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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 



1903. 



Some time ago the Kokomo Rubber Co. received a letter from 

 a young woman in Wyoming, who had got hold of a pair of 

 their bicycle tires and liked them, stating that she was a great 

 granddaughter of the Indian chieftain for whom the town— and 

 the company — had been named. The result of further corre- 

 spondence was that the company obtained a portrait of the 

 young woman and her consent to their use of it as an advertise- 

 ment. 



REESE WATERPROOF CO. (OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA). 

 The work of construction of a factory has been commenced, 

 on the land mentioned in Tun India Rubber WORLD of April 

 1, as having been purchased by this company. Up to date the 

 company have carried on their work on a very small scale, but 

 with such results as to make them sanguine in regard to their 

 new waterproofing process. 



HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO. 



Following the resignation of William H. St. John, for two 

 years past secretary and treasurer of this company, the duties 

 of the position have been divided. James W. Gilson has been 

 elected to the office of secretary and Frank H. Turner to that 

 of treasurer. Mr. Turner has been vice president of the com- 

 pany since 1901, which office he retains, and Mr. Gilson, has 

 been sales manager. The directorate now consists of Lewis D. 

 Parker, F, H. Turner, Charles H. Dale, Harry Keene, and Er- 

 nest Hopkinson.= A contract has been awarded for the erec- 

 tion of a three story brick addition to the factory buildings, 63 

 X '55 feet in size. 



THE GOODRICH BAND. 



The Goodrich band has for more than ten years been one of 

 Akron's recognized musical organizations, and their services 

 have been much in demand upon all public and many private 

 occasions. Until the present summer the band has been act- 

 ive in all these things. It was December 14, 1S91, that the band 

 was organized, and Alfred Light, of the local factory of the 

 American Hard Rubber Co. (then the Goodrich Hard Rubber 

 Co.), was chosen and remained as leader of the organization. 

 The normal strength of the band is twenty-five men. Their 

 employers helped the organization in the purchase of instru- 

 ments and uniforms, each member also contributing toward 

 these expenses also. A rubber man suggests: " The ten or 

 eleven years of this band's activity shows it to be not only the 

 largest but the most lasting composition band in the rubber 

 trade, perhaps. Its resiliency is to be tested at last, however, 



for the organization is at the point of dissolution. Its friends 

 have abundant faith that it will rise again, for it is of excellent 

 white stock." 



All AIRS OF DRESSER & CO. 

 JUDGE Holt, in the United States district court in New 

 York, on June 22, signed an order permitting the receivers 

 of Dresser & Co.— Charles W. Mac Kenzie and Robert C. 

 Morris — to continue business until June 29. In the applica- 

 tion the receivers state that since their appointment on April 

 1 they have collected $50,000 of the indebtedness due Dres- 

 ser & Co. prior to the bankruptcy, and $190,000 due the firm 

 on open accounts. On new business the receivers say they 

 have collected $146,176 since April 1, and that there is still 

 due Dresser & Co. on business secured by the receivers $139,- 

 290, and they actually have sold and delivered during their 

 receivership merchandise to the amount of $295,000. The 

 circumstances of the failure of Dresser & Co. (New York), 

 jobbers of hosiery, silks, and elastic webbings, were reported 

 in The India Rubber World April 1, 1903 (page 239.) 



AMERICAN TUBING AND WEBBING CO. 



The plant of this company (Providence, Rhode Island) is 

 still being operated by the receivers. Lorin M. Cook and Wil- 

 Iard C. Perkins, whose appointment, on account of the embar- 

 rassment of the company due to the troubles in New York of 

 the principal stockholder, Daniel Le Roy Dresser, was report- 

 ed in The India Rubber World of April 1 (page 239). Mr. 

 Cook is a stockholder and a prominent member of the Rhode 

 Island bar. The present situation is that of awaiting the con- 

 summation, on July 7, of the offer of settlement made by Dresser 

 & Co. [See The India Rubber World, May 1.] The appoint- 

 ment of receivers was made on the motion of Maurice H. Cook, a 

 stockholder and son of Lorin H. Cook. He set forth that in a fi- 

 nancial statement of December 31, 1902, the American Tubing 

 and Webbing Co. showed a surplus over liabilities of $i 15.598.24, 

 but that said statement did not embrace certain liabilities in- 

 curred through the issue by the treasurer of the company of 

 drafts against Dresser & Co., and which were accepted by Dres- 

 ser & Co., the same being for the accommodation of the latter 

 firm and not for the legitimate running of the American Tub- 

 ing and Webbing Co., which corporation received no consider- 

 ation on account of said drafts. The petitioner alleged that 

 the amount of these drafts exceeded the capital of the Tubing 

 and Webbing company, and as certain of them would mature on 



EMPLOYES BAND OF THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. (AKRON, OHIO). 



