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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I June 1, 1915. 



C. F. McPHILLIPS & CO. OPEN CRUDE RUBBER OFFICE. 



A new firm, if which C F. McPhillips is president, and 



known as i . F. McPhilli] inc. has been established at 



A'ater street, \'n\ York, to deal in crude rubber. Mr. 

 McPhillips rience in the rubber trade, in proi 



lalities, grading and making selections of the various rub- 



ber stocks. 1 for eight years with Earle 



Brothers, until his resignation on April 1 to establish this new 



prise, and for I ea iou with Wallace L. Gough. 



AJAX-GRIEB WINS INFRINGEMENT SUIT. 



I lie Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, has 

 -sfully defended the suit brought against it by the Good- 

 year I ire & Rubber Co., of Akron. Ohio, for infringement of 

 patent on a collapsible tire core, decision having been rendered 

 in favor of the former company. The patent on which infringe- 

 was claimed was one issued in 190" to Will. C. State and 



assigned by him to the G lyear company, but evidence, in the 



form of drawings and testimony, brought out the fact that col- 

 lapsible cores, built by The John E. Thropp's Sons Co., had been 

 in use by the defendant company as early as 1903. 



THE AKRON TIRE CO. MANUFACTURING IN LONG ISLAND CITY. 



The Akron Tire Co., Inc., formed in 1911 with a capital stock 

 000 to manufacture rubber goods, has increased its capital- 

 ization to $300,000, and has none into the manufacture of rubber 

 tires in a $105,001 ) factory at Long Island City, Xew York, com- 

 i early in IM4. and which has a capacity of about 200 tires 

 per day. These tires are made under the brand " Akron," and 

 are distributed under a guarantee Ot 3.500 miles' service. The 

 company's main offices and distributing headquarters are at 1612 

 Broadwav, New York. 



NEW WATERPROOFING PROCESS. 



A new method of waterproofing textiles is based on the im- 

 pregnation of their constituent parts The weft threads are 

 wound and placed in autoclaves filled with a rubber solution. 

 Pressure is applied to obtain perfect impregnation. Weaving is 

 done while the solution is still in a liquid form on the threads. 

 The working of the loom forces out the liquid, which is dis- 

 tributed over the warp threads by friction. With proper density 

 of the solution and the proper division of the fabric into warp 

 and weft, complete impregnation can be obtained, the finished 

 fabric being perfectly waterproof without preventing the circula- 

 tion of air. 



Woolen fabrics so treated can be dressed and finished in the 

 ordinar} manner. This method applied to tire fabrics is said to 

 their resistance to friction. 



RUBBER IN A REAL LIFE ROMANCE. 



\n interesting story lias appeared in the daily press in 

 which Frederick A. Chubb, president of the I'nited States 

 and Central American Timber. Rubber & Realty Co., is the 

 central figure. It relates how Mr. Chubb, while living in Wash- 

 n in 1900 with his wife and one child, was suddenly called 

 ms, being sent to ' hina ^hei em ountei at Peking 



he was si - vera! months confined to 



i \ telegram to his wife— to whom in the mean- 

 a second child had been born— that he had been shot, 

 naturally led her to believe him dead, so that on his return 

 to the United State- hi that she had remarried and 



left Washington with her children After several months 

 spent in a fruitless .,-,• amily. be secured work 



in the Panama Cat where he invested bis savings in 



rubber and timber lands, until finally he owned 100.000 acres. 

 On a business trip to the I'nited States recently be learned 

 through relatives of his wife's death at Hagerstown, Mary- 

 land, and he discovered bis two chil- 

 dren, the ol i horn a daughter. '.' ing in a factory. 

 He has taker. lildreu witl - Southern home. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



I he II 1 Rubber Co, is building a warehouse on its property 



at Watertown, Massachusetts. This new building will contain 

 79,000 square feet of floor space, being 17n feet long, 112 feet 

 \\ ide and 4 sti -ries high. 



The Host, ,n Woven Hose & Rubber Co., of Boston, announces 

 the addition to its selling force of Louis O. Duclos, former sales 

 manager for the Walpole Tire & Rubber Co., of Walpole. Massa- 

 chusetts. Mr. Duclos, who has a wide acquaintance in the trade 

 and a thorough knowledge of the market, will act as special 

 representative, handling friction and insulating tapes and splicing 

 compounds. 



The National India Rubber Co., of Bristol, Rhode Island, and 

 the Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Co., of New York, have been 

 awarded contracts to furnish cable of different grades for use in 

 the underground construction of the police and lire alarm in- 

 stallations at Niagara Falls, New York. 



"1 he International Association of rubber stamp makers will hold 

 its 1915 annual convention at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, 

 ' Iregon, July 14-16. Special railroad rates have been obtained for 

 eastern members who may wish to attend, and plans prepared 

 for interesting sightseeing trips. 



The Southern Rubber & Supply Co. has secured the agency for 

 Goodrich tires in Atlanta, Georgia, and has opened a store in 

 that city at 84 North l'ryor street. 



The Globe Tire Co., of Trenton, New Jersey, has made arrange 

 ments with the Hartford Garage Co., of Hartford, Connecticut. 

 for the distribution of its tires in that city and state. 



The Airplex Inner Tire Co., of Springfield, Missouri, incorpo- 

 rated in June, 1914, with a capital stock of $3,000. to deal in and 

 manufacture articles of rubber and rubber substitutes, has in- 

 creased its capitalization to $20,000. 



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

 opened a branch at Columbia. South Carolina, in charge of J. P. 

 Leavitt, where a large stock of tires and accessories will be carried 

 for distribution throughout that state and surrounding territory. 



One of the conspicuous features of the recent Chicago Pros- 

 perity Parade was the section occupied by the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co. This company bad a large touring car, a truck and 

 seven small service cars in the line, elaborately decorated and 

 particularly calling attention to Firestone tire service, to prove 

 the superiority of which the track victories in which these tires 

 have figured were well emphasized. 



A process has been invented for the electrical treatment of 

 cloth by which it is rendered impervious to water while being 

 permeable by air, and which is expected to prove of value in the 

 manufacture of dirigible balloons, the addition of weight due to 

 this treatment being very slight, or less than 1 per cent. 



The John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of New York, a branch of 

 the John A. Roebling's Sons Co., of Trenton, which manufac- 

 tures rubber insulated and other wires, has become a member of 

 the Merchants' Association of New York. 



M. I. Goldberg, formerly secretary and treasurer of the Man- 

 chester Rubber Co., a concern formed in 1912 to manufacture 

 rubber clothing, with headquarters at 79 Hope street, Brooklyn, 

 New York, announces that be has severed his connection with 

 that company. 



Fifty years' continuous employment with one concern is a dis- 

 tinction of sufficient rarity to command attention, and as a rule 

 reflects favorably on the conditions surrounding such employ- 

 ment. On April 16 Miss Rose A. Gray completed fifty years of 

 employment in the rubber factory of Eberhard Faber at Newark. 

 New Jersey, which she entered when 15 years of age. The oc- 

 casion was marked by the presentation of a purse of gold, floi il 

 tributes and other appreciative demonstrations. 



