April i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER V/ORLD. 



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=rThe following members of the rubber trade have been 

 elected directors of the Export Lumber Co. (New York) : James 



B. Ford, treasurer United States Rubber Co. ; Lester Leland, 

 treasurer Boston Rubber Shoe Co. ; Arthur L. Kelley, presi- 

 dent Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. The Export Lumber 

 Co. was organized in 1878 by Charles R. Flint and Wallace B. 

 Flint, who have retired recently from its board. 



=The select council of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, have con- 

 firmed an award by the tire chief of that city of a contract for 

 4500 feet of " Maltese Cross " carbolized tire hose, made by the 

 Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), after 

 a competition entered into by eight bidders, covering ten 

 brands and a wide range of prices. This brand of hose, the 

 fire chief states, has been in use by his department for ten 

 years. 



=The patents, molds, and stock of the " indurated fiber " 

 vehicle tire invented by A. L. Stevens have been purchased by 

 him from the Auto-Dynamic Co., No. 140 West Thirty-ninth 

 street, New York. Mr. Stevens will continue the business in 

 his own name. 



=:Frank P. Hayes, lately connected with the vehicle tire de- 

 partment of the New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, 

 has taken charge of the sale of vehicle tires for the Interna- 

 tional Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co., with headquarters in 

 New York. 



= Town & Brother (Philadelphia) have been made selling 

 agents for the Chicago Electric Hose, their territory being the 

 west and middle and southern states, but excluding New Eng- 

 land. They have a new two ply light garden hose in 500 feet 

 lengths, which is proving exceedingly popular. 



=Toch Brothers (No. 468 West Broadway, New York) have 

 for a number of years past made a specialty of high grade col- 

 ors for use in rubber compounding, and, as they are expert 

 chemists, they have been able to turn out colors, for goods that 

 are cured either by heat or by the cold cure, that produce 

 some of the most beautiful results. Their advertisement will 

 be found in another column. 



= The rubber store of Towner & Co., Memphis, Tennessee, 

 was damaged by fire and water, on March 14, to the extent, it 

 is reported, of $5000, which amount is covered by insurance. 



= Fire broke out in the cellar of No. 12 North Church street, 

 Baltimore — the building occupied by the Boyd Rubber Co.. 

 dealers in mechanical rubber goods — on the night of March 12, 

 The company's damages will be covered by the insurance. The 

 fire caused the breakage of a gas pipe, and five tiremen, over- 

 come by the escaping gas, had to be carried out by their com- 

 rades. 



= A disastrous fire in New York on March 3 had its origin 

 in a shop for the manufacture of small articles in horn, hard 

 rubber, and celluloid, on the second floor of Nos. 210-212 Canal 

 street owned by James Wilkinson. The entire building and 

 two adjoining ones were destroyed ; one man was killed and 

 several injured. There was considerable celluloid stored in 

 Wilkinson's shop, which is alleged to have helped to give the 

 fire great headway from the start. 



= E. A. Kohut has removed his office from No. 11 Maiden 

 lane to the Nassau-Beekman building. No. 140 Nassau street. 

 New York. In addition to dealing in rubber of every descrip- 

 tion, he has added lines in glue stock, hair, paper stock, rags, 

 and metals. 



= Elston E. Wadbrook, who, for some years past, had been 

 connected with the Crude Rubber Co. in New York, and be- 

 fore that with R. F. Sears & Co., in Pari, has joined the forces 

 of Reimers & Co., and is now at their Boston office, with Mr. 



C. H. Arnold. 



= On May i, Eugene Arnstein,the well known manufacturer 

 of rubber cements, who for many years has been located at No. 

 86 West Lake street, Chicago, will occupy a new factory, built 

 expressly for his needs, at the corner of Thirty-fifth street and 

 Shields avenue. The new factory will have a floor space of 

 75,000 square feet, and will give a manufacturing capacity more 

 than three times as large as the present works. The company 

 are doing so large a business on the Atlantic coast that they 

 have established depots for their stocks in Brockton, Haver- 

 hill, Lynn, Boston, Rochester, Philadelphia, and New York. 

 They also carry stocks in Cincinnati and St. Louis. 



= M. L. Derrick, a well known New England rubber super- 

 intendent, who has latterly been connected with the Boston 

 Woven Hose and Rubber Co. at their Cambridge factory, is 

 now superintendent of the works of Morgan & Wright 

 (Chicago), and is also a director in the company. 



= The Raven Mining Co. (Chicago), whose " Kapak " has 

 steadily gained friends among rubber manufacturers, have 

 completed a new plant in North Chicago, where they will be 

 able to turn out large quantities of their goods. 



=The McCord Rubber Co. (St. Joseph, Missouri) report that 

 at present the better class of merchants are placing shoe orders 

 and getting the matter off their minds, as even if there be a 

 decline in price, they are covered by guarantees. In their ter- 

 ritory all stocks are pretty well sold out, except boots, of which 

 quite a stock was carried over. 



= H. A. Middleton, for some time past general superintend- 

 ent of the Goshen Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana), has resigned 

 from that position. 



=The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), have broken ground 

 for another large addition to their plant, which will be a brick 

 building of mill construction, 350 X 60 feet. They will also 

 add 1500 H. p. to their electric equipment, and install steam 

 turbines. They are, by the way, the first rubber company in 

 the world to adopt this type of power. 



= F. McIIroy, representing the Trenton Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., is on his way south on a business trip, which will take 

 him first to Mexico and later to California. 



=The new pneumatic tire department of the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co. (Akron, Ohio) is really a great factory in itself. It 

 consists of a huge five story brick building, 330 X 80 feet wide, 

 of mill construction, and the work is so arranged that each 

 operator has plenty of room. The making up and inspection 

 rooms are on the two middle floors, the press room on the 

 lower floor, and the assembling and store room on the top floor. 

 Although the building was only open for use two weeks ago, it 

 is now crowded with workers, the whole space being given up 

 to bicycle and automobile tires. 



=George R. Bidwell, formerly connected in an important 

 way with the bicycle and tire trades, and for some years past 

 collector of customs at the port of New York, retires from that 

 position on this date, and will become managing director of 

 the International Fire Engine Co., which is capitalized at 

 $5,000,000 and controls six factories. 



■^Several attachments were placed on the plant of the 

 American Ordnance Co. (Bridgeport, Connecticut), on March 

 24, including one to satisfy a claim of the Massachusetts 

 National Bank of Boston on an unpaid note of the company 

 for $15,000, dated January 14, and bearing the indorsement of 

 Charles R. Flint, then president of the company. 



=:The United States consul at Liege, Belgium — Mr. Alfred 

 A. Winslow — reports that he is cognizant of an opportunity to 

 furnish tools and machinery for an extensive rubber plant in 

 that country, communications for which may be addressed to 

 John Gross, rue Chevanfosse 13, Liege. 



