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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1906. 



= Mr. Willis A. Darling, formerly with the Republic Rub- 

 ber Co., has connected himself with the Continental Rubber 

 Works (Erie, Pa.), as manager of the mechanical goods de- 

 partment for New York. 



= The plant formerly owned bj' the Madeira Rubber Co. 

 (Hyde Park, Mass ) has been purchased by the New England 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., who will continue to make the 

 lines manufactured by the old company and add molded goods. 



= A reclaiming plant is to be erected in connection with 

 the Elkhart Rubber Works (Elkhart, Indiana), to be oper- 

 ated, it is reported, by a new company to be organized sub- 

 sidiary to the Elkhart Rubber Works. 



= Mr. J. Stewart Smith, who for three years has been in 

 charge of the metropolitan district for the Continental 

 Caoutchouc Co. has become Eastern sales manager for the 

 Electric Rubber Co. (Rutherford, N. J.) makers of the Pan- 

 ther tires, and will shortly open New York headquarters and 

 salesrooms. 



=The Trenton Gutta-Percha and Rubber Separating Co. 

 filed articles of incorporation in New Jersey October 18, 1906. 

 signed by Manfred Naar, Edgar L. Kerns, and Samuel 

 Baron. Capital, Sioo,ooo ; registered office, No. 17 East 

 State street, Trenton. 



= Victor Auto Tire Repair Co., of Passaic, N. J., was in- 

 corporated October 18, 1906 ; capital, $50,000. Incorpo- 

 rators : Victor E. Butler, Allan M. Chalmers, Cornelius 

 Post, and James Maitland. 



= The thirty- fourth annual meeting oi the Carriage Build- 

 ers' National Association of the United States, held at At- 

 lanta, Georgia, on October 23-25, had in connection with it, 

 as usual, an exhibition of carriage materials and parts. 

 This was held at the Piedmont Fair grounds, and embraced 

 a number of exhibits from the rubber trade, embracing 

 carriage and automobile tires, carriage cloth, rubber mats 

 and other like accessories. 



= Notice has been given at the factories of the Woonsocket 

 Rubber Co. and the National India Rubber Co. of a reduc- 

 tion of the working day from 10 to 9 hours, without reduc- 

 tion of pay. Also at the factories of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. and the .\merican Rubber Co. The question of a 

 like reduction at the other shoe factories of the United States 

 Rubber Co. has been under consideration. 



=The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Rubber Co. was held at Jeannette, Pa., on October 17, 

 when Herbert DuPuy, F. A. Wilcox, andH. Wilfred DuPuy 

 were reelected directors. They thereupon elected the fol- 

 lowing officers ; Herbert DuPuy, president ; F. A. Wilcox, 

 vice president ; H. Wilfred DuPuy, treasurer and general 

 manager ; George W. Shiveley, secretary ; Wilmer Dunbar, 

 general superintendent. The report showed that the com- 

 pany had enjoyed a very prosperous j'ear, and orders and 

 contract already booked give promise of still greater busi- 

 ness during the coming season. 



=The Good}-ear Rubber Insulating Company, with offices 

 and works in Jersey City, filed a certificate of dissolution of 

 the corporation in the office of the Secretary of State at 

 Trenton, October 29. The company was incorporated Jan- 

 uary 3, 1898, with a capital of $5000, divided into 100 shares 

 of a par value of $50 each. The incorporators were Albert 

 C. Wall, of South Orange, N. J., Frederick S. Minott, of Mt. 

 Kisco, N. \' , and Theodore Blake, of New Haven, Conn. 

 Minott was president, and Blake secretary and treasurer. 



"NEW ENGLAND S BIGGEST RUBBER STORE. 



On the 15th of the month past, The Enterprise Rubber Co. 

 took possession of their fine, new quarters at No. 1 10 Federal 

 street, Boston. The store when completed will be just what 

 President Barker of the company characterizes it in his an- 

 nouncements, " The Biggest Rubber Store in New England ", 

 while in arrangement and furnishing, it is the ambition of 



the head of the 

 company to make 

 it the best. All 

 told, the store 

 has some 26,000 

 square feet of 

 floor space. This 

 is divided into a 

 fine, light base- 

 ment, where me- 

 chanical rubber 

 goods will be 

 stored and where 

 .1 large general 

 repair depart- 

 ment is to be 

 placed ; the first 

 floor, where are 

 the executive of- 

 fices, sample ta- 

 bles and in the rear racks for the storing of goods ; then the 

 second and third and part of the fourth floors, which will be 

 used at present for the carrying of a complete stock of the 

 various lines handled. It is the first floor, however, that 

 attracts the instant attention of the visitor — finished in 

 quarter oak, with half balconies on either side, the windows 

 being the largest single plates of glass in Boston and with 

 the executive offices, sample rooms and stock tables arranged 

 in the most practical manner it strikes one at once as being 

 a distinct business proposition, and yet at the same time 

 having a degree of elegance not often found in rubber stores. 

 Of course, there are freight elevators, passenger elevators, 

 telephone trunk lines, electric lights and every modern con- 

 venience that enterprise can suggest. The lines to be car- 

 ried, in addition to the Candee rubbers and the general line 

 of rubber clothing and mackintoshes which the Enterprise 

 have always handled, will be a full line of the goods manu- 

 factured by The Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co., for 

 which The Enterprise Rubber Co. are now the exclusive 

 New England agents, a complete line of druggists' sundries, 

 and of automobile and cjxle tires. The addition to the sell- 

 ing force are Mr. A. P. Speare, formerly with The Repiiblic 

 Rubber Co., IMr. L. Hinds, formerly with Prescott Brothers, 

 of Boston, and Mr. Gordon Hall, the well known mill sup- 

 ply man. 



RUBBER RECLAIMERS ORGANIZE. 

 A MEETING of reclaimers and manufacturers who buy 

 scrap rubber was held on October 19 at No. 42 Broadway, 

 New York, attended by twentj--two members of the trade. 

 Mr. F. H. Appleton presided and Mr. W. C. Coleman acted 

 as secretary. An executive committee was named, consist- 

 ing of Messrs. J. K. Mitchell, of the Philadelphia Rubber 

 works ; W. T. Rodenbach, of the United States Rubber Co. ; 

 Arthur W. Clapp, of the E. H. Clapp Rubber Co. ; R. A. 

 I^owenthal, of the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming Works ; and J. 



