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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1902. 



= Tne Wiggias Rubber Co., Limited (Shreveport, Louisi- 

 ana), June 24, 1902, under Louisiana laws ; capital, $20,000. 

 Allen C. Wiggins, president; J. D. Martin, vice president; 

 E. L. Hickey, secretary and treasurer. The first two named 

 have been connected with the wholesale drug business for sev- 

 eral years, and the new firm expect to wholesale everything in 

 rubber goods that is usually handled in retail drug stores. 



= The Ohio Wringer Co. (Springfield, Ohio), July 23, under 

 Olio laws, to manufacture clothes wringers; capital, $15,000. 

 Officers: George D. Leedle, president; M. R. Harris, vice 

 president and treasurer; C. C. Leedle, secretary. The new 

 company succeeds to the business of the Ohio Wringer and 

 Lawn Mojyer Co. and will operate the factory, discontinuing 

 the manufacture of lawn mowers. George D. Leedle will be 

 superintendent and general manager and Mr. Harris general 

 sales manager. 



= Union Rubber Co., August 20, under New Jersey laws, to 

 deal in rubber goods: capital, $100,000. Incorporators: Wil- 

 son H. Harding, Nelson L. Petty, Richard C. Chamberlain. 

 The principal office is at Trenton, New Jersey. 



= The Henry A. Gould Co., August 7, under New Jersey 

 laws; " to carry on the business of manufacturers, merchants, 

 wholesale and retail, importers and exporters, but to deal espe- 

 cially in rubber and rubber goods;" capital, $125000. Mr. 

 Henry A. Gould, of New York, informs The India Rubber 

 World that the interest of the corporation in rubber will be 

 wholly as merchants. The office in New Jersey will be at No. 

 525 Main street. East Orange, New Jersey. 



= The Sweet Tire and Rubber Co. (Batavia, N. Y.), August 

 21, under New York laws, to manufacture rubber tires ; capital 

 $80,000. Directors: Frank Richardson, Ashton W. Caney, John 

 M. Sweet, and John H. Ward, of Batavia, and Orator F. Wood- 

 ward, of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr. Richardson was until late president 

 of the Batavia Carriage Wheel Co., Mr. Sweet, superintendent 

 of that company's factory, and Mr. Caney a traveling salesman 

 for it. Mr. Sweet is patentee of a solid rubber vehicle tire now 

 01 the market, and has invented new mechanical processes for 

 miking and applying tires. A factory will be established at 

 Bitavia, for the making of tires at first, with the idea of adding 

 other lines of rubber manufacture. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



At a meeting of the stockholders of the Empire Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., held at the company's office at Trenton, 

 New Jersey, on August 4, Mr. Charles H . Baker was elected 

 vice president and Mr. C. Edward Murray treasurer of the com- 

 pany. 



= Mr. E. P. Camp has been appointed New York manager 

 for the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey) at Nos. 88 90 Reade street. Mr. Camp was formerly con- 

 nected with the New York office of the International Automo- 

 bile and Vehicle Tire Co. 



c=The Ohio Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) recently leased a 

 three story warehouse in the rear of their store on Superior 

 street, thus giving them much additional room for the large 

 stock of clothing and footwear which their Increasing trade 

 compels them to carry. 



= The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New 

 Jersey), the incorporation of which was recorded in the last 

 India Rubber World, have opened an office in New York at 

 No. 56 Reade street (Telephone 4540 Franklin), in charge of 

 Mr. S. V. B. Brewster, as manager, assisted by Mr. R. A. Strong. 

 Both those gentlemen were connected formerly with the Em- 

 pire Rubber Manufacturing Co. A Boston store has been 

 opened at No. 289 Devonshire street and a Chicago store at 

 No. 248 Randolph street. 



=The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Mass.), being obliged 

 by the growth of their tire business to enlarge their premises, 

 have awarded contracts for an extensive addition in the rear 

 of their present buildings. 



= The factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. resumed 

 work on August 12, alter a two weeks' shutdown. 



= Contracts have been awarded for the new factory buildings 

 of the Vulcanized Rubber Co., at Morris ville, Pennsylvania, ref- 

 erence to which was made in the last India Rubber World, 

 and the company hope to occupy their new plant by New 

 Year's. 



= lt has often been claimed that no rubber factory 01 rubber 

 store has been struck by lightning. The store of the New Eng- 

 land Rubber Co. (No. 115 Pearl street, Boston), however, was 

 injured by a bolt of lightning which struck across the street, 

 the windows being smashed and mortar, dust, and glass scat- 

 tered through the store. It was not struck by lightning and 

 perhaps the old saying holds true. 



= Tne annual outing of the emplojes of the Tyer Rubber 

 Co. (Andover, Massachusetts), on August 2, took the form of 

 a trip by special train to the seashore, at Revere beach. There 

 were 300 in the party, filling six cars, and the day was spent in 

 bathing and such amusements as the place afforded — in addi- 

 tion, of course, to dinner. 



= The Davol Rubber Co. (Providence, Rhode Island) have 

 found the" Morris Spring Bottom Duck Basket" very suitable 

 for their use, and have placed orders for several dozen. 



= The Concord Rubber Co. (Boston, Mass.) are branding 

 their goods as " union made," with the label of the Boot and 

 Shoe Workers' Union. They are making rubber boots and 

 shoes in two grades, first and second, marked " Concord Rub- 

 ber Co. "and " Bjnker Hill," respectively. Paul Brothers, job- 

 bers in Philadelphia, will handle these goods this season. 



= Ludwig T. Petersen, a chemist of Revere, Massachusetts, 

 has been appointed manager of the research and test depart- 

 ment in the rubber factory of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, 

 Ohio). 



^Three additional 750 H. P. boilers have been ordered by 

 the Parrel Foundry and Machine Co. (Ansonia. Connecticut), 

 from the Hazelton Boiler Co. (Rutherford, N. J.) 



= The "Morris Spring Bottom Duck Basket" has been 

 adopted by the Bourn Rubber Co. (Providence, Rhode Island), 

 they having found it an excellent mill basket in every partic- 

 ular. 



= At a hearing before a United States commissioner at New 

 York, on July 28, under a charge that the government had been 

 defrauded by the importation as washing crystals at 25 per cent. 

 ad valorem, of materials which were practically pure borax, 

 and, therefore, subject to a duty of 5 cents per pound, the ex- 

 pert witness for the government was Durand Woodman, PH.D., 

 an analytical chemist ol New York who has a large clientde in 

 the India-rubber trade. 



= The Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. (Jersey City, N. J.) are 

 said to hive received lately a large contract lor graphite, etc. 

 for the Australian market. 



=The rubber reclaiming plant at the MillviUe factory of the 

 Woonsocket Rubber Co., on August 16, was closed indefinitely. 

 The plant nad been closed on;e before, but was started again 

 after the burning of the reclaiming plant of the United States 

 Rubber Co., at Naugatuck, in February, 1898. 



= Myer J. Herman, agent for the Brockton (Mass.) Rubber 

 Scrap Co., has the New England selling agency for the Eureka 

 Cement Co., of Newark, N. J. The trade will be canvassed by 

 C. G. Hearty, of Brockton. The Brockton company invite in- 

 quiries for their prices on rubber cement balls. 



