1919 1 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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New York Citv. T 



Vallcy Tire &- R' 



J. Jacobs, S. Bernh. 



City. To mnniifactv 



Wear-Well Tire 

 McCann, 913 West 

 Sheaffer, Liberty : 

 office wi;h the Colo: 

 ware. To n:anufac 

 tubes. 



Webster Tire Co.. 



W. Lo 



Kiry 2, 1919 (New York), $1,000. 

 Belcher— all of U Meiter street. 



nthal— all of 



Shcr 



T. M. Oherholtzer 

 Principal office, W 

 rubber goods. 



lliin 



P: 11 



Co., Febiuary 20, 1919 (Delaware). $50,000. T. H. 

 Clavton street: G. C. Large, 207 Second street; M. B. 

 str:et— ail of New Castle, Pennsylvania. Principal 



iiial ( i Mi.r C:, , ',j7 Market street, Wilmington,, Dela- 

 t'iic - M. ' : 1 .lir pneumatic automobile tires and 



Dov 



CorporatK 

 l.er, etc. 



West Gate Tire & Rubber Co., Inc.. March 18. 1919 (New York), 

 $5,000. J. facobs, S. Bernheim, W. Loewenthal -1877 Broadway, New 

 York City. To manufacture tires. 



CRUDE RUBBER CONCERN INCORPORATES. 



X. W. Obalski & Co., Inc., is a new concern incorporated by 

 Xavier W. Obalski and others under the laws of Xew York, with 

 a capital of $200,000, to deal in crude rubber and rubber products. 

 The offices of the new company are at 291 Broadway, known as 

 ihe East River Savings Institution Building. Mr. Obalski was 

 formerly a member of Obalski & Sweeney, Inc., incorporated in 

 1915, which recently dissolved under the laws of the State of 

 Xew York. 



NEW CRUDE RUBBER CONCERN. 



Sweeney & Co., Inc., is the title of a new corporation, or- 

 ganized under New York laws with a capital of $200,000, for 

 the purpose of importing and dealing in crude rubber, with 

 offices at 59-61 Pearl street, New York City, forinerly occupied 

 by Obalski & Sweeney, Inc., of which company Mr. Sweeney was 

 president. 



Mr. E. C. Sweeney, Jr., president of Sweeney & Co., Inc., has 

 an extensive acquaintance and connections among the rubber 

 manufacturers of this country and Canada and the new company 

 comiTiences business under the happiest possible auspices. 



The other officers of the company are : George R. Sweeney, 

 brother of the president, who .Jias been elected treasurer and 

 secretary, and George \\'. Sniffen, assistant secretary. 



CAI 



ERON MACHINE CO.'S ADDITION. 

 Machme Co., 57-61 Poplar street, Br 

 ifacturer of cutting and rolling macliinei 



lers, rewinders, et cetera, has recently completed a one-story 

 addition to its plant, to be used as an assembly shop. It has been 

 equipped at an approximate cost of $20,000, and is now in use. 



A PIONEER IN ELECTRICAL INSULATION. 



AN interesting double anniversary was recently celebrated in 

 Newark, New Jersey. 



It commemorated the ninetieth birthday of Henry .\. Reed, 

 president of the Bishop Gutta Percha Co., and the fiftieth birth- 

 day of his second son, Henry D. Reed, vice-president of the same 

 company. The great age of the "gutta percha pioneer" as well 

 as his industrial accomplishments make a review of his career 

 of more than passing interest. 



Henry A. Reed was born in Carmel, New York, February 11, 

 1829. At the age of 17 he began teaching school in Carmel, and 

 learned telegraphy. In 1849 he was given charge of the tele- 

 graph office in Carmel, and later transferred to Croton Falls, 

 then to Hudson, and in 1852 was appointed one of the three 

 operators in the New York City office of the New York. Albany 

 and Buffalo Telegraph Co. Taking charge of the telegraph business 



Henry D. Reld. 



in Ponghkeepsie in 1853, he had much lime on his hands and 

 thereupon opened a book store, and successfully managed both 

 businesses. In 1876 he sold the book business, taking up expert 

 accounting, and soon after assisted in the tnanagement of the 

 estate of Mrs. Samuel C. Bishop, which was operating the Bishop 

 Gutta Percha Works, and which was at that tiine threatened 

 with a law-suit for infringement of the Saiupson patent, cover- 

 ing the use of gutta eprcha as an insulating material. A similar 

 action had been decided against the Western Union Telegraph 

 Co., but through the investigations of Mr. Reed an arrangement 

 was made, whereby the suit against the Bishop company was 

 withdrawn, the company agreeing to pay a royalty dttring the 

 few remaining years of the patent. 



Mr. Reed was made secretary of the company in 1885, and 

 two years later, general ]nana.ger. In 1893 he was elected treas- 

 urer. In 1905 he became president of the company, the position 

 he now holds. Mr. Reed has always taken a practical interest 

 in electrical .science and development. Believing that rubber 

 would serve better than gutta percha for insulation, except under 

 waler, he engaged an experienced engineer to design and install 

 machinery to insulate wire and cables with rubber. He collabo- 

 rated with the United States Light House Board in 1887 in de- 

 vising a system for lighting river channels by lighted buoys and 

 range lights. In 1888 he designed the first high-tension cables 

 to be used underground. He was the first man in America to 

 test faults by the galvanometer. He exhibited at the Electric 

 Club in New York the first perfected phonograph made by Mr. 

 Edison. He was one of the organizers of the Electric Club, and 

 also of the Electric Trade Society, and is a member of the 

 .American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



Mr. Reed carries his ninety years lightly and is wiihotit ques- 

 tion ihc youngest man of his age in the whole rubber trade. 



