November i, 1908.I 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



77 . 



UNITED STATES BTTBBEB CO.'S SHABES. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for 

 weeks, ending October 24: 



Common Stock. 



Sales 1,000 shares High 



Sales 1,600 shares High 



Sales 1,370 shares High 



Sales 6.250 shares High 



\lV2, Feb. 



Week October 3 

 Week October 10 

 Week October 17 

 Week October 24 



For the year — High, 37^5, Aug. 7; Low, 

 Last year — High, 52J?; Low, \zVi- 



31 

 32 



32/2 

 35J-8 

 26. 



Low 

 Low 

 Low 

 Low 



four 



30 

 30J4 

 31 

 32^ 



Week October 3 

 Week October 10 

 Week October 17 

 Week October 24 



For the year — High, 102^, Aug. 7; 

 Last year — High, logjg; Low, diVi 



First Preferred Stock. 



Sales 300 shares High 



Sales Q43 shares High 



Sales 1,597 shares High 



Sales 1,200 shares High 



Low, 76, Feb. 



100 

 lOI^ 

 IOI.}i 

 I00>^ 



19. 



Low 99^ 

 Low loi 

 Low 100 

 Low 100 



Secoxu Preferred Stock. 



Week October 3 

 Week October 10 

 Week October 17 

 Week October 24 



For the year — High, 



Last year — High, 78}^: Low^ 39. 



EECLAIMING RUBBER AT ERIE. 



The Continental Rubber Works (Erie, Pennsylvania) have 

 taken on the reclaiming of rubber, with such results, it is under- 

 stood, that they feel encouraged to enlarge their capacity for 

 this production in the near future very materially. They have 

 placed orders for additional machinery to increase their output 

 of reclaimed rubber with a view to more than doubling the same 

 within the next month or so. By the time the equipment now 

 being installed is completed they expect to be sending out 20 

 tons per day. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Rubber B. B. Co., October -'4, 1908, under the laws of New 

 Jersey ; capital authorized $25,000. To manufacture rubber 

 specialties and engage as mechanical engineers, etc. Incorpora- 

 tors : Isidore Schwartz, Hyman Davidson, and Joseph B. Bloom — 

 all of Newark, N. J. 



The Safety Tire Co., October 17, 1908, under the laws of 

 Maine : authorized capital $2,000,000. To manufacture and deal 

 in rubber tires. Clarence E. Eaton and T. L. Croteau, of Port- 

 land, Me., are respectively president and treasurer. 



Leolastic Co., October 15, 1908, under the laws of New Jersey; 

 authorized capital, $1,000,000. The object of the company is 

 stated to be the manufacture of rubber goods, and a building 

 is being erected at Bayonne, N. J., to which will be removed a 

 business now carried on at Fall River, Massachusetts. Incor- 

 porators : George H. Makepeace and Montgomery D. Coleman, 

 both of No. 120 Broadway, New York, and J. Milton Ferry, 

 Bayonne, N. J. 



Non-Blow-Out Auto Tire Co., October 12, 1908, under the laws 

 of New Jersey; authorized capital, $500,000. Incorporators: 

 Edward D. Birkholz, Frederick R. Tyrell and Robert S. Ter- 

 hune— all of No. 812 Broad street, Newark, N. J. 



Berrodin Rubber Co., October 10, 1908, under the laws of 

 Pennsylvania ; capital, $io,ooo. To deal in rubber tires in Phila- 

 delphia and elsewhere. Further details appear in another column. 



Pennsylvania Rubber and Supply Co., October 10, 1908, under 

 the laws of Ohio; capital, $12,000. Incorporators: Edward J. 

 Hobday, Eugene Quigley, Frederick A. Whittemore, E. M. Land- 

 phair and William J. Wilson. Location of business, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. 



Automobile Tire Co., October 20, 1908; capital, $10,000. Di- 

 rectors: Edward C. Griffith and Mary T. Griffith, No. 1584 

 Broadway, and George L. Lewis, No. 42 Broadway, New York. 



