June i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



IMPERIAL RUBBER CO. (BEACH CITY, OHIO) 



THE Canton Hard Rubber Co. have removed from Canton 

 to Beach City, Ohio, and absorbed the concern known 

 as the Tuscarora Rubber Co., at the latter place. The 

 combined business is to be incorporated as the Impe- 

 rial Rubber Co., with $100,000 capital, and the output is in- 

 tended to embrace a full line of soft rubber goods — surgical 

 supplies, bicycle and carriage tires, matting, tubing, hose, etc. — 

 in addition to rubber covered harness mountings which have 

 been the specialty of the Canton Hard Rubber Co. The lat- 

 ter company was incorporated May 17, 1899. with $50,000 capi- 

 tal. Claude J. Keplinger, secretary and manager, leported 

 reently that the company expected to be at work in the new 

 location by June 1. 



IMPROVEMENTS AT THE CANDEE FACTORY. 

 The rubber shoe factory of the L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, 

 Connecticut) was closed on the last day of March, not only 

 for the annual repairs and stock taking, but to allow of altera- 

 tions and improvements to an important extent. There has 

 recently been installed a 180 HP. General Electric motor to re- 

 place the 150 HP. George H. Corliss engine previously used to 

 drive machinery in the rubber wash cellar and carpenter and 

 machine shops. There have now been installed two Westing- 

 house tandem compound Corliss engines, rated at 1400 HP., with 

 a maximum of about 2700 HP., to replace two George H. Corliss 

 engines of 1 100 rated HP. The entire plant will be run condens- 

 ing instead of noncondensing as heretofore, which has been ac- 

 complished by securing rights to lay 1400 feet of 20 inch pipe 

 to Mill river. To operate a Bulkley injector condenser the 

 company have erected a pumping station opposit their mill on 

 East street, with a Worthington centrifugal pump driven by a 

 65 HP. motor. It is expected that upon completing these plans 

 a material increase of efficiency will be secured. Work has 

 been pushed night and day, and it is hoped to resume manu- 

 facturing about the middle of June. 



TRENTON RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. IN CHICAGO. 

 The Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New 

 Jersey) have removed their Chicago warehouse and offices from 

 No. 20 South Canal street to No. 183 Lake street, making the 

 seventh mechanical rubber goods house on one block. The 

 new store is fitted up in the most improved manner for the 

 accommodation of the large stock of belting, packing, and hose 

 which the company are forced to carry to meet the demands 

 for their increasing business in the West. Mr. F. B. Mcllroy, 

 the manager, who opened the Chicago branch a little more than 

 three years ago, visits personally the trade throughout the 

 West as far as the Pacific coast, and from British Columbia to 

 the City of Mexico. 



NEW RUBBER SUNDRIES FACTORY. 

 The M. Lindsay Rubber Manufacturing Co. have begun the 

 manufacture of the line of rubber sundries which they have 

 been marketing so successfully for a number of years past. 

 The location of their factory is at Broadway and Academy 

 street, Astoria, which is in the borough of Queens, New York 

 city, and is readily reached from the heart of the city by cross- 

 ing the East river at Thirty-fourth street. The offices of the 

 company, maintained formerly at No. 298 Broadway, in Man- 

 hattan, have been transferred to the factory. Among the 

 goods made are the " Agnota " brand of rubber gloves, the 

 company's patented line of nipples, and the "vest pocket 



punching bag." The M. Lindsay Rubber Co. existed for 

 several years as a jobbing house in New York and at Washing- 

 ton. Under the present title the company was incorporated 

 November 27, 1903, under the laws of New York, with §150,000 

 capital. 



NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB COMMITTEES. 



The Executive Committee of the New England Rubber 

 Club have appointed the following committees to which, as 

 members ex officio, should be added the name of the secretary, 

 treasurer, and assistant secretary of the Club : 



Committee on Dinners. — F. H. Jones, chairman ; William Keyes, Ira 

 F. Burnham, Eugene H. Clapp, O. A. Barnard. 



Entertainment Committee. — George H. Mayo, chairman ; E. S. Wil- 

 liams. W. F. Farwell, Edgar E. Fay, R. L. Rice. 



Committee on Resolutions. — Arthur W. Stedman, E. E. Wadbrook, 

 George P. Whitmore. 



Auditing Committee.— George P. Eustis, J. Frank Dunbar. 



Sports Committee. — W. E. Barker, chairman ; F. C. Hood. R. L. 

 Chipman, F. D. Balderston, James H. Learned. 



DAYTON RUBBER CO. (DAYTON, OHIO.) 

 The trade mark adopted for the mechanical rubber prod- 

 ucts of this new company represents the leaf of a rubber tree, 



on which is cut the word " Day- 

 ton," the whole presenting a pleas- 

 ing appearance, especially when 

 the leaf is printed in green. Be- 

 sides, the device is simple, and easily remembered. 



NEW CENTURY RUBBER CO. — CLAIMS SETTLED. 



Norman Grey, of Camden, New Jersey, receiver of the New 

 Century Rubber Co., has mailed checks to creditors for 51 per 

 cent, of their claims, this being the first and final distribution, 

 under the order of the court. The company was incorporated 

 January 7, 1901, to reclaim rubber by a new process, with works 

 at East Burlington, N. J. It was adjudged insolvent August 

 22, 1903, and Mr. Grey appointed receiver. 



NORFOLK RUBBER CO. (BOSTON) ASSIGN. 

 The Norfolk Rubber Co. (No. 91 Bedford street, Boston), 

 manufacturers of mackintoshes and coats, on May 14 made an 

 assignment for the benefit of creditors to Leonard G. Roberts, 

 of Boston. It is stated that the assignment was caused by the 

 dull season and the inability to collect outstanding accounts. 

 The company was incorporated in 1892 under Maine laws, and 

 its capital was reported recently at $15,800. Charles E. Morse 

 is president and William H. Wilder, Jr., treasurer. 



WHERE AN EMPLOYER WAS NOT TO BLAME. 

 The circuit court at Akron, Ohio, has rendered a decision of 

 general importance to rubber manufacturers and their em- 

 ployes. Addison McClurg, an employe of the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co., sued that company in the court of common pleas for 

 .$20,000 for damages for personal injuries received in their 

 plant on February 21, 1901. He alleged that while engaged in 

 mixing rubber in one of the company's mills his left hand was 

 caught in the rollers and mangled so badly as to make amputa- 

 tion necessary. He claimed that the accident was due to the 

 negligence of the company, alleging that he was not familiar 

 with the work and that the foreman had failed to warn him of 

 the danger. He was given a judgment in the common pleas 

 for $3000, but the higher court reversed the decision, holding 



