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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1917. 



TRADE NOTES. 



The United States Rubber Co. has acquired the business of 

 the McCord-Norton Co., St. Joseph, Missouri, which will be 

 continued under the same name as a branch store of the first- 

 named company. 



The recent fire at the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) plant of 

 The Barrett Co. was confined to one department, the loss being 

 approximately $25,000, fully covered by insurance. Plans for 

 rebuilding have been prepared and the work will be completed 

 and new equipment installed within 60 days. 



The Cravenette Co. has been obliged, on account of increased 

 business, to move to larger quarters on the seventeenth' floor of 

 the Hess Building, 354 Fourth avenue. New York City. 



Extensive additions are being made to the Granby, Quebec, 

 factory of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Montreal, 

 Canada. 



Eastern factories are so congested with orders that the Port- 

 land Rubber Mills, Portland, Oregon, has been asked to bid on 

 an order for 3,000,000 small rubber washers. Incidentally this 

 shows to what extent this practical little rubber device is used. 



The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, has established a bonus system for its 

 salaried employes, similar to that which has been in operation 

 for some time among wage earners. The bonus, paid monthly, 

 is 8 per cent, provided absences and tardiness do not exceed 

 six hours, or more than three occasions. Those who have lost 

 no time receive an additional 4 per cent. 



A new warehouse of reinforced concrete with outside walls of 

 solid pressed brick, has been added to the Regina (Saskatchewan) 

 branch of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited. The 

 building is designed for five stories and basement, but has for the 

 present two stories and basement. It is SO by 1(X) feet wide with a 

 loading platform 50 by 13 feet, facing the railway spur track, and 

 contains all the latest improvements. The Dominion rubber fac- 

 tory of this company at St. Jerome, Quebec, is also being enlarged 

 to meet the increased demand for "Fleet Foot" shoes. 



Owing to constantly increasing business in its surgeon's gloves, 

 the Halifax Rubber Co., Halifax, Pennsylvania, is enlarging its 

 plant and installing new machinery and equipment. 



The Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) office of the Goodall Rubber 

 Co., Inc., is now located at Eleventh and Race streets, and the 

 New York City office and warerooms at 72 Murray street. These 

 changes afford three times the former wareroom space in both 

 cities. 



The Habirshaw Electric Cable Co., 10 East Forty-third street. 

 New York City, has let a contract for the construction of a two 

 and three-story addition to its manufacturing plant at Yonkers. 

 New York, 200 by 300 feet. 



The Electric Cable Co., Bridgeport, Connecticut, has awarded 

 a contract for a four-story addition 57 by 130 feet. 



Mulconroy Co., Inc., has removed to more commodious quar- 

 ters at 528 Fourth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a 

 full stock of the Mulconroy line ' of hose, "7-League" sewed 

 leather-soled rubber boots, etc., will be carried. 



Owing to the restriction of imports during the past year, 

 there has been an unusual development of the chemical industries 

 in the United States. There has been a large increase in the 

 number of by-product coke plants which are utilized in the 

 production of many compounds formerly imported from Ger- 

 many. The products referred to include the following that are 

 used in the rubber industry ; benzol, solvent naphtha, toluol, car- 

 bolic acid, and cresylic acid. 



The Court of Appeals has ordered L. G. De Cant to pay for 

 the $1,000 worth of stock in the C. A. White Rubber Co., Water- 

 town, New York, which he subscribed for but never received, 

 the money to go to the creditors in bankruptcy of the company. 

 This case has been in the courts for a number of years. 



K. V. Hawby, a Dane, and his brother. Axel S. Hawby, having 

 pleaded guilty to shipping dental rubber as passengers' baggage 

 on Scandinavian-.'Vmerican liners, were recently sentenced to 

 ten days in the Tombs, theirs being the first prison sentences to 

 be imposed on shippers who violated United States customs laws 

 in attempts to run the British blockade. 



The Merchants' Association of New York has just issued an 

 important pamphlet opposing government ownership and opera- 

 tion of public utilities, and advocating exclusive regulation of 

 all railroads by the Federal Government. It presents a masterly 

 summing up of logical arguments that the Association's Com- 

 mittee on Transportation will support before the Newlands 

 Commission, which is about to begin an investigation of tliis 

 entire matter. 



The Republic Rubber Co., Youiigstovvn, Ohio, recently re- 

 ceived an order for railway hose the volume of which doubles the 

 amount of this class of business that the company has had for 

 years. 



Work has been commenced on the addition to the plant of the 

 New York Rubber Co., Beacon, New York. The new building 

 will be two stories high and 50 by 1(X) feet. 



The Kelley Rubber Co., Cleveland, Ohio, will increase its 

 output as soon as a suitable factory building can be located. 



The Goodall Rubber Co., Inc.. Philadelphia, has moved to 

 larger quarters in the Commercial Building at Eleventh and Race 

 streets. For a number of years it has been located at 19 North 

 Seventh street. 



A Zanesville, Ohio, brick company recently closed a contract 

 for 20,000,000 bricks to be used for additions to Akron rubber 

 factories. 



A new rubber factory devoted to the manufacture of drug- 

 gists' sundries and toys is projected by C. V. Martin, of New- 

 castle, Pennsylvania, to be located at Norwalk, Ohio, in the 

 very early future. 



Work is being rapidly rushed on the buildings of the Bruns- 

 wick-Balke-Collender Co.'s factories in Muskegon, Michigan. 

 Machinery installation is expected to commence January 1. 



The Millbury Rubber Co., Millbury, Massachusetts, notice of 

 whose incorporation appears elsewhere in this issue, has taken 

 over the plant of the Stoddard Rubber Co., Inc., at Millbury, 

 the latter company liaving discontinued business. The Millbury 

 company manufactures four sizes of non-skid tires. The present 

 capacity of the mill is 160 tires a day, and it is planned to in- 

 crease this shortly to 300. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of The Loewenthal 

 Co., Chicago, Illinois, will be celebrated on New Year's Day. 

 This well-known waste rubber concern operates extensively 

 throughout the country and also carries on a large export and 

 import business. 



Kaufman & Rosenberg, dealers in scrap metals and rubber, 

 have moved to 2994 Park avenue, New York City, where they 

 occupy a three-story brick building, provided with the latest 

 equipment for rapid and efficient shipment. 



Wallace L. Gougli & Co., dealer in crude rubber, gutta percha 

 and balata, has joined offices with Richard Gough, Corn Exchange 

 Bank Building, 11-19 William street, New York City, with A. T. 

 Mason as associate. 



AMAZON TIRE EXPANSION. 



The .Amazon Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has ap- 

 pointed Owen Moynihan as eastern district manager with head- 

 quarters in New York City. Among the recent additions to the 

 staff of Amazon dealers may be mentioned Ralph E. Becker, 

 Buffalo, New York, and the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Co., 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



