August i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER W^ORLD 



371 



= Notices have been posted in the two factories of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co. that the sinnnier sliiitdt)\vn will be- 

 gin on August 3 and continue for two weeks. 



= Phoeni.\ Rubber Co. is the name of a new concern in 

 San Francisco — No. 103 Beale street — handling mechanical 

 rubber goods. They are also Pacific Coast distributors for 

 the Chicago Belting Co. 's leather belts. J. I). Ralph is 

 manager. 



^Additions made recctill\ to the plant of A. Adamson 

 (Akron, Ohio) have doubled its capacity for turning out 

 molds and cores for automobile tiros. 



= The Bishop Outta-PerchaCo. have rik<l plans in the New 

 York building department for an additional factory, five 

 stories, at Nos. 42S-430 Kast Twenty fifth street, to cost 

 $57,000. 



= The Marion Rubber Co., jobbers of rubber foot wear with 

 stores at Columbus, Ohio, and Marion, Indiana, is composed 

 of G. P. and A. P. Butterworth and H. W. Lushey, who 

 have formed a separate corporation for manufacturing 

 leather shoes at Marion. 



= The California Waterproof Manufacturing Co., whose 

 plant, established in San Francisco in November last, was 

 burned on Aprli iS, have become reestablished at Berkeley, 

 California. 



^ohn E. Hundley, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has 

 brought suit to recover $2500, paid several months ago for 

 stock in the American Crude Rubber Co., on the condition 

 he alleges, that the seller would take back the stock at the 

 same price whenever desired to do so by the plaintiff. 

 Hundlej' now asserts that he cannot sell the stock at any 

 price. The company is one of those formed to exploit the so 

 called Colorado rubber weed. 



= One of the most notable new buildings in Boston is the " 

 Christian Science temple, erected at a cost of $2,000,000. 

 The covering of the auditorium and other floors is "Inter- 

 locking" rubber tiling, supplied by the New York Belting 

 and Packing Co., Limited, and laid by the vStoughton Rubber 

 Co. It was designed in special colors, selected for the pur- 

 pose of harmonizing and blending with the general scheme 

 of decoration of the interior. 



= Mr. George W. Speaight. (New York), manufacturer of 

 chemicals for the rubber trade, sailed on the steamer Amcri- 

 ka, on July 5, for an extended tour of Great Britain and the 

 Continent. 



= The many friends of Mr. .•\. M. Stickney, president of 

 the Wellman Sole Cutting Machine Co. (Medford, Massachu- 

 setts), will be pleased to learn that he is recovering from 

 his recent illness. Recently he has been staying at his cot- 

 tage in Epping, New Hampshire, where he is gaining 

 strength through change of air. 



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

 States Rubber Co., accompanied by Mrs. Leland, arrived 

 from Europe at his home in Boston on June 4. 



= George R. Bidwell, who will be remembered for his 

 prominent connection with the pneumatic tire trade in the 

 palmj' daj'S of cycling, and who later was collector of the 

 port of New York, has become general manager of the Auto- 

 car Co., whose factory is at Ardmore, Pennsylvania. 



= Suit has been filed by the Buffalo Specialty Manufactur- 

 ing Co. against the Ailing Rubber Co. (Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut), alleging infringement of a patent on a tire repairing 

 compound called "Neverleak." 



= A complete rubber drying equipment consisting of fan 

 and distributing system, is to be installed for the Raymond 

 Rubber Co. (Titusville, New Jersey), by B. F. Sturtevant 

 Co., of Boston. This is to replace an outfit destroyed by 

 fire in April last and marks the completion of all that part 

 of the company's plant that was burned. 



= The two factories of the W'oonsockct Rubber Co. will be 

 closed between .August 10 and August 23, for the annual 

 summer vacation. 



= The portrait herewith is that of Mr. Fleetwood H. 

 Ward, who was recently 

 elected secretary and 

 treasurer of the Canadian 

 Rubber Co. of Montreal, 

 Limited. 



= The International 

 Rubber Co., a new corpo- 

 ration, with offices at No. 

 S95 Boylston street, Bos- 

 ton, will handle e.xclus 

 ively the tire products of 

 the International A. and 

 V. Tire Co. (Milltown, 

 New Jersey). Mr. L. H. 

 Fiske is general manager. 

 = Legal proceedings 

 have been instituted at 

 .\kron, Ohio, to have set 

 aside the sale of the Lilly ^^- ^- "• '^''^°- 



Rubber Manufacturing Co. to the Phoeni.x Rubber Co., on 

 the ground that the same was without due consideration of 

 the rights of certain creditors of the first named concern. 



= Letters patent have been granted by the secretary of 

 state of Canada, dated June 29, 1906, for the incorporation 

 of Ames-Holden, Limited, with $2,500,000 capital, to manu- 

 facture leather and rubber footwear of every description. 

 Incorporators: James Redmond, Herbert B. Ames, .Arthur 

 R. Holden, Rufus C. Holden, and William A. Matley. The 

 chief place of business is to be in Montreal, Quebec. 



= l\Iorgan & Wright (Chicago,) rubber manufacturers, ap- 

 peared before the municipal board of review on July 16 and 

 asked for an increase of $136,000 in the assessment on their 

 property— from $200,000 to $336,506. It is reported that 

 their request was granted without delay. 



= The Aiton Jlachine Co. (New York) are putting on the 

 market a high speed 12 spool strander, that is designed to ope- 

 rate at 1000 revolutions per minute, and is intended for use 

 in the manufacture of hollow clothes line, and other light 

 stranding work, where high speed and large output are de- 

 manded. The first machine is going to the Malin Co., of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, who it is understood have placed orders 

 with the Aiton Machine Co. for several more of these 

 machines. 



= The Ohio Rubber Culture Co. (Canton, Ohio) have re- 

 cently completed this jear's rubber planting and now have 

 over 1,000,000 rubber trees growing on their plantation 

 " Capoacan ; " 800,000 of these trees are of last year's plant- 

 ing and are now over six feet high. The Minatitlan Con- 

 tracting Co., who have charge of the development work for 

 this company', have rendered a most satisfactor}- report ; in 

 it the}' speak of the excellent condition of the property, as 

 well as the rapid growth and healthy condition of the trees. 



