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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1904. 



=Mr. R. M. Howison, of Howison & Co., London, is now on 

 his annual visit to the States, his address being in care of R. 

 E. Hofer, No. 112 Water street, Boston. Mr. Howison's firm 

 are sole European agents for the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. 

 (Jeannette, Pa.) and a specialty is made of tires and heel pads. 



=The Philadelphia Rubber Works, the extensive rubber re- 

 claiming concern, issue a circular requesting the trade to be 

 exact in writing the name of the company, and to address them 

 at No. 2419 South street, Philadelphia. It is mentioned that 

 another company has a somewhat similar name, and there has 

 been some confusion in the delivery of letters. Later the 

 Philadelphia Rubber Works filed a suit against the other com- 

 pany referred to, the Philadelphia Rubber Co., to have them 

 restrained from doing business under that name in the city. 



=*The Fawkes Rubber Co. (Denver), who are exploiting the 

 Fawkes vehicle tire — now being manufactured for them at 

 Cudahy, Wisconsin — have filed with the secretary of state of 

 Colorado a certificate of increase of capital stock from $50,000 

 to $500,000. 



=The plant of the new Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. (Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island) is reported to be practically complete, 

 and the rubber footwear trade is in expectation of seeing the 

 product of the factory on the market very soon. 



INFRINGEMENT OF A TIRE PATENT ALLEGED. 

 Suit was filed on January 18 in the United States circuit 

 court at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the Rubber Tire Wheel 

 Co. against the Continental Rubber Works, of Erie, Pa., and 

 Theron R. Palmer, Alexander Jarecki, Charles Jarecki, and 

 Charles S. Coleman, directors in the latter company, alleging 

 infringement of a rubber tire patent. An injunction to prevent 

 the defendants from making further use of the patent and dam- 

 ages are asked for. 



THE STREAT PATENT IN COURT AGAIN. 



John C. Webb of Boston brought suit in the United States 

 circuit court in that city against Joseph J. Goldsmith, et al. (the 

 Harvard Rubber Co.), to recover $20,000 damages for alleged 

 infringement of the George Streat patent (No. 260,063 — June 

 27, 1882) relating to the manufacture of waterproof clothing. 

 Webb based his suit upon an assignment, by Streat, after the 

 patent had expired, of all claims for infringement by the de- 

 fendants. Judge Brown, on January 21, in sustaininga demur- 

 rer filed by the defendants, held that Webb could not maintain 

 an action for damages for patent infringement, as he was not a 

 " patentee, assignee, or grantee " within the meaning of the 

 statutes. ==Streat's patent claims were (1) two fabrics so 

 cemented together with waterproof rubber cement that " the 

 compound material rendered waterproof without materially in- 

 creasing the thickness " and (2) a sewed garment made of the 

 same. In 1899 Streat filed suits against several manufacturers of 

 mackintoshes, alleging infringement of his patent, but we have 

 no record that any of these were followed up to a successful 

 conclusion. 



THE NEW COLORADO RUBBER. 



Richard A. Leigh, formerly connected with some of the 

 leading mechanical rubber goods factories in the East, is men- 

 tioned by the Colorado newspapers as general superintendent 

 of the Western Rubber Co.. organized recently at Denver [See 

 The India Rubber World, December i, 1903— page 98] to 

 extract rubber from the roots of a shrub growing wild in that 

 region. Judging from the Colorado newspapers some people 

 there are growing wild over the prospects of wealth from 

 this new source, but Mr. Leigh's friends will wish him suc- 

 cess in his new connection. Mr. Leigh, by the way, has become 

 greatly improved in health during his residence in the West. 



THE WHITMAN & BARNES SOUVENIR. 

 A particularly handsome picture, entitled " Sheep in the 

 Highlands," is being distributed by the Whitman & Barnes 

 Manufacturing Co. from their general office, One Hundred and 

 Twentieth street, Chicago. As the title indicates, the scene is 

 laid in the mountains of Scotland. The animals are grouped 

 in the foreground and are at rest. The leader, a big black fel- 

 low, stands on guard. In the distance may be seen a winding 

 river and on either side of the animals tower high mountains. 

 Floating clouds and a misty atmosphere tend to soften as well 

 as bring out the beauty of the landscape. The picture is an ex- 

 act copy in colors from the original painting, now the property 

 of the company, executed by the famous Scotch artist W. Wat- 

 son. The picture, 19" X 28^°, bears no advertisement, and 

 will be sent by mail to any address upon receipt of 50 cents. 

 ARRIVAL OF "BABETTE." 



The annual New Year's souvenir of The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 (Akron, Ohio) has reached The India Rubber World and is 

 one of the most attractive that enterprising concern has ever 

 issued. It is the head of a beautiful girl, done in excellent im- 

 itation of oil painting. The subject is " Babette," and the pic- 

 ture is a fitting companion to " Kate," " Dorothy," and the 

 others on the list. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Arthur Corbin Gould, the founder and editor of Shooting 

 and Fishing, of New York, who died on December 15, was a 

 brother of Henry A. Gould, long prominent as a crude rubber 

 merchant. The journal referred to has existed for twenty years, 

 and in addition to editing it, Mr. Gould wrote several volumes 

 on rifles and other arms, which gained for him reputation as an 

 authority and led him to be consulted by military men, manu- 

 facturers of arms, and sportsmen, both at home and abroad. 



= Mr. Charles R. Flint delivered an address before the cham- 

 ber of commerce of Rochester, New York, on the evening of 

 January 7, on "The United States; a Commercial World 

 Power." The address was a strong plea for freer international 

 trade. Mr. Flint said that while there is a growing sentiment 

 in England in favor of retaliatory tariffs, there was reason to be- 

 lieve that country " would unite with the United States in 

 working out the best industrial condition for the world at 

 large — the free right to make, buy, and sell. As the bricks are 

 taken off the top of the tariff walls, and they should be removed 

 gradually, exchange of products will increase." 



= Mr. W. F. Bowers, of the Bowers Rubber Co. (San Fran- 

 cisco), spent the holidays in his native city — Lynn, Massachu- 

 setts — where he arrived in time to be present on December 22, 

 at the golden wedding of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilder T. 

 Bowers. Their ages are 80 and 73 years, respectively, and both 

 have resided all their lives in Lynn. Mr. Bowers recently re- 

 tired from business after a continuous connection for 52 years. 

 ==Mr. W. F. Bowers reports very active trade conditions on 

 the Pacific coast, the rubber houses having done a good busi- 

 ness throughout last year. 



= Mr. John H. Flint, treasurer of the Tyer Rubber Co., has 

 recently been elected president of the Andover (Mass.) Savings 

 Bank. This financial institution, which has deposits of about 

 $3,500,000, is one of the largest and strongest in that local- 

 ity. From its incorporation in 1835, until his retirement from 

 active business in 1S70, Mr. John Flint, father of the newly 

 elected president, was treasurer of this bank. 



= Workmen are tearing down the walls of the plant of the In- 

 dia Rubber Co., which was destroyed by fire in March last. 

 The property has been purchased by a Pittsburgh company 

 which will erect a plant for the manufacture of cutlery. 



