June i. iqcS.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



309 



KEW OWNER OF THE FACTORY AT RUTHERFORD. 



The Rutherford Rubber Co., incorporated in New Jersey, Jan- 

 uary i6, 1908, have purchased from the receiver the plant owned 

 formerly by The Electric Rubber Manufacturing Co., at Ruther- 

 ford, N. J. It is stated that "this company, neither as individuals 

 nor as a company, ever had any connection with the Electric 

 company." The new company have begun the production of 

 solid carriage tires and pneumatic tires and tubes, all under the 

 trade name "Sterling." The India Rubber World is informed 

 that the full amount of the capital authorized by the company's 

 charter — $300,000 — has been paid in, but the organization at last 

 accounts had not been completed. Charles Austin Bates, of 

 No. 320 Fifth avenue. New York, is president of the company, 

 and F. G. Mott, Jr., is vice president and general manager. The 

 head office is at Rutherford, N. J. ; there is a New York office at 

 No. 253 West Forty-seventh street. 



CHELSEA VERY MUCH ALIVE. 



The Chelsea Manufacturers Association, starting witli a mem- 

 bership of about fort}' and including manufacturers, bankers, 

 and large ta.\payers, has been formed with the idea of showing 

 to the world that Chelsea, in spite of the great fire there in April, 

 is far from being "dead." The 25 manufacturers who belong to 

 the association are rated by a leading mercantile agency as hav- 

 ing a capital of about $8,000,000. Of the manufacturing firms 

 who were injured by the fire only one has moved away so far, 

 and they did not own their factory building. The immediate ob- 

 ject of the association is to rebuild homes in Chelsea for the work- 

 ing people, to replace tlie great number destroyed by the fire. W. 

 H. Gleason, of the Revere Rubber Co., is president; R. E. Bartels 

 is treasurer, and F. H. Blaney secretary. The executive committee 

 consists of William Martin (of T. Martin & Bro. Manufacturing 

 Co., in the elastic webbing trade), chairman; R. E. Bartels, A. 1). 

 Bosson, A. G. Walton, and W. S. Forbes. 



V.R.MFG.CO, J.C 



A 42-INCH SUCTION HOSE. 



The very graphic illustration herewith shows a section of a 

 42 inch suction hose manufactured by the Voorhees Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City, New Jersey). The picture tells 

 its own story and tells it mighty well, and the story is big work, 

 good work, and good workmen. 



SOME WASTE RUBBER IS DUTIABLE. 



The importers at New York of certain goods which they 

 sought to enter free of duty as scrap rubber, protested against 

 its classification by the port collector as waste dutiable at 10 

 per cent., under paragraph 463 of the tariff act. The board of 

 United States general appraisers held : "While it appears that 

 the rubber in question was bought and sold as 'scrap.' it is also 

 shown that some of the pieces could be used for patching rubber 

 tires, and that the price of the merchandise found by the board 



on reappraisement is less than one-half that charged for new 

 rubber tire stock." The action of the collector was sustained. 



A NEW GOLF BALL. 



Mr. W. H. Yule, formerly of the Badger Brass Manufacturing 

 Co., has been recently appointed manager of the golf ball de- 

 partment of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio). As a 

 specialist in golf balls the young man is particularly enthusiastic 

 about the Haskell-VVhiz ball, which is the latest golf product. 

 By a different method of winding, the ball is perfectly balanced, 

 and the cover is so applied that uniformity, balance and accuracy 

 are all there. These add long flight and accuracy on the putting 

 green. Another excellent feature of the ball is a cover that is 

 practically cut proof. 



HOW DOES THIS DIFFER FROM GALILITHI 



The newspapers mention George V. Frye, of Mansfield, Ohio, 

 as having produced from skim milk a substance which is imper- 

 vious to acids, is unaffected by heat or cold, and is a high class 

 electrical insulating material. The new substance has been named 

 Omsite. It is reported to be the subject of patents, which cover 

 an electrical treatment of the milk. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Edw.\rd B. Pe-^rson, for several years president and treas- 

 urer of the Tremont Rubber Co. (Boston), has become con- 

 nected with the shoe jobbing house of Falconer, Lane & Co., 

 in the same city, and will have charge of their sale of the 

 Apsley Rubber Co.'s goods in New York and the New England 

 states. 



L. P. MacMichael, of the late firm of .\. W. Brunn & Co., 

 in the crude rubber trade, the dissolution of which was re- 

 ported in the last Indi.\ Rubber World, is continuing in the 

 business, at Nos. 2-4 Stone street. New York. 



F. H. Appleton & Son have very largely increased their 

 plant at Franklin, Massachusetts, and incidentally iiostalled $25,000 

 wc.rth of new machinery. The selling force of the company 

 has also been strengthened by the addition of Mr. Lloyd E. 

 Appleton, nephew of the founder of the company. 



The Mattson Rubber Co. (Lodi, New Jersey) announce 

 the removal of their New York stock room to No. 161 

 Columbus avenue. 



The bootmakers at the Fells factory of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. have been transferred to the factory in Edgeworth, 

 where all the bootmakers employed by the company will 

 work hereafter. 



An interesting fire drill is held each week at the factory 

 of the Hartford Rubber Works Co. (Hartford. Connecticut), 

 where an efficient brigade has been organized from the ranks 

 of the employes, and apparatus provided by means of which 

 water can be thrown to the topmost point of all the buildings. 



Ernest R. Benson, who in December last resigned the 

 position of secretary of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., has 

 become sales manager of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. (De- 

 troit, Michigan). 



Ernest H. Brandt, some time New York manager for the 

 Hartford Rubber Works Co., has been appointed general 

 Eastern manager of the Cadillac :Motor Car Co. (Detroit, 

 Jilichigan). from which it is inferred that the Cadillac will 

 establish a New York branch. 



E. Bers & Co., scrap rubber merchants of Philadelphia 

 and New York, are issuing an attractive series of picture 

 postal cards showing views of Philadelphia, and incidentally 

 calling attention to the growing line of business of this 

 enterprising firm. 



The Standard Gauge Manufacturing Co. (Syracuse, New 

 York), makers of indicating gages for all purposes, have 

 removed their New York branch to Room 1770, Hudson 

 Terminal building, in order to obtain more spacious quarters. 

 Their Western branch is located in the Monadnock building, 

 Chicago. 



