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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1914. 



A FAMOUS GOODYEAE PORTRAIT SOLD. 



An interesting transaction in art took place a few days ago, 

 when the United States Rubber Co. purchased one of the two 

 celebrated life-size half-length portraits of Charles Goodj-ear, 

 painted a few years before his death by the American artist 

 George P. A. Healy, a very distinguished portrait painter of 

 sixty years ago. There were two of these oil paintings by 

 Mr. Healy. both painted on hard rubber block made by Good- 

 year for that purpose. One of these portraits, the property of 

 Mr. Nelson Goodyear, grandson of Charles Goodyear, attracted 

 a great deal of attention in The India Rubbkr World exhibit 

 at the Third International Rubber Exposition held at the Grand 

 Central Palace in New York in September, 1912. This second 

 portrait, which has also been the property of the Goodyear 

 descendants, had been for some time prior to its transfer to the 

 United States Rubber Co. on exhibition in the Brooklyn Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



THE ASBESTOS & RUBBER WORKS OF AMERICA. 



The December number of this publication contained a para- 

 graph regarding the sale of the property of The Asbestos & 

 Rubber Works of America to a new corporation. The Asbestos & 

 Rubber Works of New Jersey, but a communication has been 

 received from Mr. E. H. Garcin. president of the former com- 

 pany saying that the sale simply included the factory, machinery, 

 stock, merchandise and other property located in the State of 

 New Jersey. The statement continues : "All the property of this 

 company, the trade-marks, the good will and all property of what- 

 ever kind or nature, outside of the State of New Jersey, remains 

 the property of this company, and in addition they own 20 per 

 cent, of the capital stock of the New Jersey company." 



RUBBER AT THE SAFETY AND SANITATION SHOW. 



Under the auspices of the American Museum of Safety, the 

 first International Exposition of Safety and Sanitation was held 

 in the Grand Central Palace, New York, from December 11 to 20. 

 It attracted a good deal of attention, as both these subjects — 

 safety and sanitation — are now very much in the public mind. 

 Among the exhibitors there were two who had devices depending 

 for their successful operation on rubber. One was the Draeger 

 Oxygen .Apparatus Co. of Pittsburgh, which had a fine exhibition 

 of the Draeger helmet, intended for the use of miners 

 so that they can enter for rescue work in a mine immediatel} 

 after an accident from accumulated gases. This helmet is at- 

 tached to a large rubber bag, worn across the breast of the 

 miner, which is supplied with the proper amount of oxygen 

 from a tank worn across the back. This breathing bag is 

 connected by rubber tubes to the helmet fitted securely over the 

 wearer's head, in which rubber plays an important part. 



They also displayed their Pulmotor for the automatic resusci- 

 tation of those rescued from drowning and in other cases where 

 a supply of oxygen is needed. 



J. .-X. R. Elliott, of Seventy-fifth street, Brooklyn. N. Y., ex- 

 hibited the Elliott Perfect Ear Protector, which is placed in the 

 ear to protect the drum from excessive noises, wind, dust, or 

 the entering of water when swimming. This protector depends 

 for its efficiency on two rubber discs. 



STAUNTON PATENTS PONTIANAK PROCESS, 



Gray Staunton, of Chicago, has patented a process of preparing 

 a new pontianak compound, which is said to serve as a most 

 valuable ingredient in compounding rubber mixtures, especially 

 where used as an insulating material. The ingredients which 

 are mixed with the pontianak prepare it for working in the 

 mixing rolls and will give the same result as if the new material 

 were a crude rubber of medium or low grade. The new product 

 can be cured as usual in the ordinary vulcanizing oven, but it 

 acts very quickly, since a sheet 54 of an inch in thickness re- 

 quires only about an hour's exposure at a steam pressure of 60 

 pounds. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



L. Albert & Son, scrap rubber dealers of Trenton, New Jersey, 

 who have been doing business under the name of the Regal Rubber 

 Co., have decided to drop this name, owing to the fact of its use 

 by a company in another city, and have adopted the trade name 

 of The Olden Rubber Manufacturing Co. 



A contract has been awarded by the Kerite Insulated Wire & 

 Cable Co. for a 65 x 150 feet three story and basement brick 

 addition to its factory at Seymour, Connecticut. 



The United Rubber Manufacturing & Reclaiming Co., incor- 

 porated with a capital of $350,000. has chosen a location at Brant- 

 ford, Ontario, for its plant, work on which is to be started early 

 in the spring. A tract of three and a half acres has recently 

 been selected by representatives of the company as the site of the 

 new factory, which is expected to be 60 x 250 feet in area and to 

 employ 100 men at the start. 



The Independent Tire Co., whose factory at Toronto, Ontario, 

 has been in operation only since early summer, turning out less 

 than half its capacity of 500 tires a day, has issued a statement 

 showing net earnings for the month of October equal to a 30 

 per cent, dividend on the total paid in capital. 



The American Hand Sewed Shoe Co., of Omaha, Nebraska, 

 has been reincorporated under the same name with capital stock 

 of $150,000. .A. T. Austin, president of the original company, 

 is not connected with the new concern. The directors of the 

 new company are Albert A. McClure, Geo. H. Mayo and Henry 

 B. Hubbard, the latter two being connected with the United 

 States Rubber Co. The incorporators are A. A. McClure, T. W. 

 Austin and E. G. McGilton. 



The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., whose first northwestern 

 brand) was opened about a year and a half ago, at 515 East 

 Pike street, Seattle, Washington, has added another branch 

 at 87 Broadway, North, Portland, Oregon, in its chain of 

 service stations. Mr. Charles W. Harris, in charge of the 

 company's business for the northwest, British Columbia and 

 the Orient, states that progress has been phenomenal. The 

 new branch combines offices, store room and work shop of 

 sufficient size to accommodate several trucks at a time for 

 the application of the company's well known block tires. 



A company has recently been organized at Bridgeport, Con- 

 necticut, under the name of the Sanford Rubber Co., to deal in 

 automobile tires and other rubber goods. The capital stock of 

 this new company is $25,000, and the incorporators are Wilbert 

 Sanford, William Seward and Charles E. Williamson. 



The New York branch of the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, has moved from Seventh avenue to 

 larger quarters at Broadway and Sixty-seventh .street, where a 

 service station has also been established. The Chicago branch 

 of this company — which distributes throughout the central west 

 and is in charge of Charles H. Wright — has also taken larger 

 quarters, having removed from 1241 Michigan avenue to the 

 two-story building at 2031 Michigan avenue. 



A service station is to be established by the Kelly-Springfield 

 Tire Co. in the new building being erected at 551-555 West 

 Fifty-seventh street, New York. 



A branch is very soon to be established at Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin, by the Hubmark Rubber Co., of New York. This branch 

 will be in charge of Victor M. Stamm, for eighteen years con- 

 nected with the Goodyear Rubber Co., and will distribute to 

 the trade in that vicinity "Hub Mark" and "Bay State" footwear, 

 "G. & J." tires and a general line of the United States Rubber 

 Co.'s waterproof clothing, mechanical rubber goods and drug- 

 gists' sundries. 



Braender tires are hereafter to be distributed in Boston and 

 the surrounding section by the Dayton Tire Co., located at 589 

 Boylston street. 



