November 



1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



61 



=The Elastro Manufacturing Co., of Hartford, September 

 15, under Connecticut laws ; Capital, §50,000. To manufac- 

 ture a resilient compound, to serve as a substitute for rub- 

 ber. Incorporators : H. B. Pliilbrick, Charles H. Cooley, 

 Edward S. Young, L. S. Lewis, and C. H. Cooley, Jr., all of 

 Hartford. 



=The Los Soldados Rubber Co., which, bj' the way, is a 

 rubber plantation that is a close corporation, and sitviated 

 in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, have recently been using 

 one of Christy's coagulating machines, and find that it does 

 excellent work. The only difficulty in operating it that has 

 been found is not due to the machine itself but to the lack of 

 a gasoline motor, the present tj'pe being " mozo " power, 

 which, however, is all right for experimental work. 



= By the time this item is in type Mr. William J. Gorham, 

 of the Gorham Rubber Co., San Francisco, will have recov 

 ered from his Atlantic seasickness and have landed on the 

 shores of Germany. His errand over there is the collection 

 of some $35,000 worth of insurance which a certain German 

 insurance company refuses to pay. The consensus of opin- 

 ion in the rubber trade is that Mr. Gorham will not onl}' get 

 the insurance money, but anything else that he really wants 

 in Germany. 



=Michelin Products Selling Co., Inc. (New York), invited 

 a number of their friends in the trade to visit their tent near 

 the grand stand at the Vanderbilt Cixp races. They had ar- 

 ranged for 100 cots for use during the preceding night, and 

 refreshments were served before the race started on Satnrdaj- 

 morning. 



=The Para Recovery Co. inform The India Rubber 

 World that a very large American rubber manufacturer has 

 just placed an order with them for 500 tons of their Mexican 

 Yucatan rubber, shipments to be made ten tons per week. 



=An early touch of winter was experienced over a wide 

 area on October 11, snow falling at Buffalo and other points 

 in upper New York State, at Cleveland, Ohio, and at various 

 places in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Heavy snow was 

 general throughout western Ontario. This does not prove, 

 of course, that there is to be more snow than usual this 

 winter, but it encouraged the rubber shoe dealers none the 

 less. 



=Electric Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Rutherford, New 

 Jer.sej') are marketing what they term the " M. T. " triple 

 strength inner tubes for automobile tires, which take their 

 name from a special compounding ingredient, " M. T. " 



=Tlie merit of " Atmoid " for use in the manufacture of 

 high grade acid tubing of rubber is emphasized by the ma- 

 kers, The Rubber Chemical Co., Limited, of Birmingham, 

 Englan J. 



= Bids were opened on October 19 for supplying the New 

 York fire department with an unusuallj^ large quantity of 

 hose. The Manhattan Rubber INIanufacturing Co. were the 

 successful bidders for supplying 50,000 feet of 2'/, inch hose 

 — one of the largest orders ever placed by the department. 

 The Continental Rubber Works (Erie, Pa.) were the success- 

 ful bidders on 2500 feet lyi inch hose ; 10,000 feet 3 inch 

 hose ; and 1 100 feet 3^^ inch hose. 



=The Schaefer Rubber Co. was incorporated September 

 26, 1906, under Ohio laws ; capital, $50,000. Incorpora- 

 tors : Eugene and William E. Schaefer, Jacob H. Yost, and 

 W. T. Porter. To continue the business of J. H. Koh- 

 mescher &Co., retail rubber goods, Cincinnati. 



=The Niagara Rubber Co., at Lockport, N. Y., was incor- 

 porated October 23, 1906, under New York laws ; capital, 

 $250,000. Directors: H. Walters, A. M. Cheney, and J. B. 

 Ross, of Jamestown, N. Y. 



= The four related wholesale and retail rubber stores or- 

 ganized and managed by Mr. Isaac Crocker continue to do a 

 flourishing business — the Lowell Rubber Co., at Lowell, 

 Mass. ; Lawrence Rubber Co., Lawrence, Mass. ; Crocker 

 Rubber Co., Brockton, Mass. ; and Hope Rubber Co., Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



=The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., of which Mayor 

 Geo. W. Stephens is president, and D. Lome McGibbon 

 manager, has purchased the Maple Leaf Rubber Co., of Port 

 Valhousie, Ontario, for $350,000.00. 



= Dr. Durand Woodman, technical chemist, of New York, 

 has returned from a vacation spent in sailing and fishing and 

 incidentally in a study of the water supply of Cooperstown, 

 N. Y., with reference to its future possibilities of contami- 

 nation. 



= Mr. H. J. Koehler, of the aiitomobile trade in Newark, 

 N. J., reports that the " Buick " motor car entered by his 

 house at the Atlantic Q'\\.y races was run to and from that 

 city (about 150 miles) and all through the races without the 

 tires requiring any attention. They were the Goodyear 

 Quick Detachable tires. 



= National Metal Back Rubber Tiling Co., was incorpo- 

 rated October 2, 1906, under IMaine laws, with $500,000 

 capital authorized. The incorporators are M. W. Baldwin, 

 of Portland, Me. (president and clerk), C. E. Eaton (treas- 

 urer), J. J. Herman. Mr. Baldwin is the manager of the 

 Corporation Trust Co,, from which it is inferred that the 

 first board is composed of " dummj' " directors. 



=Messrs. V. Lespinas, G. Lespinas, and G. Ogier, of the 

 important tire factory of Michelin et Cie. (Clennont Ferrand), 

 are now on a visit to the United States, for the purpose of 

 studying the tire industry and trade here. 



=Dow Tire Co. was incorporated October 22, 1906, under 

 New York laws, with $1,500,000 capital stated, and head- 

 quarters at Phoenicia, Ulster county, N. Y. Directors : 

 Sidney B. Perry, James Gillin, Jr., and William L. Jiorris, 

 all of New York city. 



=Mr. G. C. Mandleberg of the firm of J. Mandleberg & Co., 

 Limited (Manchester, England), was a recent visitor to the 

 United States and also to Canada, where the companj- have 

 a large factory. 



=The American Chicle Co., in addition to the regular 

 monthlj' dividend of i per cent, on the common stock, pay- 

 able on November 20, will disburse on that date an extra 

 dividend of i per cent. 



=The Rubber Products Co. filed articles of incorporation 

 October 11, 1906, under Ohio laws, with $100,000 capital 

 authorized. Incorporators : Harvey Musser, George C. 

 Kohler, Arthur S. Mottinger, William H. Gillie, and J. A. 

 Kohler, of Akron and Barberton, Ohio. 



=Mr. Joseph H. Gilbert who for some years has been con- 

 nected in an official capacitj^ with the Firestone Tire and 

 Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) has been selected to succeed Mr. 

 Emil Grossman, as general and sales manager of the Conti- 

 nental Caoutchouc Co., the American agency for Continen- 

 tal tires. 



=The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. have recently made 

 an important addition to their boot ticket. 



