JULV I, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



365 



is accompanied by his daughter, Miss Helen Rice, and also by 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. Kenyon, of Kenyon & Co. (Brooklyn), manu- 

 facturers of raincoats. Mr. Rice speaks enthusiastically of San 

 Francisco, which he considers to have a wonderful future for the 

 rubber business. 



The rubber houses of San Francisco got together and gave a 

 big picnic last week to the automobile people, and at San Mateo, 

 where the picnic was held, those who participated report that 

 they enjoyed one of the best times of the season. 



Mr. L. L. Torrey, coast manager for the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co., has gone East on a business trip. Mr. Long, a salesman 

 for many years connected with the Bowers Rubber Works, has 

 accepted a position under Mr. Torrey. 



The contract for supplying the fire hose for San Francisco has 

 been divided between the Bowers Rubber Works and the 

 American Rubber Manufacturing Co., the two local manu- 

 facturers which bid for it. 



Bids have been opened" for the supplies to the state prisons at 

 Folsom and San Quentin, and the Gorham Rubber Co. e.xpect 

 to handle this business as usual. Mr. Gorham is now ia the 

 southern part of the state trying to gain membership to the Tuna 

 Club. Any one who can catch a tuna, the gamest fish in exist- 

 ence, is entitled to membership, and the membership is very 

 small. Mr. Gorham has his fine new steam launch down there, 

 and expected to have his new tender by this time, but owing to 

 an accident last Monday the tender was lost. 



Mr. Grant, with Eccles & Smith Co., just finished a good order 

 for laying interlocking tiling at the new St. Mary's cathedral. 

 He also just closed a large order with the new Balfour Guthrie 

 flour mill at Portland, Oregon, for 5,300 feet of 24-inch belt and 

 1,000 feet of 18-inch belt. 



Mr. Oliver, manager and stockholder in the American Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., was in San Francisco this week and reported 

 that business was very good. 



E. J. Fleming, packing representative of the Bowers Rubber 

 Works, is now in New York, in the interests of this firm's 

 "Skookum" packing. Mr. Chase reports that everything at the 

 factory and salesrooms is running smoothly. At the factory the 

 firm have been installing some new calender equipment. 



R. H. Pease, Jr., treasurer of the Goodyear Rubber Co., re- 

 ports that business is showing up very well with his firm, and 

 that collections have picked up in a very satisfactory manner. 



J. E. Argus, manager of the mechanical department of The 

 Diamond Rubber Co., came back from the head offices at Akron 

 on June 22. Mr. C. E. Mathewson, Pacific coast manager of 

 this firm, has stirred up some excitement among the rubber tire 

 houses of this city by issuing a general challenge for a rim- 

 fitting contest. It is proposed to allow some disinterested club 

 to arrange the rules for a contest. 



The Pacific Coast Rubber Co. are installing some new sample 

 rooms for the display of rubber footwear and clothing. The 

 principal room adjoins a big show window, so that the entire dis- 

 play can be seen from without as well as from within. Mr. 

 Winslow, the manager, states that the usual order of business is 

 now on with little activity, although he believes that beginning 

 with July there will be considerable doing in the rubber line. 

 The fact that so many new plants are putting in direct connec- 

 tions with electricity is interfering considerably with the activity 

 of the belting business, he said. 



The United States consul at Montevideo reports on the 

 source of the rubber shipped from that port, which he finds 

 comes from Bolivia, some of it being transported more than 

 600 miles in ox carts, then perhaps 2,000 miles in steamers to 

 Montevideo, whence it goes to Europe. He mentions, but 

 does not name, an American firm which once undertook to 

 collect rubber in Bolivia with Montevideo as a base, and found 

 it a very hazardous business. 



Friction Clutch Driven Rubber Grinder. 

 [Farrel Foundry and Machine Co., Ansonia. Connecticut.] 



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"Geist" Electro Magnetic Separator. 



[For removing metal from waste rubber, in reclaiming work. The cut 

 shows the drum, provided with a magnet inside, through which the ma- 

 terial is passed. — Plutte, Scheele & Co.. London.] 



"Geist" Electro Magnetic Separator. 



[A view of the machine driven by a motor; the drum is shown on a 

 smaller scale.] 



Two Goodyear endless motor truck tires used on one of the 

 heavy 'buses in Fifth avenue. New York, are reported to have 

 stood up respectively under 21,664 miles and 18,924 miles of 

 usage. These 'buses are heavy vehicles adapted to carrying up to 

 30 passengers. 



