is 

 interested in planting and grazing, 

 being secretary and treasurer of La 

 Nueva Providencia Rubber Co., a cor- 

 poration which he was instrumental 

 in forming some years ago. Mr. Na- 

 deau is engaged also in the insurance 

 business at Providence, and in the im- 

 poration of Central American prod- 

 ucts. He is a Brown University man, 

 a member of the Providence Board of 

 Trade and active in Masonic circles. 

 He is, altogether, an active business man. 

 A portrait of him appears on this 

 page. 



OUTINGS OF RUBBER PEOPLE. 



The annual picnic of employes of 

 The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, 

 Ohio), under the auspices of the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Workers' Relief Asso- 

 ciation and the Diamond Rubber Co.'s Band Association, 

 held at Silver Lake, near Akron, on July 13, was largely at- 

 tended and thoroughly enjoyed by all present. There were 

 baseball and other sports and dancing. 



The annual baseball game between nines from the married 

 and the unmarried members of the staf? of the United States 

 Rubber Co.'s New York offices, scheduled this year for June 

 29 at New Dorp, Staten Island, had to be postponed on 

 account of the rain and a new date for the game has not been 

 announced. 



The salesmen of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. held 

 their annual convention at Akron during the week beginning 

 July 8. On the evening of the day named they attended a 

 reception and dinner at the Portage Country Club, when, 

 being 23 in number, they organized themselves into a 

 "Skidoo Club." 



TIRE COMPANY NOTES. 



Thf. Auto Tire and Supply Co., No. 134 Washington street, 

 Providence, Rhode Island, have been organized for the sale 

 of motor supplies generally. They are now carrying in 

 stock the Continental tires and several leading American 

 makes. 



The Healy Leather Tire Co.-, of No. 90 Gold street and 

 N'o. 1906 Broadway, New York, whose leather tires have 

 been described in these pages, are selling a line of specially 

 made inner tubes of red rubber having a peculiar composi- 

 tion which gives them extreme toughness. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. have appointed as manager of 

 their branch at Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. J. B. Kavanaugh, who 

 formerly was connected with the Hartford Rubber Works 

 Co. Mr. Kavanaugh has been succeeded as the Hartford 

 company's manager at Cleveland by Mr. P. H. Goodall. 



W. D. Newerf, Pacific coast representative of the Good- 

 year Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), with headquarters 

 at Los Angeles, California, has established a branch house in 

 San Francisco, on Golden Gate avenue, in charge of A. C. 

 Leonard. 



Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey) issue an attractive booklet relating to their "Trenton" 

 :iutomobilc tire tubes, including a price list. 

 It is announced that the Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., of New 

 York and Trenton, have practically 

 decided to change the location of 

 their factory, with a view to securing 

 premises that will permit of greater 

 expansion. Propositions from two or 

 three towns regarding the location of 

 the factory have recently been under 

 consideration. 



The Dow Tire Co. (No. 104 West 

 Forty-second street, New York) have 

 secured premises at Bush terminal, 

 in Brooklyn, and begun the manufac- 

 ture of inner tubes. 



Leo F. Nadeau. 



I RubbLT Planter and Guatemalan Consul at 

 Providence. Rhode Island.) 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



New Jersey Antioak Co., June 24, 

 1907, under the laws of New Jersey; 

 capital authorized, $25,000. Incorpo- 

 rators: Arthur W. Snow, Albert R. 

 Palmer and Charles C. Kern. Regis- 

 tered oflices: Nos. 9-15 Clinton street, 

 Newark, N. J. 



New York Antioak Tire Co., June 

 18, 1907, under New York laws; capi- 

 tal, $25,000. Incorporators: H. W. 



'■■ Morehouse, Brooklyn; A. R. Palmer 



and C. C. Kern, New Y'ork city. 



Interstate Rubber Co., Inc., May 15, 1907, under the laws 

 of Washington state; to deal in mechanical rubber goods, 

 leather belting, etc., and to make valves, gaskets and the like; 

 capital, $20,000. Location: No. 322 First avenue. Spokane, 

 Wash. Richard Church, president and manager; George W. 

 Orchard, secretary and treasurer; S. J. Wigle, vice-president. 

 Will C. Church, of Boston, is expected to reach Spokane 

 about August 15 to take an active interest. 



Dunn-Locke Vacuum Cleaning Co., June 18, 1907, under 

 N'cw York laws; capital, $1,000,000. Directors: Chase Mellcn, 

 Garden City, L. I.; Perry H. Blodgett and H. M. Ward, New 

 York city. 



Bay State Compressed Air Vacuum Cleaning Co., July 15, 

 1907, under Massachusetts laws; capital, $100,000. E. F. 

 Coburn, Lawrence, Mass., president: G. Peck, Boston, treas- 

 urer. 



Pocket Ice Apron Co.. July 5, 1907. under Rhode Island 

 laws, to make and sell rubber ice aprons; capital, $5,000. In- 

 corporators: Isaac Crocker, Albert H. Bloss and George I. 

 Crocker. Office: Providence, R. I. 



Passaic Cotton Mills. February 5, 1907. under the laws of 

 New Jersey; to make automobile tire fabrics; capital author- 



