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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1908. 



NEW STOEE IN THE CKOCKER SYNDICATE. 



The Lynn Rubber Co., a new corporation under th° laws of 

 Massachusetts, have opened a wholesale and retail rubber goods 

 store at Lynn, in connection with the already extensive line of 

 stores under the management of Isaac Crocker, of Providence, 

 Rhode Island. Martin M. Fitzgerald is president and manager; 

 Isaac Crocker, treasurer, and J. A. Jewell, secretary'. The formal 

 opening of the Lynn store, at No. 320 Union street, occurred on 

 the afternoon and evening of November 21, at which time an 

 orchestra was engaged. There was a large attendance of vis- 

 itors, and not a little business was done. Mr. Crocker expects 

 to see this become one of the best stores with which he is 

 connected. 



■RUBBERTEX" COMPANY CHANGES. 



The Rubberte.x Cloth and Paper Co. have filed with the sec- 

 retary of state of Indiana a certificate of increase of capital 

 stock from $40,000 to $100,000. It is understood that the in- 

 creased capital has been secured in Chicago, to which city the 

 general offices have been removed — to No. 166 Michigan avenue. 

 The factories remain at Logansport, Indiana. The officers of the 

 corporation now are Francis G. Porter, president and general 

 manager; Frank Baacker, first vice president; William B. Wal- 

 ter, second vice president and manager of sales ; James P. 

 Walker, secretary; T. J. Hyman, treasurer; Lou A. Bond, in- 

 ventor and patentee of the "Rubbertex" materials, consulting 

 expert. 



PERRONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Elston E. W.\dbrooiv, of Poel & Arnold (Boston and 

 New York), has been elected president of the Victorian Club, 

 the leading British club of New England. The club holds 

 monthly dinners at which distinguished visitors to the United 

 States are often guests. At a recent dinner, for example, W. F. 

 Hirst, editor of the London Economist, spoke on the tariff and 

 political economy of the United States and Great Britain. Among 

 other speakers was the new president of the club, Mr. Wadbrook. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson, editor of The India Rubber World, 

 is announced to deliver a lecture before the Wisconsin National 

 History Society, at Milwaukee, on the evening of December 10. 



Mr. James A. Swinehart, president of the Swinehart Tire and 



Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), has secured 22 patents on rubber 

 tires, including the "sidewire" tire now in such general use. 



Mr. James Tinto, managing director of the Irwell and Eastern 

 Rubber Co., of Manchester, England, is now a visitor to the 

 United States. He was president during the year 1907 of the 

 India-Rubber Manufacturing Association, of which he has been 

 an active member since its organization. 



Mr. W. R. Gorham, son of W. J. Gorham, head of the Gor- 

 ham company, was married recently in Oakland to Miss Gene- 

 vieve Johnson, of Alameda. Mr. Gorham is manager of the 

 Gorham Enginering Works, in Alameda. 



NEW "STAMFORD SUPPLIES" FACTORY. 



'T'HE Stamford Rubber Supply Co. have, within a few weeks 

 •^ past begun operations in their new plant at Stamford, 

 Connecticut. This concern was organized in the fall of 1900, 

 at that time introducing to the trade a line of rubber substitutes 

 that has become well known in this and other countries as the 

 "Stamford substitutes." Last year the company's business had 

 grown to such volume that the original quarters became inade- 

 quate, and it was decided to build a plant that would meet the 

 constantly increasing demands for its standard products. For 

 this purpose a site on the East branch of the Stamford harbor 

 was secured late in the year and building operations begun. The 

 factory is constructed throughout of reinforced concrete, with 

 block curtain walls, and consists of a main building of two stories, 

 a wing of three stories, and an attached boiler house. A wharf 

 extends from the front of the main building to the harbor line, 

 where all water freight is received and forwarded, the daily 

 freight steamer to New York touching at this point. The plant 

 is equipped with machinery especially designed for the manu- 

 facture of rubber substitutes of the various kinds, with the 

 greatest possible economy of labor and expense. One Corliss 

 engine of 100 hp. and one engine of smaller rating supply the 

 power, and steam is generated by a boiler of 150 hp. capacity. 

 The officers of the company are as follows : F. R. Gillespie, 

 New York city, president ; R. H. Gillespie, Stamford, vice presi- 

 dent ; W. F. Gillespie, treasurer and general manager. 



New F.^ctory of the Stamford Rubber Supply Co. 



