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are employed, and others will be added to the force as they 

 are needed. Large as is the Continental repair department, 

 it is hardly large enough. In addition to their regularly or- 

 ganized loranclies in BufTalo, Boston, Cleveland, and Detroit, 

 the Continental Caoutchouc Co. have agencies in Chicago. 

 Philadelphia, San Francisco, and other cities, and all these 

 branches and agencies send their repair work to the New 

 York shop. Mr. Hugo Ilon'staedter, the manager of this 

 part of the b\isiness, is perfecting plans to establish repair 

 shops in the other cities where the Continental tire business 

 centers. Already a start has been made at Buffalo, and one 

 of the combination wrapping and buffing machines is on 

 the way from Ciermany to form the nucleus of the Bufialo 

 equi]>ment. All repairs in the Continental shop are made 

 according to the methods employed in Europe, and each tire 

 repaired is sent f)ut under a guarantee. ==It may be added 

 that in order to meet the constantly increasing demands of 

 the New York city trade, a branch store for Continental tires 

 has been opened at No. 2100 Broadway, tinder the manage- 

 ment of Mr. J. Stewart Smith, who was formerly in charge 

 of the adjustment department in the company's Warren 

 street offices. 



THE NEW CO.MPANY AT NORTH BROOKFIELD. 



A NEW company is being organized for the manufacture of 

 mechanical rubber goods, at North Brookfield, Massachu- 

 setts. The new company embrace I\Ir. Thomas G. Rich- 

 ards, late superintendent and chemist of the Boston Woven 

 Hose and Rubber Co., and Mr. Charles C. Beebe, who was 

 head salesman of the same company, who resigned their po- 

 sitions on May 15, in order to be free to proceed with the or- 

 ganization of the new enterprise. The location of the pro- 

 posed new factory at North Brookfield is due to the activity 

 of the Industrial Association of that town, through the 

 agency of wdiich subscriptions to the capital of the new com- 

 pany have been made by a number of citizens. The two rub- 

 ber men above named have proved their ability in their re- 

 spective lines, though they are still young ; they are ener- 

 getic, and confident of their ability to carry out the new 

 project. The resignation of Mr. Richards from his former 

 position, by thewa\', makes a fine opening for an ambitious 

 and capable man. 



THE NEW YORK BELTING AND PACKING CO. 



The New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, for- 

 merly located at Nos. 605-607 IMission street, San Francisco, 

 have moved their headquarters to No. 918 Broadway. Oak- 

 land, California, said location to be retained by them until 

 May I, 1907, when they will return to the "New City." 

 The management of the Pacific Coast branch is now con- 

 ducted by Mr. A. H. Gregory, who has been associated with 

 this branch for twelve years past. In seeking the new loca- 

 tion, his first object was to protect the interests of the com- 

 pany, and it is needless to say that they are the most cen- 

 trally located of any of the rubber companies now in Oak- 

 land. It is the intention of the New York Belting and Pack- 

 ing Co., Limited, to continue the prosecution of business on 

 the Pacific Coast with the utmost energy, realizing that the 

 large capital at their disposal places them in an enviable 

 position, and considering the fact that the disturbance of 

 this one branch does not materially affect the company, and 

 as they were fully covered bj- insurance. It is the intention 

 of the company to carry the largest and most complete stock 

 on the Coast, that has ever been carried. Thej' were first on 



the ground with a complete stock, and the orders which have 

 come from all parts of the Pacific coast have been shipped 

 with the least possible delay. The parent company, at New 

 York, immediatelj' upon advice that its Pacific Coast branch 

 had been destroyed by fire, telegraphed all their trade of the 

 Coast, on April ig, to forward their orders direct to New 

 York. The loyalty of the various customers to the company 

 was never more fullj' demonstrated than at this important 

 period. The volume of business that has been booked at the 

 New York office in the interests of the Pacific Coast branch 

 makes it appear on their books as though no interference had 

 taken place in the Pacific Coast branch. 



"UBERO" BORGES ON TRIAL. 



KicuniNANn K. Bokc.es was placed on trial on May 14, 

 before a jury in a special session of the superior criminal 

 court in Boston, Judge White presiding, on charges con- 

 nected with the promotion of the Ubero rubber plantation 

 companies. Borges has now been in jail for nearly seven 

 months, in default of $75,000 bail. He is on trial on two 

 counts of conspiracj' to steal and 1 26 counts of larceny. The 

 history of the promotion has been gone over in great detail, 

 involving the representations made to secure money from 

 the public, with testimony to show that conditions on the 

 plantations in Mexico were not at all as claimed. The trial 

 is still in progress as the.se pages go to press. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Combination Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Bloom- 

 field, which recently passed into the control of the Hamilton 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co., of Trenton, is now in first class 

 condition and doing a very satisfactory business. As men- 

 tioned in the May issue of The Indi.v Ruuher World, this 

 company increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $500,- 

 000. The new stockholders assumed and immediately paid 

 off all the liabilities of the company and it is now established 

 on a firm financial footing. Mr. Edmund D. Cook said to 

 The Indi.'V Ruhber World representative that he was very 

 well pleasedwith the volume of business done. The company 

 has all the orders on its books it can fill. The Combination 

 company, while under the control of the Hamilton company, 

 will be operated as an entirely separate plant manufacturing 

 a complete line of general mechanical goods. Mr. lulward 

 Openshaw, formerly of the Home Rubber Co., of Trenton, 

 is superintendent, and Mr. Fred H. Conover, formerlj- of the 

 I'nitedand Globe Rubber Manufacturing Co'.s, is in charge of 

 the executive force. Business conditions at the Hamilton 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. are also highly satisfactory. 



= Captain Bruce Griggs and Captain -Fred McDermott, 

 identified hitherto with the navigation of the Columbia 

 river, left New York during the month to investigate condi- 

 tions on the upper .Vmazon and its tributaries, with the 

 object of establishing there a line of light draft steamers for 

 trading and commercial purposes. Their objective ])oint is 

 in the rubber districts, and among those who will be inter- 

 ested in their success is a rubber manufacturing company 

 near New York. 



=The report of the merger of two important Canadian 

 rubber manufacturing companies, appearing lately in several 

 newspapers, appears to have been published without authoritj'. 



= Morgan & Wright, who lost their entire stock of tires in 

 the San Francisco fire, have located offices temporarily with 

 the Pioneer Automobile Co., No. 901 Goldengate avenue, 

 San Francisco. 



