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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1901. 



capital, $2,000,000. Incorporators : Henderson B. Hays, George 

 VV. Flaacke. A. Livingston Norman. Officers : J. K. Tillotson, 

 president ; Edw. H. Cloud, vice president ; N. B. Hays, treas- 

 urer; A. L. Norman, secretary. Office; No. 11 Broadway, 

 New York. The collars to be made are such as are covered 

 by the patents heretofore owned by the United States Pneu- 

 matic Horse Collar Co., now in liquidation. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 A RECENT treasury department decision relates to the "draw- 

 back" on flax or linen hydraulic hose manufactured by the 

 Eureka Fire Hose Co., of New York, which indicates that this 

 company must be getting a share of export trade that counts 

 for something. The duty paid on imported yarns used in 

 weaving the hose is refunded in case the product is exported. 



= The Philippines commission have appropriated $70.°°° 

 for a modern fire department for the city of Manila, with 

 American engines and other equipment. 



= The United States Waste Rubber Co. has been formed, at 

 Brockton, Mass., mainly to deal in unvulcanized rubber cement 

 waste, which is collected for them all over the country. The 

 business is conducted by Alfred Freedman and Samuel Levin. 

 Besides the Brockton office, they have branches at Stoughton, 

 Mass., and No. 123 Endicott street, Boston. 



= American firms are reported to have estimated lately on 

 31 miles of cable for a tramway extension in Sydney, New South 

 Wales. The order went, however, to the British Insulated Wire 

 Co., Limited, of Prescot, Lancashire, who make a specialty of 

 paper msulation. 



=The Durham Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Bowmanville, 

 Ontario) are mentioned as tunning their factory fifteen hours 

 a day and contemplating the erection of an additional two story 

 brick building. 



=The Hamilton Rubber Manufactnring Co. (Trenton, New 

 Jersey) have recently added a frame building to their factory, 

 to be used as a storage warehouse. 



= Latta & Mulconroy Co. (Philadelphia), who were reported 

 recently to have been damaged by fire, inform us that the 

 tenants of the upper part of their building were burned out, but 

 their own loss was so trifling that they made no report to the 

 insurance company. They give credit lor their good fortune to 

 the firemen, who, by the use of rubber covers, prevented even 

 the water from reaching Latta & Mulconroy "s goods. 



= Charles Blackador & Co. is the name of a new copartner- 

 ship firm at St. Johns, New Brunswick, formed to handle a new 

 rubber heel patented by Mr. Blackador. 



= A "Japanese list " of rubber footwear, applying to goods 

 made up expressly for the Japanese trade, appears in one of 

 this season's catalogues of the United States Rubber Co. 



=The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co, (New York) 

 are distributing among their customers a convenient packet 



labelled " Private Papers. Property of ," which 



the average recipient will be apt to put into his pocket and 

 make a practical use of. It will be a constant reminder, of 

 course, of the Manhattan goods. 



=The Delaware Rubber Co., a jobbing company at No. 244 

 Market street, Philadelphia, have obtained an injunction 

 against the Manhattan Storage Co, and the Puritan Rubber 

 Co., of that city, restraining them from selling any tires 

 branded " Delaware Special," " Haverford," or " Union." 



= The stock, fixtures, and good will of the Lowell Rubber 

 Co. (Lowell, Mass.) have been purchased by Harry C. Kitt- 

 redge, who will continue the business. 



= The Monarch Rubber Co. (St. Louis) are reported to have 

 booked orders recently for rubber shoes, from Boston and else- 

 where in New England. 



=The Ohio Rubber Co. (Nos. 204-206 Superior street, 

 Cleveland), who have the exclusive sale of the Interlocking 

 rubber floor tiling in Ohio, have been engaged lately in filling 

 some important contracts, for public buildings and banks. 



= The enterprising head of the O'Sullivan Rubber Co. 

 (Lowell, Mass.) does not intend that any chance for legitimate 

 advertising shall get by him. This was proved in the Boston 

 papers recently, where the story was told of a man walking 

 through the corridors of Young's Hotel and, feeling that some- 

 thing was embedded in the heel of his shoe, was delighted to 

 discover that it was a pearl. The heel being an O'Sullivan 

 heel, the company at once s°nt the story out broadcast, and it 

 is being very widely quoted. 



= George H. Carter, of the J. F. Carter Co., Beverly, Massa- 

 chusetts, has brought suit against The A. J. Tower Co. (Bos- 

 ton), asking §10,000 damages for alleged infringement of a 

 patent for the manufacture of waterproof cloth used in the 

 making of oiled clothing, and praying for a perpetual injunc- 

 tion against the use of the process. 



= The Monarch Rubber Co. (St. Louis, Mo.) have departed 

 from the usual line of packing cases used in rubber shoe facto- 

 ries. Instead of having them built of pine, they are having 

 them built of Cottonwood, which weighs from one-third to one- 

 half less than the former, and thus saves freight. 



= A certain rubber jobbing house keeps standing an ofler of 

 "$5 reward for first information of fire hose wanted " in any 

 town. 



= Manager James Suydam, of the Goodyear Rubber Co. (St. 

 Paul, Minnesota), recently visited Winnipeg in the interest of 

 the trade in "Gold Seal" rubber footwear, which finds some 

 sale in the Dominion of Canada, in spite of a duty of 25 per 

 cent. 



=The New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Co. are understood 

 to have had most satisfactory results in the sale of the " We- 

 maka " solid vehicle tire, which is now controlled from their 

 head office. 



= It is reported that more hands are employed in the facto- 

 ries of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. than at any time for years. 

 = There is an idle starch factory at Waukegan, Illinois, which 

 somebody from Chicago has been looking over, to see if the 

 plant is suitable for a hard rubber works. 



—The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) have recently 

 created two new offices, that of Manager of Sales, and Assist- 

 ant General Superintendent, the places being filled by H. E. Ray- 

 mond, and E. C. Shaw, both of whom are known as active and 

 capable Goodrich men. 



=One criticism that golf experts have made regarding the 

 Haskell ball was that the markings were so shallow that the 

 ball did not fly accurately. This defect, however, has been 

 remedied, this season's ball being marked as deeply as any and is 

 really as pretty a piece of Gutta-percha molding as can well be 

 imagined. 



= Betzler & Wilson (Akron, Ohio), manufacturers of hard 

 rubber specialties, are about to engage in the manufacture of 

 dental rubber. 



i=The Kelly Springfield Rubber Tire Co. (Davenport, Iowa), 

 incorporated August 31, 1899, in spite of their name, announce 

 that they have no connection with any other company. They 

 are marketing solid wired-on carriage tires. 



= Sectional Pneumatic Tire Co. (Binghamton, New York), 

 incorporated lately to manufacture a new tire, have made some 

 changes in their organization. The officers now are : E. C. In- 

 derlied, president; B. A. Baumann, vice-president ; F. J. Bau- 

 mann, treasurer ; R. D. Bundy, secretary ; W. L. Bundy, gen- 

 eral manager ; Charles Miller [patentee] superintendent. 



