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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i. 1908. 



THE DIAMOND COMPANY'S WIRE DEPARTMENT. 



A FEW years ago, a very few in fact, when the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co. built a "saw toothed" building for housing the great vul- 

 canizing department, which is such an important end of their tire 

 equipment, the management thought that they had stopped build- 

 ing for a while. They were wrong, as is proved by the fine si.x 

 story brick building that is now nearing completion and which 

 is to be used chiefly for the manufacture of insulated wire. Five 

 floors of this building, which is 240 feet long and 100 feet wide, 

 will very shortly be filled with electrically operated machinery 

 of the latest type for turning out electric wires and cables. As 

 soon as this is thoroughly equipped the small insulated wire de- 

 partment, which for nearly a year has been run as a unit for 

 training men and smoothing away minor difficulties of manufac- 

 ture, will be consolidated with this, and then the Diamond will 

 be heard of as one of the large producers of goods of this type. 

 As the company does not need the whole building for the new 

 product, the entire top floor will be turned into department for the 

 manufacture of machine made hose of all kinds. This will not 

 only relieve the much congested hose department now in use but 

 will give one of the most comfortable and up-to-date arrange- 

 ments that could be imagined. 



THADE NEWS NOTES. 



The G & J Tire Co. have discontinued their Boston branch, 

 at No. 204 Columbus avenue, and turned over the New England 

 agency for their tires to The Enterprise Rubber Co., of Boston, 

 of which William E. Barker is president and treasurer. 



The St. Louis Rubber Cement Co. have removed tlieir New 

 England office from Boston to Lynn, Massachusetts, where Man- 

 ager W. O. Hadley is located in the Bergengren building. 



There has been in progress for several days at the order of 

 Mayor McClellan, of New York, an investigation as to the con- 

 ditions under which fire hose is purchased for the city and the 

 quality of the city's present supply of hose. On January 22 the 

 fire commissioner made a request that the board of aldermen 

 appropriate $250,000 for a new fire hose, but the appropriation 

 made was only $50,000, the reason given being that it might 

 be better to await the result of the investigation ordered by the 

 mayor. 



Morgan & Wright (Detroit, Michigan) have discontinued their 

 branch at Cleveland, Ohio, after arranging with the Ohio Rubber 

 Co., at No. 2048 East Ninth street, for the sale of their tires in 

 that territory. 



Revere Rubber Co. (Boston) announce a change of address 

 of their Pittsburgh branch to 501 Hartje building. 



The Massachusetts Chemical Co. (Walpole, Massachusetts), 

 manufacturers of insulating tapes, varnishes, etc., are opening a 

 branch office in Chicago, to be located at 464 Monadnock build- 

 ing. Mr. Arthur E. Duclos, well known to the electric trade in 

 the middle West, will be in charge. 



Pneumatic Heel Cushion Co., January 11, 1908, under the 

 laws of New Jersey ; capital authorized, $100,000. Incorporators : 

 William L. Gordon, Milan Ross, and Joseph G. Coleman, all of 

 No. 213 First avenue, Asbury Park, N. J., where a factory will 

 be located. Mr. Gordon is president of the company and Mr. 

 Ross vice president and treasurer. 



PERSONAL MENTIOIf. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt has resigned the presidency of the 

 Industrial Trust Co., of Providence, the leading financial insti- 

 tution in Rhode Island and one of the most important in New 

 England. Colonel Colt was the founder of the Industrial Trust 

 and is understood to retain his property interest in it, his res- 

 ignation as its head being due to the condition of his health and 

 a desire for relief from some of the cares of business. 



Dr. Alberto Pirelli, of Pirelli & Co., rubber manufacturers 

 at Milan, Italy, has decided upon another visit to the United 

 States, and is understood to be a passenger on the Lusilania, 

 which sailed from Liverpool on January 25. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



"T" HE New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Co. (Jersey City, 

 •* New Jersey) issue a new catalogue of Rubber Goods for 

 mechanical purposes, beginning with hose for many purposes, 

 followed by belting, valves, packing, mats, and a large number 

 of other rubber items, and ending with various hose accessories. 

 [4K" X 7". 132 pages.] 



Cling-Surface Co. (Buffalo, New York) issue a booklet on 

 "The Treatment of Belts and Ropes for Service and Profit," the 

 purpose of which is to explain the use of "Cling-Surface," a 

 preservative food for the treatment of rubber and other belts in 

 order to get special results. [4J4" X 7"- 87 pages.] 



Stanley Supply Co. (No. 38 East Twenty-first street, New 

 York) issue a catalogue of Rubber Goods for Physician, Surgeon, 

 and Hospital, which they supply from the best makers in this line. 

 [3'A" X 63^". 21 pages.] 



Andrew J. Morse & Son, Inc. (Boston) issue a catalogue of 

 Fire Department Supplies, in great variety, including hose and all 

 the standard accessories therefor. [554"X7?i"- 48 pages.] 



AN AERIAL PRESS ROOM. 



DECAUSE of their weight and the necessity for solid founda- 

 "-^ tions, vulcanizing presses in rubber mills usually are set on 

 the ground floor, and often in basements that are some feet be- 

 low the ground level. Where only one or two presses are used 

 this is all right, but where a battery of presses running into the 

 hundreds is assembled, even in a high studded room, the floor 

 of which is flush with the ground, the radiation is so great that 

 there are times when the whole department will be shut down be- 

 cause the workmen are unable to stand the intense heat. This 

 was the condition at the works of The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 (.^.kron, Ohio) in their small press department until very re- 

 cently. Now, however, they have a department for small press 

 work occupying the whole top floor of one of their new rein- 

 forced concrete buildings. With great windows on all sides so 

 arranged that, no matter how hot the day or how constantly the 

 presses are run, the workmen will always be comfortable. This 

 press room, with its battery of 140 hydraulic presses between 60 

 and 70 feet in the air, is not only novel but thoroughly and whole- 

 somely practical. It can now be run continually day and night 

 if necessary, and with the amount of goods of this type that 

 this company turns out it usually is necesiary. .As a bit of rub- 

 ber engineering and an overcoming of difficulties in a revolution- 

 ary manner it is unique. 



THE NEW TAINTOR FACTORY. 



IT is now just about 18 years since The India Rubber World 

 ■^ devoted an article of considerable length to the factory of 

 The H. F. Taintor Manufacturing Co. (New York), who have 

 become so well known as extensive manufacturers of whiting and 

 paris white. The factory was at that time located in Brooklyn, 

 under conditions then regarded as exceptionally favorable, and 

 particularly as more convenient than the premises which had 

 been used previously by the Taintor company. Business con- 

 ditions change with time, however, and after occupying the 

 Brooklyn plant for the long term of years above referred to, 

 they have established themselves in an entirely different location, 

 having erected and equipped a complete new factory at Bayonne, 

 New Jersey. Here the same class of products as have made the 

 name of Taintor so widely known will be produced under con- 

 ditions even more favorable than in the past, while shipping 

 facilities have been improved, and there is room for a long 

 continued growth of the firm's business. The offices of the 

 firm, however, remain unchanged — at No. 200 Water street, 

 New York. 



