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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1917. 



TRADE NOTES. 



The Newport Chemical Works, Inc., New York City, now 

 occupies new offices at 120 Broadway, suite 1605-1606. 



At the annual meeting of the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co., 

 Racine, Wisconsin, the capital stock was increased from $175,000 

 to $35O,0(X), and the following board of directors elected: Wal- 

 ter C. Palmer, George G. Bryant, A. E. Boyeson, James Murphy, 

 E. L. Haynes, Martin HuefFncr, Edward L. Baker. The board 

 then organized by electing the following officers : Walter C. 

 Palmer, president ; James Murphy, vice-president ; George G. 

 Bryant, secretary and general manager ; IMartin M. HucfFner, 

 treasurer. 



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

 nated $5,000 to endow a bed in the Toronto General Hospital for 

 its former president, the late Captain Trumbell Warren, 15th 

 Toronto Highland Battalion, who fell in action on April 20, 1915. 



The Parrel Foundry & Machine Co. announces the removal of 

 it? Cleveland, Ohio, office on March 1 to 5<10 Union National 

 Bank Building. 



The City Council of Niagara Falls, New York, recently pur- 

 chased 1,000 feet of fire hose from the Manhattan Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., of Passaic, New Jersey, and the Bi-Lateral Fire 

 Hose Co., of Chicago, Illinois. 



The recently organized India Rubber Co., located at Mogadore, 

 Ohio, has purchased 13 acres of land near the railroad. The 

 company is capitalized for $125,000 and proposes to spend $100,000 

 in the erection and equipment of the plant. The principal stock- 

 holders are J. M. Alderfer, R. M. Pillmore and J. K. Williams. 

 The executive office will be in Akron, Ohio. 



The Acorn Insulated Wire Co., Inc., Brooklyn, New York, has 

 increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $60,000, in order to 

 finance the installation of machinery in a new unit of its plant, 

 and also to cover the cost of considerable raw material purchased 

 to guard possible shortage caused by diplomatic complications. 



The Standard Underground Cable Co., Perth Amboy, New 

 Jersey, is building a 25 by 75 foot four-story and basement 

 extension to one of the wings of its rubber factory. 



The Flawless Rubber Co., of New Castle, Pennsylvania, a year- 

 old corporation, said to be making goods of various descriptions, 

 recently elected George H. Wind, president ; John Burns, vice- 

 president ; Paul Hartmann, treasurer, and Joseph Ganster, sec- 

 retary. 



The Bunker Hill Rubber Works, Bunker Hill, Illinois, has 

 opened its factory and commenced the manufacture of mechanical 

 rubber goods. 



Thomas A. Murray, formerly police commissioner of New 

 Haven, Connecticut, and later connected with the Seamless Rub- 

 ber Co., of that city, has been elected president and general 

 manager of the National Rubber Co., Pottstown, Ohio. 



The Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin, 

 has recently completed a $200,000 addition to its power plant. 



The Kokomo Rubber Co., Kokomo, Indiana, capitalized for 

 $200,000, is reported sold to a holding company for $1,200,000. 



The Oldtown Rubber Co., Xenia, Ohio, has been purchased by 

 Robert Kuhn, of Cincinnati, Ohio. A radical change of policy 

 is planned under the new management. 



The Mineralized Rubber Co., with headquarters at Newark, 

 New Jersey, is reported to be in the hands of a receiver. The 

 business of the company was the manufacture of a rubber com- 

 position cap for automobile radiators. One of the petitioning 

 creditors is Harold C. Dodge, of East Orange, New Jersey, presi- 

 dent of the company, whose claim is for $7,000, money advanced. 



The stockholders of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur- 

 ing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at a special meeting held 

 recently, unanimously approved an increase in the capital stock 

 from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000. The additional stock will be com- 

 mon and will consist of 300 shares of a par value of $50. 



RUBBER FIRMS PLEDGE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT. 



D UBBER plays an important part in the national defense, 

 •^^^ and in connection with the present program of accel- 

 erated preparedness it is a sincere pleasure to record the 

 promptness with which leading .American rubber manufac- 

 turers joined other industrial and commercial establishments 

 in pledging their hearty support to the Federal Government 

 in any emergency that may arise. On February 3, Samuel P. 

 Colt, president, placed the 47 factories, organization, manu- 

 facturing resources and distributing facilities of the United 

 States Rubber Co. at the disposal of the government in case 

 of need. The resources of this, the greatest rubber manufac- 

 turing firm in the world, are tremendous, its large plantations 

 in Sumatra being an important national asset. 



Other great rubber firms to ofifer their factories include The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio; Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio ; United & Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos., 

 Trenton, New Jersey. More names will doubtless have been 

 added to the list before this reaches our readers. 



WESTINGHOUSE BUILDS NEW PLANT. 



The site for the new plant of the Westinghouse Electric 

 & Manufacturing Co., at Essington, near Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania, embraces about 500 acres, with a frontage of appro.xi- 

 mately one mile on the Delaware River, additional transporta- 

 tion facilities being afiforded by tracks from the Pennsylvania 

 and Philadelphia & Reading railroads. 



This new center will be devoted to the production of large 

 apparatus, the first group of buildings being for power ma- 

 chiner.y, principally steam turbines, condensers and reduction 

 gears. The initial development will cost in the neighborhood 

 of $5,000,000 or $6,000,000, occupying about one-fifth of the 

 area of the entire plot, the buildings consisting of two large 

 machine shops, an erecting shop for heavy machinery, forge 

 shop, pattern and pattern storage shop and power house. 



The emploj'es to be engaged at the new plant will number 

 several thousand, and undoubtedly will in the future equal 

 the number employed at the East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

 plant of the company, representing over 20,000 people. 



MAKING RUBBERS ON BROADWAY. 



The public likes to know how commonly used articles are 

 made, and recent instances indicate that there is no better window 

 advertising than a manufacturing demonstration such as that 

 conducted by the United States Rubber Co., 1790 Broadway, 

 New York City. During the week of January 22 one of the 

 handsomely decorated display windows was fitted up like the 

 making room of a well-equipped rubber footwear factory and 

 four operatives from the Goodyear's Metallic Rubber Shoe Co. 

 manufactured women's croquets and storm slippers, also United 

 States patent pressure process rubber boots in black, red and 

 white. Large crowds showed great interest in the diaphragm 

 machine employed to press the parts of women's rubbers into 

 practically one piece. 



NEW METHOD OF SOLING BOOTS. 



The American Consul at Leeds. England, reports a patented 

 method of manufacturing boot soles from scrap leather. It is 

 claimed that the soles are non-suction, non-slipping, and water 

 proof; that they can be produced at much lower cost than the 

 ordinary leather sole. Owners of plants for heelbuilding, it is 

 believed, will find themselves in a position to adopt the new 

 process conveniently. 



It is also claimed that the novelty of the patent may be en- 

 hanced by an ingenious arrangement of strips of rubber attached 

 to a thin layer of canvas, the rubber strips fitting into the inter- 

 stices of the leather sections. This is said to give a pleasing 

 resiliency to the step of the wearer. 



