April i, 1903] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= The European depot of The B. F. Goodrich Co., at 7, Snow 

 Hill, London, E. C, have taken the agency for Bailey's rubber 

 massage rollers, together with the C. J. Bailey & Co. line of 

 patented specialties, a large shipment of the goods having just 

 gone forward. The firm of E. VV. Fidgeon it Co., Limited, ol 

 Christchurch, have taken the agency for New Zealand. 



= The Hanover Rubber Co., which recently started in the 

 waterproofing business at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, has 

 gone out of business. 



F. B. Mcllroy, Chicago manager of the Trenton Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., is on a business trip West, visiting the dif- 

 ferent agencies of the company. His trip will extend to the 

 Pacific coast, and from Vancouver to the City of Mexico, 

 Mexico. 



= The bill in equity of Charles R. Flint, of New York, seek- 

 ing to hold Theodore A. Dodge and others personally liable as 

 directors — at one time — of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber 

 Co. for an unsatisfied judgment (or $22,503 which he recovered 

 against the corporation in June, 1901, was dismissed in the su- 

 perior court at Boston on October 23, 1902 [see The India 

 Ruhber WORLD, November 1, 1902— page 62.] Appeal having 

 been made to the supreme court, that body on February 28 last 

 affirmed the decree of the superior court. 



= Fire at Marion, Indiana, on the night of February 6, caused 

 a loss to the Marion Rubber Co. (rubber shoe jobbers) of $10,- 

 000, which was covered by insurance. 



= Clark-Hutchinson Co., Boston and New York shoe job- 

 bers, have added the sale of the " Gjodyear-Glove " line to 

 their rubber department. 



= The Cambridge Manufacturing Co. are mentioned as hav- 

 ing leased a vacant factory plant at Southington, Connecticut, 

 to be used in making golf goods, including a new golf ball in 

 which W. T. Dale is interested. 



= The Neptune Rubber Co. (New York) who have been in 

 the retail mackintosh trade for six years, are closing out their 

 stock at No. 295 Grand street, and will remove to Nos. 23-25 

 Lispenard street, where they will engage exclusively in manu- 

 facturing for the wholesale trade. 



= Morris& Co. (Yardville, New Jersey), manufacturers of the 

 Morris spring-bottom duck baskets, are in receipt of a repeat 

 order for a large number of duck mill baskets from an import- 

 ant textile mill. They have recently supplied the Ashley & 

 Bailey Co. (Paterson, N. J.) with a large number of bags for 

 shipping silk and are constantly filling orders for this class of 

 trade. 



= The Goodyear Rain Coat Co. have again closed out their 

 stock of rain coats and mackintoshes at " forty cents on the 

 dollar." This time it happened in Boston, during the week of 

 March 9.14. 



— August Belmont and Charles R. Flint, stockholders and 

 creditors of the Safety Battle and Ink Co. (Jersey City, New 

 Jersey), on March 16 secured an order in chancery directing 

 that concern to show cause why a receiver should not be ap- 

 pointed. The assets of the company are said to be $53,000 

 and the liabilities $99000. Messrs. Belmont and Flint are 

 equal creditors in $77,250 of the indebtedness. The company 

 was organized in March, 1895, with $250,000 authorized capi- 

 tal. It has a $10,000 plant in Jersey City which the complain- 

 ants allege has been operated at a loss of $96,000. 



= Mr. John H. Flint, treasurer of the Tyer Rubber Co. (An- 

 dover, Massachusetts), has been spending the latter end of the 

 winter in the South. 



= Mr. Paul N. Towner, of the firm of Towner & Co., jobbers 

 of Rubber goods at Memphis, Tennessee, was a visitor to New 

 York and Boston during the latter part of March. 



= Edward H. Garcin has taken charge of the New York of- 

 fice of the Trenton Rubber Manufacturing Co., at No. 35 War- 

 ren street, and is giving special attention to the development 

 of the company's export trade — a branch in which they have 

 been very successful. 



-W. R. Macdonald has become connected with the Enter- 

 prise Rubber Co., and will sell "Candee" and "Federal" 

 brands of rubber footwear for them, with the state of Massa- 

 chusetts as his territory. Mr. Macdonald was in employ of 

 the Stoughton Rubber Co. up to the time of the discontinu- 

 ance of their rubber shoe department, after previously having 

 been for yiars with the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 



= The Methuen (Mass.) Rubber Co., manufacturers of insu- 

 lating specialties, have leased the Swain factory in their town 

 and ordered additional machinery, on account of the growth 

 of their business. 



=The Milford Rubber Co. (Milford, Massachusetts), water- 

 proofers for the trade, have decided to add to their business the 

 manufacture of garments. 



= The salesmen of the Lambertville Rubber Co. (Lambert- 

 ville, New Jersey) have started for their respective localities 

 for the season. The company anticipate a busy year for 1903 

 in all different branches. Thomas Crowley, superintendent of 

 the boot and shoe department, is pushing his patent rubber 

 heel boot, and says the sales last year amounted to nearly 2500 

 pairs. A. T. Schermerhorn is meeting with success in pushing 

 his patent sole shoe. 



= During the winter's coal famine all the employes of the 

 Mercer Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) whoso desired, were 

 supplied with soft coal from the company's stock at $5 per ton. 

 This action averted a serious famine among the workmen and 

 was greatly appreciated. 



= Two hundred and seventy shares of the Seamless Rubber 

 Co. were offered at sheriff's sale, at New Haven, Connecticut, 

 on March 31, to satisfy a court judgment of $22,630, against 

 Earle Brothers (New York), in favor of the New York Com- 

 mercial Co., a result of a suit over a consignment of crude rub- 

 ber which, begun in 1896, has gone through many stages up to 

 the supreme court of Connecticut. 



= The factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. were closed 

 for stocktaking on the two last days of March, the usual spring 

 vacation being postponed on account of the great number of 

 unfilled orders. 



= Patrick J. O'Connor, of Naugatuck, Connecticut, was ar- 

 rested recently on a charge of using the mails fraudulently. 

 He is alleged to have advertised to sell rubber boots of any size 

 at $1 a pair, and when a dollar was sent to him he shipped 

 miniature boots, such as are sold for toys or ornaments. 



= Twelve small boys were arrested recently for the theft of 

 $400 worth of old rubber from a freight car at Buffalo, New 

 York, and three junk dealers, alleged to have bought the rub- 

 ber from the boys, were arrested on the charge of receiving sto- 

 len property. 



= The regular quarterly dividend of i)4per cent, on the pre- 

 ferred stock of the American Chicle Co. and the monthly divi- 

 dend of 1 per cent, on the ordinary shares, is payable on April 

 1, at New York. 



= Trenton Local No. 4, of the International Amalgamated 

 Rubber Workers' Union of America, has been organized at 

 Trenton, New Jersey, with Julius Kohlenberger, president ; E. 

 S. Decker, vice president ; James O'Donovan, recording secre- 

 tary ; Walter Sigley, financial secretary; and John O'Connell, 

 treasurer. Local No. 1 exists in Chicago , No. 2, at Concord 

 I unction, Massachusetts, has been closed, and No. 3 is at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