Preston Fabric Tire Co., October 16, 1908, under the laws of 

 New York; capital. $100,000. Directors: Christian Wesp, Mor- 

 ris R. Evans and James F. Preston— all of Buffalo. N. Y. 



White Tire Co., October i6, 1908, under the laws of New 

 York ; capital, $250,000. Incorporators : L. L. Stein, L. L. Dob- 

 lin and N. Coleman, New York city, and E. P. White, Chicago. 



Maumee Rubber Co., September 30, 1908, under the laws of 

 Ohio ; capital authorized, $25,000. Incorporators : William H. 

 McClellan, Jr., Conrad Weil, Stella M. Hughes, Fannie E. Tur- 

 ner, and William R. Hodge. To conduct a retail rubber goods 

 store at Toledo, Ohio, with Albert E. Wentz, manager. 



Hygrade Rubber Bicycle and Automobile Supply Co., October 

 17, 1908, under the laws of New York; capital, $10,000. Di- 

 rectors : Arthur W. Rood, Troy, N. Y. ; Percy B. Whitmore and 

 George M. Post, New York city. Location of business, Troy. 



The Rickert Rubber Co., October 9, 1908, under the laws of 

 Ohio ; capital, $20,000. Incorporators : Thomas Rodgers, George 

 W. Williams, Edward P. Rickert, W. L. White and John G. 

 Rhonehouse. Location of business, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Sectional Rubber Tire Co., August 24, 1908, under the laws of 

 Massachusetts; capital, $50,000. Incorporators: Frank E. Hall, 

 WoUaston, Mass.; Albert H. Gushing (treasurer), Brookline, 

 Mass.; Warren T. Simpson (clerk), South Weymouth, Mass. 



The Bayne-Subers Tire and Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), a 

 new concern mentioned already in these pages, have filed a 

 certificate of increase of their authorized capital from $5,000 to 

 $100,000 in view of a projected increase in the scope of their 

 business. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The report of Mr. Lucius C. Ryce, receiver of the Seward 

 Rubber Co. (Berlin, Connecticut), accepted by the superior 

 court at Hartford on October 16, shows that a 50 per cent, divi- 

 dend has been paid to schedule A creditors, amounting to 

 $11,451.69, and a small amount to schedule B creditors. The 

 balance in hand will permit a final dividend of a few cents on 

 the dollar. 



The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) are 

 reported to be in receipt of good orders for rubber shoes and 

 of tennis goods — the production of which began on October 

 19 — together with increased work in the insulated wire and 

 other departments. 



The steamer Ccarcnse, which arrived at New York from 

 Para on October g, brought 1,798 cases of rubber, worth at pre- 

 vailing prices, considerably more than $1,000,000, or more than 

 double the value of the average cargo brought in by transatlantic 

 liners. 



The dismantling of the plant of Milford Rubber Co. (Mil- 

 ford, Massachusetts), the closing of which has been mentioned 

 already in these columns, has now been practically completed, 

 the outfit having been disposed of to several other rubber manu- 

 facturing concerns. 



The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts) have 

 called to their offices Mr. George A. Campbell, for some years 

 their local manager in Boston, and Mr. Fred H. Ayers, for- 

 merly associated with Mr. Campbell, has been appointed Bos- 

 ton manager. 



The factory of The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) has 

 lately been employed 23 out of 24 hours of the day, in order 

 to keep up with the orders received for their product. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have re- 

 moved their Boston branch from No. 9 Park square to No. 145 

 Columbus avenue. Mr. T. J. Glenn remains branch manager at 

 Boston. 



Mr. Otis R. Cook, who has become general manager of the 

 tire department of the Federal Rubber Co. (Cudahy, Wisconsin), 

 had filled a similar position for two j-ears previously with the 

 Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), following a con- 

 nection of 12 years with The B. F. Goodrich Co. Mr. Osborne 

 S. Tweedy, formerly in the employ of The Diamond Rubber 

 Co., will be associated with Mr. Cook as manager of tire sales. 



The Federal Rubber Co. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) are making 

 automobile tire covers of the regular G. & J. type. 



