July 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



487 



E. H. Parrish, foreign representative of the Gorham-Revere 

 Rubber Co., returned last week from China, Japan and the Phil- 

 ippines. He was away for four months on this trip, and his or- 

 ders total up to a sizable ligure. indicating that there is a good 

 rubber market in the Orient. 



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Mr. Halleck, president of the Ohio Rubber Co., is now visiting 

 the trade in San Francisco and stopping at the St. Francis. 

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Mr. French, manager for tlie local branch of the Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co., reports that he has been doing an especially good 

 business on the firm's vacuum-cup tires. He has recently re- 

 turned from a trip to the Northwest, and states that conditions 

 in that territory are very favorable. 



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The O. K. Vulcanizing Co. has been incorporated in Los 

 Angeles, witli a capital stock of $50,000. The original subscribers 

 to the stock are G. P. Hastings, U. B. Pitman and A. H. Jackson. 



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The American Rubber Co., of San Francisco, has organized a 

 baseball team which is clearing up the "bushers" right and left. 

 They do not find opposition enough in rubber circles for their 

 prowess, and consequently have been playing in a league known 

 as the Commercial League. The B. F. Goodrich Co. has or- 

 ganized a baseball team, and there is a promise that more will 

 lie heard of their ability anon. 



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The proposition of the L'nited States Rubber Co. to distribute 

 shares of stock to its employes has been looked upon very 

 favorably on this coast. It is a popular move, and appeals to 

 those employes who can afford to take the matter up as a 

 profitable investment. 



THE CANADIAN ANKLE STHAP RUBBER. 



The ankle strap rubber, as a matter of fact, is very far from 

 being new. It is a full generation old ; but to a great many 

 people, even in the rubber footwear trade, it would constitute a 

 distinct novelty, for it has been little in evidence in the output 

 of American rubber manufacturers for some years past. Cata- 

 logs of twenty years ago will be found to contain illustrations 

 of the ankle-strap rubber. Then the illustrations began to drop 



out and the catalogs and price 

 lists simply had a line under 

 "sandals" and "croquets" say- 

 ing "Ankle straps 10 cents ex- 

 tra." Lately few of the Ameri- 

 can companies have made any 

 mention whatever of ■ these 

 shoes. But the Canadian Rub- 

 ber Co. of Montreal, Limited, 

 advertises and illustrates the 

 a croquet made with an ankle strap which the 

 accompanyiirg cut illustrates. The ankle strap really serves a 

 worthy purpose. It is hardly necessary for city dwellers, but in 

 the country, wliere in the spring and fall the mud is often deep 

 and has a marked pulling effect on a rubber shoe, the ankle strap 

 on a low-cut croquet often saves the shoe from being dislodged. 

 Just why the shoe has lost its early prominence in the American 

 trade is not obvious. Probably, however, the high-cut "storm" 

 rubber, which is fairly proof against mud suction, has, in this 

 country at least, largely taken the place of the former sandal and 

 croquet with the ankle strap. 



A CABINET FOR CRUDE RUBBER SAMPLES. 



The accompanying cut is made from a photograph of a cabinet 

 used by Alexander Macpherson, Toronto, Canada, for keeping 

 samples of crude rubber, so that they can be referred to very 



"RiT.^" Ankle Str.xp Rubber. 

 women's "Rita, 



The fine new store of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.. out 

 on Automoliile Row. is rapidly nearing completion. 



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H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber 

 'Co., whose headquarters are located at the corner of Van Ness 

 avenue and Fulton streets is enthusiastic over the outlook for 

 the future. He believes that there will be an enormous increase 

 in the production of automobiles, and particularly in those for 

 ■commercial purposes, especially in the line of trucks. 



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The Goodman Puncture Proof Tire Co. has recently been in- 

 corporated in Stockton. California. 



SOYA BEAN OIL. 



The rapidity with which soya oil has risen to popularity is 

 hardly more interesting than the possibilities of its employment 

 in the rubber industry and the manufacture of raw materials for 

 the rubber trade. On a recent occasion when Dr. Frederic 

 Dannerth, the rubber chemist, was interviewed at his home in 

 Passaic, New Jersey, he was found busy in an investigation of 

 the oil and in answer to the question as to what he thought of 

 the oil as a compounding ingredient, he said: 



"Soya oil offers immense opportunities for the oil merchant 

 and for the rubber manufacturer, but like many other 'interesting 

 things it is being overlooked by both. The rubber goods manu- 

 facturers do not care to adopt new materials without some knowl- 

 edge of their properties, and the manner of using them. On the 

 other hand the oil merchants and importers have evidenced no 

 desire to demonstrate to the manufacturers the possibilities of 

 this material. 



"It would certainly be very desirable if these two camps would 

 get more clearly to understand the needs of one another." 



Crude Rubber S.\mple Cabinet. 



quickly. The container holds a dozen small boxes, as shown in 

 the cut, and the whole cabinet costs less than $1 — as inexpensive 

 as it is convenient. 



