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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1908. 





View of the Lockport Rubder Works. 



[The figures on the various buildings indicate: i — Office and Laboratory. 2 — Hcse and Tire Depart- 

 ments. 3 — Mill Room and Inner Tube Department. 4 — Bicycle Tire Department. 5 — Machine Shop. 

 6 — Reclaiming Plant. 7, 8, g — Leased to a textile concern.] 



THE RUBBER FACTORY AT LOCKPORT. 



Ax illustration on this page gives a view of the plant of the 

 Lockport Rubber Works, the establishment of which, at Lock- 

 port, New York, has been reported lately in this journal. The 

 company, by the way, have been active during the month in com- 

 pleting the organization of their various departments. It is an- 

 nounced that they will open shortly a New York branch, in 

 charge of Mr. D. B. Nally, who has been widely and well known 

 in the tire trade, from the time when this was confined prin- 

 cipally to cycle tires. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



An addition has been made to the offices of the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co., affording 5,000 square feet of space. The room will be 

 used for factory office departments. 



It is expected that the Diamond Rubber Co. employes will 

 have 10,000 people at their annual outing at Myers Lake, Canton, 

 Ohio, this year. The date of the picnic is July 25. Last year 

 the attendance was 8,000 and in the year before 5,000. Picnics of 

 other companies have increased proportionately in attendance, 

 indicating the rapid growth in the number of men employed here 

 in the rubber trade. 



Dr. Mary S. Whetstone, a special agent of the bureau of 

 labor of the United States department of commerce and labor, 

 was recently visiting rubber factories in New England to de- 

 termine the effects of work therein on the health, especially 

 of women and children. She also consulted local physicians 

 relative to conditions of health among rubber workers. 



Mr. Eben H. Paine, who has been in Europe since last July 

 in the interest of the United States Rubber Co., returned to the 

 States early in the month and will spend the summer months 

 on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Paine rhaintains offices in 

 London, but has traveled extensively on the continent in con- 

 nection with his company's business. 



Frederick T. Ryder, of the .\psley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massa- 

 chusetts), has returned from an extensive and successful business 

 trip to the West. 



The increase in volume of shipments from Fairfield, Connecti- 

 cut, is referred to as indicating a marked improvement in business 

 in that locality. The Fairfield Rubber Co. are mentioned as shar- 

 ing in this improvement. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Frank Mossberg Co. (Attle- 

 boro, ;\Iassachusetts) have issued a 

 special catalogue covering metal reels, 

 spools, and beams. This catalogue 

 not only covers reels and spools for 

 the entire wire manufacture; but also 

 for the textile industry. Copies will 

 be sent to any one interested, upon 

 request. 



The shareholders of the Apsley 

 Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) 

 have voted to increase the capital 

 stock from $450,000 to $750,000, leav- 

 ing the undivided profits at $270,000 

 in addition. 



The tire output of the factories of 

 the Rubber Goods Manufacturing 

 Co. for this year is reported larger 

 than last, and their railway supplies 

 business is referred to in a newspa- 

 per article as aggregating $3,000,000 

 to $4,000,000 a year. 



John H. Pierce, superintendent of 

 L. Candee & Co., rubber manufac- 

 turers at New Haven, Connecticut, is 

 mentioned as one of the incorpora- 

 tors of Parkham Realty Co., formed 

 to improve real estate at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. 

 The regular quarterly dividend of the common stock of the 

 Canadian General Electric Co., Limited, at the rate of 7 per 

 cent, per annum, is payable on July i. 



The Boston Die Co. have completed and now occupy a new 

 shop at East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is equipped with the 

 latest improved machinery and facilities for prompt shipments. 



The management of the Chicago Reclaiming Co. have put 

 in plant for the manufacture of mold work and a line of 

 mechanical goods, and have begun manufacturing. This branch 

 of their business is to be conducted under another firm style — 

 Monarch Rubber Works. The location is Forty-sixth avenue 

 and Twelfth street. 



Mr. Horace DeLisser, president of the Ajax-Grieb Rubber 

 Co. (Trenton, New Jersey), left early in the month for a busi- 

 ness trip in the West, to extend as far as the Pacific coast. 



The Durham Rubber Manufacturing Co., Limited (Bowman- 

 ville, Ontario), have received an order for a belt which will be 

 588 feet long and 42 inches wide, and weigh over two tons. 



Mr. H. T. Reynolds, until lately connected with The Ohio 

 Rubber Co., at Cincinnati, has accepted a position to represent 

 The Diamond Rubber Co. in Southern territory, in both mechan- 

 ical and tire lines, with headquarters in Cincinnati. 



The Innerseal puncture remedy, for cycle and motor tires, is 

 referred to as a silver flake, and not a liquid that oozes through 

 the punctures, besmearing the tire with a sticky molasses-like 

 substance. It is said not to prevent vulcanizing, and "mends 

 while you ride." It is patented, and made by the Innerseal Manu- 

 facturing Co. (Cleveland, Ohio). 



Mr. James H. Stearns, of the rubber manufacturing firm of 

 Parker, Stearns & Co. (New York) owns the beautiful Pine 

 Grove Springs Hotel, at Spofford, New Hampshire. It is a fine 

 testimonial to the beauties of the lake and mountain scenery 

 there, as well as to the comforts of the great summer hotel 

 named, that by llic first of June, when the house opens, the 

 same families and visitors every year begin to hasten to this 

 delightful resort. 



Mr. W. G. Brown has resigned his connection with the Cin- 

 cinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co., of which he has been vice- 

 president and general manager since the organization of the 

 business, in April, 1905. The resignation dates from June i. 



