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the New York, New Haven and Hartford — only five miles from 

 the old plant and less than ten miles from Boston. The new 

 plant will be arranged to reduce to a minimum the labor cost 

 of handling material, and will provide for its direct progress 

 through the shop from foundry to shipping room. 



ANOTHER " KERITE" CABLE FOR ALASKA. 

 VV. R. Brixev is manufacturing, at Seymour, Connecticut, 

 for the United States government, a submarine cable, to be 

 about 125 miles long, and intended to connect Juneau and 

 Skagway, Alaska. It is a single conductor cable, made up of 

 seven No. 21 wires, insulated with " Kerite " compound to a 

 diameter of /., inch, taped, juted, and armored with No. 9 gal- 

 vanized steel wire, over which there is a covering of two layers 

 of jute saturated with a preservative compound. The cable will 

 be coiled in gondola cars and shipped by rail from the factory 

 to Seattle, Washington, and there coiled into the hold of a 

 vessel chartered by Mr. Brixey for laying the cable. It is ex- 

 pected that the cable will be laid in the latter part of this 

 month. George F. Porter, who is Mr. Brixey's manager, is al- 

 ready in Alaska arranging details. ^^Mr. Brixey has already 

 laid a cable 132 miles long between Cape Nome and St. Michael, 

 Alaska, besides supplying a considerable quantity of deep sea 

 cable for the government for use among the Philippine Islands. 



RUBBER COMPANY REPORTS. 

 The American Rubber Co., May 6, igoi : 



LIABILITIES, 



CapiLal stock $1,000,000 



Debts 460,000 



ASSETS. 



Land and water power. f 



Buildings 



Machinery 



Cash and debts receiva- 

 ble 1.084,280 



Stock in process 1,228,173 



37-287 



148,617 

 136,927 



Balance profit and loss. 

 Reserve for deposits. . 



30Q.552 

 865.734 



Total $2,635,286 



Total $2,635,286 



Woonsocket Rubber Co., March 30, 1901 : 



ASSETS LIABILITIES 



Real estate $ 925,673 Capital stock $3,000,000 



Machinery 345, '37 Debts 1,831,722 



Cash and debts receiva- Fixed surplus 414,905 



ble 1,771,136 Balance 249.565 



Goods and stock in pro- — ■ 



cess 2,454,246 Total $5,496,192 



Total $5,496, 192 



HARDMAN RUBBER CO. (BELLEVILLE, N. J.) 



It is announced that the sales department is now in charge 

 of Silas Schwerin, the secretary of the company, for whom the 

 company bespeak the same kind consideration as was extended 

 to his predecessor, the late John C. Hardman. 



LINSEED OIL COMBINE. 

 The plan of merger of the American Linseed Co. and the 

 Union Lead and Oil Co., mentioned in the last India Rubber 

 World, was not carried out. Instead, Standaid Oil interests 

 seem to have acquired a controlling interest in the American 

 Linseed Co., which will remain a separate company. An impor- 

 tant interest, however, is held by the Union Lead and Oil Co., 

 which will be represented in the directorate. Guy G. Major, late 

 president of the American Linseed Co., has been succeeded by 

 Fred T. Gates, and is reported to have organized a new lin- 

 seed oil company with a view to establishing mills in the west. 

 The whole history of consolidation in the linseed oil business 

 seems to have been one of speculative mismanagement and dis- 

 aster, but the opinion prevails that under the new regime the 

 business will be placed on a more stable basis. The Standard 

 Oil Co. have been large distributors of linseed oil, especially 

 in the south, which may explain the latest development. Stand- 

 ard Oil interes's are reported to control the National Lead Co., 



the largest factor in the white lead trade, and a combination of 

 the latter with the Linseed company has been suggested as 

 possible. = =Land is reported to have been purchased June 8, 

 at Toledo, Ohio, for the largest linseed oil mill in the world, 

 by a company embracing Guy C. Major, late mayor of To- 

 ledo, and a practical linseed oil man.==:An advance in the 

 price of linseed oil of 5 cents a gallon was announced on June 

 22, following an advance of 4 cents earlier in the week. This 

 brought the price of City oil up to 70 cents and Western oil to 

 68 cents. 



RUBBER HOSE FOR A CHICAGO PARK. 



The South Park commissioners, Chicago, on June 12, opened 

 bids for 18,000 feet of 3 ply hose, to be mainly i inch diameter, 

 bidders to quote for " coupled " and "uncoupled." The bids 

 ran : 



COUPLED. uncoupled. 



BiDCERS. I in. i^ iu. 2 in. i in. iH ia. 2 in. 



No. 1 8 loX 14'A TX 9ii i3>^ 



No. 2 8 16 22 73^ 15 20 



No. 3 . . . . 8 15 20 



No. 4 Zyi I23i 17 8 12 16 



No. 5 8 12 16 



No. 6 9>^ .. .. 



No. 7 '2.34 18. 88 2544 12 18 24 



No. 8 18 24X •■ 17 225^ 



The firm second on this list were the lowest bidders last 

 year, and the park superintendent writes; "Their hose was 

 satisfactory, considered as a one-season hose. We shall com- 

 pare samples closely, as between the two low bidders, and 

 award accordingly." 



REDUCED RATES FOR BUYERS IN NEW YORK. 

 The Merchants' Association of New York announces that 

 reduced rates — lyi fares for round trip — have been arranged 

 for buyers coming to New York during the fall buying season, 

 over all territory between the New England boundary line and 

 the Mississippi, and south to the line of the Ohio and Potomac 

 rivers. The dates are August 3 to 7, inclusive, and August 24- 

 28 inclusive, with i return limit of 30 days. 



BANIGAN RUBBER EXHIBIT AT BUFFALO. 

 An exhibit of rubber boots and shoes manufactured by the 

 Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. appears at the Pan-American Ex- 

 position, in a booth designed outwardly to represent a rubber 

 gatherer's hut in the Amazon river country. It has a thatched 

 roof, with a rubber tree trunk and branches of other trees as 

 supports. There is an exhibit of rubber gathering implements, 

 and specimens of rubber crude and in various stages of manip- 

 ulation in the factory. Three old " pure gum " shoes, of the 

 ante-Goodyear period, and brought by the late Joseph Bani- 

 gan from Brazil, appear in the display, in contrast with which 

 is an attractive assortment of the latest and best Banigan pro- 

 ducts in rubber footwear. This display is in charge of Edward 

 R, Rice, of Buffalo, one of the selling agents of the company, 

 and is located in the Manufactures building. 



" RUBEROID " FLOORING STANDS A SEVERE TEST. 

 The Standard Paint Co. (New York) have removed their 

 offices from No. 81 John street — where their warehouse still 

 remains — to No. loo William street, into larger and better ap- 

 pointed quarters. The company are manufacturers of the 

 " P. & B." products, including the " P. & B. Ruberoid." An 

 interesting feature in the equipment of the extensive new of- 

 fices is that they are floored throughout with " Ruberoid." 

 One of the old offices, in John street, was, years ago, floored 

 with this material, handsomely decorated. Not only was the 

 experiment successful, but when the company were obliged to 

 move, to find more room for their increasing business, the old 

 "Ruberoid" flooring was found to be in such good condition 



