September i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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=Charles Taylor, representing the Diamond Rubber Co. 

 (Alcron, Ohio), while in Pittsburgh recently, was quoted by a 

 newspaper there as saying : " I have received some of the 

 largest orders upon this trip that I have ever booked in Pilts- 

 bjrgh. The market is exceptionally strong for belting, and I 

 find that the general use of automobiles has given an impetus 

 to our tire business. The automobile seems to have a firm hold 

 in Pittsburgh." 



= The Bridgeport Elastic Fabric Co. have been incorpor- 

 ated, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, to manufacture elastic and 

 non elastic webbing fabrics, with Arthur J. Moore, president ; 

 Samuel Lownds, secretary ; and Arthur Liggins, treasurer. 

 The company occupy a rented factory building but own the 

 machinery used. 



= The sale is reported of the factory of the Model Rubber 

 Co. (Woonsocket, Rhode Island), to Fred. L. Smith, proprie- 

 tor of the Byfield Rubber Co. The Model Rubber Co. was or- 

 ganized some four years ago by men who had been employed 

 by [he Woonsocket Rubber Co., to make rubber footwear. 

 They met with small success and the factory has not been in 

 operation for nearly a year. 



= The Goshen Rubber Works (Goshen, Indiana) have 

 equipped a rubber reclaiming plant, which is now in operation. 



= The Methuen Rubber Co. (Methuen, Massachusetts) have 

 been so successful in the marketing of their electrical special- 

 ties that they are planning to enlarge their factory and add 

 considerable new machinery. 



=Orville L. Leach, on August 22, petitioned for a temporary 

 receiver for the Emery Tire Co. (Providence, Rhode Island), 

 claiming that the company are indebted to him. 



= The Electric Vehicle Co. (Hartford, Connecticut) have 

 added a new line of gasolene motor vehicles to their produc- 

 tion, for which purpose they have acquired all of the inventions 

 relating to automobiles of Fred A. Law, of Hartford, who be- 

 comes engineer of the company's gasolene department. 



= C. M. Woodward, a well known manufacturer of smaller 

 mechanical goods, in Boston, will take charge of that line of 

 work for the Plymouth Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Mass.) 



= Winslow H. Chadwick informs the trade that from this date 

 he will be located at No. 292 Devonshire street, Boston, as New 

 England selling agent for the Empire Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. (Trenton, New Jersey.) 



=The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (No. 18 Vesey 

 , street. New York) are arranging to engage in the manufacture 

 of solid rubber vehicle tires, which will be marketed under two 

 brands — " Manhattan " and " Fulton." 



BOSTON RUBBER CO. OF MONTREAL. 

 The factory of the Boston Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, 

 (St. Jerome, Quebec), is at present being run under the direction 

 of Mr. John J. McGill, pending probable action of changing the 

 corporate title of the company. It will be remembered [see 

 The India Rubber World June i, 1902 — page 302] that the 

 Montreal company won a suit brought against them in the 

 Dominion exchequer court, by the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 

 to enjoin them from using the word " Boston " in marking 

 their rubber footwear, but on the case being appealed to the 

 supreme court, a decision was given against them. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



David Williams Cheever, m. d., ll. d., who was elected 

 recently to the board of overseers of Harvard University, is 

 a brother of the late John H. Cheever, the rubber manufac- 

 turer. Dr. Cheever has been a member of the faculty at Har- 

 vard for half a century, being now professor of surgery em- 

 eritus. 



=Carl Otto Weber, PH.D., of Manchester, England, an expert 

 in the chemistry of rubber who now has in press a work on the 

 nature of vulcanization, was a recent visitor to the offices of 

 The India Rubber World, having just returned from Cen- 

 tral America, whither he went to study problems connected 

 with the cultivation of India-rubber. 



= Mr. Ed. O. Kramer, of Antwerp, who has been for three 

 years in hitherto unexplored rubber fields in Peru, was a recent 

 visitor to the offices of The India Rubber World. 



= Messrs. Max Lowenthal, of New York, and Otto Meyer, of 

 Boston, are spending a couple of weeks in the Adirondacks, at 

 Lake Placid. 



= Mr. R. Eccleston Gallaher, secretary of the New York In- 

 sulated Wire Co., has lately been at Thousand Islands, where 

 he recuperated from a serious attack of gastric fever. 



= Mr. Amadee Spadone, president of the Gutta Percha and 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), is ending his summer 

 vacation at Saratoga Springs, where a family reunion occurred 

 on the occasion of his birthday, on August 29. 



= Mr. R. E. Hotchkiss, superintendent of the Walton works 

 of the Liverpool Rubber Co., Limited (Liverpool, England), ac- 

 companied by his wife, spent his August vacation in Ireland. 

 On September i Mr. Hotchkiss begins his third year as super- 

 intendent of this branch of the Liverpool Rubber Co. 



= Mr. James Hardman, president of The Hardman Rubber 

 Co. (Belleville, New Jersey), is spending his vacation at Lake 

 George, New York. 



= Mr C. J. Bailey, of C. J. Bailey & Co., Boston, is spending 

 the heated term at Monument Beach, Buzzards Bay, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



= Mr. George P. Whitmore, secretary of the Boston Belt- 

 ing Co. (Boston), is spending his vacation at Squirrel Island, 

 Maine. 



= Mr. H. N. Towner, of the Memphis, Tennessee, rubber 

 trade, was a recent visitor to New York and Boston, his trip 

 embracing also Montreal and Chicago. 



PERSONAL NOTES FROM AKRON, OHIO. 



Before he last left for Europe, Mr. O. C. Barber, whose name 

 is familiar in connection with The Diamond Rubber Co., sent 

 a check to the Akron Poor department, which was used at 

 his suggestion, for giving a picnic to 125 aged and infirm men 

 and women. 



= Colonel George T. Perkins, president of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., is erecting a summer residence on Perkins Hill, within a 

 stone's throw of " Perkins manor," the home of his father, the 

 late Colonel Simon Perkins, " Father of Akron." The locality 

 is already the residence of Messrs. C. C. Goodrich, R. T. Mar- 

 vin, and B. G. Work, and has gained the local soubriquet of 

 " Rubber Hill." 



= Vice President A. H. Marks, of the Diamond Rubber Co., 

 left for Maine on August 14, to spend several weeks fishing 

 and touring in his automobile. 



= Secretary W. L. Wild of The India Rubber Co. spent the lat- 

 ter part of August at the meeting of the Fraternal Congress, 

 in Dinver, Colorado. Mr. Wild was until July president of the 

 National Union, and takes a lively interest in fraternal societies 

 in general. 



= J. W. Rhodes, for many years telegraph operator and utility 

 man in the offices of The B. F. Goodrich Co., has removed to 

 Zanesville, Ohio, to become ticket agent for the Baltimore and 

 Ohio railroad. 



= The will of the late Mrs. Helen Wright, of Chicago, widow 

 of Rufus M. Wright, of Morgan & Wright, bequeaths $16,000 

 in cash to relatives in Akron. The total of cash bequests made 

 by Mrs. Wright is $105,000. 



