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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1905. 



=The Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co. (Jonesboro. 

 Indiana ), have just completed a new addition to their buildings 

 and have orders placed for additional machinery to cost about 

 $20,000. This machinery is in the way of mills and a new cal- 

 ender, as well as some extensive wire testing apparatus. 



= The Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron- 

 Ohio), have been installing a new steam engine, hydraulic press' 

 mill, and tubing machines, with the effect of doubling their 

 capacity. 



=The Stein Double Cushion Tire Co. (Akron, Ohio) have in 

 progress two additions to their factory, which they hope to 

 have completed and in use during this month. One addition, 

 70 X 40 feet, will be used for a machine shop, and the other, 

 40 X 20 feet, for a curing room. The new additions will prac- 

 tically double the capacity of the factory. 



= It is understood that the shareholders of the Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. at the meeting re- 

 ferred to in the last India Rubber 

 World (page 422). after discussing the 

 proposed substitution of new shares for 

 the bonds now outstanding, failed to 

 take any action in the matter. 



= The business established 30 years 

 ago by Joseph Bachrach, in the manu- 

 facture of rubber balloons and other 

 novelties, in Brooklyn, New York, is 

 now being carried on by his son Philip 

 Bachrach, at No. 23 Judge street, where 

 the concern has been located for 21 

 years. Philip Bachrach, in addition to 

 conducting the factory, is active in 

 Brooklyn political affairs. 



= The Cmcinnati Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co. have arranged for their Chi- 

 cago representation, with offices at 

 room 321 Rookery building, which will 

 be in charge of Mr. J. E. Dickxon, who 

 has been identified with the rubber 

 trade in Chicago and the territory trib- 

 utary thereto for a number of years. 

 MR. APPLETON IN A CARTOON. 



The Boston Trai'tUr has a Cartoon- 

 ist who daily brings before the people 

 of the "Hub" well known business 

 men by means of a very good sketch 

 and a few suggestive touches that are 

 descriptive of the business in which the 

 subject of the sketch is engaged. The 

 illustration shown is a very good por- 

 trait of Mr. Francis H. Appleton and the kinds of rubber scrap 

 that he holds in his hands point to the reclaiming business 

 which he successfully runs. The artist has pictured him as 

 being pretty well up in the air— perhaps prophetic of the near 

 future, when prices of rubber scrap will soar so high that the 

 trade can only reach them from the chimney tops. 

 THE HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO. 



At a meeting of the directors at Hartford on September 20, 

 the work of the general manager was divided between two offi- 

 cials. William Seward, Jr., first vice president, who has been 

 the general manager for some years, was made factory mana- 

 ger, and J. D. Anderson, a vice president, was made commercial 

 manager. Thomas Midgley, who has been in charge of the 

 testing department, as consulting engineer, was added to the 

 list of vice presidents. Charles B. Wittlesey, hitherto general 

 correspondent, has been made chief clerk. 



MR. F. H. APPLETON 



ELECTRIC RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 This company, incorporated in November, 1903, under New 

 Jersey laws, with $1,000,000 capital authorized, has begun oper- 

 ations at Rutherford, in that state, in the premises sometime 

 occupied by the Hazleton Boiler Co. The new company is en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of solid and pneumatic vehicle tires, 

 one feature of which is a process designed to protect the rubber 

 against oxidization. The company is also producing hard rub- 

 ber battery jars. The officers are : James H. George, president; 

 W. A. Jacobus, vice president ; W. J. Conkling, treasurer ; and 

 Cnarles H. George, secretary. The factory superintendent is 

 Henry A. Middleton, who has had a number of years experience 

 in the rubber industry. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr Eliott M. Henderson, vice-president of the Manhat- 

 tan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), recently started 

 on a tour of business and pleasure 

 combined. The leading American 

 newspapers have been supplied by the 

 Associated Press with the following 

 cable despatch : 



Liverpool, September 26. — Mr. E. M. 

 Henderson, vice president of the Manhattan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of New York, 

 one of the largest rubber concerns in the 

 United States, is at present visiting this 

 country to investigate the conditions and 

 trend of the rubber trade here. Mr. Hen- 

 derson, through the Institute of Tropical 

 Research, has been introduced to Liverpool 

 rubber merchants, and after a short stay in 

 the city proposes to visit Manchester and 

 London. Subsequently Mr. Henderson will 

 extend his tour of commercial observation to 

 the plantations of Ceylon, the Straits Settle- 

 ments, East Africa, and possibly West Africa 

 also, his principal object being to examine 

 the methods of rubber cultivation and the 

 different processes of coagulation. Mr. Hen- 

 derson's tour, practically around the world, 

 is a striking illustration of the way in which 

 enterprising business men set to work, the 

 aim in this case being to study the improve- 

 ments introduced during recent years into 

 the rubber growing industry in order that 

 the company concerned may keep pace with 

 the latest improvements in their own exten- 

 sive plantations in Nicaragua. 



= Mr. Arthur W. Stedman, of the firm 

 of George A. Alden & Co., has very few 

 equals as a judge of fine horses. A sig- 

 nificant evidence of this was his selection recently as one of 

 the judges at a horse show at a county fair held at Windsor, 

 Vermont, which he attended as the guest of Winston Chuich- 

 ill, and a lew days later where he acted as judge at the fashion- 

 able horse show of the Myopia Hunt Club, Hamilton, Mass. 



= President Colt, of the United States Rubber Co., and Pres- 

 ident Ivins, of the General Rubber, have returned from Europe. 

 = The somewhat lurid headline that appeared recently in the 

 Philadelphia £7'if«/«;f Telegraph, wh\c\\ read: 



CHESTER PIKE 



A MENACE TO LIFE AND LIMB. 



does not refer to the gentleman of that name who has long been 

 distinguished as one of the ablest of the rubber shoe salesmen. 

 The reference is to the turnpike of the town of Chester, famil- 

 iarly known as " the pike." 



