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THE INDIA RUBBER ^^'ORLD 



[November i, 1901. 



=The Lycoming Rubber Co. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) 

 have excavated a large cellar under their warehouse building, 

 to provide new storage room for crude rubber, and are prepar- 

 ing to erect a new office building. 



=The Home Rubber Co. (Trenton) are making extensive 

 additions to their already large plant. These additions em- 

 brace a new motor power, two additional boilers and a brick 

 stack 125 feet high. 



= The Summit City Machine Co., which has just been or- 

 ganized by well known Akron, Ohio, men, will give a part of 

 its attention to the rubber trade. The rubber machinery bufi- 

 ness has attained large proportions in Akron and recently 

 some considerable shipments have been made to Germany by 

 the firms already in the trade. 



= E. I. Aldrich, selling agent of the Hood Rubber Co. has 

 recently been on a business tour of the western agencies, going 

 as far as Omaha. 



= The Cable Rubber Co. (Jamaica Plain, Mass.) have just in- 

 stalled a four roll calender of Birmingham make, They are a'so 

 contemplating quite an important addition to their mill. 



kJ. C. Wilson, who resigned from the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co. to accept a position with the Seamless Rubber Co. 

 (New Haven), secured his release from the latter company after 

 he had been there a short time, in order to assume an important 

 position at the New York end of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co. The present executive force at the Seamless Rub- 

 brr Co. are George M. AUerton, treasurer of the company, 

 whose brilliant record is well known, and E. E. Manges, for- 

 merly of A. G. Spalding & Bro. 



= D. E. Martin, formerly at the head of the selling depart- 

 ment of the Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven), has resigned 

 from that position and is now connected with the Hardman 

 Rubber Co. (Belleville, N. J.) 



I ^ = Latta& Mulconroy Co., Inc., (Philadelphia) advise The 

 India Rubber World that a fire on October 25 did some 

 damage to their rubber store. The loss was principally con- 

 fined, however, to goods in the basement — hurt by smoke and 

 water. Their doors were not closed, and they were able to fill 

 orders without interruption. 



=Two firms of rubber goods dealers suffered losses from a 

 fire on October 18 on Federal street, Boston— Parker, Holmes 

 & Co., and the Hosmer-Codding Co. The total loss, caused 

 by water rather than by fire, is estimated at $40,000 or more, 

 the largest share falling on Parker, Holmes & Co. 



=The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co., whose mechan- 

 ical additions in the last two years have been very large and 

 have been noted in The India Rubber World from time to 

 time, are adding two more boilers to their already very large 

 steam plant. 



=The Alden Rubber Co. (Barberton and Akron, Ohio) are 

 erecting a model office building at the factory at Barberton, 

 though offices will still be maintained in Akron. 



= A gold medal was awarded to the Robins Conveying Belt 

 Co. (New York) at the Pan American Exposition, for their ex- 

 hibit of belt conveyors, in the machinery department. 



= John Kearns, late of Akron, Ohio, and now superintendent 

 of the Dunlop tire and rubber factory at Melbourne, Australia, 

 is now in England, buying some machinery. 



« William A. De Long is successfully liquidating the business 

 of the rubber department of O. G. Mayer & Co. Mr. Mayer, by 

 the way, is visiting Europe. 



=The machinery in the Chelsea (Mass.) rubber clothing 

 plant of the old Boston Rubber Co. has been sold to Philip 

 McGrory, of Trenton, N. J. The rubber glove machinery 

 owned by the same company is now in use in Canada. 



=The Hazleton Boiler Co., formerly of Nos. 120-122 Liberty 

 street. New York, has just removed its main office to the works 

 at Rutherford, New Jersey. Rutherford is only nine miles from 

 New York city, on the Erie railroad, with satisfactory railroad 

 service during the day. 



= Mr. Kenzo Okada, who spent some years in the United 

 States learning the rubber business, has taken a partnership in 

 his uncle's factory at Tokyo, Japan— the Fujikura Insulated 

 Wire and Rubber Works — and will add to their business the 

 manufacture of high grade mackintoshes. 



= The Colonial Rubber Goods Co. have removed their Bos- 

 ton office from No. 81 High street to No. 166 Essex street. 



=The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) 

 have just added to their lines of manufacture that of linen 

 hose, having put in the latest and best machines, so that they 

 are to-day bringing out a very superior product. 



=J. Stevens Arms and Tool Co. (Chicopee Falls, Mass.) 

 advise The India Rubber World that they have disposed 

 of the tire making machinery used formerly by the Overman 

 Wheel Co , the business of which concern is now in the hands 

 of the Stevens company. 



— The Pennsylvania Rubber Co. (Erie, Pa.) have been awarded 

 a gold medal at the Pan American Exposition for their display 

 of rubber tires and mechanical rubber goods. 

 PERSONAL MENTION. 



The Waterhury (Conn.] Daily Republican has a very inter- 

 esting sketch of Mr. George M. Allerton, treasurer of the Seam- 

 less Rubber Co., the wish of the paper being to make Mr. 

 Allerton mayor of Waterbury. While Mr. Allerton appreciates 

 the compliment, he is unwilling to allow his name to be used, 

 as pressure of business would keep him from serving. 



= Mr. John O. DeWolff, formerly assistant superintendent 

 of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., at present con- 

 sulting engineer with W. B. Smith Whaley Co. (Boston) was 

 married on October 17 to Miss Anna Sprague Frothingham, of 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



= Mr. Elliott M. Henderson, treasurer of the Manhattan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., New York, is at present in Nica- 

 ragua. 



= Mr. George A. Lewis, president of the Beacon Falls Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Conn.), was a delegate to the 

 twenty-seventh annual convention of the American Bankers' 

 Association, at Milwaukee, on October 15-17, Mr. Lewis be- 

 ing the president of the National Bank of Naugatuck, Con- 

 necticut. 



= Mr. A. H. Yeomans, so long with the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., having become connected with the general offices of the 

 United States Rubber Co., has established his residence in 

 New York, on the Riverside drive. 



= Mr. Frank B. Rickaby, who represents Reimers & Co. in 

 Akron, Ohio, was married October 16, to Miss Mary G. Wil- 

 kins, the ceremony taking place at Danvers, Massachusetts. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Rickaby will make their home in Akron. 



= The New York Credit Men's .Association, which has done 

 excellent work in commercial lines, both protective and edu- 

 cational, sends The India Rubber World its list of officers 

 for the coming year, and a resume of its work during the past 

 twelve months. The association seems stronger and more 

 helpful to the business community than ever before. It is in- 

 teresting to note that beside those in the rubber trade who 

 are members of the association, prominent rubber men are offi- 

 cers, the treasurer being Edward E. Huber, of the firm Eber- 

 hard Faber, while one of the investigating and prosecuting 

 committee is H. M. Sadler, Jr., acting general manager of the 

 UnitedjStates Rubber Co. 



