August j, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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writing (at a depth of 80 feet) the rock is still being encoun- 

 tered. 



A new three story, 30X60 feet, brick addition to the factory 

 of the Crescent Belting and Packing Co. is completed and the 

 machinery is being placed in position. The first floor will be a 

 machine shop, equipped with lathes, drills, planers, shapers, 

 and other machines to enable the company to do their own re- 

 pair and other machine work. The second floor will be 

 equipped with new spoolers and skeiners, for the insulated 

 wire department. The company report the best six months' 

 business in their history. The orders indicate a busy month 

 for August, with no shutdown. 



The manufacture of rubber carriage cloth is developing into 

 one of the most important branches of Trenton's rubber in- 

 dustry. This branch of the business was established some 

 years ago by the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co., and the 

 concern has built up a large trade in this line. The new Eure- 

 ka Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Trenton have gone into the 

 field and are turning out a high grade, for which there is a 

 steadily increasing demand. 



The Union Rubber Co. now have eleven salesmen on the road, 

 covering the whole country to the Pacific coast. The com- 

 pany have established western headquarters with the Carriage 

 Supply Co. at No. 856 West Sixth street, Cincinnati. A hand- 

 some oak sample case has been added to the offices in the 

 Broad Street Bank building, Trenton. 



Mr. H. E. Evans, manager of the Consolidated Rubber Co., 

 spent his annual vacation at Atlantic City, where he attended 

 the session of the national senate of the National Union, of 

 which order he is chaplain. 



The Lambertville Rubber Co. have resumed operations after 

 a two weeks' shutdown, during which the inventory was taken 

 and necessary repairs made, including the placing of new tubes 

 in the boilers. 



L. S. Stout, aged 35 years, an employe of the Grieb Rubber 

 Co., was painfully burned while at work in the mill, by a caul- 

 dron of rubber cement mixture boiling over on him, but will 

 suffer no permanent injury. 



The De Laski & Thropp Circular Woven Tire Co., mentioned 

 in this column last month, have elected officers as follows : 

 John E. Thropp, Jr., president ; Frank W. Thropp, vice pres- 

 ident ; Peter D. Thropp, secretary and treasurer. Albert De 

 Laski and Peter Thropp were in the West during the month in 

 the interest of the company. Experiments with Mr. De Laski's 

 invention for weaving automobile and other tires are still in 

 progress at the works of the John E. Thropp Sons Co. The 

 company's plans for a factory are not yet complete. 



The Reliance Rubber Manufacturing Co. have practically all 

 their machinery installed, have begun grinding rubber, and ex- 

 pect to be making goods by August 1. At first their work will 

 be confined mainly to molded goods and tubing, the latter of a 

 grade developed by superintendent Charles H. Joslin when he 

 was employed at the Globe works. Having been organized so 

 late in the season, they will postpone entering the hose trade 

 until another year. 



The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Trenton report 

 that business is opening with them in a satisfactory manner, 

 particularly in rubber carriage cloth. Two new mills, 18 X 5° 

 inches, from the Farrel foundry, have just been added, and a 

 new two roll washer ordered. Seven presses are in operation 

 in the molded goods department, and several large orders have 

 been booked. Good orders for their " Admiral " brand of cot- 

 ton hose have been received from Chicago. Molds are being 

 made for a line of horseshoe pads. 



The Woven Steel Hose and Cable Co. have secured larger 



and better quarters at No. 226 South Warren street. Organized 

 four years ago, this concern has built up a large trade in its 

 specially of steel armored hose, and is now developing as a 

 selling agency for a general line of mechanical rubber goods 

 The president of the company is John S. Broughton, who is 

 also secretary and general manager of the United and Globe 

 Rubber Manufacturing Cos. The vice president is John H. 

 Janeway, of the John A. Roebling'sSonsCo. ; Karl G. Roebling 

 is treasurer, and J. R. Kelso, manager. The process of armor- 

 ing the hose is the invention of Mr. Roebling, who also designed 

 the machine for applying the armor. 



On July 22 lightning struck the building of the Raymond 

 Rubber Co., at Titusville, damaging the office portion some- 

 what and severely shocking Messrs. George and Robert Agnew. 



Steps have been taken by the Trenton rubber workers' union 

 to formulate a new wage scale and inaugurate an apprentice 

 system. A committee composed of five men from each factory 

 are working on a plan to be submitted shortly to the manufac- 

 turers. The Rubber Manufacturers' Association of Trenton 

 have posted notices in the factories promising protection to 

 non union employes. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. have purchased a large tract 

 of land east of Trenton for their new shops, which includes a 

 portion of the farm of Allan Magowan, Trenton's pioneer rub- 

 ber worker, and on which is located the works of the Modern 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., composed of Mr. Magowan and 

 members of his family. The removal of the rubber works thus 

 becomes necessary and to provide for this Mr. Magowan re- 

 tained a strip of his land on the side adjoining the premises of 

 the Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. The factory buildings 

 are of frame construction and will be moved bodily, as will also 

 Mr. Magowan's residence. 



At the annual meeting of the Grieb Rubber Co., on July 1, 

 the officers were reelected, as follows : William G. Grieb, presi- 

 dent ; C. H. Oakley, vice president and general manager; 

 Harry Grieb, secretary and treasurer. George E. Leslie was 

 reappointed sales manager. Messrs. Oakley and Leslie report 

 trade good, with sales increasing. The company have installed 

 an electric lighting plant with a 30 HP. engine and direct con- 

 nected dynamo, which will furnish power also for several 

 motors for operating light machinery. The company put into 

 operation on July 20 a cement department, in a separate build- 

 ing, in which electric power will be used. The company have 

 built a 60 X 1 2 foot extension to their boiler house, and are 

 putting up a one story warehouse and packing room, 100 X 4° 

 feet. 



IN THE WILDS OF MEXICO. 



FROM THE INDIA RUBBER JOURNAL (LONDON). 



MR. PEARSON, the editor of our contemporary, who has 

 been journeying through Mexico in order to satisfy 

 himself as regards crude rubber planting, contributes to his 

 journal an entertaining narrative of the expedition. Altogether 

 apart from the technical value of the article, his description of 

 the tour is as entertaining a piece of reading as one could wish 

 for, being full of humor and of insight into the quaint habits 

 of the natives. Mr. Pearson records that his first ride on 

 horseback was more in the nature of an experiment than any- 

 thing else, and that on the second day, when they started out 

 to visit the neighbors, he wanted to walk. That being out of 

 the question, however, he had to mount a mare which had the 

 habit of imagining she saw a snake ahead on the trail, and of 

 suddenly leaping to one side. He stayed with her every time, 

 and is still just as much surprised at it as she was. 



