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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1909. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



CONVERSE Rubber Shoe Co., October 29, 1908, under the 

 laws of Massachusetts ; capital, $250,000. Incorporators : 

 Marquis M. Converse, Joseph S. Capen, and Henry Endi- 

 •cott, Jr. Mr. Converse is president and Mr. Capen treasurer, 

 and Hugh Bullock will be factory superintendent. These, with 

 R. M. Saltonstall, member of a prominent Boston law firm, and 

 Henry Dutton, of Houghton & Dutton, proprietors of a Boston 

 department store, constitute the board of directors. The purpose 

 is to establish near Boston a factory for an extra quality of 

 ■boots and shoes, to be sold direct to retailers. The selling de- 

 partment will include Harry W. Marden, B. J. Berns, J. E. Folan, 

 W. H. Patrick, and F. E. Harriman, all of whom have been asso- 

 ciated with Mr. Converse and are well known in the New Eng- 

 land footwear trade. Mr. Converse was at the head of Converse 

 & Pike, in the footwear trade, who in 1890 removed their busi- 

 ness from Lebanon, New Hampshire, to Boston, where it grew 

 to large proportions. He resigned in time on account of his 

 ihealth, and the business took the name Tremont Rubber Co., 

 which is still retained. In 1903 Mr. Converse became connected 

 with the Boston house of The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., 

 incorporated in the following year as The Beacon Falls Rubber 

 Shoe Co. of Boston, which since has teen under his management, 

 with the assistance of the Mr. Capen named above. 



Converse Rubber Co., October 22, igo8, under the laws of 

 Massachusetts ; capital, $S,ooo. The incorporators are Colonel 

 Harry E. Converse, president; Harry P. Ballard, secretary and 

 treasurer, and John Robson. These gentlemen are all connected 

 with the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. (Maiden, Mass.), with which 

 the name Converse so long has been associated, and the new com- 

 pany doubtless has been formed, as a subsidiary concern, for 

 securing as far as possible rights to the use of the name Con- 

 verse. It is understood that a line of goods bearing the name of 

 the new corporation is being made. 



The Okonite Co., December 11, 1908, under the laws of New 

 Jersey; capital, $500,000. Incorporators: Willard L. Candee and 

 H. Durant Cheever, No. 253 Broadway, New York; Frank 

 Cazenove Jones, No. 103 Park avenue, New York; John D. 

 Cheever, No. 40 East Thirty-fifth street. New York; and William 

 F. Gaston, Passaic, N. J. Originally the Okonite insulation 

 interest was controlled in America alone. In June or July, 1890, 

 the business was organized on a wider basis, under the English 

 laws, as the International Okonite Co., Limited, with £340,000 

 capital authorized, to control factories at Passaic, N. J., and 

 Manchester, England. In February, 1901, this company was 

 succeeded by the Okonite Co., Limited, also English. The evi- 

 dent purpose of the reincorporation in New Jersey is to remove 

 the domicile of the company again to the United States. 



Cable Pneumatic Tire Co., December 17, 1908, under the laws 

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

 John F. Scannell, No. 729 Sixth avenue. New York; Frank A. 

 Magowan, No. 241 Broadway, New York; and Grant Lam- 

 bright, Newark, N. J. Object, to establish a factory for tires 

 and other automobile accessories of rubber. 



Rubber Substitute Co., December 9, 1908, under the laws of 

 New Jersey ; capital, $10,000. Incorporators : Robert Ferrier, 

 Thomas R. Armstrong, and Thomas H. Ross— all of No. i Ex- 

 change place, Jersey City, N. J. To make and deal in rubber 

 compounds, substitutes, and the like. 



Crude Rubber Regenerating Co., December 4, 1908, under the 

 laws of New Jersey; capital authorized, $50,000. Incorporators: 

 Charles I. Taylor, No. 200 South Clinton street. East Orange, N. 

 J.; Frank H. Parcells, Brooklyn Hills, Long Island; and 

 Thomas H. Beardsley, No. 54 Wall street, New York. 



Atlas Rubber Co., November 21, 1908, under the laws of New 

 York ; capital, $50,000. Incorporators : A. G. Bartholomew, 

 Morley C. Bartholomew, and George D. Crafts, all of Buffalo, 

 N. Y. 



Mansfield Rubber Co., November 25, 1908, under the laws of 

 Ohio ; capital authorized, $250,000. Incorporators : C. Hautzer- 

 moeder and L. Hautzermoeder, Herbert Hornberger, F. M. Bush- 

 nell and W. H. Taylor. The new company have organized by 

 the election of Frank A. Wilcox, president; Charles H. Walters, 

 vice president; F. M. Bushnell, treasurer; F. W. Walters, secre- 

 tary. The equipment of a factory is now under way, with the 

 purpose of making a specialty at first of motor tires and the 

 gradual addition of a line of mechanical goods. Location, Mans- 

 field, Ohio. 



Lynn Rubber Co. — A certificate filed in the office of the secre- 

 tary of state of Massachusetts November 25, 1908, changed to 

 this name the Lowell Rubber Co., incorporated January 20, 1896, 

 removing its principal office from Lowell to Lynn, Mass. The 

 authorized capital is $S,ooo. The opening of the Lynn Rubber 

 Co.'s new store was reported in The India Rubber World De- 

 cember I, 1908 (page 114). 



Wisconsin Auto and Tire Repair Co., November 27, 1908, 

 under the laws of Wisconsin ; capital $io,aoo. Incorporators : 

 John J. Rohde, Albert R. Hulick and David D. Smith — addresses 

 not stated. 



SALE OF A RUBBER FACTORY. 



The factory building and machinery of the Grand Rapids 

 Felt Boot Co. (Grand Rapids, Michigan), was disposed of at 

 public auction by the receivers, the Michigan Trust Co., on De- 

 cember 16, to Goodspeed Brothers, of Grand Rapids, for $52,500. 

 The Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co., engaged in the manufacture 

 of felt boots, took on in 1900 the production of rubber overs, 

 with a view to the sale of "combinations." The appointment of 

 a receiver was reported in The India Rubber World October 

 I, 1907 (page 27). 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



It is understood that the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., 

 notwithstanding the falling ofif in the general rubber business last 

 year, enjoyed a volume of sales within 7 per cent, of the larg- 

 est year in the history of the company. Within the past two 

 months the normal volume of business has been attained, and 

 even exceeded. 



Mr. Herbert A. Githens, after a successful career as gen- 

 eral traveling representative of the G & J Tire Co., has been 

 appointed manager of that company. 



The Indianapolis Rubber Co. (Indianapolis. Indiana) have 

 filed a permit for the erection of an additional factory building, 

 of three stories, and to cost $25,000. 



Among the attractive advertising novelties distributed in the 

 rubber footwear trade of late special mention may be made of 

 a series of show cards on which "Champion Tennis Shoes" are 

 strikingly pictured in "natural" color against a deep red back- 

 ground. Another is an office blotting card on one side of which 

 is pictured, in green, a rubber tree leaf, across which is lettered 

 "American rubbers." 



Coupons on the 6 per cent, purchase money bonds of the 

 Tehuantepec Rubber Culture Co. (New York) were payable on 

 and after December i at the offices of the Knickerbocker 

 Trust Co. 



Mr. A. R Duryee, after having been connected with Asbest- 

 und Gummiwerke, Alfred Calmon, A.-G., at Hamburg, has re- 

 tired therefrom and was heard from lately traveling in the 

 British isles. 



