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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1902. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO. 's NEW FACTORY. 



THE Pennsylvania Rubber Co. (Erie, Pa.) have been busy 

 for some months past in establishing a new plant at 

 Jeannette, Pa., a point 26 miles from Pittsburgh, their 

 plans for which were outlined in The India Rubber 

 World of March i, 1902 (page 191 ). The main building is lap- 

 idly nearing completion, and some thirty car loads of machin- 

 ery has already been delivered and is being set in place. The 

 company expect to move to their new quarters during October. 



ANOTHER OHIO TOWN WITH A RUBBER FACTORY. 

 The Excelsior Hard Rubber Co., which for several years have 

 been manufacturing hard rubber covered harness mountings at 

 Canton, Ohio, recently were reorganized, with an increase of 

 capital from $10,000 to $25,000. The new officers are : S. F. 

 Lechner, president; W. M. Tracy, vice president ;T. E. Wilson, 

 treasurer ; and M. E. Fisher, secretary — all of Mineral City, 

 Ohio. The factory has been removed to the latter place, where 

 a three story building has been purchased for it, and the com- 

 pany will take up the manufacture of hard rubber for ^-ray 

 apparatus and other novelties, while continuing their old line 

 of production. They have just obtained from the Birmingham 

 Iron Foundry a new washer, mixer, and calender. 



FIRE IN A PITTSBURGH RUBBER STORE. 

 On the morning of July 29 the stock of rubber goodscarried 

 by the large jobbing house of Stewart Brothers & Co., No. 917 

 Liberty street, Pittsburgh, Pa., was almost totally destroyed by 

 fire. The damaged stock was sold to a salvage company of 

 Chicago, and removed to the latter city. The firm at once 

 leased a nearby building — Nos. 937-939 Liberty street — where 

 goods due them from the factory soon began to arrive, and 

 within a week shipments were being made to customers. The 

 firm inform The India Rubber World that they expect to 

 be reestablished in their old location early in the present 

 month, with an entire new stock, and that all their fall orders 

 on rubber and leather goods will be shipped on time. 



AMERICAN CIRCULAR LOOM CO. CbOSTON). 



This company has opened offices at 27, Chancery lane, Lon- 

 don, for introducing its flexible loom conduit in Great Britain. 

 Mr. J. H. Cummings, European agent for the company, will be 

 in charge. The product is claimed to possess many advan- 

 tages for interior wiring, and it is stated that in the United 

 States alone 15,000,000 feet were used last year. The tube is 

 constructed of a spiral of insulating fiber, wound with heavy 

 Para rubber friction tape, over which is a continuous woven 

 jacket of cotton. The whole tube is then saturated with an 

 insulating compound, and finally run through powdered mica, 

 thus producing a tube that is at once flexible, waterproof, and 

 fireproof. 



MR. SHEPARD'S GIFTS TO NORFOLK. 



At the annual meeting of the Norfolk (Connecticut) Water 

 Co., on August 5, President Frederick M. Shepard presented 

 to the company a handsome building known as " The Lodge " 

 and a good deal of land on the shores of Lake Wangum, the 

 source of the town's water supply. The water company thus 

 becomes owner of most if not all of the land surrounding Lake 

 Wangum. The officers elected for the year are : Frederick 

 M. Shepard, president ; R. I. Crissey. vice president ; Edmund 

 Brown, secretary and treasurer. The other directors are F. M. 

 Shepard, Jr., E. C. Stevens, H. A. Stanard, and M. N. Clark. 



Norfolk, in Litchfield county, was the birthplace of Mr. Shep- 

 ard, who is president of the Goodyear Rubber Co. (New 

 York), and for some years was president of the United 

 States Rubber Co., and who has contributed liberally to the 

 welfare of his native town. Recently he aided in the improve- 

 ment of the roads of Norfolk, and it is reported that a piece of 

 property owned by him in that town to be utilized as a site for 

 the fire department. 



CONVENTION OF FIRE ENGINEERS. 

 There are likely to be some interesting exhibits by the fire 

 hose manufacturers in connection with the annual conven- 

 tion of the International Association of Fire Engineers, to be 

 held in New York, September 1619. Chief engineers of fire 

 departments, fire commissioners, members of council fire com- 

 mittees, superintendents of fire insurance patrols — in fact, rep- 

 resentatives of every class connected in an official or semi 

 official way in the management or conduct of fire departments, 

 or those who are interested in fire extinguishing methods, are 

 expected to embrace this opportunity to become associated 

 with the most powerful fire organization in the United States. 



HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO. 



The annual conference of the oflScers, branch managers, and 

 traveling representatives of this company, at Hartford, was 

 attended by everybody in these classes, and was regarded as 

 one of the most successful in the history of the company. On 

 Thursday, August 14, the whole force was entertained by the 

 company at a " shore dinner," at Branford Point, Connecticut, 

 in connection with which a program of sports was arranged. 



GROWTH OF THE W. D. ALLEN COMPANY. 

 The W. D. Allen Manufacturing Co. (Chicago), are now 

 operating their new brass foundry in a building erected by 

 them for the purpose, and are in a position to fill promptly 

 orders for brass goods advertised in their Catalogue No. 16. 

 During the past year the demand has been beyond their ca- 

 pacity to fill, but the new foundry will enable them to handle 

 properly their rapidly developing business. The new building 

 is 167 X 60 feet, with all the modern improvements, including 

 the celebrated saw tooth roof, and is said to be, in respect to 

 light, ventilation, and convenience for the workmen, the best 

 equipped brass foundry in the West, if not in the United 

 States. 



A NEW RUBBER JOBBING CENTER. 

 The Wiggins Rubber Co., Limited (Shreveport, Louisiana) 

 — a new concern mentioned under the head of " new corpora- 

 tions " on another page — advise The India Rubber World 

 that Shreveport has been a good jobbing center for several 

 years. More than $15,000,000 worth of groceries alone were 

 jobbed out of that place last year. Shreveport is an important 

 cotton market, has five national banks and numerous other en- 

 terprises, and Messrs. Wiggins regard the location as a good 

 one for a wholesale jobbing business in rubber and other drug- 

 gists' sundries. They expect to have traveling salesmen to 

 cover east Texas, south Arkansas, north Mississippi, and mid- 

 dle and north Louisiana, 



PROFITS OF THE CHEWING GUM "TRUST." 

 None of the industrial consolidations has proved more suc- 

 cessful than the American Chicle Co. Chicle, by the way, is a 

 Mexican gum related to India-rubber, and is the basis of the 

 " chewing gum " of commerce. The founders of the company 



