June i, 1907. | 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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comparison with her predecessors. The picture, as distributed 

 by The B. F. Goodrich Co. to their friends, is a hthographed 

 copy of a painting in oil by Philip Boikau, and everybody con- 

 nected with the production may well feel pleased with the re- 

 sult. 



THE BROWN SHOE CO. (ST. LOUIS.) 



This is the first St. Louis house to secure space for an exhibit 



at the World's Shoe and Leather Fair, to be held in Boston 



in July, 1908. They will exhibit particularly their "White 



House" shoes for men and women, and "Buster Brown Blue 



Ribbon'' shoes for boys and girls. Tlic Brown Shoe Co. 



report satisfactory conditions in their rubber footwear trade, 

 they having taken about their accustomed volume of orders for 

 fall shipment, consisting of "Goodyear Glove" goods for first 

 grade and "Jersey" for second grade. 



ACKER PROCESS CO. TROUBLES. 



A PETITION in involuntary bankruptcy has been tiled in the 

 United States district court in New Jersey, against The 

 .\cker Process Co., chemical manufacturers of Niagara Falls, 

 N. Y., and Thomas F. Bedle, of Jersey City, appointed 

 receiver. The company was incorporated .'Vpril i, 1899, under 

 the New Jersey laws, with $3,000,000 capital'. The recent financial 

 trouble is attributed to the fire which destroyed their plant on 

 February 26. The creditors held a meeting on May 20 to prove 

 their claims and appoint a trustee. The company had decided 

 not to rebuild, but some of their patents on processes may be 

 taken over by other companies in the same line of business. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The sale of the property of the F.lectric Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co. (Rutherford, New Jersey), advertised by the re- 

 ceivers to take place on May 3, was postponed until Friday, 

 May 31 — a date too late for a report of the result to be given 

 in this issue. 



Charles 'M. Evans, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, has sold his 

 shoe store, to devote his attention wholly to the Globe Mills 

 Rubber Co., of that city, in which he has been interested from 

 its beginning. Mr. Evans has been mentioned in The India 

 Rubber World as having made trips securing orders for the rub- 

 ber company. 



Contracts involving $100,000, it is reported, have been awarded 

 for enlarging the plant of the Midgley Manufacturing Co. (Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio), makers of steel wheels and motor car wheel 

 rims, the president of which is Thomas Midgley, consulting en- 

 gineer for the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (.'\kron. Ohio) have established a 

 general agency for their tires at Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, at 

 No. 16 Wood street, in part of the building occupied by the 

 Pittsburgh Rubber and Leather Co., a selling concern organized 

 in igoi, to handle the Diamond Rubber Co.'s products. 



Thomas Calvert has been appointed receiver of the partner- 

 ship property of Henry G. Dorsch and Christian F. W. Reiss, 

 brothers-in-law, who did business as the Replique Rubber Tire 

 and Shoe Co., No. 346 West Fifty-third street. New York, in 

 a suit brought by Dorsch for a dissolution and accounting. The 

 business dates from November 10, 1906. Dorsch values the stock 

 at $6,000 and the good will at $10,000. 



The Consumers' Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), who 

 are now devoting themselves particularly to the insulated wire 

 trade, are reported to have added to their equipment lately 80 

 new braiding machines, increasing the number in their plant 

 to upwards of 300. 



Dr. William M. Ilabirshaw, of the India Rubber and Gutta 

 Percha Insulating Co. (New York) is spending a two months' 

 vacation abroad, mainly in England. 



Rickaby Rubber Manufacturing Co. (South Framingham, 

 Massachusetts), recently organized to reclaim rubber, are re- 

 ported to be doing a good business, producing a high grade of 

 goods by special processes. 



TRADE MEWS NOTES. 



The directors of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 

 have declared the regular semi-annual dividend of $3 per share 

 on the preferred stock, payable June 15, 1907, to stockholders of 

 record June 5. 



At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Consolidated 

 Rubber Tire Co. (New York) at the registered offices of the 

 company, at Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 6, the board of 

 directors was re-elected, and no change was made subsequently 

 in the list of officers. 



Rubber manufacturers are likely to be interested in the sub- 

 ject of lubricating materials for machinery, as treated very fully 

 by Professor W. F. M. Goss, in a booklet entitled "A Study in 

 Graphite," including the results of numerous comprehensive 

 tests, and published by Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, 

 New Jersey. 



Joseph Hollins, Bathurst street, Toronto, has been appointed 

 agent for David Bridge & Co., makers of india-rubber machinery, 

 of Castleton, Manchester, England. 



.A new treasury department regulation permits the allowance 

 of a "drawback" on the exportation of asbestos packings made 

 by the H. W. Johns-Manville Co. (New York), with the use 

 of asbestos cloth, equal in amount to the duty paid on the 

 imported material used, less the legal deduction of i per cent. 



The Stamford (Connecticut) Manufacturers' Association is 

 interesting itself in insurance rates on local factory property. 

 The president of the association is Edward Sawyer, president 

 of the Atlantic Insulated Wire and Cable Co., and the secretary- 

 treasurer is William F. Gillespie, manager of the Stamford 

 Rubber Supply Co. 



The Baltimore Stamp and Stencil Trade Association has been 

 organized, with a view to establishing and adhering to a uni- 

 form price for staple goods in the lines of rubber stamps, 

 stencils, and other like products. The association started with 

 seven Baltimore firms enrolled as members. 



.\ quarterly dividend of i^ per cent, on the preferred shares 

 of the Manufactured Rubber Co. is payable on June I. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), whose purchase of 

 the Bryant Steel Wheel and Rim Co. (Columbus. Ohio) has been 

 reported in these pages, are erecting a building at Akron to 

 which the rim factory will be removed. 



The regular quarterly dividend of lJ4 PC cent, on the preferred 

 shares of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., is payable 

 on June 15. The amount of such shares outstanding is $10,351,- 

 400, of which all but about $3,000,000 are held in the treasury of 

 the United States Rubber Co. 



A certificate has been filed with the secretary of state of New 

 York announcing the voluntary dissolution of the Michelin Prod- 

 ucts Selling Co. (incorporated January 16, 1906), their business 

 as representative in America of Michelin et Cie., the tire manu- 

 facturers, having been succeeded by that of E. Lamberjack & Co., 

 Incorporated, of New York. 



The Globe Mills Rubber Co. (Lawrence, Massachusetts) are 

 extending their production. Among their specialties is a line of 

 arctics which are referred to as being both excellent in quality 

 and low in price. 



The Hyde Park Rubber Co. (Hyde Park. Massachusetts), 

 proofers of cloth for the trade, are reported busy, having suf- 

 fered no setback from the fire in their factory in March. 



The heels and soles and other specialties made by the B. & R. 

 Rubber Co. (North Brookfield, Massachusetts) have met with a 

 demand that is keeping the factory fully employed, although it 

 is one of the newest in the field. 



The .\ndover Rubber Co. (.Xndover, Massachusetts) are now 

 well under way turning out a line of seamless goods. They have 

 a well arranged and equipped plant with everything new, and 

 President Matthew S. Hannan is an experienced man in this 

 branch of the industrj'. 



