June i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



313 



FIRE HOSE FOR NEW YORK. 



SF.ALED proposals for supplj-ing an important amount of fire 

 liosc were received by the fire commissioner of New York city 

 up to May 14, and contracts were awarded in consequence for 

 71,500 feet. The details are embraced in the following summary 

 of contracts for supplying the city with fire hose made since 

 January I : 



For Manhattan Borough. 

 30,000 feet 2yt inch rubber hose — The Republic Co., $1.04 per 



foot $31,200 



30,000 feet 3 inch (high pressure) rubber hose — The Diamond 



Rubber Co.; $1.73^ per foot 52,050 



20,000 feet 3 inch rubber hose — 'ITie Republic Rubber Co. ; 



$1.54 per foot 30,800 



7,000 feet zVi inch rubber hose — The B. F. Goodrich Co., of 



New York; $2.20 per foot 13,400 



5,000 feet 3 inch inibbcr hose — The Republic Rubber Co.; 



$1.64 per foot 5.740 



26,000 feet 2j'-j inch rubber hose — The Republic Rubber Co.; 



$1.1414 per foot 29.770 



5,000 feet 1Y2 inch rubber hose — The B. F. Goodrich Co. of 



New York; 68 cents per foot 3,400 



121,000 $168,360 



For Brooklyn Borough. 

 10,000 feet 2}^ inch rubber hose — 'Hie Diamond Rubber Co.; 



$i.I3j^ per foot $il.35o 



10,000 feet 3 inch (hiph pressure) rubber hose — The Republic 



Rubber Co.; $1.64 per foot _ 16,400 



3,000 feet zYj inch rubber hose. — The B. F. Goodrich Co. of 



New York; $2.20 per foot 6,600 



7,500 feet 3 inch rubber hose — The Republic ivubber Co.; $1.64 



per foot _ 12,300 



25,000 feet 2J-2 inch rubber hose — The B. F. Goodrich Co. of 



New York; $1.17 per foot 29,250 



5,000 feet ij^ inch rubber hose; 68 cents per foot 3.400 



60.500 $79,300 



For purposes of comparison the following table is introduced, 



showing the amount of fire hose of all kinds received by the city, 



the dates in the first column relating to the years in which the 



hose was bid on, rather than the dates delivered : 



Year. Cost to City. 



1904 $78,785.25 



1905 74,000.00 



igo6 96.258.00 



1907 .... 



1908 (to date) 247,660.00 181,500 



The advertisement for bids to be opened on May 14 specified 

 several items of cotton fire hose, but no estimates were received 

 for this class of goods. There were specified 2500 feet of 3 inch 

 and 10,000 feet of 25^^ inch cotton hose for Brooklyn borough, 

 and 1500 feet of 3 inch and 9000 feet of 2K' inch cotton hose for 

 Manhattan — a total of 23,000 feet. 



Length in Feet. 

 92.500 

 79,500 

 83,100 



OBITUARY. 



C AMUEL F. RANDOLPH, JR., died on May 21, at his resi- 

 '-' dence in New York, after a brief illness, in his thirty-third 

 year. He commenced his business career as a salesman of me- 

 chanical rubber goods for the Commonwealth Rubber Co. (New 

 York) in 1895, when he was 20 years of age. In 1897 he entered 

 the employment of the Diamond Rubber Co., in which his ability 

 as a salesman was recognized and secured for him rapid promo- 

 tion, until he became the manager of the Diamond Rubber Co., 

 in the Eastern states. He resigned this position in 1905, attracted 

 by the possibilities in the automobile business, and formed 

 the Metropolitan Auto Co., of New York. Selling out his inter- 

 est in this company in May, 1906, he took up an invention for 

 ventilated cushions, formed a company to hold the patent rights 

 and manufacture the springs, and then, having demonstrated the 

 commercial success of the invention, organized a selling com- 

 pany called the Randolph-Edwards Co. This company became 

 the selling agent for the springs, and for a number of other 

 accessories of automobiles and Pullman cars. At the time of 

 his death he was the president of the Randolph-Edwards Co. 

 Mr. Randolpli was the son of Samuel F. Randolph, long con- 

 nected with the rubber goods trade and now identified with the 

 automobile interest in New York. 



* * * 

 Richard H.'^le Smith, president and treasurer of the R. H. 



Smith ■ Manufacturing Co., of Springfield, Massachusetts, and 

 chairman of the board of public works of that city, died on May 

 12, in his sixty-third year. Mr. Smith was born at Chicopee, 

 Mass., and built up an e.xtensive business in rubber stamps, and 

 particularly in vulcanizers and other apparatus for the stamp 

 trade. He was a veteran of the civil war and a member of the 

 Masonic fraternitv. 



THE "P. B." DYNAMOMETER. 



TN an earlier issue of this journal (September i, 1907, page 

 •^ 382) was described the very ingenious "P. B." dynamometer, 

 a French invention, designed particularly for testing rubber, but 

 adapted also for numerous uses. This device has attracted wide 

 attention and, it is understood, has been installed in a number 

 of important rubber factories. The dynomometer may be em- 



■'P. & B." Dynamometer. 



ployed for tensile tests on india-rubber or fabric ; for compres- 

 sion tests, for carrying out tests by means of repeated bending, 

 and for abrasion tests. The person standing next to the appara- 

 tus in the illustration will render clear by comparison the dimen- 

 sions of the latter. The dynomometer is exploited by A. D. 

 Cillard, fils, at 49, rue des Vinaigners, Paris. The New York 

 address is The Monolith, an important new office building. 



Dr. Walther Thiel has severed his connection with the 

 Vereinigte Gummiwaren-Fabriken Harburg-Wien. After having 

 taken his degree in Leipzig, and becoming a fellow of the Insti- 

 tute of Great Britain and Ireland, he was for several years con- 

 nected with Oxford University. Since 1896 he has been en- 

 gaged in the rubber trade, both in England and Germany, where 

 he has accumulated a thorough knowledge of rubber and the rub- 

 ber manufacture. In all probability he will be heard from in the 

 United States, and we wish him every success in his future 

 ventures. 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York quotations — prices paid by consumers for car- 

 load lots, per pound — show an advance, as compared with last 

 month : 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 6J4@ 7 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 6 @ 6?^ 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 6 @ 6j4 



Automobile tires 6 @ 6j4 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 7 @8 



White trimmed rubber loi-^(gii 



Heavy black rubber aM@ aV^ 



Mr brake hose '. • . 354@ 4 



Garden hose :...... 2 (g 2j4 



Fire and large hose 2^@ i^ 



Matting ; 1 Y^® iy& 



