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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1912. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 

 By a Resident Correspondent. 

 'T'HE Roberts Manufacturing Co., of Trenton and New York, 

 *■ which was incorporated November 22, for $1,000,000 under 

 the laws of Delaware, plans to manufacture sectional inner 

 tubes for automobile tires on an extensive scale, at the plant 

 which the company proposes to erect in this city. Frederick T. 

 Roberts, of this city, the promoter of the new company, was 

 one of the incorporators, along with Frederick L. Guggenheim 

 and Edward Howitz, both of New York City, and Walter L. 

 Watson, of Weehawken, New Jersey. 



The company is organized to manufacture and sell rubber 

 goods of all kinds, but Mr. Roberts declares that the main busi- 

 ness of the corporation will be the manufacture of the patent 

 inner tube automobile tires. These sectional inner tubes are of 

 the pneumatic order, but constructed along entirely new lines. 

 There are ten sections of a tube to each tire. Each section has 

 thirty-two cells running the length of each section, and each 

 cell is filled with compressed air, and then, the ends are vulcan- 

 ized to prevent the escape of the air. 



When the,,inner tubes are placed in an outer tube or shoe 

 they. make a complete circle with close fitting joints. The ad- 

 vantage is that when a puncture occurs only a single section is 

 destroyed, if it is destroyed at all, instead of the entire inner 

 tube. By reason of the fact that there are thirty-two longitudinal 

 cells, it is claimed that in an ordinary puncture the air would be 

 let out of a small number of the cells and that the progress of 

 the machine would not be seriously interfered with. By the 

 use of these sectional tubes it is claimed that autoists will not 

 be obliged to carry e.xtra tires on the machine. Only one or two 

 additional sections will be required. The sections are about ten 

 inches in length. 



The patent inner tubes are now being manufactured at the 

 plant of the United and Globe Rubber Co. in this city. The 

 placing of compressed air in the cells, and the vulcanizing of the 

 ends of the sections is being done at the plant of the Roberts 

 Co. on Pike street, this city. Mr. Roberts believes the patent 

 sectional inner tube is perfect, and says he has been working 

 on the sectional inner tube for the past two years, and that tests 

 have demonstrated the superiority claimed by the company. The 

 tubes are so constructed that they will fit any rim or shoe on 

 the market. 



OBITUARY RECORD. 



FROM THE SAYINGS OF SQUANTUM. 



Reno — a name suggestive to the ordinary lay mind of divorce 

 and alimony — not to mention subsequent matrimony — has ac- 

 cording to so eminent an authority as Squantum, a good Indian 

 chieftain, famous in song and story another meaning, to wit : 

 ■"lack of attention," which ; after all, has no doubt been the 

 forerunner of the conditions first suggested. The late Mr. 

 Squantum, who in addition to being an authority on definition, 

 is a sort of reclaimed sponsor for the Monatiquot Rubber Co., 

 South Braintree, Massachusetts, pledges his aboriginal credit 

 that Monatiquot stocks are not Reno-V.\ted. but are reclaimed 

 in most — if not all — of their original virtue. 



NO EXHIBITION BUBBER IN THE MAHKET. 



' As some manufacturers have reported that they have been 

 approached with the offer to sell them some of the crude rub- 

 ber that was on exhibition at the recent New York rubber show, 

 it may be well to state that there is none of this exhibition rub- 

 ber on the market, as all of it was sold on the last day of the 

 exhibition direct to manufacturers. 



ANOTHER INCREASE IN CAPITAL. 



The Knight Tire & Rubber Co.. of Canton. Ohio, has increased 

 its capital stock to $1,500,000. The increase in the capital stock 

 is to provide a larger w'orking capital and for future improve- 

 ments and additions to the plant. 



DEATH OF FRANK W. GREENE. 



pRANK W. GREENE, crude rubber broker, of 150 Nassau 

 *■ street. New York, died October 31 of pleurisy at his apart- 

 ments in the Standish Arms, Brooklyn. He was 73 years of age. 



Mr. Greene first became connected with the rubber business 

 in 1870, when he was a member of the firm of Randall H. 

 Greene & Sons, of which his father was the head. In 1883 he 

 opened a rubber brokerage office of his own and was continu- 

 ously in this business until the time of his death, acting strictly 

 as a broker, and for the greater part of that time as a general 

 broker, though for ten years — from 1888 to 1898 — he acted as a 

 special broker for John Kenyon of London. 



Mr. Greene was born in New England and was a fine exemplar 

 of the characteristic New England virtues — by which he came 

 quite naturally, as his ancestors settled in that part of the 

 country about 250 years ago. He was a man of quiet tastes, and 

 divided his time between his office and his home, but he had 

 many stanch friends among the rubber men of his generation, 

 among them such well-known and substantial characters as John 

 B. Forsythe, Amadee Spadone, John H. Cheever and William 

 H. Acken. He was deeply interested in everything that per- 

 tained to the rubber industry and, incidentally, he had been a sub- 

 scriber and reader of this publication almost from its initial issue. 



He is survived by his widow, one son, Irving W. Greene, and 

 a grand-daughter, Mildred, to whom he was much attached. 

 His son was formerly associated with his father as a rubber 

 broker, but is at present connected with F. W. Devoe and C. T. 

 Reynolds, the paint manufacturers. 



THE DEATH OF A RUBBER FOREMAN. 



William Folsom. for many years a foreman in the works of 

 the Revere Rubber Co., Chelsea, Massachusetts, died on Novem- 

 ber 8, in that city, at the age of 68. Mr. Folsom was a veteran 

 of the Civil War and belonged to the Theodore Winthrop Post. 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES, 



/^FFICIAL Statement of values of exports of manufacturers 

 ^-^ of india-rubber and gutta-percha from the United States 

 for the months of August and September, 1912, and for the first 

 nine months of five calendar years : 



Belting, Boots All 



Months. Packing and Other Total. 



and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



-August. 1912 $269,239 $196,415 $763,659 $1,229,313 



September. 1912.... 237.546 163.809 660.097 1.061,452 

 January-July 1,381,648 654,464 4,592,615 6,628.727 



Total. 1912 $1,888,433 $1,014,688 $6,016,371 $8,919,492 



Total. 1911 1,701.441 1.349.380 5.402,984 8,453,805 



Total, 1910 1.592,594 1.664,215 4,258,968 7,515,777 



Total, 1909....... 1.301,497 1,127,806 3.059,146 5,488,449 



Total, 1908 926,566 1,043,528 2,629,927 4,600,021 



The above heading, "All Other Rubber," for the months of 

 August and September, 1912, and the first nine months of the 

 two calendar years, includes the following details relating to 

 tires : 



For All 



Months. Automobiles. Other. Total. 



August. 1912.... : 405.781 46,937 452,718 



September. 1912 292,809 50,002 342,811 



January-July 1,835,045 346.504 2,181,549 



Total, 1912 2.533.635 443.443 2,977,078 



Total, 1911 1,941,773 437,201 2,378,974 



