September 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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and distinguished corps, which in 1896 sent a delegation to this 

 country, and seven years later extended such unbounded hos- 

 pitality to the Honourable Artillery Company on the occasion of 

 their memorable visit to Boston." 



The Massachusetts warriors made such an impression in 

 London and on the Continent, and so much was said about them 

 that, when they returned to their home city, early in August, 

 the entire population of Boston turned out and received them 

 like victors home from a triumphant tour of conquest. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Walter Fischer, M. A., formerly with the United States 

 Departmeiit of Agriculture, and more recently Director of 

 the Para Agricultural Experiment Station, is now visiting the 

 United States, his address being Vienna, Virginia. He has 

 acted as consulting expert and technical adviser for many 

 rubber and other plantations in North Brazil, and is con- 

 sidered an authority on plantation matters in that part of 

 the world. 



Speculation is already rife regarding the selection of a 

 United States senator from Rhode Island, to succeed Senator 

 Wetmore, who will retire at the end of his present term. 

 Judge Le Baron Colt, brother of Colonel S. P. Colt, presi- 

 dent of the United States Rubber Co., is most prominently 

 mentioned for that position. 



F. O. Nelson, manager of the Los Angeles branch of the 

 Diamond Rubber Co., of New York, has resigned after eleven 

 years of service with the company to enter business for 

 himself. W. J. Colt, manager of the Diamond Spokane 

 branch, has been given charge of the Los Angeles branch, 

 which is now one of the largest Diamond branches in the 

 west. 



A. H. Marks, the vice-president of The B. F, Goodrich Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis 

 at a hospital in Cleveland. The operation was eminently suc- 

 cessful, and Mr. Marks' recovery very rapid. 



Miss Helen Roebling, daughter of Charles A. RoeWing, of the 

 John A. Roebling's Sons Co., Trenton, New Jersey, will be mar- 

 ried on October 16, to Carroll Sergeant Tyson, of Philadelphia. 



EUBBEE MEN ON THEIE VACATION. 



The various officials connected with the United States Rub- 

 ber Co. devoted most of August to purposes of relaxation, 

 and some of them have not yet returned to the grind of office 

 cares. 



Col. Samuel P. Colt, president of the company, is expected 

 home from Europe on September 3. 



Samuel Norris, the secretary, sailed on August 17 for a 

 European trip. 



H. E. Sawyer, the general manager, spent his vacation, as 

 usual, at Bretton Woods, in the White Mountains. 



E. R. Rice, the manager of sales, has been in Europe for a 

 number of weeks, and is not expected home until the 23rd of 

 September. 



H. B. Hubbard, the auditor, devoted the first three weeks of 

 August to touring in hi.? new car through interesting parts of 

 New England ; and John D. Carberry, assistant secretary, spent 

 the greater part of his vacation in the same way, covering 

 points of interest in northern New York and Vermont. 



James B. Ford, the treasurer and first vice-president, is cruis- 

 ing on his schooner yacht "Katrina" with a party of friends. 



Lester Leland, second vice-president, has also taken to yacht- 

 ing and has spent most of the summer in a yacht which he 

 chartered early in the season. 



W. S. Ballou, a member of the executive committee and presi- 

 dent of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., has rusticated chiefly among 

 the New England mountains. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The directors of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. have 

 declared a quarterly dividend of two dollars and a half ($2.50) 

 per share on the common stock, payable September 16, 1912, to 

 stockholders of record September 5, 1912. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has opened a branch at 

 Bedford Avenue and Hancock Street, Brooklyn, New York, with 

 W. G. Bedford, as manager. 



The Swinehart Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has declared a quar- 

 terly dividend of IH per cent, on its capital stock. This is a 

 reduction of Vz per cent, for the quarter, the rate being reduced 

 from 8 per cent, to 6 per cent, per annum. 



The Household Rubber Co. store in Youngstown. Ohio, has 

 been purchased by the Auto & Cycle Supply Co. 



The Indianapolis Fire Department is using, on its hook and 

 ladder trucks some of the large sized "Nobby tread" tire.= 

 8 x 38, made by the United States Tire Co. A number of the 

 sightseeing wagons in the large eastern cities are also using 

 these tires. 



The Walpole Rubber Co., which has recently started to 

 operate a second plant at Foxboro, Massachusetts, has pur- 

 chased 18 acres of land not far from the factory, on which 

 the company intends to build homes for its employes. 



The general executive offices of the United States Rubber 

 Company have been moved to the company's new building at 

 1784 Broadway, at the corner of Fifty-eighth street, but the 

 transfer offices will remain for the present at 42 Broadway. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. has notified its employes that it has 

 provided for accidents to employes as required under a recent 

 amendment to the Massachusetts law. The notice is as follows : 

 "All persons under contract or hire with the Fisk Rubber Co. 

 are hereby notified that the Fisk Rubber Co. has provided for 

 payment to injured employes of the compensation provided for 

 by Chapter 751 of the Acts of 1911, and all acts in addition 

 thereto and amendments thereof." 



The well-known tire men, H. E. Field, president of the 

 Thomas B. Jeffery Co., and C. F. U. Kelly, have joined to 

 form a new company called the Kelly-Field Co., which will 

 liandle the output of tires manufactured by the Lee Tire and 

 Rubber Co., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The company has 

 opened a New York office in the Buick Building, 1737 Broadway. 



The Tanney Rubber Co., Ill West Seventeenth street. New 

 York, is engaged in the manufacture of raincoats, and rubber 



goods for plumbers. 



WHERE "ALBA" WHITING EXCELS. 



The Industrial Chemical Co., 200 Fifth avenue, New York, 

 has been very successful with its "Alba" whiting, as it is now 

 used by some of the largest rubber companies in the country. 

 This whiting has three distinguishing qualities — its superior 

 whiteness, its exceptional fineness, and the fact that it is neu- 

 tral, and is so guaranteed by the company. Because of its 

 unusual whiteness it is used by some manufacturers as a sub- 

 stitute for expensive zinc in the making of white tubing, jar 

 rings and other white goods. The same company sells a 

 lamp black which tests as high as 97 per cent, in carbon. 



BISULPHIDE OF CARBON FROM EUROPE. 



Owing to the fact that bisulphide of carbon is exceedingly in- 

 flammable, it was not possible, up to quite recently, to get a 

 freight rate on it ; but Mr. Bamberger, American manager for 

 Meyer Cohn, of Hanover, Germany, announces that he is now 

 in a position to import this product. As this article is quite 

 scarce in this country many rubber manufacturers will doubtless 

 be glad to get this information. 



