February 1, 1915] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



287 



mercc Commission. Railroad men present said that they be- 

 lieved the railroads would not oppose a reduction, but stated that 

 it would not be possible to reduce the trans-continental rates 

 without reducing the inter-mountain rates at the same time. 

 This would bring about serious complications, they said, which 

 would require the attention of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. 



As a ri-sult of this stand Mr. Moore said that the matter would 

 lu- brought to the attention of the Interstate Commerce Com- 



missi' 'it at \\ ashingtc in. 



* * * 



Figures which have been compiled by the newspaper bureau 

 show that rubber goods were handled (in a jobbing way) in 

 Chicago during 1914 to the extent of $9,675,000, compared with 

 $12,900,000 for 1913. This is something of a falling off, though 

 some other lines of business show a much greater loss. 



* * * 



The Canton Rubber & Manufacturing Co., 143 North Dear- 

 born street, have just completed their inventory. They state 

 that the new year has started in in a manner that meets with 

 their entire satisfaction. 



* * * 



M. S. Curven, of the Boston Belting Co., 172 West Randolph 

 Street, said in a 

 recent interview 

 that business has 

 been good and 

 he believes the 

 rubber trade of 

 the West to be- 

 in a very healthy 

 condition. 



* * * 



Business at the 

 Quaker City 

 Rubber Co. has 

 been rushing for 

 the past month 

 or so. shipping 

 packing to the 

 coal mines. 

 There have been 

 few strikes or 

 other labor 

 troubles result- 

 ing in the clos- 

 ing down of 

 mines this win- 

 ter, which has been a good thing for the mechanical rubber 

 goods houses of Chicago. The vast coal and copper mines 

 within reach of Chicago look to this city as a natural source of 

 supply and, of course, when they close down it means loss of 

 business to local dealers. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN TRENTON. 

 By Our Regular Correspondent. 



THE Trenton rubber manufacturers were not particularly 

 worried over the threatened continuation of the English 

 embargo on crude shipments. For the most part the Trenton 

 plants have abundant supplies either on hand or en route and 

 they would not have been seriously interfered with in the 

 manufacturing end unless the embargo had continued for a 

 considerable length of time. At least one of the Trenton 

 factories was actually benefited by the embargo talk. As soon 

 as the newspapers printed the story of England's ruling on 

 tin rubber question this factory received a number of rush 

 orders b) telegraph. The customers anticipated their needs 

 for months to come and wanted to make sure that their 

 orders win filed before the supposed raise in price took 

 place. 



The 

 Essex 



Plant of the Essex Rubber Co., Trenton. 



A method of attaching vulcanite to aluminum is described 

 in a recent issue of the "Dental Record" that will undoubtedly 

 prove of interest to dentists. It w-ould furnish a means 

 whereby the vulcanite portion of a denture could be perma- 

 nently attached to an aluminum plate, making an exception- 

 ally light and in every way excellent equipment. The process 

 consists in coating the cleaned aluminum surface with a thin 

 solution of rubber in chloroform. Over this, when dry, is 

 carefully packed a layer of weighted rubber and the further 

 filling of the mold space is completed with ordinary rubber. 

 It is claimed that by this means a stable union between vul- 

 canite and aluminum is effected. 



Replete with information for rubber manufacturers. — Mr. 

 Pearson's "Crude Rubber and Compounding Ingredients." 



accompanying illustration of the new plant of the 

 Rubber Co., at Trenton, tells more graphically than 

 words of the remarkable success of this steadily growing 

 . om em. 



Less than 7 years ago a small, one-story building was ade- 

 quate to take rata- of the company's manufacturing depart- 

 ment, and it also 

 afforded an 8 by 

 12 office room. 

 A representative 

 of The India 

 Rubber World 

 on a recent visit- 

 to the plant 

 found a corps of 

 bookkeepers, or- 

 der clerks, ste- 

 nographers, etc., 

 busily engaged in 

 an office occupy- 

 ing more space 

 than the com- 

 bined office and 

 factory con- 

 tained in the 

 original building. 

 In the private 

 office of Presi- 

 dent C. H. Oak- 

 ley hangs a neat, 

 black frame con- 

 taining, under date of April 29, 1907, the first order the 

 company ever received. Mr. Oakley looks upon this as 

 "the baby of the house" and he cherishes it as tenderly 

 as a father his first-born. It was not until a year after 

 the receipt of this order that the company leased the modest 

 little structure referred to above. A wagon load of coal was 

 obtained from a trustful dealer (who, by the way. still 

 supplies the plant with its fuel ) and the tires were lighted 

 in May, 1908. Several mills, a calender and one hydraulic 

 press constituted the original equipment. About $9,000 worth 

 of rubber goods were sold during the balance of the iirst 

 year. When it is stated that the sales of the company for 

 the year just closed totaled close to $1,000,000 one can ap- 

 preciate with what rapid strides the concern has forged 

 ahead. The profits of the business have been devoted to the 

 upbuilding of the plant. 



The new mechanical equipment consists of 1,500 h. p. of 



. Edgemoor water tube boilers, 2 Greene engines of 1,000 h. p., 



400 kilowatts of electrical energy for lighting and motive 



purposes. Eighteen 54-inch mixing mills, 3 calenders, 2 of 



which are electrically driven, tubing machines and vul- 



