96 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



LDecember i, 1909. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



AN AMERICAN FACTORY FOR R. 4 3. DICK. 



AT the annual meeting of R. & J. Dick, Limited, at which 

 a satisfactory report on the year's trading was made, the 

 directors stated that in order to develop business in the United 

 States, the board had resolved to manufacture belting in this 

 country. A favorable site has been secured at Passaic, New 

 Jersey, and arrangements are proceeding for the immediate 

 erection of a complete factory. The company have opened offices 

 in New York, at No. 50 Church street. As is well known, the 

 firm were the pioneer makers of balata belting, a line in which 

 they continue to be largely engaged. The total net profits of the 

 firm for the year were £51.163 [=$248,984.74]. 



NEW RUBBER STORE IN BRIDGEPORT. 



A nf.w wholesale and retail store was opened in Bridgeport, 

 Connecticut, on November 17, by Jaycox Rubber Co., at No. 1042 

 Main street, with a full line of mechanical goods, druggists' 

 sundries, rubber clothing and footwear, and automobile and 

 bicycle tires and sundries. The owner, Mr. Ernest M. Jaycox, 

 lately resigned as secretary and treasurer of The Ailing Rubber 

 Co., with whose syndicate of rubber stores he had been con- 

 nected for nine years. The head salesman of the new house 

 is Mr. Edward Dunn, who also was with the Ailing company for 

 nearly nine years. 



QUADRUPLEX OCEAN CABLE. 



It is stated that Stephen D. Field, a nephew of Cyrus West 

 Field, who was connected with the laying of the first Atlantic 

 cable, has perfected an instrument in his laboratory at Stock 

 bridge, Massachusetts, by the use of which four messages can 

 be sent over a single cable simultaneously. The device is now 

 being used successfully on the cable between Key West, Florida, 

 and Havana, Cuba, and proved serviceable during the recent 

 severe storm. Heretofore it has been possible to send only one 

 message at a time over a cable. Mr. Field has obtained patents 

 on his invention. It was Mr. Field who invented and operated 

 successfully in Stockbridge, early in the eighties, the first 

 American trolley car. 



THE TILLINGHAST TIRE PATENTS. 



The Single Tube Automobile and Bicycle Tire Co. have insti- 

 tuted suits against several manufacturers licensed to make tires 

 under the Tillinghast patents to recover royalties claimed to be 

 due and not paid. The suit recently decided in the favor of 

 the patent holding company against the Continental Rubber 

 Works was pending so long that some of the licensees ceased 

 to pay the royalty, on the ground that the action was not being 

 pressed and that they were not receiving the protection due 

 them. When the court rendered its decision several of the 

 licensees paid up and suits are being instituted against the others. 



DELAFONDS GUAYULE PROCESS. 



In reporting on an analysis of guayule produced by Mr. E. 

 Delafond, of Mexico, by a new "physico-mechanical" process, 

 at the "La Victoria" works, hacienda de Sierra Hermosa, at 

 Catorce, state of San Luis Potosi [see The India Rubber 

 World, November 1, 1909 — page 49], a typographical error oc- 

 curred which robs the statement of value. The correct figures 

 are: 



Pure caoutchouc 88 per cent. 



Resin 7 per cent. 



Moisture 5 per cent. 



Total 100 per cent. 



GOOD EXERCISE FOR "CATS PAW" HEELS. 



Charles A. King, who started from Port Arthur, Manchuria, 

 in 1905, to walk around the world, and in so doing covered 56,000 

 miles, left Montreal on October 29, 1909, to walk to Vancouver 



over the Canadian Pacific railway tracks, a distance of 2,896 

 miles, on "Cats Paw" rubber heels, made by Foster Rubber Co. 

 (Boston). He expected to make the entire distance on this one 

 pair of heels. Mr. King carries samples of the heels and 

 makes sales in each town that he visits. 



LEATHER BELTING TRADE. 



The annual meeting of the Leather Belting Manufacturers' 

 Association was held at the Hotel Astor, in New York, on No- 

 vember 17, 1909, with a full attendance. Subjects of general 

 interest were taken up relating to freight classification of leather 

 belting, the deep waterways of the Atlantic seaboard, and the 

 credit bureau. A general discussion of matters affecting business 

 affairs was held. The officers for the ensuing year are as 

 follows : 



President. Charles T. Page, president ; F. A. M. Burrell and 

 Milton H. Cook, vice presidents ; George H. Blake, secretary and 

 treasurer. There was a luncheon at the Hotel Astor. 



A NEW FIRM IN CRUDE RUBBER. 



Mr. Robert Badenhop, who has just begun business on his 

 own account in New York, as a broker and importer of crude 

 india-rubber, gutta-percha, and balata, has had a business career 

 which has given him a good knowledge of this trade, having 

 been connected with rubber houses for the past eight years in 

 London, Hamburg, and New York. He has lately returned 

 from Europe, where he formed important connections. In his 

 imports the new business will be backed by the important dry 

 goods firm of Fred Vietor & Achelis, at No. 66 Leonard street, 

 at which address the office of Badenhop will be located. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The fee paid by The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), for 

 filing with the secretary of state a certificate of increase of 

 capital stock to $10,000,000, was $5,000. 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Co. are driving artesian wells with 

 a view to providing an independent water supply for their factory 

 at Maiden, Massachusetts. 



The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. are reported as having protested 

 against an increase in the assessed valuation of their real estate 

 at Maiden, for taxation purposes, from $365,800 to $573,400. 



Mr. E. R. Barton, general manager of the Dove Machine Co. 

 (Lawrence, Massachusetts), who is doing an excellent business 

 with the rubber trade in special machinery and molds, was a 

 recent caller at the offices of The India Rubber World. 



Edward J. Kane, No. 50 Ann street, New York, specializes in 

 the purchase and sale of condemned fire hose, in which, during 

 twenty-five years, he has built up a large business. 



With a view to improving the fire protection system of Mor- 

 risville, Pennsylvania, The Vulcanized Rubber Co., whose fac 

 tory is located there, have donated to public use a tall steel 

 tower — used by them formerly as a water tower — upon which 

 to mount a fire alarm bell which can be heard throughout the 

 town. 



The Strong Machinery and Supply Co. (No. 48 Franklin street. 

 New York), manufacturers of and dealers in packings, are sell- 

 ing agents for the United States of the Harburger Gummi- 

 Kamm Co. 



Both of the Wright brothers and Glenn H. Curtiss have been 

 invited to the Aeronautic Symposium that the Rubber Club of 

 America are holding on December 13 at the Algonquin Club, in 

 Boston. It is not certain that they can be present, but the 

 brilliant array of speakers that have already accepted and the 

 moving pictures of aeroplanes in flight assure an entertainment 

 of unusual interest, covering a subject that is to-day uppermost 

 in all minds. 



