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THE INDIA RUBBER 'WORLD 



[August i, 1902. 



= The Gum Carbo Co. (Beaumont, Texas), July 19, under 

 Texas laws ; capital, $10,000,000. Incorporators: Robert Bowie, 

 Chicago, Illinois; W. F. Frue, Biloxi, Mississippi ; R. E. Hum- 

 phreys, Tom C. Swope, and George C. Waddill, of Beaumont. 

 The purposes of the company, for manufacturing a substitute 

 for rubber by refining Texas petroleum and combining with it 

 cottonseed oil, have been referred to already in The India 

 Rubber World. 



:= Newark Rubber and Specialty Co., July 25, under New 

 Jersey laws; to job and manufacture rubber goods, including 

 druggists' sundries ; capital, $100,000. Incorporators : John E. 

 Ilalen. Frederick C. Fischer, Solomon Feist. Principal office : 

 No. 36 Lawrence street, Newark, N. J. It is intended to estab- 

 lish offices in New York, BufTalo, and Philadelphia. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) filed an official certificate 

 on July I, with the commissioner of corporations of Massa- 

 chusetts, to the effect that their paid up capital stock had 

 been increased from $800,000 to $900,000. 



=The office equipment at the factory of the Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co. (Cambridgepoit, Mass.) has been in- 

 creased by the establishment of two new telephone lines, mak- 

 ing a total of four long distance telephone connections and 

 twenty branch lines connecting the various departments in the 

 plant. A branch of the Postal Telegraph Co. has also been 

 established at the factory offices. The company are to be con- 

 gratulated on having completed the largest and best year's 

 business ever done by them. 



=John Robson, who for some time past has been superin- 

 tendent of the "Alice " and Millville rubber factories, has been 

 appointed general superintendent of the Woonsocket Rubber 

 Co., in which capacity he will continue to have charge of both 

 mills. George Schlosser, whose duties have been confined 

 hitherto to the " Alice " mill, has been given the title of super- 

 intendent, with supervision of both factories. 



=The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) on July 4 sent to 

 their tire customers a souvenir card, with a firecracker at- 

 tached, together with the statement : " We regret to state that 

 Diamond tires wi'/l no/ explode, so we enclose a cannon cracker 

 to make up for the loss." 



= Charles A. Coe is again in Boston, and is at present taking 

 the place of the late H. H. Perrin at the office of the United 

 States Rubber Co., in charge of the sale of the " Wales Good- 

 year " brand of rubber footwear. 



= Frederick Cook, for seventeen years treasurer of the 

 Woonsocket Rubber Co., has resigned, and the position has 

 been accepted by Clarence H. Guild, who will retain also his 

 office as secretary of the company. It is understood that the 

 retirement of Mr. Cook was due to the removal of the com- 

 pany's office headquarters from Providence, where he lives, to 

 Woonsocket. 



= William F. Askam, general superintendent of the U. S 

 Rubber Reclaiming Works, has removed his residence to 

 Buffalo, New York, where the company have established their 

 new plant. 



= M. H. McColm, who had been identified with the Eureka 

 Fire Hose Co. (New York) for several years, and was latterly 

 in charge of their Boston office, resigned his position with the 

 company, to take effect on July 15, on account of ill health. 



= Two 100 H. P. boilers for the Alabama Tube and Iron Co. 

 (Helena, Alabama) are in process of construction at the works 

 of the Hazelton Boiler Co. (Rutherford, New Jersey)). Addi- 

 tional boilers have been ordered by many of the Hazelton com- 

 pany's old customers — a sufficient commentary on the quality 

 of the work. 



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

 who maintain an efficient mill fire department, have decided 

 to use their factory whistle, instead of a bell, as a signal for 

 fires and for practice drills, for the reason that the whistle can 

 be better heard throughout the factory. 



= The award for supplying 6000 pounds of rubber bands lor 

 the United States post office department and the postal ser- 

 vice, for the fiscal year beginning July i, 1902, was made to 

 The Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut). Ten 

 firms, of whom six were manufacturers, submitted thirteen 

 bids, three of the bids being for higher priced goods than 

 " standard." The bid accepted was 34 per cent, lower than the 

 highest bid made; 12 per cent, lower than the average of all 

 the bids made; and 8 per cent, lower than the average for 

 " standard " goods. 



= L. S. Hoyt, proprietor of the Hoyt Rubber Co. (Boston, 

 Massachusetts) has taken in as co-partner B. E. Phillips, Jr. 

 The company expect to enlarge their output of work gradually 

 into a full line of mechanical rubber goods. 



= The Standard Rubber and Oil Cloth Co. (Campello,' Mas- 

 sachusetts) are reported to have filled some orders for the 

 British government for ponchos and other army equipment 

 for the soldiers in South Africa, in addition to considerable 

 orders of the same kind for the United States government. 

 The plant operated is that o"wned formerly by the Standard 

 Rubber Co. 



= Mr. A. H. Overman, who is now in England, and is a mem- 

 ber of the Clarkson tt Capet Steam Car Syndicate, at Chelms- 

 ford, has just ordered by cable another set of Bailey's " Won't 

 Slip" tires, the only tires, so he claims, that do not slip on 

 London's wooden pavements. 



= Philip McGrory (Trenton, New Jersey) has bought a quan- 

 tity of rubber machinery discarded by the International Auto- 

 mobile and Vehicle Tire Co. in removing from Newton Upper 

 Falls to Milltown, New Jersey, and also such of the plant of the 

 Meyer Rubber Co., at that place, as will not be wanted by the 

 International company. Mr. McGrory, in connection with 

 James Norton, of Boston, has also bought a quantity of ma- 

 chinery from the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Works at Jersey 

 City. 



= Thenew "Joint Stock Companies act" has just been passed 

 the Dominion parliament. This allows of greater liberty in the 

 formation of companies than the Canadians have in the past 

 enjoyed. 



= Fire from an unknown cause in a storehouse of the Read- 

 ing Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Reading, Massachusetts) caused 

 damage to the amount of $1 100, on July 17. 



= Mr. Townsend Cocks has been elected treasurer of the New 

 Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Co. (Jersey City), succeeding 

 Mr. Charles P. Cocks. 



= Mr. C. H. Arnold, of Reimers & Co. (Boston, Mass.), who 

 is taking a trip over the Northern Pacific road, will be on the 

 Pacific coast by the time this reaches readers of The India 

 Rubber World, and a week or ten days later he will be in 

 Boston. 



= Mr. W. B. Smith Whaley, of Boston, who is an expert in 

 electrical power transmission, and has already paid consider- 

 able attention to problems in equipping rubber mills, has or- 

 ganized a $[0,000,000 company in the West, which is planning 

 to erect the largest cotton mill in existence. 



= Mr. A. H. Alden, president of the New York Commercial 

 Co., is again at his offices in the Dun building, having re- 

 turned from abroad the middle of the month. 



^Mr. George A. Wies, treasurer of the Eureka Fire Hose 

 Co., New York, is confined to his hom'e by a slight illness. 



