October 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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first preferred stock of the United States Rubber Co. on the 

 parquet of the Paris Bourse. He expressed the opinion that 

 negotiations were progressing satisfactorily, and that the task 

 would be accomplished in a reasonable length of time. 



The $10,000,000 would be the minimum amount, he stated, and 

 would be increased from time to time as the original offering was 

 absorbed. 



Col. Colt attcn<led the marriage oi his son, Roswell C. Colt, to 

 Miss Dorothy Chipman in London. He was accompanied on his 

 ;irrival in New York by the newly married pair. 



On his arrival in Bristol Col. Colt and his son and the lattcr's 

 bride went to the colonel's home, Linden place. He entertained 

 a party of friends at his home three days after his arrival. 

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.■\n alarm from bo.\ ii2 in I'ruvidence on August 27 started 

 ^i.iisitkr.-.ble excitement in this city that day. It is the private 

 lire signal of the Revere Rubber Co. (the United States Tire 

 Co.), where the worst fire in many years broke out a few months 

 ago. The blaze was over a boiler in the lireroom and was 

 <)uickly extinguished, but enough apparatus was rushed to the 



scene to end a conflagration. 



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The largest unit of tax to be paid in the town of Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, this year will be by the National India Rubber Co. The 

 assessn;ent is $6,870.55 on a valuation of $501,500. 



Otlier tax figures made public during the past few weeks are ; 

 .Augustus O. Bourn, who is head of the Bourn Rubber Co., $26,- 

 000; Samuel P. Colt, $239,000; Terrence McCarty, General Man- 

 ager of the Walpole Rubber Co.'s Bristol plant, $24,700. 

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Metal fittings began to disappear from the plant of the Revere 

 Rubber Co. quite regularly late last month. Police inspectors 

 who went to w-ork on the case arrested Edward Abbott, 19, on 

 .\ugust 26. Fifteen fittings were found in his possession. He was 

 fined $25 and costs in the Sixth District Court, Providence. 



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Elmer J. Rishe, an assistant foreman at the plant of the Wal- 

 pole Rubber Co., Bristol, formerly known as the Consumers' 

 Rubber Co., was married early in September to Miss Mildred 

 Louise Macauly. In addition to being a foreman in a rubber 

 manufactory, Mr. Rishe is a well-known baseball player. 



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Gilbert McCarthy, who for many years was an arctic maker 

 in the Alice Mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., died at his 

 home in Woonsocket, September 6. He was 40 years old ; was 

 born in Wallingford, Conn., and had been employed in Woon- 

 socket for 30 vears. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



By a Resident Corrcsfondcnt. 



TV yiERCHANTS report that there is a decided improvement 

 '^"••- in the rubber business, and all are agreed that if present 

 prospects continue the present fall will be one of the most pros- 

 tJerous in the history of the business. .A heavy and, considering 

 the time of the year, very unusual rain fell for several days 

 last week, reaching all through the northern portion of the 

 State and down far into the San Joaquin Valley. This rain 

 .caused an immediate demand for supplies from the wholesale 

 liouses, because the dealers were unprepared for such an emerg- 

 ency, and for a few days there was a grand rush everywhere. 

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.\ new company has launched forth with the object of acting 

 as selling agents on this coast for Eastern factories. The name 

 is the Ralphs- Pugh Co., and offices and warerooms have been 

 fitted up at 502 Mission street. This firm is composed of men 

 well known in the rubber business, and has started out in a 

 t)usiness-like way. Wm. J. Pugh, for the past thirteen years 



has been with the Goodyear Rubber Co. It seems that almost 

 all of the men in this business started out and learned it under 

 the guidance and able direction of the proprietors of the Good- 

 year Rubber Co. Mr. Pugh made a trip to the Eastern factories 

 and returned with a number of good lines. Isaac Ralphs was 

 formerly manager of one of the largest jobbing houses in San 

 Francisco, and although he has never been identified with the 

 rubber trade before, he has been in business here for the past 

 twenty-five years, and is a man of high reputation. W. W. 

 Woodd is also with the new firm, and will look after the selling 

 end of the business. Mr. Woodd also had his training with 

 the Goodyear Rubber Co., having been with that firm for over 

 18 years. Mr. Pugh has recently started out on his first trip, 

 going to the southern part of the State, and then on his return 

 will make the northwestern trip through Washington and 



Oregon. 



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The western territory over which Joseph V. Selby, during his 

 lifetime, had charge for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber 

 Co., has since Mr. Selby's death been divided into three sub- 

 divisions. Mr. Ryker has been appointed to take care of the 

 territory lying between Bakersfield and the northern State 

 boundary line. Mr. Ring, who formerly represented the com- 

 pany at Denver, Colorado, has been selected to take charge of 

 the Washington and Oregon territory. This district was for 

 some time covered by Herbert Selby, son of Joseph V. Selby, 

 but a few months ago Herbert Selby severed his connections 

 with the company to take a position as sales manager for the 

 Tubbs Cordage Co., of San Francisco. Mr. Lippincott, who 

 formerly traveled for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., 

 will now be the regular representative for Southern California 



and Arizona. 



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S. L. Plant, of the Plant Rubber and Supply Co., states that 

 business is ahead of last year, and prospects are good for a 

 fair business. This firm has just added a new branch to its 

 factory for the purpose of making mold rubber work— valves, 



bumpers, etc. 



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The San Francisco Fire Commissioners have at last awarded 

 contracts for fire hose for this city. Only four bids were sub- 

 mitted, two of them being eastern factories and two of them 

 local, and the contracts were awarded to the local manu- 

 facture! s. Most of the eastern factories wrote to the fire com- 

 missioners that they would gladly bid and would supply hose 

 that would withstand the test, but they strenuously objected to 

 the fire commissioners laying down the rules as to how they 

 should manufacture their hose. The Bowers Rubber Works 

 was allowed the contract for 20,000 feet of two-and-three-quar- 

 ter hose. The American Rubber Co. got the contract for the 

 three-and-a-half-inch hose, and those two concerns divided on 

 the one-and-a-half-inch hose. Both of these are local 



manufacturers. 



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E. W. Balding, the general sales agent of the New York Belt- 

 ing and Packing Co., has just paid his annual visit to the 



Pacific Coast. 



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J. E. French, coast manager for the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co., has returned from a trip to the Northwest, and while there 

 opened up some important distributing points. He expects ex- 

 cellent business in the tire line this fall. 



Mr. Norton, manager of the .'Kmerican Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co., reports that the new addition to the factory at Emeryville 



