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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1901. 



gineering which is being established for the purpose of inves- 

 tigating all problems relating to blower practice and of devel- 

 oping new and more efficient applications of the fan blower in 

 all lines of industry. 



A NEW RUBBER RECLAIMING COMPANY. 



A NEW incorporation, under the laws of New Jersey with 

 S60.000 capital paid-in, is that of the Pequanoc Rubber Co., 

 with factory, and general offices at Butler, N. J. The active 

 spirits of the company are Mr. Joseph F. McLean, president and 

 general manager, and Mr. Charles J.Trent, secretary and super- 

 intendent. The former of these gentlemen has been, for twenty 

 years, actively engaged in the rubber business. He is well 

 known in New Jersey, being treasurer of Morris county, and 

 bears an excellent reputation as an enterprising and capable 

 business man. Mr. Trent has been, for some fourteen years 

 past, superintendent of the Bloomingdale Soft Rubber Works, 

 and is known as a skillful and conservative superintendent, 

 and one who understands the manufacture of reclaimed rubber 

 in all its branches. The plant has been fully equipped with 

 the latest machinery for 

 the manufacture of me- 

 chanical reclaimed rubber. 

 The new company already 

 have assurances of good 

 contracts and are putting 

 on the market only the best 

 grades of good ». The man- 

 agement of the concern 

 fully appreciate the neces 

 sity of an absolutely pure 

 and reliable product and 

 their long experience in the 

 rubber business has shown 

 them the importance of 

 uniformity and reliability 

 in reclaimed rubbers. 

 THE SCRAP RUBBER MARKET 



The prices at which 

 transactions in scrap rub- 

 ber have been closed, dur- 

 ing the past month, are 

 somewhat higher than the 



u- u \„A A„.:„„ FACTORY OF THE PEQUANOC RUBBER CO. 



rates which ruled during 



the summer, which is due to the increased activity of con- been exhibited 

 sumers. The latest quotations supplied in New York are 8X 

 @S)i cents per pound for old shoes, in car-load lots. Foreign 

 stock is quoted at 6^ ©7 cents. Reference has been made in 

 these columns to sales of foreign scrap abroad at relatively 

 higher prices than American quotations for goods of this class, 

 but from the continued liberal rate of importations of scrap 

 from Europe, it would appear that the principal market for 

 scrap of transatlantic origin remains in the United States. An 

 indication of the demand here for foreign scrap may be found 

 in the fact that two advertisements in The India Rubber 

 World recently, offering foreign scrap to the American trade, 

 were answered by nearly every house in this line. 

 A FACTORY SPREADING OUT. 

 The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have 

 recently moved into a large brick office building which it 

 erected during the past summer. The former quarters were 

 too small, but now make room for a spreading out of the 

 factory departments. The company are erecting a three-story 

 addition on land recently acquired from the city and, it is 

 rumored, will add a line of soft rubber specialties to its output 

 about midwinter. 



THE LAST OF THE y«TNA RUBBER MILLS. 

 Some little time after the death of C. M. Clapp, the well 

 known plant of the Aitna Rubber Mills,at Jamaica Plain, Mas- 

 sachusetts, was partially destroyed by fire. The plant was 

 never again used as a rubber factory, but was utilized by a local 

 carpenter as a storehouse for lumber and building materials. 

 On September 00 the mill again took fire, when it was totally 

 destroyed. 



DEATH OF MAX T. ROSEN. 

 Max T. Rcsen, who, with his wife and daughter, was re- 

 turning from a trip to Europe on the steamship Deutschland, 

 which reached New York on October 24, died on that vessel 

 on the 2oth,of heart failure. His body was brought home and 

 interred at Woodlawn cemetery on October 27. Mr. Rosen 

 was 55 years old, and was secretary and a director of the U. S. 

 Rubber Reclaiming Works (No. 127 Duane street, New York), 

 with which company he had been connected for several years. 

 He was also a member of many local societies and a director 

 of the Legal Aid Society, and took an active interest in the 



work of the Citizens' 

 Union, and duringthe 1900 

 campaign was chairman of 

 the finance committee of 

 the German-American 

 McKinley and Roosevelt 

 League. Mr. Rosen was a 

 native of Germany, but had 

 resided in the United States 

 for about twenty-five years. 

 He was married to a sister 

 of Mr. Ernst Thalmann, 

 head of the New York 

 banking firm of Laden" 

 burg, Thalmann & Co., and 

 leaves, besides the mem- 

 bers of his family who were 

 with him on the ship, three 

 sons, the eldest of which is 

 a member of the law firm 

 of Underwood, Van Vorst, 

 Rosen & Hoyt ; the second 

 is a well known painter in 

 Paris, whose pictures have 

 n the Salon, and the third is connected with 

 Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. Mr. Rosen was a man of literary 

 and artistic attainments, had a large circle of acquaintances, 

 and numbered among his friends many men prominent in so- 

 ciety, and letters and arts. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 

 It is stated authoritatively that the plant of the National 

 India Rubber Co. will not be removed from Bristol, Rhode 

 Island. Thisis in answer to reports that the machinery might 

 be transferred to Maiden and Millville, Massachusetts, to other 

 factories controlled by the United States Rubber Co.= = Plans 

 have been made to transfer the knit boot business that has 

 been done at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in the South street 

 mill, to the factory of the Lawrence Felting Co., at Millville. 

 All the knit boot and felt boot production of the United States 

 company will thus be combined in one factory. =^John Jay 

 Watson, Jr., has been elected second assistant treasurer of the 

 United States Rubber Co. He has been treasurer of the Jo- 

 seph Banigan Rubber Co., prior to which he was connected 

 with the Industrial Trust Co., at Providence, R. I. Mr. Wat- 

 son has been also a member of the Rhode Island legislature 

 and a member of the State board of charities and corrections. 



