January i, igic] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Albert, King of the Belgians. 



[Succeeds Leopold II. who died December 17. The new King is a 

 nephew of Leopold, aged 34 years. He lately visited the Belgian Congo, 

 in the development of which he has taken a live interest.] 



CHRISTMAS AT THE "NATIONAL" FACTORY. 



The long established custom of making Christmas presents 

 at the factory and offices of the National India Rubber Co. (Bris- 

 tol, Rhode Island) was observed this season. The salesmen and 

 the treasurer (.Air. Brown) made a present to Le Baron C. Colt, 

 manufacturing agent. The officers and clerks at the factory 

 made a present to Air. Brown. The factory foremen remem- 

 bered Superintendent Cushman. And. generally, the heads of 

 departments were the recipients of gifts from the workers in the 

 departments, while members of the working force who were ill 

 were particularly well remembered by those in charge. 



NEW RUBBER FIRM AT HARTFORD. 



The E. H. Holstein Rubber Co. (Hartford, Connecticut), the 

 incorporation of which is reported in another column, has been 

 formed to conduct a retail rubber goods store. They succeed 

 to the business of the Connecticut Rubber Co., incorporated 

 November 1, igoi. having bought the stock and good will from 

 the receiver. 



ASSIGNMENT OF THE RICKABY COMPANY. 



A general assignment for the benefit of creditors was made 

 on December 21 by the Rickaby Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 (South Framingham, Massachusetts), rubber reclaimers. The 

 firm was organized in the latter part of 1906 by Frank B. Rickaby, 

 who had an extensive acquaintance with the trade, first in crude 

 rubber and later in the reclaiming line. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



An artistic New Year's card from Mr. J. Schnurmann, of 

 London and New York, ornaments the desks of the firm's many 

 customers on both continents. 



Senaca G. Lewis has resigned the position of sales manager 

 of the 'Winchester Repeating Arms Association (New Haven, 

 Connecticut 1 to become general manager of the Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co., the change taking place on February I. 



The Thermoid Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey), hitherto 

 known more especially for its "Thermoid" brake lining, are pre- 

 paring to take on the manufacture of a line of pneumatic tires, 

 to be known by the same trade mark. 



Not the least interesting item in connection with the change 

 of control of the Revere Rubber Co. (Boston), reported in 

 another column, is that it further concentrates the manufacture 

 of pneumatic tires in the United States. The Revere factory 

 make the "Continental" tires sold in this country. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Tin death is announced of Dr. Moritz Greshoff, the distin- 

 guished director of the Colonial Museum at Haarlem, Nether- 

 lands. It occurred in the night of December 7-8, in his forty- 

 eighth year. 



Mr. W. J. Gallagher has been appointed director of agriculture 

 and government mycologist in the Federated Malay States, to 

 succeed Mr. J. B. Carruthers, whose transfer to Trinidad has 

 been reported in this journal. 



Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch, an honorary curator at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, at New York, returned 

 recently from an extended visit to Mexico, in quest of specimens. 

 He was a guest for ten days on Mr. James C. Harvey's rubber 

 plantation, "La Buena Ventura," on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 



An interesting letter of travel dated from Cimiez-Nice, France, 

 in the Medford (Massachusetts) Mercury, is from the facile pen 

 of Mr. Allison M. Stickney, of the Wellman Co., of Medford. 

 Air. Stickney is known to the rubber trade in every country, and 

 his talent for writing to all the readers of The India Rubber 

 World. 



Air. Richard P. Hood, foreign representative of the Hood 

 Rubber Co., with headquarters at 17, rue Richer, Paris, came 

 home to spend Thanksgiving with his brothers, and returned to 

 Europe early in the past month. 



Mr. William Vernon Backus, of Mexico City, where he is an 

 important member of the bar as well as being interested largely in 

 the rubber planting interest, was a recent visitor to the United 

 States. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Apsley Rubber Co. have removed their Boston offices to 

 the Haynes building, No. 146 Summer street. The new premises 

 embrace private offices for President L. D. Apsley and Secretary 

 William B. Laighton, and sample and sales rooms for footwear 

 and waterproof clothing. 



L. J. Mutty Co., rubber goods merchants of Boston, have 

 removed their offices and salesrooms to Nos. 91-93 Federal street. 



The Vaughn-Upton Co., December 10, 1909, was incorporated 

 under the laws of Massachusetts; capital, $50,000. Incorporators: 

 Frank M. Vaughn, Jr. (president), Medford; William F. Cush- 

 man (treasurer), Henry J. Upton (clerk), Boston. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have taken 

 a ten years' lease on premises in Seventh street, Cincinnati, for 

 their branch in that city. The contract calls for a rental of 

 $54,000 for the ten years. 



A. H. Alden & Co., Limited, india-rubber merchants in London, 

 have removed from 39 Mincing lane, to larger premises, Ocean 

 House, 24 and 25 Great Tower street, E. C. 



Felix Dorn, long connected with Hecht, Levis & Kahn, has 

 started in business as C. F. Dorn & Co., general produce brokers, 

 devoting special attention to india-rubber, at Hartley buildings, 

 11 Old Hall street, Liverpool. 



THE THOMPSON TAPPING KNIFE. 



AV/HAT appears to be an exceedingly practical tapping tool is 

 "" the knife shown in the accompanying engraving. It is 

 made wholly of iron, so that it is indestructible. The cutting 

 device is exactly adapted for the grooved cuts that have been 

 found to be most effective and safe. A very simple gage allows 

 of a very effective measuring for the depth of the cut. Two 



The Thompson Tapping Knife. 

 dozen of these knives are already in successful use on "EI En- 

 canto" rubber plantation in Chiapas, Alexico. The inventor of 

 the knife, Mr. George T. Thompson, of Canandaigua, New York, 

 is prepared to fill orders at $2.50 a knife. 



