February i, 1906] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= Town Topics — not the New York paper in which so 

 many local millionaires are stockholders, but a breezy paper 

 published in Cleveland, Ohio, — had a fine half pajje picture 

 of the members of the sales department of the Ohio Rubber 

 Co., in its issue of January 13. But the paper does not say 

 a word about the occasion that brought the talent together. 

 Our first guess was that it was a dinner, and a good one, as 

 they all have a particularly well fed and contented look. 

 And so it proved to be — a reunion for three days, with head- 

 quarters at the llollenden Hotel, December 28-30; a theatre 

 party one night and a banquet the next. 



=Some changes have been made in the Boston offices of 

 United States Rubber Co. — No. loi Milk street — adding to 

 capacity and the attractiveness of the premises. A large 

 and very fine sample room has been built and also a private 

 office for the use of Mr. H. E. Sawyer, general manager, and 

 Mr. E. H. Paine, manager of sales, when they happen to 

 visit Boston. 



=Mr. T. W. Miller, general manager of The Faultless 

 Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) is taking a three weeks' business 

 trip through the West. 



= The L. J. Mutty Co. (Boston) who exhibited at the New 

 York automobile shows a fine grade of rubber cloths and 

 tubing for the automatic piano trade, together with double 

 texture mackintosh cloths for auto tops, cushions, etc., gives 

 away an e.xceedingly attractive souvenir cardcase and mem- 

 orandum book bound in fawn coloredpig-skin. 



= Michelin & Cie., aredoubling thecapacity of their plant 

 in France to better enable them to meet the constantly in- 

 creasing demands of trade. When completed, the remodeled 

 plant will turnout about 1000 tires a day. Mr. E. D. Win- 

 ans, who has been general manager of the Michelin Ameri- 

 can Agency, has retired to form a company to manufacture 

 Michelin tires in the United States, under a license from the 

 parent company. 



= The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) have un- 

 der construction a rubber reclaiming plant as an addition 

 to their general factorj- buildings. 



= Mr. A. Harris, recently connected with the McCormick 

 Reaper Co., has taken the position of mechanical engineer 

 in the Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio). 



=Eagle Rubber Co., Inc., successors to W. L. Eaton & 

 Co., San Francisco, are beginning the manufacture of rubber 

 mold work, making a specialty of valves, gaskets, and the 

 like. They are doing a good business in selling a " Handy 

 Nail Holder," a rubber device for holding a nail so as to pro- 

 tect the finger of the amateur carpenter while wielding his 

 hammer. 



"CONTINENTAL " TIRE MEN AT DINNER. 



The third annual banquet of the Continental Caoutchouc 

 Co. (New York) occurred at the Hoffman House on the eve- 

 ning of January 18, President Willy Tischbein, of Hanover, 

 Germany, being the guest of honor. The various distribut- 

 ing agents, branch managers, salesmen, and department 

 managers of the company throughout the United States 

 were in attendance. Interesting business topics were dis- 

 cussed during the evening, in addition to which there was a 

 musical program, and altogether the affair proved most en- 

 joyable. 



= The Salisburj- Tire Co., with $100,000 capital, have been 

 incorporated to establish a factory for automobile tires at 

 Owosso, Michigan. 



RUBBER SHOE PRICES LOWER. 



New prices for rubber boots and shoes were issued on 

 January i. The United .States Rubber Shoe Co. state that 

 the gross prices on light goods remain the same, but it has 

 been necessary to make some revision of the lists on heavy 

 goods. In some cases the new price is slightly higher, 

 while others have been reduced. The manufacturers take 

 the position that the prevailing high cost of raw rubber, cot- 

 ton, and the other materials used, precludes a generally 

 lower scale at this time. Discounts are the same announced 

 last year on January i. They are 25 @ 3 per cent, on first 

 grade goods and 25 @ 3 (S) 10 for second grade. On Feb- 

 ruary 8, 1906, discounts were charged to 20(53 a"'' 20® 3(^ 

 10, which amounted to an advance, which prevailed through- 

 out the year. The new discounts, therefore, mean lower net 

 prices than before January i by about 6 per cent, on the 

 average. All the leading American manufacturers have 

 issued new lists. = =Rubber shoe manufacturers in Canada do 

 not issue new lists or change their discounts until March of 

 each year — generally about the first Monday, which this 

 year will fall on March 5. 



PER.'-ONAL MENTION. 



Mr. W.vtson H. Linhurg, president of the United and 

 Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos. (Trenton, New Jersey), 

 was reported recently as having recovered from a serious ill- 

 ness oi grip, lasting for several weeks. 



= Mr. John P. Lj'ons, advertising manager of the United 

 States Rubber Co., who is recuperating in California, ad- 

 vises The India Ruhber World that he is progressing 

 finely and looking forward to warm weather, when he can 

 again be back among his friends. 



= Mr. Isaac Crocker, president and treasurer of the Hope 

 Rubber Co. ( Providence, Rhode Island), and his son, Mr. 

 George I. Crocker, president of the Crocker Rubber Co. 

 ( Brocton, Mass.), started early in the month on an extended 

 tour on the Pacific coast, going via. .Santa Fe on the outward 

 trip, and taking in all the points of interest on the coast as 

 far as Seattle. They will return via. Salt Lake City, 

 Denver, and St Louis, intending to reach home in March. 



^Mr. A. R. Duryee, superintendent of the rubber factory 

 of Asbest- und Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon, A.- G. ( Ham- 

 burg, Germany, sends The India Rubber World a postal 

 card from France, where he has been taking a brief vacation, 

 at the beginning of which he visited the Paris Automobile 

 Show. 



= Mr. Leo F. Nadeau, of the La Nueva Provedencia Rub- 

 ber Co., with headquarters in Providence, Rhode Island, re- 

 centl}' wrote to The India Rubber World from Panama, 

 delaj-ed for two weeks until he could catch a steamer to 



Guatemala. He further wrote that it was as hot as the 



rest of the sentence being illegible. 



= Mr. Siegmund Seligmann, one- of the directors of the 

 Continental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha Co. Hannover, 

 Germany), arrived in New York by the Deutschland on Jan- 

 uary 25 and expects to return on February 6. Mr. Seligmann 

 is associated in the business management at Hannover with 

 Mr. Adolph Prinzhorn who has visited America several 

 times. Mr. Seligmann was preceded to the United States by 

 Mr. Will}^ Tischbein also, of Hannover, who arrived in time 

 to attend the automobile shows. Mr. Tischbein, by the 

 way, is president of the American corporation of the Con- 

 tinental company. 



