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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1918. 



The Crescent Insulated Wire &^Cable Co., Inc., Trenton, was 

 recently one of several wire companies awarded a contract by 

 the Government for Signal Corps wire for use overseas. 



Here are pictured two popular rubber men of Trenton who 

 are so well-known in the trade that to name them would seem 

 almost unnecessary. 

 They were evidently en- 

 joying a holiday at some 

 popular resort, judging 

 by their happy expres- 

 sion, particularly that of 

 the British officer, who 

 is doubtless thinking of 

 the enthusiasm his ad- 

 dress created at a recent 

 war-work meeting. 



George T. Oakley, son 

 of Clifford H. Oakley, 

 president of the Esse.x 

 Rubber Co., attached to 

 the United States naval 

 aviation detachment at 

 Pensacola, Florida, re- 

 cently had a narrow 

 escape from death when, 

 in company with fellow 

 aviators, he was forced 

 to make a landing at sea. 

 He was rescued by an 

 outgoing vessel and 

 taken to a Cuban port, 

 time. 



E. B. FULPER .-^ND C.\PT.\IN BUCKLETON 



Young Oakley has been in the aviation servicefor 



The Truck Tire Sales & Service Co. has been incorporated 

 with $50,000 capital and has opened headquarters at 42 Barnes 

 street, Trenton. John M. Goodridge, Edith Goodridge and 

 Thomas N. Balderston are the incorporators. Mr. Balderston 

 has made a study of the manufacture of solid tires and has 

 been at the Philadelphia headquarters of the United States Tire' 

 Co. for some time familiarizing himself with the details of the 

 business. The company is now instaling a new ten-ton hydraulic 

 press, and will handle only United States solid and truck tires. 



The Semple Rubber Co., Trenton, has leased for a term of 

 years the large three-story factory building of the Japanese Silk 

 Garment Co., situated on Lamberton street. The building will 

 be used by the Semple company in connection with its factory 

 on Murray street for the manufacture of automobile tubes. The 

 company has outgrown the Murray street plant. 



Charles H. Cook, treasurer of the Hamilton Rubber Manu- 

 facturing Co., sustained lacerations and contusions of the head 

 when an automobile in which he was riding recently crashed 

 into a pole near his home on West State street. The machine 

 was driven by his daughter. 



Milton Cohn, private secretary to John S. Broughton, presi- 

 dent of the United & Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos., 

 and now connected with a 

 base hospital supply in 

 France, was surprised, 

 while driving an ambu- 

 lance across a battlefield, 

 to pick up a piece of fir: 

 hose made by the (.1 

 company. On the b 

 were the words, "Unitea 

 & Globe Fire Hose, manii- 

 factured by the United & 

 Globe Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Companies, Trenton, 

 N.J." The United & Globe 

 ship their products to 

 many foreign countries. 

 Cohn is 23 years old and 

 formerly lived in Brook- 

 lyn, New York. Several 

 years ago he was given a 

 position in the United & 

 Globe's New York office. 

 Because of his efficient 

 work he was transferred 

 to the main office at Trenton and made private secretary to 

 President Broughton. He has been in France nearly a year. 



A recent fire badly damaged the drying room at the United & 

 Globe plant. The blaze started from an overheated pipe. 



The Delion Tire & Rubber Co. contemplates the erection of 

 additions and altera'irns costing $75,000. 



Unitki) & (li.oBE Fire Hose Found 

 ox .V French Battlefield. 



RUBBER-SET AND RUBBER CUSHION BRUSHES. 



In the manufacture of rubber-set brushes the tufts are partly 

 secured by the application of unvulcanized rubber before being 

 placed in the bands or ferrules, and owing to the hardness of 

 rubber after vulcanization, it is necessary to drill holes in that 

 portion of the brush in the band or ferrule before the brush can 

 be nailed. The process in making rubber cushion brushes is to 

 rout and undercut the blocks. The bristles are sifted by an agi- 

 tator through the holes of a piece of rubber somewhat larger than 

 the recess of a block. The ends of the bristles protruding 

 through the rubber are ironed down, and liquid rubber is placed 

 over the ironed ends and vulcanized. The rubber containing the 

 tufts is inserted in the back of the brush, in the end of which 

 a hole is bored to allow the passage of air under the rubber to 

 give the cushion effect. Hair brushes are made by this process 

 both in the United States and in England. 



P.rushes have always been specifically provided for in the- 

 tariff acts at ad valorem rates of duty varying from 7^ per 

 cent in the acts of 1789 and 1790 to 40 per cent ad valorum in 

 most of the acts of the last half century. The rate in the Act 

 of 1913, now in force, is 35 per cent. The provision applies 

 alike to toilet and paint brushes. ("The Brush Industry."" 

 Tariff Information Series, No. 8. United States Tariff Com- 

 mission, Washington, D. C.) 



REAPPRAISEMENTS. 



R.\ixco.\Ts. — The foreign market value of raincoats, imported 

 from the Associated British Clothing ^Manufacturers of Leeds, 

 l.ngland, is advanced in a reappraisement decision handed down 

 on November 19 by Judge Howell, of the Board of General 

 .Appraisers. The raincoats in question, exported from England 

 on July 1, 1913, and entered at this port on August 1, 1918, 

 were valued by the importers on the invoice of 41j. each. The 

 official decision of the general appraiser, fixing the value at 43s. 

 each, reads as follows : 



Double breasted raincoats cotton, C. 1023, entered at 41^-.; re- 

 appraised at 43.r. each. 



RUBBER BOOTS TO BE PLENTIFUL SOON. 

 Relief from the acute shortage of rubber boots for civilian usfr 

 in this country is forecast by the action of the Government ia 

 asking that all manufacturers of rubber boots and shoes con- 

 sider the cancellation of present contracts for rubber boots which 

 expire December 31. 



