January i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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=The compliments of the season (1907) in calendar form, 

 first reached the office of Tiir India Rvhisur World from 



A. Adamson (Akron, Ohio.) It is a rural scene, delicately 

 tinted, and altogether a bit of office eciuipmcnt sure to be 

 appreciated by those whom it reaches. 



=The Howe Rubber Co. (Newark, New Jersey), incorpor- 

 ated in August, 1905, with $5000 capital, to make air bal- 

 loons and gas balloons, have filed with the secretary of state 

 at Trenton a certificate of increase of capital to $100,000. 



=The Stockton Rubber Co. (Stockton, New Jersey), after 

 having been in operation for a year, have their reclaimed 

 rubber product firmly establislied in the trade, and every- 

 thing sold ahead to the fiill capacity- of the plant. Mr. D. J. 

 Price is superintendent and general manager. His son, 

 I'^gbert Price, who recently completed a course at Drexel 

 Institute, has been appointed assistant superintendent. 



= The steamer Polycarp arrived at New York from Para 

 and Manaos on December 7, with a cargo of rubber consist- 

 ing of 3881 cases, of the estimated value of $1,840,500. 



=L. J. Mutty Co. (Boston), who have not only made a 

 specialty of double texture fabrics for automobile tops but 

 have created the largest lines of such goods that the market 

 has yet seen, moved on December 15 to new and larger quar- 

 ters at No. 28 Summer street. 



=The Utica Rubber Co., of Utica, N. Y., filed articles of 

 incorporation under New York laws on December 6, 1906, 

 with $25,000 capital. The directors are Edward R. Rice, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. ; Charles W. Barnes, New York city ; and E. 



B. Pearson, Newton, Massachusetts. Earl Wheaton, of 

 Utica, will be manager of the store, which is to be a selling 

 branch for the United States Rubber Co. 



=Aa appreciation of the good work that Mr. A. \V. War- 

 ren has done for the Hodgman Rubber Co. (New York) ap- 

 pears in his recent appointment as manager of sales for the 

 company. 



=The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. have awarded 

 contracts for a new building in addition to their plant on 

 Hampshire street. Cambridge, to be used for their shipping 

 department. 



=The Ekert High Resistance Materials Co. have been in- 

 corporated, at Dayton, Ohio, for the exclusive manufacture 

 of the high resistance materials, for use in connection with 

 steam, patented by F. M. Ekert. The Dayton Rubber Man- 

 ufacturing Co. now have no connection with the Ekert 

 materials. 



= Mr. P. W. Pratt, of the Foster Rubber Co. (Boston), at- 

 tended the International Shoe and Leather Fair, in London. 



= VVhile not unmindful of the place that the -Vpsley Rub- 

 ber Co. has made for itself in the rubber manufacturing world, 

 the fact is most strikingly illustrated in the recent brief 

 resume of its existence, that has been di.stributed among the 

 trade. Reproductions of the illustrations appearing in a 

 board of trade edition of the Times of Hudson, Massachusetts, 

 where the factory is located, serve the desired end. The 

 modest beginnings of 1885, the flourishing plant of 1895, and 

 the magnificent showing of the industry in 1905 testify to the 

 rare business acumen and ability of its head. Incidentally, 

 the residence of Mr. Apslej' is also shown, both in exterior 

 and interior views, and its comfortable and elegant appoint- 

 ments indicate another side of the life of this man of busi- 

 ness. With these rapid strides of success in retrospect, there 

 is much to anticipate for the next decade. 



=The holiday shutdown of the rubber shoe factories began 

 on December 22, to last for 8 days. 



= At the factory of the National India Rubber Co. (Bris- 

 tol, Rhode Island) the mill and calender rooms are being 

 operated one night each week until 9 o'clock. The tennis 

 shoe output has been very large of late. 



=Joseph Di.xon Crucible Co. (Jersey City, New Jersey), 

 whose large production ot erasers for tlieir lead pencil trade 

 entitles them to be considered rubber manufacturers, will 

 erect extensive additional buildings this year. 



=Mr. William M. Ivins, well known to the rubber trade 

 through his former connection with it, will receive from the 

 city of New York a legal fee of $12,500 in connection with a 

 recent investigation of the department of street cleaning. 



=The Cascajal Plantation Co. (Chicago) publish a letter 

 from the Beacon Falls Rubber Co., covering a lemittance, 

 at the rate of $i.to per pound for a consignment of cultivat- 

 ed rubber (Castilloa) from the " Cascajal " plantation, in the 

 state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



=The Luzerne Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) of late 

 have made additions to their building and taken on additional 

 lines of production. They are now making a wide range of 

 hard rubber goods. 



=The Para Recovery Co. are very materially increasing 

 their plant for the production of Mexican-Yucatan rubber, 

 necessitated by the very large orders already booked. 



= The S. & L. Rubber Co. (Chester, Pa.) have registered 

 a trade mark for their reclaimed rubber product, embracing 

 the letters " S. & L. " over the word RUBBER, the whole 

 enclosed in a diamond shaped border. The lettering is in 

 imitation of that done with stencil markers for shipping 

 cases. 



= Mr. George B. Hodgman, of the Hodgman Rubber Co. 

 (New York) has been elected to succeed his father, the late 

 Mr. George F. Hodgman, as a director in the Rubber Manu- 

 facturers' Mutual Insurance Co., the headquarters of which 

 are in Boston. 



=The Aladdin Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), were the second 

 to remember Thi; India Rubuer World office with a calen- 

 dar for the coming year. It is a dainty affair, sure to be pre- 

 served. 



=The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited, have 

 declared their initial quarterly dividend of i V pcr cent., 

 payable January 2. to holders of record December 24. 



= The Rickaby Rubber Manufacturing Co. (South Fram- 

 ingham, Mass.), recently organized by Mr. Frank B. Rick- 

 aby, formerly of the crude rubber trade, to make reclaimed 

 rubber, shipped their first products during the past month. 



= It is reported that a rubber manufacturing company is 

 seeking a location at Lowell, Massachusetts. 



= Livesey & Co., Limited, of Liverpool, have opened an 

 office at No. 5 Hanover street, New York, and will deal 

 chiefly in African rubbers. 



=On the evening of January 18 a banquet will be held at 

 Sherry's, in New York, which will not be a banquet of the 

 Mechanical Rubber Manufacturers' Association, because that 

 association is no longer in existence. It will, however, be 

 attended bv former members of that association and their 

 guests, and will be a purely social event. The arrangements 

 for an exceedingly pleasant time have all been under the 

 charge of Mr. William Hillman, late secretary of the late 

 association. 



