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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1909. 



started. The company will make a variety of soft rubber goods. 



A dinner was given to Mr. Charles C. Goodrich, of Orange, 

 New Jersey, formerly general manager of works of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., by the Men's Club of the Church of Our Saviour, 

 of this city, on the evening of April 20. Mr. Goodrich is junior 

 warden of the church. 



A conference of Western branch managers of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Co. was held in Akron on May 17. Managers of the 

 branches in Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit were 

 present. 



The organization of the employes of the Firestone Tire and 

 Rubber Co. was completed during May, with the incorporation 

 of the Akron Rubber Workers' Relief Association. It begins 

 with more than 200 members and will be conducted for social 

 and benefit purposes. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



I T is fortunate that the houses in San Francisco which handle 

 * lines of rubber goods do not depend entirely for their busi- 

 ness activity on the conditions in San Francisco. Just now this 

 city is not very active, for some reason or other, and the city 

 retailers have been buying sparingly. In the country districts, 

 however, conditions are better. The money has not as yet all 

 come in from the crops, but the crops are so big and excellent 

 this year that every one predicts an unusually busy season for 

 the great farming regions in the interior. As soon as the crops 

 begin to move it is believed that there will be a marked im- 

 provement in San Francisco, so that by next fall everything 

 points to a considerable revival of business life and activity. 

 Some of the rubber houses report that business during the past 

 month has been quiet, but all of them report that the outlook is 

 excellent. Some of the dealers have been doing a good busi- 

 ness right along and if the reports are correct some of them 

 have enjoyed a great increase in the amount of business done, 

 even during the so-called quiet times. 



The Bowers Rubber Works have received another contract 

 from the Isthmian canal commission for dredging sleeves, and 

 work is progressing at the factory at a lively clip, manufacturing 

 these goods. This firm is installing some new equipment — an- 

 other calendar and some new mills, which necessitates more 

 motors, and altogether the improvements are running up into a 

 large sum of money. 



Mr. Rumsey, secretary of the James W. Byrnes Belting and 

 Hose Co., of St. Louis, has been in San Francisco for a few 

 days in the interests of his firm. 



The Sterling Rubber Co. report some improvement in the gen- 

 eral tone of business. A* R. Ellert will leave soon for a trip to 

 Honolulu, where he will look after new business for the firm and 

 attend to the wants of the old customers. C. A. Tracy, traveling 

 for the Sterling Rubber Co., has recently started on a trip up 

 the northern coast. 



The New York Belting and Packing Company, Limited, have 

 opened new offices at No. 129 First street. They carry a full 

 line of mechanical rubber goods. 



Mr. J. B. Lippincott, who has been associated with the Boston 

 Woven Hose and Rubber Co. for the past few years, has been 

 visiting in San Francisco, the guest of Joseph V. Selby, the 

 Pacific coast manager of the company. Mr. Lippincott will in 

 the future represent the company's interest in southern California 

 and Arizona. 



L. L. Torrey, western manager for the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co., states that each month continues to show a good margin of 

 profit and that business activity seems to be increasing all the 

 time. Even collections are getting better. He has added two 

 men to the selling force. 



Mr. Grant, manager for the new rubber department of the 

 Eccles & Smith Co., reports that this department has been doing 



well and he finds an excellent outlook for the future. This firm 

 is now agent for the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. Charles F. 

 Balotti, secretary of the company, is a singer of reputation. 

 Posters are out announcing a concert to be given by liini under 

 the management of the Century Hall Club. 



Mr. William Regan, formerly of the Phoenix Rubber Co., has 

 gone into business for himself in the typewriter trade. 



Mr. William J. Gorham, of the Gorham Rubber Co., reports 

 that business has been rather quiet during the past month, 

 although it is better than at this time last year. 



Mr. William Hillman, vice-president and general manager of 

 the Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), is now 

 in San Francisco, accompanied by his wife. This is his first 

 visit to the coast, and after staying a short time in this city will 

 go on south to Los Angeles. 



Donald McKay, manager of the Seattle branch of the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co., writes to the San Francisco oiifice that his 

 store is enjoying an increased business and that he expects very 

 active times for 1909. He is exhibiting a mountain tread tire that 

 covered 9,127 miles on a tour in the United States and Europe, 

 which during that time was never deflated. 



DR. PHILIP SCHIDROWITZ. 



A RECENT visitor to the United States was one who has 

 ** long been known in connection with india-rubber in 

 Europe, Dr. Philip Schidrowitz. Although an Englishman by 

 birth, the Doctor's father was a citizen of the L^nited States, and 

 when he is summoned to this country, which he recently was 



for e.xpert work, he 

 feels very much at 

 home. Born in the 

 city of London, he 

 was educated at 

 London University, 

 and afterwards went 

 to Zurich, Switzer- 

 land, graduating at 

 the Federal Poly- 

 technic Institute 

 there. A year later 

 he took his degree 

 at Berne. His first 

 entry into industrial 

 life was as chemist 

 at an important tar 

 works in England. 

 In 189s he estab- 

 lished his own lab- 

 oratory in London. 

 His first work was 

 in connection with 

 telephone cables, 

 but tliis soon broadened out into general rubber research. He is 

 the author of a number of scientific papers covering special lines. 

 As a member of the Society of Chemical Industry, and indeed, 

 a member of the committee, he has made an enviable reputation 

 as an india-rubber cliemist. 



Dr. Philip Schidrowitz, f.c.s. 



Value of Botanical Gardens. — The history of Mcvca culti- 

 vation in Ceylon afifords an excellent example of the usefulness 

 of botanic gardens equipped with proper facilities for the 

 carrying out of experimental work. If the Ceylon gardens had 

 done nothing else during their history than establsih this industry 

 they would have more than justified their existence. But, in 

 addition, they were, as is well known, the means of introducing 

 cofTee, tea, and cinchona, to take only the more striking instances, 

 all of which plants have played important parts in the economic 

 history of Ceylon. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



