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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December- 1, 1916. 



TRADE NOTES. 



The business of G. E. Thinp: & Co., Buffalo, New York, 

 has been acquired by the United States Rubber Co., of New 

 York City, and will be continued as a branch store of that 

 company, under the same name as formerly, with J. F. 

 Barnes as manager. 



The Orrville Rubber Co., OrrviUc, Ohio, notice of whose in- 

 corporation appeared in the November issue of The Ixdi.\ Rub- 

 ber World, has begun operations with newly purchased ma- 

 chinery that will insure an output of 360 tires per day. The com- 

 pany will manufacture inner tubes and tires, specializing in Ford 

 sizes, and about January 1 will commence to manufacture heels, 

 soles and rubber matting. 



The Panama Rubber & Equipment Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 

 has increased its capital stock to $30,000. This company has 

 recently added to its automobile business a lighting and start- 

 ing battery station, managed by H. E. Spoeneman, who has 

 become a member of the firm. 



Rosenwald & Weil, Chicago, Illinois, have more than 

 doubled their rubberizing capacity within the past year and 

 have recently contracted to produce 1,000.000 yards of auto- 

 top combining work. This concern is now running a new 

 66-inch, three-roll Farrel calender, and in order to secure 

 the proper control over the variable speeds, a transformer 

 and rotary converter has been installed in connection with a 

 Cutler-Hammer control board. 



This firm recently held an extensive exhibit at their sample 

 rooms for the information of raincoat buyers. Crude rubbers 

 of various kinds were shown, together with bottles or jars of 

 compounding ingredients, each properly labeled, With these 

 were displayed samples of the fabrics before and after sheeting, 

 all appropriately labeled. The exhibit elicited much favorable 

 comment from the buyer;,. 



The entire plant of the -'\tlantic Manufacturing Co., mechan- 

 ical rubber goods, at Wilmington, Delaware, was consumed by 

 fire on November 7. It is said that the plant will at once be 

 rebuilt. 



The Barrett Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a large manufac- 

 turer of chemicals and compounding ingredients used in the 

 rubber trade, specializing in benzol, will build a one-story brick 

 and concrete boiler plant on Bermuda street. 



The United States Rubber Co. of California, will occupy a 

 new $10,000 building now in course of construction at 731 Broad- 

 way, Tacoma, Washington. The new quarters will be -tO by 

 100 feet, three stories high. 



The New York City offices of Werner & Pfleiderer Co., of 

 Saginaw, Michigan, are now located on tlie thirty-seventh 

 floor of the Woolworth Building. 



The capital stock of the Portland Rubber Mills, of Portland, 

 Oregon, has been increased from $25,000 to $40,000, accord- 

 ing to an announcement made by H. C. Huntington, presi- 

 dent and general manager of the mills. The company spe- 

 cializes in molded goods. 



It is reported that Robert H. Childs, superintendent of the 

 Asphalt & Rubber Co., Independence, Kansas, has resigned 

 and will be succeeded by J. H. Harre, of Chicago, Illinois. 



The recent annual meeting of the Electric Hose & Rubber 

 Co., Wilmington, Delaware, showed a gross business of 

 $1,468,000, as compared with $991,000 during the preceding 

 year. Total dividends for the year amounted to IS per cent. 

 The new mechanical rubber goods manufacturing company 

 located at Goshen, Indiana, will 'be known as The Goshen 

 Rubber & Manufacturing Co. The new company was incor- 

 porated with a capital of $55,000 and its officers are Charles 

 Noel, president, general manager and treasurer, and Henry 

 W. Pease, secretary, sales manager and superintendent. 



Large additions are being made to the La Crosse Rubber 

 Mills, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Present plans embrace a largely 

 increased force and output of rubber boots and shoes. 



The Meade Rubber Co., Stoughton, Massachusetts, manu- 

 facturer of molded specialties, is working its factory day and 

 night and is unable to keep abreast of orders. 



The United States Rubber Co., Lycoming, Pennsylvania, 

 will erect a four-story addition to its plant costing $40,000. 

 The completion of this will allow for an increase in force 

 of 500 to 1,200 persons, and in production to 20,000 pairs of 

 shoes daily. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The whole trade will hear with much regret of the accident 

 that happened to Robert B. Baird, vice-president of the Rubber 

 Trading Co., on the 14th of November. Mr. Baird, in crossing 

 lower Broadway, New York City, was struck by a car and badly 

 crushed under the fender. He was taken to the Seeney Hospital 

 in Brooklyn, where he has remained in an unconscious condition 

 most of the time since. His injuries seem to be shock and a 

 slight concussion of the brain. The physicians in attendance 

 report that his condition is very serious. 



Marcus Rothschild, who has been connected with the Rubber 

 Trading Co., New York City, since its organization, has com- 

 menced business on his own account as a crude rubber broker, 

 with offices at 23 Beaver .street. New York City. 



Captain Ernest E. Buckleton, president of the Northwestern 

 Rubber Co., Litherland, Liverpool, England, has recently been 

 visiting his many friends in the United States and Canada. Cap- 

 lain Buckleton is hale, hearty and optimistic as usual, and if 

 he returns to England early in December, as he now plans, the 

 .'\merican rubber trade heartily wishes him bon voyage. 



Frederick C. Peck, author of "The Valuation of Rubber 

 Estates" and "Malayan Dollar Companies," arid late director 

 of The Mergui Rubber Estates, Limited, Lower Burma, 

 passed through New York last month en route to England. 

 He reports a very bright future for the Eastern planting 

 industry. 



Edgar B. Davis and H. Stuart Hotchkiss have returned 

 from Sumatra, where they inspected the plantations of the 

 General Rubber Co., of .New York City. 



J. M. S. Carroll, manager Quebec division Canadian Consoli- 

 dated Rubber Co., Limited, has been elected by acclamation a 

 director on the board of management ai the Dominion Commer- 

 cial Travellers' Association, to hold office for the vears 1917- 

 191,8. 



W. F. Bowers, founder of the Bowers Rubber Works, San 

 Francisco, California, was a recent visitor at the offices of The 

 Indi.'X Rubber World in New York City. His interests, by the 

 way, in the very successful company that he built up, he sold to 

 his partner, W. R. Johnson. 



Leon A. Mainetty has brought suit against George Philips 

 Neider. a New York export merchant, alleging that Neider 

 caused his name to be placed on the British blacklist by 

 inducing him to ship contraband rubber in coffee bags. 



••TAPERED' RtJBBER WASHERS. 



A rubber washer is a simple thing, usually a piece of sheet 

 rubber cut to the shape and size intended. It performs its 

 work well under ordinary circumstances. But if the seat against 

 which it rests be worn or uneven, the washer must 

 be subjected to unusual grinding pressure to secure 

 the necessary tightness, and its early destruction 

 results. A washer that will be fully as effective 

 where the connections are perfect, and much more so where 

 the above-named defects are manifest, has a somewhat spherical 

 surface on one side — a sort of rounded taper. This shape allows 

 the taper to fit uneven surfaces more closely. These washers 

 are made of a flexible compound that renders them more durable 

 and efficient. [The Durst Manufacturing Co., Inc., New York 

 City.] 



