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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 



1903. 



Ernest HopkINSON, No. 27 William street, New York. 



Director The Mol 

 Charles A Hunter, New Durham, New Jersey. 



Assis ant to President ami General Managei ( New York Melting and 

 Packing Co., Mechanical Rubber Co., and Peerless Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co., in charge of manufacturing departments. 



\ ice President Fabric Kire Hose Co. 



n New York Belling and Packing Co. 



Director Mechanical Rubber Co. 



William !'. Cole, No. 68 Murray street. New Yoik. 



^cr and director Fabi ic Fire Hose Co. 



II. Carroll Winchester, No. 21 Park Row, New York. 



The ten directors retiring were Alden S. Swan, William A. 

 Towner, Albah Trowbridge, W. R. K. Taylor, Arthur Y. Whit- 

 man, J. Archibald Murray, H. W. Turnbull, Eugene Underhill, 

 John B. Morris, and John Henry Hammond. Mr. Keene, who 

 now enters the board, is a brother of James R. Keene, whose 

 name has figured more prominently in the financial world, but 

 the new director has won a reputation of his own (or ability in 

 the financial management of corporation aiLiirs. Mr. Hopkin- 

 son, another new director, is a patent attorney of recognized 

 ability, and particularly as an expert in tire and automobile 

 patent litigation. 



At a meeting of the directors on April 14 the following were 

 elected officers of the company : 



President and Chairman Executive Committee— Charles H. Dai e 



First Vice President — Talbot J. Taylor. 



Second Vice President — Ernest HoPKINSON. 



Treasurer — James B.Taylor. 



Secretary — HARRY Keene. 



The general offices of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., 

 from May 1, will be located in the Postal Telegraph building, 

 No. 253 Broadway, thus being in a more convenient position as 

 regards the offices and stores in New York of the constituent 

 companies. 



The boards of the Mechanical Rubber Co. and the New York 

 Belting and Packing Co. are now identical, consisting of 

 Charles H. Dale (president), Talbot J. Taylor (vice president), 

 Harry Keene, Charles A. Hunter, and Henry R, Wilkening. 

 The secretary and treasurer of both companies is J. W. Mc- 

 Coomb, formerly head accountant of the New York Belting 

 and Packing Co. Mr. McCoomb is also treasurer of the Fabric 

 Fire Hose Co. 



LAYING THE COMMERCIAL PACIFIC CABLE. 



THE cable steamers Anglia and Colonia, owned by the Tele- 

 graph Construction and Maintenance Cc, Limited, 

 sailed from London on April 8 to lay the remaining sections of 

 the Commercial Pacific cable, which will connect Honolulu 

 with the Philippine Islands. The U.ying of the section between 

 San Francisco and Honolulu — 2413 miles in length, and made 

 by the India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraph Works Co., 

 Limited — was completed at the western end on January 1, 1903, 

 and has since been in operation. The contract for the cable 

 now to be laid was signed by the Telegraph Construction and 

 Maintenance Co. and Mr. John W. Mackay, as president of the 

 Commercial Pacific Cable Co. in July, 1902, a day or two before 

 Mr. Mackay 's death. The following are the distances (in nau- 

 tical miles) covered by the cable route, though the length of 

 cable is greater, to allow for slack in laying: 



San Francisco to Honolulu 2,100 



Honolulu to Midway Islands 1,160 



Midway Islands to Guam 2,280 



Guam to Manila, via San Bernardiuo Straits 1.372 



Total 6,912 



It is expected that the cable will be laid to Manila by July 4, 

 after which one more section will remain to be put down, to 

 connect Manila with China, in accordance with the Commercial 

 Pacific Cable Co.'s contract with the United States. 



The laying of the new cable will be begun at Manila — some 

 time during this month, it is hoped — the steamer proceeding 

 thence to Guam. The next station will be on Sand island, one 

 of the Midway group. This is a barren spot, about ]/ z mile 

 wide and % mile long, on which no living thing has ever been 

 found. The cable company have sent there a staff of fifteen 

 men, as the beginning of a colony, who will have to be supplied 

 with food and drinking water from a distance. It is intended 

 to convey a quantity of soil there, and ultimately to make Sand 

 island one of the most beautiful spots in the Southern Pacific. 

 The island will be fortified by the United States navy depart- 

 ment. The final length of cable will be laid from this point to 

 Honolulu. 



The United States government has consented to the landing 

 on the island of Guam of the projected cable connecting the 

 Dutch and German possessions in the Pacific, and thence to 

 the existing cable systems of the Far East. With these con- 

 nections, added to the Commercial cable, naval officers expect 

 that the little island will ultimately become an important port 

 of call. It looks as if there will not long beany remote islands 

 in the Pacific. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, 

 have issued a new illustrated descriptive and priced cat- 

 alogue of Mechanical Rubber Goods, which is the best of the 

 many good catalogues which have come from this long estab- 

 lished firm. Beginning with some account of India-rubber and 

 its sources, the book contains information of general interest re- 

 garding the leading applications of rubber for mechanical pur- 

 poses—machinery belting, steam hose, air brake hose, suction 

 hose, fite hose, packings in many forms, tubing, rubber covered 

 rolls, matting, tiling, and a long list of articles embraced under 

 the heading of " mold work." The illustrations are particularly 

 good, the anangement of the matter is convenient, and the book 

 concludes with a serviceable index. [$'A" X 8^". 89 pages.] 

 The same company issue a collection of prints, illustrating 

 various applications of their Interlocking Rubber Tiling — for 

 corridors of office buildings, steamships, banks, libraries, church 

 aisles, kitchen floors, and so on — for each of which rubber pos- 

 sesses some particular advantages as a flooring material. The 

 plates, eighteen in number, are printed in colors, indicating 

 that the rubber tiling can be made attractive as well as service- 

 able. The number of classes of rubber goods that lend 

 themselves to attractive advertising is constantly increasing. 



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The Dermatine Co, Limited (95 Neate street, London. 

 S. E.) issue a 1903 edition of their Price List. In addition to 

 cataloguing a very large number of applications of Dermatine, 

 it gives a very full account of the properties of this material, 

 and also a chapter on the sources and nature of India rubber 

 and Gutta-percha, as a substitute for which Dermatine is in- 

 tended to be used. The book contains a good portrait of Mr 

 John Cooper, the managing director, who has been connected 

 with the company for fourteen years, and the good arrangement 

 of the publication recalls the former journalistic experience of 

 this gentleman. [6" X 9J("- 50 pages.] 



Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York) issue a book- 

 let, rendered especially attractive by color printing, in which 

 the Kelly-Springfield solid rubber vehicle tires are tersely but 

 clearly described. Among other things, the book contains a 

 compilation of the taking advertisements of this company that 

 have appeared for some time past in the high clas>s magazines, 

 [3*TX 6'A". 16 pages.] 



