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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1913. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. James H. Stedman, treasurer of tlie Monatiquot Rubber 

 Works Co., accompanied by Mrs. Stedman, is enjoying a four 

 weeks' sojourn at Hampton Terrace, Augusta, Georgia. 



Mr. John M. Miller, Jr., the popular manager of the Good- 

 year Rubber Co., St. Louis, has recently returned from his 

 annual visit to \cvv York, and reports business for the past 

 year very good and prospects for 1913 promising. 



Alexander .-Xdamson, of the Adamson Machine Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, is spending a well-earned vacation in Florida. 



L. M. Franklin, formerly with the Knight Tire and Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, is now one of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber 

 Co.'s Boston sales force. 



Mr. P. W. Koebig, dealer in packing and rubber goods, moved 

 his office on February 10, from 150 Nassau street to 116 Broad 

 street. New York. 



MR. I. R. BAILEY GOES TO THE GOODYEAR CO. 

 After an association of ten years with the Diamond Rubber 

 Co., Mr. I. R. Bailey has joined the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., and will act as sales manager of the mechanical goods de- 

 partment. The company intends, beginning about the first of 

 April next, to manufacture a complete line of mechanical goods, 

 including belting, hose and packing. 



The manufacturing department will be under the direction of 

 William M. Metzler, who was for many years assistant general 

 superintendent of the Diamond Rubber Co., and superintendent 

 ■of the mechanical goods department. 



WILL REPRESENT EASTERN PLANTERS IN NEW YORK. 



A number of the liastern planters have secured New Y'ork 

 representation, and undoubtedly more desire it. A rubber man 

 of e.xcellent character and standing, still young, although he has 

 had ten years' experience in inspecting and passing on crude 

 rubber imports, wants to act as representative in New York for 

 an Eastern planting company. This would appear to be a good 

 opportunity for planters who want to do so to get in direct com- 

 munication with the American market. 



MESSRS. FROST ON A FLYING TRIP 



We -Ymericans rather pride ourselves on the rapidity with 

 -which we go through life. But evidently there are some English- 

 men who are not so particularly dilatory. Messrs. Harvey and 

 William Frost, of Harvey Frost & Co., Ltd., London, have 

 recently paid the United States a flying trip. They landed from 

 the Mauretania on Saturday, February 8, and embarked on the 

 Baltic on Thursday, February 20. Taking out Sundays and 

 Lincoln's Birthday they had eight working days. During that time 

 they covered New York, Philadelphia, Washington. Buffalo and 

 various points west of Buffalo. 



Harvey Frost & Co. are known the world over for their repair 

 equipments — particularly tire vulcanizers and repairers. They 

 make all kinds, from large equipments for factory use, down to 

 little $15 outfits with which the car owner can do his own repair- 

 ing. It is stated that they own more patents on vulcanizing 

 apparatus than any other concern in the world. They came to 

 this country to look over the ground and learn what they could 

 about the needs of the .-American trade. They met a great many 

 people — particularly among tire manufacturers and dealers — 

 absorbing much information and reciprocally imparted much. 



If the Messrs. Frost were Americans we should call them 

 hustlers, but being Englishmen we can only say that they are 

 exceedingly energetic and enterprising men. and it is not at all 

 surprising that their business, though established only nine years 

 ago, has reached its present large proportions. 



DATES ON TIRES. 



According to reports, automobile tire manufacturers and others 

 are scheduled to have another fight on their hands in New 

 York, in connection with a proposed law requiring the placing of 

 the date of manufacture on each tire produced. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Century Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Plainfield, New 

 Jersey, is making a fabric cord tire, for which there is an active 

 request. This company has a completely equipped plant, includ- 

 ing a well appointed laboratory, which might naturally be ex- 

 pected as the president, Dr. Harold Von der Linde, and the fac- 

 tory manager, Maurice L. Allard, are chemists of recognized 

 efficiency. 



The Baumann Rubber Co., of New Haven, Connecticut, has 

 added to an already extensive product a line of high grade 

 ice caps. 



The Bay State Insulated Wire Co., of Hyde Park, Massachu- 

 setts, has recently completed its new laboratory, which is now 

 one of the best in its particular line in that section. The com- 

 pany is preparing to make a fibre lieel and sole which will be 

 marketed under the name of Springwell Gum Fibre. 



Terkelsen & Wennberg, 90 High street, Boston, are said to 

 produce an excellent line of molds for rubber work. They are 

 also making molds for composition or hard rubber substitute 

 devices. 



The Hoyt Rubber Co., of 58 Reed block, Boston, is making a 

 line of footwear specialties, which are interesting the shoe manu- 

 facturing and retail trade. 



C. J. Bailey & Co., of 22 Boylston street, Boston, are about to 

 issue a new one-hundred-page catalogue, showing cuts and de- 

 scriptive matter of the very extensive Bailey line, which will be 

 sent to any address on application. 



Ernest Jacoby, of 79 Milk street, Boston, is manufacturing a 

 black and white substitute which has earned considerable reputa- 

 tion. The Jacoby factory is located in South Boston. 



E. W. Furbush, manager of the Walpole Rubber Co., 185 

 Summer street, is one of Boston's busy rubber men. This com- 

 pany, in itself an important concern, controls several sub- 

 sidiaries, all of which are working full capacity. «j| 



E. W. Graves, of Graves & Graves, of 95 Milk street, Boston, is 

 the inventor of a complete line of rubber plantation tools and 

 devices. .Among the Graves' inventions are tapping knives, a 

 latex cup and a unique type of ladder, all of which are highly 

 esteemed by rubber growers. 



The extensive plant of The Monatiquot Rubber Co., South 

 Braintree, Massachusetts, is producing large quantities of the 

 various brands of Indian-named rubbers made by this concern. 

 The company's Boston manager is Merton A. Turner and its 

 offices are located at 565 .Atlantic avenue. 



The Wellington Rubber Co., with factory located at Wellington 

 (Medford), Massachusetts, and offices at 79 Milk street, Boston, 

 are proofing for the trade. 



The Hyde Park Rubber Co., proofers, now occupy the premises 

 in Clarendon Hills, formerly occupied by The Atlantic Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., which is now operating in a new factory in 

 Hyde Park proper. 



The Dove Machine Co. is now occupying its new factory on 

 Broadway, South Lawrence, Massachusetts. This concern, which 

 specializes in various types of rubber machinery and devices, has - 

 a complete and up-to-date equipment, with ample facilities for 

 extension, which is already among its early plans for the future. 

 In addition to its rubber machinery business it has acquired the 

 Ford automobile agency and in a very short time proposes to 

 commence the manufacture of business trucks. 



The Derby Rubber Co., Derby, Connecticut, now under the 

 management of P. B. Price, a successful reclaimer, is producing 

 what is known as "The Derby," a floating reclaimed rubber, 

 which is giving remarkable results in the manufacture of hard 

 rubber without the addition of any crude material to the com- 

 pound. The Derby Co. is also making a high grade tire and tube 

 stock as well as a wire-covering rubber, which is proving very 

 satisfactory. 



