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needed, was the first to think to run tor nearly a half mile to 

 the nearest telephone and send messages for aid, which soon 

 arrived. The heroine was Mrs. Margaret H. Emmett, of Bronx- 

 ville, N. Y., employed as a " model " in the waterproof garment 

 department of the Hodgman factory, her duties being to try on 

 coats made by the firm. 



AN AMERICAN MADE RUBBER SPONGE. 

 On the editorial desk of the New York office of The India 

 Rubber World is a rubber sponge of American manufacture 

 that is really what it claims to be; that is, the equal, if not the 

 superior of anything yet produced in the world. The cells are 

 very even, the sponge is of good color, light in weight, and will 

 take up as much water as anything in the sponge line ever pro- 

 duced. Just how much time and money have been spent by 

 American manufacturers in trying to get a rubber sponge per- 

 fect will probably never be known. Certain it is, however, that 

 dozens of companies have experimented, and at times been very 

 near success and yet lost it by a margin narrow enough to spell 

 " failure." Some one, however, was bound to win out, and who 

 more likely to do so than the Camp Rubber Co., at their model 

 plant in Ashland. Ohio, the makers of this sponge. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 

 The eleventh annual meeting of shareholders, for the elec- 

 tion of directors and for the transaction of any other business 

 which may properly be brought before the meeting, will be 

 held at the office of the company in New Brunswick, New Jer- 

 sey, on Tuesday, May 19. at 12 o'clock, M. The transfer books, 

 closed on April 27, will reopen at 10 a. m. on May 20.==At a 

 meeting of the board in New York on April 16, John D. Car- 

 berry, who has been connected for several years with the gen- 

 eral offices of the company, was elected assistant secretary. == 

 Transactions in the company's shares on the New York Stock 

 Exchange since our last report, have been as follows : 



REORGANIZATION OF AN AKRON COMPANY. 

 In the process of dissolving the Combination Tire and Sup- 

 ply Co. incorporated under New York laws in September, 1902, 

 with a capitalization of §100.000, the assets of the company 

 were sold to the highest bidder on April 13, at the law offices 

 of Otis & Otis, in Akron. Difficulties encountered by the orig- 

 inal company made dissolution advisable and the assets, con- 

 sisting of tools, etc., were sold to W. S. Franks as trustee for 

 the stockholders. A new company, to be capitalized at $25,000, 

 probably, and incorporated under Ohio laws, will soon be 

 formed. The company will push the combination tire invented 

 by W. R. Harris, fully described in The India Rubber World 

 for December, 1902. The dissolving company never actively 

 began manufacturing. 



AN ELASTIC WEBBING COMBINE. 

 Our Akron correspondent writes : " F. M. Atterholt returned 

 on April 22 from New York, where he met gentlemen inter- 

 ested in the merging of the principal elastic webbing interests. 

 Mr. Atterholt authorized the statement that Holland bankers 

 are arranging to float the bonds of the merger company, which 

 will have a capitalization of §5,000,000. Details of the consoli- 

 dation plan are not announced, but it is stated that fourteen 

 concerns are interested. These are located in Rhode Island, 



Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut. Mr. Atterholt 

 has had wide experience in combining interests in different 

 lines of manufacturing." 



ANOTHER RUBBER FACTORY AT ASHLAND, OHIO. 

 The Comet Rubber Specialty Co. have organized to do busi- 

 ness at Ashland, Ohio, as a partnership, although incorporation 

 papers may be taken out later. The officers are: Frank J. 

 Ward, president and manager; J. J. Dildine, superintendent ; 

 and A. Goss. secretary ; O. P. Kintz, treasurer Mr. Dildine is 

 the practical man of the company, having formerly been in the 

 employ of The B. F. Goodrich Co. The Comet company will 

 begin business in temporary quarters, but plans are making for 

 the erection of a two story building 60 X 100 feet, for their oc- 

 cupancy. Druggists' sundries and specialties will be manu- 

 factured. 



INCREASE OF CAPITAL. 



The Rubber Trading Co., No. 38 Murray street, New York, 

 organized in March, 1902, to trade in crude rubber, at a meet- 

 ing on April 25. arranged for the increase of their capital to 

 §100,000, which has been fully paid in. 



NEW RUBBER FACTORY IN INDIANA. 



The organization was completed at a meeting held at Marion, 

 Indiana, on April 17, of a new company, formed to engage in 

 the manufacture at that place of rubber goods and insulated 

 wire. A large factory is projected, though a site had not been 

 chosen at last accounts. Among those interested in the under- 

 taking are Edward Stewart, G. A. Southall, Hiram Beshore, 

 William Charles, Henry Smith, and R. E. Lucas. The latter 

 was formerly secretary of the Indiana Insulated Wire and Rub- 

 ber Co., of Jonesboro. The capital of the new concern, $100,- 

 000, is reported to have been fully subscribed. 



RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURING CO. 



The following is a record of transactions in shares on the 

 New York Stock Exchange since the last report in these col- 

 umns : 



THE HASKELL GOLF BALL SUITS. 



Suits have been brought against A. G. Spalding & Brother, 

 the Kempshall Manufacturing Co., the Swift Flyer Golf Ball 

 Co., and Patrick Brothers, for infringement of the Haskell pat- 

 ent on the rubber cored golf ball. The cases are pending in 

 the United States circuit court for the southern district of New 

 York. The suits are brought in the name of the Haskell Golf 

 Ball Co., and The B. F. Goodrich Co., their licensees, who make 

 and sell the ball on royalty. The plaintiffs, through the law 

 firm of Richardson, Herrick & Neave (New York), have opened 

 proof, and two of the defendants, Spalding & Brother and the 

 Kempshall company, have filed their answers and are taking 

 testimony before Commissioner John A. Shields, clerk of the 

 court. The answers on file, besides a general denial of any ob- 

 ligation to the plaintiffs, only outline the defence in a broad 

 manner. A decision is not to be expected until the early fall. 

 CONCORD RUBBER CO. LIQUIDATING- 



The factory of this company at Concord Junction, Massa- 

 chusetts, was permanently closed on April 15, the company 

 having previously notified the trade and their shareholders of 

 a decision to go into liquidation. The company was incorpo- 



