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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 



1905. 



compounds, which places it within the list of rubber factories. 

 =^ The company has favored us with one of its books of tables, 

 which is very comprehensive and well arranged, as well as 

 being a handsome publication. 



THE SWINEHART CLINCHER TIRE AND RUBBER CO. 

 This company was mentioned in our last issue as having ac- 

 quired the factory of the Rubber Specialty Co. (Akron, Ohio), 

 with the intention of manufacturing their own tires in future. 

 The formalities attending the transfer of the property were 

 concluded on April 4. The premises acquired include a three 

 story brick building, with basement, 65 X 20 feet, well equipped 

 with machinery. The company started grinding rubber on 

 April II. In connection with the patented Swinehart motor 

 tires, the company e.xpect to manufacture rubber tired truck 

 wheels on a considerable scale. 



THE MITZEL RUBBER CO. (CARROLLTON, OHlO). 

 This company has broken ground for a new building for use 

 as a press room, 40 X 40 feet, for which they have plans com- 

 pleted and the material purchased. After this building is 

 ready for use the entire factory will be rearranged, an addi- 

 tional number of presses being put in and new machinery in- 

 stalled. The company are understood to have been very suc- 

 cessful in their new location, and to be preparing to take up 

 some new linesof production for which still other new buildings 

 will be required. 



NO MERGER OF CANADIAN RUBBER COMPANIES. 

 The India Rubber World has the best authority for stat- 

 ing that there is no basis of fact for the recent published 

 newspaper reports pointing to an amalgamation of the four 

 largest rubber manufacturing companies in Canada. 



NEW RUBBER INSULATED CABLE FOR MEXICO. 



A CONTRACT has been awarded by the Mexican government 

 to The Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co. (New York) for the 

 construction of a triplex double armored submarine cable, 

 which is to be laid across the Terminos lagoon, near Yucatan, 

 to connect with the government telegraph system of that prov- 

 ince. This cable is being made under the same specifications 

 as that made by the same company and now in operation be- 

 tween Vera Cruz, Frontera, and Campeche — a nine conductor 

 cable, with India-rubber insulation, and 472 nautical miles in 

 length. [See The India Rubber World, January 1,1902 — 

 page 1 16.1 The company are informed by the government 

 that the former cable has been in continuous service, transmit- 

 ting about 3000 messages daily, and in every way proving sat- 

 isfactory. It is referred to as having been entirely free from 

 trouble from the teredo, which has so greatly shortened the 

 life of Gutta-percha cables in tropical waters. 



THE CONSUMERS RUBBER CO. (BRISTOL, R. I.) 



This company, the incorporation of which was reported in 

 The India Rubber World last month [page 246] has been 

 organized with Terrence McCarty president and treasurer, and 

 Nathan W. McCarty secretary. The company has acquired the 

 land and buildings and machinery formerly used by the Byfield 

 Rubber Co., of Bristol, which will be known as factory No. i, 

 and used for the manufacture of insulated wires and cables. 

 The new two story building on the premises will be known as 

 factory No. 3 and devoted to the production of mechanical 

 goods and sundries. The company has installed a new 300 HP. 

 Harris-Corliss engine and added considerable new machinery. 

 Sample goods have been produced since early in the month 

 and some shipments have been made.^=^The Byfield Rubber 

 Co. was incorporated September 10, 1897. and engaged princi- 

 pally in making rubber footwear, the production of which in- 

 creased to 4500 pairs daily. The factory was closed in Novem- 



ber, 1901. Terrence McCarty was general manager during this 

 period and later was engaged for some time in the manufacture 

 of rubber shoes on the same premises. 



HARDMAN RUBBER CO. — ACCIDENT. 

 The bursting of a 10 ton flywheel in the factory of the Hard- 

 man Rubber Co. (Belleville, New Jersey), on April 10, caused 

 considerable damage, the repairing of which required the rest 

 of the month. An auxiliary engine was uninjured, however, 

 and all departments, with the exception of the grinding and 

 callendering rooms, continued in operation. Assistance was at 

 once tendered by two other rubber concerns, one in mixing 

 stock and another in calendering, so that the Hardman com- 

 pany have been able to fill orders with very little delay. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. 

 United States Rubber Co. : 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



DATES. 



Weekending Mar. 25 

 Week ending Apr. i 

 Week ending Apr. 8 

 Weekending Apr. i? 

 Week ending Apr. 20 



Common. 



Sales. 



62.400 

 71,110 

 36.225 

 26,320 

 17,900 



High. 



31 



35K 



35?< 



33'A 



Low. 



25?8 



29 '4 

 32H 

 3-i% 

 31 



Prsperred. 



Sales. 



3,100 

 8,300 

 4,025 

 3,220 

 655 



THE NEW CINCINNATI RUBBER FACTORY. 



The pioneer rubber factory of Cincinnati is expected to be 

 in operation by midsummer. Reference was made in The In- 

 dia Rubber World of March i [page 212] to the negotia- 

 tions, in charge ol Mr. W. G. Brown, for the removal to Cin- 

 cinnati of a rubber plant operated for a number ol years by an 

 important concern in another city. The company meant was 

 the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co., with whom Mr. 

 Brown had been connected for several years. He had obtained 

 an option on their rubber factory at Akron, Ohio, and on March 

 30 the option was exercised, a company having been formed in 

 Cincinnati, with $250,000 capital, full paid, for the purpose. 

 The Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co. has been incorpora- 

 ted under the laws of Ohio, and organized by the election of 

 the following officers : 



President — John M. Crawford, m. d. 



Vict Presidfnl and General Manager — W. G. BrowN. 



Secretary — E. W. STRONG. 



Treasury — S. D. Baldwin. 



Additional Directors — James Albert Green, Fred. A. Geier, Samuel 

 Ilillis. 



Dr. Crawford was sometime United States consul general at St. 

 Petersburg. Mr. Brown has been manager of sales of the Whit- 

 man & Barnes company. Among the shareholders is Charles P. 

 Taft, publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Plans have been 

 drawn for a factory, and at last accounts it was thought that 

 the site would be in Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati. A num- 

 ber of the employes of the Akron factory probably will be 

 transferred to the new plant.=^^=The Whitman & Barnes 

 Manufacturing Co. will continue the operation of their Akron 

 works until August i, when the final transfer will be made, and 

 the company will go out of rubber altogether. President C. E. 



