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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1913. 



TBAOE NEWS NOTES. 



The Liberty Rubber Co., of Orange, New Jersey, has recently 

 installed new equipment, the business having been purchased by 

 practical rubber manufacturers. Its products include, in ad- 

 dition to all the small rubber parts used in connection with an 

 automobile, "Men-Do" for tires and tubes, "Treadmend," blow- 

 out patches, and everything pertaining to the repair of tires. 



The plant of the Western American Rubber Co., located on 

 North avenue, Los Angeles, California, was recently damaged by 

 fire to the extent of $25,000. 



At the annual meeting of stockholders of the General Bakelite 

 Co., held at the company's office at 100 William street. New 

 York, on October 1, the following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year : Dr. L. H. Baekeland, president ; Jacob Hass- 

 lacher, first vice-president and treasurer; Dr. Hans Foersterling, 

 second vice-president and superintendent, and Paul MauslofF. 

 secretary. 



The firm of Ernest Jacoby & Co., Inc.. of 79 Milk street, Bos- 

 ton, with factories at South Braintree, manufacturing high grade 

 rubber substitutes, is now being represented and its goods sold 

 in .'\kron, Ohio, and the surrounding territory by Gove & 

 French, Inc. This company has lately put on the market a belt 

 dressing known as "Stixtite," said to possess unusual preserva- 

 tive and gripping qualities. 



The Cornwall Rubber Co., a new reclaiming concern, under 

 the management of W. C. Coleman, of Boston, has acquired the 

 plant formerly occupied by The Estes Manufacturing Co. at 

 Cornwall, Connecticut. 



A new rubber manufacturing concern has recently been or- 

 ganized in Massachusetts under the name of Philips, Anderson 

 & Rich, to make a line of molded specialties. South Boston is 

 named as the probable location of its factory. 



The top floor of the building at 531 to 537 Broadway, 

 New York, has been leased by the Cross & Brown Co., to 

 the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



The Chester Rubber Tire & Tube Co., of Chester. Ohio, 

 has contracted for machinery to be installed in its plant at 

 Ninth street and Carolina avenue, H. Neely of Akron, being 

 the engineer in charge of the installation. It is said that 

 the new plant will be running by December IS, that it will 

 employ about 100 workmen at the start, and that, while the 

 operation of the factory will be superintended by an out- 

 of-town man, local stockholders will be in charge. 



Work has been started on the new building at -Atlanta, 

 Georgia, of the Fisk Rubber Co., of Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts. This building will be three stories high and will cost ap- 

 proximately $60,000. 



The Nichols Tire & Rubber Co., notice of whose incorpora- 

 tion appeared in the October number, is to establish head- 

 quarters at 222 West S2nd street. New York City, from 

 which it will distribute in the Eastern territory — which is 

 considered as including Connecticut, New York City, Long 

 Island and part of New Jersey — the product of the Knight 

 Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio. The president of this 

 new concern is James C. Nichols, who is also president of 

 the General Automobile Supply Co., and the secretary is 

 W. B. Hughes. 



On Monday, November 3, a meeting of the creditors of the 

 New York Commercial Co. will consider the payment of an 

 initial diridend. 



.At a creditors' meeting in Boson, on October !8, Geo. A. .Alden 

 & Co. oflFered a payment of 10 per cent, in composition. The 

 offer was accepted by the creditors. 



A CONVEYOR BELT 700 FEET LONG. 



Here is a reproduction of a photograph taken of a conveyor 

 belt recently made by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of 

 Akron, the belt being 700 feet long, 2 feet wide and weighing 

 5,140 pounds. The belt is to be used for conveying hot 



.A 5, 140- Pound Goodyear Belt. 



cement. It will be noticed by the picture that, while the 

 workmen standing near the rolled up belt are pretty stalwart 

 fellows of good altitude, the roll of belting towers consider- 

 ably above them. 



"THE DOMTNION." 



"The Dominion" is a semi-monthly publication of 16 pages 

 and cover, tastefully printed, published by the Canadian Con- 

 solidated Rubber Co., Ltd., Montreal, for distribution among 

 the companies and branches connected with that corporation. 

 The October 1 number contains much interesting matter, among 

 which might be particularly mentioned a recent interview given 

 by the company's manager, Mr. A. D. Thornton, to the 

 "Montreal Star," regarding the expectation on the part of the 

 retail dealer of immediate lower prices for manufactured goods 

 every time the price of crude rubber declines. Mr. Thornton 

 points to the fact that about six months elapse between the 

 time rubber is bought and the distribution of the goods in 

 which it is used ; that the goods now being offered the retailer 

 were made of rubber bought at a considerably higher price 

 than now prevails in the crude rubber market. He continues : 

 "Then again all other commodities are higher than before. 

 Cotton is very high ; chemicals are all heavily in demand. Con- 

 sequently prices are continually on the up-grade. Labor — ^well, 

 you all know what labor is; there is no end to the increase in 

 wages demanded by labor. We are large users of gasolene. A 

 short time ago it was 16 cents per gallon ; today we are paying 

 24j4 cents. So you see. taking in the above considerations, 

 it would not appear wise to even talk about lower prices at 

 present." 



Incidentally, "The Dominion'' reprints an editorial which ap- 

 peared in the August issue of The Indi.\ Rubber World en- 

 titled "Guaranteeing the Unguaranteeable," which called attention 

 to the great burden imposed upon the manufacturer of tires in 

 demanding from him a guarantee when he could by no possibility 

 tell to what sort of abuse the tire was going to be subjected. 



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