December i, 1907. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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broad experience thus gained will be very useful for the new 

 company. Wr. Kaufman, the president of the company, until 

 recently sustained a similar relation to the Merchants' Rubber 

 Co., Limited, of Berlin. Mr. Kaufman will plan to engage in 

 manufacturing as promptly as possible. 



COMPANY NOTES. 



The Imperial Rubber Co., of Montreal, Canada, have been in- 

 corporated, with $jo.ooo capital. Object stated, to make rubber 

 goods. Incorporators: D. J. Angus, F. G. Bush, and R. C. 

 McMichael. 



Jenkins Brothers, Limited, of Montreal, Canada, have recently 

 completed an extensive factory, for the production, for the 

 Canadian and export trade, of the extensive line of valves which 

 forms the output of the American firm of Jenkins Brothers 

 (New York). 



The Hadley Cement Co. of Canada, Limited (Montreal), main- 

 tain agencies at Leicester, England, and Melbourne, Australia. 

 Ihis company, though separate from The Hadley Cement Co. 

 (Lynn, Massachusetts), is owned by parties interested in the 

 latter. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



I SAAC B. HARRIS, who died at Newtown, Connecticut, on 

 '■ October 27, at the age of 82, was one of a long list of Amer- 

 icans connected at one time with the management or operation of 

 the North British Rublier Co., Limited. Mr. Harris became con- 

 nected with the rubber industry not long after the discovery of 

 vulcanization, and was with the Goodyears at Sandy Hook, Con- 

 necticut, employed in a factory which was taken over by the New 

 York Belting and Packing Co., upon the formation of the latter by 

 tlie late John H. Cheevcr, in 1856. .\ partner in the latter con- 

 cern, on account of his interest in the Goodyear patents, was 

 William Judson, who later was one of the founders of the North 

 British Rubber Co. It doulrtless was due to Judson that, shortly 

 after the North British company opened a mechanical goods de- 

 partment, Mr. Harris was placed in charge of it as superin- 

 tendent. He held this position for nearly 30 years, until 1890, 

 when he returned to the United States, after which tiine he re- 

 sided on the farm near Newtown, where his death occurred. Mr. 

 Harris gave personal attention to the management of his farm, 

 being especially fond of out-of-door life. He took great interest 

 in harness racing, and devoted much of the late years of his life 

 to breeding fast trotting horses. Mr. Harris is survived by a 



widow. 



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HoR.vcE B. C.\MP, one of the leading citizens of Akron, Ohio, 

 died on November 21, aged 68 years, after having been in ill 

 health for some time to an extent that had led him to withdraw 

 from several business enterprises with which he had been con- 

 nected. Only in September last The Indi.v Rubber World, in 

 reporting the annual meeting of the Faultless Rubber Co., men- 

 tioned the retirement of Mr. Camp from the office of president, 

 which he had held for several years, though he accepted a reelec- 

 tion as director. Mr. Camp was interested in this company 

 from its beginning at Akron, under its present name, in 1900. 

 He was interested also in the Camp Rubber Co. (Ashland. 

 Ohio), incorporated in 1902, and was president of both com- 

 panies up to their consolidation, early in 1904, with factories at 

 .■\shland. Before becoming interested in rubber Mr. Camp had 

 made a fortune in the clay industry, his interest in which he 

 transferred to the National Sewer Pipe Co. He was interested 

 also in many other important Akron enterprises — in cement, coal 

 mining, and fireproof construction. Mr. Camp began life with 

 no fortune, and was a notable example of the self-made man. 



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George Herbert Day. who died on November 21 at his winter 

 home in Florida, through his great executive ability and perhaps 



greater diplomacy, contributed in a very marked degree to the 

 development of the automobile industry in America. It was his 

 work that wove about the Selden patent the important organiza- 

 tion in the trade known as the Association of Licensed Automo- 

 bile Manufacturers, resulting in cooperation and standardization 

 of products — two great hobbies with Mr. Day. He was born in 

 1851 at Brooklyn, Connecticut, and as president of the Weed 

 Sewing Machine Co. had to do with the first bicycles made in 

 .\merica, under contract for Colonel Albert A. Pope. This com- 

 pany was succeeded by the Pope Mfg. Co., of which Mr. Day 

 became vice president and general manager. In his important 

 relation to the bicycle and automobile industries Mr. Day, it 

 will be seen, had an important influence in the development of 

 the great demand for ruliber in tires. 



RUBBER TIRE INTERESTS. 



PIRELLI TIKES ACROSS SIBERIA. 



PIRELLI & CO. (Milan, Italy) issue a brochure devoted to the 

 "Pekiii-Paris Raid " — the automobile tour by Prince Borg- 

 hese, between June 10 and August 10, 1907— a distance of about 

 16,000 kilometers [=9920 miles], or about 165.2 miles daily, on 

 an average. Le Matin, of Paris, reports that when Mr. Pirelli 

 went out to meet the Prince on his return and congratulated him 

 upon the tour, the latter said: "It is I who must congratulate 

 you, Mr. Pirelli ; your tires are wonderful." The Prince was 

 showing to his friends the front wheels of his "Itala" motor, 

 which were still fitted with the same tires from Omsk (Siberia), 

 and had therefore covered more than 7000 kilometers [=4340 

 miles]. The Prince's car was equipped throughout only with 

 Pirelli tires. 



PNEUMATIC SULKY TIRES. 



Trotting races had not a little to do, in the United States, at 

 least, with attracting public attention to the pneumatic tire as a 

 factor in speed. After the record-breaking feats of Nancy 

 Hanks, back in 1892, people began to ask with more interest than 

 even the bicycle had prompted, "Why is the pneumatic fast?'' 

 The trotting record has been lowered continuously since the date 

 named above, and the pneumatic sulky tire has contributed, with- 

 out doubt, to each new success. The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, 

 Ohio) have issued a brochure relating to their Palmer sulky 

 tires, which contains, incidentally, a record of trotting scores, 

 witli a statement of the races won in 1906 on Palmer tires. The 

 Goodrich company also make a cart tire which is heavier in con- 

 struction than their standard sulky tire, especially adaptable for 

 training sulkies and light speed wagons. 



TIRE COMPANY NOTES. 



The number of Michelin automobile tires made from i8g6 to 

 the end of June, 1907, is staled to have been 1,180.830, an average 

 of 107,348 tires per year, or enough to equip 26,837 automobiles 

 yearly for II years past. 



Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have opened a 

 new Philadelphia branch at No. 256 North Broad street, under 

 the management of W. R. Walton. It is excellently located in 

 tile automobile district, and embraces a floor space of 14,350 

 square feet. 



Two of the directors of the Continental-Caoutchouc- und 

 (jutta-percha Compagnie, of Hanover, were in attendance at the 

 recent automobile shows — Herr Willy Tischbein (who is also 

 president of the Continental-Caoutchouc Co. in New York) and 

 Dr. Albert Gerlach. 



For the fourth consecutive year the Cadillac Automobile Co. 

 ( Detroit) will equip their cars with the tires of the Hartford 

 l\u1)ber Works Co. They also adopt for their 1908 cars the 

 Midgley "universal" rim. 



The Malay Mai!, published in the Malay States, mentions the 

 importation by a local firm of five motor cars, the driving wheels 

 of which are fitted with "Continental' solid tires guaranteed for 

 10.000 miles. 



