THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1900. 



1 11, selling on an it n as stated, 



1,000 feet a da) 1 '.<- product was advertised as "the only 

 that will -land thi ire and severe tests of 



steam fin nent engines without bursting or sweat- 



ing." The New York fire underwriters rei 



mended this hi " d by the United Si 



I 

 her rubber manufacturers were not slo iming into 



the market from this time on. The superiority of the steam 

 in vas so marked that cities and towns ceased to 

 any other, while the leather hose had to give way to 

 ler or "combination" brands on the modern engines. 

 There were disputes over the hose patents naturally, but 

 they need not be detailed lure. The various makers adver- 

 111 the fireman's paper weri th Gutta Percha and Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. and the Combination Rubber Co., both of 

 Xew York — combination hose; Xew York Belting and Pack- 

 Co. and the National Rubber Co.— rubber hose; Post, 

 Herkner & Co.— rubber hose and rubber cotton-lined hose; 

 James Boyd & Co. — patent cotton hose; and the Grenoble 

 hemp fire hose. 



Janus Boyd & Co., by the way. were still offering leather 



hose, of which they had been makers for 50 years. C. M. 



Clapp i\ Co., so long prominent in the Boston rubber goods 



trade, advertised both leather and rubber hose. Among other 



rtisers not already named here were A. C. Eddy & Co., 



Providence, and the Rubber Clothing Co., of New York, 



ffi ring firemen's rubber coats and caps. Two other rubber 



men remain to be mentioned in these reminiscences. The 



Allerton Iron Works Manufacturing Co., of Naugatuck, 



Connecticut, were beginning to build fire engines, and George 



M. Allerton, Sr., of the "Goodyear Glove'' company, was 



urer of this corporation, and Edward L. Perry, still engaged 



in the rubber industry, contributed an article on the hose patent 



situation 



The pag< - of this paper devoted much space to new in- 

 ventions, in a field then practically new — improvements in 

 engines, hose couplings, nozzles, rubber respirators, and so 



An Automobile Eire Engine, 1909. 

 [This is the "Pioneer" type, made by the Waterous Engine YYi :k^ Cu., 

 St. Paul, Minnesota.] 



on. John Raddin's patent elastic wheel is recommended 

 for fire engines, and velocipedes (bicycles). It was con- 

 structed with a rubber cushion at either end of every spoke 

 ■ — one cushion at the hub and the other inside the felloe, the 

 tire being steel, of course. By the way, several firemen's 

 clubs were mentioned as having formed velocipede clubs. 



c. D. FROST. 



An official of the Michelin Tire Co. stated recently that 

 high speed road and track contests have done more than any- 

 thing else to bring pneumatic tires to their present high 

 state of efficiency. He referred to the well-known fact that 

 automobiles had been perfected by developing their weak . 

 points in open competitions of all kinds, to remedy which 

 manufacturers were forced or encouraged to improve their 

 product, and stated that the same spirit of rivalry and the 

 same desire to produce the best had in the past stirred the 

 tire makers to equally serious effort. 



NEW YORK'S LATEST SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PIKE ENGINE SYSTEM lllilll PRESSURE, 1909. 



