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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 1, 1905. 



=The Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co. are making at 

 their works at Bayonne, New Jersey, on an order from the 

 United States government, 200 miles of rubber insulated sub- 

 marine cable to connect Valdez with Seward, Alaska. Valdez 

 is the present northern terminus of the new cable line from 

 Seattle, Washington state, made by the Safety company and 

 reported in The India Rubber World, November i, 1904 

 [page 53]. 



= The Standard Underground Cable Co. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 

 have discontinued their agency arrangements on the Pacific 

 coast, and established a Pacific coast branch in charge of Mr. 

 A. B. Saurman, with offices in the Rialto building. San Fran- 

 cisco. There will be sub-sales offices at Los Angeles, Califor- 

 nia, and Portland, Oregon. The company's factory at Oakland, 

 California (the only factory west of the Mississippi equipped 

 with lead presses for cable insulation work), is reported to have 

 been unusually busy for several months past. 



= In the last thirteen days of March the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co. shipped more than 42,000 cases of goods, which is a record 

 few shoe companies have ever equalled and shows that " Bos- 

 tons " retain their old time popularity. 



= The Maine Rubber Shoe Co. (Portland, Maine), a corpora- 

 tion formed in 1904 to job rubber footwear, have voted to in- 

 crease the number of directors from three to four. 



= The Woonsocket Rubber Co. are to take out 8 boilers now 

 in service at their " Alice " mill, at Woonsocket, and replace 

 them with 7 new horizontal return tubular boilers, 18 feet 4 

 inches long and 72 inches diameter, to be built by the D. M. 

 Dillon Steam Boiler Works (Fitchburg, Mass.). The mill will 

 not be closed while the new boilers are being installed, which 

 probably will be during the summer. 



= It is reported that negotiations are in progress for the mer- 

 ger of the Mount Vernon-Woodberry Cotton Duck Co. (Balti- 

 more) with the United States Cotton Duck Corporation. 



= A large number of the boot makers of the Edgeworth fac- 

 tory of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. are reported to have been 

 transferred to the company's Fells factory in Melrose. 



=Charles P. Kelly, formerly with Morgan & Wright (Chi- 

 cago), but more recently on the executive stafT of The Canadian 

 Rubber Co. of Montreal as deputy manager of the Moulded 

 Goods department, has been promoted by this prominent com- 

 pany to the positionof superintendent of the Mechanical Goods 

 factory. 



= The Independent Rubber Co. (Fort Wayne, Indiana), 

 wholesalers of rubber boots and shoes, handling the Hood 

 Rubber Co.'s brands exclusively, have removed to larger quar- 

 ters. No. 121 East Columbia street. They now have 13 sales- 

 men on the road. 



= Charles B. Raymond on April 24 became acting secretary 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), with the title of as- 

 sistant secretary. On account of the illness for the past year 

 or more of Mr. R. P. Marvin, so long secretary of the company, 

 he has not been able to have active charge of the office. 



= The circuit court at Akron, Ohio, has affirmed the verdict 

 of the common pleas court awarding to Addison McClurg $1500 

 damages for injuries sustained while employed in the company's 

 factory. McClurg won on the first trial, but a higher court re- 

 versed the verdict. A second trial resulted in a similar ver- 

 dict, and the defendant based an appeal upon a count of al- 

 leged errors. 



= Mr. John J. McGill, who has been identified for years with 

 the rubber industry in Canada, has become connected with the 

 management of The Durham Rubber Co., Limited, of Bowman- 

 ville, Ontario, who are planning to rebuild their plant and ex- 

 tend their capacity. 



= The National India Rubber Co. have hitherto sold practi- 

 cally their entire outfit from the home office at Bristol, but on 

 April I a marked change in the selling system was inaugurated, 

 ivith a view to a systematic division and distribution of the work, 

 which, it is believed, will greatly increase their facilities and 

 volume of business. Henceforth there will be four selling agen- 

 cies : (I) The National India Rubber Co. will cover from their 

 Bristol office the New England states. New Jersey, New York 

 city, and Philadelphia; (2) The Iroquois Rubber Co. (Buffalo, 

 N. Y.) will cover the greater part of New York state and Penn- 

 sylvania, and eastern Ohio; (3) the Chicago Rubber Shoe Co. 

 will cover the western territory, and (4) the Maryland Rubber 

 Co. (Baltimore) the south and southeast. 



= It is understood that the Morgan & Wright factory is to be 

 removed from Chicago to Detroit, the Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co., who own it, having decided to establish a plant 

 in the latter city. 



= Mr. Leon Ekert, of Ekert Brothers, Hamburg, agents of the 

 United States Rubber Co., for Germany and other continental 

 countries, will be on this side of the Atlantic until the middle 

 of May, and may be addressed in care of the United States com- 

 pany in regard to any novelties in rubber which manufacturers 

 may have to offer. 



= The factory of the American Rubber Co., at Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, was closed for the annual inventory for the last 

 three days of the week ending April i, and work was resumed 

 on Monday, April 3. 



= Charged with hazing Charles A. Bolt, a fellow employe in 

 the Lycoming Rubber Co., George T. Ellis, A. M. Rhoades and 

 Roy Winner, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, have been made 

 joint defendants in a suit for $10,000 damages. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The governor of Connecticut, the Hon. Henry Roberts 

 was entertained at luncheon in the new dining rooms at the 

 office of the Hartford Rubber Works Co. on April i, the party 

 including several officials of the rubber company and also of 

 the Electric Vehicle Co. and the Pope Manufacturing Co. 

 Governor Roberts and his party were taken in automobiles to 

 the rubber works, over which the state flag was flying, in rec- 

 ognition of the visit of the chief magistrate. 



= Colonel Frank L. Locke, general superintendent of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co., as president of the Alumni Associa- 

 tion of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is doing ex- 

 cellent work in throwing light upon and opposing the merger 

 that has been suggested between the Institute and Harvard 

 University. As an increasing number of " Tech " men arecon- 

 nected with the rubber trade it will interest them to know that 

 in all probability the individuality of their excellent technical 

 school will be preserved. 



= Mr. Harry Keene, secretary of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co., and Mr. Leonard Richards, president of the Boston 

 Artificial Leather Co., were among the tenants of the apartment 

 house. No. 281 Fifth avenue. New York, which building was 

 burned on the night of March 25. They were obliged to leave 

 their rooms hastily, without waiting to secure any of their 

 valuables. 



=:Mr. William R. Dupee, of Boston, president of the Ameri- 

 can Rubber Co., and Mrs. Hadassah Mackintire.of Watertown, 

 Mass., were married in Grace Church, at Newton, on April 19. 

 Colonel Samuel P. Colt was best man. 



= Mr. Charles R. Flint is in St. Petersburg, mentioned in 

 connection with several representatives of gun and armor- 

 plate manufacturing firms seeking to do business with the 

 Russian government. 



