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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 



[903. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO. 



A LARGE force has been at work during the month on 

 the factory being built for this company west of the 

 Pawtuxet river, near Elm wood avenue, Providence, 

 Rhode Island. The main building will be of brick, 

 three stories high, and 264 X 58 feet, with a basement, making 

 the structure practically four stories. A second building, to 

 be used as a machine shop, also of three stories, is to measure 

 1 48 X 54 feet. The boiler house is to be 36 X 54 feet, with a 

 height of 28 feet. The smoke-stack is to be 150 feet in height. 

 A factory is being planned to give employment to from Soo to 

 1000 hands, for the production of rubber boots and shoes under 

 the system invented by II. J. Doughty. At the beginning of 

 [une it was expected that the plant would be completed within 

 two months, and rapid progress on the work is reported. 



A NEW GOLF BALL FACTORY. 

 The Cambridge Manufacturing Co. have been mentioned in 

 these pages lately as undertaking the manufacture of golf balls, 

 at Plantsville, Connecticut. It is understood that they are 

 now ready to offer their product to the trade. They are mak- 

 ing a " lively " ball, to be known as the " Gyro," the same being 

 the subject of a United States patent [No. 697,816] granted to 

 Cleland Davis, of the United States navy. Its construction in- 

 volves (1) a spherical shell of celluloid, or a nitrocellulose com- 

 pound, (2) layers of elastic material, wound on under tension, 

 and (3) an outer shell of Gutta-percha or " its equivalent— vul- 

 canized rubber or other material of like character." The Cam- 

 bridge Manufacturing Co. are incorporated under the laws of 

 Delaware, with $100,000 capital. E. B. Frost, of the legal firm 

 of Frost & Johnson, No. 100 Broadway, New York, is president 

 of the company, and Norman G. Johnson, of the same firm, is 

 business manager. E. O. Horstman, of Washington, D. C, 

 and a member of the Chevy Chase Golf Club of that city, is 

 vice president. The remaining directors are N. S. Simpkins, of 

 Washington, and Cleland Davis, U. S. N., the inventor. A patent 

 on the ball has also been granted in England — No. 152 (1902). 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 



At a meeting of the board of directors in New York, on May 

 27, the seventeenth regular quarterly dividend of i}( per cent, 

 on the preferred shares was declared, out of earnings, payable 

 on June 16 to holders of record on June 5.=~The general of- 

 fices of the company are now installed in the Postal Telegraph 

 building, No. 253 Broadway, New York, in seven rooms. The 

 business of the company is better concentrated here than in the 

 former quarters, besides which the location is more convenient 

 to the offices in New York of the constituent companies. A 

 new department has been installed — that of purchasing agent, 

 in the same building with the general offices. 



L. CANDEE & CO. (NEW HAVEN, CONN.) 



The large power plant of this company's factory is being en- 

 tirely renewed, with a view to adopting the latest ideas in 

 scientific construction for the purpose of obtaining the maxi- 

 mum of motive power with a given steam consumption. By 

 these changes, Vice President H. Stuart Hotchkiss informs 

 The India Rubber World, it is expected to affect an econ- 

 omy to the extent of reducing the number of pounds of steam 

 required per indicated horse power per hour from 25 to 14. An 

 order has been placed with the Westinghouse Machine Co. 



(Pittsburgh) for two Westinghouse Corliss tandem compound 

 condensing engines — 26 and 52X54. and 24 and 48X48, re- 

 spectively — rated at 1400 Hi', for the two, with a maximum of 

 2700 HP, These will replace two George H. Corliss non con- 

 densing engines, one 34 X 72 and one 30 x 72, having a total 

 rated 1 100 Ht\ Recently an 18 X 42 non condensing George H. 

 Corliss engine, of 150 HP., used to drive the machinery in the 

 rubber washing room, machine shop, and carpenter shop, was 

 replaced by a 180 HP. General Electric Co. motor, driven by a 

 new 300 kilowatt Edward P. Allis vertical compound generator. 

 This generator will also furnish power for the 65 HP. Genera 

 Electric motor necessary to deliver water from Mill river to the 

 Bulkley injector condenser which is also being installed. The 

 entire steam plant will be run on the condensing system, in- 

 stead of the non condensing as heretofore. 



THE SEAMLESS RUBBER CO. 

 This company has filed a certificate with the secretary of 

 state at New Haven, of an increase of capital from $130,000 to 

 an amount not exceeding $250,000. It is reported that an issue 

 of $70,000 of new stock offered at par has been taken 

 and paid for in cash. The additional capital is to be applied to 

 the extension of the company's business, the enlargement of 

 the plant, and the installation of new equipment. = ^The 

 Seamless Rubber Co. have awarded a contract for an additional 

 brick building on their premises, to be used as a storehouse. 



WOONSOCKET RUBBER CO. 

 Frederick T. Comee, for many years superintendent of the 

 " Alice " mill, and for two years past in charge of the Millville 

 mill, has resigned, his connection with the company terminat- 

 ing on June 6. It is not known whether an appointment will 

 be made to fill the vacancy. At last accounts John Robson, 

 the company's general superintendent, was at Millville, in per- 

 sonal charge of the plant. 



WHY ONE SUIT FOR DAMAGES FAILED. 



Paul Bea jdreau sued the Model Rubber Co. (Woonsocket, 

 Rhode Island) for $3000, damages claimed for injuries received 

 while he was employed by the company in their factory. It 

 was claimed that because the point of a lever with which he 

 worked was bent, it slipped from a socket when he tried to ex- 

 ert force upon a screw, and let him fall to the floor, thus break- 

 ing one of his legs. The court, in dismissing the case, held 

 that the defect in the lever was so plain that in consenting to 

 use it the plaintiff assumed the risk of danger. 



NEW YORK'S FIRE HOSE SCANDAL. 

 The trial of John J. Scannell, formerly fire commissioner of 

 New York, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the city in the 

 purchase of fire hose and other supplies, has been set down to 

 begin on the first Monday in October next, in the criminal 

 branch of the supreme court. 



BUSY RUBBER FACTORIES AT NAUGATUCK. 

 A recent report from Naugatuck, Connecticut, stated that 

 the condition of the rubber industry there had never been bet- 

 ter. About 2000 persons were employed in the two factories 

 of the United States Rubber Co. — the Rubber Glove and the 

 " Wales-Goodyear " factories — producing more than 50,000 

 pairs of rubber boots and shoes daily, besides blankets, rubber 

 gloves, and druggists' sundries. It is mentioned that while 



