October 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



45 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company (Boston, 

 Massachusetts) paid its regular quarterly dividend of $2.50 per 

 share on September 15. 



The Diamond Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) has been 

 granted permits for two additional buildings, one large build- 

 ing 114 X 185 feet to be used as a calender room, and the other, 

 a smaller structure. 40 x 180 feet two stories high, to be used 

 for a mill room ; both plants to be built of brick and steel. 



The Cross & Brown Co. has been appointed agent for the 

 United States Rubber Company building, which is being erected 

 at the southeast corner of Broadway and Fifty-eighth street. 

 New Y.jrk. 



Four new directors — John R. JMorron, Charles A. Corliss, 

 Joseph T. Talbert and I. V. McGlone were elected to the board 

 of the Intercontinental Rubber Company on August 16. 



The plant of The Derby Rubber Company (Derby, Connecti- 

 cut) was closed down in August for extensive repairs and im- 

 provements. Eight new washers were installed, practically 

 doubling the company's washing capacity, and new conveyors 

 and elevators have also materially increased the capacity of the 

 plant. The factory was reopened early in September with con- 

 siderably enlarged facilities. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. has recently erected a fine build- 

 ing in Houston Texas, especially adapted for the carrying of 

 a large stock of all the .rubber goods manufactured by them. 

 The Houston store will have probably as large a stock 

 of tires and mechanical rubber goods as is carried any- 

 where in the southwest. 



George Westinghouse, who has an air-spring device to supplant 

 rubber tires, is also reported to be negotiating for the purchase of 

 a manufacturing site in New York State, when 6,000 men will be 

 employed in manufacturing the new invention. 



The \\'ilson-Goucher Company has opened an automobile tire 

 salesroom in Washington, District of Columbia, at 1705 Four- 

 teenth street. Diamond tires will form the chief stock in trade. 



The B. & R. Rubber Company, North Brookfield, Massachusetts, 

 are making notable additions to their plant. The mill room, for 

 example, lias been increased by nearly 4,000 square feet. The com- 

 pany are also adding a 500-h.p. engine, three 150-h.p. boilers, sev- 

 eral mi.\ing mills and refiners, IS hydraulic presses for the 

 manufacture of rubber mats, matting and general molded goods. 

 They are also adding two large tubing machines, 10 jar ring 

 cutting lathes and several vulcanizers. 



The National Rubber Company, Bristol, R. I., is particularly 

 busy in its insulated cable and druggists' sundries departments. 

 In the latter department, the work is carried on throughout the 

 whole 24 hours. 



The report was recently bruited around Wall Street that the 

 Intercontinental Rubber Company was suflfering from an over- 

 production of Guayule rubber. At the company's office, how- 

 ever, this was denied. It was further said that the employees of 

 the company, who had recently been out on a strike, had re- 

 turned to work and that the mills are being operated at their 

 full capacity. 



It is estimated that 90 per cent, of the world's supply of as- 

 bestos is taken from the Sherbrooke district, Ontario. 



The American Asphalt and Rubber Company, which recently 

 secured a contract for paving certain streets in Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, has been obliged to suspend work, because of an in- 

 junction obtained against them by Warren Brothers, on the 

 ground of infringement. 



The United States Tire Company has recently opened branches 

 in Portland, Seattle, Fresno, Los Angeles, Denver and Salt Lake 

 City. 



Tliomas Taylor & Son, of Hudson, Massachusetts, manufac- 

 turers of elastic webbing, expect to build an addition to their 

 factory. 18 X 45 feet, and 4 stories high. 



PERSONAI. MENTION. 



Henry Hornblower, of Hornblower & Weeks, of Boston, a 



director in the Converse Rubber Shoe Co., was elected, on 



September 25, to the office of president of the Boston Stock 

 Exchange. 



A. Staines Manders, who has been the organization manager 



A. Staines M.anders. 



of the successful international rubber exhibitions that have been 

 held in London, is now in New York with a view to ascertaining 

 the feasibility of holding a rubber exhibition in this country. 



B. G. Work, president of the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 sailed for Europe September 28. 



Jose Simao Da Costa, of the Alves Braga Rubber Estates and 

 Trading Co.. Para, rcceutlv arrived in New York. 



Jo.SE Sl.\I.\iJ U.\ Cu5T.\. 



Luke S. Stowe, treasurer of the Easthampton Rubber Thread 

 Company (Easthampton, j\Iassachusetts), is a very strong can- 

 didate for the republican nomination for the state senate from 

 his district. Mr. Stowe was president of the Easthampton Rub- 

 ber Thread Company for 10 years, from 1897 to 1907, and has 

 been a director of that company since 1891. 



