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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 



1903. 



tins purified asbestos having great capillary attraction, and 

 more hygroscopic conditions, it will more readily unite with the 

 density of rubber than any other asbestos, which enables us to 

 make a more perfect mass, and we find that it isone of the best, 

 if not the best article to go into the vulcanizer with rubber. We 

 have hadjgreat results along electrical insulation, and yet see a 

 greater field in many uses to which asbestos is put in the rub- 

 ber industry, namely: the admixture of this purified asbestos 

 with rubber will make a lighter compound, and yet equally 

 as good as at present, for all articles for toilet use, and in fact 

 all the other small wares. We also think it possible to make 

 various colored rubbers by the use of our prepared asbestos." 

 Mr. Green is manager of the new Pittsburgh company, and 

 others interested are Charles K. Hill, J. Q. H. Smith, and H. 

 C. Van Tine, all of Pittsburgh. 



OIL CLOTH PRICES DEPEND ON RAW MATERIAL. 

 All previous prices of the Standard Table Oil Cloth Co. 

 have been withdrawn, in connection with which the sales agent 

 for the company, at New York, is quoted as follows : " On ac- 

 count of the increased demand for oil cloths, the Standard 

 Table Oil Cloth Co. have withdrawn their quotations on 

 their product, as they do not desire to be in a position where 

 they would be obliged to turn down any speculative orders. We 

 are supplying the trade with what they need and will take care 

 of all our customers. We will not issue any price list until 

 some time later, and whether these prices will be higher de- 

 pends entirely on the condition of the raw material market. 

 The officers of the company as a whole are opposed to any ad- 

 vance." The prices withdrawn by the Standard Table Oil Cloth 

 Co. are as follows (per piece) : 



5-4 Mosaics $r.8o 5x6 Brocade covers 225 



6-4 Mosaics 2.40 5x6 Black and wood covers. . 2.40 



5-4 White marbles 1.95 48-in. Flannel back white 



5-4 Printed white glazed. . . 1.95 glazed and marbles 3.50 



6-4 White marbles 2.55 5-4 Turkey red back mosaics 2.30 



6-4 Printed white glazed. .. 2. 55 5-4 Turkey red back marbles 2 45 



UNITED AND GLOBE RUBBER MANUFACTURING COS. 

 Ground was broken on March 13 for a three story brick and 

 stone addition, 86 X 4° ieet > to the plant of this company at 

 Trenton, New Jersey. Contracts have been let for the most 

 modern machinery and equipment. The new structure will be 

 used exclusively for making hose and belting, and will allow (or 

 the employment of 50 or more additional hands. 



NOT A RUBBER STAMP FACTORY. 

 Respecting a recent report on a large rubber stamp factory 

 at Lodge, Northumberland county, Virginia, Mr. Benjamin 

 Chambers, of that place, advises The India Rubber World 

 that rubber stamps are not made at the place named. His 

 specialty is steel types and steel stamps. Mr. Chambers has 

 been for 35 years contractor for such stamps used in the 

 United States postal service, and makes all the stamps used for 

 postmarking letters and cancelling postage stamps on letters. 

 The machinery department of his plant recently has been con- 

 siderably enlarged. 



GROWTH OF A MINNEAPOLIS JOBBING HOUSE. 

 The Plant Rubbei Co. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) have signed 

 a lease for ten years for a building to be erected on First ave- 

 nue N, between Third and Fourth streets. During the last 

 three years the business of this company has increased very 

 rapidly, so that the present quarters, running from No. 210 

 Nicollet avenue to No. 211 Hennipen avenue, have been out- 

 grown. The firm expect to get into the new building in Aug- 

 ust next. This will be 43 feet front and 132 feet deep, five 

 stories, and containing about 30,000 square feet of floor area. 

 This business was established eight years ago as the Nott & 



Plant Rubber Co., to do a retail business. A year later F. W. 

 Plant moved to Minneapolis from New York city, assuming the 

 management and changing the business from retail to whole- 

 sale. Within another year Mr. Plant purchased the interest of 

 W. S. Nott — now at the head of W. S. Nott Co. (Minneapolis) 

 — since which time the business has been known as the Plant 

 Rubber Co., with F. W. Plant president. They are manufac- 

 turers of leather belling and mackintoshes, and jobbers of rub- 

 ber goods of all kinds. They have offices at Duluth and Seat- 

 tle, with ten traveling salesmen employed. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Revere Rubber Co. have removed their Boston offices 

 from No. 63 Franklin street to No. 77 Bedford street, where 

 they have more room, in a modern office building, provided 

 with every convenience for officers and employes, and for the 

 display of their full line of goods. 



= The strike in the rubber shoe factory of the Hood Rubber 

 Co., at East Watertown, Massachusetts, which began nearly 

 two years ago, has been officially declared at an end, the com- 

 pany agreeing to take back the strikers as places can be made 

 for them. Most of the strikers, however, have gone elsewhere 

 and secured employment. 



=The annual meeting of shareholders of the Consolidated 

 Rubber Tire Co. will be held in Jersey City on Monday, 

 May 4. 



= John H. Merrill has taken charge of the carriage tire de- 

 partment of the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New 

 York). He was formerly manager of the Chicago branch of 

 The India Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio). 



= Charles S. Prosser has been appointed general sales agent 

 of the Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. Mr. Prosser is fully 

 qualified for such a position, having been five years in the fac- 

 tory, and five years as traveling salesman for the company. 



= Leonard J. Lomasney has been appointed sales manager of 

 the Republic Rubber Co. ( Youngstown, Ohio). He is a son-in- 

 law of Walter Arms, the new president of the Republic Rubber 

 Co., and was formerly with the Peerless Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. 



= Lewis D. Parker, of Hartford, president of all the tire manu- 

 facturing companies controlled by the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co., spent last month in Chicago, at the Morgan & Wright 

 factory, to allow ]. C. Wilson, who is in charge, to take a much 

 needed vacation. 



=A. H. Brown, purchasing agent for the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., has been appointed assistant purchasing agent for 

 the United States Rubber Co., and will be connected hereafter 

 with their general offices, in New York. 



= Ouaker City Rubber Co. — Charles A. Daniel, proprietor 

 (Philadelphia), announce the appointment, as manager of their 

 Chicago branch, of J. T. Moore, who has been with the firm 

 several years and has had much experience in the rubber and 

 packing business. He succeeds as manager in Chicago S. F. 

 Denny, whose new connection at Detroit, Michigan, has been 

 mentioned in this paper already. 



= W. Heath Kirkpatrick, identified for ten years past with 

 the rubber tire trade, first with the American Dunlop Tire Co., 

 and later with that company and the Hartford Rubber Works 

 Co. in conjunction, has become general sales manager for the 

 Peerless Motor Car Co., at Cleveland, Ohio. 



=The machinery was started at the factory of the new Sweet 

 Tire and Rubber Co. (Batavia, New York) on February 24. 



= The Vulcanized Rubber Co.'s factory, at Morrisville, Pa. 

 is reported to be well supplied with orders. They are mention- 

 ed as being especially busy on telephone receivers and appli- 

 ances. 



