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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May I, 1907. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Ellis Rubber Co. filed articles of incorporation April 4. 

 190", under the laws of Ohio, with $10,000 capital, to engage in 

 the sale of tires and other rubber goods. They will act as sell- 

 ing agents, and job and deal in all kinds of rubber tires. R. C. 

 Ellis is president and manager, and T. W. Spalding secretary 

 and treasurer. They will not engage in manufacturing for the 

 present, though their charter permits them to do so. Location : 

 No. 510 Sycamore street, Cincinnati. 



The Rubber Products Co. (Akron. Ohio) are manufacturing 

 for outside parties a specially light overshoe for ladies' wear, 

 a patented article in which a good trade has been built up. The 

 company have been enlarging their facilities for mold work, 

 providing room for 24 hydraulic presses. 



At the annual meeting of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. (Woon- 

 socket, Rhode Island) on April 22, the directors elected were 

 Samuel P. Colt. Walter A. Read, John W. Ellis, James Harris, 

 Walter S. Ballou, Homer E. Sawyer, and John J. Watson, Jr. 

 Colonel Colt was reelected president and general manager and 

 Clarence H. Guild secretary and treasurer. 



The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. have a display of their products 

 at the Jamestown Exposition, to celebrate the tercentennial of 

 the founding of the first English colony in America, which was 

 opened formally on April 26. 



The New England Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Hyde Park, 

 Massachusetts) are doing a very large and profitable business 

 in the proofing of fabrics of all sorts, including silk. The 

 active head of the company, Mr. A. A. MacLaren, who is both 

 secretary and treasurer, has also recently installed an up-to-date 

 plant for the manufacture of rubber heels and small molded 

 specialties in rubber. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Arthur E. Friswell, formerly with the Mechanical 

 Fabric Co. (Providence, Rhode Island), and for some years 

 past at the works of David Moseley & Sons, Limited, at Man- 

 chester, England, was recently called to the United States by 

 the serious illness of his father at Providence. 



Mr. George S. Atwood, secretary of the American Associa- 

 tion of Commerce and Trade, with headquarters in Berlin and 

 a membership divided equally between American and non- 

 American firms, arrived in New York on April 9 on a visit 

 the object of which is to bring the association into closer rela- 

 tions with American commercial interests. 



Mr. Leonard F. Requa, founder and for a number of years 

 president of the Safety Insulated W'ire and Cable Co. (New 

 York), is a director in thj Arizona Amalgamated Copper Co., 

 a $15,000,000 mining company. 



The Boston shoe trade, both rubber and leather, will miss 

 George E. B. Putnam, department editor of the Boot and Shoe 

 Recorder, but not for long. He has merely gone to Jamaica 

 for a well earned rest. Here's hoping that that trim little island 

 lies quiet while he is there and that he returns soon and much 

 refreshed. 



Mr. Lewis D. Parker, some time president of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co., has been elected a director in the important 

 hardware and tools manufacturing concern, Billings & Spencer 

 Co. (Hartford, Connecticut"), to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 death of Franklin Clark. 



Mr. F. H. Burgess, special correspondent of the important Lon- 

 don daily. The Finaicier and BHl!ionist,\vas in New York recently, 

 whence he started for an iS months' tour of Mexico, the Central 

 American states, and South America, with a view to reporting, 

 in a series of letters, on the financial, industrial, and com- 

 mercial conditions and prospects of the different countries. His 

 itinerary embraces the leading rubber ports, including Para and 

 Manaos, and the rubber interest is on his list of subjects for 

 study. 



TO EXPLOIT COLOMBIAN RUBBER. 



■"T" HE Amazon-Colombian Rubber and Trading Co. filed articles 

 ■*■ of incorporation under the laws of Maine on April 10, 1907, 

 with an authorized capital of $7,500,000, of which $3,000,000 is 7 

 per cent, preferred stock and $4,500,000 is common stock. The 

 object is to acquire and work rubber and timber resources con- 

 trolled under a concession from the republic of Colombia — an 

 estimated area of 47,000 square miles, bounded in general by the 

 Putumayo and Caqueta rivers, the waters of both of which reach 

 the Amazon. The concession carries the exclusive rights of ex- 

 ploitation until 1930, and the right to acquire 80,000 hectares 

 ( = 197,680 acres) in fee simple, anywhere within the limits of the 

 concession. 



During the last four years rubber has been shipped from the 

 district above referred to, in increasingly large amounts, by 

 way of Iquitos. Manifests of such shipments between the dates 

 of December 29, 1904, and November 25, 1906, show 769 tons 

 of rubber consigned for Liverpool and 57 tons for New York, 

 and the later exports have been on a large scale. It is expected 

 that the rubber working and trading organization already on the 

 ground will be continued under the new regime. The rubber 

 gathered hitherto has been of a quality approximating caucho 

 ball, but described as Jcbe debit or "weak rubber." 



The new company have head offices at No. i Wall street, New 

 York. The officers are : President, Frank Squier, of the paper 

 trade, president Queens County Trust Co., and recently one of 

 tlie vendors of the Inambari-Para Rubber Estates, Limited; 

 vice-president, Benjamin Briscoe, president Maxwell-Briscoe 

 Motor Co. ; secretary, John Bidlake, a former United States 

 consul in Colombia, and general manager of the Home Land 

 and Mining Co. ; treasurer, Julian M. Gerard, of H. C. Brown 

 & Co., bankers. New York; managing director, Herman D. 

 Sellecl!, secretary Carabaya Rubber Co., operating rubber prop- 

 erties in Peru. The directors are the above, C. P. Collins, presi- 

 dent Inca Rubber Co. and Inca Mining Co. ; Fidel Cuello, mer- 

 chant, of Bogota, and Carl H. Fowler, counselor-at-law, of New 

 York. 



Colonel John Bidlake, Fidel Cuello and H. D. Selleck, named 

 above, are now in London with a view to promoting the interests 

 of the company. In London is a branch of the important com- 

 pany who have been exploiting the rubber resources of the dis- 

 trict involved in the concession. 



POPULAR TOILET APPLIANCES. 



r^ E.ALERS who have taken on the Allen fountain brush have 

 '-^ found it a ready seller. While the brush and accompanying 

 outfits have been improved from time to time in efficiency and ap- 

 pearance, the original principle rem.ains : 

 Water applied to the skin in a gentle or 

 strong spray through the bristles. The 

 slow or brisk rub readily opens the pores 

 and clean water is applied directly during 

 the process of massage or friction. A 

 thorough, satisfying, cleansing bath is 

 accomplished rapidly and followed by a 

 delightful, exhilarating, toning effect 

 upon the system. 



The Allen fountain brush with portable 

 outfit is used independent of the bathroom, tub or running water, 

 as explained in the company's advertisement. This outfit is 

 greatly appreciated and readily purchased by those not having 

 bathrooms and by travelers, as the outfit is packed in a small box 

 easily carried in grip or suit case. 



Effective advertising matter is supplied free of charge to deal- 

 ers handling these goods. 



[The Allen Manufacturing Co., No. 2515 Adams street, To- 

 ledo, Ohio.] 



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