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steam is utilized and all condensation is automatical] y rel urned 

 to the boilers. The electric installation is controlled from a 

 switch board located in the engine room. 



The buildings are protected by automatic sprinklers, and out- 

 side fire plugs supplied by water from the town and the above 

 mentioned pump, taking its water from a basin about 300X125 

 feet and from 6 to 8 feet deep, which is practically inexhausti- 

 ble. The employes will be drilled periodically in handling this 

 apparatus. An electric watchman's clock has also been installed, 

 All departments can communicate with each other or the 

 office by means of telephones. 



By a complete system of electrically driven fans and piping, 

 the dust from every machine will be automatically collected and 

 deposited in long cloth tubes, thus utilizing the waste and keep- 

 ing the air clear. The heating will be by means of air heated 

 in coiled pipes by exhaust steam from the engines, and then 

 driven in pipes through the buildings by means of huge fans 

 Every department has its own toilet and wash rooms. All the 

 machinery has the latest safety appliances and in all ways the 

 comfort of the employes is provided for. 



RUBBER WORKERS' UNIONS. 



Local No. 4, Amalgamated Rubber Workers' Union of 

 America (Trenton, New Jersey). — James O'Donovan, record- 

 ing and corresponding secretary, has been elected financial sec- 

 retary of the Central Labor Union. Harry Archer represents 

 the Local in the general committee of the Central Labor 

 Union ai ranging for the Labor Day celebration on Septem- 

 bir 7 . 



BANKRUPTCY SCHEDULES OF DRESSER & CO. 



Schedules in bankruptcy of Dresser & Co., commission 

 merchants in hosiery, silk, and elastic webbing, Nos. 15-17 

 Greene street, New York, were filed on August 14. The firm 

 liabilities are $1,206,481, of which $488,582 are secured, and the 

 nominal assets $1,456,160. There are accounts of $949,623, of 

 which $685,000 are doubtful and estimated worth $18,000. The 

 stocks include 247 shares of the Narraganset Web Co. Individ- 

 ual liabilities of D. Le Roy Dresser are $472,815, and assets $72,- 

 000 in stocks, including 1000 shares of American Webbing and 

 Tubing Co. Individual liabilities of Charles E. Riess, the other 

 partner, are $135,607, with assets of $33 437. Among the unse- 

 cured firm creditors are the American Tubing and Webbing Co., 

 for $100,163. The firm's creditors have not yet agreed upon the 

 choice of a receiver, but are expected to do so at their next 

 meeting, on September 22. 



NEW INCORPORATION. 



Continental Rubber Works( Erie, Pa.), under Pennsylvania 

 laws, capital, $200,000. Directors: C. E. Miley, New Haven, 

 Conn. ; Alexander Jarecki, Frederick C. Jarecki, H. T. Jarecki, 

 Robert Jarecki, O. E. Becker, E. A. Becker, Charles F. V. 

 Kelly, and Theron R. Palmer. The names of the officers and 

 other details regarding this company appeared in The India 

 Rubber World last month. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Philadelphia office of The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, 

 Ohio) has been removed to Nos. 304-306 North Broad street. 



= The Boston Rubber Shoe Co., on account of the large 

 number of orders, omitted the customary August shutdown this 

 year. The capacity of their two factories is now 332,000 pairs 

 of boots and shoes daily. 



= The Plymouth Rubber Co., proofers for the trade and 

 manufacturers of rubber mold work, have broken ground for an 

 addition to their factory (Stoughton, Massachusetts), 60 X 4° 

 feet, for the use of their rubber heel department. They are al- 

 so erecting a smoke stack 120 feet high and 6 feet in diameter. 



= W. R. Blowers, formerly superintendent of the United and 

 Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. (Trenton, N. J.), has accepted 

 a position with the Pennsylvania Rubber Co., and will take the 

 superintendency of their works at Jeannette, Pennsylvania. 



=The damage done by fire on June 25 to the rubber factory 

 at Nos. 397401 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn, New York, though 

 estimated at $20,000, has been well nigh repaired, the work of 

 rebuilding having been pushed forward rapidly. The plant has 

 long been known as that of the Brooklyn Rubber Co., which 

 name is still retained by the proprietors, Rindskopf Brothers, 

 though they also conduct business under the names Brooklyn 

 Hard Rubber Co. and Brooklyn Shield Co. 



= H. A. Palmer has resigned as secretary of the Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co. (Jeannette, Pa.) and terminated his connection with 

 that company. While not advised as to what will be Mr. 

 Palmer's next connection, The Indi \ RUBBER World under- 

 stands that he will be identified with the solid rubber tire busi- 

 ness, as his five years experience precludes his leaving the 

 field at this very interesting stage of the game. 



=The Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven, Conn.) have 

 awarded a contract for an additional factory building, of brick, 

 3°X95 feet, four stories high. 



= Park Mathewson, for some time New York representative 

 of the India Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), has become general 

 representative of the International Automobile and Vehicle 

 Tire Co, (Milltown, New Jersey), and assistant to General Man- 

 ager J. C. Matlock. 



= Six shares of Boston Belting Co. stock were reported sold 

 at auction in Boston during the first week in August at 210, 

 par value being $100. 



= People in North Brookfield, Worcester county, Mass., are 

 attempting to secure for that place the location of the proposed 

 factory of the Randolph Rubber Manufacturing Co., the incor- 

 poration of which was reported in our last issue. 



= Several hundred girls employed in the shoemaking depart- 

 ment of the factory of L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, Conn.) 

 went on strike on August 21, giving as their reason that they had 

 been asked to do more work without an increase in pay. At 

 last accounts no agreement had been reached between the com- 

 pany and the employes, who are not, by the way, connected 

 with any labor union. 



= The Grieb Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) have been 

 licensed to manufacture and sell tennis, golf, and yachting 

 soles made with the Foster patented " friction plug." 



=The creditors of Lamkin & Foster, the Boston shoe job- 

 bers whose embarrassment has been noted in these columns, 

 have agreed to accept 50 per cent, of their claims in cash or 60 

 per cent, in notes, the business will be continued — probably 

 under the same name, but as a corporation. 



= At a sale of securities at auction in New York on August 

 26, $5000 in 6 per cent, first mortgage bonds of the Mechanical 

 Rubber Co. brought $4750. 



= At the coming annual convention of the American Street 

 Railway Association, to be held in Saratoga on September 2-4, 

 the Massachusetts Chemical Co. (Boston) are to be represented 

 and are to give as a souvenira handsome circular pitcher mat of 

 their own design and manufacture. 



= Mr. Eben H. Paine, manager of sales for the United States 

 Rubber Co., Mr. Edwaad R. Rice, manager of branch stores, 

 and Mr. George W. Perry arrived at home from a six weeks 

 European trip on August 29. 



= A correspondent estimates the amount of business done by 

 three rubber heel concerns in the United Slates at $275,000 to 

 $300,000 per year, and the business of the other smaller con- 

 cerns must amount to a good deal in the aggregate. 



