October i. i<jog. ] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



TO MAKE "ARTIFICIAL RUBBER." 



North American Rubber Co.. organized under the laws of 

 Maine, with $5,000,000 capital stated, claim "a process for the man- 

 ufacture and production of crude rubber by means of chemicals, 

 whereby it can place on the market a rubber which ranks with 

 .1 tine grade African gum." It is stated thai the company have 

 orders "from large and well-known users of rubber" for all that 

 they can produce, at $1 a pound, and that it is expected to have 

 a factory, with a daily capacity of a ton a day, Operating by 

 January 1, next. Wheeler & Shaw. Inc., Boston, are offering the 

 company's shares. 



ELST0N E. WADBR00K. 



Shortly after the publication of this number, Mr. Elston E. 

 Wadbrook, who fur a number of years has successfully admin- 

 istered the business of Poel & Arnold, at their Boston office, will 

 he established at the Xew York headquarters. Mr Wadbrook's 

 experience in crude rubber dates back many years, and his 

 knowledge of conditions, particularly Brazilian, is verj complete. 

 It was somewhere about [886 that he went to Rio Janeiro for 

 the London and Brazilian Bank, to learn the hanking end of the 



l'i 3TON E. Wadbrook. 



rubbet linsnies-. and indeed, of all commodities, both of import 

 and export. He first came into direct touch with the crude rub- 

 ber trade in 1896. when he went to Para for R. I". Sears & Co., 

 remaining there about two years. On his return lie was con- 

 nected with the Crude Rubber Co.. in New York, for a time, and 

 then went to Boston with Reimers & Co.. with which firm, under 

 its later name of Poel & Arnold, he has continued. Mr. Wad- 

 brook's acquaintance with rubber and the buyers thereof is well 

 night universal. lie was one of the founders of the New 

 England Rubber Club, and has been one of the officers since its 

 inception. He brings to New York much knowledge, wdde 

 acquaintance, the esteem of the whole Xew England trade and a 

 tine record at golf. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



\Y u.rhK F. Phillips, only son of H. O. Phillips, president of 

 the Phillips Insulated Wire Co., (Pawtucket, Rhode Island), 

 hist his life in an automobile accident m which live companions 

 were injured on September I. He was a student at Phillips 

 Exeter Academy, and 20 years of age. 



F. P.. Nickerson, who for several years had been in charge 

 ..I the rubber department of the wholesale shoe house of Nath- 

 aniel Ftsher & Co., in Xew York, died 011 August jo, after 

 having been in ill health for several months, lie had been 



connected with the house since 1881, .md is survived by a son, 

 also connected with the house. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The regular meeting of directors of the United States Rubber 

 Co. for the declaration of dividends of the first preferred stock 

 is scheduled for Thursday, October 7. 



La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin) are 

 reported to be very busy, and making alterations with a view to 

 doubling their capacity in the near future. 



Elwyn C. Fish, long connected with the National India Rtilil" 1 

 Co. factory (Bristol, Rhode Island), has become superintendent 

 of tin Elkhart Rubber Works, at Klkhart, Indiana. 



Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. (Jersey City , Xew Jersey) have 

 obtained in the United States circuit court a perpetual injunction 

 restraining the Excelsior Supply Co., of Chicago, from offering 

 for sale any graphite product not made by the Dixon company, 

 in packages marked with red labels or otherwise resembling the 

 Dixon packages. 



The directors of the Manufactured Rubber Co. (Philadel- 

 phia) declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1]j per cent. 

 on the preferred stock, payable on September 1. 



E. A. Kendall, representing the Congress Shoe and Rub- 

 ber Co (Boston), is mentioned in a Massachusetts n 

 paper as having been visiting the trade in the Berkshires 

 for 4.? years, which makes him one of the oldest traveling 

 salesmen in the country in any line. 



Barker G. Hamill. secretary ami treasurer of the Trenton 

 Trust and Safe Deposit Co., has been elected a director of 

 The Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton. Xew Jer- 

 sey). Mr. Hamill succeeded his father, the late Hugh II. 

 Hamill. as secretary and treasurer of the Trust company 

 mentioned, and be is now a director in 14 corporations. 



Mr. Albert N. Stanley, manager of the local tire age n. j 

 of The Fisk Rubber Co.. has been elected president of the 

 Motor Accessories Association of St. Louis. 



The Durham Rubber Co. Limited (Bowmariville, Ontario), 

 are having plans made for an 1 {tension to their plant. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co. (Hartford, Connecticut) 

 have received reports on the satisfaction given by their 

 Midgely tread tires on the automobile gun carriage in use 

 at the Northwestern Military Academy, at Highland Park, 

 Illinois. The tire has notably prevented skidding on the 

 asphalt streets. The Hartford works were recently working 

 on a 24-hour schedule owing to the heavy demand for tires. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Alexander Johnston, general works superintendent of 

 the North British Rubber Co., Limited, of Edinburgh, was a 

 visitor to the United States during the past month. 



Dr. Carlos de Cerqueira Pinto, of Para, Brazil, the interesting 

 results of whose researches in crude rubber in the Amazon 

 regions have been reported on at some length in The India 

 Rubbkk World of late, after a visit of several weeks to the 

 United States, sailed on September 15 on the Mauretania 

 London, whence he intended taking a steamer for Brazil. 



Mr. Jules Amando Mendes, long identified with the rubber 

 trade at Para and a recent visitor to the United State-. 

 for home on September 13. via Barbados, on the steamer 

 Swinamc. 



Mr. Ernest E. Buckleton, secretary and general manager ol 

 Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited, of Liverpool, is expi 

 to reach the United States about the middle of this month for 

 a brief visit. 



Mr. M. Wachter, formerly connected with an important Amer- 

 ican rubber factory, later at Yokohama, Japan, with an insulated 

 wire wanks, and now in Germany with a company in the same 

 interest, is contributing to the Gummi-Zeitung (Merlin) an 

 interesting series of articles on "Die Fabrikaten der Gummi- 

 drahte und Kabel" (the manufacture of rubber wires and cables). 



