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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1907. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



ATLANTIC RUBBER SHOE CO.'S AFFAIRS. 



JOHN R. HEGEMAN, of New York, some time ago sued, as 

 a shareholder in the Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co., for the ap- 

 pointment of a receiver for that corporation, in the New- 

 Jersey chancery court. This motion was denied on July 11 [See 

 The India Rubber World, August i, 1907— page 355], but Mr. 

 Hegeman filed a new application for a receiver, which was denied 

 by Vice Chancellor Howell, sitting at Newark, on November 8. 

 Previous to the latest decision steps had been taken for the 

 voluntary liquidation of the company, for which purpose the 

 directors had been designated by the court as trustees for winding 

 up the company's business. The court, in deciding Mr. Hege- 

 man's case, held that the trustees had conducted the company's 

 affairs satisfactorily, and directed them to continue in the same 

 relation. The company's factory was sold at public auction in 

 the latter part of 1906, and the next and final step, it is supposed, 

 will be the sale of the patents for making rubber shoes by ma- 

 chinery, which formed the original basis 

 of the company. 



THE TYEE COMPANY'S NEW PRESIDENT. 



Mr. Fred. Hall Jones, who was re- 

 cently elected president of the Tyer 

 Rubber Co., was born at Andover, Mas- 

 sachusetts, in 1867, and was educated in 

 the excellent schools for which that 

 town is famous. When he was 17 years 

 old he went to work for the Tyer Rub- 

 ber Co., working two years in the fac- 

 tory, and in i88g started for them as 

 traveling salesman. In 1889 he was 

 placed in charge of the Boston office, 

 and in addition had the territory of 

 New York and Philadelphia^ to look 

 after as salesman. In 1902 he was ap- 

 pointed sales manager of the company, 

 and two years later was made general 

 manager. Mr. Jones for some years 

 has been treasurer of the Rubber Sun- 

 dries Manufacturers' Association, and is 

 also treasurer of the New England Rub- 

 ber Club. In addition to this, he is a 

 director of the Queen City Rubber Co., 



of Buffalo, New York, director of the Andover Press (Andover, 

 Mass.), and treasurer of the Hamilton Emery and Corundum 

 Co. of Chester, Mass. 



It is a compliment of the highest order, this election to the 

 position of president in a company that for so many years w-as 

 not only a close corporation but run on exceedingly conservative 

 lines, and it can be taken only as a direct acknowledgment of 

 enterprise, perseverance, and excellent business judgment. With 

 the energetic Mr. Jones as president, the far sighted Mr. Flint 

 as treasurer, together with a coterie of capable young men that 

 these two have gathered around them as lieutenants, and more- 

 over with the new enlarged factories of the company, the Tyer 

 Rubber Co. is in a position to go very far in its special lines. 



TO MAKE "CONTINENTAL" TIBES HEHE. 



The Continental Caoutchouc Co., incorporated under the laws 

 of New York State in 1903, as the American branch of the 

 Continental-Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha-Compagnie, of Han- 

 over, Germany, have arranged for the manufacture in America 

 of the tires required for their trade here, instead of continuing 

 to import them. The American made "Continental" tires are 



Fred. Hall Jones. 



[President of the Tyer Rubber Co.] 



referred to as being the same in every respect as those produced 

 in the German factory, and are the result of careful preparation 

 and tests that have been in progress for more than two years 

 past. As a result of the new arrangement, it has been possible 

 to put into effect a new American price list for Continental tires, 

 the company now being able to avoid both the import duty and 

 the transatlantic freight. The formal inroduction upon the 

 market of the Continental tire as an American product was made 

 during the presence on this side of Herr Willy Tischbein and 

 Albert Gerlach, ph. d., two of the directors of the German com- 

 pany. Herr Tischbein is also president of the New York Con- 

 tinental company, and Dr. Gerlach is an expert both as a chemist 

 and in the tire manufacture. 



Instead of erecting a new factory, the Continental people have 

 established relations with the large mechanical goods factory of 

 the Revere Rubber Co. (Boston), which company have had 

 large experience in tire production, and the American Conti- 

 nental tires -will be produced at their 

 works at Chelsea. 



cable SHIP FOR AN AMERICAN COMPANY. 



The Central and South American 

 Telegraph Co. (New York) have had 

 built in England a cable steamer, the 

 Guardian, to be employed in repair work 

 on their lines on the west coast of South 

 America. The steamer was equipped for 

 its work by Johnson & Phillips, Limited, 

 the electrical engineers, of Old Charlton 

 and London, who manufacture a number 

 of special devices and appliances for 

 cable laying and repairs. The Guardian 

 left London on October 5 for Callao, 

 and will remain for three years on the 

 Pacific coast. 



APPLYING TIPPERS TO RUBBER SHOES. 



Report comes from. Akron that a local 

 inventor has designed a machine for 

 applying uppers to rubber shoes, the ap- 

 paratus now being tested out in one of 

 the machine shops of the town. Exactly 

 how it is done does not yet appear, but 

 from the description the idea would not appear to be wholly 

 new, as one of the Western rubber shoe factories has used some- 

 thing of this sort with a measure of success for some time. 



RUBBER RECLAIMERS' CLUB. 



At the annual meeting of the Rubber Reclaimers' Club, on 

 November 7, E. R. Solliday, of the New Jersey Rubber Co., was 

 elected president; Joseph F. McLean, of the Pequanoc Rubber 

 Co., was elected secretary, and F, H. Appleton, of F. H. Apple- 

 ton & Son, was reelected treasurer. The executive committee 

 consists of W. T. Rodenbach, Max Lowenthal, J. A. Lambert, 

 J. K. Mitchell and E, R. Solliday. Mr. Rodenbach and Mr. 

 R. W. Seabury, formerly president and secretary, respectively, 

 were tendered a reelection, but declined in favor of other mem- 

 bers. An official reports: "The club is a success, after having 

 been in existence for a year. It has overcome all obstacles, and 

 everything pertaining to the club is very harmonious." 



HARD RUBBER BOWLING BALLS 



The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the principal manufac- 

 turers of billiard and pool tables, together with bowling alleys 



