December 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



13; 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



THE REPUBLIC RUBBER CO. IN NEW YORK. 



TWV. Republic Rubber Co., of Young.stown, Ohio, announces 

 that it has acquired control of the Republic Rubber Co. of 

 New York, formerly owned and managed by New York 

 people. The new organization, keeping the same location, 229 

 West Fifty-Eighth street, will carry a complete line of tires and 

 inechanical rubber goods manufactured by the Republic com- 

 pany. Mr. F. G. Hill, secretary and sales manager of the old 

 company, will continue in the same capacity in the new organ- 

 ization, and have charge of all tire sales. Mr. C. VV. Hardin, 

 formerly eastern manager of the Republic Rubber Co., has been 

 elected vice-president and treasurer of the new organization, 

 and will have charge of all the mechanical sales. These 

 changes denote increased business at this important point, and 

 also mean even better service for New York users of Republic 

 tires. 



THE NEW HARTFORD COOLING PLANT. 



The Hartford Rubber Works are installing a complete plant 

 for cooling the water used in the mill room. This application of 

 the principle of refrigeration to maintain a low temperature in 

 the rolls of rubber machinery is both novel and interesting. The 

 cost of installation, tho great, will be saved many times over 

 through the economies peculiar to the new system, while the 

 benefit to the rubber stock will be incalculable. Another valuable 

 feature showing a deep interest in the welfare of the operations 

 will be plenty of cool and absolutely pure drinking water for 

 the employes. 



INTERCONTINENTAL RETIRES ITS PREFERRED STOCK. 



At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Inter- 

 continental Rubber Co.. held November 11, it was voted to de- 

 crease the capital stock by retiring the $1,250,000 par value of 

 preferred stock remaining issued and outstanding. The stock 

 and stock trust certificates representing same will be retired 

 on December 1, 1913. This will leave the preferred stock au- 

 thorized $5,800,000, with none outstanding, and common stock 

 authorized $30,000,000 with $29,030,000 outstanding. After ef- 

 fecting this retirement of preferred stock the company will 

 have about $1,500,000 in cash, and cash invested in securities 

 other than those of its subsidiary companies ; so there will be 

 ample cash resources for future operation. 



CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR FIRE HOSE. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Co., of New York, has recently been 

 awarded contracts to supply 2,000 feet of tire hose to the town of 

 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and to the town of Pekin, Illinois, 500 feet 

 of "Keystone" hose. The New Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co. 

 has secured an award from the town of Chippewa Falls, Wis- 

 consin, for 500 feet of fire hose. 



THE ANGLO-AMERICAN RUBBER CORPORATION. 



The Anglo-American Rubber Corporation is a newly organ- 

 ized company with a capital of $75,000, which will commence 

 operation in Brooklyn on December 1. The new company will 

 make rubber clothing, drug sundries, hospital sheetings and auto 

 top fabrics. The officers are R. F. Rubens, president ; George L. 

 Fox, treasurer, and F. B. Daniells, secretary. The rubber cloth- 

 ing department will be in charge of F. B. Daniells, while Joseph 

 Holland, formerly w'ith the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, Davol Rubber Co. at Providence, Rhode Island, and 

 other well-known concerns, will have charge of the druggist sun- 

 dries department. 



The rubber clothing will be made under a special process, and 



with an especially prepared cement, which will be guaranteed to 

 prevent the opening of seams and oxidation. The plant is lo- 

 cated in the Bush Terminal Building, Brooklyn. 



A NEW FACTOEY FOR MULCONEOY COMPANY. 



The Mulconroy Co., of Philadelphia, patentees and manufac- 

 turers of a flexible metallic hose, also of rubber boots, belting, 

 jiacking and mechanical rubber goods, have secured the build- 

 ing formerly occupied by the Munyon Home Remedy Co. at 53rd 

 and Jefferson streets, that city, affording them considerable addi- 

 tional manufacturing space. This is a three-story building, 150 

 X 250 feet, on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, oppo- 

 site the 52d street station, and within two blocks of the Penn- 

 sylvania freight station and express companies, with a siding to 

 the factory. It is within fifteen minutes of the center of the 

 city, with car service every quarter of an hour, so that the com- 

 pany will hereafter be excellently situated to take care of both the 

 manufacture and distribution of its products. 



FURTHER ADDITIONS TO FEDERAL CO.S PLANT. 



.■\ltho the present plant of the Federal Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. at Cudahy, Wisconsin, contains 300,000 square feet of floor 

 space, turns out 1,000 pneumatic tires a day, in addition to a 

 variety of mechanical rubber goods, and affords employment to 

 1,000 persons, this capacity has been found inadequate to take 

 care of the steadily increasing business of the company, and still 

 further additions have been started. In December, 1912, this 

 company issued $1,000,000 additional capital stock, its previous 

 capitalization having been $1,000,000. 



SUMMIT RUBBER CO. INCREASE. 



The Summit Rubber Co. of Barberton, Ohio, has found it neces- 

 sary to increase its capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000, and it 

 is stated that present conditions indicate the necessity of adding 

 to the capactiy of the plant in the early spring. This company 

 manufactures drug sundries and rubber coated rust-proof corset 

 stays and intends to add to its output in the near future some 

 new patented articles for which it has already contracted. Its 

 present factory building is 75 x 90 feet, two stories high, with 

 an additional storage building. 



ASBESTOS & RUBBER WORKS OF NEW JERSEY. 



.^11 the assets, liabilities, and contracts, the good-will and fac- 

 tory of the Asbestos & Rubber Works of America have been 

 taken over by the Asbestos & Rubber Works of New Jersey, 

 which was duly incorporated under the laws of the State of New 

 Jersey on November 6. The officers of this company are : John 

 II. Scudder (president of the First National Bank of Trenton), 

 president: Joseph A. Whitney, secretary; John M. Scudder, 

 treasurer. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Work has been begun on a one-story addition to the plant of 

 the X'ulcanized Products Co. at Muskegon, Michigan. This new 

 building is to be 100 x 150 feet, and will be used as a press room. 



The Loewenthal Co., of New York, has assigned Mr. M. S. 

 Schulman to take exclusive cha*fee of the Trenton district in 

 order to give proper service to their customers among the mills 

 of that section. Mr. Schulman has been associated with the 

 Loewenthal Co. for several years, and has had much experience 

 in the scrap rubber line. 



The Automobile Tire Co. opened two new branches last month 

 — one in Washington, D. C, and one in Fresno, California. They 

 now have six branches besides their main office on Broadway, 

 New York. They deal exclusively in automobile tires. 



