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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1912. 



AN ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAOBDINAEY. 



There is an original genius in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who 

 styles himself "Chemist Peck, Inventor," who is the inventor 

 of a "Nu-Rubber Tire-Lining" which he describes as follows: 



"Each Lining provides 1,000 instant, Self-Mending Plugs — 

 Permanent, Unseen, Harmless, becoming a part of the tire; 

 giving usually Double-Life and Value" — and so on, for 

 several hundred more words to the same general effect. 



But the "real cream" of his announcement is contained in 

 the following paragraph: 



"Eclesia, New Era, Federation of Nations, United States of 

 the Globe. Initiated and Represented by the Corporation 

 Eclesia, Stratford on the Ousatonic, Independence Day, July 

 4, C. D. 1908. Incorporated and Registered Copyright, State 

 of Connecticut, U. S. A., 1908, Merit Certificate and Patent 

 Award by Corporation Eclesia for Nu-Rubber Tire-Lining. 

 Assigned for Protection and Promotion of Policies and 

 Benefices Mutual and General." 



If Nu-Rubber even remotely lives up to its literature, it 

 must be marvelous stufif. Evidently Chemist Peck does not 

 intend to hide his literary light under a bushel. 



DAHL TIRE STOCK INCREASED TO 56,000,000. 

 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Dahl Tire 

 Co., which was held at Minneapolis early in September, the 

 capital stock was increased to $6,000,000 and the company re- 

 organized. The new company will take over all the patent rights 

 owned by the old company, and in addition to manufacturing 

 Dahl tires, will also manufacture various tire accessories. The 

 central office will be in New York city, with a branch office in 

 Chicago. 



A NEW RUBBER CEMENT COMPANY. 



The Standard Rubber Cement Co., a New York corporation 

 with a capital stock of $100,000, recently began business in a 

 factory at 772 Humboldt street, Brooklyn, New York. The com- 

 pany expects to manufacture rubber cement of all kinds, but will 

 make a specialty of rain coat and channel cement. .■Xn additional 

 enterprise will be the washing and refining of crude rubber for 

 the trade. 



COMPRESSED AIR CUSHIONS FOR AUTOMOBILES. 



Comparatively few people, who have heard Josef Hofmann 

 operate on the piano, are aware of the fact that in addition 

 to being a marvelous musician, he is very much of an inventor. 

 He has recently invented an air-cushion automobile. It is 

 being tested in Switzerland, and some are being constructed at 

 the Saurer Machine Works in the district of St. Gall, Switzer- 

 land. It is described as follows : 



"In place of the usual steel springs it has four brass cylin- 

 ders for compressed air, resting on the axles under the four 

 corners of the automobile body, and these, by means of pistons 

 and soft leather diaphragms, greatly reduce the swaying and 

 jolting. 



"It is claimed for the new invention that it is adaptable to 

 all kinds of roads, regardless of speed or weight of machine; 

 that the air cushions work instantaneously with softness and 

 ease of movement ; that there is an entire absence of vibration, 

 as no metal springs intervene between the axle and the car 

 body; that there is almost perfect balance in rounding curves; 

 and that there is as nearly perfect working safety as can be 

 secured." 



This Hofmann air-cushion auto has been put to severe tests 

 during a number of months, and has run well towards 5,000 

 miles over rather trying roads, with results that are said to be 

 very satisfactory. It has made a speed of 40 miles an hour 

 over rough roads. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Ellsworth F. Norton, of E. F. Norton & Co., Chicago, Illinois, 

 buyers and sellers of scrap rubber, was married on September 

 10 last to Miss Laura Steffan, of that city. 



Miss Maie Elizabeth Spadone, of Brooklyn, New York, 

 daughter of Walter W. Spadone, vice-president of the Gutta 

 Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co., New York City, was 

 married on September 1 to Hamilton Disston Saxton, of New 

 London, Connecticut. 



Mr. Hartman, who had charge of the sheet packing depart- 

 ment of the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co., Passaic, 

 New Jersey, died early in September after a short illness. 



Albert Weber, of Weber & Schaer, of Hamburg, Germany, 

 recently arrived here on the Olympic, the purpose of his visit 

 being the renewal of many friendships in the trade in this coun- 

 try. Mr. Weber is the vice-president of the "Verein am Gummi 

 Handel Bctheiligteu Firmen" ; as well as a promoter and director 

 of many important importing and growing associations. These 

 include : The Gesellschaft Sued Kanierun ; Deutsche Kamerun 

 Gesellschaft; Mahesa Rubber Plantations, Limited, and the 

 Anglo Bolivian Rubber Estates, Limited. 



I. Henry Hirsch. of Adolph Hirsch & Co., crude rubber im- 

 porters, sailed for Europe on September 3, by "Kaiser Wilhelm 

 der Grosse." 



Mr. William G. Brown, the well-known distributor of rub- 

 ber manufacturers' supplies, of 701 Provident Bank building, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, is in New York with the two-fold purpose of 

 placing his daughter. Miss Helen Brown, at Vassar, and at- 

 tendance at the rubber show now in progress at the Grand 

 Central Palace. 



DR. EDUARD MARCKWALD IN AMERICA. 



Dr. Eduard Marckwald, who for the last 12 years has been 

 at the head of the Chemical Laboratory for Commerce and In- 

 dustry, in Berlin, is now visiting the United States, and expects 

 to remain in this country for the next three or four weeks. 

 He is not only a well known German chemical authority but is 

 especially prominent in the field of rubber chemistry. 



TWO WALPOLE APPOINTMENTS. 



The Walpole Rubber Co., of Walpole, Massachusetts, has re- 

 cently made two new appointments to the selling stafi of its New 

 York headquarters at 80 Reade street. Charles O. Anthony, who 

 for the past nine years has been connected with the New York In- 

 sulated Wire Co., has been added to the selling force of the 

 New York office, as has also August R. J. Rode, who will be 

 connected with the selling force of the druggists' sundries de- 

 partment. 



THE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS THE COMPLAINT. 



In our last issue we referred to a decision in an action re- 

 cently brought by a rubber manufacturing company against the 

 National Board of Fire Underwriters. We have ascertained 

 that the decision we there referred to merely called for the 

 reframing of the complaint in the action ; and that this was at 

 once done by the plaintiff. The defendant then claimed by 

 demurrer that no suiificient cause of action was shown in the 

 complaint. This has since been argued before the Supreme 

 Court, and a decision has been rendered holding the complaint 

 to be good. 



Replete with information for rubber manufacturers — Mr. 

 Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients." 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — The Rubber Trade 

 Directorv of the World. 1912. 



