India rubber world . second floor for offices, sample room,shipping, etc.; the third for belting, and the fourth for hose ;while above there is a spacious attic, which has been ad-mirably fitted up as a drying room for crude rubber. The belting department is equippedwith everything necessary to turn outa full line of rubber belting, includinga duck slitter, belt making machine,Singer belt stitcher, a vulcanizer 8x12feet, a Farrell belt press 34 feet by 60inches and so on. In the hose roomare a hose making and wrapping ma-chine, a 55 foot vulcanizer tubing ma-chine, etc. Most of the heavy machi
India rubber world . second floor for offices, sample room,shipping, etc.; the third for belting, and the fourth for hose ;while above there is a spacious attic, which has been ad-mirably fitted up as a drying room for crude rubber. The belting department is equippedwith everything necessary to turn outa full line of rubber belting, includinga duck slitter, belt making machine,Singer belt stitcher, a vulcanizer 8x12feet, a Farrell belt press 34 feet by 60inches and so on. In the hose roomare a hose making and wrapping ma-chine, a 55 foot vulcanizer tubing ma-chine, etc. Most of the heavy machinery is setin the old mill, which adjoins the newone. For a power plant there are threeboilers: One 300 HP. Hazleton ; one350 HP. McNeil ; and one 150 HP. Zellsafety. The engines are one 175 speed for the electric lights, andone Allis-ChalmersCorliss of 375 a 125 HP. auxiliary. There is also100 HP. water power. The plant is wellsupplied for shipping, being near boththe Erie and the D. L. and W. rail-. PRESIDENT E H. QARCIN roads, and receives coal by the D. L. and W. canal, which passeswithin a few feet of the boiler house. The rubber machinery consists of 2 washers, 15 mixers, 5 cal-enders, 18 presses, 3 tubing machines, and 5 vulcanizers, in ad-dition to what has been before mentioned. There are also afully equipped carpenter and machine shop. The factory isfitted with automatic sprinklers, electric lights, freight eleva-tors, and a Sturtevant heating system. Edward H. Garcin, the president and general manager, haslong been in the rubber business. At the age of 20—he wasborn in Virginia, in 1864—he became a salesman in the south-ern field for the old Trenton Rubber Co. After a year, duringwhich his capacity was demonstrated, he left this connection toestablish at Richmond the jobbing house of Garcin, Moseley &Bohmer. Again he joined the forces of the Trenton concern,first in charge of their entire southern trade, to which was lateradded the western field a
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