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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I Of TOIiER 



1913. 



THE HARTFORD COMPANY'S nNE NEW POWER PLANT. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 

 recently completed one of the best equipped power plants 

 probably to be found anywhere in the United States. The 

 accompanying illustration shows this new plant, together 

 with the old plant, which stands immediately in front of it, 

 with the square chimney. The growth of the company's 

 business during the last few years has necessitated an in- 

 crease in its power capacity, and one boiler after another was 

 added to the equipment until for economical operation it was 

 found to be desirable to abandon the old plant entirely and 

 substitute for it an altogether new plant. This new power 

 house, built of reinforced concrete, has a frontage of 110 

 feet and is located on a private siding of the N. Y., N. H. & 

 11. R. K. It is a most interesting illustration of the amount 

 of work that can be done automatically in such a plant, as 

 will be shown by the following description: 



The coal cars are run over weighing scales, and the bot- 

 tom of the car opens over the hopper in the track which drops 

 tlie coal immediately into a crusher where the large lumps 



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are reduced to uniform size, and passed on over a conveyor 

 to the overhead coal bin which holds 1,500 tons. The coal 

 is distributed equally in the bins, which are situated over the 

 bunkers of the Murphy automatic stokers. The traveling 

 weighing feeder takes the coal from the overhead bin, auto- 

 matically weighs it as it feeds to Imnker over the stokers, 

 which automatically feed the fire. 



These Murphy stokers arc attached to the Bigelow-Hornsby 

 vertical tubular boilers, of which there are two units of 1,000 

 horsepower each. They are so located in the boiler house 

 as to be accessible from all four sides and are in a room 

 72 feet high. The west side of this room is entirely of glass 

 and topped with glass ventilators, so that the room where the 

 boilers are fired is one of the mo.st comfortable in the entire 

 jilant. 



The ashes are automatically dropped from under the stokers 

 ,ind conveyed to an overhead ash bin. and the wagons which 

 lake the ashes away are automatically llHed by raising a single 

 lever. The boiler plant is equipped with all of the latest 

 recording devices for flow of steam meters, C20 recorders, and 

 ilraft recorders, which automatically make a daily report of the 

 amount of water evaporated and the amount of steam trans- 

 mitted to each department, and also the amount of coal used 

 in its i)roduction. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients ; Rubber Country of the Amazon ; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Electric power is to replace, to some e.\tent, the steam power 

 heretofore employed at the Fisk Rubber Co. plant at Chicopce 

 Falls, Massachusetts. The work of substitution is now in 

 progress and when completed will permit of the use of from 2,000 

 to 3,000 h. p.. the current to be supplied by the Amherst Power Co. 



Another link has been added to the chain of "Crocker System" 

 stores — of which there are now eleven in New England — by the 

 cipenin.i; :it I'Ttchburg. Massachusetts, of a store in the Bassett 

 building on Main street. This enterprise will be conducted under 

 the management of Mr. George I. Crocker, and will be known as 

 The Fitchburg Rubber Co. 



An award has been made for certain of the work connecte<l 

 with the erection of a new three-story, 60 .x 130 foot factory at 

 Xaugatuck, Connecticut, for occupancy by The Rubber Regen- 

 erating Co. 



Two new factory buildings are being added to the plant of 

 The Gordon Rubber Co. at Beach City, Ohio — these to be 40 x 50 

 and 40 .x 200 feet respectively, one story high and of brick 

 construction. 



The Faultless Rubber Co., of Ashland. Ohici. is soon to extend 

 its factory space and equipment, having purchased for that 

 purpose a site adjoining its present location. 



The Chester Rubber Tire & Tube Co., incorporated at Charles- 

 ton, West Virginia, is now negotiating the sale of its stock, and 

 when the necessary $25,000 worth has been disposed of the 

 company is expected to locate in Chester, Ohio, using for its 

 plant the building at Ninth street and Carolina avenue now 

 occupied as a car barn and machine shop. It is reported that 

 about 200 shares of common stock have been sold, $15,000 sub- 

 scribed and $5,000 more promised. The officers of the company 

 are: John E. Newell, president; George .Arner, vice-president; 

 Gforge Hasson, secretary, and A. L. Skinner, treasurer. 



The large increase in the business of the Elwell Rubber Co. 

 recently lias led to the installation of additional machinery in its 

 plant at Stoughton, - Massachusetts, the former factory of the 

 Plymouth Rubber Co. 



The firm of George E. Goble & Co. lias recently been 

 formed at Detroit. Michigan, with headquarters at 680 Wood- 

 ward avenue, where it will represent the Lee Tire & Rubber 

 Co. and the Victor Rubber Co., in addition to handling the 

 business in that city of some of the carriage equipment 

 concerns. 



The Hall Rubber Co., at 1402 Ridge avenue. Philadelphia, has 

 been appointed to the agency for Motz tires in Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and Delaware. A service department for Motz tire 

 users is also to be established, under control of the Hall 

 Rubber Co. and personally superintended by W. M. Stubbs, 

 former manager of the ^fotz company's branch in Phila- 

 delphia. 



Messrs. Buist & Siegrist, located at 633 North Broad 

 street, Philadelphia, have taken the agency for Falls Rubber 

 Co. tires, and have organized a sales force to cover the ter- 

 ritory granted them, which extends from New York to 

 Florida. 



.■\ lease of the building situated at 240 West Fifty-si.xth 

 street. New York, has been taken by the Empire Rubber & 

 Tire Co., for a term of years. 



The J. H. Stedman Co. has sent out an announcement to 

 the trade that it has moved its business to South Braintree, 

 Massachusetts, where it has a plant on the Fall River division 

 of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. It will, however, maintain 

 a Boston office at 176 Federal street. 



The winner of the 2S0-mile race at Corona. California, on 

 September 9, where a speed of 74^2 miles per hour was 

 maintained, drove a car equipped with Firestone tires. 



