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THE INDIA RUBBER V/ORLD 



[May I, 1 90 1. 



A GOOD WATER BOTTLE TRADE. 

 The manner in which C. J. Bailey & Co. (Boston) are mar- 

 keting the "Good Samaritan" water bottle is commending 

 itself to the whole trade. In the first place, they license any 

 reputable manufacturers of druggists' sundries to make that 

 type of bottle for their customers, and among those who are 

 now licensed and are ready to supply their own trade are The 

 Davol Rubber Co., The Tyer Rubber Co.. The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., The Hardman Rubber Co., The Ideal Rubber Co., The 

 Seamless Rubber Co. and The Hodgman Rubber Co. The 

 arrangement with the manufacturers is that the jobber receives 

 the goods at a certain price, signing a jobber's agreement that 

 there shall be no cut in price. In this jobber's agreement is the 

 list price and retail price. The arrangement has effectively 

 disposed of the provoking question of price cutting so far as 

 these goods go, and not only has it in no way injured the sale, 

 but it has in reality been very helpful, and the goods are already 

 finding a large market. 



THIS WINDOW DISPLAY PUZZLED THE PUBLIC. 



Oliver R. Howe, a rubber goods dealer at Lynn, Massa- 

 chusetts, recently made up a window display of thirty different 

 articles in rubber selected from his stock, with an ofler of 

 prizes for the first, second, and third correct lists of the same 

 that might be sent in. The local newspapers called attention 

 to the display, and there was much guessing on the part of the 

 public for two weeks, and yet Mr. Howe informs The India 

 Rubber World that not one of the lists sent in was complete. 

 The articles displayed were : 



1. Pure Gum Rubber 11. Surgeon's Band- 21. Tobacco Pouch. 

 Glove (Inflated). age. 22. Tissue Finger 



2. Sponge Bag. 12. Ice Cap -Metal Cots. 



3. Pocket Flask. Top. 23. Foil Tips. 



4. Hand Brush. 13. Urinal. 24. Bag Syringe. 



5. Ice Bag. 14. Soap Dish. 25. Cigar Holders. 



6. Bailey's Glove 15. Sanitary Cover. 26. Hard Rubber 

 Cleaner. 16. Telephone Ear Thimble. 



7. Catheter. Cushion. 27. Pillow Ventila- 



8. Bailey'sComplexion 17. Hard Rubber tors. 



Brush. Pocket Atomizer. 28. Force Cups. 



9. Beer Bottle Stop- 18. Drinking Cup. 29. Cupping Cup. 

 pers. 19. Overflow Cover. 30. Nasal Douche. 



10. Castor Cup. 20. Tourist Chamber. 



CONANT RUBBER CO. (BOSTON, j 

 The Conant company, long known as manufacturers of high 

 grade mackintoshes, have added to their line two high grade 

 specialties. The first of these are dress shields, of which they 

 now manufacture a very complete line, ranging in price from 

 $6 to $36 per gross. They have taken for trade marks for these 

 goods the names " Royal," " Queen Quality," Crown," " Snow 

 Flake," " Conant-Diamond," " Conant Washable," and " Shirt- 

 waist." Their other line of special manufacture is white nursery 

 and hospital sheeting, on which they have already established 

 a most satisfactory trade. 



RUBBER SCRAP. 



There has been noticeable a tendency toward slightly higher 

 prices, which may be due less to a more active demand for 

 scrap than to the strength of the holders of the greater part of 

 the existing stocks. In other words, probably the weaker 

 holders, or those who lacked the courage to hold out for a ris- 

 ing market, have disposed of their stocks, and hereafter sales 

 will be made at prices fixed by sellers rather than by consum- 

 ers. At the latest advices shoe scrap was being quoted at 

 7®7}4 cents for carload lots. Spring collections have been 

 rather late in beginning, but the prospect of arrivals in the 

 market from this source does not seem to weaken the tendency 

 of prices. It is doubtful whether the renewed activity of the 

 rubber shoe factories has drawn materially upon the scrap 



market as yet. Indeed, it is stated that a mill which is an im- 

 portant factor in supplying reclaimed rubber to the shoe indus- 

 try is sufficiently stocked not to be obliged to buy scrap before 

 August. It is quite probable that more active buying by the 

 reclaimers at any time would lead to an advance in prices. 



AN OLD HOUSE IN THE RUBBER SCRAP TRADE. 

 The house of E. M. Moers' Sons, Nos. 5-7-9 James slip. New 

 York, is one of the oldest in existence engaged in handling rub- 

 ber scrap. Their business dates from 1854, being devoted 

 originally — and still in large part — to buying and selling old 

 metals. In the course of time they began to handle old rubber 

 shoes, claiming to have been the first to buy such stock in the 



west. In 1874 they 

 bought old rubbers at 

 !^ cent a pound and sold 

 them at yi cent. To-day 

 their dealings in rubber 

 scrap of all kinds, do- 

 mestic and foreign, are 

 on an extensive scale. 

 Messrs. Moers' Sons oc- 

 cupy the whole of a large 

 five story building, con- 

 veniently located to 

 transportation on the 

 East river. ThrDuijIwmt the building exists a thoroughness of 

 system, the result of long experience, which permits of the most 

 expeditious and economical handling of the enormous collec- 

 tion of waste products daily arriving, and for assorting them and 

 converting them into merchantable commodities of a higher 

 grade. Their rubber scrap department occupies a series of 

 rooms entirely apart from the other lines handled, and alone 

 constitutes an important business. 



A TILLINGHAST DECISION AFFIRMED. 

 In the suit of Booth ei a/, versus Dodge ^/ a/., involving the 

 transfer of the patents and business of the Tillinghast Tire As- 

 sociation to the Single Tube Automobile and Bicycle Tire Co., 

 heretofore noticed in this journal, the judgment of the lower 

 court, in favor of the company, and holding the transfer to be 

 lawful and valid, has been unanimously affirmed by the appel- 

 late division of the supreme court or New York. 



RUBBER TIRE NOTES. 



The India Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are preparing the 

 manufacture of some very heavy Wheeler endless tires for self- 

 propelling fire apparatus, including a vehicle weighing in the 

 neighborhood of eight tons. 



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

 makingendless solid tires for motors, in sizes from 30 •; 3 inches 

 to 40 3 >^ inches, including their patented " Wing " feature. 

 One advantage claimed for the " endless " type of tire is that 

 the vulcanization of the rubber to endless wires conserves all 

 the strength of the solid rubber, without any of the weaknesses 

 of tires having loose retaining bands or wires within them. 



=The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s vehicle tires are sold 

 in the city of Mexico by William A. Parker & Co., Mirador de 

 la Alameda, No. i, who have installed machinery for applying 

 the tires. 



= The Detroit Rubber Tire Co. (Detroit, Mich.), sole licen- 

 sees for Michigan and Toledo, Ohio, for the Kelly-Springfield 

 vehicle tires, inform The Inoia Rubber World that they 

 have established a branch at Sauk Ste. Marie, with facilities 

 for applying tires, for the better accommodation of their trade 

 in upper Michigan, where the demand for tires has been grow- 

 ing very rapidly of later. 



