December i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



111 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



JOHN ,1. WATSON. PRESIUENT. 



AT a meeting of directors of the Rubber Goods Manufac- 

 turing Co. (Xew York, November 11), John J Watson, 

 Jr.. was elected president, to fill the vacancy which had 

 existed since the death of Charles H. Dale on July 18 last, after 

 having held the office for more than five years. On the same 

 date Mr. Watson was elected president of the General Rubber 

 Co., in place of Colonel Samuel P. Colt, who resigned a few 

 months ago in order to be able to devote more time to the 

 improvement of his health. 



Mr. Watson, who is a native of Rhode Island, became em- 

 ployed in 1896 by the Industrial Trust Co., of Providence, then 

 under the presidency of Colonel Samuel P. Colt. Four years later 

 he was elected treasurer of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., 

 continuing for awhile his connection with the Trust company. 

 Later he was purchasing agent of the Banigan company as well. 

 In October, 1901, he was called to the 

 general offices of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., at New York, being elected sec- 

 ond assistant treasurer. In May, 1902, 

 he was elected assistant treasurer ; in 

 1904 he was elected treasurer, and in 

 May, 1905, and annually since elected 

 treasurer and director. 



The General Rubber Co. was incor- 

 porated in May. 1904, for the purpose of 

 supplying crude rubber to the United 

 States Rubber Co., and later came to 

 sustain a similar relation to the Rubber 

 Goods Manufacturing Co. also. Colonel 

 Colt was president from the beginning 

 until his recent retirement, and Mr. 

 Watson has been the treasurer. In April, 

 1906, on the taking effect of the merger 

 of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 

 with the United States Co., Mr. Watson 

 was elected a director and treasurer of 

 the former, and has been re-elected to 

 these position annually since. No in- 

 timation has been given of which, if 



any, of the various offices held by Mr. Juhn }.\\ 



Watson in the past he may relinquish 



in view of becoming president of two of tlic corporations re- 

 ferred to. 



Before coming to New York, Mr. Watson for three years 

 represented the town of Jamestown in the Rhode Island legis- 

 lature and was a member of the state board of charities and 

 corrections. 



WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. CHANGES. 



At a meeting of the directors of the Western Electric Co., in 

 Chicago, on October 30, Mr. Enos M. Barton retired from the 

 presidency, after a long term of service, and was elected chair- 

 man of the board. He was succeeded as president by the elec- 

 tion of H. B. Taylor, .\. is., whose connection with the company 

 dates back 28 years. Mr. Taylor -will continue to reside in 

 New Y'ork, where he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce 

 and of several social organizations, and a director in electrical 

 and other corporations. Some of the engineering and other 

 administrative work of the Western Electric Co. will be 

 done henceforth in New York. Mr. Taylor is succeeded as 

 vice-president by H. A. Halligan, formerly secretary, who in 

 turn is succeeded by George C. Pratt. Two additional vice- 

 presidents were elected — F. R. Welles, who has charge of the 

 company's foreign business, and Willi.uii P. Sidlcy, who retains 



title of general counsel. The Western Electric Co., one of the 

 largest electrical manufacturing concerns in existence, are large 

 customers of the rubber industry. They are expanding of late 

 and, it is thought in some some quarters, may at an early date 

 offer some of the $15,000,000 5 per cent, bond issue authorized 

 by the shareholders a year ago. The company recently sup- 

 plied new equipment for the main telephone exchange in Paris, 

 after the destruction of the old by fire. 



WINDING UP OF THE SEWARD RUBBER CO. 



The Superior court for Hartford county, Connecticut, ac- 

 cepted on November 7 the final report of L. C. Ryce, receiver 

 of the Seward Rubber Co. (Berlin, Connecticut), and passed an 

 order allowing $2,750 for his own and $750 for his attorney's 

 services, and directing the payment of a final dividend of 4.6 per 

 cent, to the creditors, which, with the 50 per cent, paid in July, 

 will give them 54.6 per cent. The re- 

 ceiver was appointed February 18, 1908. 

 , [See The Indi.\ Rubber World — page 

 199.] With the report were letters from 

 creditors whose claims aggregated 66 per 

 cent, of the whole, stating that the divi- 

 dend already received was larger than 

 they had expected the estate could pay, and 

 that they got it sooner than they expected. 



TRADE news NOTES. 



The Flexible Rubber Goods Co, (Win- 

 sted, Connecticut), on November 6, 1908, 

 filed with tlie secretary of state at Hart- 

 ford a certificate of increase of capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $35,000. It is under- 

 stood that the company are planning to 

 make some important extensions to their 

 plant and business. 



The Massachusetts Chemical Co. (Wal- 

 pole, Massachusetts), have establisheil 

 new and larger quarters for their Boston 

 office at No. 185 Summer street, oppo- 

 site the South station, across the street 

 from the old location at No. 170 Sinn- 

 mer street. Mr. E. W. Furbush, gen- 

 eral manager, usually spends his mornings at the factory and 

 afternoons at the Boston office. Mr. Louis O. Duclos, the gen- 

 eral sales manager, will make his headquarters at the new offices. 

 Mr. G. Edward Habich, india-rubber and gutta-percha broker, 

 in Boston, has removed his offices from No. 170 Summer to No. 

 185 Summer street; telephone 1706 Oxford. 



The Bay State Insulated Wire and Cable Co. (Hyde Park, 

 Massachusetts), have made a change in their representation at 

 Chicago, where their agent now is Richard Wick, No. 356 Dear- 

 born street. 



The Archer Rubber Co. (Millford, Massachusetts), are re- 

 ported to 'be much cramped for room in their present location, 

 and to have informed the local board of trade of the receipt of 

 inducements from other towns for the removal of their plant. 



Mr. H. C. Miller, formerly general representative of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co. (.-\kron, Ohio), has been appointed manager of 

 the automobile tire department for The B. F. Goodrich Co. of 

 New York, with headquarters in New Y'ork city. 



Frazar & Sale, Limited, import and export merchants (Nos. 

 63-65 Wall street, New York), announce the appointment of 

 Mr. Richard F. Warner as manager of their New York office, 

 taking charge from November 16. 



W.\TS0N, Jr. 



