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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD . 



[June i, 1908. 



NEW IKCORPORATIONS. 



The Batavia Rubber Co., April 17, 1908, under the laws of 

 New York ; capital, $70,000. Incorporators : Lewis Benedict and 

 Augustus A. Smith, Attica, \. Y. ; and Ashton W. Caney, Bata- 

 via, N. Y. On April 13 the property of the Sweet Tire and 

 Rubber Co., at Batavia, was sold at public auction, prelim- 

 inary to reorganizing the business, and the new company succeeds 

 in control. The three incorporators named were all directors in 

 the Sweet company, Mr. Caney having been such since its incor- 

 poration, in August, 1902. The old company was formed to make 

 a solid vehicle tire patented by John M. Sweet. He left the 

 company in 1905, and the company took on the manufacture of 

 various kinds of tires, and have done a considerable volume of 

 business. 



Lockport Rubber Works, April 21, 1908, under the laws of 

 New York; capital $300,000. Incorporators: J. R Davis and 

 H. M. Wood, Erie, Pennsylvania; E. H. Seaman, Middleport, 

 N. Y., and A. M. Steele, Lockport, N. Y. Further details are 

 given on another page of this paper. 



The F. A. Cigol Rubber Co., April 4, 1908, under the laws of 

 New Jersey; capital, $10,000. Incorporators: Frank A. Cigol, 

 Henry Marelli, and Sanfilici Alexander, all of Paterson, N. J. 

 The new' company inform The India Rubber World that they 

 have begun making rubber erasers and molded goods, supplying 

 customers who practically take up their whole product. Mr. 

 Cigol was one of the incorporators of the Laurel Rubber Co., 

 formerly of Passaic, N. J., and later at Garfield, N. J., and 

 for some years was their factory superintendent. The new 

 company are located at Nos. 55-57 Albion avenue, Paterson. 



John H. Parker Co., May 11, 1908, under the laws of Massa- 

 chusetts; capital, $35,000. Incorporators: John H. Parker, 

 Charles L. Parker, and James E. Andrews, all of Maiden, 

 Mass. John H. Parker is president and treasurer ; office No. 

 25 James street. Maiden. Business, the manufacture of shoes, 

 shoe findings, and waterproof garments, hitherto carried on 

 by Mr. Parker. 



The Pilgrim Rubber Co., April 18, 1908, under the laws of 

 Massachusetts ; capital. $25,000. Incorporators : Arthur E. Deni- 

 son, Cambridge ; Arthur W. Denison, Newton ; and W. Stanley 

 Campbell, West Roxbury, Mass. 



American Puncture Proof Tire Co., May 9, 1908, under the 

 laws of Illinois; capital, $60,000. To manufacture the Dykes 

 puncture proof pneumatic tire. Incorporators : George E. Di.xon, 

 John L. G. Dykes, and Harold S. Osborne. It is intended to 

 establish a factory in Chicago. Temporary address, First 

 National Bank building. 



Vacuum Insulating Co., May 11, 1908, under the laws of 

 Maine ; capital authorized, $500,000. Incorporators : James E. 

 Manter, Clarence E. Eaton, Charles D. Fullerton, and A. S. 

 Conant, all of Portland, Maine. 



American Insulating Co., May 11, 1908, under the laws of 

 Maine; capital authorized, $12,000. Incorporators: James E. 

 Manter, Clarence E. Eaton, Charles D. Fullerton, and A. S. 

 Conant, all of Portland, Maine. 



EUBBEE TIEES FOE NEW YOEK FIEE DEPARTMENT. 

 The fire commissioner of New York city lately advertised 

 for bids, to be opened on April 30, for supplying about 14.620 

 pounds of solid rubber tire stock, of various dimensions, for 

 use in the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx and Richmond. 

 The details included 193 tires, in addition to 5 reels of light 

 stock. The largest tires called for were 3 wired. No. 5 wire, 

 4 inch flat base. A contract for the above was awarded to 

 The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio). 



LA ZACUALPA PLANTATION NOTES. 



