December i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER 'JVORLD 



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LOS ANGELES (CALIFORNIA) RUBBER CO. 

 The business of this company was established some three 

 years ago by the late J. W. Girvin, and since his death has been 

 managed by B. J. Wheeler. It is the only rubber house in 

 southern California. While making a specialty of rubber and 

 leather belting, there is kept in stock a line of hose and pack- 

 ing, and rubber goods generally. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 

 The Connecticut Rubber Co. (Hartford), November i, under 

 Connecticut laws, to make and sell rubber goods ; capital, $10,- 

 000. The president and manager \% John J. Ward, who is well 

 known to the New England rubber trade, having traveled for the 

 International A. and V. Tire Co.. the Whitman & Barnes Manu- 

 facturing Co., and the Hartford Rubber Works Co. The secre- 

 tary and treasurer, F. IV. Starr, has been connected, for four- 

 teen years, with the Pope Manufacturing Co., in various capaci- 

 ties, ranging from clerk to manager of a department. The com- 

 pany advise The India Rubber World that it is their inten- 

 tion to not only conduct a retail trade in rubber goods generally, 

 but to enlarge their field by manufacturing and wholesaling. 

 They already have been appointed agents for some leading rub- 

 ber concerns, and have also secured some large contracts in 

 manufacturers' supplies. The new corporation continues the 

 business conducted since 1898 as The Connecticut Rubber Co., 

 John J. Ward, proprietor. 



= Southern Rubber Tire Co. (Knoxville, Tenn.), November 

 5, under Tennessee laws, to manufacture deal in vehicle tires, 

 under a patent granted to William R. Giddeon ; capital, $50,- 

 000. Alexander McMillan, president; R. W. Williams, vice 

 president; A. H. Martine, secretary and treasurer; W. R. 

 Giddeon, managing director; John W. Green, attorney. A 

 feature of this tire, which is solid and of the wired on variety, 

 is that it has a shallower steel channel 

 than other tires. The ordinary channel 

 conceals about one-third of the rubber, 

 thus wasting that much of the material 

 so far as resiliency is concerned. There 

 is no danger, according to the inventor, 

 of the rubber being thrown out of the 

 comparatively flat channel, by reason of 

 the fluted design of the channel (illustrated in sectional out- 

 line herewith). A contract has eben awarded in New York for 

 the manufacture of this lire. 



= The Maynard Rubber Corporation (Hartford, Conn.), No- 

 vember 13, under Connecticut laws, to manufacture and deal 

 in rubber goods ; capital, $5000. President, Edward W. May- 

 nard, of Springfield, Mass. Secretary and treasurer, Justus D. 

 Anderson, of Hartford. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Byfield Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), early in 

 November completed all the orders in hand for rubber foot- 

 wear, at the same time working up all their raw material ; paid 

 off their help, and closed the factory indefinitely. It is be- 

 lieved in Byfield that the factory will not remain long closed, 

 but the employes have been going to rubber factories elsewhere 

 for work. 



=The Fisk Rubber Co, (Chicopee Falls, Mass.) have estab- 

 lished two more branches for '.he sale of their tires. One is in 

 Boston, at No. 604 Atlantic avenue, and in charge of G. A. 

 Campbell. The other is at No. 916 Arch street, Philadelphia, 

 in charge of J. L. Gibney. 



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

 ported to be contemplating the establishment of a rubber fac- 

 tory of their own. 



=The American Wringer Co. obtained a gold medal for 

 their exhibit of "Horseshoe brand" clothes wringers at the 

 Pan American exhibition. 



= The tires of the Kelly-Springfield Rubber Tire Co. (Dav- 

 enport, Iowa) are manufactured by the International Automo- 

 bile and Vehicle Tire Co., at Newton Upper Falls, Mass. 



= The rubber jobbing firm of Towner & Co. (Memphis, Ten- 

 nessee) have favored The India Rubber World with a copy 

 of a handsomely illustrated souvenir volume, " Memphis Illus- 

 trated," intended to represent the appearance and the business 

 conditions of that city. A page of the book is devoted to the 

 live Towner firm. 



=The Whitman and Barnes Manufacturing Co. (Akron, Ohio) 

 recently added to their rubber department a belting plant, at a 

 cost of $75,000. The company's rubber business made a splen- 

 did showing at the late annual meeting of the stockholders, 

 and it is understood that in the near future there will be fur- 

 ther extensions in this department, to take the place to some 

 extent of the company's produetion of mower and reaper 

 knives and wrenches, which will be transferred from the Akron 

 factories to the factories at West Pullman. 



= The Calumet Tire Rubber Co. (Chicago) have added to 

 their line of products the " Calumet " horseshoe pad, a patented 

 article, which is reported to be light, efficient, and cheap. 



= The Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. (New York) distrib- 

 uted as a souvenir, at the recent carriage shows, a good pocket 

 map of the Philippine islands, in connection with not a little 

 commercial and historical matter of interest, relating to the 

 islands. 



=The Boston Belting Co. have favored The India Rubber 

 World with a handsome lithograph in colors, embracing a view 

 of their extensive factories in Boston, and also scenes on the 

 upper Amazon, representing the first steps in the production of 

 " Para rubber." The lithograph comes tastefully framed, size 

 21X24^ inches, and no doubt copies of it will be found here- 

 after ornamenting the offices of the Belting company's many 

 customers. 



= Otto Meyer, No. 161 Summer street, Boston, who for sev- 

 eral years past has been connected with the crude rubber trade, 

 will hereafter transact business in his own name and for his 

 own account. He has made arrangements whereby he will be 

 the representative in New England of A. T. Morse & Co., of 

 New York. 



=The Chesapeake Rubber Co. (Baltimore, Maryland) are 

 doing a big business in rain coats, which they are manufactur- 

 ing and selling in all parts of the country. 



=Jenkins Brothers, whose business embraces the Jenkins 

 Rubber Co. (Elizabeth, New Jersey), advise The India Rub- 

 ber World that they have received the following awards at 

 the Pan American Exposition for their goods : Gold medal 

 each for Jenkins Brothers valves and Jenkins '96 packing ; 

 two silver medals for rubber specialties. 



= Morgan & Wright (Chicago), who made an attractive ex- 

 hibit of tires at the recent carriage shows, distributed to their 

 friends a souvenir in the shape of a handsome desk calendar 

 designed for perpetual use. 



= From Rochester, New Hampshire, comes a report that the 

 president of a large rubber factory in Rhode Island has been 

 visiting that town, with a view to removing his mill there. It 

 is said to employ over 400 hands the year round. 



= On November 15 fire broke out in one of the floors occu- 

 pied by the Cooperative Rubber Co., manufacturers of mack- 

 intoshes, in a building at the corner Hanoverand North Centre 

 streets, Boston, causing a loss of several thousand dollars, pari 

 of which fell upon other tenants in the building. 



