June 1, 1*^11.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RVBBEB CLUB OF AMERICA. 



The following are announced as the committees for The 

 Rubber Club of America for 1911-12: 



Nomitiatitig. — Hon. L. DeWart Apsley, chairman : Homer E. Sawyer, 

 Charles J. liailey. William H. Gleason; Elston E. Wadbrook, secretary. 



Dinner. — Charles A. Coc, chairman; Geo. H. Mayo, Robert L. Rice, 

 William E. Barker, Joseph W. Work. 



S/'orls. — R. I,. Chipman. chairman; R. E. Paine, E. L. Phipps, Will- 

 iam j. Kelly, Wallace C. I'age. 



Entertainment. — H. R. Fuller, chairman: Charles J. Bailty, James H. 

 Learned. George E. B. Putnam, W. L. Proctor. 



Rc.'olntions. — Henry C. Pearson, chairman; Elston E. Wadbrook, Geo. P. 

 Whitnvjre. 



.4 milting. — William H. Gleason, chairman; J. Everett Stone. 



ATTACHED FOE $207,000. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), having a claim 

 against the Me.xican Crude Rubber Co. (Detroit, Michigan), as- 

 signed it to Thomas S. Lindsay, of that city, who attached for 

 $207,654, the claim for an alleged violation of contracts in de- 

 livering guayule rubber. The contract which dated back to 

 March, 1909, was for 750 tons of guayule, at 32 cents a pound. 

 Up to December 22, 1910, there were delivered 469 tons, leaving 

 a balance due of 281 tons. At that time, however, the price of 

 guayule had advanced to 65 cents a pound, and the Diamond 

 company, through Mr. Lindsay, sued for the difference of 33 

 cents a pound on the undelivered portion or $207,654. 



A NEW RUBBER COMPANY FOR ERIE, PA. 



The X'ri.cAx Rlbber Co. has been organized at Erie, Pa., to 

 manufacture a general line of rubber goods. The company will 

 have $I(X).000 capital stock, and the incorporators are Mayor 

 M. Liebcl. Jr., Eugene Liebel. Oil City ; William Kaul, Frank 

 Kaul and Frank Obenkirch, St. Marys, and Bernard Cochran, 

 Erie. Property has been purchased, about six acres in extent, 

 on which there ;'re a number of substantial brick, iron and con- 

 crete buildings, that will be remodelled for the company's busi- 

 ness. The necessary machinery has been ordered and the plant 

 is expected to be in operation within two months. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Just as we go to press word comes that the .\merican yacht 

 Virginia, with Commodore E. C. Benedict of the executive com- 

 mittee of the United States Rubber Co., and a party of friends, 

 went ashore off the coast of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. All on board 

 are reported safe and it is expected that the yacht will be gotten 

 off at high tide. The party were returning to New York from a 

 trip up the Amazon. 



.■\lbert T. Holt has resigned as superintendent of the Whitall 

 Tatum Co., at Keyport, New Jersey. 



R. Bardewyck, representing in the United States Lehman & 

 Voss, Hamburg, Germany, manufacturers of chemicals, etc., for 

 the rubber trade, left for Europe on May 25, per steamer 

 Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. Having been in the United States 

 since September last, he reports business good and is making the 

 trip to the other side for the purpose of consulting with his 

 principals, mainly in regard to new methods of using their pro- 

 ductions in rubber manufacturing. He proposes also to visit the 

 rubber exhibition, which is one of the objects of his trip, but ex- 

 pects to return as soon as possible. 



Robert L. Baird and Collier W. Baird have become associated 

 with the Rubber Trading Co. in the capacity of salesmen, and 

 are covering their respective territories with considerable suc- 

 cess. 



Frank H. Martin, for several years manager of the Chicago 

 branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., has been made 

 special representative, with headquarters at the factory. A. W. 

 Moore, formerly on the selling force of the Chicago branch, 

 has been placed in charge at Chicago. 



John Nelson Kirk, Jr., of the Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, 

 N. J., was married May 11, at All Aiigels Church. New York, 

 to Miss Dorothy E. Rogers, daughter of Walter Chapman Rogtrs. 

