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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1906. 



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=Mr. Webster Norris has retired from the 

 superintendenc}' of the factory ol the Repub- 

 lic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio), being 

 succeeded by Mr. J. F. McGuireand Mr. Lewis 

 T. Petersen, both of whom were fonnerlj' con- 

 nected with The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



=The Metallic Rubber Tire Co. (New York) 

 issue a circular stating that their counsel, 

 Alfred \Vilkinson. No. 52 Broadway, New 

 York, has been directed to bring suit against 

 users of tiie "Samson " and other non-skid- 

 ding tires claiming infringement of patents 

 owned by the plantifT company, dating back 

 to 189S. 



=An attachment obtained by the Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) against the 

 New York-Broadway Rubber Tire Co., a selling 

 concern, issued in a suit for damages brought for 

 the alleged failure of the latter to carry out the 

 terms of a contract for the purchase of automo- 

 bile tires, was vacated in the New York supreme 

 court on January 20. Mention was made in The 

 Indi.\ RiBBER World last month of the suit of 

 the New York -Broadway' company against the 

 Goodj-ear Tire and Rubber Co. to recover $150,000 

 in respect of an alleged breach of contract. The 

 Goodyear concern began a counter suit, and it 

 was in this that the attachment was issued. The 

 attachment in the suit against the Goodj-ear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. was still in force at last ac- 

 counts, but an order was on file requiring the 

 New York-Broadway company to serve certain 

 papers before January 30, the Goodyear company 

 having alleged that loss and inconvenience were 

 being caused to them bj- failure of such ser\-ice to 

 be made. 



=Mr. C.J. Bailey, of Boston, was on hand at 

 both the Armory and Madison Square automobile 

 shows, in New York, and was much gratified at 

 the number of makes of tires that showed the 

 Bailey " Won't Slip " tread. 



=The Pneumatic Ball Tire Co., incorporated 

 to make a, new tire patented by Frank A. !\Ia- 

 gowan, who will be general manager of the com- 

 pany, have opened an office at No. 66 Broadway, 

 New York, and are reported to be considering the 

 establishment of a plant in New Jersej-. Thej^ 

 are now having sample tires made. Frank B. 

 Adams is president of the company. 



= Howe Rubber Co. (No. 228 High street, New- 

 ark, New Jersey), the incorporation of which was 

 reported in The India Rubber World in Septem- 

 ber last, have a factory fitted up with the latest 

 methods for producing dipped rubber goods. Thej- 

 manufticture toy balloons and toy dolls. E. T. 

 Howe, the head of the company, was until August 

 last the Howeof King & Howe, Limited, of Newark. 



= The Miami Vulcanizing and Rubber Co. 

 (Cincinnati, Ohio) have been incorporated under 

 the laws of Ohio, with $5000 capital, by Louis F. 

 Reemelin, Joseph W. Roth, Jr., W. C. Smith, 

 W. W. Robertson, and Thomas Bertham. 



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ROBINS CLIMBS DOWN. 



Some years ago, or more exactly in 1896, The 

 India Rubber World published an article on 

 the use of rubber conveyor belts, written by 

 Thomas Robins, Jr. The article was promptlj' 

 copied in leading journals abroad and the author 

 got much reputation. Soon after this his busi- 

 ness as a builder of conveying machiner}' began 

 to boom. During the initial stages of his busi- 

 ness, he was a constant reader of The India 

 RuDiiER World, and paid his subscription joy- 

 full}-. When later, however, he became a full 

 fledged prosperous conveyor belter, his attitude 

 changed, not at once to be sure, but slowly, as 

 the subtle poison of eight ply prosperitj- got in- 

 to his veins. He began to neglect the editorial 

 page, then trade notes, then new goods, and 

 finally ended in throwing aside the "Rubber 

 Man's Bible, " and definitely turning his back on 

 faith and fact, he discontinued his .subscription. 



The Editor of the paper saddened, but resigned, 

 bided his time, sure that such ingratitude would 

 bring its own punishment. It came, as a begin- 

 ning at least, and in this manner : Mr. Robins 

 glories in the fact that his office, on the twenty- 

 ninth floor of the Park Row building. New York, is 

 situated higher up in the air than any other. 

 When the elevators run this is no handicap, but 

 when a man forsakes his Mascot, and is forced to 

 chmb down 29 flights of stairs to reach the nor- 

 mal human level, it is diastrous. That has hap- 

 pened once. Who can predict what further call 

 down fate has in store for this unhappy man. 



'' While the lamp holds out to burn. 

 The vilest sinner may return." 

 [S3 a year, in advance.] 



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NOT THE SAME WHUE LEAD. 



TO THE Editor of The India Rubber 

 World : In one of }-our recent numbers 

 appeared an article concerning the restricted use 

 of white lead in France on account of its poison- 

 ous properties, and further commenting on re- 

 strictions enacted along these lines bj' the gov- 

 ernment. Your article and the recent laws 

 passed in France refer only to the so-called car- 

 bonate, or, as it is more commonl5^ known " cor- 

 roded white lead." Sublimed white lead, as 

 manufactured by us, is absolute!}- non poisonous 

 and for that reason is much preferred by manu- 

 facturers of rubber and paints. I trust 

 V~~a you will give this short note the same 



publicity as j'ou did the article I men- 

 tiont'd. \'er\' truU' yours, 



piCHER le.\d company, 



R. W. Evans, Treasurer. 

 Chicago, J.inuary i-?. i_c6. 



Probably the largest sum of monej' 

 ever paid for any individual tire patent 

 was $1,000,000 paid to the North British 

 Rubber Co. for their "Clincher" tire 

 patent, the company reserving shop 

 rights, and continuing to make tires. 



