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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Apkil 1, 1906. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBEK TRADE. 



FISK RUBBER CO. IN CHICAGO. 



TIIK Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Ma.ssachusetts) 

 have acquired a long lease on Nos. 1440-1442 Mich- 

 igan avenue, Chicago, on which thej- are erecting 

 a building 27 < 170 feet, two stories high, with 

 basement, which is intended to be a model rubber tire sup- 

 ply house, repair shop, and garage. This will be the head- 

 quarters of Mr. Ben H. Pratt, the company's Chicago repre- 

 sentative, and ^Ir. Frank C. Riggs, manager of their Western 

 district. 



A RUBBER FACTORY IN KANSAS. 

 TiiK Kansas Rubber Co. has been organized with head- 

 quarters at Olathe, Kansas (about 20 miles from Kansas 

 City), for the purpose of manufacturing mechanical rubber 

 goods. A building for the factor}' has been completed and 

 a representative of the company was recently in the east pur- 

 chasing machiner}-. The company intend beginning with 

 the production of solid rubber tires, mold work, and packing. 

 They expect to make specialties of oil well and plumbers' 

 supplies. The officers of the company are business men of 

 the town named : I. B. Hibner, president ; Edward Ripley, 

 vice president ; Charles Ott, treasurer ; and Luther Moore, 

 secretary. Charles A. Besaw, the superintendent, has been 

 employed hitherto in the rubber industry at Akron and Mil- 

 waukee. He has a process for rubber reclaiming which the 

 company purpose utilizing for supplying their own require- 

 ments in reclaimed rubber. 



THE NEW RUBBER FACTORY IN INDIANA. 



The Elkhart Rubber Works (Elkhart, Indiana), the incor- 

 poration of which was reported in the last issue of this 

 Journal, advises that their plant will be running some time 

 during this month. Their intention is to manufacture auto- 

 mobile tires, valves, heels, bumpers, hose, and ultimatel}' a 

 general line of mechanical rubber goods. The president is 

 Mr. Harry M. Shepherd, latelj' of Chicago, who is the prin- 

 cipal shareholder. The company occupy a brick building 

 225 feet long and 54 feet wide, with an extension L at one 

 end 50 X 50 feet. New machinery has been bought and the 

 company plan to have one of the best equipped factories in 

 the West. 



APSLEY GOODS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. 



It is understood that the newly incorporated Rubber Man- 

 ufacturing and Distributing Co. will have their headquarters 

 at Seattle, Washington. They intend to do a general rubber 

 business and have secured the agency of the Apsley Rubber 

 Co. 's full line of rubber boots, shoes, and clothing for Seat-, 

 tie, and also Portland, Oregon. It is rumored that they may 

 manufacture a line of heavy rubber boots, lumberman's, and 

 arctics at Seattle, making a line similar to the Mishawaka 

 Woolen Manufacturing Co.'s, and marketing them on the 

 same lines, direct to the retail trade. The company have 

 rented a warehouse and are now located at No. 552 Perth 

 avenue, Seattle. Mr. L. B. Hitchings, formerly of the Illi- 

 nois Rubber Co. (Chicago) is the local manager. He took 

 three salesmen with him from Chicago and has engaged two 

 or three since he arrived on the field. The territory is 

 being covered and they are out for business, and it may be 

 very safely stated that the Pacific coast is to have another 



strong, wide awake, and important rubber house. It is un- 

 derstood that the list of stockholders in the new company 

 includes the Hon. L. D. Apsley, president and treasurer of 

 the Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts), Joseph S. 

 Bradley, President of the Hudson National Bank, Albert D. 

 Gleason, Gleasonville, Mass., General William F. Draper, 

 Hopedale, Mass., and United States Senator Murray W. 

 Crane, Dalton, Mass., and that Ex- Congressman Apsley is 

 president of the new company'. 



TO MAKE GOLF BALLS AT YOUNGSTOWN. 

 TiiK Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) have taken 

 on the manufacttire of the golf balls marketed by the Seaman 

 Manufacturing Co. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) during the life 

 of the patents, and will make exclusively the "Par " ball. 

 The machinery of the Seaman companj' has been installed 

 in the factory at Youngstown, in charge of Mr. A. I). Sea- 

 man, inventor of the ball, who will have charge of this de- 

 partment for six months. The ball will be marketed entirely 

 independent of anj' combination or agreement with other 

 manufacturers. A space of about 5000 square feet in the 

 factory has been assigned to this department, and it is un- 

 derstood that orders have been received for a large number 

 of balls. 



HARBURG TIRES IN AMERICA. 



The Harburg Tire Co. (New York) the incorporation of 

 which was reported in The; Indi.\ Ribber World January 

 I (page 130) have established headquarters at No. 234 West 

 Fifty-eighth street, where they have one of the most com- 

 plete establishments of the kind. The building, which has 

 been rebuilt especially for them, is two stories high, 100 feet 

 deep and with a frontage of 21 feet. Besides, there is abase- 

 ment, under the whole building which makes an ideal stor- 

 age room for rubber stock. The company will handle the 

 product of the Harburg and Vienna Rubber Co. (Vereinigte 

 Gummiwaaren-Fabriken, Harburg-Wien) of Germany and 

 Austria. Mr. R. L. Kingston is the manager. In connec- 

 tion with the salesrooms there is a finelj' equipped repair 

 shop with a force of expert workmen. 



A LARGE SPORTING GOODS BUSINESS. 



A. G. Spalding & Brothers (New York), whose large 

 distribution of sporting goods embraces a great variety of 

 articles of rubber, have filed with the New York commis- 

 sioner of corporations a statement of condition comprising 

 these details : Date of annual meeting, July 31, 1905. A. G. 

 Spalding, president; William T. Brown, treasurer. Assets: 

 Merchandise, $647,200.60 ; cash and debts receivable, $2,279,- 

 456.36; patent rights and trade-marks, §1,998,801.64 ; good 

 .-.'ill, $2,000,000; total, $6,925,458.60. Liabilities: Capital 

 stock, $3,450,000; accounts payable, $731,775.3''; floating 

 indebtedness, $660,068 ; surplus, $2,000,000 ; profit and loss, 

 $83,615.24 ; total, $6,925,458.60. 



ALLING STORES IN MASSACHU^hTTS. 



The Ailing Rubber Co., who for several years past have 

 been operating a chain of rubber stores in Connecticut, have 

 added to their list two stores in Massachusetts. On March 

 17, W. S. Ailing of Norwich, Conn., opened a rubber store 

 at No. 606 Main street, Worcester, Mass., which will be un- 



