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THE INDIA RUBBER 'WORLD 



[February i, 1906. 



"sponges,* 'in the meaning of the law, embraced only natural 

 sponges of aquatic origin. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Tun: Shelby Rubber Co. (Shelbyville, Indiana), men- 

 tioned in our last issue as having been incorporated, with 

 $100,000 capital, advi.se The India Rlbhkr World that 

 their object is to engage in manufacturing automobile tires, 

 with other carriage rubber goods, and also automobile tops. 

 D. F. Randolph is president ; J. F. Meloy, vice president ; 

 Olin S. I'eck, secretary; and Thomas J. Marshall, treasurer. 



= The New England Rubber Club are planning to hold 

 their Midwinter Dinner on February 19 at The Exchange 

 Club, Boston. Among distinguished speakers who are ex- 

 pected to be present are the Hon. William M. Ivins, of New 

 York, the Hon. vSamuel W. McCall, congressman from 

 Massachusetts ; the Hon. John N. Cole, speaker of the Mas- 

 sachusetts house of representatives, and others. 



=The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) declared their regular 

 quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, at the beginning of the 

 year. 



= The large additions to the plant of The Fisk Rubber Co. 

 (Chicopee Falls, Mass.), referred to in The India Rubber 

 World October i, 1905 (page 25) are practically complete 

 and will, it is reported, increase the factory capacity by 25 

 per cent. 



=Several of the rubber shoe factories during the month 

 have been run onlj- 9 hours a day instead of 10, the open 

 winter having pointed to a decreased demand for waterproof 

 footwear. Near the end of the month some of the mills re- 

 ducing the working week to five days. 



=The trustees for the holders of the first mortgage 6 per 

 cent, bonds of the IMechanical Rubber Co. have advertised 

 their readiness, under the terms of the mortgage, to expend 

 $61, 190.78 in the purchase of bonds, provided the same can, 

 in their opinion, be made advantageously, on or before Feb- 

 ruary 15, at the offices of The Knickerbocker Trust Co., New 

 York. 



=The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) 

 have changed their weekly pay day from Monday to Satur- 

 day. 



=The directors of the Warren Rubber Co., a jolibing con- 

 cern of Warren, Ohio, on January 1 1 declared a yearly dividend 

 of 10 per cent, and made a handsome addition to the surplus 

 fund. 



=A. W. Brunn (Nos. 2-4 Stone street. New York) an- 

 nounces taking into partnership Mr. L. P. MacMichael, for 

 many years connected with the crude rubber trade, under the 

 style A. W. Brunn & Co. The firm will continue as agents 

 for foreign houses, brokers and dealers in India-rubber, 

 Gutta-percha, Pontianak, and Balata, and also waste rubber. 



=The Continental Rubber Works (Erie, Pennsylvania) of 

 late have been running their factory 24 hours a day, largely 

 on bicycle tires. 



=The Chicago authorities have advertised for bids for 

 supplying about 1500 square feet of rubber mats for the new 

 Cook County court house, mostly to be placed in front of the 

 elevators. " No special brand isspecified, " we are informed, 

 " but all mats must be guaranteed." 



=The Housatonic Rubber Works (Bridgeport, Conn.) have 

 certainly done themselves proud in their calendars this year. 

 The two pictures, " Narcissus," and " Resignation," are ex- 

 ceedingly attractive. 



^M. Norton & Co., dealers in rubber scrap (Charlestown, 

 Mass.), have completed plans for a large storehouse on the 

 site of their Rutherford avenue plant, covering 5000 square 

 feet, 5 .stories, brick, with 7 foot basement. They now have 

 a warehouse in Medford 120V 80 feet, 2 stories, with about 2 

 acres of yard room for storage of machinery, and have been 

 handling on an average from three to five cars of rubber 

 scrap per week. 



= Mr. Winfield S. Knowlcs, of The C.lobe Rubber Works 

 (Boston), is happy over the fact that during the last year he 

 practically doubled his New England business. 



= The suit of the Thomas Philips Paper Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, against The Diamond Rubber Co., for $25,000 dam- 

 ages, for the alleged pollution of the canal by the latter, was 

 dismissed in the Akron common pleas court, on January 8, 

 at the cost of the plantiff. 



=Hood Rubber Co., ( Boston) lately distributed to the 

 trade a folder showing twelve views of their rubber shoe 

 factory at East Watertown, Mass., illustrating their growth 

 during 10 years. The figures accompanying the figures may 

 be summarized as follows : 



1896. Iyc6. 



Floor area (square feet) 67,564 389,107 



Daily production (actual pains) 3,000 46,000 



Number of factory employes 225 3, 100 



= In its annual estimate of the value of electrical appa- 

 ratus produced in the United States, for 1905, the Electrical 

 World ( New York) puts down " Insulated wires and cables 

 and submarine cables" at $40,000,000, Its estimate of the 

 value of the same product in 1904 was $35,000,000, and in 

 the year preceding $30,150,000. Its total estimate of elec- 

 trical apparatus made in the three years is as follows : $158,- 

 65o,oooin 1903; $175,500,000 in 1904; $217,400,000 in 1905. 



= At a meeting of the board of fire and police commis- 

 sioners of Omaha, Nebraska, on January 3, contracts were 

 let for 30,000 feet of 2}i inch fire hose, divided equally be- 

 tween the New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited 

 ( Central Western representatives of the Fabric Fire Hose 

 Co. ), and The Eureka Fire Hose Co. 



=The Mann Summer Clothing Co., manufacturers of rain- 

 coats, have recently moved into their new Brookh-n factory, 

 at the corner of Pitkin avenue and Junius street. 



=James Boyd & Brother ( Philadelphia), jobbers of me- 

 chanical rubber goods, issue this year as usual a neat mem- 

 orandum pad calendar, one page for each week, together 

 with some useful reference tables. 



= R. R. Rotliwell succeeds Walter Leatlierow as factory 

 superintendent of the Rubber Balloon Co. of America, at 

 Newark, New Jersej'. 



= King & Leatherow, Limited, the new firm at Newark, 

 N. J., mentioned in the last India RvisnER World, are in- 

 stalled at Nos. 3-5 Burnett street, in a factory excellently 

 fitted for their work, which is the manufacture of toy rubber 

 balloons and a full line of surgeons' goods. 



= The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. are reported to have 

 received an important order for rubber shoes for Turkey, to 

 be manutactured on special lines. 



=The La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin), 

 are now making a daily ticket of nearlj- one thousand pairs 

 of rubber shoes. 



^A small rubber factory within convenient distance of 

 New York is advertised for sale with full descriptive details, 

 in another^part of this paper. 



