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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, mio. 



Chase, manager of the firm, says of trade conditions that from 

 their point of view conditions arc very favorable. 



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C. E. Mathewson, Pacific coast manager for the Diamond 

 Rubber Co., left recently for New York to attend the auto- 

 mobile shows, and before returning will spend a little time at 

 Akron. For the year of [909 this firm has fared well on the 

 coast, according to returns shown by Mr. Mathewson, by D. E. 

 Hughes, the agent at Seattle, and by the Los Angeles agent. 



As a result of contributions given from the various rubber 

 houses of this city, "Bobby" Brightsman is now in the sunny, 

 hardy climate of Arizona, with plenty of money to stay as long 

 as he likes and recuperate bis health. Mr. Brightsman was 

 formerly with the Goodyear Rubber Co. 



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Mr. L. L. Torrey reports an active business for the Pennsyl- 

 vania Rubber Co. Mr. J. H. Reed has been appointed to act as 

 manager for the branch just established at Los Angeles. Mr. 



Reed was one of the partners of Coombs & Reed, formerly 

 selling agents of the company at Los Angeles. The new estab- 

 lishment is located at Xo. 930 South Main street. 



Mr. A. Leonard, manager of the \V. D. Newerf Rubber Co., 

 local distributor of the Goodyear tires, reports an exceptional 

 record for the past year in automobile tires. He believes that 

 the coming year will be better still. 



Reports from Honolulu indicate that the rubber business there 

 is in a very flourishing condition, as shown by the reports at the 

 annual meeting of the Hawaiian Rubber Growers' Association, 

 held in December. 



Captain F. H. Gerry, who has been appointed mining repre- 

 sentative of the Revere Rubber Co., with offices at their new 

 store, Xo. 543 Market street, has charge of their trade in the 

 mining country in the western parts of the United States, 

 Mexico, and Canada, and also in Alaska. He was some time 

 branch manager at Baltimore, Maryland, for the Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co. 



The New Rubber Chemical Section. 



AT the recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, 

 held in Boston, during the closing meeting of last year, 

 an action was taken which will undoubtedly prove of 

 great interest to the rubber industry. In the first place, a Rubber 

 Section was organized. The organization of this section brought 

 out the fact that there was ample room and a great desire for 

 such an organization, as the discussions which took place during 

 the two sessions of the section were extremely lively. 



At the organization of this section Mr. Charles C. Goodrich, 

 of New York and Akron, was elected president, and Dr. Frede- 

 rick J. Maywald was elected secretary. The section also ap- 

 pointed a committee, consisting of Dr. Charles Knight, of Buch- 

 tel College, Akron, Ohio ; Edward A. Barrier, of the Factory 

 Mutual Laboratories, Boston, Mass. ; Frederick J. Maywald, of 

 New York ; Milton E. McDonald, of the chemical staff of the 

 Pennsylvania railroad; William G. Hill, of the American Rubber 

 Co., East Cambridge, Mass. ; Sheldon P. Thatcher, of the Peer- 



less Rubber Manufacturing Co., X T ew Durham, N. J. ; W. C. 

 Geer, of The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio ; Mr. 

 Oelschlaeger, of The Diamond Rubber Co., Akron Ohio; and 

 Harvey M. Eddy, of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., 

 to take up the question of working out a standard method for the 

 examination, both chemical and physical, of manufactured and 

 crude rubber. 



This committee will first take up the question of the examina- 

 tion of compounded rubber, and then, in due time, the methods of 

 examination of other rubbers. The first step the committee Will 

 take along the line of the examination of compounded rubber will 

 be to ask the various rubber manufacturers to send to the com- 

 mittee — condently, or anonymously if they wish — the methods of 

 analysis and examination which are in use at their laboratories. 

 These various methods will then be discussed by the committee, 

 and from the information so obtained, the methods of analysis 

 and examination which appear to be most generally used will be 

 laid out by the committee, and these proposed methods will then 

 be tested out practically on standard samples by the committee 

 itself. When the committee is reasonably satisfied that the 

 proper methods have been obtained, samples will be sent to other 



Dr. Charles Knight. 



[Chairman of Committee to Organize Standard Methods 

 Analysis.] 



if Rubber 



Frederick J. Maywald, F. C. S. 



[Secretary of the Rubber Section ->f the American Chemical Society.! 



