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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1917. 



RUBBER SHIP CRIPPLES A U-BOAT. 



BECAUSE the rubber industrj' is so dependent upon freedom 

 o£ the seas it seems a singular coincidence that a ship in 

 the direct London-New York service, well known for its frequent 

 rubber cargoes, should have been the first American arnitil 

 pierchantman to cripple a German submarine. This distinction 

 goes to the "Mongolia" of the Atlantic Transport Co., a ves- 

 sel of 13,638 tons under the command of Captain Emery Rice. 

 On April 19, the 142nd anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, 

 the gun crew under Lieutenant Bruce R. Ware fired America's 

 first shot in the war and scored a clean hit at 1,000 yards, shat- 

 tering the periscope, thereby repelling the U-boat attack. On her 

 return trip to Xew York the "Mongolia" w^as twice attacked by 

 submarines without damage. A sister ship, tlie "Manchuria," is 

 in the same service. 



TEADE NOTES. 



The Omaha. Nebraska, branch of the United States Rubber 

 Co. has leased the ground at the corner of Ninth and Douglas 

 streets, and will build there a reinforced concrete, brick-faced, 

 fireproof building of five stories. The American Hand Sewed 

 Shoe Co.. w^hich is a branch of the United States Rubber Co., 

 will occupy a portion of the building. 



Hagemeyer & Brunn, dealers in crude rubber, announce the 

 removal of their offices to 82 Beaver street. New York City. 



The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, of To- 

 ronto, sent out last month a new footwear price list, which 

 shows an average advance of 2 to 3 cents on low rubliers, 

 and 10 to 15 cents on boots. Lumbermen's gum and duck 

 goods are advanced 10 cents a pair. 



The Third National Exposition of Chemical Industries will 

 be held at Grand Central Palace. New York City, the week 

 of September 24. A large number of leading bouses have 

 already signified their intention to exhibit. 



0. .A. Barnard Co., dealer in fabrics for the rubber trade, has 

 opened an office at 50 East Forty-second street, New York City. 



The first of a series of suits aggregating several millions of 

 dollars has been instituted by Ferdinand Ephraim. of San Fran- 

 cisco, against Salvador Madero, of Mexico, on the ground that 

 the latter, representing large interests in Mexico, has infringed 

 liis patents for extracting rubber from the guayule plant, thereby 

 causing Mr. Ephraim losses to the extent of $8,000,000. 



The well-known chemical and color house of J. Early Wood, 

 New York City, is now represented on the Pacific Coast by 

 L. T. Kirch, 461 Market street, San Francisco, California, who 

 has been appointed sales manager for that territory. 



E. M. & F. Waldo, manufacturers of compounding ingredients 

 extensively used in rubber manufacture, have recently increased 

 their facilities and office space, having taken a commodious suite 

 of offices occupying the entire center section of the fourth floor 

 of the BowUng Green Building. 11 Broadway, New York Cit\'. 



The Habirshaw Electric Cable Co., New York City, has pur- 

 chased property on the Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers, New 

 York, on which it will erect a one-story brick factory building, 

 60 by 242 feet, to be used as a wire-drawing department, the cost 

 being estimated at $60,000. 



The office of Ralph Croft, crude ruliber liroker, is now located 

 at 72 Trinity Place, New York City. 



J. A. McKenzie recently sailed for the Antipodes, as local 

 Australasian manager for the United States Rubber Export Co.. 

 whose business there will be conducted under the name of the 

 India Rubber Products Co., Limited. Mr. McKenzie was for- 

 merly branch manager of the Canadian Consolidated Rubber 

 Co., Limited, at Victoria, B. C. D. F. Moncur, formerly of the 

 Montreal office of the Canadian Consolidated company, will act 

 as Mr. McKenzie's assistant. 



JOHN J. CHANDLER. 



JOHN J. CHANDLER, vice-president of the Hoggson & Pettis 

 Manufacturing Co., New Haven, Connecticut, is a man 

 widely known in the rubber trade, his entire business life having 



been devoted to the 

 engraving of rolls 

 for rubber manufac- 

 turers. When S. J. 

 Hoggson started as 

 a die sinker and en- 

 graver in 1849 he 

 had little idea of 

 the great growtli of 

 the business he 

 founded. Thirty 

 years after, he took 

 a partner, George C. 

 Pettis, and as the 

 business grew it was 

 incorporated. The 

 success of this con- 

 cern in no small 

 degree is due to 

 John J. Chandler, 

 who became an ap- 

 prentice in June, 

 1880. In the fol- 

 JOHN J. Ch.\xdler. lowing years he be- 



came one of the 

 most expert roll engravers in the country. He rose to the 

 position of foreman, then superintendent, and later vice-president. 

 In this latter capacity he has traveled extensively throughout the 

 United States and Canada, and his face is familiar, he having 

 attended practically all the conventions and exhibitions of the 

 rubber trade which have been held in the past ten or fifteen 

 years, while his work is held as a standard in leading mills both 

 in this coniitrv and abroad. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



A. Staines Manders, alert, indefatigable and far-seeing, is 

 planning a monster rubber exhibition in London in 1919. It is 

 sure to be a success, else he will not hold it, and in the event 

 that the submarine is by that time eliminated, American interest, 

 personal and present, is sure to be great. 



Richard Weil, who has become the guide, coimselor and friend 

 of many visiting the great rubber plantations in the Far East, 

 has returned from his winter's trip to Java, the Federated Malay 

 States and Ceylon. Although but just landed, he is alr«ady 

 making plans for a trip to the same countries next winter. 



E. J. Carlin. formerly with the Pioneer Asphalt Co., Law- 

 renceville. Illinois, has accepted a position in the sales depart- 

 ment of the Barber Aspiialt & Paving Co., Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



G. G. Schrieke, representative of the Java-Sumatra Syndicate, 

 Bandoeng, Java, is in the United States with the object of in- 

 teresting American capital in planting in the Far East. He will 

 pail for Holland shortly and return to this country in September. 



CORRECTION. 



The May issue of The Indi.\ RriiBER World contained a notice 

 to the effect that the Pioneer Asphalt Co., of Lawrenceville, 

 Illinois, had become affiliated with another company in the same 

 line. This was erroneous, as the Pioneer Asphalt Co. has not 

 made any change since its incorporation, nor does it contemplate 

 any. "Pioneer" M. R. Hydrocarbon, manufactured for the rub- 

 ber trade, is a well known product of this company. 



