June ■!, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Kobi, he attended an industrial exhibition, and there saw a com- 

 plete line of packings and asbestos goods, all of Japanese manu- 

 facture. It is his opinion that the Japanese will soon have mas- 

 tered the art of manufacture and that the demand for Anierican 

 goods will rapidly decrease. R. H. Pease, Sr., who recently re- 

 turned from his eastern trip, states in regard to business con- 

 ditions that he finds things running along smoothly. There is 

 no boom, he says, but business is improving in comparison with 

 that of last year. Naturally • the boot and shoe business is a 

 little dull, because more or less of the retail merchants are carry- 

 ing over stocks. This is especially true amund Portland, and in 

 fact all through the northwest. 



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A. T. Kalas now handles the Globe line of the Globe Rubber 

 Co., and has his offices at Xo. 1515 Main street. Mr. Kalas 

 has been selling mining and <|uarry machinery and supplies 

 for the past 18 years all along the coast, is a prominent l''lk, and 

 is well known everywhere, so that the success witli this line is 

 assured. 



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The Barton Packing and Rubber Co. is retiring from busi- 

 ness, and their entire stock will be disposed of. Schwartz & 

 Kenrick, the factory men from the Barton company now are the 

 proprietors of the new Panama Rubber Co. Frank Seton, who 

 was formerly with Barton, has gone with the Goodyear Rubber 

 Co. The Barton stock has been assigned to Mr. Jones, of the 

 Crude Rubber Co. 



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The Goodyear Rubber Co.'s factory on Spear street has been 

 enlarged and improved by the addition of nii.\ing mills, calender 

 and tubing machinery. 



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The .\cme Machine Works at No. 19 Tehama street, have a 

 new kind of automobile tire. It is filled with 26 bulbs, which 

 can all be inflated at once. When there is a puncture, one bulb 

 at a time can be removed without touching the others. The 

 first tire has just been turned out, manufactured at the Goodyear 

 Rubber Co.'s factory, on Spear street. 



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Dales D. Tripp, a well known rubber man connected witli the 

 Bowers Rubber Works, had the antlers placed on his head 



Monday night at the Alameda Lodge, 1015 of the Elks. 



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The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. report a 



big sale of fire hose to the city of Alameda. 



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Mr. Griffiths, representing the American Manufacturing Co., 

 cf Emeryville, Cal., states that his firm is doing a very good 

 business, especially at the present time in fire hose. They were 

 recently awarded a contract for 15,000 feet for San Francisco 

 and 1,000 feet for the Mare Island Navy Yard. 



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Mr. Jolm W. Macomb, secretary-treasurer of the New York 

 Belting and Packing Co., who has been associated with the 

 company for twenty-one years, has just made his first visit to the 

 Pacific coast. He expressed his surprise and pleasure at the in- 

 dustrial growth and extent of the western territory. 



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W. J. Gorham, of the Gorham-Reverc Kubber Co., reports 

 that the firm has now recovered from the confusion which has 

 attended the consolidation of the three stores — the Gorham, tlie 

 Revere and the Pacific Coast Rubber Co., and that things are 

 rimning along nicely and profitably. He has just been confer- 

 ring in this city with Mr. Hamhn, manager of the Seattle store 

 and general manager for the northwest, and E. H. Helm, man- 

 ager of the Gorhani-Revere Rubber Co., of Los Angeles, Mr. 

 Gorham and Mr. Hamlin will leave today for the north, to per- 

 fect their organization there. 



CONSHOHOCKEN'S NEW RUBBER FACTORY. 



JE-LLWOOD LEE, known to the hospital trade throughout 

 • the world, has been in the rubber business more or less for 

 many years, both in Pennsylvania and through his connection with 

 the great firm of Johnson &■ Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jer- 



Prese.n't Fl.vnt of J. Eli.woou Lee Co.. Co.nsiiohockex, P.\. 



scy, of which he is vice-president. It is now announced that he 

 .will branch out very extensively in rulsber manufacturre. To this 

 end he has purchased the entire business of the J. Ellw'ood 

 Lee Co., with two factories located at Conshohocken, Pennsyl- 

 vania, for $1,500,000. He is now organizing under the laws of 

 the State of Pennsylvania a company to be known as the Lee 







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Present Pl.\nt of J. Ei.i.wood Lee Co., Conshohocken, P.\. 



Tire and Rubber Co., capitalized at $2,000,000. which will take 

 over the entire business. Mr. Lee will lie president of the new 

 company and retains a majority of its stock. The other officers 

 arc, J. W. Johnson, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, vice- 

 president ; .'\, A. Garthwaite, treasurer ; Samuel Wright, secre- 

 tary, and M. OB. Hallowell, assistant secretary. The company 

 propose to sell about $400,000 worth of 7 per cent, preferred 

 stock, chiefly to install additional machinery for the manufac- 

 ture of the "Jelco" puncture proof tires and tubes for which 

 they own the patents. They will also produce a full line of 

 druggists' rubber sundries. The main plant of the company, of 

 which we give an illustration, is modern and well equipped, with 

 the best railroad facilities. 



