November i, 1907. J 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



61 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The St. Louis Rubber Cement Co. have opened a Boston office, 

 at No. 161 Summer street, in charge of V\rtlliam O. Hadley, and 

 it is announced that the company will establish stores at Haver- 

 hill, Lynn, and Brockton, Massachusetts, for the more conveni- 

 ent supply of the St. Louis cements to the New England trade. 



The Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) have 

 added to their list of agencies one at No. 37 Hopkins place, 

 Baltimore, Maryland. 



Frank C. Riggs has resigned as vice-president of The Fisk 

 Rubber Co. to become affiliated with the Packard Motor Car Co., 

 in charge of their commercial vehicle department. 



J. E. Ham, who has long been connected with the insulated 

 wire trade, being latterly with the Hazard Manufacturing Co. 

 (Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania), has' been appointed Western repre- 

 sentative of the Waterbury Co. (New York), for the introduc- 

 tion of their insulated wires, and will have charge of the Water- 

 bury branch at No. 108 La Salle street, Chicago. 



Stanley Supply Co. (Dr. S. Stanley Jacobs, proprietor), No. 

 .38 East Twenty-first street. New York, are surgical rubber 

 specialists, supplying everything in rubber for hospital use. Tlicy 

 have supplied many hospitals throughout the country, including 

 those under control of the department of charities of New York 

 city. Among their specialties are surgeons' operating gloves and 

 the "Solo" pure rubber bottle cap. 



Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. are making a specialty 

 of fruit jar rings in handy packages, which renders the trade in 

 these articles more convenient than when the rings were shipped 

 in bulk. 



Joseph Bondy's Sons (No. 17 Liberty street. New York) advise 

 The India RunnER World that they are prepared to supply 

 viscose, about which a correspondent inquired in a recent issue. 

 Receivers have been appointed for the Westinghouse Electric 

 and Manufacturing Co. (Pittsburgh) and affiliated corporations, 

 on the application of H. H. Westinghouse. a stockholder. The 

 reason given is that the company found it impossible to secure 

 ready money for all the large contracts it has on hand, but no 

 doubt is expressed that the company will be able to continue in 

 business. 



L. T. Vance has become connected with the Sweet Tire and 

 Rubber Co, (Batavia, New York). 



Dermot McEvoy has been appointed general manager of tlie 

 Derby Rubber Co., rubber reclaimers, at Derby and Shelton, 

 Connecticut, He is a mechanical engineer by profession, whose 

 work has brought him into close contact with the rubber in- 

 dustry. 



James C. Matlack. for some years with the International .\uto- 

 mobile and Vehicle Tire Co., has been elected vice president and 

 general manager of The Michelin Tire Co., who have acquired 

 the International plant nt Milltown, New Jersey, and added to 

 it largely, 



A copartnership has been formed to continue the business and 

 firm of Catlin & Co. in the cotton duck trade, in New York, by 

 Lowell Lincoln. Trenor L, Park, Charles E. Sampson, S. S. 

 Widger and Arthur J. Cumnock, until January i, 191 1. 



The United States consul at Colon, Panama, in writing oflScially 

 to Washington, expresses a desire for catalogues of rubber goods. 

 The 1908 specifications for Reo automobiles, all models, call 

 for Alichelin pneumatic tires, with Goodyear detachable rims, 



Anderson G, Wilson, a member of the firm of J. M. Ceballos 

 & Co.. bankers and brokers, of New York — which firm made an 

 assignment in October, 1906, on account, as alleged, of the failure 

 of a Cuban correspondent — on September 4 filed a petition in 

 the United States district court at Trenton, New Jersey, to have 

 the firm declared bankrupt, with liabilities of $3,699,800.47. 

 Counsel for the firm have until October 5 to file an answer. 

 Messrs. Ceballos & Co., as general merchants, were at times con- 

 signees for rubber to an important extent. 



Goodall Rubber Co., Inc., formerly at No. 153 North Fourth 

 street, Philadelphia, removed during the past month to No. 704 

 Arch street, where they have greater floor space and better 

 facihties generally for handling mechanical rubber goods. The 

 firm make a specialty of railroad and contractors' wants. 



The Boston Belting Co., manufacturers of mechanical rubber 

 goods of all kinds, are sending to their friends in the trade one 

 of "King's Booklets," containing good views of the work in 

 progress in constructing the Panama canal, and Panama views 

 generally. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Monsieur Emile Alc.\.n", of the crude rubber firm Hccht 

 Freres et Cie., of Paris, is visiting the United States, intending 

 to sail for home about the 7th of this month. 



The friends of Mr. William M. Ivins, the New York lawyer, 

 are beginning to regard him as the probable choice of his party 

 for governor of New York state next year, on account of the 

 interest taken in him by the public as the central figure in the 

 investigation into transportation affairs in New York city. It 

 will be recalled that Mr. Hughes, the present governor, first won 

 ihe general attention in somewhat similar work in connection 

 with probing the insurance company scandals. 



Mr. George M. Allerton, general manager of the Seamless 

 Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), who for some three 

 months has been slowly recovering from a severe attack of 

 typhoid fever, is practically well again and back at his desk. 



Mr. Charles Howard Norton, advertising manager for George 

 Borgf eldt & Co., and Miss Adele Eddy Black were married in 

 New York on October 16, and started for Canada for their 

 wedding journey. A handsome wedding present was sent by the 

 members of the Borgfeldt firm. 



Charles H. Dale, president of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co., in addition to serving as an officer or director of most of 

 the subsidiary concerns of that company, is on the board of three 

 New York banks — the Merchants' Exchange, the Irving National, 

 and the Century. 



A recent visitor to New York was described as Prince d'Abro 

 Pazratido, of Egypt, whose family are wealthy and powerful in 

 that country, and largely interested in cotton culture. The prince 

 planned to visit the cotton growing region of the United States 

 for the purpose of studying conditions there. 



Mr. R. Hale Smith, of The R. H. Smith Manufacturing Co. 

 (Springfield, Massachusetts), an important rubber stamp con- 

 cern, is reported to have narrowly escaped asphi.xiation while ex- 

 perimenting in the laboratory of the company's works on Octo- 

 ber 23, a gas heating apparatus being in use. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the L^nited States Rub- 

 ber Co., w'hose illness has been referred to in these columns 

 lately, was improving at last accounts and hoped soon to be in 

 his office again. 



THE LATEST RUBBER SUBSTITUTE. 



T T ARRY B. COX, a chemist of No. 77 Sigourney street, Hart- 

 ^ * ford, Connecticut, has developed what he terms a substitute 

 for india-rubber and has named it "Halcox." This is referred to as 

 capable of being compounded as readily as natural rubber, and 

 of being vulcanized with even greater facility. Mr. Cox says 

 that it has the advantage over rubber that it may be produced 

 in any required consistency — liquid, plastic, or stiflfer if required 

 ■ — and that it can be held in a state as liquid as water, but nothing 

 will be evaporated or lost as is the case where rubber is reduced 

 to a liquid form by the use of naphtha. Mr. Cox informs The 

 India Rubber World: "The product will soon be a regular 

 market commodity, manufactured and backed by a prominent 

 rubber company." 



For the rubber factory — Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Com 

 pounding Ingredients." 



