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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1902. 



—The Miller Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Akron, Ohio), who 

 were the pioneers in dipped goods in their vicinity, arc adding 

 to their already large plant a brick building, which will give 

 them 30,000 square feet of additional space. 



=The Henry A. Gould Co. (New York and Boston) have 

 opened a house in London with a view to transacting an inter- 

 national brokerage business in crude rubber. They will be 

 represented in London by Wallace L. Gough, who for six years 

 represented the former firm of Henry A. Gould & Co. in Lon- 

 don. Mr. Gough had previously been engaged in the rubber 

 business in connection with W. R. Grace & Co. and Earle 

 Brothers. Mr. E. A. Hunt has also formed a connection with 

 the Henry A. Gould Co., after having had long experience in 

 handling crude rubber, including six years as buyer for the 

 United States Rubber Co. 



=The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are on the 

 market with a high class golf ball known as the " King Wil- 

 liam." 



= The Tuscarora Rubber Co. (Beach City, Ohio), at their 

 recent annual meeting, increased their capital stock from 

 $25,000 to $50,000. But owing to some dissension that arose 

 in the company, and in order to adjust the same, a receiver 

 has been appointed, who will continue the operation of the 

 plant. 



= Mulconroy Co., Incorporated, successors to Latta & Mul- 

 conroy Co., (Philadelphia) will carry on the business of selling 

 mechanical rubber goods and mill supplies at the same location 

 — Nos. 1213-1215 Market street. James J. Mulconroy is presi- 

 dent, Howard W. Goodall treasurer, and William S. Feeny 

 secretary. They are about to issue an extensive illustrated 

 catalogue, a copy of which will be sent on request. 

 PERSONAL MENTION. 

 Mr. Georije a. Wies, treasurer of the Eureka Fire Hose 

 Co., is at present in Europe on a brief business trip. 



= Mr. E. E. Huber of the Eberhard Faber Co. (New York), 

 has just returned from a month's vacation in Florida. 



= Mr, E. F. Bickford, manufacturing agent of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., is now in Italy, his plan being to remain 

 abroad about five months. 



= Mr. Lester Leland, vice president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., has been spending the last three weeks at Lake- 

 wood, New Jersey. 



= Mr. Franklin W. Pitcher, general manager of the East- 

 hampton Rubber Thread Co., has gone to Bermuda, with his 

 wife and family. 



= Mr. Horace H. Tyer, president of the Tyer Rubber Co. 

 (Boston), is spending a few weeks in Nassau, Bahama Islands. 



= Mr. Walter H. Ballou, president of the Joseph Banigan Rub- 

 ber Co. (Providence, R. I.), has returned from Nassau, where he 

 had been spending some weeks. 



= Mr. W. J. B. Stokes, city treasurer of Trenton, N. J., and 

 having very large interests in the leading rubber mills of that city 

 has just undergone an operation for appendicitis at the German 

 Hospital, in Philadelphia. He is making exceedingly quick 

 and satisfactory recovery, which will be good news to his many 

 friends in the trade. 



= Mr. Hans J. W. Clouth, of Cologne, Germany, sailed for 

 home March 8. It is interesting to note that while in the 

 United States Mr. Clouth became an associate member of the 

 New England Rubber Club, the first member, by the way, from 

 across the water. 



= Mr. Charles J. Davol, of the Davol Rubber Co. (Provi- 

 dence, R. I.), who IS an enthusiastic automobilist, is a member 

 of the membership committee of the Providence Automobile 

 Club, a very flourishing organization. 



= Mr. Ohio C. Barber, a large shareholder in the Diamond 

 Rubber Co., has been elected president of the First National 

 Bank of Akron, Ohio. 



= Mr. George H. Quincy, selling agent of the Bourn Rubber 

 Co., sailed on March 20 for a vacation in Europe. 



= Mr. Henry A. Gould, president of the Henry A. Gould Co. 

 (New York), long engaged in the crude rubber trade, was mar- 

 ried in New York on February 27 to Miss Edna F. Ellis, of 

 Philadelphia. 



= Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert Foster, of Meriden, Connecticut, 

 about the middle of the month, started for Mexico, where Mr. 

 Foster will have charge of the management of the Meriden 

 Rubber Planting Corporation. 



= Messrs. Samuel P. Colt (president of the United States 

 Rubber Co.) and Charles R. Flint were reelected directors in 

 the American Woolen Co. at the annual meeting of stock- 

 holders in Jersey City on March 4. 



=:Mr. William J. Cable, president of the Cable Rubber Co. 

 (Boston), has just returned from quite an extended trip through 

 the western country. 



= Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Herman, of Brockton, Mass., celebrated 

 on March 10 the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding. 

 Mr. Herman is the head of the Brockton Scrap Rubber Co. ' 



= Mr. H. D. Warren, president of the Gutta Percha and 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Toronto, Ltd., sailed for Eu- 

 rope on April i, for several months' rest. 



= Mr. Francis Holton, general superintendent of the Rubber 

 Specialty Co. (Akron, Ohio) accompanied by his wife, has gone 

 to Mt. Clemens, Michigan, for a three weeks' rest. 



=:Mr. Raymond B. Price, superintendent of the Calumet 

 Tire Rubber Co. (Chicago), who has been in Mexico some 

 time recuperating, will return by way of the Pacific coast, 

 spending some little time in California. 



= Mr. Walter B. Hardy, president of the Diamond Rubber 

 Co. (Akron, Ohio), is now in Europe on business for the com- 

 pany. 



= Mr. Walter E. Piper, assistant superintendent of the Bos- 

 ton Rubber Shoe Co., gave a very interesting address on India- 

 rubber — a description of the crude gum and its manufacture — 

 illustrated by stereoplicon views, before the Society of Arts at 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Boston, on the 

 evening of March 27. A large and interested audience was 

 present. 



A FAILURE AT AKRON. 



The first failure to be recorded in the rubber industry at 

 Akron, Ohio, was the assignment, on March 10, of the Inde- 

 pendent Rubber Co., a partnership composed of Charles F. 

 Case, John Evans, and Edgar L. Chines, to W. E. Snyder. 

 They had begun the manufacture of seamless and molded rub- 

 ber specialties, but without sufficient capital to overcome diffi- 

 culties which soon confronted them. It is reported that a 

 stock company may be formed to continue their business. 

 U. S. RUBBER RECLAIMING WORKS. 



The new factory of this company at Buffalo, New York — 

 to be operated by electrical power transmitted from Niagara 

 Falls — is expected to be in operation by June i. The principal 

 building is 145X95 feet, three stories and basement, with a 

 tower 65 feet high, in the top of which is a large water tank. 

 There are, besides, two single story buildings, respectively 

 145X120 feet, and 110X92 feet in extent. The Genera! Electri- 

 cal Co. (Schenectady, New York) have constructed for the new 

 plant what they state to be the largest electric motor ever built 

 for an industrial plant, having 1500 HP. There is to be also an 

 auxiliary motor of 150 HP. A view of the front of the new 

 buildings appears in the advertising pages of this paper. 



