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IHE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1905. 



=The Amazon River Wireless Telegraph Co., whose offices 

 are at No. 17 Battery place, New York, have been shipping ad- 

 ditional material for the equipment of a system of communica- 

 tion between Paia and Manaos, the beginning of which was 

 made by the establishment of two stations during the recent 

 visit to the Amazon of Commodore E. C. Benedict and his 

 party, on the yacht l^t'rj^'^im'a. 



= Mr. Russel G. Colt, son of President Samuel P. Colt, of 

 the United States Rubber Co., who was a member of Commo- 

 dore Benedict's party on the recent cruise of the yacht I'lr 

 ginia to the Amazon, has become a member of the otiice force 

 of the General Rubber Co., ( New York), and, it is understood, 

 will devote his attention hereafter to the crude rubber business. 

 The selling department of The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe 

 Co. at the factory (Beacon Falls, Connecticut) and that at No. 

 106 Duane street. New York, have been consolidated. The 

 headquarters will be at the latter address, the office being in 

 charge of Mr. La Vete C. Warner, who nas had charge hitherto of 

 the salesmen who traveled from the mill. The New York bus- 

 iness is conducted as a separate corporation. The Beacon Falls 

 Rubber Shoe Co. of New York, of which Mr. Warner has been 

 made treasurer, the president being Mr. Tracy S. Lewis. 



= The Standard Underground Cable Co. (Pittsburgh) have 

 established a selling office for the southwestern United States, 

 at No. 521 Security building, St. Louis, in charge of Mr. E. J. 

 Pietzker, who has been for some time past connected with the 

 company's Chicago selling branch. 



= Messrs. Earle Brothers, brokers (New York), favor us with 

 their annual sheet of Rubber Statistics for 1904, showing 

 monthly importations into the United States and Canada of 

 the various grades, and the highest and lowest prices, on the 

 same plan on which their reports have been based regularly 

 since 1875. 



= The Acker Process Co. (Niagara Falls, New York), are 

 manufacturers on an important scale of Carbon Tetrachloride, 

 a material of value to the rubber industry, and in relation to 

 which an article appears elsewhere in The India Rurber 

 World. The selling agents for this company are the General 

 Chemical Co., with offices at No. 25 Broad street, New York, 

 and in Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Syracuse, 

 N. Y., and ButTalo, N. Y. 



= Owing to a break in the machinery, the factory of the 

 Lambertville Rubber Co. (Lambertville, New Jersey) was 

 closed during the first week of February, although the com- 

 pany were unusually well supplied with orders. 



= Messrs. Poel & Arnold (New York and Boston) have fa- 

 vored The India Rubber World with a table of the exports 

 of India-rubber from Para and Manaos during 1904, the list of 

 exporters being headed by the related firms of Cmok, Schrader 

 & Co. and Dusendschon & Co., whom Messrs. Poel & Arnold 

 represent in the United Slates. The firms mentioned shipped 

 10.318,935 pounds to the United States and 11,200,988 pounds 

 to Europe, or a total of 21.519 893 pounds out of a grand total 

 of 67.558 062 shipped from the Amazon. 



=:The third annual masquerade ball of the I. B. Kleinert 

 Benevolent .Association, composed of employes of the I. B. 

 Kleinert Rubber Co. (College Point, Long Island), held on Sat- 

 urday evening. January 28, was largely attended. 



= Suit has been filed against the Boston Woven Hose and 

 Rubber Co. for §20,000 damages, claimed by Margaret Hogan, 

 who alleges that while taking rubber rings from a barrel, in the 

 company's employ, her arm was injured by a projecting nail. 



= The Pantasote Leather Co. (Passaic, New Jersey), engaged 

 in the manufacture of an imitation leather known as " Panta- 

 sote," have begun proceedings to protect the trademark under 



which their goods are advertised and sold. On February 17 a 

 salesman employed in the department store of R. H. Macy & 

 Co. (New York), was arraigned in a police court charged with 

 selling a couch nithalabel designating its covering to be of 

 " Pantasote." He gave bond for his appearance at the next 

 term of the court of general sessions. 



— Charles M. Loughhead was awarded a verdict for $5000, by a 

 jury at Akron, Ohio, on February 13, in his suit against the 

 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. for $15,000 damages, claimed 

 for injuries sustained on account of a broken leg, on November 

 4, 1901, while working at a rubber tubing machine in the de- 

 fendant's factory. He claimed that a clutch with which he at- 

 tempted to stop the machine failed to work, and that his injury 

 was the result. 



= The Hohmann & Maurer Manufacturing Co. (Rochester, 

 New York), manufacturers of special thermometers and pres- 

 sure gages, whose goods are well known among rubber manu- 

 facturers, are erecting a large modern factory with some 60,000 

 feet of floor space, which they expect to have in working order 

 not later than August or September of this year. While this 

 will not of necessity improve the quality of " H. & M." goods, 

 which are standard, it will enable the company better to take 

 care of their largely increasing business. 



= The Omaha (Nebraska) i?^if reported, on February 12, on 

 the rubber footwear trade : " The demand for rubber goods 

 last week was exceptionally heavy for the time of year. Most 

 of the orders were sent by express. The large number of 

 these filling-in orders received last week shows conclusively 

 that this long continued cold weather and snow has practically 

 exhausted retailers' stocks so that the amount of goods carried 

 over will be very small." 



= A young man named McLeod was arrested at Buffalo, New 

 York, on February 4, charged with attempting to obtain $2800 

 worth of diamonds from a prominent New York jewelry firm 

 by representing himself to be Edward R. Rice, a wholesale 

 rubber goods dealer of Buflfalo. 



=The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts) ac- 

 cording to a late report were running their press and heating 

 departments 24 hours a day, and other departments three 

 nights a week until 9 o'clock, owing to having received orders 

 largely in excess of any previous season. 



= Nearly 600 appeals were made from the increased valua- 

 tions on property made by the board of assessors at Bloom- 

 field, New Jersey. Among the appeals was one of the Combi- 

 nation Rubber Manufacturing Co., who obtained a reduction of 

 $13,030 on the official valuation of their personal property. 



= At the " Alice " mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. (Woon- 

 socket, Rhode Island) the makers of arctics and lumberman's 

 shoes have been working full time, and the production has been 

 increased by 400 pairs per day. 



= The plant of the Massillon Rubber Co. (Massillon, Ohio), 

 erected two years ago and operated for a few months in the 

 manufacture of a few specialties, has been purchased by 

 George Rhine, of Massillon, who hopes to have it in opera- 

 tion shortly. 



= Mr. John J. Nevin, of Jersey City, New Jersey, has been 

 appointed general agent of The Bloomingdale Soft Rubber 

 Works, (Paterson, New Jersey), manufactures of reclaimed and 

 devulcanized rubber, to succeed the late Mr. Pitt Barrows, who 

 has filled that position for 14 years. 



= The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), have lately made 

 some good shipments to South America, one feature of inter- 

 est of which is the inclusion of some belting of larger size than 

 it has been usual to send to that part of the world. Also, good 

 shipments to Australia. 