La Zacualpa Rubber Plantation Co. arc experimenting on their 

 estate in Chiapas, ^Mexico, with centrifugal machines in the 

 handling of rubber latex in large quantities. The management 

 have found that they can safely tap 10 months in the year, which 



is a very desirable consideration. At latest accounts tappers 

 were averaging 8 to 9 pounds a day of dry rubber or the equiva- 

 lent in latex. The company plan to plant 2,000 acres in rubber 

 this year, from seed. 



TEADE NEWS NOTES. 



The "Kantleek" inner tubes for automobile tires, mentioned 

 in the last India Rubber World as being made by The Seamless 

 Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), are distributed by the 

 important sporting goods house of A. G. Spalding & Brothers 

 (New York). 



The United States Rubber Co. are now occupying their new 

 Boston headquarters, at No. 140 Essex street, corner of Columbia. 

 They are desirably located in the center of the shoe trade dis- 

 trict, and the store and offices are admirable with regard to ar- 

 rangement and appointments. The offices of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. are also located here, and the offices of the American 

 Rubber Co. 



Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New York) issue a 

 sheet of practical and excellent "Directions Concerning the Care 

 of Fire Hose" designed to be posted in fire houses. 



Work was resumed on May 11 at the boot factory of the 

 Woonsocket Rubber Co., at Millville, Massachusetts. The "Alice" 

 mill, at Woonsocket, was not opened on the same date, as was 

 intended, on account of the delays involved in installing a large 

 new engine, but is now active. 



The offices of W. R. Brixey, the insulated wire manufacturer, 

 have been removed from No. 203 Broadway, New York, to 

 No. 30 Church street, in the Hudson Terminal buildings. Mr. 

 Brixey's son R. D. Brixey acts as general manager of the busi- 

 ness. Mr. Brixey is manufacturing a submarine cable 50 miles 

 in length, to be laid along the route of the Panama canal. 



The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) were reported lately to be 

 running full time for all the day employes, and to have put on 

 a regular night force. 



The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Passaic. New Jer- 

 sey) have taken up the work of repairing automobile tires, which 

 they are referred to as doing with a great deal of success. 



Schedules in bankuptcy of Leon Rubay (corporation), 

 dealer in tires and other automobile supplies, No. 1697 Broad- 

 way, New York, showed liabilities of $25,186, and assets of 

 $19,562 — cash, $586; stock and fixtures, $5,945; and accounts, 



$13,031- 



The Hartford Rubber Works Co. (Hartford, Connecticut), in 

 order to keep pace with the orders received for Hartford tires^ 

 have been obliged to put on a night force. 



The rubber footwear factory of L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, 

 Connecticut), after a shutdown lasting from the middle of March, 

 resumed work on May 4 on full time — 10 hours a day. 



The firm of Hagemeyer & Brunn (Produce Exchange annex, 

 New York), importers of crude rubber since 1859, and whose 

 members are Messrs. Paul Bertuch, Lincoln Brunn, and Ewart 

 M. Brunn, desire to state that they have no connection whatever 

 with any other firm or house in this line. Mr. A. W. Brunn, 

 who is a rubber broker, although located in the same building, is 

 not related to the Brunns of Hagemeyer & Brunn, nor has he 

 ever been in any way connected with this firm. 



The Manhattan Rubber ^lanufacturing Co. (Passaic, New Jer- 

 sey) are opening a new branch — in New Orleans, at No. 204 

 Decatur street. 



The Greenwald Rubber Co. (Buffalo, New York), of which 

 Lemon Greenwald is manager, is a distinct organization from 

 the Empire State Tire Co., incorporated in August, 1907, and 

 which purchased the Greenwald internal protector for tires, 

 which they are now manufacturing. Mr. Greenwald's new com- 

 pany will promote his other inventions. 



"Fillem" is described as a composition of self vulcanizing rub- 

 ber for prompt repairs of cuts, punctures, curb injuries and sand 

 blisters on tires. It is made and sold by the Greenwald Rubber 

 Co. (Buffalo, New York). 



