November i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



55 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



GOING TO NIAGARA TO RECLAIM RUBBER. 



THE United States Rubber Reclaiming Works have taken 

 an important step, looking both to the extension of their 

 facilities for work, and to the future remodeling of their 

 business, by securing premises at Buffalo, New York> 

 where advantage will be taken of electrical power from Niagara 

 Falls. The property acquired consists of 2}l acres, bounded by 

 three principal streets, the most important of which is Babcock, 

 the location being about 12 minutes by trolley car from the court- 

 house. On the ground there is already a 3^ story building, of 

 good construction. 185x85 feet, with adjacent sheds, suited, with 

 some alterations now in progress, for the reception of a reclaim- 

 ing plant. A contract has been entered into with the Cataract 

 Power and Conduit Co. for electrical power, and orders placed 

 for 5 induction motors, alternating current, having a combined 

 capacity of 1 500 horse power. The steam plant, for use in devul- 

 canization, will consist of boilers aggregating 200 horse power. 

 The machinery needed for the reclaiming plant, also under 

 order, will be of the latest type, and special study has been 

 given to planning the most convenient and economical instal- 

 lation of the same. In addition to the advantages expected 

 from model equipment, and the saving in cost of power as 

 compared with steam, an important saving in freight charges is 

 assured, from the fact that a large part of the raw material used 

 is gained from the West — Chicago being a center of the trade 

 in scrap rubber — and water transportation will be available, at 

 low rates. It is expected that the Buffalo plant will be in op- 

 eration by the beginning of March. In time the company's 

 Jersey City plant, established about 1883, will be consolidated 

 with that at Buffalo, but the present plans do not look to the 

 abandonment of the important works at Shelton, Connecticut, 

 which occupy a convenient relation to the rubber Industry of 

 New England. 



DIAMOND RUBBER CO. (aKRON, OHIO.) 

 Thk annual meeting of this company was held on October 

 16, when the directors and officers were reelected. While no 

 official financial statement has been given out, it is common 

 report that the past year's earnings have been most satisfac- 

 tory, which may explain, says an Akron newspaper, "why 

 one of its stockholders offered recently to pay over $50,000 

 for a block worth $20,000 at par." 



GOOD CONTRACTS FOR ELEVATOR BELTING. 

 The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. have secured the 

 contract for the rubber belting required for the new Grand 

 Trunk grain elevator at Portland, Maine, the specifications for 

 which appeared in the last India Rubber World [page 23.] 

 The same company also recently secured a contract for supply- 

 ing the belting for the Illinois Central Railway elevator at New 

 Orleans, for which the George B. Swift Co. (Chicago) are the 

 contractors. 



THE RUBBER STOCK THAT MAGOWAN SOLD. 



The court of chancery at Trenton, New Jersey, on October 

 4, granted an injunction restraining William H. Skirm from in 

 any wise disposing of 1048 shares of Empire Rubber Co. stock, 

 about which there has been much litigation. The action of 

 the court is taken in the suit of John E. Clancy, receiver of the 

 old Empire company, against Frank A. Magowan and others, 

 and the court holds that the stock in question must not be dis- 

 posed of until the aflairs of Magowan have been brought to a 



final accounting. Mr. Skirm claims title to the 1048 shares by 

 purchase at a sheriff's sale, in June, 1897, of Magowan's inter- 

 est in this stock, for $30. The validity of this title is attacked 

 by the complainant on the ground that Messrs. Skirm and 

 Magowan concealed the amount of the actual claim against 

 this stock and so prevented bona fide bidders from purchasing 

 It. 



CALUMET TIRE RUBBER CO. (CHICAGO). 

 The Calumet company are largely increasing their facilities. 

 They have erected an entirely new plant as an addition to their 

 original one, in which there are duplicates of all the machinery 

 already in use, together with a large variety of new machinery, 

 much of which is patented, some of which is operated under a 

 secret process for the manufacture of general mechanical goods. 

 The company's specialty will continue to be vehicle tires, to 

 which they plan to pay even more attention in the future than 

 they have in the past, both as regards variety of makes and 

 superiority of product. 



EASTERN AGENCY OF THE MAHONING. 

 Willis A. Darling who, since 1876 has been actively inter- 

 ested in the making of mechanical rubber goods, and who is 

 accounted one of the most successful and popular salesmen in 

 that line, has accepted the position as sales agent for the At- 

 lantic states for the Mahoning Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 (Youngstown, Ohio.) Mr. Darling will have offices in New 

 York and Boston, and will also carry a stock of goods in each 

 center. 



GOLD MEDAL FOR EUREKA FIRE HOSE. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Co. (No. 13 Barclay street. New York) 

 have been awarded a gold medal at the Pan American Expo- 

 sition, covering their noted brands of fire hose, " Eureka," 

 " Paragon," and " Red Cross"; also, for hydraulic hose for all 

 purposes, linen hose, and tubular fabrics. There is no question 

 as to the popularity of the company's products. 



THE CAPE NOME CABLE NOT DAMAGED. 



To THE Editor OF The India Rubber World: I wish you 

 would kindly contradict the notice mentioned in your issue of 

 this month regarding the Nome cable being a failure. Having 

 manufactured and laid this cable, I hereby state that the same 

 is in perfect working order, and has been since August 20, the 

 last report being through Mr. Sloss, of the Alaska Commercial 

 Co. ; also Major Green of the Signal Corps, U. S. A., at St. 

 Michael, Alaska. Yours truly, w. r. brixey. 



Ni). 20i Broadway, New York, October 2, igoi. 



The report here referred to [October issue — page 22] was 

 published as having appeared in the newspapers late in Septem- 

 ber. Mr. Brixey has our thanks for his correction. 



B. F. STURTEVANT CO. (BOSTON.) 

 Work is now under way upon the foundations for the im- 

 mense new plant of this company, at Hyde Park, Massachusetts. 

 That the buildings can be completed none too soon for the 

 urgent needs of the company is evidenced by the fact that their 

 present plant at Jamaica Plain is now taxed to the limit and 

 that it has been necessary to run overtime, particularly in 

 the engine and electrical departments.==Prof. R. A. Smart 

 has resigned his position in the department of experimental 

 engineering of Purdue University (La Fayette, Indiana) and 

 connected himself with B. F. Sturtevant Co.. with whom he 

 will become the head of a department of experimental en- 



