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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1914. 



December 7 to IS, immediately after which they will be ship- 

 ped to San Francisi from admission to the 

 San Francisco exhibit will be contributed to the National Red 



Cross fund for the relief "i European war victims. 

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No work in this citj of industries is being carried on more 

 industriously at jirc-i-nt than that of collecting funds and sup- 

 plies for the relief of the Belgians. The ruthless invasion of 

 this peaceable country ami the wanton destruction of life ami 

 property, with the consequent hardships entailed on survivoi 

 have arouse, 1 universal sympathy, which is being expressed 

 in tli< i oi donations to assist in relieving these 



Sufferings. J be Belgian relief work lure is well organized. 

 Committees have been appointed in every line of industry 

 to solicit and receive contributions. Clothing has been col- 

 lected by the women's committee, and two large boxes of 

 warm clothes were forwarded to Liverpool in care of Ernest 

 E. Buckleton, of the Northwestern Rubber Co. of that city, 

 who \isited Trenton a few weeks ago in the interest of Bel- 

 gian relief. The rubber mills' committee consists of A. 

 Boyd Cornell, Charles H. Stokes, Clifford H. Oakley and 

 Cornell Murray; while Frank \Y. Thropp and F. W. Roebling 

 are on the committee for iron mills, machine shops, etc. 



The 



Braender Rubber & Tire Co., of Rutherford, New 

 Jersey, has just put on the mar- 

 ket a new non-skid tire. This 

 new tread, as will be seen in the 

 illustration, is of the combined 

 raised and depressed type. It 

 retains the fishtail cross bars of 

 the original Braender "Bull 

 Dog" non-skid, and has in addi- 

 tion six heavy webs of rubber so 

 placed between these bars as to 

 'Aw more rubber on the tire, 

 with more surface to take the 

 wear. The addition of these 

 webs overcomes the tendency 

 to skid and in combination with 

 the cross bars insures a con- 

 tinuous and smooth riding sur- 

 face. The new "Bull Dog" will 

 be exhibited at the January 

 automobile shows in both New 

 York and Chicago. 



At the Inter State I air recently held in New Jersey the 

 Essex Rubber Co. had an interesting exhibit of rubber heels 

 and soles. One feature which attracted attention at this ex- 

 hibit was a barrel full of rubber heels. Prizes were awarded 

 for the nearest guess to the number of heels contained in the 

 barrel. One visitor guessed the exact number, 1,896 heels, 



winning a rst prize of $5. 



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A permit has been granted the Globe Rubber Co., Trenton, 



for a new factory building 72 x 59 feet, two stories high. 



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A threat to blow up the plant of the American Rubber Co., 

 of this cay, reci ntly made by Peter Flood, a former convict 

 who had been refused work in the plant, was followed by 

 the arrest and conviction of Flood, with a sentence of one 



year in the workhouse. 



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At the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Sons of 

 the Revolution in the State of New Jersey, on November 12. 

 Frederick F. Katzenbach, vice-president of Katzenbach & 

 Bullock Co., Inc., manufacturers of chemicals for the rubber 

 trade, was received to membership. Mr. Katzenbach traces 



his ancestry back to Lieutenant Imlay, of Monmouth County, 

 New Jersey. 



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The Board of Trade of New Brunswick, in a recent adver- 

 ti-ement, calls attention to the lack of proper housing facili- 

 ties for workmen in that city. The enlargement of the India 

 Rubber Co.'s business has brought ten new families to the 

 city, and difficulty is being experienced in securing proper 

 accommodations for this increase in population. 



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The Rutherford Rubber Co., of Rutherford, New Jersey, 

 has moved its New York branch from West Forty-second 

 street up to the automobile district at Fifty-second street, 

 being now located at 1668 Broadway. This company, which 

 manufactures the Sterling Vacuum-Bar tire, sells direct to 

 the user, maintaining factory sales branches in the principal 

 eastern cities. 



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The factory building at Harrison, New Jersey, formerly 

 occupied by the Greenfield Engine Co., has been leased by 

 the Auto Tire & Tread Co. for manufacturing purposes. 



SOME RECENT CUSTOMS RULINGS. 



The Board of General Appraisers on November 4 affirmed 

 the classification of the customs authorities on raincoats im- 

 ported by M. L. Rothschild & Co., of St. Paul and Minne- 

 apolis, as cotton wearing- apparel, under the old tariff. The 

 importers claimed classification under manufactures of rub- 

 ber, on which the rate is 35 per cent, ad valorem, but the 

 evidence showing that while rubber predominated in weight 

 of the garments cotton was of the greater value, the 50 per 

 cent, rate was imposed. 



A decision rendered on November 5, also affirming the 

 original customs classification, places elastic braid composed 

 of silk and rubber threads under the classification "braids, 

 composed of yarns, threads or filaments," on which the rate 

 is 60 per cent, ad valorem. The protest against this classifica- 

 tion was made by Calhoun, Robbins & Co., New York, who 

 contended that rubber was the component of chief value in 

 the braids and that in its condition in the braids it was neither 

 a yarn, thread nor filament, but this protest was overruled and 

 the contention denied. 



Brooches of hard rubber, returned by the Collector at 60 

 per cent, ad valorem, under the act of 1897, as jewelry, have 

 been reappraised by the Board, which classifies them as manu- 

 factures of hard rubber, entitled to enter at 35 per cent. 



A SMALL TOOL FOR MAKING A WIRE CLAMP. 



There are a good many places where a wire clamp if made 

 tight and enduring is exceedingly serviceable, as, for instance, 

 in clamping a piece of hose or fixing a blowout, in holding 

 together a wooden pail when the hoops have grown loose or been 

 lost ami for fastening a steel spring that has become broken. 

 R. A. Beaudette & Co., of Chippewa balls. YVinconsin, have 

 recently put on the market a little tool called the Rab Wire 



Clamper which makes it 

 possible to put a wire 

 clamp wherever it may 

 be needed very quickly 

 and easily. The wire is 

 bent in the form of a 

 loop and put around the article to be clamped, the free ends 

 pulled through the loop, and then by the use of this small tool, 

 which is quite inexpensive, the wire is drawn taut and bent 

 over and clamped and cut. The accompanying illustrations show 

 the use of wire clamps as fastened by this tool in repairing a 

 tire and in clamping a piece of hose. Beckley Ralston, of Chi- 

 cago, is the distributor. 



