August i, 1905.] 



IHE INDIA RUBBER \A^ORLD 



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= Referring to newspaper reports of a strike at the factory of 

 the Davol Kubber Co. (Providence, Rhode Island), about the 

 middle of the month, it is understood that the whole affair was 

 of little importance and bore no relation to wages. Some 

 changes were made in systemization of the work in one of the 

 departments, and before this became fully understood some of 

 the employes stopped work for a short time. 



= Howard H. McGee, until lately New England representa- 

 tive of the Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), 

 has been transferred to that company's Chicago office, where 

 he will be located as their western representative. He took 

 charge of his new position on July 17. 



= The Keystone Brush Co. (College Point, New York) has 

 been organized lately of rubber brushes and small sundries. C. 

 H. Hoppe is manager. 



=iEdred VV. Clark, machinist, of Hartford, Connecticut, was 

 burned out on June 27, causing a total loss, which was only par- 

 tially covered by insurance. The fire began in a neighboring 

 building and both that and the one which he occupied were en- 

 tirely destroyed. Mr. Clark made a specialty of tubing machines 

 and presses for the rubber industry, and his advertisement in 

 the first issue of The India Rubber World (October, 1889) 

 mentioned him as successor to L. TilTany & Co. 



=Mr. Warren M. Poorman will represent the Rubber Trad- 

 ing Co. (New York) at their Boston office. No. 161 Summer 

 street. 



=There was introduced into the Philadelphia select council 

 on July 6 an ordinance granting the Philadelphia Rubber 

 Works permission to construct a railroad siding on Schuylkill 

 avenue, near Thirty-seventh street. The ordinance was prompt- 

 ly passed by that body and later in common council, and it is 

 understood that work will be begun on the new siding at once. 

 It will greatly facilitate the movement of freight over the dif- 

 ferent adjacent railroads to and from the rubber company's 

 works, which are the largest in Philadelphia. 



= The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. are laying pipes to 

 connect the new cottages built for their employees with the 

 town water system. 



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

 have established a branch at San Francisco for the better man- 

 agement of the trade in Fisk tires on the Pacific coast, which 

 will be in charge of Mr. G. E. Johnson, with headquarters at 

 No. 409 Golden Gate avenue. 



=The Edgeworth factory of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 

 has not been operated on Saturday afternoons since the first of 

 July, and the same program will be continued through Au- 

 gust, the " ticket " being reduced to enable the employes to 

 finish the week's work by Saturday noon. 



= The brick work in connection with the installing of new 

 boilers at the " Alice " mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. is 

 being done by Michael McLaughlin, who had the contract for 

 the brick work when this factory was erected, in 1889-90. 



= The annual shutdown of the factory of the Lambertville 

 Rubber Co. (Lambertville, New Jersey), for inventory and re- 

 pairs, occurred this year as usual in July, the resumption of 

 work being due about August i. The company are understood 

 to be well provided with orders for footwear. 



= In the matter of the Cable Rubber Co., in bankruptcy, the 

 United States court at Boston has declared an additional divi- 

 dend of 4 per cent, for the creditors, making a total of 28 per 

 cent. The company's liabilities were stated originally to total 

 $114,938, with assets of $32,242. 



= Despite the prominence of Akron, Ohio, as a rubber manu- 

 facturing center, it appears that the city fire apparatus there 

 has never been equipped with rubber tires. One of the local 



manufacturers, therefore, offered to supply such ecjuipment 

 recently at a specially low price, but it was decided by the mun- 

 icipal authorities that the city was not in a financial position to 

 purchase rubber tires for the fire engines and hose carts, at any 

 price. 



= Mr. William II. Goodyear, son of the late Charles Good- 

 year, and curator of the museum of fine arts of the Brooklyn 

 Institute, was reported lately to be in Venice, whither he had 

 gone to study the projected restorations of the famous basilica 

 of St. Mark. 



=The statue of Charles Goodyear, of heroic size, which stood 

 in front of the Manufacturers' building at the St. Louis Expo- 

 sition last year, has been presented to the Goodyear Rubber 

 Co., and is on exhibition at their St. Louis store. 



= Benjamin H. Pratt, of Chicago, has filed a petition m vol- 

 untary bankruptcy in the United States district court in that 

 city, stating his liabilities at $99,308.78, and assets at $93. 

 Most of his liabilities relate to the time when he was president 

 of the Manufacturers' Agents and Supply Co., the Chicago 

 branch of the Elastic Tip Co. (Boston) prior to the embarrass- 

 ment of the latter concern in 1898. 



= At Silver Lake Park (Akron, Ohio) on July S a baseball 

 game between nines from the factories of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. and the Mechanical Rubber Co. (Cleveland) was won by 

 the former by a score of 10 to i. 



= Mr. James W. Franklin who, at the beginning of last month 

 was made assistant superintendent of the factory of the National 

 India Rubber Co., has been a member of the town council of 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, for seven years, and president for six 

 years. 



=The Republic Rubber Tire and Shoe Co., Inc. — F. E. Mc- 

 Ewen, manager (New York) have consolidated their factory and 

 offices at Nos. 449-451 West Fifty-third street. 



= The Tanganyika Rubber and Trading Co. have filed arti- 

 cles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state of 

 Montana, with $50,000 capital stated. The incorporators are 

 Roland H. Creech, C. F. Bergstrand, and Robert Haydn — all 

 citizens of Butte, Montana. It is understood that the object of 

 the company is to trade in rubber in the Lake Tanganyika 

 region, in Central Africa. 



=Aiton Machine Co. have just issued their Bulletin No. 49, 

 showing one of the many sizes of washers for rubber work 

 which they are building. Copies of this bulletin may be had 

 upon application at their New York office. No. 126 Liberty 

 street. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. S. H. C. Miner, president of the Granby Rubber Co. 

 (Granby, Quebec), spent a week or ten days, early in July, at 

 Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Miner has been for years 

 interested in mining and industrial interests in that province, 

 and in interviews reported in the Vancouver press he declared 

 his confidence in the continuation and growth of its prosperity. 



= Mr. Charles R. Flint was reported on July 13 to be at 

 Stockholm, in conference with the Swedish minister of marine. 

 The opinion was expressed that the subject was the transfer to 

 Sweden of warships which certain South American republics 

 are said to be willing to sell. 



= Mr. Charles A. Coe, of Boston, whose right arm has been 

 practically useless for a month or more, has just gone through 

 with an operation which is designed to release certain muscles 

 and make the arm as good as new. It will delight his many 

 friends to know that the operation was wholly successful and 

 that he will be able soon to give his friends the right hand of 

 fellowship as heartily as of yore. 



