July i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



351 



= Important contracts for equipment for the new factory of 

 Morgan & Wright (Detroit, Michigan) have been placed with 

 the Dodge Manufacturing Co. (Mishawaka, Indiana). It is 

 stated that 30 railway cars will be required (orshipping the first 

 installment of pulleys, shafting, and the like required for the 

 new factory. 



= The Massachusetts Chemical Co. have been making impor- 

 tant extensions in their plant at Walpole, Massachusetts, in- 

 cluding the erection of an extensive separate office building to 

 which their general offices will be transferred from Boston early 

 in luly. The Boston selling office will be continued at the 

 present address. No. 200 Summer street. Mr. C. E. Karringlon, 

 of this company, has been devoting much study of late to the 

 steam turbine system, which has been adopted at the factory. 



= The place of business of the Frazer & Geyer Co., manufac- 

 turers of fountain pens. No. 22 Thames street, New York, has 

 been attached by the sheriff, in the suit of Isaac E. Chapman, a 

 former president of the company, on notes aggregating $20,000, 

 with interest. It is stated that the litigation is due to internal 

 dissensions, that there are no trade debts, and that the com- 

 pany will be reorganized. 



^Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) 

 sued in the Mercer county supreme court to recover $6800 from 

 Morris Brothers (Yardville, N. J.) for alleged breach of contract, 

 the complaint relating to the delivery of a certain quantity of 

 cotton duck for use in belting. On June 2 the jury in the case 

 returned a verdict awarding $217.1 1 to the plaintiff, who, it is 

 understood, will appeal. 



= Mr. Edward R. Rice, manager of branch stores of the 

 United States Rubber Co., was master of ceremonies at the Buf- 

 falo Art (iallery on the occasion of the recent address by Pres- 

 ident Eliot, of Harvard University. 



= In Chicago, Peabody, Houghteling & Co. have made a loan 

 of $25,000 for five years at 4J2 per cent, interest to the Rubber 

 Paint Co., secured by the plant of the latter, 41 )< 165 feet, with 

 seven story building, at Nos. 36-38 Boston avenue, and three 

 story building at Nos. 161 163 Van Buren street. 



= The Fulton Rubber Type Co. (Elizabeth, New Jersey) in- 

 clude in their production printing outfits for boys, which are 

 referred to as meeting an especially good demand in Spain, 

 They export to many other countries, but mainly goods for 

 moie practical business uses. 



= A convention of the St. Francis River Improvement Asso- 

 ciation, devoted to the improvement of the St. Francis river, 

 in Arkansas, was held in Memphis on June 22, under the au- 

 spices of the three leading commercial bodies of that city, the 

 invitations being extended in the name of the city. The India 

 RliBBER World is indebted for an invitation to Mr. H. N. 

 Towner (of Towner & Co., Inc.), a member of the committee 

 on arrangements. 



=" Advertising for Profit " is the title of a readable booklet 

 issued by the Manufacturers' Advertising Bureau (New York), 

 in relation to their system of taking charge of the advertising 

 o( manufacturers in special journals, as organized by Mr. Ben- 

 jamin R. Western and conducted under his charge for more 

 than a quarter century. 



= A patent controlled by B. F. Sturtevant Co. (Boston), has 

 just been issued for a special type of exhaust hood for grinding 

 and polishing wheels. Its special feature consists of a recepta- 

 cle to catch the particles of solid matter passing from the 

 wheel. The suction being controlled so that it is not quite 

 sufficient to draw them away, these particles fall to the bottom 

 and are there collected, while the practically free air passes 

 through a collector where the last vestige of dust is removed. 

 The receptacle can be readily emptied when it becomes filled, 



and its use avoids excessive wear on the exhaust fan, piping 

 and collector. The hood is so designed with hinges and clips 

 that the wheel may be readily removed or adjusted to fit the 

 wheel as it wears to a smaller diameter. The outlet is connect- 

 ed to the exhaust fan, and a shield, a swivel plate and an ex- 

 tension slide may be adjusted so as to more fully enclose the 

 wheel and prevent the discharge of particles into the room. 



= Peter Matroni, aged 18, employed in the factory of the Na- 

 tional India Rubber Co., as a supposed result of brooding over 

 the impending fate of Mrs. Mary Rogers, convicted of murder in 

 \'erni<mt, hanged himself while alone in the room where he 

 worked. 



= The American Rubber Reclaiming Co.^W. C. Coleman, 

 manager — has acquired the premises at Rochelle Park, New 

 Jersey, at one time occupied as a reclaiming plant by John B. 

 Romaine, and begun the reclaiming of rubber by the mechani- 

 cal process. The business of W. C. Coleman Co., dealers in 

 rubber scrap and second hand rubber machinery, has been re- 

 moved from Setauket, Long Island, to Rochelle Park. 



= The aggregate output of the various factories whose pro- 

 duct is sold by the United States Rubber Co. is greater at the 

 present time than ever before in their history. Last year most 

 of these factories ran at their maximum capacity, but the pres- 

 ent output is considerably in excess of last year, owing to the 

 fact that during the past twelvemonth the facilities of nearly 

 all of these factories have been materially increased. 



= M. Norton t'i Co. (Boston) dealers in waste rubber, suffered 

 $10,000 damages by fire to their place of business at Medford on 

 |une iS. It is understood that the loss was covered by insur- 

 ance. 



=3The Tennis shoes introduced by the United States Rubber 

 Co. ten or eleven years ago have increased steadily in popular- 

 ity with every year, the output in some years being over 100 

 per cent, of the preceding year. At present the factory is run- 

 ning on a larger ticket than ever before in its history, and the 

 1905 Tennis output will materially exceed the very large output 

 of last year. 



= Tyer Rubber Co. (Andover, Massachusetts), following 

 their custom of many ytars, closed their factory on June 30, 

 for 10 days. 



= William Hodgkinson has resigned from the position of 

 superintendent of the factory of the National India Rubber Co. 

 (Bristol, Rhode Island). He had been with the company for 

 12 years, and during the period when H. H. Shepard was gen- 

 eral manager filled the position of assistant general manager. 



= Retailers who handle the "Boston" rubbers (and they 

 number somewhere from 30,000 to 40,000) will be well supplied 

 with attractive advertising matter for the coming season, as the 

 company has planned a generous campaign. The pretty little 

 black and red stickers that the retailers are using now are sim- 

 ply the first installment of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.'s ad- 

 vertising plan. 



= A New York newspaper mentions the activity of a woman 

 canvasser as having resulted recently in the sale of about 6000 

 rubber collars to members of the police force. 



= A cablegram was received at the New York office of the 

 United States Rubber Co. on June 24 from Mr. E. H. Paine, 

 their manager of sales, announcing his safe arrival in Europe 

 after a very pleasant voyage. 



= The two rubber factories at Naugatuck, Connecticut, will 

 be closed about the middle of July — the Goodyear Glove com- 

 pany for two weeks and the Wales-Goodyear for a longer 

 period, in order to install a new engine. 



= The Wales-Goodyear Shoe Co. have always been famous 

 for the care with which their goods are made. This is true of 



