December i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBEH WORLD 



95 



= Harris Tire and Rubber Co. filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion in Maine on November 15, 1906, with $1,000,000 capital 

 authorized. Incorporators ; J. IC. Mantu (president), C. E. 

 Eaton (treasurer), and C. D. Fullerton, all of I'ortland, Me. 



= The Firestpne Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) will 

 exhibit at the Grand Central Palace automobile show in 

 New York, December 1-8, in addition to the solid side wire 

 motor tire, single type, with which they have made the mo- 

 toring world familiar, the same tire in the new "Dual" 

 form, and a general line of pneumatic tires. 



= The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. are doing some verj- artis- 

 tic advertising by means of the popular post cards. These 

 represent the landmarks in and around the Hub, the Old 

 South Church, the Old North Church (made famous by Paul 

 Revere's midnight ride), King's Chapel (where Washington 

 attended), Bunker Hill Monument, the Christian Science 

 Church, Faneuil Hall, etc. The cards are delicately tinted 

 and some appropriate bit of unobtrusive advertising for the 

 company appears on each. For instance, on the card bear- 

 ing Faneuil Hall, we are informed that " ' Boston ' rubbers 

 are cradles of health, " and on the one on whicli the Christian 

 Science Church appears is the simple statement that " 'Bos- 

 ton ' rubbers are the science of health." 



= The corporate title Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co. 

 has been adopted by the company known fornierU' as The 

 Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. of Trenton, N. J. 



^Mr. W. J. Gorliam, president of the Gorham Rubber 

 Co. (San Francisco), has returned from a trip to German}', 

 where he went to see how matters stood with his insurance 

 in the Rhine-Moselle compan}'. He says: "I went to see 

 about $25,000 of my own and $10,000 for The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., and I did not have to come down a particle on the 

 policies. " 



=:Coupons on the 6 percent, purchase money bonds of the 

 Tehuantepec Rubber Culture Co. were paj'able on and after 

 December i at the ofiBce of the Knickerbocker Trust Co. 

 (New York). 



= Fire on the morning of November 23 destroyed the store- 

 house of the Plymouth Rubber Co., on Lincoln street, 

 Stoughton, Massachusetts. 



=In the award of the tire contract for the Cadillac cars for 

 1907. the Hartford Rubber Works Co., and Morgan & Wright 

 are sharing equallj', one-half the contract being awarded to 

 each concern. 



=The firm of H. H. Bridgewater & Co. (Akron, Ohio) have 

 become a corporation under the laws of Ohio, with the style 

 The Bridgewater Machine Co. They manufacture molds, 

 dies, and machinery for the rubber industry. F. H. Mason, 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., is president ; Freeman Mason, 

 of the same company, vice president ; and II. H. Bridge- 

 water, secretary and treasurer. 



= One of the largest tire exhibits at the Grand Central 

 Palace automobile show (December 1-8) will be that of the 

 Hartford Rubber Works Co., in space No. i. There will be 

 seen all the products of the company, including several dis- 

 tinctly new features, which doi:btless will prove of much in- 

 terest to the trade. 



= Plans are under way for the reorganization, with in- 

 creased capital, of the Reinforced Hard Rubber Co., and the 

 removal of the factory from Jersey Cit}' to Baltimore. The 

 company make telephone receivers from material prepared 

 under patents granted to Dr. W. R. Sine. 



=Mr. Charles R. Flint, formerly prominent in the rubber 

 trade, has purchased in Long Island, near New York, 300 

 acres of land, for the reported price of $225,000. It is said to 

 be his intention to build a residence on the property. 



=The directors of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber 

 Co., have declared a semi annual dividend of $3 per share 

 on the preferred stock, payable December 15, 1906. 



=Suits for injunction have been filed recently against the 

 importers into this country of foreign made rubber cored 

 golf balls. The first of these suits slated for trial, Haskell 

 Golf Ball Co. :•. Frank L. Slazenger, was set down for hear- 

 ing in the New York supreme court, for November 20. 

 Before the case was called, however, a settlement was 

 reached out of court, bj- the terms of which the defendant 

 agrees to recognize the validity of the Haskell patent. In 

 other words, imported golf balls infringing this patent can 

 be sold only by the payment of royalties to the patentee. 



=President Van H. Cartmell, of The Consolidated Rubber 

 Tire Co. (New York), is pretty well known in the rubber 

 trade as one of the leaders in the solid rubber tire business. 

 It is not perhaps as well known that he has a son, Carl P. 

 Cartmell, who as treasurer of the Para Recovery Co. is also 

 making a place for himself and a reputation for his concern 

 in the rubber business. 



=The Niagara Rubber Co., the incorporation of which was 

 reported last month, are installing a plant at Lockport, New 

 York, where will be carried on the manufacturing done hith- 

 erto by the Amazon Rubber Co., of Jamestown, New York. 



= The Stamford Rubber Supply Co. (Stamford, Conn.) 

 were incorrectly reported in several new.spapers as having 

 been burned out in the large fire of November 15. Their 

 premises adjoined the principal building burned, but most 

 fortunatelj' was saved by strenuous work on the part of the 

 firemen. 



=At the recent sale of the plant and premises of the At- 

 lantic Rubber Shoe Co., announcement was made that it 

 would be subject to an attachment for $25,000. This was 

 placed upon the property on May 22 last, in thesuit of Ethan 

 H. Cutler, of Boston, to recover money claimed to be due 

 him for services rendered the company while in their em- 

 ploy as selling agent, between April, 1904, and October, 

 1905. 



= Fire on November 15 destroyed the factory at Stamford, 

 Connecticut, of the Atlantic Insulated Wire and Cable Co. 

 Building, machinery, and stock vv'ere a total loss, but cov- 

 ered by insurance. The company are actively engaged in 

 planning for a new plant, on their own property, situated 

 on the canal and railroad at Stamford, and expect to be un- 

 der full operation within 90 days. 



=The United States Rubber Co. have not acquired the 

 Glenark Knitting Mills, as might be inferred from some 

 published reports. 



=;The Iroquois Rubber Co. (Buffalo, New York), a jobbing 

 company of which Frank C. Howlett is president and treas- 

 urer, will occupy a new five story building, for which plans 

 have been drawn, about May i next. The company have 

 outgrown their present quarters. No. 43 Pearl street. The 

 new building, to front on Washington street, will be 46 X 

 146 feet. 



=The Siemon Hard Rubber Corporation (Bridgeport, 

 Conn.), makers of insulating specialties, are reported to 

 have a good export trade. 



