February i, 1904.] 



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Then follows the details of the bidding on a number of arti- 

 cles, showing that the awards were made regularly to one indi- 

 vidual, although lower bids were made by several leading 

 Philadelphia houses in the rubber goods trade. For fire and 

 suction hose there was only one bidder — the agent for the brands 

 specified. A table is given of other items — garden hose, steam 

 packing, etc., for the department of public safety — where awards 

 were made at an average of 71 per cent, over the lowest bids, 

 and in a second table the average over the lowest bid was 95 

 per cent. It is intimated that under the new conditions which 

 now prevail, wider competition will be permitted. 



ANCHOR TIRE AND RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 The company have found it necessary to increase their capi- 

 tal stock from $125,000 to $225,000, in order to purchase out- 

 right the real estate, buildings, and machines embraced in their 

 plant at Setauket, Long Island. The company are just bringir.g 

 their factory equipment to completion. They are adopting new 

 machinery constructed for wrapping the insulation under the 

 new process. The first and second insulation are in contrasting 

 colors, enabling the operator to observe the application and de- 

 tect any imperfections that may occur. The wrapping method 

 is much more perfect and gives a better insulation than the 

 tubing process, as the first and second insulation follow each 

 other, and the output is fully double the tubing method, and 

 much more uniform and reliable. The company will be pleased 

 to correspond with the trade regarding their wire product. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



U. S. Agency of the Michelin Tire Co., January 23, 1904, 

 under New York laws; capital, $30,000. Incorporators: Norris 

 N. Mason, J. N. Marshall, J. J. Ackenman, all of New York 

 city. Office, No. 132 West Twenty-seventh street, New York. 



= The Reliance Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), January 13, 1904, 

 under Ohio laws; capital $150,000. Incorporators: William 

 Bailey, Wilber S. Bailey, George B. Spencer, W. J. Ellis, and 

 W. J. Hart. It is understood that the company will establish a 

 factory at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Indianapolis (Indiana) Rubber Co. are now devoting 

 their factory almost exclusively to the manufacture of the 

 " G & J " tires. They continue, however, to supply some cus- 

 tomers of long standing with certain special lines of rubber 

 goods, their trade in pump valves, for example, still remaining 

 extensive. 



= The New York-Broadway Rubber Tire Co. is the name 

 under which the distribution of tires will be conducted in the 

 New York district in the future by the Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubber Co., with offices at No. 253 West Forty-seventh street, 

 New York, and No. 131 1 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. The of- 

 fice at No. 127 Duane street, New York, will not longer be 

 maintained. 



=Messrs. James Boyd & Co., dealers in mechanical rubber 

 goods, No. 14 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, as usual have 

 distributed to their friends in the trade a calendar for the year, 

 arranged with spaces for daily memoranda, one leaf for each 

 week. There are also facts and figures of use for permanent 

 reference. 



«:The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Conn.) 

 have taken on the manufacture of tennis shoes, and are market- 

 ing a line branded " Reliance." 



= The Sweet Tire and Rubber Co. (Batavia, New York) are 

 mentioned as having made a recent shipment of a carload of 

 their carriage tires to one customer. The Sweet rubber tire 

 machine is also in good demand. 



= The Diamond Rubber Co.'s Cincinnati office has been re- 

 moved from No. 2103 South street to No. 1559 Gest street. 



= The result of the sale of the property of the American 

 Tubing and Webbing Co. (Providence, Rhode Island) was re- 

 ported in the last issue of this Journal. As a result of the diffi- 

 culties with which the receivers of the company have had to 

 contend in adjusting the claims of creditors, a decree was 

 entered on January 15, by the Rhode Island supreme court, 

 making C. Frank Parkhurst master of chancery for considera- 

 tion of the various claims. 



=The Merchants Rubber Co.— William Morse, president — 

 jobbers of rubber footwear and clothing, long established at 

 No. 72 Reade street, New York, announce that after April 1 

 their address will be at No. 139 Duane street. 



= Mr. Frank D. Voorhees, son of President Voorhees, of the 

 Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City), will be con- 

 nected hereafter with the New York branch of the company, 

 at No. 150 Nassau street, dividing his time between that office 

 and the factory. 



= The Stamford Rubber Supply Co. (Stamford, Connecticut) 

 are thoroughly remodeling their plant, besides the erection of 

 a two story office building adjoining their main factory. The 

 alterations will greatly facilitate the handling of the company's 

 business, in a manner more satisfactory even than hitherto. 



= The Froehlich Rubber Refining Co. (Philadelphia), the 

 incorporation of which was reported in The India Rubber 

 World July 1, 1903, on January 22 made a general assignment 

 for the benefit of creditors, to the Equitable Trust Co. The 

 deed of assignment was signed by Morris Froehlich, president, 

 and attested to by Katherine Stier, secretary. 



=The annual meeting of the shareholders of the American 

 Hard Rubber Co. will be held at the office, Nos. 9-13 Mercer 

 street, New York, on Tuesday, February 9, at 3 o'clock P. M. 



= The Mexican Herald mentions the presence in the City of 

 Mexico of a Mr. Green, traveling for a Boston rubber manufac- 

 turing company, who has been making trips out of that city 

 into various parts of the republic. 



= A young woman employed as cashier in the New York 

 downtown branch of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., was ar- 

 rested recently on a charge of having been a defaulter to a con- 

 siderable amount. Manager R. P. Parker told the magistrate 

 that he felt sure that the prisoner had been of good character, 

 and had fallen under bad influences. The magistrate remarked, 

 as he released the prisoner, that he thought the exposure and 

 consequent suffering to her family had been punishment 

 enough. 



=The annual Sportsmen's Show this year at Madison Square 

 Garden, New York, will be held from February 19 to March 5. 

 It is probable that quite a display of bicycles will be made, to- 

 gether with other goods involving a greater or less use of rub- 

 ber. 



= Harry H. Shepard, manager of the National India Rubber 

 Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), and Frank Fish, foreman of the 

 hosemaking department, have been granted a patent on the 

 manufacture of hose. It consists in bringing the ends of two 

 separately vulcanized hose sections together upon a mandrel 

 extending into the end of each, then applying a splicing strip 

 overlapping both said ends, and subsequently vulcanizing said 

 splice and expelling the mandrel by fluid pressure. 



= The factory at Chiltonville, Massachusetts, formerly oper- 

 ated by the Colonial Rubber Co., and now used by a Boston 

 mechanical goods concern as a rubber reclaiming plant, was 

 damaged by fire on January 16, to an extent reported at $15,000 

 The loss was covered by insurance. The principal structure 

 was saved. 



