June i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



327 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



GENERAL RUBBER CO. 



AT the annual meeting of the General Rubber Co., at the 

 registered offices in Newark, New Jersey, on May 19, 

 Edgar B. Davis was elected to the vacancy on the board 

 caused by the resignation of John J. Watson, Jr. Three ad- 

 ditional positions on the board were created and filled by the 

 election respectively of E. C. Benedict, Ernest Hopkinson, and 

 H. Stuart Hotchkiss. On the next day, in New York, the board 

 elected officers as follows : 



President. — Lester Leland. (To succeed John J. Watson, Tr.) 



Vice President. — William F. Bass. (To succeed Lester Leland.) 



Second Vice President. — Edgar B. Davis. (To succeed William F. Bass.) 



Treasurer. — W. H. Blackwell. (To succeed Thomas H. Lee.) 



Secretary. — Samuel Norris. 



Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary. — John D. Carberry. 



Executive Committee. — Lester Leland, William F. Bass, Samuel P. Colt, 



Anthony N. Brady, Elisha S. Williams, Homer E. Sawyer, and Ei-iest 



Hopkinson. 



At a special meeting of stockholders, held on May 20, D. Lome 

 McGibbon, of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, 

 was elected an additional director. 



TYER RUBBER 00. STILL GROWING. 



The Tyer Rubber Co. have purchased a tract of land nearly 

 rive acres in extent on Railroad street, Andover, Massachusetts — 

 a tract admirably adapted for carrying out plans which the Tyer 

 company have under way for constructing an entirely new fac- 

 tory. The first building will be erected this year and will be one 

 of a group planned to make within the next two years one of the 

 best equipped rubber factories in existence. This choice of a 

 new location, involving the ultimate abandonment of the Tyer 

 plant, has been made necessary by the fact that further growth 

 on the present site is practically impossible. Within a very few 

 years the Tyer company have erected a new plant complete in all 

 its details, but meanwhile the business of the company has been 

 practically doubled, the annual volume being now stated to be 

 more than $1,750,000. 



FIRE FOLLOWED BY NEW GROWTH. 



A fire broke out in one of the storehouses of the Safety In- 

 sulated Wire and Cable Co., at Bayonne, New Jersey, on April 12. 

 Fortunately it was kept under control and extinguished by the 

 company s fire protection service. While the loss was not large, 

 it necessitated considerable repair work, and as the companv 

 were in need of more room it was decided, instead of repairing, 

 to erect instead a new building. In the place of the damaged 

 structure, therefore, will be erected a one-story reinforced con- 

 crete building 182 x 45 feet, with a roof of sawtooth design, in 

 two sections of corrugated iron. Adjoining this building is the 

 company's waxing department, in a building where coils of rubber 

 covered insulated wire are finished, ready for electrical testing. 

 A part of the testing department equipment will therefore be 

 transferred to the new building, which will be provided with 

 tanks for soaking, and with two 5 ton electric cranes traveling 

 on opposite sides, for handling heavy coils. The company have 

 under construction also an addition to their blacksmith shop for 

 pipe fitters' use, and a vault for storing office records, both of 

 reinforced concrete. 



WALPOLE RUBBER CO. EXPANDING. 



The consolidation is announced of a number of important 

 businesses, under the name of Walpole Rubber Co., at Wal- 

 pole, Massachusetts. There are included the Massachusetts 

 Chemical Co., doing a successful business since 1S91 ; the Wal- 

 pole Varnish Works, and the Walpole Shoe Supply Co. ; the 

 Valveless Inner Tube Co., of New York; and the Walpole Rub- 

 ber Co., Limited, of Granby, Quebec The company is capitalized 

 at $3,000,000. divided equally between 7 per cent, cumulative pre- 



ferred, and common stock. The company now have outstanding 

 $450,000 of preferred stock, and a new issue of $500,000 has 

 been underwritten. 



The Walpole works are large makers of friction and rubber 

 tapes, having now important contracts with the General Electric 

 Co. The production of rubber heels is also very large, including 

 a contract with the Foster Rubber Co. The company is oper- 

 ating the Gleason fusible core process for water bottles, pneu- 

 matic tires, and the like, and this process is to be applied to the 

 making of the valveless inner tubes [see The India Rubber 

 World, April 1, 1910, page 255]. The company's reclaiming 

 plant, it is reported, will be largely extended. The board of 

 the Walpole Rubber Co. is composed of men of prominence in 

 important branches of business, in Boston and other leading 

 cities, including Mr. S. H. C. Miner, a Canadian capitalist who is 

 interested particularly 111 the rubber manufacture. 



NORTH BRITISH RUBBER CO. IN CANADA. 



Mention was made in the last issue of this journal of the 

 establishment of a Canadian branch of the North British Rubber 

 Co., Limited (Edinburgh, Scotland), at Toronto. Notice is 

 hereby given of the authorization in the province of Ontario for 

 this corporation to carry on there the manufacture and sale of 

 rubber goods, the capitalization under this license not to exceed 

 $40,000. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



William Seward, Jr., who has been representing the Federal 

 Rubber Co. in Chicago, has resigned this connection to become 

 factory manager of the Kelly-Racine Rubber Co., recently or- 

 ganized by C. F. U. Kelly to manufacture tires at Racine, Wis- 

 consin, as reported in the last issue of this paper. 



The Federal Rubber Co. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), on May 20 

 opened a branch in Atlanta, Georgia, at No. 170 Peachtree street, 

 where they carry a full line of automobile and solid rubber 

 tires as well as their miscellaneous molded goods. The Atlanta 

 branch is in charge of Mr. G. M. Seewald, late of the Alexander 

 Seewald Co., and who for ten years was the local representative 

 of Morgan & Wright. 



Picher Lead Co., in view of their growing business in sublimed 

 white and blue leads, litharge and other rubber factory sup- 

 plies, have opened a warehouse in Cincinnati, at Second and 

 Smith streets, and in San Francisco at No. 585 Mission street. 



The G & J Tire Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana) announce that 

 from May 1 the address of their New York branch will be at 

 No. 1924 Broadway, where they have more commodious premises 

 than hitherto in New York. Mr. Marcus Allen, a gentleman of 

 wide experience in the tire business, has accepted the appoint- 

 ment as manager of the company's New York branch. 



Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey), a corporation 

 of New Jersey, in which state their capital is $450,000, have 

 taken out a license to do business in Missouri, under the corpora- 

 tion laws of that state, as a foreign corporation, with headquar- 

 ters at Kansas City. Their capital in Missouri is $10,000. 



A new waterproof material for covering blasting fuse has 

 been brought out by J. Fitz Brind, managing director of The 

 Isoloid Fuse Co., Limited (Denver, Colorado), a company long 

 engaged in the fuse trade. The new material, which the in- 

 ventor calls synthite, is referred to as being far less expensive 

 than india-rubber and having greater flexibility than gutta-percha. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), have taken a long 

 lease on property on Race street, Cincinnati, the owners of 

 which will erect a new building especially adapted for the use of 

 the company. An extensive vulcanizing plant will be installed in 

 the building. 



