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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1901. 



PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO. 

 This company is planning an important extension of its fac- 

 tory (at Erie, Pennsylvania), involving additional buildings and 

 an important increase in the equipment of machinery. It is re- 

 ported that the Farrel Foundry and Machine Co. are construct- 

 ing for the company the largest belt press ever made.==Mr. 

 John W. Teller has joined the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. as their 

 sales manager, for the mechanical goods department, with 

 headquarters at No. 127 Duane street, New York. Mr. Teller 

 became connected with the rubber trade fourteen years ago, 

 and when Messrs. Hardy and Miller went from Boston to Akron, 

 Ohio, to take charge of the Diamond Rubber Co., he accom- 

 panied them. Later he had charge of the company's sales in 

 New York and in time became secretary and treasurer of the 

 Diamond Belting and Packing Co., which position he resigns 

 to form the new connection noted above. 



TO BUILD A PACIFIC CABLE. 



The Commercial Pacific Cable Co. was incorporated under 

 New York laws, on September 23, with a preliminary capital- 

 ization of $100,000. The incorporation papers state that the 

 company is to connect New York city with San Francisco by 

 its own or other telegraph lines, thence to run from California 

 under the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii, the Philippines and other 

 Pacific islands. The directors are John W. Mackay, of Vir- 

 ginia City ; Clarence Mackay, of Roslyn ; George G. Ward, Al- 

 bert Beck and William W. Cook, of New York city, and Albert 

 B. Chandler and Edward C. Platt, of Brooklyn. It is stated 

 that the company intends to have a cable at work between 

 California and the Hawaiian islands — a listance of 2200 miles 

 — within nine months. Application has been made for landing 

 rights in California, Hawaii, and the Philippines. The new 

 company does not ask any subsidy or any guaranty, hence 

 the reason for believing there will be no trouble in agreeing 

 with the government on the terms and conditions upon which 

 the cable will be landed. The plan is to connect, at Manila, 

 with the cable system now working between that port and 

 China and Japan. 



THE B. F. STURTEVANT CO. (BOSTON.) 



This company has upon the press a very complete catalogue 

 of its motors, generators, and generating sets. Previous pub- 

 lications have been in the form of bulletins descriptive of special 

 types. This catalogue will present them all, and will in some 

 degree reveal the fact that although the Sturtevant company 

 has a world wide reputation as blower manufacturers, its busi- 

 ness is by no means limited to the production of these useful 

 machines, but that it is also equipped with a more complete 

 line of engine and motor designs in small and medium sizes, 

 than any other concern in the country, 



CANADIAN RUBBER SHOE JOBBERS. 



The Montreal members of the Rubber Boot and Shoe Job- 

 bers' Association recently tendered a dinner to the jobbers 

 who were in the city at the time, visiting the factories with a 

 view to placing their orders for the winter. The Shoe and 

 Leather Journal reports the affair to have been so successful 

 that it is now proposed to make it an annual feature. 

 PEQ.UANOC RUBBER CO. (BUTLER, N. J.) 



This new company, the incorporation of which, with $60, coo 

 capital, was reported in our issue for July i, are getting their 

 new reclaiming factory in good shape and expect to submit 

 samples of their new product to the trade towards the middle 

 or last of October, and promise to make a formal announce- 

 ment of the opening of their new business in a few weeks. 

 They promise the most reliable grades of reclaimed rubber in 

 the market. 



AN AMERICAN CONCERN IN ENGLAND. 

 A WRITER in the London India-Rubber Journal says : " I 

 have had a number of inquiries respecting the North-Western 

 Rubber Co., Limited, of Litherland, Liverpool, and understand 

 that this is an American company who have secured the land, 

 and are building large works close to the canal at Seaforth. The 

 intentions of the directors are not at present disclosed, but I 

 learn that their first object is the manufacture of reclaimed 

 rubber on a new process, whereby all trace of sulphur is 

 removed. "=The incorporation of the company referred to 

 was recorded in The India Rubber World of June i last 

 [page 278.] 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



During the past month a circular letter to jobbers was is- 

 sued by this company, announcing that the contract system now 

 in force will be continued to January i, 1903, and that " a 

 policy of low prices " will also be continued. The circular also 

 announces a slightly lower rate of discounts to jobbers, begin- 

 ning January i, next. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Ball Manufacturing Co. (Camden, N. J.), August 22, 

 under New Jersey laws, to make rubber goods; capital, $25,- 

 000, of which $1000 paid in. 



= The American Rubber Works Co., September 10, under 

 New Jersey laws; capital, $1,000,000. Incorporators: G. N. 

 Huntington, I. S. McGrehan and John W. Wilcox— registered 

 addresses. East Orange, New Jersey, in the office of the New 

 Jersey Registration and Trust Co. The object is to purchase 

 and own patents for tires and to manufacture the same. 



= Woven Wire Rubber Horseshoe Co., September i, under 

 Iowa laws, to manufacture a new horseshoe of wire and rubber, 

 invented by Charles Olson; capital, $100,000. Incorporators: 

 H. E. Jones, J. T. Hume, E. E. Shirk, Miles Sprague. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The United States Rubber Reclaiming Works, owing to pres- 

 sure of business, will either add to their factory equipment by 

 installing a new plant at some convenient point, or will add to 

 the present plants at Shelton, Connecticut, and Jersey City, 

 New Jersey. 



= Mr. Robert B. Baird has established himself as a broker in 

 crude India-rubber, his New York office being No. 253 Broad- 

 way, and his Boston office No. 161 Summer street. 



= TheHodgman Rubber Co. (New York) are distributing an 

 illustrated folder, showing some new styles of their " Alexom- 

 bric " storm coats, which is an artistic bit of advertising, apart 

 from the fact that the styles shown are uncommonly attractive. 



=The Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven) have filed with 

 the secretary of state of Connecticut a notice of an increase 

 of capital stock from $130,000 to not exceeding $250,000. 



= The Maple Leaf Rubber Co., Limited, rubber shoe manu- 

 facturers, of Toronto, Ontario, have increased their capital from 

 $250,000 to $350,000. 



= Work was resumed in the " Alice ' mill of the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co. on September 16, after a shutdown dating 

 from August 3. Work was resumed in the shoe department of 

 the National India Rubber Co. on September 23, after a shut- 

 down dating from the same period. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Dr. Charles McEurnev, of New York, who was one of the 

 physicians in attendance upon President McKinley at Buflalo, 

 is a son of the late Charles McBurney, one of the early proprie- 

 tors of the Boston Belting Co. He is one of the most eminent 

 of American surgeons and his reputation is world wide. 



■c Mr. Thomas Knight, traveling representative for L'Horti- 



