November i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= This is not in the line of an advertisement, but Mr. T. W. 



Miller o( the Faultless Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), has for a 

 year past been whirling around Akron, up and down its steep 

 hillsand over the questionable roadsof its outskirts in a Frank- 

 lin runabout which has had no disease at all during that time, 

 not even " tire sickness." 



= Thc factory of the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Works at Buf- 

 falo, New York, continues to be enlarged and improved, indi- 

 cating a constant growth in the business of the company. Ref- 

 erence to the company's advertisement on another page of The 

 India Rurbek World will show to the reader the latest and 

 most comprehensive view of the buildings now occupied. 



= TheSwinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) 

 have established a New York office at No. 1773 Broadway, in 

 charge of Mr. Herbert C. Comstock as manager. 



= Creditors of the North .\merican Rubber Co. ( New York), 

 in bankruptcy, have received notice from William H. Willis, 

 referee, of a dividend declared on their claims, duly proved 

 and allowed, of 7 per cent., payable on and after October 31. 



- B. Loewenthal & Co. (Chicago and New York), dealers in 

 old rubber, announce the withdrawal of Edward D. Loewenthal 

 from their firm, as from September 21. 



= f<eferring to rumors that the plant of the Falcon Rubber 

 Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), was about to pass into new 

 hands, an official, in connection wiih the regular monthly meet- 

 ing of directors in October, was quoted as saying that no bid 

 had been received for the property. The Falcon company was 

 organized early in 1904 to make druggists' sundries, but has 

 not been at work during the last six months. 



= The Standard Self- Filling Fountain Pen Co. (Toledo, 

 Ohio) have been encouraged by their success in marketing 

 their patent fountain pen to put in plant for working their 

 own hard rubber parts. They have installed three lathes and 

 also buffing wheels and other machinery lor turning, cutting, 

 and polishing pen barrels, caps, and feeds, together with a die 

 press for doing imprint work. 



=The Foster rubber sole, manufactured by the Foster Rub- 

 ber Co. (Boston), is being adopted by many large leather shoe 

 manufacturers for next season's goods. 



= Mr. B. T. Morrison, treasurer of the Reading Rubber Mills 

 (Reading, Massachusetts), is on his way back from quite an ex- 

 tended vacation, most of it spent on the Pacific coast. 



= The L. C. Chase Co. (Boston), whose robes are known the 

 world over, are out with still another type of trouser robe for 

 automobilists. which looks as if it were a winner. 



= The repair factory attached to the Lovell Manufacturing 

 Co. (Erie, Pennsylvania), is now turning out 4500 wringer rolls 

 per day. 



= Frank Reifsneider (Akron, Ohio) is selling to the rubber 

 trade a white earth that he mines somewhere in the west, which 

 he characterizes as Aluminum Flake. 



= The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) sold last 

 year 30.000 of their Saunders Pneumatic golf ball. This year 

 the trade absorbed 30,000 dozen ; a very healthy increase. 



= Mr. Albert T. Holt, formerly of the Victor Rubber Co. 

 (Springfield), has accepted a position with the Miller Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. (Akron, Ohio). 



= It is reported that the Oregon Railroad and Navigation 

 Co. have decided to equip all their passenger coaches with rub- 

 ber matting instead of twine and carpet matting in the aisles, 

 on account of the sanitary advantage from the change. 



= Worcester Rubber Tire Duck Co. (Worcester, Massachu- 

 setts) September 22, 1905, under the laws of Maine; capital 

 $25,000. Incorporators: A. F. Moulton, E.G.Wilson, and 

 John Howard Hill, all of Portland, Maine. 



= The Forest City Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), October 17, 

 1905, under Ohio laws; capital, $25,000. Incorporators: Fred. 

 W. Hempy. Frank H. Hempy, John C. Poore, George C. King, 

 William E Crofut. 



= Oriental Rubber Co., October 18, 1905, under the laws of 

 New Jersey, with $125,000 capital authorized. Incorporators : 

 Otto H. C. Arendt, Otto Arendt, Jr., and Michael Sugrue, Jr.. 

 all of Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Arendt was one of the found- 

 ers of the Paramount Rubber Co. (Newark) and was an officer 

 in that company until the factory was disposed of to A. W. 

 Faber. 



= Referring to the elastic compound marketed by William 

 H. Scheel (No. 139 Maiden lane. New York) mentioned in The 

 India Rubber World. April i, 1904 (page 239), it is an- 

 nounced that the same is now being offered at a material re- 

 duction from the prices hitherto ruling. This is a hydrocarbon 

 mineral rubber, which has proved of no little interest to the 

 trade. 



= The Suffolk Rubber Co.(Setauket, Long Island ), mentioned 

 in The India Rurber World of April last as having been or- 

 ganized to make rubber shoes, and later as having begun work, 

 are reported to have closed their factory. 

 PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. William Mills Ivi.n-s, president of the General Rubber 

 Co., has consented to become the candidate of the Republican 

 party for the office of mayor of New York city, at the elections 

 on November 7. A sketch of Mr. Ivins appeared in The India 

 Rubber World for August (page 364). 



= Ex Governor A. O. Bourn, of the Bourn Rubber Co. Provi- 

 dence (Rhode Island), has returned from his vacation spent in 

 Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he did not fish or shoot, but, as 

 he expressed it, "simply held communion with nature." 



= In St. Bartholomew's church. New York, on September 30, 

 Miss Beatrice Wright was married to Mr. John Macy Gallaway. 

 The bride was the daughter of the late John Bascom Wright, 

 of San Francisco, and latterly has lived in New York with her 

 uncle by marriage. George Crocker. Mr. Gallaway, who is con- 

 nected with the United States Rubber Co., is the son of Robeit 

 M. Gallaway, president of the Merchants' National Bank (New 

 York), and who was a director in the United States company 

 for some time at the beginning. 



= Mr. H. M. Sadler, Jr., who for some years was assistant 

 treasurer of the United States Rubber Co. and for a while as- 

 sistant general manager also, has become a member of the gen- 

 eral stock and bond firm of Markle & Sadler, No. 52 Broad- 

 way, New York. 



= Two representatives of the important German rubber works 

 Hannoversche Gummi Kamm-Co. Akticngesellschaft - Herr 

 Gustav Bartl, one of the directors, and Dr. Paul Stockhardt, 

 superintendent of the factory — while recently in the States fa- 

 vored The India Rubber World oflices with a visit. 



= Mr. Frederick H. Jones, who was recently elected general 

 manager of the Tyer Rubber Co. (Andover, Massachusetts), 

 has leased the Booth estate in that town and will occupy it 

 as a residence. 



= Mr. E. W. Maynard, president of the Maynard Rubber Cor- 

 poration (Springfield, Massachusetts), issued invitations re- 

 cently to a whale dinner, having received the present of some 

 whale meat from Newfoundland, where such meat is reported 

 to be canned extensively for export to England. 



=The fact that Mr. Homer E. Sawyer, general manager of 

 the United States Rubber Co., temporarily wears crutches does 

 not indicate gout, but a sprained knee which he acquired by 

 stepping hastily into a ten-foot pit while going over a rubber 

 factory. 



