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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1905. 



ana) and attended the Madison Square Garden automobile 

 show in connection with that company's exhibit. 



=James H. Manchester, foreman of the shoe department at 

 the factory of the National India Rubber Co. (Bristol. Rhode 

 Island) for 30 years, has resigned, being succeeded by Edward 

 E. Wilkinson, of the same factory. 



NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB. 

 The midwinter dinner of the New England Rubber Club is 

 planned for the evening of February 24. The Hon. John D. 

 Long and the Hon. Samuel W. McCall have promised definite- 

 ly to be present, and Colonel Samuel P. Colt has promised 

 provisionally. Young's Hotel. Boston, has been selected as 

 the banqueting place. 



UNUSUAL FIRE HOSE TESTS. 

 The results of the tests of fire hose held recently at the re- 

 pair shops of the New York fire department at No. 130 West 

 Third street, have given great satisfaction to the Manhattan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., to whom were awarded a con- 

 tract for 12,500 feet of 2%" four ply rubber fire hose. The 

 specifications called for friction that would not separate more 

 than ■^%" in ten minutes, under 20 pounds pressure. The test 

 went far better than the specifications, separating only ;\s inch. 

 In the stretching of the tube the specfication allowed a perma- 

 nent set of ^4 inch after releasing for 10 minutes. In this test the 

 hose was absolutely perfect, as there was no permanent set. Un- 

 der the pressure tests the elongation was limited to 30", and the 

 three pieces tested elongated respectively, 24", I9,*and 18". The 

 expansion was limited to ^s inch and none of the hose expanded 

 more than,';.. The allowance for twisting was one revoluiton, 

 and the hose in no case twisted more than one-half of the revo- 

 lution. All these tests were made, by the way, under 300 

 pounds pressure, and under the personal supervision of Chief 

 John H. Leonard and his assistants. The remarkable results 

 have made the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. the re- 

 cipients of many congratulations from the trade. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Dr. Maximilian Toch of New York, who has for some 

 years been carrying on a line of research relating to the vulcan- 

 ization of India-rubber, has gone to Porto Rico at the instance 

 of the department of agriculture, but on his return expects to 

 bring his discoveries and conclusions on rubber before the 

 American Chemical Society. 



= Mr. Arthur W. Stedman, of George A. Alden & Co. (Bos- 

 ton), recently had a very narrow escape from pneumonia, being 

 confined to his house for more than a week, but is now out 

 again, receiving the congratulations of the trade on his recov- 

 ery, 



= The name of Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the 

 United States Rubber Co. is being used freely by the Rhode 

 Island newspapers in connection with the succession to the 

 Hon. George Peabody Wetmore, as United States senator from 

 that state. 



^Mr. S. H. C. Miner, president of the Granby Rubber Co. 

 (Granby, Quebec), lately spent a couple of weeks in Boston, 

 where he has large business interests. 



= Mr. Roswell Converse Whitmore. of the Boston Belting 

 Co., was married on January 4 to Miss Gertrude Lillian Ashton, 

 of Newton Center, Massachusetts. The bridegroom is the son 

 of Mr. George P. Whitmore, secretary of the company named, 

 and widely known and esteemed in the New England rubber 

 trade. 



= Mr. Russell G. Colt, son of President Samuel P. Colt, of the 

 United States Rubber Co., and who has just returned from a 

 voyage to the Amazon on the yacht Virginia, has held a posi- 



tion for some time at the " Alice" mill of the Woonsocket Rub- 

 ber Co. It is understood that he will now be located in New 

 York, in the offices of the General Rubber Co. 



= Mr. John C. Wilson, sometime connected with the Hart- 

 ford Rubber Works Co., later president of the India Rubber 

 Co. (New BrunsAfick, New Jersey), and now a planter in one 

 of the southern states, was a visi.tor to the New York automo- 

 bile show. 



= Mr. George VV. Blanchard, formerly general superintend- 

 ent of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., is now a banker, 

 and holds the office of vice president of the Passaic National 

 Bank, at Passaic, New Jersey. 



GREAT INTEREST IN RUBBER IN BROOKLYN. 



OUITE unwittingly, The India Rubber World seems to 

 ^,^ have ruffled the sensibilities of some one at the fountain 

 head of true journalistic ethics. Measured by the standards of 

 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, it has lacked dignity, whereat our 

 sorrow is beyond the capacity of words to express it. And all 

 on account of " rabbit weed "! 



For two years this journal has presented from time to time 

 such facts as could be gleaned from the voluminous reports 

 afloat in the West concerning the great discovery of rubber in 

 Colorado. Every attempt has made to present such news fairly, 

 since no objection exists in this office to Colorado supplying 

 the whole world with rubber if she can. It happens that in our 

 last issue an extract appeared from an article on Colorado rub- 

 ber in the leading newspaper of Brooklyn, since which time the 

 following letter has come to hand : 



EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 

 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. 



Brooklyn, N. Y., January 21, 1905. 

 Mr. Henry C. Pearson, 



Editor of The India Rubber World, 

 150 Nassau street. New York. 

 Dear Sir: Referring to my story on Picradtnia Jloribunda utilis, 

 the orthography of which appears to have been too much for you, which 

 has been honored by a mention in your columns, peimit me to suggest 

 that if you have any evidence that the claims made in behalf of the plant 

 are erroneous, it is your duty, and no doubt it would be your pleasure, 

 to make such evidence public. If you have already done so I would 

 thank you to give me the date of the issue in which it appears that I 

 may get a copy and inform myself. On the other hand, if the plant 

 offers an auxiliary source of supply of rubber, the discovery is surely of 

 sufficient importance to be worthy a dignified presentation in a jouroal 

 which assumes to be the organ of the rubber trade. And certainly if 

 gooseberry wine and counterfeit money are byproducts of the weed, as 

 you assert, the news value of that fact seems to be more than the nine 

 line paragraph in your January issue. 



It seems to me there is a good story for you in Picradenia Jloribunda 

 u'.iHi any way you play it. Very truly yours, 



C. F. CARTER. 



Here seemed to be a discovery of real value; here was a 

 source of information regarding the new rubber, which The 

 India Rubber World would be more than glad to make use 

 of. S5 a letter was sent post-haste to the Brooklyn office, in- 

 viting its cooperation in making " a dignified presentation " of 

 the facts in the case. And here is the response, dated January 

 23, 1905 : 



Dear Sir : Really. I do not know why the rubber producers of Colo- 

 raJo do not allovv you to see samples of their product. But I do know 

 that 1 had not the slightest difficulty whatsoever, not only in obtaining 

 all the samples I wanted, but also in obtaining permission to watch the 

 process of manufacturing the samples. 



Replying to your second question, if ray eyesight is at all trustworthy 



