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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



THE FIRST RUBBER SHOES MADK IN AKRON. 



ON Monday, July 31, The B. F.Goodrich Co. made what 

 was undoubtedly the first pair of shoes manufactured in 

 Akron. These were simply samples, made to try pat- 

 terns, but they mark an epoch in the development of 

 the rubber industry in a city which has become the largest 

 rubber manufacturing center in the world. Since August i 

 the company have been making sample shoes in the various 

 styles they intend to manufacture, and within a few weeks 

 will be turning out a regular ticket. The new buildings to 

 be devoted to their rubber footwear department are practically 

 complete and the machinery installed. It is understood that 

 the company employ many distinctive features in connection 

 with the shoe manufacture. 



ENLARGEMENT OF A TRENTON FACTORY. 

 The extensive new addition to the plant of the United and 

 Globe Manufacturing Cos. (Trenton, New Jersey), first men- 

 tioned in The India Ruhrer World, February i, 1905 (page 

 171), and which is intended to double the productive capacity 

 of company, will be completed, it is thought, by October i. 

 The buildings are under roof, and the machinery is being 

 put in position. On August 4 the big smokestack, whose 

 summit is the highest point in Trenton, was finished, and the 

 occasion was marked by a brief ceremony which included 

 the surmounting of the stack by an American flag. The new 

 plant is equipped with a 750 HP. Allis Chalmers steam engine, 

 and the principal new building is to be devoted to the man- 

 ufacture of hose, belting, and packing. 



EUREKA FIRE HOSE CO. IN THE SOUTH. 



Mr. p. O. Hebert, No. 615 Peters building, Atlanta, Georgia 

 will hereafter represent the Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York) 

 as general sales agent for the exclusive sale of their products in 

 the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Texas, and Okla- 

 homa and Indian territories. Associated with Mr. Hebert will 

 be Mr. D. E. McGaw, located at Dallas, Texas ; Mr. H. H. Al- 

 gis, at Charlotte, North Carolina; and Mr. C. B. Payne, New 

 Orleans. Mr. Hebert succeeds the late Mr. Warwick H. 

 Payne, whose death is reported on another page. 



REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. — A NEW LINE. 

 The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) have decided 

 to add automobile tires to their line of manufacture, making 

 a tire in conjunction with a patented attachable automobile 

 rim which has been tested to the company's satisfaction. Their 

 automobile tire department has been placed in charge of Mr. 

 Todd Mell, who has been identified with the tire industry at 

 Akron for several years. 



FABRIC FIRE HOSE CO. 

 The executive oflices of the Fabric Fire Hose Co., formerly 

 of No. 68 Murray street. New York, have been transferred to 

 the Graham building, corner of Duane and Church streets. The 

 new quarters are commodious and handsomely equipped, and 

 in every respect well adapted to the handling of increased bus- 

 iness which rendered the former offices inadequate. This de- 

 partment, which is the headquarters of W. T. Cole, general 

 manager, is very accessible to the trade, who will certainly find 

 it a pleasant place to visit. The former office quarters, at No. 

 68 Murray street, are retained as a shipping department. The 

 company have recently issued a booklet entitled " Fire Engi- 



neers Hand Book, "which containsvaluableinformation concern- 

 ing hydraulics and fire hose, as well as a comprehensive expo- 

 sition of first aid to the injured. This instructive and interest- 

 ing publication m.iy be had upon request. 



GOOD SELLING WORK APPRECIATED. 



Following the recent annual meeting of the Hartford Rub- 

 ber Works Co. a substantial sum of money was distributed 

 anong the branch managers and traveling representatives, in ad- 

 dition to their regular incomes. For two years past the com- 

 pany has been giving special attention to certain improvements 

 in the Djnlop tire and rim, in the marketing of which of late 

 they appear to have been very successful. An official of the 

 company advises The India Rubber World ; 



"The success of the tire, and the good work of our selling force, 

 has been so marked that the directors felt compelled to show 

 ti.eir appreciation in a tangible form and therefore appropriated 

 a part of the profits for the past half year for distribution among 

 the branch managers and traveling representatives. That you 

 may fully understand the reason for this action, we would ex- 

 plain that while in 1903 and the early part of 1904. we, as auto- 

 mobile tire manufacturers, were at the bottom of the list, in 

 1905 we climbed to the top." 



ENTERPRISING HARTFORD. 

 A RECENT special edition of the Hartford (Connecticut) Tel- 

 egram, devoted to an exposition of the extensive and varied in- 

 dustries of that city, presents a unique feature in the shape of 

 the formal signatures, '\n facsimile, of several hundred corpora- 

 tions, firms, and individuals— leaders in their respective branches 

 of business— signed to a " proclamation " of Hartford's advan- 

 tages as a location for manufacturing and business. There is 

 also a series of descriptions of representative houses, including 

 the Hartford Rubber Works Co., so prominent in the produc- 

 tion of rubber tires, and The fohns-Pratt Co., makers of the 

 " Valcabeston " (rubber and asbestos) packings. 



THE ALLING RUBBER CO. 



The ninth rubber goods store in Connecticut operated under 

 the name The Ailing Rubber Co. was opened at No. 139 Bank 

 street, Waterbury, at the last of June, with W. C. Minor, lately 

 of Bridgeport, local manager. The Waterbury business is 

 owned by the corporation The Ailing Rubber Co., of New 

 Haven, which operates also the stores at New Haven, Bridge- 

 port, and Meriden. The capital stock of this company was in- 

 creased from $24,000 to $40,000 at the time of opening the 

 Waterbury store. The stores at Stamford, New Britain, Hart- 

 ford, Norwich, and New London, though owned by the same 

 interest, are operated independently of the corporation referred 

 to. All these stores reported a fair average trade for the sea- 

 son in garden hose, and the general business throughout Con- 

 necticut was good. 



OUTING OF RUBBER MEN AT AKRON. 



Employes of The B. F. Goodrich Co., the American Hard 

 Rubber Co.. and the Alkali Rubber Co. held a joint picnic 

 on August 12 at Silver Lake near Akron, Ohio, which 

 it was estimated was attended by 10,000 people, includ- 

 ing members of the employes' families and their friends. 

 C. S. Eddy, of the Goodrich company, was general 

 chairman, and the chairmen of the committees were as fol- 

 lows: H. E. Joy, transportation; E. H. Koken, music; H. K. 

 Raymond, entertainment ; John Joseph, sports. The Hard Rub- 



