April I, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



223 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



RUBBER GOODS— ANNUAL KEETING. 



THE oiglnli animal meeting of the shareholders of the Rub- 

 ber Goods Manufacturing Co., incorporated under the 

 laws of New Jersey, is due to be held at the registered 

 offices of the company in that state, No. 60 Grand street, Jersey 

 City, on Wednesday, April 10. 



At the last regular meeting of directors of the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co. it was decided to discontinue the payment of 

 dividends on the common stock, in view of the arrangements 

 pending for the liquidation of the company. On October 15, 

 1906, a semi-annual dividend of i per cent, was paid, after a 

 cessation of dividends on the common stock since the end of 

 1901. Had the directors decided to continue dividends, another 

 declaration would have been made during the past month. 



COMPLETE OFFICE BUILDING PLANNED. 

 The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. are working on the 

 detailed plans of what is designed to be a very complete ad- 

 ministration building, to be located opposite their factory at 

 Cambridge. Besides ample office accommodations and every 

 facility for the transaction of business, this building will con- 

 tain an assembly hall, dining rooms and recreation rooms. Mr. 

 John O. DeWolfe, who for several years was associated with 

 this company, is the architect. 



BAUMANN RUBBER CO.— INCREASE OF CAPITAL. 



The Baumann Rubber Co. (.New Haven; have filed a certifi- 

 cate with the secretary of state of Connecticut of increase of 

 their capital stock fromi the nominal figure of $10,000 to $100,000. 

 They have added to their plant lately a new washer, mill and 

 calander, from the Parrel Foundry, and some new presses and 

 vulcanizers, and are planning to make theirs an exceptionally 

 ivell equipped plant. Their specialties are balls and toys. The 

 New York address of the company is now No. 79 Fifth avenue. 



TRENTON'S NEW TIRE COMPANY. 



The Empire ."Xutomobile Tire Co., the new 'I'renton concern, 

 are preparing to market a tire of the clincher type, with a raised 

 tread, and also inner tubes made by a special process, and tire 

 sundries. The president is Charles H. Semple, mentioned in the 

 last Indi,\ Rubber WoRi-n as having resigned a long time connec- 

 tion with the G & J Tire Co. to accept the position. The treas- 

 urer is General C. Edward Murray, the principal shareholder 

 in the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co. and the Crescent Belt- 

 ing and Packing Co. The secretary is A. Boyd Cornell, also 

 secretary of the Empire rubber company. The sales will be 

 in charge of W. G. Whitlock, for some years past with the G 

 & J company. The tires will be made at the Empire rubber 

 company's plant. 



FACTORY ENLARGEMENT AT PERTH AMBOY. 



The Standard Underground Cable Co. (Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- 

 vania) have added lately to the holdings of land at Perth .Amboy, 

 New Jersey, where one of their manufacturing plants is located, 

 including their rubber factory. For the past 11 years the Stand- 

 ard company Iiave had quite a large rubber covered wire de- 

 partment in connection with their other cable business, and 

 in this department they have always mixed their own rubber 

 compounds. It is now proposed to extend the Perth .\mboy 

 plant, with a view to enlarging the rubber covered wire and 

 some other departments. 



FACTORY ENLARGED AT WALPOLE. 



The Massachusetts Chemical Co. (Walpole, Massachusetts), 

 owing to the increase of their business in the manufacture of 

 insulating and waterproofing compounds, insulating tapes and 



the like, have been obliged to build a large addition to their fac- 

 tory, which has been equipped with the best of modern rubber 

 machinery, and which practically doubles the capacity of the 

 plant. They arc, therefore, enabled to handle orders much more 



promptly than for some time past. 



A NEW INSULATED WIRE PLANT. 



The Bay Slate Insulated Wire and Cable Co. has been organ- 

 ized for the manufacture of rubber insulated wires and cables 

 at Hyde Park, Massachusetts. The company is to be incorpor- 

 ated under the laws of Massachusetts, with $250,000 capital. 

 The president of the company is Andrew J. Conlin, who has 

 long been engaged in the insulated wire trade, and latterly with 

 the Morss Simplex Electrical Co. The treasurer and manager 

 is John H. McNamee, late mayor of Cambridge, Mass., who 

 is a successful business man. The company has secured the 

 well-equipped plant constructed and long occupied by S. Klous 

 & Co. (Boston Gossamer Rubber Co.), who were large manu- 

 facturers of waterproof clothing and went out of business in 

 1903, owing to the ill health of the senior Mr. Klous. The 

 location is at River Street station, on the New York and New 

 England Railroad, just outside the limits of Boston. 



RUBBER FACTORY FOR SALE. 



The factory and business of the Davidson Rubber Co., manu- 

 facturers of druggists' and stationers' sundries, at East Somer- 

 ville, Massachusetts, are offered for sale This measure has 

 been decided upon in connection with the settlement of the 

 estate of the late Rhodes Lockwood, president and treasurer of 

 the company, who died in 1005, and who was the principal owner 

 of the business. 



HARTFORD RtTBBER WORKS CO.— NEW OFFICERS. 



A NL-MBER of changes in the official list of the Hartford Rub- 

 ber Works Co. was made at a meeting of the directors on 

 March 8. Thomas Midgley has resigned as president, in order 

 to devote more time to the Midgley Manufacturing Co. (Colum- 

 bus, Ohio), makers of the rims used by Rubber Cksods Manu- 

 facturing Co., who now control the Columbus concern. Mr. 

 Midgley retains his connection with the tire industry, however, 

 as general consulting engineer for the Hartford and G & J 

 companies and Morgan & Wright — a new position created for 

 him. The new president is Justus D. Anderson, a former official 

 of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., who recently became presi- 

 dent of the G & J Tire Co., which position he will also retain. 

 James W. Gilson, the secretary and treasurer of the Hartford 

 company, having resigned to join an old friend in the Mitchell 

 Motor Car Co. (Racine, Wisconsin), Henry Plow has been 

 elected treasurer and assistant secretary, and E. R. Benson secre- 

 tary and assistant treasurer. V. B. Lang, vice president of the 

 company, has taken the additional title of general manager. 



MR. DRESSER OUT OF BANKRUPTCY. 



A DiscH.ARCiE in bankruptcy was granted in the United States 

 district court in New York on March 5 in the matter of Dresser 

 & Co., commission merchants in hosiery, silks and elastic web- 

 bing, adjudicated bankrupts July 9, 1903. One result of the 

 failure of the firm — caused by its complications with the United 

 States Shipbuilding Co. — was the enforced sale, in December, 

 1903, of the plant of the American Tubing and Webbing Co. 

 (Providence, Rhode Island), in which Daniel Le Roy Dresser 

 was a large shareholder. Mr. Dresser states that at the time 

 of the failure Dresser & Co. owed $1,400,000, and the estate has 

 paid over $1,000,000. The discharge in bankruptcy was influenced 

 by a petition signed by the firm's creditors. The business of the 

 firm has been continued ^by the receiver, at No. 71 Franklin street, 

 New- York, and Mr. Dresser now resumes control. 



