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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1905. 



the Bristol factory for several years for a position of impor- 

 tance in connection with the rubber industry. Mr. Hodgkin- 

 son filled the position of assistant to Mr. Shepard as general 

 manager. Mr. Fish has been for some time foreman of the 

 calender room. The factory of the company at Bristol has 



has been operated of late to its full capacity, giving employ- 

 ment to 1400 people. The boot and shoe department has been 

 turning out 24.000 pairs daily — the largest production ever re- 

 ported for this factory. 



THE REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. (yOUNGSTOWN, OHIO). 



At the annual meeting of shareholders on January 17. the 

 following board of directors was chosen : Warner Arms, H. K. 

 Wick, John C. Wick, George Tod, John Tod, Charles H. Booth _ 

 A. E. Adams, H. M. Robinson, and Robert Bentley. The di- 

 rectors subsequently elected the following otlicers ; 



Presiilint and Trtasurer — Warner Arms. 



Vict /V«rVcn/— Charles H. Booth. 



Secretary — John Tod. 



OFFICES OF THE FISK RUBBER CO. 



The list of officers of The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, 

 Massachusetts) has been extended by the addition of two vice 

 presidents, announced at a meeting held on January 19. The 

 complete list follows : 



President — Harry T. Dunn. 



First Vice President — E. H. Bkoadweix, manager of the Detroit 

 branch. 



Seoelary Vice President — Frank C. Riggs, manager of the Chicago 

 depot. 



Treasurer — Alfred N. Mayo. 



Clerk— ll\fi9.Y G. FiSK. 



Directors— \. N. Mayo, H. T. Dunn, H. G. Fisk, Edward Pyn- 

 chon, W. T. Baird, P. T. Jackson, Jr., E. H. Broadwell. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The staf? of the Milwaukee branch of the Goodyear Rub- 

 ber Co. were given a dinner by the company, in accordance 

 with an annual custom, at the Hotel Pfister, on the evening of 

 January 10. Mr. W. W. Wallis, the branch manager, was toast- 

 master. 



= Ernst H. Brandt has become assistant general manager of 

 The Fisk Rubber Co., and is located at the company's main 

 office. Chicopee Falls. Massachusetts. He was connected with 

 the Hartford Rubber Works Co. from 1891 to 1903, resigning 

 from the position of New York manager for that company at 

 the beginning of the latter year to enter another line of busi- 

 ness. 



= At the Edgeworth factory of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 

 on January 4, the main engine was disabled to an extent re- 

 quiring several weeks for its repair. Meanwhile part of the 

 working force has been transferred to the other factory, and 

 the Maiden Electric Light Co. have been supplying some 

 power. 



=The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron Rubber Works) are cred- 

 ited, in a local review of trade for 1904, with having made, dur- 

 ing that year, the largest sales in their history. While the 

 output of rubber tires has increased, the mechanical rubber 

 branch continues to hold the place of first importance in the 

 factory. 



= A movement is on foot among the employes of the Amer- 

 ican Hard Rubber Co. at College Point, Long Island, to organ- 

 ize a factory fire brigade. 



= The Miller Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Akron, Ohio) have 

 established a branch at Hamburg, Germany, at Grosse Reich- 

 enstrasse 9, of which Louis Eising is the manager. 



=The Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co. (Jonesboro, 

 Indiana) have sent out a plain but serviceable calendar for 1905, 

 one leaf for each month, printed in unusually large figures. 



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

 will be in a position shortly to market a new soft tread horse- 

 shoe, for which a patent was granted on January 10 to Manager 

 Frederick E. McEwen. This is a rubber shoe, with closed 

 heel, having imbedded in it a single-piece nail plate of steel. 



= The Laurel Rubber Co. filed with the secretary of state of 

 Ne^f Jersey, on January iS, a certificate of increase of capital 

 from $10,000 to $15,000. 



— Fire started from an explosion in one of the buildings of 

 the Stoughton Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Massachusetts) on the 

 night of January 18, and caused a loss of $3000. which is cov- 

 ered by insurance. The fire occurred in a building devoted 

 formerly to making golf balls, but not used for a year past, and 

 the cause of the explosion remains to be explained. 



= Suit has been brought against the Goodyear Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co. (Akron, Ohio) by Adam Bender, who claims $10,000 

 damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained in October 

 last, while employed in the company's factory. His hand was 

 caught in a set of rolls, and he charges the company with neg- 

 ligence in not keeping a stop clutch in working order. 



= At the auction sale of manufacturing stocks in Boston 

 during the week January 16-21, nineteen shares of the Boston 

 Belting Co. (par $100) were sold at $210 to $21 2.50. 



= The new reclaiming plant of the Canadian Rubber Co. of 

 Montreal Is now completed and in successful operation. The 

 company spent a large sum on this latest addition to their ex- 

 tensive factories in Montreal, and it is one of the best equipped 

 reclaiming plants on the Continent. 



= The annual meeting of shareholders In the New York 

 Rubber Co. was due to be held at the company's offices on 

 January 31, for the election of trustees for the ensuing year. 



= That there are still good specialties In the rubber trade is 

 proved In the case of " Rainbow " packing, for which 1904 was 

 the banner year, the sales amounting to 2,942,468 pounds. 

 This Is 18,000 pounds more than In 1903, and 224.000 pounds 

 more than the sales of 1902. 



= Mr. Arthur Devereau Thornton, the well known general 

 superintendent of the Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, be- 

 gan life as a sailor. Some 15 years ago he studied and ob- 

 tained his diploma for chemistry, went into the rubber busi- 

 ness and to-diy is a well recognized expert in. crude rubber. 



= Messrs. Parker, Stearns & Sutton (New York) have distrib- 

 uted lately a handsome little memorandum bool^, with several 

 pages of printed matter for ready reference, the whole being 

 comprised in an artistically embellished cover of celluloid. 



= The firm of Neale & Co. has been established, at Nos. 82- 

 92 Beaver street. New York, by E. L. Neale and W. H. Staats, 

 who compose also the firm of Neale & Staats, exporters of rub- 

 ber from Para and Manaos, Brazil. They have been established 

 for some years on the Amazon. 



= In its annual estimate of the value of the electrical appara- 

 tus produced in the United States, for 1904, the Electrical 

 World and Engineer (New York) puts down " Insulated wires 

 and cables, and submarine cables," at $35,000,000. Its estimate 

 of the value of the same product in 1903 was S30.150.000. Its 

 total estimate of electrical apparatus for the two years is as fol- 

 lows: $158,650,000 in 1903, $175,500,000 in 1904. 



= Mr. Samuel H. Cable informs The India Rubber World 

 thiU the report that he intended to connect himself with the 

 Neponset Rubber Co., and take charge of the manufacture of 

 carriage cloth. Is incorrect. 



= ln an industrial review of the city of Chicago for 1904 the 

 Record-Herald, of that city, estimates the value of rubber goods 

 produced at $6,000,000, as against $4,800,000 in the preceding 

 year. 



