April i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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=The Banner Rubber Co. (St. Louis, Mi.ssouri) on March 

 14 filed .suit in the circuit court against Friedman Brothers 

 Shoe Co., of tlie same citj', for $60,81 1.55. The plaintiff asks 

 $42,917.45 for rubber boots and shoes alleged to have been 

 sold under contract to the defendant December 6, 1904, and 

 for $17,894,10 for rubber boots and shoes alleged to have 

 been sold to the defendant and held for orders, but never 

 taken. 



= It is announced that the factory of the Goodyear's Me- 

 tallic Rubber Shoe Co. (Naugatuck, Connecticut), which has 

 been clo.sed for some time, will resume work on April 16. 

 At the same time the factory of the Goodyear's Iniia Rubber 

 Glove Manufacturing Co., which closed for inventory on 

 March 24, will resume work. The reclaiming plant of the 

 United States Rubber Co., which closed in the middle of 

 March, after having been run night and day for a year, will 

 resume work early this month. 



=The directors of the Celluloid Co. (Newark, New Jersey) 

 have declared a quarterly dividend of i ]/, per cent, on the 

 capital stock, payable April 2. The annual meeting was 

 held in Newark on March 27. 



=Thirteen firms tendered for the supply of fire hose to the 

 city of Denver, Colorado, recently, when 10,000 feet was ad- 

 vertised for and the business was secured by four firms. Now 

 the local representatives of the nine unsuccessful firms are 

 complaining through the newspapers that a local political 

 ring makes fair competition impossible, and that orders go 

 by favor, without regard to price or quality of the goods. 

 One firm asserts that next year it will tender for hose at be- 

 low cost "just for the fun " of seeing what the city authori- 

 ties will do. 



= Mr. William Niedner, general manager for Charles 

 Niedner, manufacturer of linen fire hose, at Maiden, Massa- 

 chusetts, has returned from an extensive business tour of 

 the West and South, and reports business in their line very 

 satisfactory. 



- K. H. Broadwell, vice president of the Fisk Rubber Co. 

 (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts), spent part of last month in 

 Bermuda, for the purpose of recuperating his health. 



=Dr. Erwin Meyer, of Hanover, Germany, has accepted a 

 position with the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., where 

 he has charge ofthe research work in chemistry. It would 

 be hard to find a man better fitted for this work. Dr. Meyer 

 is a Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Berlin, where 

 his ability, diligence and resourcefulness won for him the 

 estimation of his professors and associates. With this most 

 excellent preparation in chemistry. Dr. Meyer became chief 

 chemist in the St. Helens Cable Co., Limited (Warrington, 

 England), where he remained three years. His work there 

 was in connection with rubber, rubber substitutes, and insu- 

 lating compounds, so that he brings to the Rubber Goods 

 company a thorough knowledge of the theoretical and prac- 

 tical details of the chemistry of rubber. 



= American Chicle Co. dividends remain at i per cent, per 

 month on ordinary and I'/z per cent, quarterly on preferred 

 shares. Quotations on March 24 were : Ordinary — 175 bid; 

 180 asked. Pre/erred — 104>^ bid ; 107 asked. Based upon 

 the prices "bid," the $9,000,000 of the company's issues 

 would figure out at $13,635,000. 



= Mr. A. M. Stickney, president of the Wellman Sole Cut- 

 ting Machine Co. (Medford, Massachusetts), has been very 

 ill with pneumonia, but he is now pronounced out of danger. 



=The S.i\v\. r Belting Co., one of the subsidiary com- 

 panies ofthe Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., havingcom- 

 pleted the removal of their plant from East Cambridge, Mass- 

 achusetts, to Cleveland, Ohio, all communications to them 

 should be addressed to the latter place. 



= Myron R. Hutchin.son, for many years in France en- 

 gaged with A. Hutchinson & Co., National India Rubber 

 Co. of France and Germany, and later director of the works 

 in Germany, has come to this country to stay, and is now in 

 Boston. 



= Mr. James A. Braden has resigned his position as adver- 

 tising manager of the Diamond Rubber Co. to accept a simi- 

 lar position with the Atlantic Refining Co., of Cleveland, 

 for whom he will exploit a new chemical product. Mr. 

 Braden has been with the Diamond company for almost 

 three jears, leaving the newspaper business to accept the 

 place. He will be succeeded on April i by Mr. H. S. Quine, 

 who quits the same position on a local new.spaper that Mr. 

 Braden formerly held before he took up advertising work. 



= The Buckeye Rubber Co. are planning to build an addi- 

 tion to their plant in East Akron, and sheds connecting this 

 addition to the main plant. The sheds will be used for 

 storing lumber, 



= It is rumored that the La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La 

 Crosse, Wisconsin) are considering a change of location, 

 with a view to increasing the capital and building a larger 

 plant, for the manufacture of rubber footwear. 



= R. C. Cooley, trustee ofthe Dickinson Hard Rubber Co., 

 (Springfield, Ma.s.sachusetts), has couve3ed to the Third Na- 

 tional Bank of Springfield, the real estate occupied by that 

 company hitherto. 



=An extensive addition is being made to the plant of the 

 Siemon Hard Rubber Corporation (Bridgeport, Connecticut). 



^The Western Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana) are reported 

 very busy, and have recently been ordering considerable 

 machinery. 



= Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., is reported to have contributed $10,000 to the 

 John Hay memorial library fund of Brown University, started 

 recently by the subscription of $150,000 by Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie. Another item of news respecting Colonel Colt re- 

 lates to the possibility that he maybe a candidate for United 

 States senator from Rhode Island to succeed Mr. Wetmore. 



=The Standard Asphalt and Rubber Co. filed articles of 

 incorporation in New Jersey on March 9, with $1,000,000 

 capital atithorized, in shares of $1. Its stated object is to 

 mine and sell bitumen, asphalt, rock, and minerals, and to 

 carry on a general import and export business. The incor- 

 porators are : H. O. Coughlin, Thomas F. Barret, and John 

 R. Turner, all connected with a corporation agencj' in Jersey- 

 City. 



= The Fairfield Rubber Co. (Fairfield, Counecticut) re- 

 cently extended their working hours to 10 p. m. and were 

 reported to he likely to work nights all this summer. 



=The Consolidated Tire Co. sued the Springfield Rubber 

 Tire Co. (New Haven, Connecticut) in the United States at 

 Hartford for alleged infringement of trade mark and brand. 

 The defendant filed a demurrer that the trade mark used did 

 not sufficiently resemble the plaintiff's trade mark to form a 

 prima facie case of infringement. The court on March 15 

 overruled the demurrer and allowed the defendant 20 days 

 iu which to file an amendment, 



