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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1902. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) 

 announce : '' We have the pleasure to announce that, owing to 

 the increased volume of our local business, we have installed 

 another telephone wire. So many complaints have come in 

 that our telephones are continuously busy that we have found 

 it expedient to change our numbers and have three trunk lines 

 to our office. " The new numbers are 7260, 7261, and 7262 Cort- 

 landt. 



= The Franklin Rubber Co. (Boston, Massachusetts) have 

 removed from No. 13 Franklin street, to more centrally located 

 quarters at No. 155 Summer street. 



= The sole agency for the United States for the rubber 

 sponges manufactured by the Russian-American India Rub- 

 ber Co. (St. Petersburg), has been acquiied by Alfred H. Smith, 

 Nos. 84-86 Chambers street, New York, who reports a large 

 demand for these goods. In order to identify these sponges 

 Mr. Smith has had registered a special trade mark for them, 

 the chief feature of which is the word " Kleanwell." 



= William C. Coleman (Boston), dealer in old and new 

 scrap rubber, though not long established in the trade on his 

 own account, has succeeded in building up an extensive busi- 

 ness. He is not, however, a new man in the trade, having 

 some time been the purchasing agent for the reclaiming de- 

 partment of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), and hav- 

 ing held the honorary positions of acting secretary and treasurer 

 of the Rubber Reclaimers' Association. It was Mr. Coleman 

 who first introduced the Standard packing of old rubber boots 

 and shoes to the trade. 



= Improvements are under way at the plant of the United 

 Electric Light Co. (Springfield, Massachusetts.) Hazelton boil- 

 ers, with an aggregate horsepower of 1800, are to be reset in 200 

 or 300 H.P. units, in the brick lined steel setting lately intro- 

 duced by the Hazelton Boiler Co. (Rutherford, New Jersey.) 

 This is a distinct advance over the old time brick work setting. 

 The boilers will be arranged in batteries with square furnaces. 

 Seven boilers at the Springfield plant occupy but 800 square 

 feet of floor space. 



=John H. Pelerman, who was sell- 



ing agent for the Milltown India 

 Rubber Co. (Milltown, New Jersey), 

 has taken charge of the rubber de- 

 partment of M. D. Weld & Co. (Chi- 

 cago), who handle the Apsley Rubber 

 Co.'s footwear. 



= The officers and salesmen of the 

 Brunel-Higgins Shoe Co. (Portland. 

 Maine), by invitation paid a visit to 

 the Fells factory of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. on June 12, in connection 

 with which a lunch was served. The 

 salesmen of the jobbing house of A. 

 P. Tapley & Co. (Boston), were simi- 

 larly entertained at the factory on June 

 5, and those of Mcintosh & Co. 

 (Springfield, Massachusetts), on June 7. 



= The Milford Rubber Co. (Milford, 

 Mass.) are reported to be proofing 

 10,000 yards of cloth per day, or up 

 to their capacity. 



= The Robins Conveying Belt Co. 

 (New York) have brought suit in the 

 United States Circuit Court at Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey, against the United 

 and Globe Rubber Manufacturing 



Cos., alleging infringement of the Robins patent for rubber 

 conveying belts. 



= With regard to the persistent rumors that the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co. may be sold to Colonel Pope, it is only 

 necessary to state that such a sale, to be legal, would have to 

 receive the vote of every stockholder in the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co., at an annual meeting, preceded by a three 

 months' notice of the proposed transfer. 



=:Mr. R. L. Chipman (Akron, Ohio), representative of 

 George A. Alden & Co. (Boston), was a recent visitor to the of- 

 fices of The India Rubber World. 



=The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) are putting 

 up on their property, not far from the factory plant, a boarding 

 house with twenty rooms, and a dozen houses, for the exclus- 

 ive use of their help. These buildings are to be pleasantly 

 situated and will be, architecturally, as up-to-date and prac- 

 tical as are the splendid factory buildings of the company. 



= The Monarch Rubber Co. (St. Louis, Missouri) have given 

 up a portion of their large store on Washington avenue, retain- 

 ing the street floor for offices and sales rooms and the base- 

 ment for storage purposes, and erected a building on their 

 factory grounds for storage purposes. 



= George S. Andrus, general manager of the La Crosse Rubber 

 Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin) has just installed a miniature 

 experimental plant at his works, embracing a small washer, 

 grinder, calender, vulcanizer, dry heater, and press. 



= Monsieur Ernst Berlyn (Paris), agent in France for the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co., spent several weeks lately in the 

 United States. 



= The name of Clarence H. Guild, secretary of the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co. and director in the Joseph Banigan Rubber 

 Co., was inadvertently printed in the last India Rubber 

 World " Charles " H. Guild. 



= While hard rubber scrap is an article collected in very 

 small quantities, the aggregate of the trade is considerable. 

 In one month recently nearly 40,000 pounds were handled by 

 one dealer, and a single shipment made later amounted to 

 30,000 pounds. 



A BEAUTIFUL summer resort owned by a gentleman connected with the rubber trade 

 is known as Pine Grove Springs, Lake SpofTord, New Hampshire. The elegant hotel 

 on the lake is owned by James H. Stearns, of the rubber firm of Parker, Stearns & Sutton 

 (New York). It may interest fisherman in the trade to see the reproduction of a string 

 of bass caught on the lake not long since. 



