December i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER V/ORLD 



99 



=The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have engaged in the 

 manufacture of rubber toy balls. 



=The Excelsior Machine Co. (Akron, Ohio) are making pat- 

 terns for a full line of rubber tubing machines, which they will 

 put on the market early this winter. 



=John Wanamaker placed on sale at his New York and 

 Philadelphia stores early in the month a stock of rubber boots 

 and shoes, asserted not to be "seconds," and offered at about 

 half price. Ten thousand pairs were put on sale at the Phila- 

 delphia store. 



= A suit has been filed by The I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co., of 

 New York city, and Reddin W. Parramore, of Somerville, 

 New Jersey, against Thomas P. Taylor, of Bridgeport, Con- 

 necticut, for an alleged infringement of patent No. 668,541, for 

 a hose supporter, granted to Parramore, February 19, 1901. 

 The complaint was filed in the United States circuit court at 

 Hartford on November 8, the defendant being notified to enter 

 an appearance on or before December i. 



= The W. S. Nott Co. (Minneapolis, Minnesota), who are 

 leather belting manufacturers as well as large jobbers of rubber 

 goods, have completed for the Twin City Rapid Transit Co.'s 

 new power house the second largest leather belt in the world. 

 It is 100 feet long, weighs 2000 pounds, is 80 inches in width, 

 and 3 ply. No fasteners were used in its construction outside 

 of a special belt cement. The largest rubber belt ever made 

 was supplied by the Messrs. Nott for the Anaconda copper 

 mine, in Montana. 



= Fred. Partridge, formerly of Bowdoinham, Maine, and 

 lately with the Maynard Shoe Co. (Claremont, N. H.) has be- 

 come superintendent of the rubber department of the Rubber 

 Soled Leather Shoe Co., at South Framingham, Massachusetts. 



= S. T. Rigdon, manager of the tire department of the Good- 

 year Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), has resigned and 

 accepted a position with the International Automobile and 

 Vehicle Tire Co. (New York), instead of another company, 

 as wrongly reported in these columns last month. 



=The LaCrosse Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin) are 

 so busy that they have been obliged to add another stitching 

 room to their plant, in which they have installed 100 additional 

 sewing machines. 



=The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Mass.) have ar- 

 ranged for the exclusive representation of the Firestone Tire 

 and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), in the cities of Syracuse and 

 Buffalo, N. Y., Detroit, Mich., and Springfield, Mass., where 

 they maintain depflts for the sale of their own makes of tires. 

 The Firestone tire is of the side-wire solid type. 



=3Several premature publications have been made in the 

 newspapers regarding the projected Milwaukee Rubber Works 

 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), but an authorized statement from the 

 management may now be expected at almost any time. 



t=George W. Knowlton Rubber Co. (Boston) announce that, 

 on account of the necessity for larger quarters, occasioned by 

 the growth of business, their sales department has been re- 

 moved to No. 33 Broad street, near State, on the street floor. 



=The B. F. Sturtevant Co. (Boston), it is reported, will 

 erect an extensive plant, in Bedford England, for the manu- 

 facture of their exhaust fans and other specialties. 



= The Piedmont Rubber Co. (Atlanta, Georgia), selling 

 agents and jobbers of rubber and leather belting, mackintoshes, 

 and rubber footwear, have discontinued business. 



= In the New York supreme court Frank H. Hobblethwait 

 has sued Charles R. Flint and Wallace B. Flint, trading as Flint 

 & Co., to recover $30,000 for alleged violation of contract, with 

 relation to paving the streets of Manaos (Brazil) with asphalt, 

 and also to recover certain shares in the Manaos Railway 



Co., alleged to have been given as collateral for promissory 

 notes. The defendants say thatJHobblethwait did enter into a 

 contract with them, but that he became ill and they had to 

 employ other persons in his name, and that by his neglect they 

 lost valuable contracts, and to protect their interests they sold 

 the railway stock to the city of Manaos, which still left due to 

 them from the plaintiff S8561, for which they ask judgment. 



=Mr. Henry C. Pearson, publisher of The India Rubber 

 World, has been elected to membership in the American So- 

 ciety for Testing Materials, affiliated with the International As- 

 sociation for Testing Materials, and has also been invited by 

 Professor L. von Tetmajer, of Vienna, president of the Inter- 

 national association, to take part in a commission for the solu- 

 tion of Problem 35. proposed at the Budapest congress of 1901 : 

 " Study of the methods of testing Caoutchouc." The chairman 

 of the commission is Mr. E. Camerman, of Brussels. 



= Mr. F. C. Hood, treasurer of the Hood Rubber Co. (Bos- 

 ton), was recently operated upon for appendicitis, and his many 

 friends will be glad to hear that he is making an excellent re- 

 covery. 



= Mr. Joseph Torrey, chemist at the works of the Diamond 

 Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), sailed for England on November 

 29, by the Etruria for a short vacation. 



= One of the most pleasant society events in Akron during 

 the year was the marriage of Miss Gertrude M. Mason, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. F. H. Mason, general manager of the works of The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., to Mr. Harry K. Raymond, a department 

 manager for the company, in the First Congregational church 

 of Akron, on the evening of November 6. The maid of honor 

 was Miss Elizabeth Mason, sister of the bride. Among the 

 ushers was Mr. Theron R. Palmer, formerly with the Goodrich 

 company and now superintendent of the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co. After a visit to the Eastern states and to Havana, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Raymond will reside in Akron in a home presented by 

 the bride's parents. 



= The cornerstone of the new Akron city hospital, built chiefly 

 by the contributions of Colonel George T. Perkins, president 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co.; President O. C. Barber, of the 

 Diamond Match Co. and largely interested in the Diamond 

 Rubber Co. ; and Mr. H. B. Camp, of the Camp and Faultless 

 rubber companies, was laid with Masonic ceremonies on No- 

 vember 23. 



= PIans have been drafted for the reorganization of the 

 American Bicycle Co., which is now in the hands of receivers. 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 



Gossip has been busy during the month with the affairs of 

 this company. There have been reports that a single board of di- 

 rectors would be placed in charge of the affairs of all the subsid- 

 iary concerns, but thus far their only basis has been the election 

 of Mr. Parker, of the Hartford factory, as president of two 

 other companies, thus concentrating the management of the 

 plants devoted chiefly to tires. Some change has been made 

 in the organization of the New York Belting and Packing Co., 

 Limited, and the retirement is announced of President Wheel- 

 er, of the India Rubber Co., (Akron, Ohio) — further details in 

 regard to both of which affairs are given elsewhere in this 

 paper. Mention was made last month of projected legal pro- 

 ceedings to compel the taking up of certain securities now held 

 as assets by the Rubber Goods company, by the interests re- 

 sponsible for the company coming in possession of them. It 

 now appears that the matter will be adjusted without the help 

 of the courts, after which there may be further steps in the di- 

 rection of reorganization, under the direction of the Taylor 

 interests now in control of the company. 



