April 1, 1915. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 





CONVERTING THE HARMLESS INNER TUBE INTO A MAN OF WAR. 



The present conflict has been marked by extraordinary de- 

 velopment in naval warfare. Not to b< outdoni her hi- 

 lling engines of d< the Firestone 

 Tire & Rubbei I o. has produced a marine monster of i 

 design and formidable aspect. As will be noticed bj close 

 scrutiny of the accompanying photographic cut, the hull of tin-. 

 armored cruiser is composed of a number of boxes containing 

 the Firestone "Pure Para Tub< " ["hi turrets and smoke stacks 



are built of tubular boxes such as are usually used for talc and 

 rubber cement. With the addition of a little cordage and anchors 

 and lookouts made of cardboard, this floating fortress beci 

 complete. Properly to set it off, it is surrounded by a cloth 

 made ocean with an undulating surface and with a sprinkling 

 of small sailing craft that act as convoys. This man-of-war. 



red with inner tubes, was recently used for a window 

 play and naturally, in the present warlike state of the public 

 mind, attracted much attention. 



IS THE NATIONAL RUBBER STAMP ASSOCIATION A TRUST! 



The National Rubber Stamp Association and six of its 

 members in Denver. Colorado, have been made defendants 

 in a $65,000 damage suit instituted by C. E. Buffington, a 

 manufacturer of novelties. The complaint charges that as a 

 result of the refusal of the association's members in Denver 

 to furnish him with supplies he was forced to retire from 

 business. The firms named are the Superior Rubber Type 

 Co.. the Denver Novelty Works & Electric Co., the Sachs- 

 I.awlor Co.. A. S. Carter, George Kauffman and the E. R. 

 Callaghan Novelty Co.. all members of the national organiza- 

 tion, whose main offices are in Chicago. Buffington charges 

 that the association is virtually a trust in restraint of trade, 

 and $50,000 of the amount sued for is being demanded as 

 punitive damages. 



SULPHUR PRODUCTION AND PROFITS. 



Some interesting facts have been brought to light by the 

 motion for reappraisal of 505 shares of stock of the Union 

 Sulphur Co. owned by the late Herman Frasch. notice of 

 whose death appeared, with a brief sketch of his career, on 

 page 599 of our issue of August last. The net assets of the 

 deceased were apprais* d at $5,261,766, the shares in question 

 being valued at $1,136,250, whereas they are said to have a 

 value of from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. Investigation dis- 

 closes that the company owned one mine in Louisiana ap- 

 praised in 1911 by local tax officials at $10,000,000: that the 

 dividends yearly for the last three years from this mine had 

 been more than $4,500,000; that the profits of the year 1912 

 on the sale of 302,342 tons of the 786,605 tons of sulphur mined 

 that year amounted to $4,500,000, and that since 1911 the 

 company has established plants at Cette and Marseilles, 

 France, at Rotterdam, Holland, and at Hamburg, Germany. 

 The widow and daughter of the late Mr. Frasch share equally 

 for life the income from the estate. 



The Republic Rubber Co.. of Youngstown, Ohio, has leased 

 a store in the Murray building. Grand Rapids. Michigan, for 

 its branch in that city. 



CENTURY RUBBER CO. ASKS FOR RECEIVER. 



The Century Rubber Co., of Plainfield, New Jersey, recently 

 application to the United Si trict Court for the 



I New Jersey for a receivei nk P. McDei 



ol Jersej City, was appointed. Tin tion does 



bankruptcy or insolvency, bt thai owii 



existing financial conditions the company was unable to col- 

 ounts and the business was being conducted at a 

 loss. A receiver was therefore sought and appi con- 



the assets, which, the bill asserts, at a fair value can 

 Id for a sinii in excess of the indebtedness of the com- 

 lize a substantial sum to the stockholders, the 

 plant being wholly unencumbered and in good condition and 

 there being no outstanding bonds. 

 The plant of the Century company is reported running full 

 under the receivership, and it is the hope and expecta- 

 tion of the company to not only fulfill all its contracts, but to 

 shortly effect a reorganization. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hoggson & Pettis Manufacturing New Haven, 



Connecticut, which manufactures a line of tire maki 

 shoe rolls, etc., is displaying at the Panama-Pacific Expo 

 now in progress at San Francisco. 



Other eastern concerns exhibiting at ibis exposition, in 

 Palace of Manufactures, are the Foster Rubber Co., manufac- 

 turers of rubber heels, of 170 Summer street, Boston; the Live 

 Leather Belt Co., of New York, manufacturers of the leather 

 and rubber belt described on page 608 of our issue of August last, 

 and the General Bakelite Co., of New York, which manufac- 

 tures hard rubber substitutes. 



The Grand Prize of the Automobile Club of America and the 

 Yanderbilt Cup were both recently competed for on a emu-. 

 within the grounds of the Panama- Pacific Exposition, 

 and both won by the Anglo-Italian, Dario Resta, in a I rench 

 Peugeot racer, on Nassau tires. The Grand Prize was won under 

 very trying conditions and the winning Peugeot carried Weed 

 Chains throughout the 340 miles of the race, this being the first 

 contest in which this device has been used. 



At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Stoughton Rub- 

 ber Co., of Stoughton, Massachusetts, held at the principal office 

 of the company, 232 Summer street, Boston, March 23, Ira F. 

 Burnham was re-elected to the office of president and treasurer, 

 and Alvah H. Whitten to that of assistant treasurer. A board 

 of directors was also elected, including, besides these two offi 

 Ellsworth H. Hicks. Charles A. Hunter and Lester Leland. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has 

 opened a branch house at 217 Washington street, Binghamton, 

 New York, where a stock of tires will be carried for distribution 

 in that section of the State and in Susquehanna and Bradford 

 ci unties in Pennsylvania. G. C. Camp is manager of the new 

 branch, one of 46 such stores now established by the company. 



The factory of the Converse Rubber Shoe Co., in the Edge- 

 wurtb district of Maiden, Massachusetts, closed down on March 

 17 for annual inventory, repairs and improvements. 



Records of sales by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Akron, show that the straight side tire is making a great gain 

 in popularity over the clincher type, sales of the former amount- 

 ing to about 65 per cent, of the total in 1914. while the present 

 season shows about 83 per cent, of the new cars using this 

 straight si- tire. In 1913 about 50 per cent, of the new 



cars were equipped with Q. D. clincher tires and rims. 



\ letter recently received from the Rubber & Celluloid 

 Harness Trimming Co.. of Newark. New Jersey, contains this 

 paragraph: "The idea put forward by motor car promoters 

 that the horse-drawn pleasure vehicle is passing is disproven 

 by the experience of makers of hard rubber trimmings, their 

 output for last year comparing favorably with former years 

 in volume with good prospects for its continuance." 



