January i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. — SPECIAL MEETING. 



A SPECIAL meeting of shareholders of the United States 

 Rubber Co. has been called to be held at their regis- 

 tered ofTices, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Jan- 

 uary 3, to consider an increase in the number of direct- 

 ors and to vote upon certain proposed amendments to the by- 

 laws. The by-laws at present limit the number of directors to 

 19 and it is now deemed advisable to enlarge the board in order 

 that it may include persons prominent in theaffairs of the Rub- 

 ber Coods Manufacturing Co. and familiar with its business. 

 One of the proposed amendments is to provide that real estate 

 or securities of corporations owned by the company may be sold 

 or pledged with the assent of three-fourths of the stockhold- 

 ers in interest at a meeting of the company, instead of three- 

 fourths of all the shares outstanding, as hitherto. Another of 

 the amendments proposed has become desirable on account of 

 there now being two classes of preferred stock, instead of one 

 as originally. 



BANQ_UET OF THE CANADIAN RUBBER CO. 



The first annual banquet given by the management of the 

 Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal to their wholesale distribu- 

 ters throughout the Dominion, at the Windsor Hotel, in Mon- 

 treal, on the evening of November 28, formed an enjoyable 

 climax to the series of business conferences in which these 

 gentlemen had participated during the two days preceding. 

 The tables were made attractive with floral decorations, and 

 with specimens of the company's products in miniature, while 

 the walls of the banquet room were hung with large and hand- 

 some reproductions of the favorite advertisements of the Ca- 

 nadian company. Mr. D. Lome McGibbon, general manager 

 of the company, presided, and after the attractive menu had had 



due attention, and the health 

 of " The King," had been 

 drunk, he called upon Mr. J. 

 B. Learmont, the company's 

 vice president, in the absence 

 of Sir H. Montagu Allan, 







BANQUET OF THE CANADIAN RUBBER CO. OF MONTREAL. 

 [General Manager D. Lome McGibbon Proposing the Healih of "The King." 



president of the company, who was prevented by illness from 

 bemg present. Mr. Learmont gave credit to Mr. McGibbon for 

 the suggestion of the conference and expressed his admiration 

 of the spirit which had animatedits members. He dwelt upon 

 the continued growth of Canada and its business, referring to 

 the time when the Dominion would have a hundred million 

 nhabitants, and even after this number had been doubled there 

 still would be room for more. There were responses to the 

 toast "Our Guests" from points as far remote as Winnipeg 

 and Nova Scotia. Mr. Arthur Congdon, of Winnipeg, spoke 

 of the marvelous growth of that city, where, in 1904, building 

 permits were granted to the extent of $10,000,000, while in the 

 first eleven months of 1905 they had amounted to $ri,ooo, 

 000. Though the new buildings were chiefly residences, there 

 was still a scarcity of houses. Mr. Congdon referred to the 

 conference of wholesale distributers as being very much like 

 a family gathering, which he felt to be due to the spirit shown 

 by the management of the company towards those having re- 

 lations to it. This spirit was further referred to by Mr. John 

 Lennox, of Hamilton, who had been buying the company's 

 goods for thirty years, and said that he felt like a son of the 

 company. Mr. M. D. Pride, of Amherst, N. S., said that while 

 not a stockholder, he considered that from his dealings he was 

 none the less a partner in the business. Mr. E. A. Wright, 

 secretary-treasurer, toasted " The Ladies " ; Mr. J. Morris Car- 

 roll, advertising manager of the company, proposed " The 

 Press", which toast was responded to by the writers present ; 

 and Mr. Learmont proposed the health of the chairman (Mr. 

 McGibbon) and Mr. M. C. Mullarky, manager of the boot and 

 shoe department, paying a tribute to their progressive policy 

 as a factor in bettering the position of the company. 



GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER IN NEW YORK. 

 The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. will remove shortly from 

 their present New York location. No. 253 West Forty-seventh 

 street, to the corner of Sixty-fourth street and Broadway. There 

 they will occupy the whole of a new three story building which 

 will have a 54 foot frontage on Broadway. The very large and 

 commodious basement is to be fitted 

 up as a most up-to-date repair shop 

 where just as good work will be done 

 as can be accomplished in any fully 

 equipped rubber factory. The New 

 York manager, K. B. Harwood, is work- 

 ing most enthusiastically to get the new 

 quarters completely equipped at the 

 shortest possible notice, and is not at 

 all backward in averring that the Good- 

 year quarters are going to be the best 

 tire quarters in existence. 



AIVIERICAN MADE RUBBER FOOTWEAR 

 IN GREAT BRITAIN. 

 At the eleventh annual International 

 Shoe and Leather Fair, in London, 

 early in November, rubber footwear 

 was prominently displayed, there being 

 on exhibition the products of several 

 factories on this side of the Atlantic. 

 The United States Rubber Co., Lim- 



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