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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1907. 



XBASE NEWS NOTES. 



The Western Wire Sales Co., of Chicago, have been made 

 general Western agents of the Bay State Insulated Wire and 

 Cable Co. (Hyde Park, Massachusetts), recently incorporated 

 to manufacture regular lines of rubber and lead covered insulated 

 wires and cables, and a specialty of railroad signal wire. 



In the United States circuit court at New York an injunc- 

 tion has been issued, in favor of the L. E. Waterman Co., re- 

 straining all others from using the name "Waterman's Ideal 

 Fountain Pen." 



Washington I. Finch, some time with the National India 

 Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), has been appointed superin- 

 tendent at the rubber factory of the Clifton Manufacturing Co., 

 at Jamaica Plain, Boston. 



The directors of the Waterbury Co. (of New Jersey), manu- 

 facturers of insulated wire, with offices at No. 69 South street. 

 New York, have declared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 

 per cent, on the preferred stock and a quarterly dividend of 2J2 

 per cent, on the common stock, both payable July i. 



ADDITIONAL AKRON ITEMS. 



The excessive heat of late has caused not little inconvenience 

 in some of the rubber factories. It is stated that in one factory, 

 employing about a hundred men in the tire vulcanizing depart- 

 ment, it was necessary on one day lately to relieve every one of 

 them from one at some time or other during the day, rendering 

 it necessary to close the department. 



Mr. Arthur H. Marks, vice-president of The Diamond Rubber 

 Co., with his family, has been spending some time at Marble- 

 head, Massachusetts, whence reports come of his liaving had a 

 launch built. 



Aluminum Flake, it is learned from genial Frank Reifsnider. 

 of Akron, is now in regular use in 90 rubber factories, the sales 

 at the present time amounting to about 2,300,000 pounds a year. 

 As a smooth, inert, toughening ingredient in rubber compounding. 

 it certainly has great value. It is as a heat resistant, however, that 

 it seems to make its best record; that is why in tire treads, 

 inner tubes, steam hose, packing, and the like it is so widely used. 



A SON OF GOODYEAR HONORED. 



Professor Willi.\m H. Goodye.\r. M.A., the only surviving 

 son of Charles Goodyear, of rubber fame, has been engaged this 

 summer on important work on the cathedral at Amiens, France. 

 He has lately been elected honorary academician of the Royal 

 Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, in view of [as the official 

 notice to him states] "your many services to Italy and especially 

 to Venice, through your highly important publications and in- 

 dustrious studies on our church of St. Mark." Me had been 

 elected already an honorary member of the Royal .\cademy of 

 Milan, the Society of Architects of Rome, the Society of 

 Architects of Great Britain, etc. Professor Goodyear is not an 

 architect, but these honors have been recognitions of his dis- 

 coveries in medieval architecture. His home is in Brooklyn. 

 New York. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



On the eve of his departure for Europe as resident director 

 in London of the United States Rubber Co., Mr. Eben H. Paine 

 was tendered a dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York, by the 

 selling agents of the company in this country. At the conclusion 

 of the dinner Mr. Paine was presented by his entertainers with 

 a memento of their regard in the shape of a handsome gold 

 cigarette case, appropriately inscribed. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., whose illness was mentioned in these notes last month, 

 has been improving meanwhile, but his projected vacation trip 

 to Europe has been postponed indefinitely. 



Colonel Frank L. Locke, whose retirement from the post of 

 general superintendent of the factories of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co. was referred to in the last Indi.\ Rubber World (page 

 317), took his leave of the office on the last day of June. Dele- 



gations from various departments of the factory called upon him 

 to express their regret at his retirement and their good wishes 

 for his success in the new field which he has chosen. Colonel 

 Locke is taking a vacation in Europe before assuming his new 

 work as president of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union. 



Mr. Gordon Waldron, interested in rubber planting in 

 Nicaragua, after an absence for some time in Canada (his home) 

 and the United States, has returned to Bluefields, near which his 

 plantation is located. 



Mr. Edward A. Kiimmel, general manager of The Ocean Beach 

 Fruit Lands Co., with an estate at Ocean Beach, province of 

 Pinar del Rio, Cuba, during the month visited the home office, at 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He reports that about 485 Castilloa rub- 

 ber plants survived the cyclone of several months ago and are 

 thriving. The company will replace the loss of rubber by new 

 plantings. The company reports good returns from tobacco and 

 other farm products. 



Mr. Edward R. Rice, manager of sales of the United States 

 Rubber Co., started for Europe on July 17 for a vacation trip 

 of a few weeks. 



Mr. Rhodes Lockwood, of the Davidson Rubber Co. (Boston), 

 intends sailing on .\ugust 8 for a three months' visit to Europe. 



Mr. William M. Ivins, formerly president of the General Rub- 

 ber Co.. has been appointed by the Public Service Commission, 

 created recently under the New York laws, as special counsel to 

 investigate and report upon the merger between the leading trans- 

 portation lines in the city, if such exists. It is regarded generally 

 as a very important assignment. 



ITNITED STATES RITBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



Tr.^nsactions on the New York Stock Exchange for eight 

 weeks, ending on the dates appearing in the table below : 



Common Stock. 



Week June i Sales 1920 shares High 36^ Low 35 



Week June 8 Sales 1325 shares High 36^ Low 33J4 



Week June 15 Sales 3240 shares High 37% Low 35 



Week June 22 Sales 370 shares High 34^/2 Low 34^ 



Week June 29 Sales 2200 shares High 38 Low 36 



Week July 6 Sales 2750 shares High 3954 Low 37 



Week July 13 Sales 1400 shares High 2,y Low 3654 



Week July 22 Sales 5450 shares High 36J4 Low 32^ 



For the year — High 595^, Feb. 16; Low 32^, July 18. 



First Preferred Stock. 



Week June i Sales 3202 shares High 100^ Low ^Vi 



Week June 8 Sales 600 shares High 10014 Low 99 



Week June 15 Sales 1467 shares High loo?/^ Low 985^ 



Week June 22 Sales 845 shares High 99 Low 98 



Week June 29 Sales 3001 shares High 100 Low 97j4 



Week July 6 Sales 1730 shares High lOoJ-^ Low 99 



Week July 13 Sales 2035 shares High loi^ Low lOoYz 



Week July 20 Sales 1030 shares High ioo!-4 Low 98 

 For the year — High 109?^, Jan. 7; Low g■7Y^, June 24. 



Second Preferred Stock, 



Week June i Sales 1080 shares High 69^ Low 68 



Week June 8 Sales 200 shares High 695/2 Low 69 



Week June 15 Sales 1250 shares High 6()]i. Low 68 



Week June 22 Sales 10 shares High 68 Low 68 



Week June 29 Sales 510 shares High 69 Low 66 



Week July 6 Sales 224 shares High 70 Low 69 



Week July IS Sales 210 shares High 69!/$ Low 67 



Week July 27 Sales 100 shares High 67'4 Low 67J4 



For the year — High 78^^. Jan. 7: Low. 66. June 26. 



WANTS AND INQUIRIES. 



[419] P RICES are wanted on a first-class hose lining ma- 

 ■^ chine for vulcanizing cotton rubber lined hose. 



[420] A reader wishes names of manufacturers of "Dureflex" 

 packing. 



[421] Information is desired as to who makes or sells rubber 

 plaques used by feather dyers in shading feathers. 



[422! Who makes oleum white? 



