September i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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branch store there, while his Los Angeles manager, Edward 

 Helm, went on a combined business and pleasure trip to the 

 Eastern states. Mr. Helm has nciw returned, and Mr. Gorhani 

 has gone on a flying trip to Akron, Ohio. 



Work on the new thrcestory permanent building for the 

 Pacific Coa.^t Rubber Co. is prrigressing rapidly, and the lirm 

 expects to be located there by the first of October. 



L. L. Torrey, manager of the local branch of the Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co., is now in Seattle looking after the business in the 

 northern portion of the coast territory. The firm's San Fran- 

 cisco branch is being taken care of by Mr. Grant in the mean- 

 time, and is doing some very active work. The repair plant is 

 nearly completed, and will be in full working order soon. 



Mr. Bennett, of the Los Angeles Rubber Co., has returned 

 from his Eastern trip, and passed through San Francisco on 

 his way home. 



Mr. Gregory, manager of the New York Belting and Packing 

 Co., Limited, has gone East in the interests of the firm. 



N. S. Dodge, of the Western Belting and Hose Co., arrived 

 from his Eastern trip this week, where he has been securing new 

 rubber lines for his firm, whose offices are at Nos. 31-33 Main 

 street. 



A new company has been formed, called the Pacific Mill. Mine 

 and Supply Co., with offices in the Joshua Hendy Machine Works 

 building, on Fremont street. Frank Steers and Earnest Folsom, 

 formerly with the Graton & Knight Manufacturing Co., are the 

 principal movers in the new concern. 



R. J. McNeilly is now sales manager for Barton, Squires & 

 Byrne, Inc. He has recently come directly from The Diamond 

 Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio. The firm is now well established 

 in its new four-story building at No. 531 Howard street. The 

 establishment is especially well equipped for making spiral ring 

 packings and molded goods. It is their intention to install one 

 or two new presses shortly. 



G. G. Magill, representing the Central Rubber Co., of Chicago, 

 has been in San Francisco recently making the rounds of the 

 trade in the interests of his firm. 



C. H. Chase, manager of Bowers' Rubber Works, has gone 

 for a two months' business trip East. At the local store they 

 report that they are not caught up with orders and have still 

 two months' run ahead. The factory at Black Diamond is about 

 completed in equipment and is able to turn out orders very fast. 

 William Long has gone to Ijds .\ngeles for the firm for the pur- 

 pose of opening a branch store in that city. 



Joseph V. Selby has moved the offices of the Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co. from the temporary quarters on Stuart 

 street to a permanent location on Folsom and First streets. 



The W. D. Newerf Rubber Co., Coast agents for the Good- 

 year tires, is now located at No. 506 Golden Gate avenue, San 

 Francisco. 



The Stevens and Elkington Rubber Co., dealers in tires prin- 

 cipally, are located in new quarters at No. 526 Polk street. 



load to pull. The same description applies to the rubber cleats 

 projecting through the greater part of the shoe itself. Frost 

 nails are satisfactory for a very short time, especially on asphalt 

 when the covering of snow is thin; moreover, they arc very 

 objectionable in the stable, and a horse is always liable to injure 

 himself with them in lying down. Calks have the same disad- 

 vantages in a<lililicin U< their own." 



There are in the market conical or round-pointed studs to 

 be screwed into horseshoes at cither toes, heels, or both, but 

 Rider and Driver doubts their utility, "except in a long spell of 

 snowy weather. The points wear down very fast, but the chief 

 objection is that after a few days' wear on hard roads without 

 the studs the thread of the holes in the shoes becomes so injured 

 by the constant jarring that it is absolutely impossible to screw 

 these in without relapping, which involves removal of the shoes." 



If it be asked whether any non-slipping device has been 

 invented, our contemporary answers that "in England, where, 

 owing to the much more temperate climate, the necessity for 

 such protection is not nearly so acute as here, there have been 

 for at least 16 years non-slipping points easily removable, in- 

 dependent of screws and applicable to any shoe from that of 

 a dray-horse to that of a child's pony. They are chisel-pointed 

 and therefore longer lived and more eflficacious than round ones, 

 and they can be placed at any angle so as to get the edge at 

 right angles to the line of draught. All that is necessary is to 

 have all shoes punched before they are fitted ; the points can 

 then be slipped in whenever required and removed easily at night 

 by means of an ordinary pair of pincers. The cost is trifling, 

 the points being about 5 shillings [=$1.22] per hundred, and the 

 farrier never charges extra for punching the four holes in each 

 shoe." 



IS THERE A NON-SLIPPING HORSESHOE? 



THE pecuniary losses to horse owners, says the New York 

 Rider and Driver, from injury to or the death of their 

 animals after every snowfall, must be enormous. Moreover, the 

 sufferings due to horses from such causes are distressing to 

 humane spectators. In the opinion of the writer but little prac- 

 tical result has been attained in the way of developing a non- 

 slipping horseshoe. 



"The sole with a hard rubber artificial frog, either nailed on 

 with the shoe, or. as seen mostly in London, slipped in with 

 a pair of tongs when required, and removed at night for clean- 

 liness' sake, is for saddle and light-harness horses satisfactory 

 on ice and frozen snow. The absence of 'toe-hold,' however, 

 makes this invention useless when there is any considerable 



RUBBER NOTES FROM EUROPE. 



GREAT BBITAIN. 



THE directors of the Telegraph Construction and Mainte- 

 nance Co., Limited, recommended an interim dividend of 

 12 shillings per share, or 5 per cent., calling for £22,410 

 (=$109,058.27]. The usual annual dividend is 15 per cent. 



The directors of Siemens Brothers & Co., Limited, in pre- 

 senting the report for the last business year, recommend a divi- 

 dend of 4 per cent. The last preceding dividend was 10 per 

 cent., in 1901. 



The annual return of British Insulated and Helsby Cables, 

 Limited, shows the entire capital of £1.000,000 [=$4,866,500], 

 divided equally between ordinary and cumulative preference 

 shares, to have been taken up. There are £500,000 in 45/2 per 

 cent, debentures. 



The Castle Rubber Co., Limited (Warrington, England), regis- 

 tered on July 10 a trust deed to secure a series of £16,000 

 [=$77,064] 5 per cent, debentures, of which £12.800 [=$62,291] 

 have since been issued. 



The directors of the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co.. 

 Limited, report that the high price of rubber and other raw 

 materials during the business year ended on June 30 last had an 

 unfavorable effect upon profits. The dividend, however, was the 

 same as in the year before — 6'4 per cent. During the year the 

 company absorbed James T. Goudie & Co.. of Glasgow, and the 

 Palatine Heel Co., of Preston, by which it is believed that a con- 

 siderable output of the company's manufactures is permanently 



assured. 



FRANCE. 



Ernest Berlyn, Paris, dealer in rubber footwear of all kinds, 

 including the United States Rubber Co.'s brands, has removed 

 his business to 14. Rue .•Mcxandre Parodi. 



GERKANY. 



It is reported that the syndicate of German cable makers, 

 whose agreement was to have terminated on June 30, has been 

 prolonged for a period of three years. 



