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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1905. 



to surrender his shares in the company as his share in closing 

 said contract. 



THE CRUDE RUBBER SUPPLY IN COLORADO. 

 The latest news from Colorado is that the work of setting 

 up a rubber extraction plant in the town of Salida was begun 

 on the morning of December 15, by the Salida Crude Rubber 

 Co. The machinery arrived the night before, and the new mill 

 was to be in operation within 15 days. This announcement 

 differs from those coming from Colorado hitherto, since they 

 promised that mills would be in operation within 60 days. It 

 is to be presumed that announcements will next be in order of 

 mills to be in operation the day before. 



DEATH OF THOMAS J. SHEEHAN (MALDEN, MASS.) 

 Thomas J. Sheehan died at his home in Maiden, Massa- 

 chusetts, on December 23, of pneumonia, in his forty ninth 

 year. He was born in Maiden, and after leaving school was 

 employed as a cutter in the local rubber shoe factory, after 

 which he became successively foreman for a rubber company 

 in Long Island;(New York), and superintendent of the Niagara 

 Rubber Co., of Niagara Kails. When the Concord Rubber Co. 

 began operations at Concord Junction. Massachusetts, he as- 

 sumed control of the company, being also one of the largest 

 shareholders in the corporation. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES- 

 VOORHEES Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City, New 

 Jersey,) announce that they were awarded a gold medal for their 

 mechanical rubber goods, at the St. Louis World's Fair, and 

 the highest award for rubber belting. A view of their exhibit 

 was given in The India Rubber World, October i. 1904 

 (page 27.) 



= The regular semi annual dividend of 3 percent, on the pre- 

 ferred shares of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. was 

 payable on December 15. 



= The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) have declared a regular 

 quarterly divided of 2 per cent., payable December 15. 



= Noiices were posted at the factories of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., at the beginning of December, announcing a nine 

 hour day, instead of ten hours. 



= Mr. D. Lome McGibbon, general manager of The Canadian 

 Rubber Co. of Montreal, last month made his annual visit to the 

 b'anches and agencies of this company. These extend from 

 Halifax, on the Atlantic seaboard, to Vancouver, on the Pacific, 

 and necessitate several thousand miles of varied travel. Dur- 

 ing his western trip Mr. McGibbon opened an extensive sales 

 branch at Calgary, in the North West territories. 



= Anything seems possible, to some people, in connection 

 with automobile tires. The Middletown (Connecticut) Press 

 says: " The Hartford Rubber Works Co. is to present each of 

 its 1000 employes with a turkey. No distinction is to be made 

 between married or single employes, male or female. All are 

 to receive a bird, and it is going to cost the company $3000 ; 

 but then that amount is small when you take into considera- 

 tion that the concern is making automobile tires." 



= The Bridgeport (Connecticut) Elastic Fabric Co. are roof- 

 ing in the brick addition which has been constructed at the 

 rear of their plant on Center street. 



= A contract is reported for a building to be constructed by 

 the G. & W. A. Elliott (Minneapolis. Minnesota), on Sixth 

 street, near Second avenue, south, in that city, to cost $5000 

 and to be occupied by the Hartford Rubber Works Co. 



= Mr. Charles P. Kelly, for many years manager of molded 

 goods and kindred lines with Morgan & Wright (Chicago), has 

 now taken up a similar position with The Canadian Rubber Co. 

 of Montreal. 



= The Republic Rubber Tire and Shoe Co. (New York), in- 

 corporated under the laws of New York stale something over 

 a year ago, have built up a large business in repairing pneu- 

 matic automobile tires of leading makes. They have acquired 

 United States patent No. 717,263, granted to H. R. Palmer, for 

 flexible protectors (of leather or rubber) for rubber tires, and it 

 IS understood have issued a notice cautioning other parties 

 against infringing said patent. The manager of the business 

 is Frederick E. McEwen, who has been connected with the ve- 

 hicle tire trade for a number of years. 



= Harry Wagner has beenappointed an assistant superintend- 

 ent of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., to have charge of their fac- 

 tory at Millville, Massachusetts, dating from January 1. For 

 five years Mr. Wagner has been in the employ of the Apsley 

 Rubber Co. (Hudson, Mass.) and prior to that time was with the 

 National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, R. I.). 



= Hirsch & Kaiser, Inc. (New York), advise The India 

 Rubber World that they have opened a store at Nos. 230-232 

 Purchase street, Boston, where they will carry a line of foreign 

 and domestic skins, pelts, and wool. They will also handle 

 Mangabeira and Manitoba rubber, and sundry other South 

 American products. 



= The Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal are publishing a 

 new Mat and Matting catalogue. All the cuts will be in half- 

 tone, and the catalogue will be gotten out in a very handsome 

 manner. A Tiling catalogue and several other attractive rub- 

 ber booklets are also in course of preparation by this progress- 

 ive Canadian company. 



= Coupons due January i on the 6 per cent, first mortgage 

 gold bonds of the Mechanical Rubber Co. are payable on pre- 

 sentation at the office of the Knickerbocker Trust Co., No. 66 

 Broadway, New York. Coupons due on the same date on the 

 6 per cent, mortgage debenture bonds of the New York Belt- 

 ing and Packing Co., Limited, are payable at the same place. 



= The employes of the Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massa- 

 chusetts), on the evening of December 3. presented President 

 L. D. Apsley with a beautiful silk banner, lettered with gold, 

 on which was expressed their appreciation of his Thanksgiving 

 Diy remembrance of the whole factory force. 



= Mr.W. H. Adams, formerly Boston agent of the Eureka Fire 

 Hose Co., and recently with the Standard Brazing Co. (Boston), 

 has accepted a position with The Canadian Rubber Co. of Mon- 

 treal, as mana£;er of the company's extensive fire hose and fire 

 department supply business. 



= The new factory building of the Hope Webbing Co. (Paw- 

 tucket, Rhode Island) presents an interesting application of 

 the fan system of healing and ventilation. In connection with 

 an old building, and contemplated additions, the contents 

 amount to about 875.000 cubic feet. In this installation, made 

 by the B. F. Sturtevant Co. (Hyde Park, Massachusetts), the 

 distributing ducts occupy no valuable space, since the heated 

 air is forced through an underground system into vertical flues, 

 which are built into the brick walls. From these flues the air 

 is admitted in the usual manner. By this arrangement all the 

 heating surface is concentrated in a single fireproof casing in 

 connection with the fan, and there is eliminated from the build- 

 ing all extended systems of steam piping. 



= The Pope Bicycle Daily Memorandum Calendar for 1905 

 contains a memorandum leaf for every day in the year, and 365 

 original sayings in favor of good roads, good health, outdoor 

 exercise, and that great vehicle of health-giving, the modern bi- 

 cycle, by our most eminent living men of marked accomplish- 

 ment. The calendar may be obtained by sending 10 cents in 

 postage to the Pope Manufacturing Co. (Hartford, Connecticut), 

 or free at any of the company's stores. 



