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O. Harrison, sales manager. The secretary advises The India 

 Rubber World : " The object of this company is to manufac- 

 ture and sell rubber goods, especially selling rubber tires and 

 other rubber goods in that line." 



= Laurel Rubber Co. (Passaic, N. J.), April 23, 1903. under 

 New Jersey laws, to manufacture rubber goods; capital, $10,- 

 000. Incorporators: Morris Rosenthal and Charles A. Brandt, 

 Passaic, N. J., and Frank A. Cigel, Paterson, N. J. 



= Marion Insulated Wire and Rubber Co. (Marion, Indiana), 

 April 30, 1903, under Indiana laws ; capital, $100,000, fully paid 

 in. 1 ifficers : J. L. Barley, president ; C. A. Michaels, vice pres- 

 ident ; Hiram Beshore, treasurer; R. E. Lucas, secretary and 

 general manager. Mr. Lucas for the last eight years has been 

 secretary of the Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co., at 

 (onesboro, and will be the practical man of the new company. 

 A factory site has been located, between the two railways run- 

 ning through Marion and near their freight houses; work has 

 been begun on the factory buildings, the main structure to be 

 232 X 9° feet, three stories high, standard mill construction. 

 Electric power probably will be used. 



=American Rubber Co., May 13, 1903, under New Jersey 

 laws; capital $100,000. Incorporators: Samuel R. Betts, 

 lames J. Cosgrove, K. K. McLaren. Samuel R. Betts is a mem- 

 ber of the law firm of Betts, Betts, Sheffield & Betts, No. 120 

 Broadway, New York, where The India Rubber World was 

 inlormed : " We have no information to give out at present 

 concerning this company." Mr. Cosgrove is a lawyer at the 

 same address. Mr. McLaren is secretary of the Corporation 

 Trust Co., No. 15 Exchange place Jersey City, which is men- 

 tioned as the principal office of the company. 



= Springfield Tire and Rubber Co. (Springfield, Ohio), April 

 17, 1903, under West Virginia laws, to manufacture rubber tires, 

 horseshoe pads, mold work, etc. ; capital, $75,000. Incorporators: 

 H. L. Slager, W. H. Smith, Oscar W. Smith, Eugene Gamier, 

 and Oscar Gamier, all of Springfield. Henry A. Middleton is 

 manager. 



= Star Rubber Co., May 18, 1903, under New York laws, to 

 manufacture rubber tiies; capital, $50,000. Incorporators: 

 John B. Summerfield, Alfred T. Davison, Henry M. Haviland 

 —all of New York city. 



= Seaboard Rubber Co. (New York city). May 6, 1903, under 

 New York laws ; capital, $1000. Directors : Robert H. Ernst 

 and George H. Ouenard, New York, and [. H. Baird, Newark, 

 New Jersey. 



MILWAUKEE RUBBER WORKS CO. — FACTORY COMPLETED. 

 The Milwaukee Rubber Works Co. announce the comple- 

 tion of their factory, located at Cudahy, near Milwaukee, Wis- 

 consin. They have broken all records in the prompt erection 

 and completion of a factory of its kind in the industry. The 

 main building is of brick, 200 < 45 feet, two stories, with a pro- 

 jecting wing 185 X 45 feet. The upper floor of the main build- 

 ing will be used for making up of bicycle and automobile tires 

 and sundries. The lower floor will be used for the engine and 

 boilers, and heavy machinery for milling rubber. The wing 

 will be used for vulcanizing and general press work. The plan 

 calls for two more wings of the same dimensions, to be added 

 as soon as material can be secured. The company anticipate a 

 thriving business and already have enough business in sight to 

 til their day capacity. They will make the solid vehicle tire 

 an i pneumatic automobile and bicycle tires their leading busi- 

 ness, although they are equipped to make a large line of gen- 

 eral mechanical goods, such as hose, packing, valves, mats, hoof 

 p.jls, and other press work of like nature. Much in their favor 

 are the old and experienced men connected with them. Each 

 department is thoroughly equipped with modern machinery 



and only the best skilled workmen are employed. The organ- 

 ization consists of the best business men in Milwaukee and. as 

 the active parlies in the company are well experienced, the suc- 

 cess of the company is assured. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The closing of the factory of the Concord Rubber Co. 

 (Concord Junction, Mass.) has been followed by the departure 

 from that locality of most of the rubber workers, some of whom 

 have entered the Apsley rubber factory, while others have re- 

 turned to Maiden, whence they came to Concord. 



— One of the best illustrations of what can be done in the 

 way of window decoration with fine rubber goods may be seen 

 at the new store of the Hodgman Rubber Co., Nos. 806 808 

 Broadway. New York. The windows are very far from being 

 the ordinary rubber store windows, as there is no crowding — 

 but few goods are shown— the whole exhibit being marked by 

 simplicity and elegance. 



= Edward G. Milbury has been appointed permanent receiver 

 of the Edward G. Milbury Co., wholesale dealers in oil clothing 

 and rubber clothing, No. 38 Walker street, New York, in pro- 

 ceedings for voluntary dissolution. He was appointed tem- 

 porary receiver September 9, 1902, when the liabilities were 

 $12,064. and the nominal assets $15,242. 



=Jacob Hammer, for eight years past connected with the 

 St. Paul Rubber Co., an important jobbing house of St. Paul, 

 Minnesota, has resigned as secretary and treasurer and retired 

 from the company, on account of ill health. H. M. Hodgman, 

 who founded the business some 26 years ago, and has since re- 

 mained connected with it, has been elected secretary, and John 

 E. Fowler, who has been with the house for eight years, be- 

 comes treasurer. Albert Fischer continues as president. This 

 was the first rubber house opened west of Milwaukee. 



= The partnership agreement of William T. Bonner and F. 

 W. Gregory, doing business as the Bonner Manufacturing Co., 

 makers of rubber substitutes, No. 89 State street, Boston, ter- 

 minated on March 30. The business will be continued under 

 the same name, with W. T. Bonner and Charles S. Wing as co- 

 partners, and with Mr. Bonner as the active business manager. 



= Referring to a mention of the Purete Rubber Co. (Menlo 

 Park, N. J.), in the last India Rubber World, it should be 

 noted that, since its publication, the company state that they 

 will not make golf balls, as was at first intended. 



= The Thread City Collar Co. (Willimantic, Connecticut) 

 deny a report that they intend closing. Their principal busi- 

 ness is in rubber collars, the trade in which is reported good, 

 but recently linen collars were added, and it is these the pro- 

 duction of which is temporarily suspended. 



= A dividend of 1 per cent, on the common stock of the 

 American Chicle Co. was payable on May 1 1, being the custom- 

 ary monthly disbursement. 



•=On May 4 Alexander MacPherson, who since 1898 had 

 been manager for the Toronto branch of the Canadian Rubber 

 Co. of Montreal, assumed charge of the mechanical goods de- 

 pigment of the company at Montreal. Before leaving Toronto, 

 a farewell dinner was tendered him by the Wholesale Shoe As- 

 sociation of that city. 



= P. T. Betts, crude rubber broker, has removed his office 

 from No. 38 to No. 43 Murray street, New York. 



= The Pequanoc Rubber Co. (Butler, New Jersey) report a 

 constantly increasing business, due to the good reputation 

 which has been built by the enterprising managers for their re- 

 claimed rubber product. 



= The incorporation is reported, under California laws, at 

 Oakland, in that state, of the Morck Elastic Tire Co., with 

 $200,000 capital. 



