August i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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HUBBER FACTORY STRUCK BY LIGHTNING 



The factory of The Victor Rubber Co. (Springfield, Oliio) was 

 struck by lightning early on the morning of June 20 and burned 

 to the ground. The factory was located on Mad river, at Snyder- 

 ville, outside of Springfield, and the tire was beyond control too 

 quickly for the Springfield tire department to be of assistance. 

 The newspapers report the loss at $125,000, with $60,000 insurance. 

 The building was not owned by the company. It was erected 

 some ten years ago by an earlier company of the same name, 

 which failed in 1904, owing to the financial embarrassment of 

 John S. Harshman, the first president and largest shareholder, 

 being succeeded by the present Victor Rubber Co., incorporated 

 July 2, 1904. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Beacon Falls Rubber Co. (Beacon Falls, Connecticut) are 

 installing a new boiler in their factory. 



The machinery of the Globe Mills Rubber Co. (Lawrence, 

 Mass.), which company was incorporated at the end of 1904 

 and manufactured rubber footwear for some time, ceasing opera- 

 tions in the summer of 1907, was purchased by the W. C. Cole- 

 man Co. (Boston), who have disposed of practically all of it. 



The employes of the brass foundry department of the Boston 

 Woven Hose and Rubber Co. had an enjoyable outing at Lexing- 

 ton, Mass., on July 18. 



Notices have been posted at the two factories of the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co. that they will be shut down on August 5, for 

 the annual summer vacation, and resume operation on August 27. 

 The two factories of the United States Rubber Co. at Naugatuck, 

 Conn., will be closed from August 8 to August 31. Meanwhile a 

 number of repairs will be made in both factories. 



American Wax Co. (No. 161 Summer street, Boston), manu- 

 facturers of insulated wire waxes, announce that they are pre- 

 pared to supply upon request, with their compliments, blue prints 

 showing plans for insulated wire saturating tanks, constructed on 

 the principles outlined in article by Mr. Coleman on another 

 page. 



The Apslcy Ruiihcr Co. (Hudson, IMassachusetts) have 

 adopted a plan for saving water at their factory on an im- 

 portant scale. The plan is to conduct the water from cal- 

 enders, grinders and washers to storage tanks, where it is 

 forced into the boilers or used for other purposes on the 

 premises. 



The P. & H. Tire Co., No. 1657 Broadway, New York, an- 

 nounce that Norvell, Shapleigh & Co., of St. Louis, have 

 become their distributing agents for the United States, for 

 the entire territory, except the states of New York and New 

 Jersey. 



The Buffalo Foundry and Machine Co. (Buffalo, New York), 

 who, besides making exceptionally large castings, are builders 

 of vacuum drying and impregnating machinery, vacuum drum, 

 shelf and rotatory dryers, compressors, pumps, condensers, and 

 the Bell steam hammer, recently established a New York office 

 at No. 143 Liberty street, having engaged Mr. H. E. Jacoby as 

 resident engineer and manager in New York. 



The Michelin Tire Co. are referred to as having had their 

 factory at Milltown, New Jersey, in operation 24 hours a day for 

 the past five months. 



Mr. Isaac Crocker, of Providence. Rhode Island, treasurer of 

 the Hope Rubber Co.. and also of the "Crocker Rubber Stores 

 Syndicate" of New England, tendered an outing and reception to 

 his managers and other employes of his different stores, about 

 thirty in number, on July 4 and 5. The affair took place at his 

 beautiful summer residence at Glendale, New Hampshire, on the 

 shore of Lake Winnepesaukee. 



The Rubberset Brush Co. (Newark, N. J.) had a prominent 

 display at the exhibition held in connection with the fourth 

 annual convention of the New Jersey INIaster Painters' and 

 Decorators' Association, at Asbury Park, beginning on July 22. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. M. Sidney P.^rry, who was among The India Rubber 

 World's visitors during the month, has been identified with 

 planting interests in the Far East for a dozen years or more, 

 and is now a director in several important rubber planting com- 

 panies. Mr. Parry crossed the Pacific and the American con- 

 tinent, and was on his way home to England, where he w-ill 

 reside for most of the time hereafter. He was among the 

 pioneers in the rubber culture in Ceylon, and later in Malaya, 

 and is convinced that the future profits from plantation rubber 

 will be more marked even than heretofore. 



Mr. C. Edward Murray, treasurer of the Empire Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. and of two other rubber manufacturing com- 

 panies at Trenton, is likewise quartermaster general in the mili- 

 tary establishment of the state of New Jersey, and as such has 

 been in attendance at the annual encampment at Camp Fort, 

 Sea Girt, N. J., which began on July 11, with a four weeks' 

 program. 



Mr. William A. De Long has been selected to act as trustee to 

 administer the affairs of the New York firm of Coster, Knapp 

 & Co., stock brokers, who were put into bankruptcy on May 6, 

 and given bond in the sum of $50,000. The liabilities are $1,601,- 

 561, according to the schedules. Mr. De Long retired from active 

 business some time ago, after having been for many years ac- 

 tive in the crude rubber trade in New York. 



Mr. B. T. ^lorrison, treasurer of the Reading Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co. (Boston and Reading, Mass.), has told his 

 friends, si4b rosa, that he intends shortly to resign his position 

 and devote himself particularly to the care of the large property 

 interests that have come to him, partly through inheritance. 



Mr. Humphrey O'Sullivan, president of the O'Sullivan Rubber 

 Co. (Lowell, Massachusetts), was one of the delegates from his 

 state to the national Democratic convention at Denver, and was 

 placed on the committee to formally notify the Hon. William J. 

 Bryan of his nomination for the presidency of the L'nted States. 



Dr. Adolfo de Clairmont. president of the Peru-Para Rubber 

 Co., is consul for Peru at Toledo, Ohio, the city of his residence. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson. Editor of The Ixdi.\ Rubber World, 

 .has been appointed chairman of the contest committee of the 

 Massachusetts Automobile Club — one of the clubs affiliated with 

 the Automobile Club of .America — which renders him a member 

 (■X officio of the contest committee of the latter club, represent- 

 ing the Massachusetts body thereon. The national committee are 

 empowered to "frame rules, issue sanctions, and govern speed 

 and other competitions in the United States." 



Mr. A. M. Paul, president of the Davidson Rubber Co. 

 (Boston), returned from his summer vacation about July 20. 



Herr Willy Tischbein, a director of the Continental Caoutchouc- 

 und Guttapercha-Compagnie, of Hanover, Germany, and presi- 

 dent of the Continental Caoutchouc Co. of New York, was a 

 recent visitor to the United States. 



Mr. Homer E. Sawyer, general manager of the United States 

 Rubber Co., and Colonel Harry E. Converse, president of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co., are on a visit to Europe, having sailed 

 from New York July 18 by the steamer Kotiig Albert. 



Mr. Watson H. Linburg, president of the United and Globe 

 Manufacturing Cos. (Trenton), has been appointed by the gov- 

 ernor of New Jersey a member of the Delaware river bridge 

 commission. 



Vice President Lester Leiand, of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co., will serve as acting president for the time being, owing 

 to the death of Mr. Dale, president of the company. 



The swinging hose racks invented and manufactured by H. J. 

 M. Howard (Washington. D. C.) are largely used in the govern- 

 ment buildings. The government printing office is equipped with 

 4.000 feet of No. I underwriters' linen hose supported on 80 

 How^ard racks of one type. The United States treasury building 

 is supplied with nearly 5.00O feet of similar hose, supported on 

 Howard racks of a different design. 



