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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1902. 



to manufacture and deal in rubber goods ; capital, $50,000. 

 Richard P. Osgood, president, and John D. Osgood, treasurer, 

 both of Methuen, Massachusetts; Benjamin G. Ward, clerk, 

 of Portland, Maine. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



W. G. Brown, after a connection of some ten years with 

 the Cleveland Rubber Works, as their Cincinnati store mana- 

 ger, resigned that position lately and accepted a proposition 

 from the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co., with head- 

 quarters at Akron, Ohio, to take charge of entire sales of their 

 rubber department. He left Cincinnati on January i to enter 

 into the new arrangement. 



= The annual meeting of stockholders of the New York Rub- 

 ber Co. for the election of trustees and inspectors of election 

 for the coming year, was held at the company's offices in New 

 York on January 28. 



=The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have ceased to market 

 the tires produced by The India Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), 

 which company will hereafter market their own tires, together 

 with those of the New Brunswick Tire Co. 



= Frank B. Rickaby, who for nearly a year had represented 

 the crude rubber firm of Reimers & Co. at Akron, Ohio, has 

 resigned, to take a position with the Diamond Rubber Co. as 

 a salesman for their reclaimed rubber. It is understood that 

 Reimers & Co. have closed their Akron office. 



=One of the largest rubber factories in the country has given 

 an order for the rubber vacuum drying chambers advertised in 

 The India Rubber World by Alex. P. Mende (New York), 

 after having sent an expert to Europe to examine the drying 

 apparatus in use there. The estimation in which this drying 

 system is held in many other industries is shown by the dupli- 

 cate orders received by Mr. Mende from different works. 



= Hardman Rubber Co. (Belleville, New Jersey) distributed 

 to their customers a printed Christmas greeting, accompanied 

 by an attractive little souvenir, in the shape of a miniature 

 rubber water bottle, illustrating some newly patented features, 

 packed in a dimutive traveling bag. The whole was manufac- 

 tured on the Hardman premises, including the box and the 

 printing, indicating that their establishment has become a 

 very comprehensive one. 



=The Cable Rubber Co. (Jamaica Plain, Mass.,) are making 

 another addition to their factory. 



=It is rumored that the Preston woven tire, which has for 

 some time been manufactured in Everett, Mass., will soon be 

 made in a larger factory in Reading, Mass. 



= A new hospital sheeting for which much is claimed is made 

 of a fine quality of cambric coated with flexible cellulose. It is 

 soon to be put on the market in large quantities. 



= W. B. Kaiser, heretofore with the Monarch Rubber Co. 

 (St. Louis), has become manager of the rubber department of 

 the Giesecke-D'Oench-Hays Shoe Co., of the same city. 



= G. W. Stadleman, lately with Morgan & Wright (Chicago), 

 has become manager of sales in the solid tire department of 

 the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), succeeding 

 Joseph A. Burrows, who resigned on account of failing health. 



=A complete outfit for manufacturing and vulcanizing rub- 

 ber stamps, shipped lately by The Superior Rubber Type Co. 

 (Chicago) to Honolulu, is said to have been the first steam 

 vulcanizing plant ever shipped to that port. 



= Henry J. Preston, an architect who has planned some 

 large rubber factory buildings in New England, has removed 

 his offices from No. 104 Water street to No. 8 Oliver street, 

 Boston. 



=The Sterling Rubber Co. — J. Percy Whipple, proprietor 

 (Boston), report a very satisfactory trade during the past year 



and a quarter, with a marked increase in their druggists' sun- 

 dries and rubber clothing departments. They have been par- 

 ticularly successful with the "Sterling" infant's rubber bath 

 tub. 



=Twelve neat booklets, one for each month, a page for every 

 day, is what the Hood Rubber Co. are sending to their friends 

 as a remembrance, not of the new year, but of the whole of 

 1902. Most acceptable, exceedingly useful. 



= F. C. Harmstad, who had been manager of the New York 

 branch house of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. 

 (Philadelphia) since 1881, and who entered the service of the 

 late Dr. S. S. White nearly forty years ago, retired at the first 

 of the year, and was succeeded by Charles Kerby, who has 

 been connected with the Philadelphia house for twenty years. 

 The White company, as dealers in dental supplies, have long 

 marketed dental rubber in large quantities, and latterly have 

 produced it at their rubber plant at Princes Bay, Staten Isl- 

 and, New York. 



=The Kokomo Rubber Co. (Kokomo, Indiana) have taken 

 out a new license to manufacture single tube tires under the Til- 

 linghast patent, and the injunction proceedings brought against 

 their Boston representative by the Single Tube Automobile 

 and Bicycle Tire Co. will be brought to a close. The Kokomo 

 company had declined to apply for a new license, claiming that 

 in the past all the licensees had not respected the agreement as 

 to prices, but their recent action indicates that a satisfactory 

 understanding has been arrived at in this regard. 



=The Brooklyn Eagle hears that the old rubber factory at 

 Setauket, Long Island, is to be reopened, for the manufacture 

 of bicycle tires. 



= The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. have purchased two beds in 

 the Maiden hospital for the benefit of their employes who may 

 be in need of the same. 



= James B. Olson has been appointed manager of sales for the 

 India Rubber and Gutta Percha Insulating Co. (New York), to 

 succeed the late James W. Godfrey, whose assistant Mr. Olsod 

 had been for many years. 



= The National India Rubber factory, at Bristol, R. I., was 

 reported lately to be very busy in the tennis shoe and miscella- 

 neous departments. 



= A fire on January 20 damaged the rubber goods factory of 

 J. S. & G. F. Simpson, No. 28 Rodney street, Brooklyn, New 

 York, to the extent of $2000. 



=The Brockton (Mass.) Rubber Scrap Co.. whose intended re- 

 moval was mentioned in The India Rubber World for Jan- 

 uary, are still at their old location, while looking for more 

 satisfactory accommodations. 



=The annual meeting of stockholders of the American Hard 

 Rubber Co. will be held at the offices of the company, N0S.9 13 

 Mercer street, New York, on Tuesday, February 1 1, at 3 r. m. 



=Charles A. Coe & Co., jobbers in rubber footwear in Bos- 

 ton, making a specialty of the " American " lines, have been 

 succeeded by the New England Rubber Shoe Co., a corporation, 

 with Charles W. Barnes, of the American Rubber Co., as presi- 

 dent, and George S. Miller, lately of the United States Rubber 

 Co.'s New York offices, manager. Mr. Coe, after having de- 

 voted thirtyyears to shoes and rubbers, has retired, and formed 

 a new firm — Coe, Smith & Co., No. : 58 Summer street, Boston, 

 to engage in the sale of a new rubber vehicle tire and other 

 specialties. 



= Harry P. Coffin, who has been with Morgan & Wright 

 (Chicago) for a number of years has severed his connection 

 with that firm and accepted the position as manager of the 

 eastern branch of the Calumet Tire Rubber Co. (Chicago), lo- 

 cated on Broadway, New York city. 



