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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May I, 1909. 



GOODalCH NEW YORK HEADaUARTEBS. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co (Akron. Ohio) have established their 

 business in Xew York in one of the most notable buildings in 

 upper broadway, in the heart of the automobile and tire trading 

 district. The character of the building alone, and the amount 

 of space which they occupy in it, indicate the importance of 

 their trade in the East. Six of the twelve stories in the building 

 of which a view is given on this page, are occupied by the Good- 

 rich company, who are concentrating in one place all their 

 business in New York — mechanical and general goods as well 

 as tire.s— which means that the premises so long occupied by this 

 company in Reade street will be vacated. The business of this 

 great Akron concern, by the way, in New York and the East 

 generally, is conducted under a separate corporate title — The B. 

 F. Goodrich Co., of New York. 

 The new building, of which an 

 illustration is shown on this 

 page, has been erected by the 

 Goodrich company, or land 

 owned bv them. 



AN ENORMOUS PIECE OF RUBBER. 



[from "folh.\ do norte' 



(P.\R.\) M.ARCH 27.] 



P.\RT of the cargo of the 

 steamer Eurico, which arrived 

 a few days ago from the Acre 

 was an enormous piece of rub- 

 ber weighing 508 kilograms 

 [^1,118 pounds], consigned to 

 Leite & Co., of this city. This 

 was prepared by the scii}i- 

 guciro [rubber cutter], Hen- 

 rique I. Dos Santos, with the 

 help of his two sons, under 

 age. It took them five months 

 to do it, and they used in its 

 preparation 8co bottles of milk, 

 weighing as many kilograms, 

 and this was its weight when 

 it was still fresh. This man 

 Santos, whose crop with that 

 of his sons amounts to 1,9/9 

 kilograms of rubber, works in 

 seringa! da Bocca do Riozinho, 

 the property of Senhor Jose 

 Maria Dias Pereira, who have 

 other rubber plantations in the 

 Acre region, and they send an- 

 nually about 250 tons to 

 Messrs. Leite & Co., aviadorcs 



[New 



The B. F. Goodrich 



premise?, Nns. 1776-1778 Broa 



of Para. It took 25 days for 



the transportation of this enormous piece of rubber from ti'.c? 

 plantation to the river bank of the Acre, and on account of its 

 excessive size it went in a boat by itself. This is a great curi- 

 osity, and perhaps the biggest ever manufactured in the Amazon, 

 and in view of this Messrs. Leite & Co. have decided to exhibit 

 it in this city, afterwards ship it to New York, and from that 

 port to Europe, so as to be exhibited at the next ruljber exhibi- 

 tion in England. 



[The interesting specimen of rubber mentioned in our Par.i 

 contemporary has arrived in New York and is on exhibition in 

 one of the windows of the New York branch of The Diamond 

 Rubber Co. — The Editor. 



GOOD BUSINESS OF F. R. HOWELL BRASS WORKS. 



F. R. Howell Brass Works, (Philadelphia), who were burned 

 out on April 3 at No. 716 Cherry street, are already in full work- 

 ing order at No. 122 North Franklin street, where they are even 

 better prepared than before to fill orders for hose couplings, brass 



hose fittings and lire department supplies. Recently they have 

 filled some large orders for couplings from the Isthmian canal 

 zone and for the Ne\v York fire department. They have made 

 some important contracts w-ith large railway companies for their 

 new Aubrey couplings. Mr. F. R. Howell, of this company, has 

 had eighteen years' experience in this line of business. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The .Archer Rubber Co. (Milford, Massachusetts,) are about 

 ready to .occupy their new quarters, in the building formerly occu- 

 pied by the Milford Rubber Co., and the purchase of which for 

 use by the Archer company was reported recently in this journal. 

 Frederick Dockendorf during the month completed a half cen- 

 tury of employment at the College Point plant of the American 

 Hard Rubber Co., in recogni- 

 tion of which he received from 

 the company a present of a sub- 

 stantial sum of money and a 

 letter of commendation for his 

 faithful ser\'ice. This was in 

 accordance with the polic}' of 

 the company, who now have on 

 their list of employes several 

 men who have been with them 

 for more than a half century. 

 The Firestone Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have 

 consolidated their two branches 

 in St. Louis in their enlarged 

 store at No. 2230 Olive street, 

 under the management of Mr. 

 O. O. Petty. 



A fire which started in the 

 basement of Oliver R. Howe's 

 rubber goods store at No. 52 

 Central square, Lynn, Massa- 

 chusetts, on the morning of 

 April 26. damaged the build- 

 ing and caused other losses 

 to the amount of $13,000. 



Work was to begin at the 

 plant of the new Converse 

 Rubber Shoe Co. (Maiden, 

 Massachusetts) on the morn- 

 ing of April 26. The grinding 

 room was to open on that day 

 and the cutting, shoe, and pack- 

 ing rooms in the usual order 

 thereafter. The present plant 

 has a capacity of 4,000 pairs of 

 shoes daily. The principal office of the company is at Maiden, 

 and a sample room will be maintained at No. 50 High street, 

 Boston. 



A new store at Holyoke, Massachusetts, is that of The Yoerg 

 Tire and Rubber Co., at No. 496 Dwight street. The firm em- 

 braces William P. Yoerg, sometime salesman at the mechanical 

 goods department of the Boston branch of The Diamond Rubber 

 Co., and Joseph M. Hetzer, who has had to do with the Diamond 

 company's tire selling branch in New York City. The new com- 

 pany will market Diamond products in western Massachusetts. 

 The Oneida Rubber Co., of which Edwin J. Holstein is pro- 

 prietor, have opened a store in Hartford, Connecticut, at No. 

 1076 Main street, for the sale of tires of all kinds, and the rub- 

 ber goods generally carried in a retail store. 



Empire Automobile Tire Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) have 

 built an addition to their factory lately which will enable them 

 to very greatly increase their capacity, which has, until this time, 

 been crowded to the extreme limit. 



Co.. OF New York. 



Iway. at Fifty-seventh street, 

 Broadway front appears at the left of the p'icture. | 



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