June i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Under a ruling of the United States treasury department the 

 Boston Belting Co., on the e.xportation of rubber covered rollers 

 manufactured in part with the use of imported iron and steel 

 rolls, will be allowed a drawback equal in amount to the duty 

 paid on the imported materials, less i per cent. 



The General Electric Co. have removed their New York offices 

 from No. 44 Broad to 30 Church street, where they will occupy 

 the seventeenth floor of one of the Hudson Terminal buildings. 



The business of the Johns-Pratt Co. (Hartford, Connecticut), 

 organized in 1886 to manufacture electrical insulating materials 

 and steam packing from asbestos and india-rubber under the 

 trade name of Vulcabeston, has steadily increased until it has 

 become one of the important industries of the city, employing 

 between 500 and 600 hands. The products are marketed by the 

 H. W. Johns-Manville Co. 



C. E. Conover Co., No. loi Franklin street, New York, with a 

 factory at Redbank, New Jersey, are marketing a new dress 

 shield called the "Naiad," which is described as being transparent 

 and capable of being laundered and sterilized. 



The report of the Canadian General Electric Co. for the fiscal 

 year ended December 31, 1907, shows gross profits of $722,433, 

 against $855,673 for the preceding year. 



High water mark in automobile tire product was reached at 

 the factory of The Diamond Rubber Co. recently, when 900 tires 

 were made and cured in one day. And still they are far behind 

 their orders. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), as an adjunct to 

 their very complete insulated wire equipment, are installing a 

 wire drawing plant, which will allow them to purchase copper 

 in the ingot and draw all sizes of wire needed in their work. 



The Archer Rubber Co. (Milford, Massachusetts) have leased 

 quarters in a building adjoining their factorj', with the purpose 

 of extending their facilities. The new premises will accommo- 

 date 25 additional hands. 



William H. Stiles has withdrawn from Robinson & Stiles 

 (New York) and become established as a broker in crude rubber 

 at No. 97 Water street. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mb. M. W-Achter. mentioned in The Indi.\ RrBBER World 

 March i, 1905 (page 209) as being well known in the United 

 States as a factory superintendent in insulated wire work, and 

 going then to accept a position viith the Yokohama Insulated 

 Wire Co., in Japan, was referred to recently in the Times of 

 Ceylon as stopping at Colombo to study the plantation rubber 

 situation, while on his way to Berlin to join the staff of the 

 Guiivni-Zcitung. 



Mr. James F. Giles, of the .American Hard Rubber Co. (New 

 York), who is now in Europe, is expected to return about 

 July 10. 



Mr. Charles R. Flint, formerly so prominent in the rubber 

 trade, is mentioned in the newspapers as having visited Mr. 

 Thomas A. Edison at his laboratory in New Jersey, to intro- 

 duce Mr. Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese minister at Washing- 

 ton, who is studying various American inventions and par- 

 ticularly the subject of aeroplanes. 



Mr. R. E. Galleher, secretary of the New York Insulated 

 Wire Co. (New York), who is touring Europe, is expected to 

 return during July. 



When this reaches the reader's eye, Mr. H. E. Raymond, vice 

 president of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio), will be in 

 London, on his usual annual European visit, and Mr. B. G. Work, 

 president of the company, will be on the Atlantic, returning home 

 after six weeks in England, Germany, and France. 



A large reception was given by Mr. Augustus O. Bourn, Jr., at 

 Hartley Hall, Columbia University, New York, on May 26, in 

 celebration of the conferring of the degree of master of arts 

 upon him by the faculty. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES, 



The Artificial Rubber Co. was incorporated May 14, 1908, under 

 the laws of Massachusetts, with a capital authorized of $50,000. 

 Incorporators : Charles E. Estey, president, Maiden, Mass. ; W. 

 G. Burns, treasurer, Boston ; and Julien E. Renton, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Dow Tire Co. (New York) have removed their offices from 

 No. 104 W«st Forty-second street to Sixty-eighth street and 

 Broadway. 



The directors of the Manufactured Rubber Co. (Philadelphia) 

 have declared the regular quarterly dividend of iH per cent, on 

 the preferred stock, payable on June i. 



At the factory of the Goodyear Rubber Co., at Middletown, 

 Connecticut, which had been closed for two weeks for general 

 repairs, work was resumed on May 20, with the usual force 

 and on full time. 



The Apsley Rubber Co. will entertain at Hudson, Massa- 

 chusetts, on June 6, a party from New York, embracing the mem- 

 bers of the firms of Merritt, Elliott & Co., and Claflin, Thayer 

 & Co., distributers of the Apsley Rubber Co.'s products, and 

 the salesmen of these firms. Including the foreman of the various 

 departments of the factory, at Hudson, there will be about 100 

 guests at the banquet to be given by President Apsley on the 

 evening of the date mentioned. 



The fire which destroj'ed the dismantled factory at Colchester, 

 Connecticut, used formerly by the Colchester Rubber Co., men- 

 tioned on another page of this paper, is supposed to have been 

 of incendiary origin. The loss is estimated at about $40,000. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



THE Di.\M0ND Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have issued a new 

 catalogue of Mechanical Rubber Goods, which is even fuller 

 in detail than its hitherto very complete catalogues, illustrating 

 a number of articles which are shown in fe^v or no other cata- 

 logues in the trade. Hard rubber goods are included. [5" x 7". 

 127 pages.] 



Tremont Rubber Co. (Boston), so long prominent in the 

 rubber footwear trade, have added a clothing department and 

 send us their first catalogue of goods in this line. [3H" x 6^". 

 26 pages.] 



H.^BiRSHAW Wire Co. (New York) issue a Price List of Na- 

 tional electrical code rubber covered wires and cables, Standard 

 rubber insulated conductors, and other items. [-iH" x 6)i". 

 35 pages.] 



ALSO RECEIVED. 



Rt'BBERTEX Cloth and Paper Co., Logansport, Indiana =Rubbertex. 8 

 paces. I.onabond. 8 pages. 



F. B. Parks Co., Grand Kapids, Michigan = Rubber Cement. 4 pages. 



