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THE INDIA RUBL,£R WORLD 



[September i, 1905. 



ing their intention to erect a factory at or near Akron for oper- 

 ation before the end of the year. Mr. Heller was reported in 

 these pages recently to be considering the erection of a reclaim- 

 ing plant at Olathe, Kansas, but was prevailed upon by Akron 

 capitalists to establish the plant in his home town. The plant 

 will be erected at Fairlawn, at the western border of Akron, 

 and include a three story building 50X60 feet, with a separate 

 power house. 



= Howe Rubber Co., August 10, 1905, under New Jersey 

 laws; capital, $5000. Incorporators: Charles O. Geyer, Frank 

 C. Ferguson, and David S. Bingham— all giving as their ad- 

 dress No. 228 High street, Newark, N.J. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Thk directors of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 have declared a semiannual dividend of $3 per share on the 

 common stock, payable September 15, 1905, to stockholders 

 of record September 5. 



=There was tn be a meeting, on August 31, of the share- 

 holders of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio, 

 to consider the advisability of substituting for the bonds of the 

 company now outstanding a new issue of first preferred stock. 

 The bond issue was stated in The India Rubber World No- 

 vember I, 1904 (page 59) at $245,500— first mortgage, 10 years, 

 at 6 per cent. 



= Alton Machine Co. (New York) have recently augmented 

 their stafi by the engagement of Mr. M. A. Pearson, formerly 

 designer and engineer of the Farrel Foundry and Machine Co. ; 

 Thomas Waters, late foreman at the Birmingham Iron Foun- 

 dry ; and Charles E. Miller, of the Diamond Rubber Co., who 

 now has charge of the Alton company's rubber department. 

 This company has also engaged Mr. Raymond Levine, electrical 

 engineer, formerly with the Edison Co., to superintend the rub- 

 ber department, and.Robert O'Shea, formerly with the National 

 Pipe Bending Co., to head the selling staff. 



= Pennsylvania Rubber Co. are erecting a three story steel 

 and brick addition, 100 >( 75 feet, to their main factory build- 

 ing at Jeannette, Pennsylvania, this having been made neces- 

 sary by their increase in business. The company are interested 

 in the Westmoreland Rubber Manufacturing Co., the incorpo- 

 ration of which was reported in this Journal for June i last. 

 The building for this company at Grapeville is now under roof 

 and the machinery is being placed, and the operation of the 

 factory is expected to begin by October i. It will be devoted 

 to the reclaiming of rubber. 



= At a recent meeting of the town council of Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, it was voted to grant the petition of the National In- 

 dia Rubber Co. to be allowed to lay (at their expense) and 

 maintain a 14 inch water pipe from the pumping station on 

 Thames street to the company's factory. 



= A fire in Toronto on July 28 destroyed several buildings, 

 among which was a storehouse containing about $60,000 worth 

 of goods belonging to The Granby Rubber Co., Limited, which 

 were completely destroyed. The loss, however, was fully cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



= The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Con- 

 necticut) were obliged during the latter days of August to close 

 their factory, on account of a break in their engine machinery. 



= The annual convention of the Carriage Builders' National 

 Association will be held this year at Philadelphia, on October 

 2-7. In connection with the convention will be held the usual 

 exhibition of carriages and accessories, at which the rubber tire 

 trade in expected to be represented as usual. 



= The Gorham Rubber Co. (San Francisco) are reported to 

 be doing a good business in supplying hose designed specially 

 for use in the California wineries. 



= The plant of the People's Hard Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), 

 which company was formed early in 1901 and ceased operations 

 id November, 1902, has been purchased by the Twentieth Cei.- 

 tury Co., of Akron, who will erect additional buildings and de- 

 vote the plant to the manufacture of heating and ventilating 

 outfits. The property of the People's company was sold at auc- 

 tion by the assignee on March 16, 1903, to Fritz Achelis, presi- 

 dent of the American Hard Rubber Co., since which time no 

 use has been made of it. 



= Edred W. Clark, machinist, of Hartford, Connecticut, 

 whose foundry was mentioned in the last India Rubber 

 World as having been destroyed by lire, announces that he 

 is preparing to resume business, and expects to have new 

 works in operation early in this month. For a number of 

 years he has been a manufacturer of rubber molds and presses 

 and tubing machines. He has saved his patterns and will 

 be pleased to hear from all his old customers as well as add 

 others to the list. 



= Mr. A. D. Thornton, general superintendent of The Cana- 

 dian Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, left on August 24 for a 

 two months' vacation in Europe, intending to visit London, 

 Paris, Antwerp, and other centers of interest in the rubber 

 trade. 



= Powers Rubber Horseshoe Co., mentioned in the last issue 

 of this Journal, have completed their organization by the elec- 

 tion of Oscar Lund president and R. D. Buckingham secre- 

 tary and treasurer, with offices at No. 125 Indiana street, Chi- 

 cago. The company are capitalized at $50,000 and all the pat- 

 ents have been purchased of the Powers rubber horseshoe. 

 The heel in this shoe is of solid rubber and the rim of rub- 

 bered fiber, with a view to protecting the horse either on dry or 

 wet pavement. 



= Mr. Walter De Forest Brown, secretary of the National 

 India Rubber Co., during the month visited Baltimore and 

 several other cities for the purpose of auditing the accounts 

 of the company's agencies in those cities. 



= Regarding a newspaper report of the formation of the 

 Newhall-Upham Co. (Lynn, Massachusetts) to do business in 

 horseshoe pads, that company advises The India Rubber 

 World that rubber pads are not meant. 



= Mr. W.W.Wallis, Milwaukee manager of the Goodyear Rub- 

 ber Co., was one of the eighty members of the Merchants' and 

 Manufacturers' Association of that city who started August 6 

 on a six days' excursion over the Chicago and Northwestern 

 railway, through the upper Michigan peninsula, for combined 

 purposes of business and pleasure. 



= Mr. Chester J. Pike, selling agent for the Hood Rubber 

 Co., returned to Boston during the month from a business 

 trip to the Pacific Coast. 



= The Alton Machine Co. (No. 126 Liberty street. New York) 

 have just issued a bulletin illustrating one of their cabling and 

 armoring machines used for the manufacture of concentric ca- 

 bles of bare or insulated iron, steel or copper wire and for ar- 

 moring purposes. Specifications and quotations will be cheer- 

 fully furnished upon application at the New York office of the 

 company. 



= Tenders are invited up to September 7 at Washington for 

 supplies for the Isthmian canal, including " rubber goods.'' In- 

 quiry at the office of administration reveals that the requirements 

 in rubber are 300 feet of i inch hose, 4 ply, wire bound, 50 inch 

 sections, fitted with standard couplings. 



= A newspaper of Akron, Ohio, mentions that the proprietor 

 of a local bowling alley is experimenting with hard rubber pins, 

 the success attained with hard rubber balls indicating that the 

 same material may prove better than wood for pins. 



