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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[September i, 1901. 



though the work eventually will be consolidated at Boston. 

 The officers of the Bridgeport company were: Edward Ster- 

 ling, president; E. B. Hawley, treasurer ; E. W. Marsh, secre- 

 tary. The factory has a capacity for the employment of 200 

 hands. 



TRADE OPPORTUNITY IN FRANCE. 

 A GENTLEMAN in Paris, who has been connected with the 

 rubber industry for twenty years, having managed important 

 rubber factories in both France and Germany, and who now is 

 a consulting engineer for important concerns in the industry, 

 writes to The India Rubber World to say that he is in a po- 

 sition to sell American rubber and other machinery, and he 

 invites correspondence through the office of this journal. 



HALL SECTIONAL TIRE CHANGES HANDS. 

 The Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. have purchased from 

 Frank E. Hall, of Boston, the right to use his sectional rubber 

 vehicle tire. This tire has been tested extensively by the 

 Electric Vehicle Co. in New York city, and is regarded as being 

 well adapted for use on heavy automobiles, on account of its 

 staying qualities, besides which it is claimed to require less 

 current than either the ordinary solid or the pneumatic tire. 

 The Hall tire manufactured originally by the Newton Rubber 

 Works, was fully described and illustrated in The India Rub- 

 ber World of August i, 1898. 



SPRINGFIELD RUBBER TIRE ROCKER CO. 

 This company was organized at Springfield, Ohio, June i, to 

 control the invention of James D. Berry for rubber bases for 

 chair rockers. It is composed of A. T, Sweetser and Charles 

 Bird. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE FIGURES. 

 Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



United States Rubber Co.: 



COMBINATION RUBBER AND BELTING CO. 

 The factory at Bloomfield, New Jersey, is reported to be very 

 busy in all departments. The facilities are being increased in 

 the way of hydraulic presses, heaters, etc. It is contemplated 

 to put up an additional building, to contain belting and hose 

 rooms, at an expense of about $30,000. The company have 

 been particularly active in the manufacture of their "Inde- 

 structene " belt, and also molded goods. They have a new 

 catalogue in the hands of the printers. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) 

 have been at work for some time past on extensions to their fac- 

 tory, at Passaic, New Jersey, which will be completed by the end 

 of the summer, largely increasing the capacity of the plant. 



=The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Conn.) 

 have opened a store in New York, at No. 106 Duane street. 



under the management of James Huggins, who has been 

 identified with the rubber footwear trade for many years. 



=The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston), have issued a handsome 

 new lithographed hanger, representing "Little Red Riding 

 Hood " wearing a pair of dainty rubber boots"'of the Hood 

 make. 



= The Philadelphia Museum reports that its foreign bureau 

 has heard from a Hongkong firm who stand ready to give a 

 good order for American rubber shoes. English goods in this 

 line have held that market hitherto. 



^The annual convention of the New England Stationary 

 Engineers, at Springfield, Massachusetts, early in August, at- 

 tended by about 250 delegates, was made an occasion for an 

 exhibition of packings]and asbestos goods for boilers and pipes, 

 of which many manufacturers took advantage. 



=The Industrial Trust Co. (Providence, Rhode Island), of 

 which Colonel Samuel P. Colt, of the rubber industry, is pres- 

 ident, has increased its capital from $1,200,000 to §1,500,000. 

 The Hon. Levi P. Morton, of the Morton Trust Co. (New 

 York), has become a director in the Industrial. 



=The North American Rubber Co. is now the corporate 

 title of what was formerly the American Rubberine Co., with 

 offices at No. 135 Broadway, New York, and factory at Marion, 

 New Jersey. They are manufacturing not only •' Rubberine," 

 but also some specialties in molded rubber work in which their 

 substitute is included. Their latest product is the " Black V 

 Heel." 



=The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have established a depot 

 at Des Moines, Iowa, with the Harrah & Stewart Manufactur- 

 ing Co., for the sale and attachment of their solid rubber car- 

 riage tires. 



= William Jameson has resigned as superintendent of the 

 Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Mass.) to accept the super- 

 intendency of the Goshen Rubber Works, (Goshen, Indiana). 

 Mr. Jameson's record at the Fisk factory was a good one and he 

 can be relied upon to do excellent service in his new position. 



= The Manufactured Rubber Co. (Philadelphia), it is re- 

 ported, will again be reorganized. Operations thus far have 

 not fulfilled expectations, but the officials think that new 

 methods of manufacture in prospect will make a wider market 

 for their product. The high price of linseed oil has been un- 

 favorable to the company, but they are reported to be paying 

 expenses. 



= The Easthampton (Mass.) Rubber Thread Co. are about to 

 extend their new mill 50 feet at the east end, making it 250 feet 

 lo,ig. C. W. Smith, who built the mill, has the contract for the 

 extension. 



=The Vim Co. (Chicago), makers of the "Vim" bicycles, 

 catalogue also two styles of tires, bearing the company's brand 

 One is called the " Alligator " puncture proof self healing tire, 

 of the single tube type. The other, the " No. 80 " double tube 

 tire, patented, is described as being " the first double tube 

 tire ever placed on the market that is exactly like the Morgan 

 & Wright and still does not conflict with that patent." These 

 tires are described as being made in Chicago. 



= " Grand Rapids in the Year 1901 " is the title of an attract- 

 ive booklet issued by the board of trade of Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, containing much information relative to the business 

 of that city and illustrated with views of the leading indus- 

 trial and business establishments. A prominent space is given 

 to the Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co., manufacturers of felt and 

 rubber boots. 



= The Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Mass.) are sending out 

 an advertising novelty in the form of a folder, in the pocket of 

 which there is placed a piece of courtplaster. 



