July i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



359 



= The city of Chicago has recently purchased about 25,000 

 feet of fire hose for the use of the fire department. The con- 

 tract for couplings for the same was awarded to The W. D. 

 Allen Manufacturing Co., of that city. This firm have sold all 

 the couplings used in the Chicago fire department for the last 

 25 years, which speaks pretty well for the Allen couplings. 



=The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of To- 

 ronto, Limited, have been licensed to manufacture and sell in 

 Canada the Fisk detachable tires, the manufacture of which in 

 the States is carried on bv the Fisk Rubber Co. 



= The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Con- 

 necticut) made no change in their selling prices to the trade on 

 June 1. 



=The Western Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana), after making 

 careful tests and looking into its merits, have entered into a 

 contract for the manufacture of the B OK tire, for motor cars, 

 motor bicycles, and driving wagons. This is a patented tire of 

 circular section, with a core of sponge rubber, marketed by 

 The B-OK Tire Co., of Goshen and No. 131 2 Madison avenue, 

 Chicago. 



= Work was resumed on June 6 at the rubber shoe factory 

 of L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), after a shut- 

 down which began on March 31. During this period important 

 additions and improvements were made, some account of which 

 was given in the last India Rubber World. 



=*The rubber factories at Naugatuck, Connecticut, will be 

 closed at 4 P. M. on Saturdays during the summer months, work 

 being started an hour earlier in the morning. This plan was 

 adopted last summer and gave general satisfaction to the em- 

 ployes. 



= The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) 

 are erecting a new cement building, 2iX4° feet, inside measure- 

 ment, of brick, with iron roof. 



=The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. (Beacon Falls, Connec- 

 ticut) are having plans prepared for a row of improved tene- 

 ments on the west side of Naugatuck river, for the use of their 

 employes. 



= The Boston Belting Co.'s dividend No. 139, the regular 

 quarterly dividend of $2 per share, is payable July 1 to share- 

 holders of record on June 18. 



= The Goshen Rubber Works (Goshen, Indiana), having ac- 

 quired a plant operated for several years past by N. Brown 

 have installed, in connection with their other business, an up 

 to date machine shop. They are now prepared not only to take 

 care of their own requirements in the way of making molds 

 and doing repair work, but to accept orders from the outside. 

 Mr. Brown has been engaged to take charge of the shop. 



=The copartnership between Louis J. Mutty and Allan P. 

 Trask, under the name of The Mutty-Trask Co., rubber goods 

 dealers, in Boston, has been dissolved. The business will be 

 continued by Louis J. Mutty, under the name L. J. Mutty Co.. 

 at No. 276 Devonshire street. 



= Frank C. Tuttle, proprietor of the "Goodyear Rubber 

 Store," New Haven, Connecticut, has filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy, with schedules showing liabilities $8913.36, and assets 

 $4988. William S. Pardee has been appointed receiver. 



= The Elliott Manufacturing Co. (Menlo Park, New Jersey), 

 are reported very busy producing the new golf ball patented by 

 their president, Charles B. Elliott, which is meeting a satis- 

 factory sale. 



=The Single Tube Automobile and Bicycle Tire Co. have 

 filed suit in the United States circuit court in the district of 

 Massachusetts, against the Equitable Distributing Co., of Bos- 

 ton, alleging infringement of the " Tillinghast " patent. No. 

 497,971, on single tube tires. The Continental Rubber Works 



(Erie, Pennsylvania) announce that no suit thus far brought 

 under this patent affects them. 



= A judgment for $26,960 was entered in the New York 

 county clerk's office on June 14, against the American Pneu- 

 matic Horse Collar Co., on an attachment in favor of George 

 E. Relyea, on notes made by the company in Detroit, Michigan, 

 in 1903. The company is incorporated in New Jersey, with 

 $2,000,000 capital. 



= The Woonsocket Rubber Co. announce that their two fac- 

 tories will be closed between August 5 and August 18. 



=The organization of the Imperial Rubber Co., (Beach City, 

 Ohio), mentioned in the last India Rubber World, has been 

 completed, with the election of Charles W. Stahl president 

 and J. C. Keplinger secretary. This company is the result of 

 combining the Canton Hard Rubber Co., late of Canton, Ohio, 

 and the Tuscarora Rubber Co., of Beach City. The capital is 

 $100,000 and hard and soft rubber goods will be made. 



= B. F. Sturtevant Co. announce the removal of their entire 

 plant from Jamaica Plain to their new works at Hyde Park, 

 Massachusetts. With nine acres of floor space and all the 

 modern appliances, they will continue to manufacture the well- 

 known Sturtevant products: Blowers, engines, motors, econo- 

 mizers, forges, steam heating, ventilating and drying appa- 

 ratus, etc. 



=The Naugatuck Chemical Co., incorporated in New Jersey, 

 with $100,000 capital, have purchased the Beach property of 

 the United States Ruber Co. at Naugatuck, Connecticut, and 

 will erect a plant on the premises. 



= Mr. Webster Norris has been appointed superintendent of 

 the factory of The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio), 

 to date from July 1. 



— The Easthampton Rubber Thread Co. (Easthampton, 

 Massachusetts) were the successful bidders for supplying 5000 

 pounds of rubber bands for the United States postoffice depart- 

 ment and postal service, for the fiscal year 1904-05, under the 

 recent advertisement of the department. The specifications 

 call for 500 pounds No. n ; 1500 pounds No. 14 ; 1500 pounds 

 No. 16 ; 500 pounds No. 19 ; 1000 pounds No. 31. 



= The Portland (Maine) Retail Shoe and Leather Associa- 

 tion, at a meeting on June 9, voted to maintain a scale of prices 

 on rubber footwear based upon manufacturers' prices. 



= In the matter of North American Rubber Co., bankrupts, 

 a hearing to which the creditors were invited, before William 

 H. Willis, referee in bankruptcy, at No. 115 Broadway, New 

 York, on June 27, has been postponed to July 7, at 2 P. M. 



= ln the last issue of this Journal a suit of the Gutta Percha 

 and Rubber Manufacturing Co. against the Peerless Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. for alleged infringement of patent, No. 

 543,583, on rubber floor tiling, was mentioned as having been 

 "settled out of court". The defendants in the case advise 

 The India Rubber World that there was no effort at settle- 

 ment on their part ; in fact, that there was no settlement made 

 other than the answer of their attorneys, citing an early Eng- 

 lish patent which so clearly anticipated the patent above 

 referred to, that the suit was withdrawn. 



= An attachment for $1,000,000 has been placed upon the 

 property of John J. Banigan, Westerly, Rhode Island, on the 

 suit of Charles A. Borland, a Boston lawyer, alleging breach of 

 contract. The writ was sworn to before the chief justice of 

 the United States Supreme Court. The suit is against Mr. 

 Banigan as a member of the brokerage firm of Prindle, Weeden 

 & Co., who did business formerly at Providence. One member 

 of the firm was Leonard Imboden, some reference to whom ap- 

 peared in The India Rubber World August 1, 1903 (page 

 395), under the heading " After a Rubber Man's Money?' 



