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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1906. 



= W. P, Cowell. who has for nearly 18 years been traveling 

 salesman for different houses through Ohio and Pennsylvania, 

 has gone into the rubber jobbing business and will be known as 

 the Pittsburgh Rubber Supply Co., locating at Nos. 723-725 

 Liberty street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



= The Merchants I^ubber Co., Limited (Berlin, Ontario) have 

 applied to the Dominion government for supplementary letters 

 patent for the increase of their capital stock from $100,000 to 

 $250,000. 



=The St. John Rubber Tire Co. Inc. (No. 116 Broad street. 

 New York), are to exhibit their cushion tires at the automobile 

 show at the Sixty-ninth Regiment armory, in New York, this 

 month, a special feature being a White steamer equipped with 

 their tires which has just returned from several months' tour- 

 ing in the States. 



= Work was resumed early in December by the Suffolk Rub- 

 ber Co. (Setauket, Long Island), after a shutdown of several 

 weeks, reported to have been due to a disagreement within the 

 management. This is stated to have ended in the purchase of 

 the interest of Franz Cutler, who had been secretary and treas- 

 urer, by the Joseph W. Elberson contingent in the company. 



=The list of supplies for which bids were opened on Decem- 

 ber 2 by the New York department of correction — which has 

 the administration of the city prisons and workhouse— includ- 

 ed 100 pairs of rubber boots and 50 rubber coats. 



= The firm of King & Leatherow has been formed at Newark, 

 New Jersey, to manufacture advertising balloons and other rub- 

 ber novelties. It is composed of Horace H. King, until now a 

 member of King & Howe, Limited, balloon manufacturers, and 

 Walter Leatherow, who has been factory superintendent of the 

 Rubber Balloon Co. of America. 



= Angie W. Pierce, for many years in the employ of the Na- 

 tional India RubberCo. ( Bristol, Rhode Island), and since 1897 

 superintendent of the druggists' sundries department, resigned 

 recently, being succeeded by H, A. Duval, who hitherto has been 

 assistant superintendent of the Tyer Rubber Co. (Andover, 

 Massachusetts). On the evening of December 14 Mr. Pierce 

 was pleasantly surprised at his home by a party of employes of 

 the druggists' sundries department at the National factory, who 

 presented him with a handsome library chair, after which a few 

 hours were pleasantly devoted to an impromptu concert, Mr. 

 Angle and a number of his friends being particularly devoted 

 to music. 



= Negotiations have been completed for the removal of the 

 factory of the Amazon Rubber Co. from Jamestown, New York, 

 to Bradford, Pennsylvania, conditioned upon the sale of $150,- 

 000 in 6 per cent, bonds, covered by a mortgage on the proposed 

 new plant, which bonds are e.xpected to be taken in Bradford. 



= Suit has been filed in the New York supreme court by 

 Charles Blake Cisco, as assignee of a claim from the New York- 

 Broadway Rubber Tire Co. (a selling concern), against the 

 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), to recover 

 $150,000, in respect of an alleged breach of contract. It is 

 claimed that under a contract dated November 4, 1903, the de- 

 fendant company agreed to deliver to the complainant as many 

 tires as might be called for within a given period, at the prices 

 then prevailing. Later, it is asserted, theGoodyear Tire company 

 refused to longer deliver tires at the contract prices, by reason 

 of which the plaintiff claims to have been deprived of a large 

 amount of profitable business. It is understood that the Good- 

 year company claim that the contract expired at an earlier date 

 than alleged on the other side ; that no violation of the con- 

 tract occurred ; and that a balance of $10,000 is due from the 

 New York-Broadway Rubber Tire Co., to recover which 

 amount a counter suit has been filed. 



THE COMING AUTOMOBILE SHOWS. 



When the sixth annual show of the Automobile Club of 

 America is opened in New York on Saturday evening, January 

 13, the public will have its first view of the magnificent new 

 armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, the most convenient en- 

 trance of which will be on Twenty-sixth street near Fourth ave- 

 nue, with other entrances on Lexington avenue and Twenty fifth 

 street. The cost of this big structure is placed at $1,500,000, 

 and the spacious exhibition hall possesses what is probably the 

 largest brick arch of the world. With everything new and thor- 

 oughly up to date, this huge building will supply a spacious 

 home for perhaps the most comprehensive exposition of the 

 automobile industry ever held in this country. Gasoline, steam, 

 and electric vehicles, both for pleasure and business purposes, 

 will be attractively distributed, with space left for all sorts of 

 accessories and sundries ; in fact, everything connected with 

 the industry will be given a place in the extensive show. 



The sixth National Automobile Show, at Madison Square 

 Garden, New York, will begin on Saturday evening, January 13, 

 and continue through all of the following week. The show 

 this season will be under the auspices of the Association of 

 Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. As usual, all the spaces 

 will be filled, and the show may be expected to be of great in- 

 terest, not only in respect of automobiles in general but also of 

 the rubber tire production^^This show is to be followed, as 

 usual, by an exhibition, under the same auspices, in Chicago, 

 in the week from February 3 to 10. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Colonel Theodore A. Dodge, whose interests in the rub- 

 ber business have been very large, and whose circle of friends 

 and acquaintances is extensive, is permanently settled in Paris, 

 where he is devoting his time to the completion of a second 

 volume of his history of Napoleon. The Colonel is hale and 

 hearty, although not quite as active as formerly, and whenever 

 he meets one who knoTfS anything about the rubber trade in 

 America sends greetings to his friends across the sea. 



= Mr. Eliot M. Henderson, vice president of the Manhattan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), on his recent trip from 

 Southampton to Cape Town, had a rough weather experience 

 that does not come to every traveler. The weather was such 

 that not only were the dead lights that cover the ports smashed 

 to the number of 8 or 10, but boats were broken and carried 

 away, deck houses wrecked, and the iron bulwarks on the port 

 side for many feet crushed flat to the deck. The vessel, how- 

 ever, reached harbor without accident to any passenger. 



= A late report gives particulars of the death of Mr. Page. 

 [See page 106,] It seems that he was a passenger on the Bufco, 

 coming down the river from the Bolivian port of Villa Bella. 

 About October 7 he was taken sick with bilious fever and on 

 the 13th passed away, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The re- 

 mains were taken ashore at the barraca Nichteroy, which is 

 in the state of Amazonas and on the left bank of the Madeira 

 river, and on the following day it was interred in a place call- 

 ed the Bibosi. His effects were turned over to Parlo Fehre, 

 manager of the house of R. Suarez & Co. (Par.a). As soon as 

 possible the American consul at Pard, Mr. Louis A. Ayme, was 

 notified, and he in turn notified his friends and relatives in 

 (he United States, as well as the assistant secretary of state 

 at Washington. 



A NEW steamer on the Amazon, intended for the Acre river 

 traffic, is called the Seringueiro, which is the Brazilian word 

 for rubber cutter. It was built at Glasgow and has a registered 

 tonnage of \oy/i. 



