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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1907. 



ADVERTISING A CITY. 



The city of Memphis is demonstrating that it may pay a city 

 as well as a business house to advertise liberally, which it has 

 been doing through the local Industrial League, now in its sixth 

 year. The League claims to have been the means of locating in 

 Memphis 86 factories, capitalized at $22,920,000, and giving em- 

 ployment to 10,000 people. The League recently elected as presi- 

 dent Mr. H. N. Towner, the head of Towner & Co., Inc., jobbers 

 of rubber goods and mill supplies at Memphis, and one of the 

 largest houses in this field in the whole South. 



AUTMINTTM FLAKE CO — ELECTION. 

 At the annual meeting of shareholders of the .Muminum Flake 

 Co. (.\kron, Ohio, June 8), the following directors were elected: 

 R. M. Wanamaker, Frank Reifsnider and \V. E. Young, Akron, 

 Ohio; W. H. Hoover, New Berlin, Ohio; and C. K. Reifsnider, 

 St. Louis. C. K. Reifsnider was elected president, Frank Reif- 

 snider vice president and general manager, Mr. Young secretary, 

 and N. P. Goodhue treasurer. The company are engaged in 

 marketing supplies for the rubber trade. 



CANADIAN RUBBER CO. NOT ABSORBED. 



Under this head the New York Sun prints a Montreal despatch, 

 dated June 25, as follows : "George W. Stephens, president of the 

 Canadian Rubber Co., gives an emphatic denial to the report 

 that the United States Rubber Co. has secured control of the 

 Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. 'The United States Rubber 

 Co.,' said Mr. Stephens, 'has not bought a share of stock in the 

 Canadian concern and has not a cent's worth of interest in it.' " 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Hon. Arthur H. Lowe, of Fitchburg. Massachusetts, a 

 member of the board of directors of the Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Mutual Insurance Co., at a meeting of the board in Boston, on 

 June 4, was elected to the office of president, to succeed the late 

 Arthur W. Clapp. 



Mr. John J. Watson, Jr., treasurer of the United States Rubber 

 Co., is scheduled to make an inspection trip of the plants and 

 agencies of the company, extending as far west as the Pacific 

 coast, and consuming the present month and the first half of 

 August. 



The Broadway Rubber Tire Works, at No. 1900 Broadway, 

 New York, are engaged in the repairing of automobile tires, 

 besides which they deal in tires, holding agencies for both 

 domestic and foreign makes. 



Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) are putting a 

 line of bicycle tires on the market — single tubes, branded with 

 the makers' name. 



The Electric Cable Co. (New York) are contemplating an ad- 

 dition to their plant at Bridgeport, Connecticut, to be erected 

 probably next fall. It will be devoted to the manufacture of 

 rubber insulated wires, w'hich they intend beginning soon in their 

 present buildings. The company was organized early in 1906 to 

 manufacture "Voltax," a non-rubber insulation material. 



The treasury department announces a regulation allowing a 

 drawback on the exportation of golf balls made by the Goodyear 

 Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), with the use of imported 

 spun silk, equal in amount to the duty paid on the imported 

 material used, less I per cent. 



C. S. Pelton has become manager of the Buffalo branch of the 

 Pennsylvania Rubber Co., succeeding Fred Roblin, who was 

 temporarily in charge and has returned to the motor tire depart- 

 ment of the Pennsylvania company's factory. 



The Akron Pneumatic Tire and Protector Co. has been or- 

 ganized, at Akron, Ohio, for marketing the pneumatic tires 

 patented by Lemon Greenwald, of that city. 



Clark-Hutchinson Co. (Boston and New York) send out an 

 extensive and interesting catalogue of leather and rubber foot- 

 wear — for the spring of 1907 — covering a great variety of goods, 

 including a number of items for women's wear, fitted with 

 rubber heels. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The directors of the United States Rubber Co. have created 

 the position of secretary to the president and elected to that 

 position Mr. John D. Carberry, who for several years has per- 

 formed the duties now pertaining to it. 



Mr. Isaac B. Markey has been elected a vice president of the 

 Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York), with which he has been 

 connected for 23 years, having filled for several years the office 

 of secretary. 



Mr. William W. Wildman, who had charge of the operation 

 of the Milwaukee Rubber Works Co.'s plant as representative of 

 the Milwaukee Trust Co. during the receivership, for some 13 

 months, made an excellent showing in putting the factory upon 

 a paying basis and building up a surplus that was very welcome 

 to the creditors. The articles of incorporation of the Federal 

 Rubber Co., the recent purchasers of the Milwaukee plant, were 

 filed May 9, 1907, under the laws of Wisconsin. 



At a special meeting of the directors of the Josepli Dixon 

 Crucible Co., held May 31, at Jersey City, New Jersey, to take 

 action on the death of Vice President and Treasurer John A. 

 Walker, George T. Smith was elected vice president, George E. 

 Long treasurer, and Harry Dailey was elected director and 

 secretary. 



The annual meeting of the shareholders in the Tehuantepec 

 Rubber Culture Co., incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, 

 was held in Jersey City on June 18. 



Nazarro, who finished second in 1906 in the Automobile Club 

 of France Grand Prix, will drive a F. I. A. T. car, with Michelin 

 tires in this year's Grand Prix. 



W. K. Philp, until recently at the factory of G & J Tire Co. 

 (Indianapolis), has been appointed manager of that company's 

 New York branch, succeeding Arthur T. Smith, resigned. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Robert D. Evans, formerly president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., has been elected a trustee of the Boston Museum of 

 Fine Arts. Mr. Evans is an enthusiastic art collector, and is the 

 owner of what is regarded as one of the finest private galleries 

 in Boston. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber 

 Co., was recently at his camp at Mt. Katahdin, Maine, on account 

 of ill health, and is now expected to sail for Europe early in this 

 month, with his brother. Judge Le Baron B. Colt, of the United 

 States Court. Colonel Colt has announced his withdrawal as 

 a candidate for the position of United States senator for Rhode 

 Island. 



The citizens of Granby, Quebec, on the return of Mr. and Mrs. 

 S. H. C. Miner from Montreal, where they usually spend the 

 winter, tendered them a reception at the Town Hall, which was 

 largely attended. The town owes much to the business ability 

 of Mr. Miner, to whom it is largely indebted for its rubber and 

 other manufacturing plants, and for years he has served as 

 mayor. 



.■\t Easthampton. Massachusetts, on Wednesday evening, June 

 5. Miss Mollie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin W. Pitcher, 

 was married to Mr. Harry Slocum Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis 

 will be at home after September 2 at Beaver Falls, New York. 



Dr. Friedrich Traun, of Dr. Heinrich Traun u. Sohne (pro- 

 prietors of the Harburg Rubber Comb Co.), of Harburg and 

 Hamburg, was a recent visitor to the United States. Also Herr 

 .A.. Hoff, of the management of the Vereinigte Gummiwaren- 

 Fabriken Harburg- Wien, of Harburg. 



MR. SCHEEL RETURNS TO MAIDEN LANE. 



WiLLi.AM H. ScHEEL. Supplier of materials for the rubber man- 

 ufacture, whose premises at No. 158 Maiden Lane, New York, 

 were burned in April last, and who has meanwhile occupied 

 temporary quarters, returns on July I to the old location. All 

 the lines previously handled will be afforded to the trade from 

 new stocks now in hand, or arriving. 



