May I, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



271 



=The offices of the Single Tube Automobile and Bicycle 

 Tire Co. have been removed from No. 253 Broadway to No. 

 42 Broadway, New York. 



=IMr. George N. LeRoux, for seven year-s connected 

 with the rubber business in Chicago as a salesman, has 

 been appointed assistant manager of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. 's Chicago branch, with which concern he has been con- 

 nected for some time past. 



= Rubber Manufacturing and Distributing Co., of Seattle, 

 Washington, are now in their new store and warehouse, Nos. 

 548-554 First avenue, and the men on the road are having 

 splendid success with the Apsley Rubber Co. 's line of boots 

 and shoes and the Ilodgnian Rubber Co. 's line of rubber 

 clothing and sundries, whose agencies they have secured. 

 In a short time they will determine upon the line of mechan- 

 ical goods which they will handle. Mr. L. H. Hitchings, 

 treasurer of the company, who has been East, has returned 

 to Seattle. 



=The "Alice" mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. re- 

 sumed work on April 23, after a four weeks' shutdown. 

 The two factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. resumed 

 work on April 24. The factory of the Goodyear's Metallic 

 Rubber Shoe Co., at Naugatuck, after having been closed 

 for two months, started on April 16 on full time, as did the 

 boot and shoe department of the Goodyear's India Rubber 

 Glove Manufacturing Co., which had been running only 

 four days in the week. 



=The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) will be 

 represented this season by a fast amateur ball team. Al- 

 most all of last year's men will be in the game. W. G. 

 Thomas is manager of the team. They are in favor of a 

 manufacturers' league and will give their aid toward form- 

 ing one. About a half dozen other clubs have signified 

 their intention of joining. 



=At the annual meeting of the Inca Mining Co. and the 

 Inca Rubber Co., at Bradford, Pennsylvania, on April 5, the 

 following officers were elected for both companies : C. P. 

 Collins, president; L. E. Hamsher, vice president; W. W. 

 Bell, treasurer ; Delevan Emerj-. The two companies named 

 have been operating for some years in Peru. 



=Humphrey O'Sullivan, treasurer of the O'Sullivan Rub- 

 ber Co. (IfOwell, Massachusetts), on the day after the San 

 Francisco disaster, wired $500 to the mayor of that city for 

 the relief fund. 



=The death is reported, on April 20, of William Becker, 

 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Mobile, Alabama, whither he 

 had gone on account of ill health. Mr. Becker was presi- 

 dent of the Milwaukee Rubber Works Co. 



= The Michelin Products Selling Co., Inc., exclusive im- 

 porters of Michelin tires in America, Nos. 31-33 West 

 Thirty-first street, New York, have established a subsidiary 

 company to repair all makes of tires under Michelin 

 methods, under the name of the Michelin Tire Repair 

 Works, J. A. Straus, manager, Nos. 242-244 West Forty- 

 first street. New York. 



=Pittsburgh Rubber Supply Co., organized at the begin- 

 ning of the current year by William P. Cowell, report a suc- 

 cessful development of trade. They now employ a travel- 

 ing force of four, covering western Pennsylvania and west- 

 ern Ohio. 



=Osgood Sayen, mechanical rubber goods (Philadelphia), 

 has removed to large offices, 421 Arcade building. He is 



giving special attention now to the introduction of the R. C. 

 Blow-off Valve, for use on vulcanizers in rubber factories. 



=The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. have been incorpo- 

 rated under the laws of Massachusetts, to cover the busi- 

 ness in that state of the manufacturing company of the same 

 name at Akron, Ohio. On April 26 the new corporation was 

 organized by the election of F. A. Seiberling, president ; 

 William T. Teagan, vice president ; and C. W. vSeiberling, 

 treasurer. Mr. Teagan has been for a number of years man- 

 ager of the Goodyear companj-'s Boston branch. The Boston 

 address has been changed to No. 261 Dartmouth street, where 

 a large line is carried of automobile tires, and also shoe find- 

 ings, pads, and the like. 



= It is understood that Mr. .S. II. C. Miner, of the Granby 

 Rubber Co. (Montreal, Canada), has become interested in an 

 important way in the Foster Rubber Co. of Boston. 



= William II. Scheel, No. 159 Maiden lane. New York, 

 who makes a specialty of supplying chemicals to rubber 

 manufacturers, is in a position to make quick delivery of 

 chloride of sulphur in quantities to suit purchasers. Mr. 

 Scheel ofters to match samples in any of lines of goods which 

 he carries. 



= Kempshall Tire Co., April 19, 1906, under Maine laws; 

 capital, $200,000. Incorporators : H. J Dewyea (president), 

 II. P. Sweetser (treasurer), and M. G. Connillan, Portland, 

 Maine; J. D. Upton, North Reading, Ma.ss ; E. C. Ramsdell, 

 Boston. 



= The rubber footwear branch is well represented in the 

 Shoe and Leather Board of Trade of Baltimore, which has 

 been in active existence since 1870. Charles W. Linthicum, 

 of the Linthicum Rubber Co., is vice president of the Board, 

 and George P. Thomas, Jr., a jobber of rubber boots and 

 shoes, one of the directors. 



NEW ENGLAND TO AID SAN FRANCISCO. 



TuK following request for funds for the San Francisco 

 sufferers has been issued in behalf of the New England Rub- 

 ber Club : 



To THE Members ok the New England Rubber Club: In 

 view of Uie appalling disaster which has befallen the city of San 

 Francisco, and in response to the urgent appeal made by the gov- 

 ernor of our state and by the mayor of this city for subscriptions 

 from all trade associations, the Executive Connnittee held a meet- 

 ing this day at which it was decided to issue an appeal to members 

 and to request them to forward their subscriptions through the 

 Treasurer, Mr. Frederick H. Jones, No 50 Bromfield street, Boston. 

 All subscriptions sent to the Treasurer will be acknowledged by 

 him and will also be publicly announced through the press in 

 Boston. 



The Executive Committee request that all niemliers be as gener- 

 ous and as prompt as possible in forwarding tlveir subscriptions, so 

 that immediate action can be taken to relieve the sulTering and 

 necessities of this stricken community. Respeclfullj' jours, 



ARTHUR W. STEDMAN, Vice President. 

 ROBERT L. RICE, Assistant Secretary. 



Boston, Massachusetts, April 23, 1906 



CHEMICALS FOR THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



Georce W. Speaight, a manufacturing chemist who has 

 bestowed many years of attention to the preparation of 

 chemicals for use in the rubber industry, has been obliged, 

 owing to the increasing demand for his products, and espe- 

 ciailj' for chloride of sulphur, to add to his factory capacity 

 to an important extent. The office address of the business 

 has been removed from Fulton street, New York, to the fac- 

 tory, Nos. 248-256 North Tenth street, Brooklyn. Mr. 



