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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



97 



three languages — English, French, and German — and an at- 

 tractive pictorial display invariably forms part of the adver- 

 tisement. An extensive porlfolio of the advertising material 

 prepared for the current season by the company's advertising 

 manager, Mr. James Morris Carroll, by reason of the variety 

 and originality involved, is most creditable to his department. 



= Mr. Alexander McPherson, a representative of The Gutta- 

 percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, Limited, 

 has returned recently from a business tour of Australia and the 

 neighboring colonies. 



= The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have installed a coal con- 

 veying plant for the more convenient and economical supply 

 of coal to the power house of their plant which is referred to 

 as being notably complete and satisfactory in operation. The 

 system is that of the Robins Conveying Belt Co. and the rub- 

 ber belt used is iS inches wide, the length of the conveyor 

 being 255 feet between centers. 



= The tire trade of The B. F. Goodrich Co. in London will 

 be conducted hereafter under their own name, instead of 

 Single Tube Tires, Limited, as hitherto. At the beginning of 

 1S98 the Messrs. Goodrich, in connection with two other im- 

 portant American concerns, formed a company for the joint 

 exploitation of single tube bicycle tires in Europe. The other 

 companies in time retired, leaving the Goodrich company in 

 sole control of Single Tube Tires, Limited, and this name has 

 now been dropped. 



= Mr. Thomas W. McDowell, general manager of the Good- 

 year Rubber Co.'s factory at Middletown, Connecticut, has been 

 elected a direceor of the First National Bank of that city, to 

 succeed C. W. Harris, resigned. 



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

 old rubber, announce the admission to their firm of Mr. Her- 

 man Muchlstein, who for an umber of years has been in their 

 employ. He will continue in charge of their Eastern branch. 



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

 obliged of late to run their factory day and night to handle 

 their orders on mats, tiling, and molded goods. 



= The Kansas Rubber Co. (Olathe, Kansas), incorporated 

 under the laws of Kansas; capital, $100,000. Object, the man- 

 ufacture of mechanical rubber goods and also. The India 

 Rubber World is informed, "for reclaiming rubber by a 

 strictly new and improved process that will devulcanize the 

 rubber and remove the cloth and other foreign substances 

 without in any way injuring the rubber." Officers: L D. 

 Hibner, president ; Ed. Ripley, vice president ; Luther Moore, 

 secretary; Ole Hibner, treasurer. Charles A. Besaw will be 

 superintendent. The Olathe Mirror mentions that Mr. Besaw 

 has begun to sell stock in the new company and contracts will 

 be let for the buildings when the necessary capital has been 

 subscribed. 



= Poel & Arnold (New York) have opened an office for the 

 sale of crude rubber at Akron, Ohio, which will be in charge 

 of Mr. Frank P. Lahey, who has been connected for the past 18 

 years with Poel & Arnold and their predecessors, and has be- 

 come thoroughly acquainted with the crude rubber business 

 and the demands of the consuming trade. His headquarters 

 are Rooms 405-406, Everett building. Akron. 



= National Heel Co., October 7, 1905, under New York laws ; 

 capital, $300,000. Have acquired the assets and good will of 

 the American Heel Tread Manufacturing Co., a copartnership 

 producing a combination rubber and leather heel under the 

 Joseph Martin patents. The officers, elected October 1 1, are : 

 Joseph Martin, president; R. W. Weller, vice president; W. 

 A. Marlborough, secretary-treasurer. Additional directors: 

 Thomas Martin, New York, and G. W. Farrelly, Boston. Main 



office. No. 127 Duane street, and factory, Nos. 2-4 Howard 

 street, New York; Boston office. No. 56 Lincoln street. 



=:Schwab it Co., extensive waste rubber merchants in Phila- 

 delphia, have decided, on account of the demand for increased 

 space made necessary by their growing business, to remove from 

 their present quarters. No. 615 Webster street, to more com- 

 modious premises, early in the New Year. 



A NEW GUAYULE FACTORY. 

 The Torreon Rubber Manufacturing Co. was incorporated 

 October 7, 1905, under the laws of Texas, with $1 50,000 capi- 

 tal, to extract rubber from the Guayule plant, at Torreon, state 

 of Coahuila, Mexico. The incorporators are F. E. Dowlen. 

 Charles Perry, J. F. Pate, and R. L. Bonnett, of Torreon, Mex- 

 ico, and H. A. Erbe, General William H. Stacy, and James H. 

 Raymond, Jr., of Austin, Texas (where the headquarters of the 

 company are to be). Mr. Pate, mentioned above, is a depart- 

 ment manager of Schiess y Cia. (Torreon), extensive manu- 

 facturers of mining and other machinery, and interested to a 

 large extent in the Torreon factory for making Guayule, which, 

 according to an interview with General Stacy in the Waco 

 (Texas) is already in operation, shipping its product to Ger- 

 many. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Two representatives of Vereinigte Gummiwaren-Fabriken 

 Harburg-Wien — Ingenieur Herr Franz Grubitz and Herr A. 

 S. Guthne — while recently in the United States favored The 

 India Rubber World offices with a visit. 



^Major J. Orton Kerbey, who will be remembered as a for- 

 mer American consul at Para and for his subsequent interest 

 in crude rubber exploitation, has written a book on the region 

 drained by the Amazon, which is announced to appear under 

 the title " The Land of To-morrow " from the press of The 

 John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia. 



= Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton, secretary and general manager of 

 the Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited (Litherland, Liverpool), 

 after spending a vacation in the United States, including a few 

 weeks on the Pacific coast, where he formerly resided (or some 

 years, sailed for home on November 15. 



Brazil. — The Brazilian Rubber Trust, Limited, offer to lease 

 all or part of their holdings on the island of Marajo, near Para, 

 or to sell the freehold. The estate embraces 170,000 acres, and 

 is claimed to be producing about 150 tons of Para rubber per 

 year. This is an English company, successor to the Rubber 

 Estates of Para, Limited, formed in 1898. [See The India 

 Rubber World, February i. 1905— page 151.] 



An Assam Planter Investigates. — Mr. Thomas More, 

 manager of the Jokai Tea Co., of Assam, has been in Ceylon 

 during the last week inspecting some of the well known rub- 

 ber estates. He has returned from a visit to Kalutara, and to- 

 day went up to Matale. On the 26th proximo he will leave by 

 the P. & O. steamer for the Malay States, where, it is said, he 

 will buy rubber land for a syndicate that has ^20.000 to lay out 

 on rubber estates. — The Times of Ceylon. August ig. 



Testing Rubber Gloves. — A correspondent of the Electrical 

 Review (London) writes : " It may be of interest to some of 

 your readers for me to say that in testing rubber gloves I 

 have found by inflating them with air, and then putting them 

 under water, I have discovered very many small holes in new 

 ones which would otherwise have been impossible to find. 

 Quite recently I had to reject 24 per cent, out of a batch of 

 new ones." 



