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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1905. 



regard to the construction up to the present time. He had 

 not mentioned the new Atlantic cable [See The India Rub- 

 ber World, March i, 1915 — page 208] because the arrange- 

 ments for it were not absolutely completed, but he had pleasure 

 in informing them that they had made arrangements for the 

 construction of that cable, and they would be putting it in 

 hand before long. They had got the business to do, and would 

 do it before the end of the year. 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



Mr. Adam Cairns has retired from the important firm of 

 Achnach & Co., waterproofing manufacturers. Thistle Rubber 

 Mills, Glasgow, after a connection of 18 years, having been lat- 

 terly their manager. He is engaging in business on his own 

 account, at 98, Commerce street, Glasgow, as a manufacturer 

 of mechanicals, and waterproofer for the trade. At a meeting 

 of the employes of Messrs. Achnach & Co., Mr. Cairns was pre- 

 sented with a token of their esteem. 



= The works of the India Rubber Manufacturing Co. at 

 Deptford, London, were offered for sale by order of the mort- 

 gagees on February 16, having been valued at about ^^17,000. 

 The bidding failed to reach /5000, however, and the property 

 was withdrawn. 



= The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Limited, at the recent 

 Olympia automobile show in London, exhibited in their booth 

 several relics of interest to the trade, including a specimen of 

 the first pneumatic tire, made in 1845 under R. W. Thompson's 

 British patent, and fitted to a coach wheel. 



= On January 7 an issue of ^17,000 out of ;£20,ooo first mort- 

 gage debentures was made by the reorganized company. The 

 New Eccles Rubber Co., Limited. The trustees are Messrs. H. 

 A. and P. A. Birley, directors of Messrs. Charles Macintosh & 

 Co., Limited. 



GERMANY. 



The German rubber industry was very fully represented at 

 the recent international automobile exhibition in Berlin, most 

 of the leading factories in the technical (mechanical) branch 

 having displays of tires for automobiles, and in a number of 

 cases for motorcycles and bicycles as well, together with inner 

 tubes, repair outfits, and the like. The principal foreign exhib- 

 itors in this department were the North British Rubber Co., 

 Limited, the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., and Michelin & Co., 

 the latter two companies being represented through their Ger- 

 man branches, located at Hanau and Frankfort o/M., respec- 

 tively. 



=The Aktiengesellschaft Metzler & Co. (Munich) have 

 granted to Herrn C. Graupner, Naschmarkt 3, Leipzig, the 

 agency for the sale of their technical and surgical goods in 

 Saxony. 



= The Rumiinische Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft has 

 been organized in Berlin with a capital of 1,000,000 marks 

 [=§238,000], in connection with the Allgemeine Elektriziliits- 

 Gesellschaft, for carrying on the electrical trade in Rumania. 



= Herr Leon Ekert has again become a member of the rub- 

 ber shoe firm Ekert Brothers, Bei den Miihren, 48, Hamburg, 

 large dealers in American goods. 



= Friedrich Richter, since January 9, 1880, porter in the em- 

 ploy of the firm of Gustav Krieg, dealers in rubber goods, 

 Leipsic, recently celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary of his 

 connection with the house. Herr Hans Krieg, head of the 

 firm, deposited a handsome sum in a savings bank to the credit 

 of the faithful employe, who also received a number of presents 

 from the start of the firm. 



= Mannheimer Gummi-, Guttapercha-, und Asbest-Fabrik 

 was not able to declare a dividend for 1903, but is reported to 



have experienced an improvement in business, and may declare 

 a small dividend for 1904. The capital is 1,125,800 marks, and 

 the 1902 dividend 5 per cent. 



= At the beginning of the year a strike existed at the Mittel- 

 deutschen Gummiwaaren-Fabrik Louis Peter (Frankfort o/M.), 

 but the Gummi-Zeiluni; reported a fortnight later that the 

 wjrks were being operated with a full quota of hands and that 

 no damage had been sustained by the company. The reported 

 cause of the strike was the discharge of an employe for disre- 

 spectful remarks in regard to the firm, after he had refused to 

 apologize. Thereupon those emplo)c3 who belonged to the 

 Socialdemokratischen organization (about 120 in number) quit 

 work, and refused all overtures frc m the firm for a friendly un- 

 derstanding. 



RUSSIAN MAILS BAR CELLULOID. 



THE general administration of the Russian posts and tele- 

 graphs has informed the postal departments that the pro- 

 hibition of the forwarding of Celluloid and Celluloid goods 

 from foreign countries into Russia includes not only parcel post 

 packages, but likewise goods sent in open wrapper, sealed let- 

 ters, and packages with declared value. The postoffices have 

 therefore been instructed to deal with matter of the kind de- 

 scribed above, and coming from foreign countries, in accord- 

 ance with the following rules : 



Whenever, on opening the mail bags, packages in open 

 wrapper containing Celluloid goods exclusively are found in 

 such postoffices (including railroad mail cars) as have a direct 

 exchange of foreign mail, such packages are not to be turned 

 over to the custom house, but must be destroyed. If, however, 

 such packages in open wrapper contain other goods besides Cel- 

 luloid goods, only the latter are to be destroyed, and the remain- 

 ing goods under the same wrapper are to be forwarded to the 

 addressee in accordance with the general rules. Ordinary or 

 registered sealed letters and packages with declared value 

 marked on the envelope as containing Celluloid goods, received 

 from foreign countries in such postoffices (including railroad 

 mail cars) as have a direct exchange of foreign mail, are to be 

 opened at such postoffices, and to be dealt with in the manner 

 described above. 



If the envelopes of ordinary or registered sealed letters or 

 packages with declared value from foreign countries, and re- 

 ceived at such postoffices having direct exchange of foreign 

 mail, are not marked as containing Celluloid goods — the cus- 

 toms inspection, however, showing that they do contain such 

 goods — the Celluloid goods are to be removed in the presence 

 of the postal official present at such inspection. Such letters 

 and packages are thereupon to be delivered to the local post- 

 office, together with the Celluloid goods which have been re- 

 moved, and an ofl!icial statement drawn up at the time of the 

 inspection, the Celluloid goods to be destroyed at such post- 

 office, and the remaining contents, if any, to be forwarded to 

 the addressee in accordance with the general rules. 



A statement is likewise to be drawn up in regard the de- 

 struction at the postoffice, of the above described mail matter 

 or of that part of it consisting in Celluloid goods, such state- 

 ment to be presented to the addressee at the time the remain- 

 ing contents of the letters or packages are delivered. 



The prohibition of the forwarding by mail of Celluloid goods 

 from foreign countries, includes, moreover, ordinary and regis- 

 tered postal cards made from Celluloid. Such postal cards are 

 therefore destroyed at such postoffice, having a direct exchange 

 of foreign mail, at which they are received, and an official 

 statement is drawn up, verifying such destruction. 



