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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1909. 



TEADE NEWS NOTES. 



The products of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) 

 will be handled aft«r March i by a direct branch at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, where the company have leased entire the storerooms 

 Nos. 1918-1922 Euclid avenue. 



Chapman Insulating Co., January 26, 1909, under the laws of 

 New Jersey; capital, $20,000. Incorporators: Henry S. Chap- 

 man, Edward N. Crane, and Charles W. Royce. Messrs. Chap- 

 man & Crane are respectively president and vice-president of The 

 Arlington Co. and of The Kempshall Manufacturing Co. (New 

 York) — from whose offices, No. 725 Broadway, The Indi.\ 

 Rubber World is informed: "The Chapman Insulating Co. is 

 purely a private concern, organized for some experimental work 

 along certain lines, and we have no information at the present 

 time that would interest the public." 



Philadelphia Rubber Tire Co. — S. Levy, manager — have se- 

 cured the sole agency for "Trojan" pneumatic and solid carriage 

 tires, in connection w-ith which they will handle tire sundries and 

 molded rubber goods, and maintain a tire repair shop. They 

 are located at No. 6S0 North Broad street. Tlie "Trojan" cas- 

 ings and tubes are manufactured by Rubber Rubber Co. (Ruther- 

 ford, New Jersey) ) and are identical in workmanship and quality 

 with the "Sterling" tires which the Rutherford company sell 

 through other channels. The Rutherford plant has been enlarged 

 substantially of late. 



Rubber Manufacturing and Distributing Co., incorporated in 

 Maine March 7, 1906, have qualified to do business as a "foreign" 

 corporation in the state of Illinois, from February 4. 1909. The 

 capital is $500,000, of w.hich $125,000 is represented in the state 

 of Illinois. Chicago will be the company's headquarters in fu- 

 ture, but they will continue to do business at Seattle, Washing- 

 ton. Hon. L. D. Apsley is president, Charles F. Hamilton vice- 

 president, Walter E. Carver secretary, and Louis B. Hitchins 

 treasurer. The remaining director is Charles H. Crump. 



E. H. Stroud & Co. (Chicago), makers of crushing, disinte- 

 grating, and other like machinery, mention two branches of the 

 rubber industry in which their products are used — rubber re- 

 claiming (for scrap rubber) and the guayule rubber business in 

 Mexico. 



Mr. A. C. Baker has been appointed managing director of the 

 North British Rubber Co., Limited, succeeding :Mr. Ramsey G. 

 Stewart, who resigned on account of ill health. 



The Directory of the Sporting Goods Trade, issued last year 

 by the Sporting Goods Publishing Co. (St. Louis), and of which 

 a notice was made in these pages at the time, has been followed 

 by the second annual edition, for 1909, in which all the good fea- 

 tures of the original publication are continued ; besides, the book 

 is larger and contains more details. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (.A-kron, Ohio) have issued 

 a new price list of their automobile tires and accessories, dated 

 February i. 



Raw Products Co. (New York) have favored us with their 

 chart of India-rubber statistics for 1908, with comparative prices 

 for the two years preceding. The table includes among other 

 things quotations for Bontianiak gum for each month in the 

 year, ranging from 2!/2 cents a pound in March to 5 cents at the 

 end of December. 



A. G. Spalding & Brothers (New York) will be opening a 

 retail sporting goods business in Philadelphia about April i, 

 having taken a long term lease on the three-story building at 

 No. 1210 Chestnut street. F. J. Gray will be manager. 



Mr. Arthur E. Friswell, after a long experience in the rubber 

 tire industry in the United States and Great Britain, has become 

 factory manager for the Hartford Rubber Works Co. (Hartford, 

 ■Connecticut). 



David Maxwell & Sons, manufacturers of farm implements at 

 'St. Marys, Ontario, are reported to be considering the taking on 

 of the production of rubber rolls for clothes wringers, though 

 they are not yet in a position to make any announcement. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Harold O. Smith, president of the Premier Motor Manu- 

 facturing Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana), who was elected chairman 

 of the committee of management of the American Motor Car 

 Manufacturers' Association, at the annual meeting in Chicago, 

 early in February, after three years' membership in that commit- 

 tee, was for several years president of the G. & J. Tire Co., and 

 before that connected with the Indianapolis Rubber Co., whom he 

 represented at the organization of the American Bicycle Co. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber 

 Co.; is reported to be giving to the town of Bristol, Rhode Island, 

 a $200,000 high school building, in memory of his mother. 



At a largely attended meeting of the Automobile Club of Willi- 

 mantic, Connecticut, on the evening of February 11, Mr. Charles 

 B. Whittlesey, superintendent of the Hartford Rubber Works 

 Co., delivered an interesting address on "Automobile Tires," in 

 which he dealt with rubber in the crude state and the various 

 processes of manufacture, illustrating his lecture with samples 

 of rubber and sections of tires in various stages of completion. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The E. H. Clapp Rubber Co. have presented the Hanover 

 Fire Company with a beautiful clock for their new quarters, in 

 appreciation of their services at the recent fire at their factory. 



A. A. Cushman has accepted the position of assistant superin- 

 tendent of the calender hose belting, and fancy goods depart- 

 ments of the National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island). 



Fairfield Rubber Co. (Fairfield, Connecticut) are building an 

 additional storehouse, one story, 43 x 56 feet, with ruberoid 

 roof. 



J. Lowenthal S: Sons (Cliicago), scrap rubber merchants, have 

 transferred their Eastern branch from New York to No. 161 

 Summer street, Boston. 



M. D. Wells Co. (Chicago) are handling a special line of 

 rubber footwear made for them by the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., with which they are covering the trade in the region from 

 Ohio, inclusive, west to the Rocky mountains. Their rubber 

 department is now in charge of James Low, for some time man- 

 ager of the Duck Brand Co. (Chicago). 



In the bright little periodical, Tlic Shoe Finisher, published 

 by the Boston Blacking Co. (East Cambridge, Massachusetts), 

 there appears in the January issue, under the head, "Rubber 

 Goes Up," an article on the rubber cement situation, written 

 in an amusing style, but none the less pertinent on that account. 

 The company are referred to as having built up a large trade in 

 England. 



The United States Rubber Co. have done a good stroke 

 of business in supplying each of their 7,000 and odd shareholders 

 with a neat booklet in which appear in far simile the brands of 

 rubber boots and shoes manufactured by that company, with the 

 idea that when they have occasion to buy goods of this class they 

 may at the same time help the sale of the products which aid 

 in bringing them dividends. 



At a luncheon given by Mr. Joe M. Gilbert, general manager 

 of the Continental Caoutchouc Co., at the Hotel Astor, New York, 

 on the afternoon of January 5, the guests included 17 agents and 

 distributers of "Continental" tires throughout the United States. 

 There were speakers and "a general good time." The merits of 

 "Continental" tires and demountable rims were not overlooked. 



An important case in the British courts rccentlj' related to an 

 application by The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 of Toronto, Limited, for the registration of their "Maltese Cross" 

 trade mark, as related to rubber footwear, which application was 

 opposed by the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co., Limited, 

 who already had a "Maltese Cross" brand registered for rubber 

 goods, but not specifying footwear. The legal proceedings were 

 long drawn out, involving the whole theory of the trade mark 

 act, with the final result that a decision was rendered in favor 

 of the Toronto company. The court assented, however, to the 

 request of the opponents for leave to appeal. 



