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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 



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rated under the laws of Maine in the summer of 1899 with an 

 authorized capital of $500,000, of which it is understood that 

 $[45,000 was paid in. An extensive plant was acquired, which 

 had previously been used for other manufacturing purposes, 

 and equipped with rubber machinery with a capacity for 5000 

 pairs of rubber shoes per day. The decision to go out of busi- 

 ness was arrived at only a few weeks ago, when it was deter- 

 mined by the management that the business could not be suc- 

 cessfully conducted without reorganizing the company and in- 

 troducing new capital, which course, in the present condition 

 of the trade, was not deemed advisable. 



RUBBER SUPPLIES FOR THE POSTAL SERVICE. 

 The postothce department at Washington advertises for bids, 

 up to May 4, for supplies for the department and the postal 

 service for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1903, including the 

 following items of rubber goods; 



6000 pounds Rubber Bands (in J 2 ' pound boxes) — 250 pounds No, 

 1 1 ; 1500 pounds each Nos. 14 and 16 ; 500 pounds No. 19 ; 

 1000 pounds No. 31. 

 400 boxes Bevel Erasers, 20 in a box. 



3 gross " Comet" Erasers. 

 250 Typewriter Erasers, bevel, 1 dozen in a box. 

 200 Typewriter Erasers, round. 



120 Stamping Pads, 8 X 12' X H" and 12" X 16" X %' • 

 1000 Stamping Pads composition rubber, muslin faced, 6" X 12" X 



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3500 Hand dating Stamps, with type for dates, etc. 



50 " Model Djter " Stamps. 

 ) 540 l.iue Haters. 

 100 Band Numbeiers. 

 goo Hand Indexes. 

 150 Fac-similes of Signatures. 

 50 Self inking Stamps. 

 1000 Dating Stamps with canceler. 

 6700 Dating Stamps for registry department. 

 1500 Rubber Type — dates. 

 26,375 Hand Stamps. 



360 Stamps, self inking. 

 4000 Dating Stamps for money order business. 



24 Self-inking Stamps for money order business. 

 8000 Rubber type — dates for money order business. 

 800 pounds Bands, for money order business. 

 1 gross Finger Cots, for money order business. 

 15,000 Rural Free Delivery Stamps. 



TRADE JOURNAL ADVERTISING. 



Manufacturers who seek business through the medium of 

 the trade and technical journals are invited to write for a free 

 copy of a booklet " Advertising for Profit," published by the 

 Manufacturers' Advertising Bureau, No. 126 Liberty street, 

 New York, established for more than twenty years, and whose 

 present proprietor, Benjamin R. Western, was for many years a 

 successful publisher of technical journals. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The report that the old Kennebunk Mill at Athol, Massa- 

 chusetts was to be started up at once as a large rubber factory 

 with $100,000 capital, employing over 100 hands, is a bit ol 

 newspaper enterprise emanating from Worcester which is very 

 interesting, but_has no basis of fact. 



= The Superior Rubber and Manufacturing Co. (Cuyahoga 

 Falls, Ohio), have begun work, making dipped goods, and are 

 reported to be planning to make hard rubber goods. 



= The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts) are 

 enlarging their tire factory and will increase their working 

 force. 



= The contract for the buildings of the Milwaukee Rubber 

 Works Co. has been awarded to George Possen, of Milwaukee. 



= Frederick T. Ryder, secretary of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., has been appointed trustee of the wholesale boot 

 and shoe house of N. Greenfelder & Co., one of the largest 

 concerns of the kind in Chicago, who made an assignment 

 on April 15. 



= Suit has been filed against the Milwaukee Patent Puncture 

 Proof Tire Co., and W. D. Halsted (secretary and treasurer) 

 and the other members of the company, by the patentees of the 

 tire which the company was formed to exploit, alleging that the 

 defendants had failed to pay in the amount of capital promised 

 in the original agreement, the object of the suit being to com- 

 pel the payment of the full amount. The company, though 

 formed several years ago, have not been engaged actively in 

 business. 



=J. C. Wilson, secretary of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., 

 has been appointed assistant manager of all the tire making 

 companies comprised in the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 

 that are under the control of Lewis D. Parker as president and 

 general manager. Mr. Wilson has had charge of the Morgan 

 & Wright plant, at Chicago, for some months past. His head- 

 quarters will remain at Hartford. 



= Robinson & Tallman, crude rubber brokers, New York, 

 on April 20, removed their offices from No. 60 Broad to No. 

 64 Stone street. 



= The Home Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, have just 

 rented a large two-story brick building, of modern mill con- 

 struction, which will be used for a general storehouse. 



= The Crescent Belting and Packing Co., Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey, are still adding to their already large plant, the latest build- 

 ing being a large three-story brick structure. 



= Mr. Alexander M. Paul, manager of the Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co., started at the first of last month for a 

 tour of the company's agencies in all the large cities of the 

 country, with the idea of spending considerable time in San 

 Francisco, and on the Pacific coast. He is accompanied by 

 Mrs. Paul. 



=The annual meeting of the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. 

 will be held in Jersey City on Monday, May 4. 



= Mr. H. W. Heasley, who for a number of years had charge 

 of the cost department of The B. F. Goodrich Co.'s plant at 

 Akron, has accepted a position with the Republic Rubber Co., 

 at Youngstown, Ohio, as manager of the cost department. 



= The exclusive sale of the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.'s 

 boots and shoes for Virginia and certain neighboring territory 

 is controlled by the Craddock-Terry Co., of Lynchburg, Va. 

 Their sale in western Missouri, and in the states of Kansas, 

 Nebraska, and Colorado, is in the hands of the McCord Rubber 

 Co., of St. Joseph, Mo. 



= The Marlboro Wringer Co. (Marlboro, Massachusetts), in- 

 corporated April 5, 1903, under Maine laws, with $10,000 capi- 

 tal, will make mop wringers and not clothes wringers. 



= W. C. Coleman, broker in old and new scrap rubber, whose 

 headquarters have heretofore been in New England, has decid- 

 ed to make his business headquarters in New York and will re- 

 move his main office there May 1. 



= W. T. Dale, whose projected golf ball enterprise, the Cam- 

 bridge Manufacturing Co. (Southington, Connecticut), was 

 mentioned in the last India Rubber World, has asked the 

 town authorities for an abatement of taxes for ten years, which 

 will be granted in the event that 300 or 400 hands are em- 

 ployed,- as promised. 



= R. L. Dorr, who for several years was assistant to A. H. 

 Brown, as purchasing agent ol the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 

 has been appointed to succeed the latter, who lately was made 

 purchasing agent for the United States Rubber Co., in New 

 York. 



= The Picher Lead Co., manufacturers of blue lead, announce 

 the removal of their Chicago office, on May 1, to more conve- 

 nient and commodious quarters in the Tacoma buildings, La 

 Salle and Madison streets. 



