April 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



357 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson, editor of The India Rubber World, 

 who lias passed the last four months in the tropics — particularly 

 in Barbados, Trinidad and the coast section of Venezuela, devot- 

 ing a great deal of time to the consideration of the rubber grow- 

 ing problem in those sections — embarked for home on March 25, 

 and is expected in New York, April 13. 



Elon Huntington Hooker, of 512 Fifth avenue, president of 

 the Hooker Electrochemical Co., 40 Wall street, has been 

 appointed treasurer of the Roosevelt Campaign Committee of 

 New York City. 



Gray Staunton has resigned froin the Vulcanized Products 



Co., Mnskegon, }ilichigan, formerly known as the Staunton 



Dielectrite Rubber Co., and is connected with that company 

 now only as a stockholder. 



AMERICAN GOODS IN HOLLAND. 



Mr. J. Polack Grodel, of the "Amcrikaansche Handelmaats- 

 chappij," which being interpreted, means American Mercantile 

 Co., Amsterdam, Holland, has been making a flying visit to 

 various parts of the United States, including New York, Chi- 

 cago and Ohio points. 



He arrived on the Ryiidaiii ^larcli 5. and returned on the 

 George Washington March 23. Mr. Grodel was in this coun- 

 try about 35^2 years ago, and since that time has been acting 

 as representative in Holland and Belgium for several Amer- 

 ican rubber concerns, including the Goodyear India Rubber Sell- 

 ing Co., New York ; Davidson Rubber Co., Boston, Massachu- 

 setts, and Davol Rubber Co., Providence, Rhode Island. Dur- 

 ing his recent visit he secured the representation for the same 

 territory for the Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Before Mr. Grodel arranged with these companies to market 

 their goods, no American druggists' sundries were sold in either 

 Holland or Belgium — the German goods having that entire mar- 

 ket. He has been very successful in introducing American 

 goods — hot water bottles and fountain syringes, being in par- 

 ticular deinand. These goods are more attractive than the Ger- 

 man goods which they have displaced, and his customers have 

 now discovered that they also have the very desirable feature of 

 quality. Incidentally, it might be said that Mr. Grodel has such 

 complete faith in American products that he married a Chicago 

 girl. 



TIRE MAKERS LIKE THESE RIVETS. 



The rivets made by the Dubied Machinery Co., 45 West Thirty- 

 fourth street. New York, have proved very popular. They are 

 not only used by the Goodrich, Diamond and other prominent 

 American manufacturers of tires, but they are extensively used 

 by European manufacturers, among them the Michelin, Continen- 

 tal, Dunlop and Bergougnan companies. The secret of the suc- 

 cess of these rivets seems to lie in the fact that while the stems 

 are kept soft all through, making it possible to rivet them easily 

 and completely, the heads are absolutely hard all through, giving 

 the maximum of service. 



TRADE MARK PROTECTION. 



For the benefit of those interested respectively in the legal 

 and commercial aspects of trade mark protection, the monthly 

 publications of the United States Trade Mark Association afford 

 comprehensive reports of trade mark decisions and pending 

 litigation. When it is remembered that decisions have often 

 to stand various appeals before acquiring binding force, the 

 value of the "Trade Mark Reporter" and the "Bulletin of the 

 United States Trade Mark Association" will be recognized by 

 those desirous of following them up through their various 

 stages of litigation. 



NEW JERSEY RUBBER INDUSTRIES. 

 (^RL'BIiER GOOnS IlAr-LH .VXD SOFT.) 



190cS 1909 1910 



Number of establishments. . 43 48 51 



Capital invested $20,331,839 $25,633,889 $28,902,913 



Value of stock used $15,852,257 $19,049,186 $23,647,377 



Wages paid 3,461 ,070 3,800,066 4,356,028 



Value of goods made 24.494,363 30,616,077 34,733,592 



Average proportion of busi- 

 ness done to capacity.... 67.67% 77.39% 77.80% 



Average number employed. 6,641 7,450 8,459 

 Average yearly earnings per 



employee $521 $^10 $515 



Average number of days in 



operation 275 283 284 



Average number of hours 



per week ^' 58 57 



Factories working overtime 9 14 17 



Total hours of overtime 127 163 187 



Horsepower used 23.283 24,301 24,674 



RUBBER STAMPS IN MANILA. 



A recent issue of a Baltimore daily contains an interesting 

 story of one Jacob Baunigarten, who, for many years, has 

 been in the engraving and rubber stamp business in that 

 city, but who is now well on his way to the Philippines — hav- 

 ing sailed from San Francisco some three weeks ago— for 

 the purpose of starting a rubber stamp factory and engrav- 

 ing plant in Manila. His attention was attracted to this 

 field of operation by a retired United States naval officer, 

 who will be interested with him in this new undertaking. 

 There ought certainly to be sufficient field in Manila for a 

 rubber stamp and engraving plant. The rubber stamp is a 

 good index of the commercial progress of any community, 

 and Manila, with a rubber stamp factory in her midst, may 

 now properly take her place among the commercial centers 

 of the earth. 



TIRE REPAIRING AS A MUSCLE MAKER. 



The superintendent of a tire factory a month or so ago came 

 out with the statement that tire making was quite as conducive 

 to the promotion of muscle as a course in a gymnasium, and 

 cited, by way of illustration, a number of strong men he had in 

 his force, who had become strong men since taking up the work 

 of tire making. Tire repairing seems to be just as conducive to 



Tire Rep.mring Arm. 

 muscle building as the making of tires, as may be seen by the 

 accompanying illustration, which looks like a cross section of 

 Sandow. This, however, is a partial photograph of J. Abrahams, 

 of Freehold, New Jersey, who has been repairing tires for a 

 number of years, and owes that formidable muscular formation 

 to this occupation. He was formerly connected with the Dow 

 Tire Co., and, incidentally, he utilizes some of his time in equip- 

 ping and systematizing rubber tire repair departments. 



