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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Septemdek t, 1907. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



POPE MAirUFACTURING COMPANY ASSIGNS. 



TtllC Pope Manufacturing Co. (Hartford, Connecticut) on 

 -August 14 announced: "We made a voluntary assignment 

 to-day, owing to inability to get the company's loans renewed 

 because of the present high rate of money. The assignment was 

 n\ade for the benefit of the creditors, as the assets of the com- 

 pany are far m excess of the liabilities. The business will continue 

 the same as heretofore, and the assignment will have no effect 

 en the company's agencies or the customers who purchase Pope 

 cars." Nominally the assignment was forced by a bill of com- 

 plaint filed by the MacManus-Kelly Co. (Toledo, Ohio), but the 

 preceding was in the nature of a friendly suit. 



The first papers in the case were filed in the chancery court 

 (if New Jersey, the company being a New Jersey corporation, in 

 which state Egbert J. Tomblyn, of Newark, N. J., and All)ert L. 

 Pope, of Hartford, were appointed receivers. Mr. Pope, who is 

 vice president of the company and a son of Colonel Albert A. 

 Pope, its president, was subsequently appointed receiver by the 

 I'nited States circuit courts in New York, Connecticut, Massa- 

 chusetts and Maryland, in which states the company operates and 

 possesses property. The receivership pro- 

 ceedings relate also to the Pope Motor Car 

 Co., a subsidiary company. 



The Pope Manufacturing Co. was incor- 

 porated February 27, 1903, to acquire tlie 

 properties of the .American Bicycle Co. and 

 what remained of its business. The chief 

 spirit in the organization was Colonel A. .\. 

 Pope, who undertook to revive the bicyck- 

 trade, at the same time taking on the 

 manufacture of automobiles on a large 

 scale. The company is capitalized at $22,- 

 500,000. It is stated that the business of 

 the company has been very large and tha; 

 it has had a borrowing capacity until now 

 of $1,900,000, which was reduced lately by 

 the stringency of the money market to 

 $1,000,000, thus rendering the company un- 

 able to renew certain loans. Colonel Pope, 

 the founder and head of the company, has 

 been instrumental in developing a very 

 large outlet for rubber, first as a bicycle 

 manufacturer and later in respect of auto- 

 mobiles. At one time he was the owner of tlie Hartford Rubber 

 Works, which first became a tire factory under his control. 



HEPUBLIC RUBBER CO.— NEW BUILDING. 



During the last week in .\ngust ground was broken for the 

 foundations of an additional building for the Republic Rubber Co. 

 (Youngstown, Ohio) — five stories, concrete construction. 160X40 

 feet. The two lower floors will be used in extending the present 

 automobile tire department, the demand for their tires being in 

 excess of the existing manufacturing capacity. The space above 

 will be devoted to the manufacture of cotton rubber lined fire 

 hose, a line which the company arc now adding. The company 

 will weave their own jackets and market a specially high grade 

 of hose of their own patented construction. The company have 

 constructed another large building within 18 months, and their 

 business is reported to have shown a large increase in all de- 

 partments. 



FAtn-TLESB MANUTACTURINO CO.'S ANNUAL. 



The annual meeting of shareholders of The Faultless Rubber 

 Co. (.'\shland, Ohio) was held in the company's offices on August 

 2. The treasurer's report was gratifying, the company having 



George \V.\tkinson 



had a very prosperous year. .\ number of improvements are now 

 under way, including two new buildings, one to be used for a 

 Ijoiler house and the other for manufacturing purposes. The 

 following were elected directors for the year ending June 30, 

 1908: H. B. Camp, A. Vogt, T. W. Miller, G. D. Bates and F. E. 

 Meyers. The Ixiard then elected the following officers : 



T. W. Miller, president. He has been general manager since 

 the organization of the company and succeeds Mr. H. B. Camp, 

 president from the beginning, who retires from office on account 

 of ill health. 



.■\. Vogt, vice president, reelected. He is a manufacturer and 

 vice president of the German- American Insurance Co. of Roches- 

 ter, New York. 



I. Leroy Miller, secretary. He has been identified with the 

 company from the first and succeeds C. E. Campbell, who becomes 

 general manager. 



George D. Bates, treasurer, reelected. A banker of Akron. 

 Ohio. 



Mr. F. E. Meyers, the newly elected director, is a prominent 

 manufacturer of .Ashland and is most favorably known in busi- 

 ness circles throughout northern Ohio. 



MR. WATKINSON GOES WITH ALDEN & CO. 



-Mr. George Watkinson, whose portrait 

 appears on this page, has become connected 

 with the house of George A. Alden & Co. 

 (Boston), the oldest crude rubber mer- 

 chants in the country. Mr. Watkinson him- 

 self is by no means new to the rubber trade, 

 though hitherto his relation to it has been 

 in the manufacture and distribution of 

 goods. He is, in fact, so widely known 

 among rubber men that his portrait would 

 be recognized by very many of our readers 

 witliout the aid of any label. 



THE GREAT WESTERN RUBBER CO. 



The assets of the Kansas Rubber Co. 

 (Olathe, Kansas) have been transferred to 

 The Great Western Rubber Co., a new cor- 

 poration, with larger capital, who are in- 

 creasing the capacity of the factory and 

 installing additional machinery. An equip- 

 ment for making automobile inner tubes will be put in, and the 

 production will include mechanical goods. The Kansas Rubber 

 Co. was incorporated in the latter part of 1905. Olathe, the loca- 

 tion of tlie factory, is about 20 miles from Kansas City, Missouri. 



W. D. ALLEN MANUFACTURING CO.'S FIRE. 



The fire in the warehouse of the W. D. .\l!en Manufacturing 

 Co. (Chicago), on August 15, did not seriously interfere with 

 the business of the firm, being confined entirely to the annex at 

 No. 153 Lake street, where the upper floors were burned out. 

 The main building, at No. 151 Lake street, was saved by a fire 

 wall and underwriters' doors which protected the openings. The 

 distribution of stock was such that no one line of goods was 

 entirely consumed, and the firm were doing business as usual 

 the morning after the fire. The brass manufacturing depart- 

 ment, also the packing department and considerable merchandise, 

 had just been removed to the fine new building of the firm on 

 Western avenue, so that the loss was less on this account than it 

 otherwise would liave been. The firm carried full insurance. 



OMAHA RUBBER CO.— CHANGE OF NAME. 



The Omaha Rubber Shoe Co. (Omaha, Nebraska), who were 

 mentioned lately in these pages as having put in stock "everything 



