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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1901. 



=Otto Meyer, American representative of Livesey iS: Co., 

 India-rubber merchants, removed on July i from No. 90 South 

 street to No. i6l Summer street, Boston. Mr. Meyer is also 

 the New England representative of the U. S. Rubber Reclaim- 

 ing Works. 



= Harry Herman, son of Mr. M. J. Herman, of the Brockton 

 Rubber Scrap Co. (Brockton, Mass.), has located at No. 15 

 Villa place, Lynn, Mass., to engage in the same line of trade 

 for himself. 



=The Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. Jersey City, N. J.) are tak- 

 ing advantage of the advance in the price of linseed oil, to call 

 attention to their silicia-graphite protective paint. 



= The Rocker Rubber Tire Co. (Springfield, Ohio), organized 

 in April to manufacture Miller's rubber tire for rocking chairs, 

 cradles, and the like, on which a patent had been applied for, 

 have gone out of business. They seemed to have a practical 

 article, and were reported to be making a good beginning. 



= The Cox last factory (Maiden, Massachusetts), which was 

 burned some three weeks ago, is being rapidly rebuilt and will 

 soon be in complete running order. The factory that was 

 burned was probably the oldest in the world that had been con- 

 tinuously used in the manufacture of lasts for rubber footwear. 



«The New York City Directory gives several companies as 

 possessing the name Manhattan Rubber Co., and it is well to 

 remember that the correct address of the well-known mechanical 

 goods concern at No. 18 Vesey street is the Manhattan Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. 



= A recent number of the Patent Office Gazette contains the 

 announcement that the " Good Samaritan " hot water bottle, 

 which is being so successfully marketed wherever such goods 

 are sold, has been patented, marking it as another valuable in- 

 vention in rubber brought out by C. J. Bailey, of Boston. 



=The story of the strike at the works of the Hood Rubber 

 Co. (Watertown, Massachusetts) is graphically told in the fol- 

 lowing figures. At the first inkling of trouble, the company 

 were employing 1150 hands, of whom 550 went out. Soon 350 

 of the latter came back, and the company are now employing 

 1750 hands and making 20,000 pair of shoes per day. 



= The American Tubing and Webbing Company (Providence, 

 R. I.,) have just moved into a large new building, which they 

 have erected especially for their work. Their plant at present 

 is the largest of the kind in the United States. They have 

 established an agency in Great Britain, in charge of Warbur- 

 ton, Allen & Co., at Leicester, England. 



= The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have opened a 

 branch in Detroit, Michigan, for the sale of their cycle and ve- 

 hicle tires. It is located at No. 310 Woodward avenue, and is 

 in charge of W. M. Perrett, who is transferred from the com- 

 pany's offices at Akron. 



= The Leatherberry Shoe Co., a new jobbing house to be 

 opened at Clarksburg, West Virginia, about October i, with 

 C. P. Leatherberry at its head, will handle the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co.'s brands. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. W. F. Mason, managing director of the Rubber Ma- 

 chinery Co., Limited (Manchester, England), was a recent vis- 

 itor to the United States, on business in relation to the Conti- 

 nental rights for certain machinery which his company con- 

 trol for Great Britain. 



= Mr. A. L. Comstock, superintendent of the American Rub- 

 ber Co. (Cambridgeport, Mass.), is spending the summer in 

 Europe, his trip embracing Germany, France, and England. 



=Mr. George Puchta, of the Queen City Supply Co. (Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio), was a recent visitor to the Boston Belting Co., 

 Boston. 



= Mr. F. F. SchafTer, general superintendent of the Goodyear's 

 India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co., and the Wales Good- 

 year Co. (Naugatuck, Conn.), has become somewhat run down 

 from work, and has found it necessary to take several weeks 

 vacation. He is on the road to rapid recovery, and will soon 

 be back at his post at Naugatuck. 



= Mr. George P. Whilimore, secretary of the Boston Belting 

 Co., was said, by the Newton (Mass.) newspapers, to be enjoy- 

 ing a vacation trip to Europe. As a matter of fact, however, 

 his trip took him to the mountains of Colorado, and he had a 

 most enjoyable outing. 



=At Brockton, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening, July 30, 

 Miss Ray Herman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Herman, 

 was married to Mr. Louis Scholtz, of the same city. Mr. Her- 

 man is at the head of the Brockton Rubber Scrap Co. 



^George T. Case, of the Morgan & Wright rubber factory 

 (Chicago), is the owner of an orange grave in Porto Rico, to 

 which he hopes some day to be able to retire, when it will af- 

 ford a competency. 



= Mr. Alfred Calmon, managing director of the Asbest-und 

 Gummiwerke Alfred Calmon, Act.-Ges. (Hamburg, Germany), 

 was recently on this side of the Atlantic, visiting the asbestos 

 mines in which he has an interest in Canada, and several rub- 

 ber factories in the States, and also the offices of The India 

 Rubber World. 



= Mr. Julius Kopp, dealer in India-rubber and Gutta-percha 

 goods at Copenhagen, Denmark, was a recent visitor to the 

 offices of The India Rubber World. Mr. Kopp was one 

 time a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. He became naturalized here 

 and served as lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth New York reg- 

 iment during the civil war. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Andrew Allan, who died at Montreal on June 27, was pres- 

 ident of The Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, besides 

 being the head of the Allan Steamship Co., president of the 

 Merchants' Bank of Canada, president of the Montreal Tele- 

 graph Co., and a member of the Montreal Harbor Board. He 

 was born in Scotland in 1823, and had lived in Canada since 

 his seventeenth year. 



^The many friends of Mr. H. P. Moorhouse, of Paris, France, 

 deeply sympathize with him in the loss of his wife, who died 

 very suddenly on June 21. Most of the leaders of the rubber 

 trade on both sides of the Atlantic were acquainted with both 

 Mr. and Mrs. Moorhouse, and the news of the former's be- 

 reavement has brought out general and heartfelt expressions 

 of sorrow. 



=William E. McManus, superintendent of the Kokomo Rub- 

 ber Co. (Kokomo, Indiana), died suddenly on June 24, aged 32. 

 He went from Chicago to Kokomo six years ago. 



NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the club, held 

 in Boston on July 25, the following committees were elected : 



Dinner Committee, — William J. Kelly, George P. Whitmore, William 

 H. Gleason, Robert B. Baird, Charles J. Davol. 



Entertain/nent Committee — Henry C. Pearson, Frederick C. Hood, 

 Andrew H. Brown, William E. Barker, Frederick L. Smith. 



Committee on Resolutions. — Augustus O. Bourn, Charles H. Arnold, 

 George P. Whitmore. 



The committees are planning a very interesting outing for 

 August, the date to be announced later. 



Where Rubber was Not Waterproof. — One of the prime 

 uses of rubber is to keep out water. But the Rubber Trust was 

 evidently formed without reference to that fact. — New York 

 World. 



