October i, 1906.] 



IHE INDIA RUBBER \VORLD 



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= There was a recent conference at Akron of the ofTicers 

 and local sales managers of The H. F. Coodrich Co. and the 

 branch managers and traveling salesmen of the company. 

 The tire branch was discussed in detail and ])lans adojited 

 for the coming year. (In the last day of the meeting the 

 visitors were guests of the company at dinner, and the after- 

 noon was devoted to golf and other sports. 



= Tlie Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers'Association in session 

 at Detroit on September 6, resolved not to buy any more rub- 

 ber footwear on the so called calendar or blanket rates. They 

 say that in order to get goods at minimum i)rices they liave 

 been obliged to order goods early, and when the weather is 

 not favorable to the trade, as last winter, and they are left 

 with heavy stocks on hand, they get no consideration from 

 the manufacturers. The Michigan dealers now propose to 

 make their purchases as may be necessary. 



= Kire at the asbestos factory of the H. W. Johns-Man ville 

 Co., at the foot of Thirty-ninth street, Brooklyn, on the 

 evening of August 30, caused damage estimated at $100,000. 



= A certificate of incorporation of the Commercial Cable 

 Co. of Cuba has been filed in .\lbany. New York, with a 

 capital of |;ioo,ooo to operate telegraphic communication be- 

 tween New York and Havana by way of Florida and Key 

 West. The principal office is in New York. The directors 

 are: William W. Cooke, Samuel S. Dickinson, George 

 Clapperton, Albert Heck, Clarence II. Mackay, Albert H. 

 Chandler, and Dumont Clarke. 



=The Hadley Cement Co. (Lynn, Massachusetts) made 

 an attractive display of their products at the recent National 

 Shoe and Leather Fair, at Chicago. 



:=The L. Candee& Co. (New Haven. Connecticut), it is re- 

 ported, are about to expend $46,000 in remodeling their fac 

 tory buildings. Floors are to be lowered in some of the build- 

 ings and considerable steel construction used. 



^The Syracuse Rubber Co. (vSyracuse, N. Y.) have been 

 incorporated under the laws of New York with $25,000 capi- 

 tal. Incorporators : Frank C. Hewlett, of Syracuse ; E. R. 

 Rice, Buffalo, N. Y.; C. W. Barnes, New York aity. 



= The Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, are re- 

 ported to be planning important e.xteusions to tlieir plant, for 

 which purpose they will utilize a tract of land purchased re- 

 cently adjacent to their present buildings. 



^Boston Woven Ho.se and Rubber Co. have declared a 

 semi annual dividend of 4 per cent, on their common stock, 

 payable September 15, instead of 2 percent, as heretofore. 

 There is $750,000 of 6 per cent, preferred stock and $450,000 

 of common stock. 



= Stowe & Woodward, July 13, 1906, under Massachusetts 

 laws ; capital, $10,000. To manufacture mechanical rubber 

 goods and proof cloth for the trade, at Brockton, Mass. 

 Griswold Stowe is president and Frederick R. Woodward 

 treasurer. 



=John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersej), who are so 

 widely known to the rubber trade as makers of tubing and 

 insulating uiachinery, are also manufacturers on an import- 

 ant scale of machinery in other lines. They have issued a 

 new catalogue of their ruling machines, in connection with 

 wood engraving, and rubber manufacturers desiring to have 

 illustrations made for catalogues and the like may be inter 

 ested in reading what is said in this catalogue on the ad- 

 vantages of wood cuts as compared with other kinds of pic- 

 tures. 



= The Wolverine Rubber Manufacturing Co., the incor- 

 poration of which was reported in the last Ln'iii.\ Ruhukk 

 WoHi.i), are established at No. 257 Jefierson avenue, Detroit, 

 Michigan, in a general jobbing business in all kinds of rub- 

 ber goods ; besides, they act as manufacturers' agents on 

 lines which they cannot carry in stock. George E. Gable is 

 president; David Craig vice president and treasurer; Oliver 

 H.Joy, secretary and general manager. 



= Herr Willy Ti.schbein, one of the directors of the Conti- 

 nental Caoutchouc and Guttapercha Co., of Hanover, and 

 president of the Continental Caoutchouc Co., of New York, 

 has arrived to be present at the \'anderbilt Cup races. 



= At the annual meeting of the Westinghouse Air Brake 

 Co., at Pittsburgh, on September 6, the regular quarterly 

 dividend of 2% per cent, was declared, and also two extra 

 dividends, amounting in all to 7 V per cent, for the quarter. 



= Tlie Pierce Cycle Co., September 13, 1906, under New 

 York laws; capital, $300,000. Incorporators: (L N. Pierce, 

 Percy P. Pierce, and C. Clifton. To manufacture bicycles, 

 at Buffalo, N. Y. Percy P. Pierce, president of the new 

 company, twice the winner of the Glidden Tour trophy, and 

 son of the president of the (jcorge N. Pierce .Vutomobile Co., 

 announces that hereafter he will devote his attention exclus- 

 ively to bicycles. 



=The Hon. L. D. Apsley, president of the Apsley Rubber 

 Co. (Hudson, Mass.) and the Rubber Manufacturing and 

 Distributing Co. (Seattle, Wash.), visited the Pacific coast 

 during the month, and while at Seattle entertained the em- 

 ployes of the Rubber INIanufacturing and Distributing Co. 

 at a banquet. 



= In a report just issued to its stockholders b3' The Ohio 

 Rubber Culture Co. (Canton, Ohio), it is worthy of note that 

 the company, although less than two years old, has 1,000,- 

 000 rubber trees out and growing on its plantation, situated 

 on the Isthmus of Tehuanlepec. Mexico. The Minatitlan 

 Contracting Co. of Minatitlan, V. C, Mexico, who are Mex- 

 ican planters of over 10 years' experience, have charge of 

 this companj''s development work. 



=Justus D. Anderson has been elected ])resident of the 

 G & J Tire Co., and has gone to Indianai)olis to take charge 

 of the duties of that office. II. O. Smith, whom he .suc- 

 ceeds, after having served as president of the G & J com- 

 pany for several j-ears, will now devote more attention to 

 his automobile interests, though remaining a director in the 

 tire companj'. Mr. Anderson was at one time sales manager 

 of the G & J company, before going to Hartford, where he 

 has been of late a vice president of the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co. He has been succeeded in the latter position by 

 V. B. Lang. 



= Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) are mar- 

 keting a " twin " solid rubber tire which has several advant- 

 ages. One is that either half maj' be repaired or replaced 

 without interfering with the other, and there is a positive 

 and independent fastening for both shoulders of each half of 

 the time. 



= At the rul)ber shoe factory of L. Candee & Co. (New 

 Haven, Connecticut) there has lately been reported a short- 

 age of women employes. It appears that in New Haven, at 

 least, young women are less attracted by work of this kind 

 than formerly, and the management has been obliged to 

 bring in Italian and Polish girls, who are being trained in 

 the various branches of rubber shoe making. 



