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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hodgman Rubber Co. (New York) will remove on 

 February i to larj»er premises a little faitlier up town, at Nos. 

 8o6-3o8 Broadway — opposite Eleventh street. 



= Tlie Omo Manufacturing Co. (Middletown, Connecticut) 

 on December i reduced their working day to 9 hours, day 

 hands to continue to receive 10 hours' pay. Hands employed 

 on piece work will also have an incease in pay. 



= Bowers Rubber Co. (San Francisco, California) have 

 established a distributing bureau for their products in Boston, 

 at No. 242 Purchase street, with Caspar M. Brown as manager. 



= The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), 

 are reported to have been so active of late in making rubber 

 shoes that it was necessary to draw help from the departments 

 of the factory. 



= Alexander M. Bartow, for several years cashier and confi- 

 dential man for W. R. Brixey, manufacturer of " Kerite " cables 

 (New York), is reported to have been missing for some time, 

 while the books of the concern show a shortage of several 

 thousand dollars, with which he is charged. 



=The Goodyear Rubber Co. have installed a new 250 h. p. 

 boiler in their factory at Middletown, Connecticut, which in- 

 creases their boiler capacity to 650 h. p. 



= The Lawrence Felting Co. (Millville, Massachusetts) are 

 erecting an iron water tower to be 180 feet high, with a tank 

 holding 50.000 gallons of water, to supply their sprinkler sys- 

 tem and that of the VVoonsocket Rubber Co.'s boot factory, 

 near by. 



= Standard steel channel for solid and cushioned rubber 

 tires, embodying the ideas illustrated in The India Rubber 

 World of September i, 1902 (page 377), is being supplied by 

 the Railway Steel Spring Co., of Detroit, Michigan. 



= The H. VV. JohnsManville Co., asbestos manufacturers of 

 New York, with $3,000,000 capital, have been admitted to do 

 business in Ohio as a foreign corporation. Their office in that 

 state is at Cleveland, and their agent upon whom process may 

 be served is Harry Gillett, of that city. 



= Rubber pad carriage steps are being manufactured by The 

 Cleveland Hard Rubber Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. 



= The Connecticut trade in Kelly-Springfield solid rubber 

 tires hereafter will be supplied direct by the Consolidated Rub- 

 ber Tire Co.'s New York branch office — No. 1784 Broadway — 

 instead of through the Springfield Rubber Tire Co., New 

 Haven. 



= The town of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, has awarded a 

 contract to the Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York), to furnish 

 3000 feet of z'/z inch cotton-jacket rubber hose, at$i per foot. 



= Captain William Prampolini, an Italian civil engineer, who_ 

 some two years ago, obtained a patent in the United States 

 for extracting the gum of a Mexican plant known locally as 

 "guayule," was reported recently to be negotiating for the 

 erection of a factory at Binghamton, New York, for carrying 

 out his process. 



=The Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Co., Limited, have 

 opened an office and salesroom in St. James street, Montreal. 



= Harold O. Smith, after ten years' connection with tne In- 

 dianapolis Rubber Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana), and the G & J 

 Tire Co., an outgrowth from the latter, has retired from their 

 management, but it is not yet stated what new business he will 

 become identified with. 



=Johnson, Moody & Co. (Boston) on December 18 sold at 

 auction 7000 cases of rubber footwear, out of date anj slightly 

 imperfect goods mainly from the United States Rubber Co. fac- 

 tories. The attendance was good and the prices obtained sat- 

 isfactory. 



= L. T. Vance, hitherto superintendent of The Durham Rub- 

 ber Co., Limited (Bowmanville, Ontario), will take charge of 

 the plant of the Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co., now build- 

 ing at Trenton, New Jersey. 



= The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls. Massachusetis) are 

 now marketing the double tube detachable tire which has been 

 mentioned already in connection with their name in The In- 

 dia Rubber World. This tire is made under patents owr,ed 

 by the Fisk Rubber Co., and not under a license from any other 

 company. 



= Peler Sherbondy, a timekeeper at the office of The B. F. 

 Gnodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), after having been for 32 years in 

 their employ, has been retired on full pay. The notification of 

 this came to him as a Christmas present. 



= J. M. Gallaway, general traffic manager for the United 

 States Rubber Co., h'as been in Boston lately arranging to 

 conibine with his department the same work for the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co. J. Alvin Scott, who has been traffic and in- 

 sur,Ance agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co,, after transferring 

 his freight business to Mr. Gallaway, will ha e charge of the 

 entire insurance business of the United States Rubber Co. and 

 the B jston Rubber Shoe Co. 



= Tlie Chicago branch of Edward R. Rice, selling agent for 

 the J )seph Banigan Rubber Co., will be known from this date 

 as the B inner Rubber Co., Edward R. Rice, proprietor, and J. 

 D. McDonald, Manager. 



= Fire from an unknown cause at midnight of December 20 

 destroyed a four story warehouse, Nos. 109-1 11 First avenue, 

 sou'h, Minneapolis, Minnesota, occupied by W. S. Nott Co., 

 manufacturers of leather belting and large jobbers of rubber 

 goods, with all the contents. The loss on goods, estimated at 

 $35 000, is covered by insurance. This was not the principal 

 building occupied by the Messrs. Nott. 



= The feeling exists in some quarters in Canada that an over- 

 production of rubbers exists in that country. The requirements 

 of the country are not over $3 000.000 a year, says the Canadinn 

 Shoe and Leather Journal, while the producingcapacily is about 

 $5000000. There is a probability, however, that the produc- 

 tion will be somewhat reduced this winter, owing to the fact 

 that one of the factories is closing down. The reference prob- 

 ably is to the Boston Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited. 



= The city of Barberton, Ohio — named for President Barber, 

 of The Diamond Match Co. — standing on what was farm land 

 ten years ago, boasts a population to day of lo.ooo and predicts 

 double this number ten years hence. Four years ago the rub- 

 ber industry had not been introduced there. There are now 

 four rubber factories in the place and a fifth is building, which 

 would indicate that in one respect, at least, Barberton is at- 

 tempting to rival her near neighbor, Akron. 



= The auction sale of rubber footwear held by Benning & 

 B irsalou in Montreal, on November 13 to 16, was well attended 

 by buyers from all over Canada. Over 10,000 cases were dis- 

 posed of, prices averaging 10 to 20 per cent, higher than last 

 year. It was one of the largest auction sales in the history of 

 the trade, aggregating over Sioo.ooo worth. 



= Charles Schermerhorn, who has been made foreman of the 

 shoe department of the Lambertville (New Jersey) Rubber Co., 

 has been employed there for twenty-four years, with the ex- 

 ception of a few months in 18S3, which he spent at theCandee 

 rubber factory, in New Haven. 



= A number of friends of Mr. Charles P. Goldenbaum, one 

 of the foremen of the Vulcanized Rubber Co. (Morrisville), 

 gathered at his home at Trenton on the evening of December 

 13— his thirty fourth birthday-^and presented him with a 

 smoking set, after which the evening was spent in dancing. 



