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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May I, 1906. 



Speaight began manufacturing on his own account 24 years 

 ago, and his business has shown a steady increase during 

 this time. He is prepared now to make prompt deliveries in 

 any quantity, of guaranteed products. 



ADDITIONAL TRENTON NEWS. 



The Grieb Rubber Co., which for some time past has been 

 forced to overcrowd its steam capacity, is installing a new 

 250 HP. boiler. Tlie Inter State Rubber Shoe Co., which 

 lately has been operating the plant of the Reliance Rubber 

 Co., at Brookville, a suburb of Trenton, has discontinued its 

 business and the plant is now idle. 



Two new Trenton rubber companies were incorporated at 

 the State house on April 25. The first was the Double-Ser- 

 vice Packing Co., with $5000 capital. The incorporators are 

 Francis C. Lowthorp, Edward W. Lee, and Klwood W. Moore, 

 Jr., all of Trenton. Thecharter states that the concern is to 

 manufacture mechanical rubber goods and conduct a general 

 rubber business. It is understood that no goods will be 

 manufactured at present, but that the company will conduct 

 a selling agency. The office will be in the Broad Street Na- 

 tional Bank building, with Francis C. Lowthorp as the agent 

 in charge. The other company chartered was the Na.ssau 

 Rubber Co. The authorized capital is $2000. The incorpo- 

 rators are Joseph O. Stokes, of The Joseph Stokes Rubber 

 Co. ; William J. B. Stokes, of the Trenton Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co. ; Frederick N. Hamerstrom, of the Trenton com- 

 pany ; and Francis C. Lowthorp. According to its charter 

 the company is to manufacture all kinds of rubber goods. It 

 was learned that this concern was chartered at this time to 

 protect and retain the name "Nassau." The office and 

 agent of this company are the same as those of the Double- 

 Service. 



GORHAM RUBBER CO. BURNED OUT. 



The Oakland (California) Tribune of April 19 reported : 

 "William J. Gorham, mayor of Alameda and president of 

 the Gorham Rubber Co., suffered the loss of his entire plant 

 and stock. The former was valued at $200,000, and the latter 

 at half as much more. The company was housed in a sub- 

 stantial and handsome building on Mission street, near Fre- 

 mont, [San Francisco] , which was completely destroyed. 



There was practically no insurance on the .stock, though the 

 machinery and apparatus were protected to a reasonable ex- 

 tent. The destruction of the establishment throws 52 men 

 out of employment, but Mr. Gorham announced yesterday 

 that he would resume business somewhere ' as soon as the 

 ashes got cold.' " 



PERSONAL MENTION 



Mr. George P. Whitmore, secretary of the Boston Belt- 

 ing Co. (Boston), has been appointed Deputy Grand Master, 

 a Masonic position of much importance, and will have in 

 Iiis jurisdiction eight lodges, containing some 2000 members. 



= Mr. N. Lincoln Greene, for a number of j'cars a travel- 

 ing representative of the United States Rubber Co., and 

 Miss Grace Palmiter Bell, daughter of Mrs. Martha E. Bell, 

 of Columbus, Ohio, were married in the latter city on March 



31. 



= A recent visitor to New York was Mr. Low Gek Sing, of 

 Singapore, a partner in the important mercantile house of 

 Kiam Hoa Heng & Co., of Bangkok, Siam, and manager of 

 their foreign department, at Singapore. Mr. Low is a friend 

 of Tan Chay Yan, lately mentioned in this Journal in con- 

 nection with rubber planting in the Far East, and was one 

 of the vendors of The Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, 

 floated a few months ago in London. It was his interest in 

 this connection that brought Mr. Low westward as far as 

 London and New York, where, by the way, an important 

 interest in the ^lalacca plantation is held. 



= Mr. H. H. Holland, in charge of the London depot of 

 the United States Rubber Co., has been a recent visitor to 

 the United States. 



= Mr. Lester Leland, vice president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., accompanied by Mrs. Leland, sailed from New 

 York on April 24 for Europe. 



=The presidency of the General Rubber Co. (New York) 

 has been resigned b}' Mr. William M. Ivins. 



= Mr. James C. Harvey, manager of " La Junta " rubber 

 plantation of the Mexican Mutual Planters' Co. (Chicago), 

 is visiting his home at Los Angeles, and expects to be in 

 Mexico again by the middle of this month. He spent a few 

 days each in New York and Chicago. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



THE con<lition of the market during .^pril was one of 

 comparative inactivity, and a decline in prices which 

 set in early in the month had not been recovered 

 from at the end. Quotations on nearly every item 

 reported on in these pages are lower than one month ago, as 

 will be seen from the tables below, but this condition has 

 not encouraged free buying. There have been numerous 

 transactions, but for most part purchases have been on a 

 small scale. The closing of the rubber shoe factories for a 

 longer period than usual doubtless contributed somewhat to 

 the decreased demand for consumption, but as this branch 

 of the industrj' is again active rubber for footwear will again 

 be in active demand. At any rate buyers were showing 

 more interest in the market at the close of the month. 



An unusuallj' small amount of rubber was oftered at Ant- 

 werp during the month, the only sale being that of some- 

 what damaged stock, details of which appear in another 



column. The next important inscription will occur on May 

 4, when 510 tons will be offered. The result is being looked 

 forward to with much interest. 



ANTWERP rubber ST.VTISTICS FOR MARCH. 



