September i, 1901.] 



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= The salesmen of the Linthicum Rubber Co. (Baltimore, 

 Md.),to the number of eleven, had an outing, beginning Augus- 

 9, going by water to Providence, R. I., where is located the fac- 

 tory of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., whence they went to 

 Newport, New York, and Long Branch. 



= Patterson & Co., druggists, of Heppner, Oregon, send to 

 The India Rubber World a 4 page circular, 8"X 10", calling 

 the attention of their customers to the rubber goods they 

 handle, and pointing out the advantages of the same. The cir- 

 cular is well illustrated, and the method appears to be a good 

 one to further the sale of the articles described. 



=:The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are re- 

 ported to have closed a contract, involving $50,000, for equip- 

 ping with their endless solid rubber tires the electric cabs of 

 the New York Electrical Transportation Co. 



= Owmg to the liquidation of the rubber business of Otto 

 G. Mayer & Co. (New York), Mr. George R. Meeker, who was 

 one of the most successful and popular men, has gone into the 

 rubber brokerage business for himself, with offices at Nos. 78- 

 80 Broad street. New York. 



= Otto G. Mayer iv: Co., importers of crude rubber, New York 

 have gone into liquidation, and will give up the crude rubber 

 business entierly. 



= F. H. Cooley, dealer in cycles and sundries, Westfield, 

 Massachusetts, has added to his stock a line of rubber goods — 

 including hose, mats, druggists' sundries, and the like. There 

 has not been a rubber goods store in Westfield hitherto. 



= The annual picnic of the employes of The La Crosse Rub- 

 ber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin) was to take place on Au- 

 gust 30. Their yearly picnics have always proved very suc- 

 cessful. 



= The Stamford Rubber Supply Co. (Stamford, Connecticut) 

 are now fully started in business, in the manufacture of rubber 

 substitutes and dealing in rubber manufacturers' supplies gen- 

 erally. The manager of this company is P. Carter Bell, who is 

 very generally known as a chemist of experience in relation to 

 the rubber industry. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



WaterbitrV Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), July 3, 

 under New York laws; capital, $100,000. Directors: A. H. Howe, 

 Jersey City, N. J.; G. A. Howe, Vineland, N. J.; W.J. Beairsto, 

 Yonkers, N. Y. This company have done a jobbing business as 

 a partnership since 1882 and as a New Jersey corporation since 

 1888. Under the new charter there has been an increase of 

 capital and new features are understoood to be in prospect. 



= Pneumatic Mattress and Cushion Co. (New York), July 

 30, under New York laws, to manufacture rubber air goods ; 

 capital, $100,000. Frank L. Sill, president ; B. F. Funk, treas 

 urer; W. J. Shilladay, secretary (and superintendent and gen- 

 eral manager) ; W. J. Wheeler, V. Hybinette, and O. L. Simp- 

 son, additional directors. Office : No. 3 South street. New York ; 

 factory at Reading, Mass. The new company succeed a corpor- 

 ation of the same name formed under West Virginia laws, at 

 Reading, Mass., something over two years ago. Mattresses and 

 cushions are made for steamers, yachts, camping outfits, house- 

 hold use, etc., under patents granted to A. A. Young, who was 

 connected with the old company and is associated with the 

 new. The goods were described in The India Rubber 

 World of April i, 1899 [page 186.] 



= The Standard Rubber Co., June 3, under Ohio laws. In- 

 corporators : H. S. Walton, C. E. S. Hickey, Ely C. Hammerle, 

 E. I. Smith, Manus Shoemaker — said to be ot Akron, Ohio. A 

 report from Akron states that " the parties must be people from 

 out of town, as no one seems to know them here." 



= Crescent Flexible Armor Hose Co. (Trenton), July 31, 

 under New Jersey laws, to manufacture rubber goods, but par- 

 ticularly steel and iron armor for rubber hose, and insulated 

 wire and cables; capital, $25,000. Incorporators: C. Edward 

 Murray, Samuel Cadwalader. Edgar T. Phillips. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The Hon. Elisha S. Converse, president of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., on Sunday, July 28, celebrated his eighty- 

 first birthday, quietly, with his family and a few friends, at his 

 home in Maiden, Massachusetts. In the morning he attended 

 the First Baptist church, where the sermon was by the Rev. 

 Dr. D. W. Faunce, Mr. Converse's former pastor, but now of 

 Providence, Rhode Island. Later Dr. Faunce dined at Mr. 

 Converse's home. Mr. Converse is apparently in as good 

 health as when, a year ago, a large number of friends joined 

 him in the celebration of his eightieth birthday, of which the 

 India Rubber World gave an account at the time. 



= Mr. Frank H. Turner, who was elected recently vice presi- 

 dent of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., is mentioned by the 

 Syracuse Post-Standard, as being native of Malone, New York, 

 which town he left eighteen years ago to go to Hartford. 



= Mr. Georg M. Hassel, manager of the Aktieselskabet den 

 Norske Galoge- og Gummivarefabrik — the first and only rubber 

 factory in Norway, located at Drammen, near Christiana — was in 

 the United States lately, on his second visit to this country, and 

 favored The India Rubber World with a call. He was con- 

 cerned principally with the examination of new rubber machin- 

 ery. The production of the Drammen factory is mainly " ga- 

 loches." Beginning May i, 1898, the manufacture of these 

 goods has been carried on with such success that it is esti- 

 mated that the company now supply three-fourths of the Nor- 

 wegian demand. Prior to that date most of the rubbers worn 

 there came from Russia, 



= Willis A. Darling has been spending the summer at Camp 

 Sunshine, on Moosehead Lake, Maine. He has his family with 

 him and is having a most delightful vacation in one of the 

 prettiest camps on the Lake, a camp, by the way, in which he 

 is half owner and where he has spent a part of the fishing sea- 

 son for many years. 



=The death of Jonathan Stewart, at Trenton, New Jersey, 

 July 26, recalls the heavy loss which he sustained in the collapse 

 of the Star Rubber Co., in that city, in 1891. The company was 

 in entire charge of its secretary, the late Thomas A. Bell, whose 

 operations led to a failure involving over $1,000,000. Mr. 

 Stewart was then a prosperous grocery merchant, but his busi- 

 ness was ruined by having to pay $300,000 on account of the 

 rubber failure. Although in his eighty-third year at the time, 

 he reentered active business again, in an attempt to recoup his 

 fortune. 



MAHONING RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 



This new company has fixed upon a line of trade marks, or 

 brands, for their goods that are distinctive in appearance and 

 not at all likely to become confused with those of any other 

 factory. Several of these brands are shown \nfac similt in the 

 company's advertisement in this paper. 



* 

 NEW RUBBER COMPANY IN CANADA. 



The Stralhcona Rubber Co. have been incorporated, in Mon- 

 treal, to manufacture rubber clothing and other rubber goods, 

 with an authorized capital of $50,000, of which $25,000 has been 

 subscribed. The largest stockholder and general manager of 

 the company is E. L. Rosenthal, some time superintendent of 

 the coat department of the Canadian Rubber Co. 



