\i GUST I, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



THE VICTOR RUBBER CO. REORGANIZED. 

 ^f^HE rubber factory at Snyderville, established and oper- 

 ated for a number of years by The Victor Rubber Co. 

 (Springfield, Ohio), has been acquired by a new corpo- 

 ration, organized under Ohio laws, with the same name. 

 The new company assumed control on July 12, on which date the 

 first meeting of the corporation was held and the following board 

 elected : Henry H. Durr, Daniel H. Snyder, John W. Pohlman, 

 H. J. Robben, and J. S. Holliday. The following officers were 

 then elected : 



President — Henry H. DuRR. 

 Vice President— -Daniel H. Snyder. 

 Secretary — John W. Pohlman. 

 Treasurer — H. J. RoitBKN. 



Mr. Durr has been (or several years connected with the Con- 

 solidated Rubber Tire Co., latterly traveling for them, with 

 headquarters at Akron, Ohio. He is reported to be the larg- 

 est stockholder in the new company. President Durr informed 

 The India Rubber World on July 13: "The company has 

 commenced partial operation and expects to be in complete 

 operation shortly after August 1." 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. — DIVIDEND. 

 The board of directors, at a meeting on July 7, declared a 

 dividend of 1)4 per cent, on the preferred stock of the company 

 from the net earnings for the fiscal year beginning April 1, to 

 stockholders of record on August 31, payable September 15. 

 This is the second dividend of i}4 per cent, declared since the 

 suspension of dividends in 1901, the first having been paid on 

 June 1 5 last. The forthcoming dividend will require §352,882. 50. 

 A statement has emanated from the offices of the company that 

 the net earnings for the first quarter of the current fiscal year 

 exceeded by about $500,000 the amount needed for the dividend. 

 The various factories have been run at full capacity for most of 

 the time. 



RUBBER PLANT FOR AN ASBESTOS WORKS. 

 The Keasbey & Mattison Co. (Ambler, Pennsylvania), ex- 

 tensive manufacturers of a great variety of asbestos products, 

 are about to install a plant for working the rubber utilized in 

 some of their asbestos packings, instead of buying the same 

 from rubber manufacturers. Hitherto there has been no Amer- 

 ican asbestos goods factory with its rubber department, al- 

 though in Europe the manufacture of asbestos and rubber 

 products is carried on together in a number of establishments. 



CHEAP SUBSTITUTES FOR RUBBER STAMPS. 



The stamps of printers' roller composition used by the 

 United States postal department are supplied by Benjamin 

 Chambers, of Lodge, Virginia, who has been a successful bidder 

 on such goods for several years. Among the contracts awarded 

 by the department to Mr. Chambers for the fiscal year begin- 

 ning July 1 was one for 3000 composition stamps at 36 cents 

 per dozen, the charge not including the brass sockets for hold- 

 ing the stamps, and the molds being supplied by the govern- 

 ment. 



RUBBER MEN HAVE A HANDSOME DINING HALL. 



An officers' dining hall has been opened in the main office 

 building of the Hartford Rubber Works Co. (Hartford, Con- 

 necticut). It is a commodious room on the second floor of the 

 building, and tastefully decorated, and will add greatly to the 

 convenience of those for whom it has been designed, besides 

 facilitating business by providing a daily opportunity for the 



department heads to come together. Such an institution is an 

 innovation in Hartford, and it is said to be regarded with much 

 interest by other manufacturers in that city. 



MITZEL RUBBER CO. TO MOVE. 

 The Mitzel Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), engaged since the be- 

 ginning of the year in making seamless and dipped rubber 

 goods, in which they have been so successful as to have out- 

 grown already their original premises, have accepted a favor- 

 able proposition from the town of Carrolton, Ohio, for the lo- 

 cation of the plant there. Tne company is to be incorporated 

 shortly, with an increase in capital to permit of the production 

 of a full line of rubber goods. The amount of capital is men- 

 tioned as $100,000. The president and treasurer is to be Harvey 

 F. Mitzel, the founder of the business, and who until last au- 

 tumn was general manager of the Pure Gum Specialty Co. 

 (Barberton, Ohio). The Mitzel company will continue to 

 maintain their office at Akron. They are now receiving esti- 

 mates on a line of rubber machinery fur their new requirements, 

 and have plans made for a two story factory building, 180X 4° 

 feet, and also for an additional building to be erected a little 

 later. 



RUBBER MACHINERY PRODUCTION AT AKRON. 



Alexander Adamson (Akron, Ohio) has been busy of late 

 with rubber factory machinery. Recent orders embrace con- 

 siderable work for the new Alkali Rubber Co., of Akron, a 

 large order for molds from the Diamond Rubber Co., a second 

 44" X 44" press for the Swinehart Clincher Tire and Rubber 

 Co., a 42" wrapping machine for the Dayton Rubber Co., a 

 io"X 2 4 mixer and a tubing machine for the N Tire Co., of 

 Chicago, and an experimental mill and calender for the Akron 

 Dental Rubber Co. The Adamson foundry is new in the mill 

 and calender line, but this work is contemplated from now on. 

 with a gradual increase in the size of machines produced, 

 There has been produced at this plant recently an electric 

 safety clutch, particularly adapted for machinery such as is 

 used in rubber factories, and it is likely to prove of interest to 

 the rubber trade. 



GOOD RECORD OF "WON'T SLIP" TIRES. 



C. J. Bailey & Co. (Boston) have received a strong testi- 

 monial in behalf of their " Won't Slip " tire from A. E. Morri- 

 son, the winner of several recent contests in mountain climbing 

 in automobiles. At Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, on July 

 1 1, he entered a 24 horsepower Peerless touring car in a moun- 

 tain climb, where the total rise was 6300 feet in eight miles, the 

 grade in some cases being 23 per cent, and won by a margin of 

 8 minutes. The tires used were 34X4 inch Bailey "Won't 

 Slip." 



MANUFACTURE OF RUBBER BALLOONS. 



The demand for toy rubber balloons, rubber balloons for ad- 

 vertising purposes, and such like goods, though it has become 

 considerable in the United States, is still supplied for the most 

 part from Europe. An estimate by one firm in New York is 

 that the imports of rubber " novelties," into the United States 

 reach an annual value in the neighborhood of $500,000, though 

 of course this figure does not relate to balloons alone. It ap- 

 pears that the manufacture of rubber balloons in this country _ 

 though it has been attempted in a number of cases, has been 

 confined thus far to a single establishment, and that not on a 



