April i, 1909.I 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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COMSUMEBS' RUBBER CO. 



The Consumers' Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), have 

 materially increased their output of rubber-covered wire since 

 January i, a recent individual shipment aggregating 1,000,000 

 feet. The company have started the manufacture of a general 

 line of rubber footwear, including tennis shoes, good orders for 

 which are already booked for innnediatc shipment. They will 

 make a specialty of catering for foreign business on tennis shoes, 

 and claim to be on a competitive basis with any manufacturer of 

 this class of goods. 



TBADE NEWS NOTES. 



The original and onl.\ refiner nf fossil tlour, Colonel D. S. 

 Collins, is back in the field and plans soon to visit the rubber 

 trade. His company, the Oxford Tripoli Co., have long been 

 known to both American and European manufacturers. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have contracted to supply 

 tires for 25 new De Dion-Bouton omnibuses for the Fifth avenue 

 service of the New York Transportation Co., which company 

 have been using Hartford tires for 10 years. 



The Western Rubber and Supply Co. have been incorporated 

 at Kansas City, Missouri, and will handle the products of The 

 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Oliio), at No. 1737 

 (irand avenue. The company includes W. E. Fouse and William 

 F. O'Neill, both lately of Akron. 



The progress of motoring in Mexico is indicated by the intro- 

 duction of tire repairing shops in that country. One such estab- 

 lishment is that of Cia. Vulcanizadora Mexicana, S. A., of 

 Mexico City. 



Mr. G. Edward Habich, of Boston, well known as a marketer 

 of crude rubber in New England, has just returned from Europe, 

 where he has been visiting important crude rubber houses. 



Mesta Machine Co. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) are now man- 

 ufacturing rubber machinery, and have retained Mr. M. P. Fil- 

 lingham as consulting engineer. 



.Mr. Edward E. Huber, of the firm of Eberhard Faber (New 

 York) and secretary of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' 

 Assocaition, accompanied by Mrs. Huber, is sailing on April I by 

 the steamer Carpalliia for Naples, for a vacation of two months 

 or more. 



The great growth of the automobile industry has caused the 

 public for the most part to overlook the bicycling interest, but 

 the fact that bicycles yet fill an important place in the trade is 

 evident from the success of the Kokomo Rubber Co. (Kokomo, 

 Indiana), founded in the year 1895, and devoted constantly since 

 to the manufacture of tires, though they have never yet taken 

 on automobile tires. Their output lately, however, has included 

 a considerable production of motorcycle tires, which are made 

 in clinclier form. Their bicycle tires are of the single tube type. 



In the sketch of Mr. R. M. Howison, of the I^ondon rubber 

 trade, which appeared in the last number of this journal, his firm 

 was referred to as representing, among other American con- 

 cerns, the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. It is proper to state that 

 the article referred to was written some time before its appear- 

 ance, and that when it was printed Messrs. Howison & Co., 

 Limited, had already ceased to represent the Pennsylvania com- 

 pany. 



COLT— BAKRY MORE. 



Mr. Russell Griswold Colt and Miss Ethel Barrymore were 

 married in Hyde Park, near Boston, on March 15. The bride is 

 the daughter of the late Maurice Barrymore and Georgia Drew 

 Barrymore, and a niece of John Drew— three of the most notable 

 members of the dramatic profession in America— and is herself a 

 popular favorite on the stage. Mr. Colt is the elder son of 

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

 Co., and at one time held a position in the general offices of that 

 company. He was one of Commodore Benedict's party to 

 ascend the Amazon in the tour described in Mr. Arthur's book, 

 "Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht." Mr. Colt will enter the Stock 

 Exchange firm of H. L. Horton & Co., of New York. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Till-; Hon. \\ illi;cni .\1. h ins, foruicrly president of tlie General 

 Rubber Co., and long familiar with conditions of the rubber trade 

 and of the principal rubber producing countries, is the head of 

 the commission appointed some time ago to revise the charter of 

 the City of New York. The report of the commission is now 

 being c-onsidercd by the legislature of the state, at Albany. 



The wedding of Mr. Thomas W. Miller, president of The 

 Faultless Rubber Co., and Miss Helen A. Meyers, the daughter 

 of a prominent manufacturer in Ashland, Ohio, was announced 

 to take place at the home of the bride at noon on March 31. 



On March 10, at West Paris, Vermont, was celebrated the six- 

 tieth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. 

 Dunham, there being present 28 of their descendants, including 

 their three sons — Charles W., George L., and Lyndon L. — who 

 are members of the wholesale shoe house of Dunham Brothers 

 Co., of Brattlc'boro, Vermont, one of the leading concerns of its 

 kind in the United States. The Dunham firm are distributors 

 in the East of the "Ball brand" rubbers, made at Mishawaka. 



Mr. A. M. Paul, president of the Davidson Rubber Co. (Bos- 

 ton), who has been suffering from a severe cold, is on his way 

 south for a few weeks' recuperation. 



Mr. John H. Flint, treasurer of the Tyer Rubber Co. (An- 

 dover, Massachusetts), has returned from a month in Florida. 



Mr. Francis fL Appleton, of F. H. Appleton & Sons (Boston), 

 will spend the month of April in Bermuda. 



>[r. George M. Allerton, general manager of the Seamless 

 Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), has been seriously ill, 

 but .It l;ist reports was on the mend. 



WASTE RUBBER SITUATION. 



' I 'HE waste rubber market in the United States recently has 

 ■*■ been marked by the unusual condition of foreign shoes 

 being quoted at prices as high or higher than domestic, which is 

 ascribed to the fact that certain reclaimers accustomed to using 

 imported stock for some of their products do not desire to 

 make a change, and in view of lessened supplies abroad have been 

 paying an advance on imports over the price of domestic waste 

 rubber. The rubber shoes imported in the past have come mainly 

 from Russia, where a standard has been established in quality 

 and packing. Such other rubber shoes as are imported may 

 be bought for a little less. Old rubber shoes are entered largely 

 from other than Russian ports, but tlie origin is mainly in 

 Russia. 



Some two years ago an export duty equal to 2j^ cents a pound 

 on waste rubber from Russia went into effect, since which time 

 the trade in such goods has declined very measurably. The 

 two principal rubber factories in Russia have established re- 

 claiming plants, first for their own needs, and latterly have be- 

 come exporters of reclaimed rubber to an important extent to 

 other European countries. In this they have a distinct advantage, 

 not only in drawing for supplies upon a market near at hand, but 

 in being able to purchase waste rubber more cheaply than the 

 outside world can now obtain Russian stock. It is reported that 

 the Russian companies referred to have approached some im- 

 portant consumers in the United States with a view to establish- 

 ing trade here. Up to date reclaimed rubber has not been im- 

 ported in America; on the other hand, large quantities made here 

 have gone abroad. The tariff law of the United States does not 

 specify reclaimed rubber, but imports of such material presumably 

 would be dutiable under the general provision imposing 20 per 

 cent, ad valorem on "all articles manufactured in whole or in 

 part" not provided for in the schedule. 



B.\GriPES as now made call for a considerable amount of india- 

 rubber, for the bags, which are made "straight" or "shaped," in 

 a variety of forms. Bagpipes are listed by one leading British 

 rubber manufacturer as high as 99 shillings [=about $24]. 



