July i, 1903 ] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Naugatuck rubber workers are frequently induced to go else- 

 where to fill places in new factories, they generally find their 

 way back to their old places and say that " Naugatuck is 

 enough for them." 



PITTSBURG AND AMAZON RUBBER TRADING CO. 



Incorporated May 18, at Washington, under the laws of the 

 District of Columbia, with an authorized capital of $1,000,000, 

 for the interchange of products between the Amazon valley 

 and the United States. The following officers were elected, on 

 May 29, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the principal offices 

 will be located: E. E. Gallup, president ; W. II. Lippencott, 

 vice president ; Major J. Orton Kerbey (former United States 

 consul at Paid), vice president and secretary ; W E. Messen- 

 ger, tteasurer. The board of trustees includes II. T. Peterson, 

 J. VV. Leonard, D. J. Brown, George N. Kerbey (a son of Major 

 Kerbey). and F. A. Pezet (secretary of the Peruvian legation at 

 Washington). President Gallup is the Pittsburgh branch 

 manager of a large rubber manufacturing company. The ad- 

 dress of the new company is 410 Peoples Savings Bank build- 

 ing. 



GOLF BALLS BOUGHT FOR RAW MATERIAL. 



In an interview published in an English newspaper Mr. B. (j. 

 Work, of The B. F. Goodrich Co., speaking of the golf ball 

 situation in the United States, is reported as saying : " Before 

 the ' Haskell ' came out all the balls used on the other side of 

 the Atlantic came from England. None are being imported 

 this year. Over 30,000 dozen that were imported last year we 

 bought, not unpacked — just as they came over — for the sake of 

 the Gutta percha of which they were made, and at the price of 

 the material. That meant a dead loss of at least 5.5. a dozen 

 to the makers." 



A SUBSTITUTE FOR SULPHIDE OK ANTIMONY. 

 Many chemists and color makers have tried to produce a 

 color that would take the place of the golden and crimson sul- 

 phides of antimony for use in rubber compounding, but thus 

 far have not had any great success. Dr. M. Toch, of New York, 

 who has given much attention to this and kindred subjects, 

 has at last produced dry colors that after vulcanization cannot 

 be told from antimony. The product is an oxide, is light in 

 weight, very fine, and gives an especially soft velvety feeling to 

 the finished goods. In color the golden yellow and the crim- 

 son of the antimony are exactly reproduced. The coloring 

 matter contains no sulphur of course so that they have no cur- 

 ing qualities. Manufactured by Toch Brothers, No. 46S West 

 Broadway, New York. 



RUBBER MEN PLAY BALL. 

 The fourth annual baseball contest between the Married Men 

 and the Single Men of the New York office of the United States 

 Rubber Co. occurred on June 6, at New Dorp, on Staten Island. 

 The preceding games had resulted each year in a victory for 

 the Benedicts, but the Bachelors this season entered the game 

 confident of success. At the end of the sixth inning the two 

 teams were running even, and but one more inning remained 

 to be played, at the end of which the score was 24 to 23 in favor 

 of the married men. Later the players dined at Boehm's Hotel, 

 where they were joined by a score of their friends who had 

 witnessed the game. 



DATA WANTED ON INSULATION. 

 The American Institute of Electrical Engineers has appointed 

 a special committee for the purpose of collecting and pub- 

 lishing electrical engineering data for the benefit of its mem- 

 bers. It is not the intention to publish information on well 

 known subjects such as may be found in existing books, but 

 special data in the possession of practical men which, while of 



value in their work, may not seem important enough to war- 

 rant a special publication. The commute invite all such in- 

 formation as may be disseminated without commercial disad- 

 vantage to the possessors of the data, the same to be printed as 

 received, in the form of leaflets uniform in size, to be distrib- 

 uted to members of the Institute. On the list of subjects to be 

 taken up by the new committee are the following, of interest 

 to the rubber industry : 



Carrying capacity of underground and overhead rubber and paper in- 

 sulated cables, single conductor, duplex, and triple conductor. 



Dielectric strength of commercial insulating materials. 



Heating of cables of various sizes, paper or rubber, with various 

 thicknesses of insulation. 



NEW ENGI AND RUBBER CLUB. 



The executive committee have appointed the following com- 

 mittees to serve for one year : 



niillff on Dinners — F. H. Jones, William Keyes. G. P. Whit- 

 more, W. J. Kelley, O. A. Barnard. 



Entertainment Committee -II. C. Pearson, Win. F, Mayo, E. S. 

 Williams, Theodore S, Bassett, William J. ("able. 



Committee on Resolutions — Arthur W. Stedman, Eugene II. Clapp, 

 (ieorgc P. Whitmore. 



Auditing Committee- George P. Eustis, J. Frank Dunbar. 



Sports Committee— W '. E. Larker. E. E. Wadbrook, F. C. Hood. F. 

 I). Balderston, James II Learned. 



RECEIVER FOR SEARS PARA RUBBER CO. 



EUGENE B. Howell. an attorney, of No. 346 Broadway. New 

 York, on June 5, was appointed receiver for The Sears Paid 

 Kubber Co., by the supreme court in Brooklyn, on the suit of 

 Kichard F. Sears, and gave bond for $25,000. Attorneys 

 Henry Wollman and B. J. Downey appeared for the complain- 

 ant; Attorney W. N. Dykman, for Charles R. Flint, resisted 

 the application for a receiver. The Sears Paid Rubber Co. 

 were incorporated in Virginia, July 16, 1S97, and their business 

 was largely as buying agents at Para for the Crude Rubber Co., 

 now in liquidation. The object of the present proceedings is to 

 arrive at an accounting of the transactions with the last named 

 company. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS. 



UNITED States Rubber Co.: 



DATES. 



Week ending May 23 

 Week ending May 29 

 Week ending June 6 

 Week ending June 13 

 Week ending June 20 



Pkp.pehbkd. 



Sales. High. Low, 



1,117 



1.220 



635 



1.75° 



2,743 



52 



sx'A 

 50 

 50 

 51 



5° 



48J3 



47K 



46 



50 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 



HISTORY OF A " KOKOMO ' PICTURE. 

 An interesting bit of history is connected with the handsome 

 lithograph distributed lately by the Kokomo Rubber Co. (Ko- 

 komo, Indiana)— the portrait of a young woman, described as 

 " The great granddaughter of Chief Kokomo." It appears 

 that the Indiana town was named for Ko-ko-mo, a chief of the 

 Miami tribe of Indians, who once occupied that region, and 

 was at the head of the tribe when it was removed by the gov- 

 ernment to a reservation in the then new Indian Territory. 



