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THE INDIA RUBBER ^VORLD 



[January i, 1907. 



=At a meeting of the directors of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co. on December 6, Mr. Homer E. Sawyer, general 

 manager of the company, was elected a member of the 

 board, and Mr. John J. Watson, Jr., the treasurer, was 

 elected a member of the executive committee. The number 

 of directors is now 20, and the number provided for in the 

 company's by laws 21. 



The American Rubber Manufacturing Co. whose plant on 

 Spear street near Howard was destroyed, has erected a large 

 factory across thebay at Kmeryville, opposite San Francisco. 



=The factory of the Standard Asphalt and Rubber Co. 

 (Independence, Kansas) is reported to be in operation, treat- 

 ing petroleum for nearby wells, from which to make hydro- 

 carbon products after first taking off the lighter oil. 



= A Waterbury (Conn.) newspaper estimates that a thou- 

 sand pairs of rubber footwear were sold in that town on a re- 

 cent day when snow fell. 



=A two story addition to the Lisbon street plant of the 

 Cleveland Rubber Works of the Mechanical Rubber Co. has 

 been contracted for. 



TiiK New Brunswick Rubber Co. plaut, at New Brunswick, 

 New Jersey, is now being used as a central laboratory, under 

 the auspices of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 



= The Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York), in view of the 

 verdict in their favor in the suit brought against another 

 company having a somewhat similar title, announce to the 

 trade that the use of the word " Eureka " as part of a busi- 

 ness title in connection with the manufacture and sale of 

 rubber lined cotton fire hose and related goods is illegal. 



= Calvert B. Archer, superintendent of the Milford Rubber 

 Co. (Milford, Mass.) for the past seven j-ears, has resigned. 



=The Boston Belting Co. have declared the regular quar- 

 terly dividend of 2 per cent, and an extra dividend of 2 per 

 cent., payable on January i to holders of record on Decem- 

 ber 15. 



=The Milford Rubber Cement Co. (Milford, N. H.) a new 

 concern, have begun operations. George D. Morse, of Bos- 

 ton, is president, and P. H. Farley treasurer. 



=The Woods Cushion Wheel and Tire Co. filed articles of 

 incorporation under the New York laws on November 30, 

 1906, with $10,000 capital. Incorporators: E. D. Woods, 

 F. D. Powell, C. Ecker, E. D. Hotchkiss, and W. Welch, 

 all of Syracuse, N. Y. 



=S. B. Thing & Co. (Newton, Mass.) have replevined two 

 lots of rubber footwear, valued at $10,500, which formed 

 part of the stock of B. W. Comstock & Co. (Providence, R. 

 I.), who were adjudged bankrupt on November 9. 



= Following the filing of a bill of equity by the Seamless 

 Rubber Co. (New Haven, Conn.) against the Pittsburgh Drug 

 Co. (Pittsburgh, Pa.), asking for the appointment of a re- 

 ceiver, C. F. Patterson has been appointed in that capacity. 

 .\ccording to the statement filed by the plaintiff" company, 

 the drug concern has liabilities am )unting to *>220,ooo and 

 assets of $1 7,000. 



=The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have representa- 

 tives in many parts of the country, demonstrating their 

 quick detachable tires at the local garages. 



=The new factory- of the Bowers Rubber Co. is in opera- 

 tion at Black Diamond, near San Francisco. I'ermanent 

 offices and warerooms will soon be erected on their old site, 

 in San Francisco. They have taken temporary quarters on 

 the opposite side of the street — No. 57 Sacramento street. 



=The Commonwealth Rubber Co. (Reading, Mass.), men- 

 tioned recently in these pages as having taken on the manu- 

 facture of a puncture proof motor tire, are also making other 

 rubber goods for automobiles, besides rubber blaukets and such 

 like products. The company are capitalized at $500,000 and 

 operate the factory some time used by the Chauncy Rubber 

 Co. 



=The Republic Rubber Co. have filled a large order for 

 valves for use in the waterworks pumping station at Youngs- 

 town, Ohio. The new valves are the invention of Wills 

 Hamilton, superintendent of the waterworks, and an impor- 

 tant feature is the economy involved. They are a combina- 

 tion brass and rubber affair, so made that when the rubber is 

 worn on one side, instead of the valve being thrown away the 

 rubber can be turned over and the valve thus made to last 

 twice as long as the old ones. 



= Loring M. Monk, until lately identified with the Globe 

 Mills Rubber Co. (Lawrence, Mass.), has established the firm 

 ofL. M. Monk & Co., commission merchants in cotton goods, 

 No. 116 Bedford street, Boston. 



= The window of the new store of The Enterprise Rubber 

 Co. (Boston), recently described in The India Rubber 

 World, holds what is said to be the largest single pane of 

 window glass in this countr3'. 



= The two factories of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., on 

 account of the heavy orders in hand, were closed for only 

 one day at Thanksgiving time. 



= The regular quarterly dividend of i}{ per cent, on the 

 preferred shares of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. was 

 payable on December 15 to holders of record on Decembers. 



^Kern, Lauderbach & Co., a Philadelphia wholesale 

 house, will carry a stock of wool boots from the factory of 

 the Hastings Wool Boot Co. (Hastings, Michigan.) 



= The Reed Electrical Cordage Co. Inc. (Syracuse, New 

 York), are manufacturers of telephone cords and other simi- 

 lar goods, on an extensive scale, though the business has 

 not long been established. Thomas S. Reed is president and 

 Robert E. Benjamin treasurer, 



=The stockholders of The Ohio Rubber Culture Co. (Can- 

 ton, Ohio) have received the fourth quarterly report from 

 their plantation " Capoacan. " The report says : " The 600 

 acres this company planted to rubber in 1905 is exception- 

 ally fine rubber, and the rapid growth it has made is almost 

 marvelous. Thousands of these trees will measure 5 to 6 in- 

 ches in diameter at the ground and stand as high as a man 

 can reach on horseback. The 1906 planting is coming on 

 nicelj' and looks fine for its age." The Minatitlan Contract- 

 ing Co., of twelve years' experience as tropical planters, are 

 developing this plantation under contract and bond. 



=The republic of Colombia has established in New York 

 an agency for disseminating information regarding the re- 

 sources of that country, in charge of Seiior Abrio Dias 

 Guerra, at No. 15 Whitehall street. Specimens of Colom- 

 bian products, including rubber, will be kept on exhibition. 



= Mr. H. W. Marden, .some time a member of the old firm 

 of W. L. Sage & Co., rubber shoe jobbers of Boston, is now 

 credit man in the Boston store of the Beacon Falls Rubber 

 Shoe Co. 



= Mr. Lester Leland, vice president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., accompanied by Mrs. Leland and a party of 

 friends, sailed early in the month across the Atlantic, and 

 will spend the winter on the Nile. 



