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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1908. 



Office Force of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 



BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.'S OFFICE FORCE. 



By the time the ilhistration on this page catches the eye of 

 the observant reader, the Boston office of the Boston Rubber Shoe 

 Co., in the well known Converse building, will be a thing of the 

 past. As an historical record, therefore, this picture is of spe- 

 cial value, as it gives a view of the entire office force at the 

 time of the removal to their new quarters in Boston. Many 

 pleasant things could be said of each individual in this group, 

 and many too of the office force as a whole, and the picture will 

 call them all to mind. 



Key to the Group Above. 



1. Mr. Ballard. 



2. Mr. Solbery. 



3. Miss Kenah. 



4. Mr. Wilson. 



5. Miss Hadley. 



6. Mr. Phipps. 



7. Miss Bengtson. 



THE NEW YOHK FIRE DEPARTMENT. 



On another page of tliis paper are the details of contracts 

 awarded during the past month for new hose for the fire de- 

 partment of New York city. Satisfactory bids for one of the 

 items of hose at first advertised for not having been received, a 

 new advertisement was published, for bids on supplying 20,000 

 feet of 3 inch 5 ply rubber fire hose, for the borough of Man- 

 hattan, to be opened on March 18. This advertisement was 

 withdrawn, however, on account of the death of Hugh Bonner, 

 the fire commissioner. 



Mr. Bonner died on March 13, in his sixty-ninth year, after 

 having served as head of the department for only about a month. 

 He had been connected with the service, however, for most of 

 the time since 1856, and was for a long period chief. He is 

 generally credited with having contributed more than any other 

 one man toward placing the force upon a high plane of 

 efficiency. 



Nicholas J. Hayes was appointed fire commissioner on March 

 20. He had previously filled that office for two years, under 



Mayor McCIellan's first administration, and is considered to 

 have made a good record. 



The city authorities have definitely appropriated $130,000 for 

 new hose for the borough of Manhattan and $70,000 for Brook- 

 lyn, in addition to a general appropriation for hose at the end 

 of January, making $250,000 since the beginning of the year. 

 The item of 20,000 feet of hose mentioned in a preceding para- 

 graph has been advertised again. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Electric Cable Co. (New York), whose plant at Bridge- 

 port, Connecticut, was partially destroyed by fire on February 

 18, are planning to rebuild on a larger scale. A portion of the 

 old plant, which was not seriously injured, has been running 

 since the fire. 



Mr. H. H. Holland, of London, the European agent for the 

 United States Rubber Co., was in New York and Boston recently, 

 on his annual visit to the States, in connection with the business 

 which he represents. It is understood that whereas little "rubber" 

 weather was experienced in England during the past winter, con- 

 ditions for selling galoshes were especially favorable in Norway 

 and Sweden. 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co. have discontinued their 

 Pacific coast branches and appointed the Chanslor & Lyon Motor 

 Supply Co. as their agents in California, Nevada, and Hawaii 

 for the Hartford line of tires. C. H. Minto, who was Pacific 

 coast manager for the Hartford company, has been retained 

 by the Chanslor & Lyon company. 



I. Goldberg, formerly connected with the waste rubber trade 

 in Boston as a member of the firm Goldberg & Rathman, has 

 opened a new house in that trade as L Goldberg & Co., at Nos. 

 6-10 Storer street, in that city. 



The tires on the taxicabs operated by the New York Transpor- 

 tation Co. are equipped with Dow nondeflation inner tubes, 

 which are reported by the transportation company to be giving 

 absolute satisfaction. The Dow Tire Co. (No. 104 West Forty- 

 second street. New York), who make these tubes, are understood 

 to be figuring on supplying them for use on the vehicles of sev- 

 eral other important services in New York and other cities. 



Samuel G. Rigdon, known to the rubber tire trade for a num- 

 ber of years as an active and successful traveling man, has be- 

 come the general representative of the Republic Rubber Co. 

 (Youngstown, Ohio.) 



