November 1. 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



93 



TRADE NOTES. 



The jNIanhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co., Passaic, New Jer- 

 sey, lias increased its capitalization from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. 



The Reading Rubber Manufacturing Co., Reading, Massachu- 

 setts, has recently installed a well at its plant which was put down 

 303 feet, approximately 250 feet of which was through solid 

 rock. The diameter of the well is 8 inches, and it gives a yield of 

 about 70 gallons without loweHng the level from the surface 

 greater than 14 feet. A second well is being built by the com- 

 pany, from which equally good results are e.xpected. 



F. Bierman & Sons Metal & Rubber Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 

 has a new building ready for occupancy, equipped with facilities 

 which will enable this firm to handle all shipments with more 

 promptness than heretofore. The building is of brick construc- 

 tion, two stories high, 65 by 100 feet in dimensions. 



The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, has sent out a notice that it will redeem 

 at the rate of $1,050 and accrued and unpaid interest for each 

 bond of $1,000 face value, all of its convertible sinking fund 

 5 per cent gold bonds of 1915 issued under the trust indenture 

 dated July 28, 1915, and outstanding on January 1, 1917. 



When enlargements now in progress at the Kimmel felt fac- 

 tory at Kitchener (formerly Berlin), Ontario, are completed, all 

 the manufacturing of the Canadian Consolidated Felt Co., Lim- 

 ited, will be done in the Kimmel factory, and the old Berlin felt 

 factory will be used entirely for warehouse purposes. 



Additions to present buildings of the Rotch Mills department 

 of the Passaic Cotton Mills at New Bedford, Massachusetts, are 

 almost completed and a new spinning and weaving building is 

 also in course of erection. Taylor, Armitage & Co., Inc., 120 

 Broadway, New York City, are the selling agents. 



The Advance Felt Specialty & Cutting Co.. Chicago, Illinois, 

 has recently accomplished its second move within the last 18 

 months, the changes being due to the rapid growth of the busi- 

 ness. In the new quarters at 318-322 South Jefferson street. 

 the company occupies a two-story building of brick construc- 

 tion with full concrete basement, equipped throughout with spe- 

 cially designed machinery for the cutting, stripping and puncli- 

 ing of rubber, felt cloth, and analogous materials. 



The Armstrong Rubber Co., Inc., Newark, New Jersey, has a 

 plant 75 by 98 feet which has recently installed equipment for 

 the manufacture of regular and molded automobile inner tubes 

 and rubber specialties for the trade, including two 150-horse- 

 power boilers, one 200-horse-povver electric generator and an In- 

 gersoll Rand compressor. The calenders and mills are each 

 driven by a separate motor drive, and the plant has an up-to-date 

 Grinnell sprinkler system. 



Gutta Percha & Rubber, Limited, Toronto, Canada, has 

 recently purcliased the property on which its offices and ware- 

 house are situated in Saskatoon. 



The Bibb Manufacturing Co., Macon, Georgia, has increased 

 its capital stock from $1,500,000 to $2,500,000 out of accumulated 

 surplus, on account of extensive enlargements at the Columbus 

 factory of the company. 



It is proposed to erect 20 dwellings to house the employes 

 of the National Rubber Co., Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and to 

 that end J. C. Feist, of the company, recently purchased a 60- 

 acre tract on the outskirts of that city, the property being a part 

 of the estate of the late Joshua B. Lessig. 



The Belmont Packing & Rubber Co. will shortly erect a 

 plant at Butler and Janney streets, Philadelphia, Penn.sylvania. 

 The offices of the company are located at 139 North Second street 

 in that city. 



The Republic Rubber Co.. Youngstown, Ohio, has ofifered 

 10,475 shares of its common stock pro rata, at par, to its com- 



mon stockholders. The proceeds, about $1,000,000, will be used 

 for working capital and extensions. 



The Milwaukee Engineers' Club, consisting of members of 

 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American Chemical 

 Society held its first meeting of the season in the new engineer- 

 ing building of the Federal Rubber Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin. 

 A paper on "The Growing and Gathering of Rubber Latex" 

 was read by L. J. D. Healy. chief chemist of that company, and 

 the members, numbering 183, were taken through the factory 

 where the process of manufacture was followed from Ijeginning 

 to end, after which luncheon was served. 



'PEESONAL MENTION. 



Collier W. Baird, treasurer of the Rubber Trading Co., 9-15 

 Murray street, New York City, and a meinber of Troop A, First 

 Squadron Cavalry, N. J. N. G., returned last month after a four 

 months' tour of duty at Douglas, Arizona. 



Edward Bers, of the firm of E. Bers & Co., Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania, dealers in scrap rubber and metals, has been sojourn- 

 ing at French Lick Springs, Indiana, for a brief vacation. 



P. \V. Day has been appointed sales manager of the F. S. Carr 

 Rubber Co., of Canada, Limited, Granby, Quebec. 



Frederick J. Hall, formerly second vice-president of the Habir- 

 shaw Wire & Cable Co., that was merged with the Electric Cable 

 Co., is now manager of the cable engineering department of the 

 new company, the Habirshaw Electric Cable Co., Inc., with head- 

 quarters at 10 East Forty-third street. New York City. 



Michael Minns, for some years identified with the sales depart- 

 ment of the B & R Rubber Co., has recently been appointed 

 sales manager of the Quabaug Rubber Co., North Brookfield, 

 Massachusetts, which purchased the business of the former men- 

 tioned company. 



William L. Wadleigh, head of Wadleigh Co.. Limited, Sing- 

 apore, after a sojourn of live montlis in the United States, will 

 sail from San Francisco, California, November 11, on the "Tenyo 

 Maru." He e.xpects to arrive in Singapore, December 21. 



WINDOW PUBLICITY DP THE UNITED STATES HUBBER CO. 



The windows of the United States Rubber Co., in New York 

 City, are in charge of a truly ingenious and artistic window 

 dresser. The many products of this company seem to be dis- 

 played without partiality. A whole window is given to a single 

 line or article, and the goods are surrounded by appropriate 

 accessories and backgrounds. Lay figures, life size, are used, 

 where they can be, to advantage. Tires for automobiles, motor- 

 cycles and bicycles have been shown. Belting, life preservers, 

 outing shoes, boots and shoes, and bathroom accessories, are 

 among those recently shown. The Brazilian forest has been 

 represented, also a model of the plantation of the United States 

 Rubber Co. in Sumatra. 



A BIG USER OF RUBBER TIRES. 



The Fifth Avenue Coach Co., which operates 132 motor-buses 

 in New York City, has just published its annual report for 1915- 

 1916. 



A feature brought out in this report is that the 132 buses ran 

 at a cost of only 21 cents per bus mile, each bus using six tires, 

 the rear wheels each having two tires. This cost per mile is 

 based on a mileage of 4,966,690.36 miles. New tires purchased 

 by the company during the fiscal vcar covered by the report cost 

 $54,533.63. 



A COEREOTION. 



In the October number of The India Rubber World appeared 

 a statement by its Trenton correspondent regarding the Post 

 Tire & Rubber Co., that on further investigation proves er- 

 roneous. The Indi.\ Rubber World is very glad to take this 

 occasion to contradict it. 



