August 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



583 



A new and most favorable connection has been made by 

 William H. Scheel, of 159 Maiden lane. New York, with the 

 Societe des Blancs de Zinc de la Mediterranee, noted producers 

 of zinc oxide. This step is due to increased calls that Mr. Scheel 

 has had for these goods, which are especially adapted for the 

 use of tire manufacturers, many of whom have already sub- 

 stantially testilied tlieir appreciation of this particular brand of 

 oxide. 



In arranging to care for the increased business anticipated for 

 the coming fall, the Monatiquot Rubber Works Co., of South 

 Braintree. Massachusetts, has increased its power equipment by 

 the installation of another boiler, and its plant by the addition of 

 a new boiler house. This company manufactures Naturizcd 

 rubber, a product so much in demand by the trade as to neces- 

 sitate the day and night operation of its factory. 



The Firestone Tire ami Riiliber Co. is offering to its dealers. 

 free of charge, imprinted metal or muslin road signs. This 

 enables the dealer to mark all the highways leading into his 

 town, and the motorist in need of a tire or other sundry is thus 

 directed right to the dealer's door — which incidentally gives the 

 dealer a fine type of free advertising. 



The Danversport Rubber Co. has recently changed its Boston 

 offices to 79 Milk street, where it is most favorably located. 

 Under the direction of J. C. Walton, president and treasurer, 

 this company has made material progress. 



H. L. Alperin. 45 W. Canton street, Boston, has developed an 

 extensive business in waste rubber and is now among the im- 

 portant operators in that city. 



The Rubber Step Manufacturing Co., Exeter, New Hampshire, 

 which makes a line of specialties on order for the trade, has 

 added to its output a line of molded specialties, this new depart- 

 ment being under the management of William F. Stearns, a 

 rubber man of wide and successful experience. 



The Walpole Tire and Rubber Co., of Walpole. Massachusetts, 

 at a recent meeting of its directors, decided to defer the quarterly 

 payment of 1^4 per cent, on its preferred stock, and passed the 

 usual quarterly dividend of 1 per cent, on its common stock. This 

 action is attributed to the recent failure of the Atlantic National 

 Bank of Providence, which has interfered temporarily with the 

 company's plans for financing the large increase of business that 

 has recently come to it. The company has sent out a circular to 

 its stockholders in which the following paragraph appears : 



"Your company has had an unusual increase in the amount of 

 business tendered to it and this expansion we have found ex- 

 tremely hard to finance, owing to the small available working 

 capital the company now has on band. The issue of notes which 

 was recently offered to the stockholders to provide an adequate 

 working capital, which would place the company in an indepen- 

 dent position as regards its bank loans, did not meet with the 

 success anticipated. This is one of the reasons for our feeling 

 that it is to the company's best interest to retain at the present 

 time all of its cash in hand." 



Telling the news is all right, provided it is correct. -An 

 instance of mistaking shadow for substance has recently oc- 

 curred, in the printing by the daily press of a report to the 

 effect that the Hood Rubber Co. had decided to discontinue 

 the manufacture of tires and had closed out its entire stock. 

 Tho the report did not appear in this journal. The Indi.'V 

 Rubber World is authorized to contradict it. 



Co. of New Bedford. Massachusetts, and has become an active 

 member of that corporation. 



The Standard Woven F'abric Co., formerly located at Worces- 

 ter, is now established in its new factory at Framingham, Mas- 

 sachusetts, where, with every facility and equipment tending to 

 promote quality and economy of production, it will be able to 

 serve the trade on a much larger scale with not only the brake 

 lining, woven belting and hose fabrics to which its attention has 

 in the past been <lirected, but also with a complete line of woven 

 fabrics for mechanical purposes. 



A SANITARY •SWATTER." 



.\ Sanitary Insect Destroyer is one of the latest inventions in 

 which is embodied the use of rubber; and we illustrate herewith 

 such an article— manufactured by the Rubber Step Manufactur- 

 ing Co., of Exeter, New Hampshire— which is sure to meet with 

 appreciation because of the effective manner in which it dis- 

 poses of flics, mosquitoes and other of the insect pests of the 

 summer months. A fly-svvattcr has become now almost a house- 



hold necessity, and this particular style — the rubber edge of 

 which is of sufficient weight that a severe blow can be dealt — 

 includes among its features of special merit a flexible handle 

 which can be detached froin the regular wooden member, mak- 

 ing it possible to wash the destroyer in hot water or antiseptic 

 solution. The "swatter" is protected by patents issued during 

 this year in the United States and Canada. 



PNETTMATIC TIRES MADE OF HORSEHAIR. 



A thousand people of all nationalities arc working all the 

 time on some substitute for the pneumatic tire now in general 

 use. A couple of Frenchmen have hit on something different 

 from the rest. They have taken out a patent for a resilient tire 

 to be made of sheets or bands of compressed horsehair wound 

 around a core ; this core may be either solid or hollow metal, 

 or it may be a rubber air chamber, or may consist of still more 

 compressed horsehair. There may be few or many layers of 

 horsehair, an outside cover being made of canvas ; but the body 

 of the tire is to be of horsehair, and it is from that article that 

 its resiliency is to come. 



This is certainly adding insult to injury; not only is the poor 

 old horse driven out of his job by the motor car, but his mane 

 and tail are to be plucked to constitute the tires. Why not go 

 a few steps further and make the rims out of compressed horse- 

 hoofs, and the spokes out of his ribs, and upholster the car 

 with the poor old fellow's hide? 



A Business Fir.m in a L.\tin-.\meric.\n country informs an ..\ number of new general specifications are now being issued 



American consulate that it desires to be put in touch with .\meri- bv the United States Navy Department, superseding those 



can manufacturers of raincoats. The report is No. 11083. hitherto in force. The first instalment of these has come to 



Mr. D. .\. Cutler is now associated with the .-Xcusbnet Process hand and will be dealt with in the next issue. 



