August 1. 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE LATEST PLANT FOR MANUFACTURING DRUGGISTS' RUBBER 

 SUNDRIES. 



Whitall Tatuin Company. Xew Vork, manufacturers of glass- 

 ware and druggists' sundries, have erected at Keyport, New 

 Jersey, a factory for the manufacture of ruljbcr sundries for 

 druggists, that is a model of its kind. 



The main building is 282 feet in length and 50 feet wide, built 

 fireproof, of liollow-tile construction, with cement finish. There 

 is ample ventilation of the building, electricity being used for 

 artificial illumination and for the operation of the smaller ma- 

 chines, tumbling barrels, etc., the spreader and churns being also 

 operated by electric power. 



These, with a 350 horsepower Cooper-Corliss engine, three 

 boilers of 250 horsepower, two washers, three mi.xers and two 

 calenders of Birmingham make, with four vulcanizers. a 

 vacuum dryer, tubing machine and presses, constitute the equip- 

 ment of heavy machinery. An ample supply of water is obtained 

 from the town and the property, which comprises some 12 

 acres, fronts on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, from tlie 

 tracks of which a switch is run into the factory grounds. 



this character, will be of steel, the interior finish oak and Ver- 

 mont marble, and it will conform with every requirement as to 

 fire-proof construction. The general offices of the company will 

 be housed in the building, any superfious space will be rented as 

 offices. Broadway, at Fifty-eighth street, will be the site of the 

 building, which it is planned to complete inside of a year. 



RUBBER TILING AT EMPIRE BUILDING. 



As an illustration of the enduring qualities of rubber tiling, 

 interest attaches to the fact that at the Empire Building, Broad- 

 way, New Vork city, with its 100.000 persons entering daily, 

 the original black and white marble slabs in the main corridor 

 only lasted about three months. By the substitution of rubber 

 tiling no repairs were needed for twelve years. 



GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE HAS A NEW AUTO TIRE? 



It is stated thai (ieorge W cstinghouse, of air-brake fame, has 

 invented a new tire for automobiles, in which the resilient feature 

 is produced by the use of air springs in place of rubber. That 

 the mechanical genius, to which the world is indebted for so 

 many important discoveries, should have been turned to the 

 perfection of a substitute for the rubber tire, is not by any 



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Connected with the main factory is a second building, of tire- 

 proof construction with concrete roof hung on girders of the 

 same material, 90 feet in length and 25 feet wide, wliich is 

 devoted entirely to spreading and dipping. 



The original glass business of the firm was started at Millville, 

 New Jersey, in 1806, the firm name being changed to Whitall. 

 Tatuni & Company in 1857 ; in 1901 it was incorporated as 

 Whitall Tatum Company. The company's flint glass factories at 

 South Millville occupy buildings covering some twenty-one acres, 

 while tlie green glass factories, at Millville, cover about eleven 

 acres. A third glass plant has lately been opened by the com- 

 pany, at Stroudsburg, Pa., all the establishments being equipped 

 with the completeness that distinguishes the rubber works at 

 Keyport. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.— NEW BUILDING. 



Plans have been approved and a contract awarded for the 

 new office building the United States Rubber Co. will erect in 

 New York, lii altitude and dimensions, the new building will 

 rank with the great skyscrapers of the metropolis, twenty-one 

 stories, or 321 feet, with basement and sub-basement, having 

 been determined upon for its height, while its area will l)e 120x 

 100 feet. Nor will it suffer by comparison with the finest of 

 the city's business buildings in architectural beauty. The ex- 

 terior walls will be of marble, the frame, as in all buildings of 



ineans remarkable, almost all inventors having at one time or 

 another given this subject their attention. As to the truth of the 

 statements appearing in the press, that the employment of thou- 

 sands of workmen in the near future in the manufacture of the 

 new tire was projected and complete manufacturing arrange- 

 ments perfected, that remains to be seen. If the published de- 

 scriptions of the invention are founded only partially on fact, 

 the new tire is not likely to seriously affect the price of crude 

 ruliber or the demand for rul)ber tires. 



CHICAGO STAMP TRADE CONVENTION. 



W'jTn ,111 attendance of about 130 representatives from 

 various ])arts of the country the Stamp Trade Convention, 

 held at Chicago, June 20 to 23, made a goodly showing. 



Special interest attached to the organization of the Inter- 

 national Stamp Manufacturers' .Association, the title indicat- 

 ing the comprehensive scope of the new body intended to 

 forward the interests of the trade. Mr. M. L. Willard was 

 elected president of the association, in the formation of which 

 he had been most energetic. 



Business and official matters occupied a large portion of 

 the time, but among general subjects was an address by Mr. 

 Louis Meliiul on "Costs of Production." Next year's Con- 

 vention will be held on June 19, 20, 21 and 22 at New York 

 City. 



