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delegate to the American Federation of Labor. The place for 

 next year's meeting remains to be fixed. 



THE GOODRICH PICTURE BETTKR THAN EVER. 

 Once a year, and usually when dog day weather has taken all 

 joy out of life and left one disgusted and grumpy, comes the pic- 

 torial representation of the " Goodrich Rubber Man's Vaca- 

 tion." It is always original, always mirth provoking. This 

 year it is better than ever. If you have not seen the rubber Don 

 Quixote with his faithful gum elastic Sancho Panza ambling 

 down the pike in search of adventure, and further, if you did 

 not know what happened to the doughty knight when the 

 Goodrich automobile came up behind him, you are missing the 

 best thing of the season. The writer does not know exactly 

 what was in the artist's mind in the way of a moral, but the im- 

 aginative examiner o( this picture can find something that sug- 

 gests existing trade conditions. 



LAST OF THE PRESTON HOSE AND TIRE CO. 

 The property at Marlboro, Massachusetts, sometime occupied 

 by the Preston Hose and Tire Co. was sold on August lo under 

 a mortgage held by a local bank. The company named was or- 

 ganized under Maine laws, in 1899, by James F. Preston, who 

 first carried on a factory at Everett, Mass., for making hose of a 

 special fabric. Later the business was removed to Marlboro on 

 the promise of assistance from citizens, which was not realized. 

 Finally Preston removed his plant to Woodville, Mass., but 

 without getting it in operation, and it is now reported to have 

 been sold to parties at Buffalo. 



THE CLOSED RUBBER FACTORY AT MILLTOWN. 

 The factory at Milltown, New Jersey, some time operated by 

 the Milltown India Rubber Co., was mentioned in The India 

 Rubber World of February last as having been sold to a Mr. 

 Russell to be used in the manufacture of playing cards. The 

 citizens of Milltown became elated over the prospect of the fac- 

 tory being operated again, but a newspaper report states that, 

 on account of the growing control of the playing card business 

 by a trust, the Milltown plant will not be used for this purpose, 

 nor can it be used again for the manufacture of rubber boots 

 and shoes, a clause in the title to the property forbidding that 

 such goods shall be made there again. 



CONFERENCE OF THE FISK RUBBER CO. 

 The annual conference of officers, branch managers, and 

 salesmen of The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts) was held during the week beginning August 2j, being 

 attended by representatives of the company as far distant as 

 the Pacific coast. The company's factory was visited, new 

 tire features explained, and selling methods discussed, The 

 newly created executive committee provided a banquet at the 

 Worthy Hotel, Springfield, on the evening of August 22, fol- 

 lowing which Mr. Burton R. Parker, in behalf of the salesmen, 

 presented the president of the company, Mr. Harry T. Dunn, 

 with a handsome silver service. The executive board referred 

 to includes President Dunn ; Harry G. Fisk, secretary and 

 treasurer ; F. C. Riggs, western sales manager ; E. H. Broad- 

 well, Detroit branch manager ; and Burton R. Parker, adver- 

 tising manager. 



A RUBBER STORE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Granite State Rubber Co., on September 9 will open at 

 Manchester, New Hampshire, the first exclusively rubber store 

 in that state. The company has been incorporated under New 

 Hampshire laws, having as its treasurer Mr. Isaac Crocker, of 

 Providence, Rhode Island, who has been connected with the 

 rubber trade for 35 years. The Manchester store will be man- 

 aged in conjunction with several other stores operated by com- 

 panies of which Mr. Croker is treasurer— at Providence, R. I., 



and Lawrence, Lowell, and Brockton, Massachusetts. The Man- 

 chester store occupies a floor space of 100 X 22 feet and is lo- 

 cated in a modern and attractive building at No. 1030 Elm 

 street. Invitations have been sent to the rubber trade through- 

 out New England, to attend the opening, which is planned to 

 make a gala occasion. The new store will be in charge of H. 

 L. Cropley, as president of the company, who has been con- 

 nected with the other stores mentioned for a number of years. 



COMBINATION RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 Thls company, whose factory at Bloomfield, New Jersey, 

 continues very busy, announce the opening of a branch in Chi- 

 cago, at No. 183 Lake street, where they are carrying a com- 

 plete line of goods, and which will be headquarters for the 

 company's middle Western and Pacific coast trade. This 

 branch is in charge of Mr. V. B. Mcllroy, who has been identi- 

 fied for many years with the mechanical rubber goods trade 

 in the West, and has become widely known in it. At St. Louis 

 another branch has been opened, to handle the Southwestern 

 business, in charge of Mr. John D. Ripley. 



FACTORY ENLARGEMENT AT BATAVIA, NEW YORK. 



The Sweet Tire and Rubber Co. are building a two story ad- 

 dition, 50 X 100 feet, cement construction, to be used for office 

 and shipping rooms. They are also replacing their old engine 

 with a new heavy duty Allis-Chalmers engine 350 HP. ; also 

 duplicating their boiler capacity. The additional machinery 

 approximates in value $10,000. The increased facilities have 

 been made necessary by the large demand for the company's 

 rubber tires. 



STEAM DRIVEN ISOLATED LIGHTING PLANT. 



The advantages of an isolated plant may be briefly summed 

 up to embrace: (i) the actual convenience of a private plant, 

 (2) the saving in profit incident to buying light and power from 

 a central station, and (3) the possibility of perhaps using some 

 power which is otherwise lying latent. The two principal argu- 

 ments against small plants — space occupied, and the general 

 opinion of the lack in economy of small plants — have to a con- 

 siderable extent been met by a group of generating sets which 

 have recently come on the market. These sets, built by theB. 

 F. Sturtevant Co. (Boston), have vertical cross compound en- 

 gines, and range in capacity from 17^ to 100 KW. They are ar- 

 ranged to occupy very little room and to operate under a max- 

 imum steam consumption of from 43 to 31 pounds per kilowatt 

 hour. These results equal those obtained from sets of much 

 greater power and render feasible the economical use of com- 

 paratively small units. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Spinney- Wise Co. (Lynn, Mass.), July 31, 1905, under Mas- 

 sachusetts laws ; capital authorized, $40,000. To succeed the 

 partnership firm of Spinney, Wise & Co., manufacturers of hard 

 and soft rubber goods for mechanical and electrical purposes. 

 R. f. Wilkie is president and treasurer and S. W. Culver clerk. 



= Industrial Rubber Manufacturing Co., August 8, 1905, un- 

 der New Jersey laws ; capital, $125,000. Incorporators: Joseph 

 P. P. Alves, Chadwick Scott, and F. L. Richardson, Philadel- 

 phia ; Wilfred B. Wolcott, Camden, N. J. 



= The Aladdin Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), August 5, 1905, un- 

 der Ohio laws; authorized capital, $100,000. Directors: Will 

 Christy, Cassius M. Gilbert, J. H. Connor, Charles S. Heller 

 and James Christy. James Christy has been elected president, 

 C. S. Heller vice president, C. M. Gilbert secretary and treas- 

 urer, and Sidney Connor assistant secretary. The two Messrs. 

 Christy are connected with important industrial enterprises in 

 Akron, and Mr. Heller is the inventor of a rubber reclaiming 

 process, which the company has been formed to exploit, it be- 



