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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May I, 1908. 



the sundry lines. In conversation with a leading banker in 

 Honolulu he learned that during the worst of the money scare, 

 the banks of the islands were prepared with scrip in case of 

 necessity, but that conditions remained so active there that the 

 scrip was never used. 



In Honolulu the Hollister Drug Co., handling the "Kantleek" 

 rubber goods, is doing a flourishing business. Benson Smith is 

 handling the "Qualitair" line. This firm carries a heavy stock 

 and supplies all of the plantation stores. The Honolulu Drug 

 Co. are moving into modern and convenient new quarters and 

 the firm has spared neither pains nor money in providing the 

 new store with attractive fixtures. 



Mr. C. A. Tracy, traveling for the Sterling Rubber Co., has 

 returned from a trip through Nevada and Utah, and reports 

 that on account of the mining activity at present in Nevada 

 business is very active. 



The Goodyear Rubber Co. have already adopted the plan of 

 closing on Saturday afternoons, and it is surprising that more 

 of the firms do not follow the same plan, instead of dragging 

 along with about half the force gone home and the other half 

 listlessly waiting for 5 o'clock. 



The Pacific Coast Rubber Co. are making a fine display of 

 a full line of new stock in their windows at its Mission street 

 store. Mr. Norton, of the firm, reports a very satisfactory 

 business. 



The Phoenix Rubber Co. are looking tor a permanent loca- 

 tion. Their intention is to secure an establishment so large that 

 they can have the entire store and shop on one floor. 



The Central American Rubber Co. is the name of a new in- 

 corporation that has been formed in Spokane, Washington. 



A recent fire did great damage to the store of the Pacific 

 Coast Rubber Co., of Portland, Oregon. The fire occurrea 

 March 18. 



Moore & Sheehan are now permanently established at their old 

 location, at No. 576 Mission street, in the Braun building, 

 between First and Second streets. They are Pacific coast sales 

 agents of the Davol Rubber Co. (Providence, Rhode Island) ; 

 the Vulcanizer Rubber Co. (New York) ; and the Canton Rub- 

 ber Co. (Canton, Ohio). 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



H.\ZARD M.\NUF.\CTURiNG Co. (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania), 

 in issuing a new catalogue of their products, have divided 

 it into two separate publications — Wire Rope and Insulated 

 Wires and Cables. The latter covers electrical conductors for 

 street railway, electric light and power circuits, telephone, tele- 

 graph and signal systems. In addition to rubber covered wires 

 and cables, the company manufacture a line of waterproof in- 

 sulations, all bearing registered trade mark names. The cata- 

 logue, which is handsomely got up, is enbellished with views of 

 a number of important buildings, mining installations, warships, 

 telephone exchanges, and so on, equipped with their wire prod- 

 ucts. [6%" X 9V4". 156 pages.] 



The Jeffrey M.\nl'f.\cturing Co. (Columbus, Ohio) issue 

 a new catalogue of Rubber Belt Conveying Machinery, with some 

 scores of illustrations of examples of such machinery in opera- 

 tion, in such varying lines of work as the conveying of mails 

 in the Chicago postoffice and handling ore on a very large scale 

 at a South African mine. The rubber belting used, made under 

 patents owned by the company, is specially designed for a wide 

 number of uses. [6" X o"- 48 pages.] 



The Milford Rubber Works (Milford, Illinois) issue a Cata- 

 logue of their mechanical goods, tires, and molded specialties, in 

 which latter class heels and horseshoe pads figure prominently. 

 U'A X S%". 28 pages.] 



W. D. Allen Manuf.\cturing Co. (Chicago) devote their Cir- 

 cular No. 157 to Lawn Sprinklers and Accessories, of which they 

 are very large manufacturers. They offer an extensive line. 



covering a number of special devices on which they hold patents. 

 IsH" X 5?8". 32 pages.] 



E. J. Willis Co. (No. 8 Park place. New York) issue a new 

 catalogue of Automobile Supplies, of which about 500 are enu- 

 merated. Very many tire items are included — indeed nearly 

 half of them all have to do with rubber goods in some form, 

 including automobile coats, horn bulbs, rubber shirts, tire repair- 

 ing vulcanizers, and so on. This is only a price list, and none 

 of the articles is described at length. [9" X 6^". 45 -j- 11 

 pages.] 



Brooks Brothers, a long established New York tailoring firm, 

 have brought out a "Motor Section" of their catalogue — one of 

 the many indications of the extent to which motoring require- 

 ments must now be considered by purveyors of clothing, whether 

 for men or for women. Not a few of the items in this catalogue 

 are mackintosh or rubber surface goods. The cover of the 

 Brooks catalogue is ingeniously got up to represent in appear- 

 ance the motor car number tag required in New York. [6" x 6". 

 36 pages.] 



W.^SHiNGTON Rubber Co., Inc. (Tacoma, Washington) issue a 

 catalogue of Bicycles, Tires, and Bicycle Sundries, of which they 

 are wholesalers on a large scale, their trade through a chain of 

 branch houses extending over a considerable portion of the Pacific 

 coast. The leading makes of these various lines are represented in 

 the catalogue, the size and scope of which would indicate that 

 bicycling must continue very popular in the far West. [7^" x 

 9H"- 95 pages.] 



The Goodye.\r Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are send- 

 ing out an illustrated booklet, "The Care of an Auto Tire," which 

 is full of matter which seems to be of really practical character, 

 and applicable to other tires as well as the Goodyear product. 

 [3'/." x 6". 32 pages.] 



The Ohio Rubber Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio), an important job- 

 bing house, issue an exceedingly full catalogue of Druggists' Sun- 

 dries and Miscellaneous Rubber Goods, including almost every- 

 thing in this line which is called for in the household, the whole 

 being profusely illustrated. [9" x 6". 74 pages.] 



SOME WANTS OF THE TRADE. 



[444] A N American manufacturer of artificial limbs would 

 ^*' like the address of some rubber manufacturer 

 who is equipped with molds and can furnish sponge rubber parts 

 for artificial feet. 



[445] Information is wanted as to how to successfully mend 

 water bottles or any rubber instrument to vulcanize a patch on a 

 water bottle. 



[446] "Do you know of any substitute for hard rubber which 

 the acids of ink will not effect?" 



[447] "Can you give us the name of any manufacturer of 

 machines suitable for testing tensile strength in a rubber factory : 

 We are desirous of purchasing such a machine." 



[448] "Can you give us the address of the party vv'ho makes 

 Vorite, very similar to substitute?" 



[449] "Kindly give us the names and addresses of manufac- 

 turers of solid woven cotton belt." 



[450] A German manufacturer writes to ask The India Rub- 

 ber World if a rubber heel of a certain design was in use any- 

 where prior to a certain date, and the information has been 

 supplied. 



[451] An American house in receipt of an order from a 

 Singapore, writes to learn the financial standing of the firm 

 standing it, and information has been supplied. 



[452] "Kindly let us have the name and address of a firm 

 in America that makes varnish as used on rubber boots." 



[453] "Who makes the Mineralite rubber ball?" 



[454] "Will you be so kind as to give us the name of firms 

 from whom we can secure rubber balls, both solid and inflated?" 



