November i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER \A/ORLD 



63 



A. Lambert, of the Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co., of 

 Trenton, N. J. The intention is to maintain a social organ- 

 ization rather to attempt to control prices. 



BOSTON WOVEN HOSE AND RUBBER CO. 

 TiiK figures following are a statement of condition of this 

 company on September i, 1906, and for the corresponding 

 period 1905 : 



ASSETS. 



1906 190$, 



Cash I 188,128.74 I 103,610.89 



Cash advanced for goods not vol 



received 28,419.01 53,661.38 



Accounts receivable 499,996.32 442.915 90 



Merchahdise (Raw, in process, and 



finished 1 501,58211 496,083.52 



Machinery and tools 244,848.00 263,298.00 



Land and buildings 205,150.00 186,700.00 



luirniUire i.oo i.oo 



Patents i.oo i.oo 



Total Ji, 668,126.18 $1,54627169 



I,I.\I!1I,ITIES. 



1906. 1905. 



Capital stock ;f 1,200,000.00 $1,200,000.00 



Loans None. 64 500.00 



.Vcconnts payable 10,604.72 17,997.50 



Surjilus 457,521.46 263.774-19 



Total I 1, 668,126.18 11.546,271.69 



NEW YO'iK STOCK EXCHANGE TR \NSACTIONS. 



United States Rubber Co. : 



DATES 



Week ending Sept. 22 

 Week ending Sept. 29 

 Week ending Oct. 6 

 Week ending Oct. 13 

 Week ending Oct. 20 

 Week ending Oct. 29 



Common, 



Sales. 



18,270 



23330 



59 620 



8,000 



8,13- 



Mi 



5b'/i 



58 



59'A 



.S I 'i 



SECOND PKKFERRED. 



Wkek ending- 

 Sales 



High 



Low 



■Sept. 22. 

 400 

 80% 

 80 



Sept 29. 

 100 

 79 'A 



Oct. 6. 



800 



80 



Oct. 13. 

 300 

 79K 



Oct. 20. 



10 



78'A 

 78A 



Oct. 27. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Lons H. Ayme, for three years United States consul 

 at Para, has been appointed consul general at Lisbon, Por- 

 tugal. His successor in the Para consulate is !Mr. George 

 H. Pickerill. 



= Mr. H. N. Towner, of Towner & Co., rubber goods job- 

 bers, Memphis, Tenne.ssee, has been elected president of the 

 executive committee of the JNIeniphis Industrial League. 



= M'- Ernest E. Buckleton, secretary and general man- 

 ager of the Northwestern Rubber Co., Limited (Liverpool), 

 has been on a visit recently to the United States. 



= The sales department and branch managers throughout 

 Canada, of the Canadian Rubber Co., of Montreal, I^imited, 

 recently presented Mr. J. M. S. Carroll — as a mark of esteem 

 on the occasion of his recent marriage — with a massive solid 

 silver tea and cofTee dinner service, each piece engraved with 

 the recipient's monogram. 



=The corner stone of the Colt Memorial High School, 

 presented to the town of Bristol, Rhode Island, by Colonel 

 Samuel P. Colt, in memory of his mother, Theodora DeWolf 

 Colt, was laid on October 16, with Masonic ceremonies. 

 Among those participating were Governor Utter, Judge 

 Le Baron B. Colt (a brother of Colonel Colt), President 

 Faunce of Brown Universitj-, and Principal Charles F. Cape, 

 of the state normal school. The new building will be an 



ornament to the town, and the estimated cost is $250,000. 

 =On October 20 Miss Elsie Webster, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. George Milton Allerton, of Naugatuck, Connecticut, 

 was married to Mr. Ralph Bristol. 



TRIBUTE TO MR. GEORGE F. HODGMAN. 



At a meeting of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' 

 Association, held at the Hotel Astor, in New York, on Octo- 

 ber 18, 1906, the following tribute to the late Mr. Hodgman 

 was adopted ; 



WiiHRKAS, Mr. George F. Hodgman. president of this Associa- 

 tion, departed this life on September 28, 1906 ; 



Whereas, The success of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' 

 Association was largely due to his untiring energy, sound judg- 

 ment, and deep interest in our Association, as presiding officer and 

 a member of the executive conunitlee ; and. 



Whereas, His genial character and personality has endeared 

 him in the affection and admiration of all who had the great 

 pleasure to know him in his long and honorable life, and none 

 more than the members of this Association ; be it, 



J^csolved, That the members of the Rubber Sundries Manufac- 

 turers' A.s.sociation through the death of our late president, Mr. 

 George F. Hodgman, has suffered an irreparable loss ; and further. 



Resolved, That in commemoration of the esteem and love in 

 which he was held by the members of this .Association, and as evi- 

 dence of their sorrow over his death and of their sympathy with 

 his stricken family, this preamble and resolution be spread upon 

 the minutes of this Association, and that a copy be forwarded to 

 the family of our deceased associate and beloved friend. 



E. E. HUBER, Secretary. 



RUBBER PLANTATIONS INIURED. 



IVTEWS comes from Nicaragua of a cyclone and tidal wave 

 -^ » that seems to have done much damage. To begin 

 with, the little city of Bluefields is practically in ruins, and 

 it is rumored that Pearl Lagoon is wiped out. Further than 

 this the banana plantations have been destroyed, and report 

 is that a part of the rubber growdng on the Manhattan and 

 Cukra plantations has been destroyed. Just how badlj- the 

 rubber is damaged no one knows as yet. Mr. Gordon Wal- 

 dron, of the Cukra plantation, is now on his way to Nica- 

 ragua and others of the planters who were north are also 

 returning home. Whatever the damage, the impulse of the 

 plantation companies is at once to replant and go ahead 

 with their proposition, as the trees that were already com- 

 ing into bearing had proved the planting proposition to be 

 a good one. 



The Bluefields American (October 15) reports the complete 

 destruction of the town of Pearl Lagoon, and adds : " In the 

 near vicinity of the town, the rubber and banana planta- 

 tions, with some of the buildings, were also laid flat by the 

 unsparing elements. Among the plantations destroyed are 

 the big Cukra (bananas and rubber), Manhattan (rubber) the 

 rubber and banana plantations of Mr. McCullough, Captain 

 J. A. Peterson, and, in fact, all those of that district." There 

 were probably 450,000 well developed rubber trees. 



Wm. Jas. & Hy. Thompson report [October 13] : 

 Payd. — Judging by the large increase in American deliveries 

 during the past three months a good business has been done in the 

 States, but the heavy stocks held in Europe have prevented any 

 material advance in prices from this cause. From now up to the 

 end of next March we should see increasing supplies, and unless a 

 very active demand crops up we do not think higher prices will be 

 justified. 