 The wedding tour included a trip north p.nd west. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



.Xnnoiincement is made of the dissolution of the limited 

 partnership heretofore existing between H. A. .'Vstlctt and Luis 

 F. Morcy, doing business as crude rubber importers as H. A. 

 Astlett. Under the title of H. A. .Astlett & Co., a limited part- 

 nership has been formed by H. A. Astlett, Edmund R. Hawkins, 

 Thomas H. Ivory and J. C. Richard Merz, Luis F. Morcy, special 

 partner. The offices remain at 117 Pearl street. New York. 



A contract has recently been closed under which 500 taxi- 

 cabs in New York City, owned by the Mason-Seaman Trans- 

 portation Co. (more generally known as the New York Taxi- 

 cab Co.) will be equipped with Fisk tires and removable rims, 

 manufactured by the Fisk Rul)ber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massa- 

 chusetts). Of all the taxicabs in the United States, 75 per cent, 

 now have the Fisk rim and tire equipment. 



A factory for the manufacture of rubber tiling is being put up 

 at Kenilworth, N. J. It is under.stood that George Bradshaw, 

 connected with the Eastern Reclaiiucd Rubber Co. (New York, 

 is at the head of the concern. 



Quite a number of prominent rubber manufacturers arc at 

 present in Europe. Among them are the Hon. L. D. Apsley, 

 Frederic C. Hood and H. E. Raymond. 



The Metal Lock Tile Co. announce the removal of their 

 executive offices to their factory, and their address is now, Metal 

 Lock Tile Co., Trenton, New Jersey. 



Stoughton Rubber Co. are erecting, at Stoughton, Massachu- 

 setts, a reinforced concrete building, 150 x 45 feet and three 

 stories high, on the Wilson system of mill construction. It will 

 be divided by a fire wall, and one portion will be used for storage 

 purposes and the balance for the manufacturer of rubber clothing. 



The factory of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., at Olneyville, 

 Rhode Island, purchased some time since by the Revere Rubber 

 Co., has been started up as a separate unit devoted to the manu- 

 facture of automobile tires, the "Continentals." The old works 

 which were large have been substantially increased by the erection 

 of new buildings and re-arrangement of the old ones; the present 

 plant is a complete and up-to-date tire factory. 



A plastic for general compounding particularly in black goods 

 is known as "Byerlyte." It is a pure hydrocarbon, a petroleum 

 product, in the form of an artificial asphalt, which is said to have 

 all the advantages of natural asphalt without its impurities and 

 its variability. One of its strongest points is claimed to be that 

 it can be delivered in the exact consistency desired, and hence 

 does not need to be fluxed with the volatile ingredients that 

 cause some asphalts to disintegrate. The makers claim for it 

 that in connection with crude rubber it adds to the compounding 

 quality quite considerable. It is said also to increase the tensile 

 strength ; is not affected by moisture ; has no ingredients to 

 volatilize and that it never oxidizes. It is claimed also that 

 used with strong smelling rubbers, such as .African, or in con- 

 nection with some classes of reclaimed, it acts as a deodorizer. 



The Crude Rubber Washing Co., Limited, with headquarters 

 at No. 17 Mincing lane, London, E. C, England, have recently 

 acquired the entire rubber washing department of the British 

 Murac Syndicate, Limited., and are erecting at Edmonton new 

 works having a capacity of 10 tons of washed and standardized 

 rubber day. It has been claimed that by this process the 

 large quantities of dirt, and other impurities which previously 

 characterized many grades of rubber shipped to the contituntal 

 and London markets is eliminated, and that all rubbers branded 

 "C. R. W." are guaranteed absolutely pure virgin india-rubber, 

 and sold under a guarantee of a certain percentage of shrink- 

 age. This product is handled in the United States by the Wal- 

 lace L. Gough Co., of No. 108 Water street. New York. 



William FI. Scheel, New York, manufacturers of "Black Hypo" 

 for non-blooming black stocks, are introducing another grade 

 of this product, to be known as Black Hypo. Special, as against 

 the standard article. Black Hypo, Extra, and which they will 

 supply at a much lower iiricc than the "Extra." 



