September i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^A/^ORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



THE RUBBER SHOE FACTORIES. 



THE footwear department of the factory of the National 

 India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) suspended 

 work on August 10, it being announced that the sus- 

 pension was for one month. About 700 hands were 

 aflected, some of whom have left Bristol temporarily to work 

 elsewhere. The factory had been closed during the first week 

 in July. ==The "Alice " mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. 

 (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) was closed on August 3, for one 

 month, putting out of employment about 1000 hands. Both 

 the " Alice " and the Millville mills were closed during the first 

 week in July.==The factory of The L. Candee & Co. (New 

 Haven, Connecticut) was closed during the first week in July, 

 and has since been running 8 hours per day.^^The Good- 

 year's India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co.'s factory (Nau- 

 gatuck, Connecticut) has been reported busy. Since April i 

 about 150 new hands have been taught to make rubber shoes. 

 ^^The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. are reported to have booked, 

 during the first two months of the business year, orders for 

 300,000 cases of rubber boots and shoes. As the average is 

 probably 20 pairs to the case, this means 6,000,000 pairs — 

 enough to run the factories for months to come.==The factory 

 of the Lambertville Rubber Co. (Lambertville, New Jersey) 

 since the shutdown for the first week in August, has been run- 

 ning five days in the week. 



DUNLOP TIRES TO BE MADE AT HARTFORD. 



The American Dunlop Tire Co. have issued a circular from 

 Belleville, New Jersey, in which they announce : " The rubber 

 used in the construction of the Dunlop tire has for some time 

 past been made for us by the Hartford Rubber Works Co., and 

 to better avail ourselves of the splendid facilities of their organ- 

 ization, the entire manufacture and sale of the Dunlop tire will 

 hereafter be conducted from Hartford. All correspondence 

 should, therefore, be addressed to the Dunlop Department, 

 Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut. "==The 

 Dunlop company, as well as the Hartford Rubber Works, are 

 embiaced in the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. The fac- 

 tory at Belleville, at which the tire parts have been assembled, 

 will be closed. Mr. Kirk Brown retains his connection with 

 the company, but it is reported that he will not go to Hartford. 

 STANDARD RUBBER AND OILCLOTH CO. 



The land and buildings occupied formerly by the Standard 

 Rubber Co. (Campello, Massachusetts), and so much of the ma- 

 chinery as was not disposed of at the recent trustee's sale, have 

 been purchased by Patrick Cavanaugh, of the New York firm of 

 Cavanaugh Brothers & Knapp, who conduct a business of sup- 

 plying various lines of goods to the United States government 

 on contracts. The Campello plant will be operated under the 

 style of the Standard Rubber and Oilcloth Co. The firm men- 

 tioned are filling a contract for army ponchos, the remainder of 

 which will be manufactured at the Standard factory. 

 A RUBBER COMPANY TO TRY PLANTING. 



Mr. Harry E.Wagoner, the president, and some of the other 

 officers of the Monarch Rubber Co. (St. Louis) are interested 

 in a plan for establishing a rubber plantation in Honduras. It 

 is, in fact, spoken of as chiefly the enterprise of the Monarch 

 company. One thousand acres will be developed near the 

 mouth of the Black river, three miles from the northeastern 

 Honduras coast and 70 miles from Truxillo, the principal city 

 in that republic. Allister K. Stewart, of St. Louis, went to 



Honduras in July to form the first nursery and to begin the 

 preparation of ground for planting. He will be assisted on the 

 plantation by Alfred Ramel, also of St. Louis, and a stock- 

 holder in the company, who has been engaged in scientific 

 work for the United States government. Through his efforts 

 will be established on the plantation a meteorological station 

 and an agricultural experiment station, with which the depart- 

 ment of agriculture at Washington will cooperate. 



THE DAVENPORT TIRE DECISION. 



At Keokuk, Iowa, on July 22, Judge McPherson, in the 

 United States circuit court in the southern district of Iowa, 

 denied the motion of The Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. for a 

 temporary injunction restraining the Kelly Springfield Tire Co. 

 (Davenport, Iowa) and Robert Kercheval, the president of the 

 latter, from carrying on business under their corporate name, 

 or from branding the same on solid vehicle tires marketed by 

 them. It appeared from the evidence that in 1S97 the Rubber 

 Tire Wheel Co. (Springfield, Ohio) and Mr. Kercheval entered 

 into a contract for the sale by the latter of the former's tires in 

 Iowa and Nebraska, and parts of other states. With the 

 knowledge and consent of the Rubber Tire Wheel Co., and of 

 the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., into which it had been 

 merged, Mr. Kercheval had his business incorporated August 

 31, 1899, under Iowa laws, as the Kelly Springfield Rubber Tire 

 Co. Later the parties disagreed, and The Consolidated Rub- 

 ber Tire Co. brought suit against the Davenport company to 

 recover royalties, and the defendants filed a counter claim in a 

 greater sum. The action at law has not been tried and is still 

 pending. The Davenport company has since obtained its rub- 

 ber elsewhere. It was then sought by the plaintiff company to 

 restrain the Davenport corporation from branding goods 

 " Kelly Springfield Rubber Tire Co."— the corporate name of 

 the concern— though it was not claimed that it had claimed to 

 handle or sell the goods of The Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. 

 since the disagreement above referred to. The decision of the 

 court concludes as follows : 



" Under the showing thus far made, it seems to me to be a 

 case not so much to protect itself from unfair trade, as it is a 

 case of some consolidated rubber tire companies seeking to 

 control the trade of the country, and seeking to control those 

 who are not in the consolidation or combine. And I regard 

 such eff^orts with but little favor. An honest competition 

 should not be thus stifled. The case will be continued for hear- 

 ing on evidence taken of cross examination, and on evidence 

 much more satisfactory than ex-parte affidavits, and the tem- 

 porary injunction is denied." 



FAIRFIELD RUBBER CO. 

 This company advise us that October will find them with 

 their capacity more than doubled. Their new mill will be 

 equipped with all the latest appliances for the manufacture of 

 carriage cloth and similar goods. The additional building will 

 include a large stock room, shipping room, office, heater, a new 

 engine, calenders, mills, etc. For several months past the fac- 

 tory has been run nights, on account of the pressure of orders. 



ELASTIC WEB CONSOLIDATION, 



The Bridgeport Elastic Web Co. (Bridgeport, Connecticut), 



capitalized at §125,000, have been merged Into the Hub Gore 



makers (Boston), a corporation which dates from 1883. The 



Bridgeport factory will be operated for an indefinite period, 



