THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1909. 



LOCKPORT RUBBER CO. BURNED OUT. 



On the morning of April 28 a fire at Lockport, New York, 

 destroyed the main portion of tlie old Holly Manufacturing 

 Co. plant, occupied in part by the factory of the Lockport Rubber 

 Co., a new company, the organization of which was noted in 

 The Indi.\ Rubber World, June i, 1908 (page 307). The 

 Lockport Rubber Co. are reported to have had $30,000 insurance 

 on machinery and $10,000 on stock. The Lockport board of 

 trade have appointed a committee to consult with the rubber 

 company with regard to rebuilding in that town, and it is stated 

 that a desirable location has been offered the company free just 

 outside the town limits. 



DEATH OF EDMUND F. HEATH, 



Edmund Field He.\th, of Newark, New Jersey, who died in 

 New York city on April 28, at the end of a wedding journey, 

 in his twenty-fourth year, was a son of the late Edmund F. 

 Heath, the founder of Edmund F. Heath & Son, manufacturers 

 of rubber carriage cloth at Newark, who died in 1904 at an 

 advanced age. The subject of this notice was not connected 

 with the firm named. 



NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB'S COMMITTEE. 



Following the annual meeting of the New England Rubber 

 Club (reported in The India Rubber World last month) the 

 Executive Committee — consisting of the officers of the Club — 

 convened and appointed committees for the ensuing year as 

 follows : 



Xoiiiiiiating Committee. — Hon. L. Dewart Apsley, chair- 

 man ; Homer E. Sawyer, Charles J. Bailey, William H. Glea- 

 son, Elston E. Wadbrook. 



Special Membership Commiticc. — Henry C. Pearson, president 

 of the Club, ex ofUcio chairman; Arthur W. Stedman, William 

 E. Barker, George H. Mayo. 



Dinner C-jmmittee. — Francis H. Appleton, chairman; Charles 

 .\. Coe, Eugene H. Clapp, William E. Barker, Joseph W. Work. 



Sports C'.nnniit'ee. — I'Vank D. Balderston, chairman; R. E. 

 Paine, William G. Page. William J. Kelly, R. L. Chipman. 



Entertainment Committee. — George H. Mayo, chairman ; 

 Charles J. Bailey, James H. Learned, George E. B. Putnam, Will- 

 iam H. Palmer. 



Resolutions Comtnittec. — George P. Whitmore, chainnan; 

 Elston E. Wadbrook, Alexander M. Paul. 



Auditing Comniiiice. — William H. Gleason, chairman; J. 

 Everett Stone. 



At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the New 

 England Rubber Club 20 new members were elected. Among 

 them were S. H. C. Miner, C. C. Goodrich, H. E. Raymond, 

 Humphrey O'Sullivan and W. T. Cole. 



CANADIAN ITEMS. 



The will of the late Harry D. Warren, president of The 

 Gutta-Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Toronto, Lim- 

 ited, has been admitted to probate. The estate amounts to 

 81,138,106 — principally in shares of the Gutta Percha company — 

 and is bequeathed to the widow, who is appointed sole executrix 

 for herself and her children. 



During a recent storm part of the roof of the main factory 

 building of The ;\Iaple Leaf Rubber Co., Limited (Port Dal- 

 housie, Canada), was torn off, with most of the roof of the 

 warehouse. 



The death is reported, in his seventy-first year, of Mr. W. D. 

 Tucker, for more than thirty years engiiieer with the Canadian 

 Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited. 



The handsome calendar of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods 

 Co., Limited (Toronto), mentioned in the last India Rubber 

 World, was executed by The Hough Lithographing Co., Limited 

 (Toronto), the president of which is Mr. Alexander Macpherson, 

 who for many years and until recently was connected in an im- 

 portant way with the rubber trade in the Dominion. 



Quotations for shares in the Canadian Consolidated Rubber 

 Co., Limited, show a marked advance of late. On the Montreal 

 stock exchange, May 19, the common stock sold from 79 in the 



early afternoon session to 90 at the close. The preferred closed 

 at 118 bid and 119 asked. Shares of common have sold within a 

 year as low as 20 and the preferred at par. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hon L. D. Apsley, president of the Apsley Rubber Co. 

 (Hudson, Massachusetts), spent a recent vacation at Hot 

 Springs, Arkansas. 



Mr. Oliver W. Howe, proprietor of Howe's Rubber Store, at 

 Lynn, Massachusetts, advises The India Rubber World that the 

 fire reported in the last issue of this paper caused damage to his 

 business of only $2,500, which loss was fully covered by insur- 

 ance. The store was closed only three days. 



Announcement is made by Farrel Foundry and Machine Co. 

 (Ansonia, Connecticut) of their opening a branch office at Cleve- 

 land. Ohio — No. loii Williamson Building. For some years 

 past the business of the company in 'that region has increased to 

 such an extent as to make advisable an office in the central west 

 in order to keep more closely in touch with the development 

 of the rubber industry. The new office will be in charge of Mr. 

 George W. Osbcrn, who has been connected \\\i\\ the firm's main 

 office for ten' years or more. 



B. Loewenthal & Co. announce the removal of their New York 

 offices and waste rubber warehouse from Greenwich street to 

 Nos. 481-483 Washington street, near Canal. 



Maurice C. Clark has become general manager of La Crosse 

 Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin). 



Harrison C. Frost has been made manager of the Arkon 

 Carbon Co., miners of the hydrocarbon "Arkon," with head- 

 quarters in Chicago. 



DEARER RUBBER AND BRITISH CYCLE TIRES. 



The past few weeks have witnessed a considerable advance 

 in the market price of raw rubber, and this has compelled cer- 

 tain tire manufacturers to increase their prices to cycle manu- 

 facturers. This increase has generally taken the form of an ad- 

 vance of 5 per cent., or 7I/2 per cent, on the prices embodied in the 

 season's list, and in many cases this advance presses hardly on 

 the cycle maker or dealer who is unable to increase the prices 

 charged to the public for complete machines. The situation is 

 in some respects a difficult one, but is only preventable where 

 tire and rubber firms can anticipate fluctuations by buying or 

 placing contracts well ahead. The manufacturers of the "Liberty" 

 tire are in this happy position, and there will be no advance in 

 the price of these tires. The North British Rubber Co., Limited, 

 the makers of the "Clincher," have also decided to supply their 

 tires at the prices fixed at the beginning of the season, and have 

 withdrawn the advance of 5 per cent, which was announced at 

 the time of the rise in rubber. — Scottish Cyclist, Edinburgh, 

 April 21. 



PROGRESS IN VACUUM CLEANING. 



Interest in the vacuum cleaning processes continues to develop 

 in Great Britain, where the British Vacuum Cleaner Co., Limited, 

 together with its various subsidiary companies, have been active 

 for the last six years. A new development of this system is men- 

 tioned in Electrical Engineering, which reports the success of 

 vacuum cleaning under Booth's patents for cleaning boiler flues 

 in some large works in Bradford. Yorkshire. It is mentioned 

 that two men with the vacuum system can do as much work 

 cleaning boiler flues in three hours as formerly required three 

 men working ten hours. 



The registered telegram address "Goodrich, Stockholm" is 

 used by Amerikanska Gummi-Aktiebolaget, general agents in 

 Sweden, Norway and Finland for The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 (.\kron, Ohio). The Stockholm house carries stocks of Goodrich 

 automobile and bicycle tires, mechanical rubber goods and drug- 

 gists' sundries. 



