January i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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RUBBER GOODS DIVIDEND. 



The thirty-second regular quarterly dividend of iM per cent, 

 on the preferred shares of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 

 was payable on December 15. The last preceding dividend was 

 payable October 29. 



CONSOLIDATIONS IN THE FOOTWEAR TRADE. 



The recent purchase by Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. (St. Louis) 

 of the old established firm of Batchelder & Lincoln Co. (Boston), 

 unites the two largest shoe markets in the world. The interest 

 to the rubber trade lies in the fact that these two houses had 

 become such important distributors of rubber footwear. The 

 shipments of the St. Louis house alone have amounted lately to 

 about $12,000,000 a year of goods of all kinds. The Boston busi- 

 ness took its name from E. B. Batchelder, who died in 1878, and 

 Joseph B. Lincoln, who lived until 1895, after which the business 

 became a corporation. The manager of what now has become 

 the Boston house of Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., at Nos. 604-610 

 Atlantic avenue, is Mr. H. D. Peyton, who has been connected 

 with them for some time in the West. In New York the busi- 

 ness of Batchelder & Lincoln Co. is at No. 146 Duane street, has 

 been taken over by Nathaniel Fisher & Co., whose place was next 

 door, and the combined premises give them a frontage of 85 

 feet, seven stories high, thus doubling their capacity for busi- 

 ness. Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. are featuring, in the way of 

 rubber footwear, the Lycoming and Boston lines. 



Another important consolidation in the footwear trade is that 

 by which Edwards-Stanwood Shoe Co., of Chicago, becomes ab- 

 sorbed by Smith-Wallace Shoe Co., of the same city, the com- 

 bined business to be continued under the latter name. The Smith- 

 Wallace Shoe Co. have arranged to double their former capital, 

 in view of the new arrangement. Both the firms named have 

 been long established, and in the consolidated form the business 

 becomes one of the largest in footwear in the world. They may 

 be expected to continue to be large distributors of rubber boots 

 and shoes. 



CALENDARS FOR 1909. 



The first calendar for the New Year to reach The Indi.\ 

 Rubber World offices from the trade is an artistic production, of 

 an original character, got out by the Revere Rubber Co. (Bos- 

 ton). There is a separate large leaf for each month in the year, 

 each differing from the other, and all appropriate to the trade 

 to which this company belongs. 



The Rubber Products Co. (Barberton, Ohio), mount their 

 calendar on a card I4V2X23^ inches. It carries a reproduction 

 of "Grace," from a painting by J. A. Lange — the interpretation 

 of a type of feminine loveliness that has made the artist famous. 



The calendar of J. H. Stedman & Co., Inc. (Boston) is em- 

 bellished with a large and handsome photogravure, "The Mill in 

 the Forest." 



Consumers' Rubber Co., (Bristol, Rhode Island), send out 

 with their compliments a tastefully got up calendar on which is 

 displayed an American eagle above the "Stars and Stripes," in 

 colors. 



New Jersey Rubber Co. Lambertville, N. J.), again have dis- 

 tributed to their friends in the trade a "Handy" memorandum 

 desk calendar, with a separate leaf for each day in the year, 

 which cannot fail to be appreciated by those who receive it. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Till-; co-partners in the firm of T^hilip Broomficld & Co., rubber 

 scrap dealers, of Boston, have petitioned the Superior Court for 

 the appointment of a receiver, and the court has appointed Clar- 

 ence C. Colby to that position. The proceedings, it is understood, 

 have been instituted as a step in bringing about a dissolution of 

 partnership. 



Brockton Rubber Heel Co. (Brockton, Mass.) is the name of a 

 new concern, of which the proprietors are Wallace C. Flagg and 

 C. Gust Nelson. They are in a position to accept business from 

 parties who want a special heel or trade work. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Herbert L. S.^tterlee, who lately accepted the position of 

 assistant secretary of the navy, at Washington, is president of 

 the Habirshaw Wire Co. (New York). 



Mr. Herbert Du Puy, who has been mentioned in the news- 

 papers of late as an extensive purchaser of real estate in New 

 York city and at the same time disposing of Pittsburgh proper- 

 ties, is known to the rubber trade as president of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Rubber Co. (Jeannctte, Pa.). 



Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, reputed until recently to 

 be a director in 34 corporations, has resigned from most of the 

 boards, with a view to his ultimate giving up of business cares. 

 One of the boards from which he retired is that of the Continen- 

 tal Rubber Co. of America. At the last annual meeting of the 

 .\nierican Congo Co., Mr. Ryan was elected a director, but 

 declined to accept election. A sketch of Mr. Ryan appeared in 

 The India Rubber World, December i, 1906, (page 72). 



At the luncheon given by Baron Schlippenback, the Russian 

 consul general at New York, on December 18, attended by about 

 150 diplomats, lawyers and business men, to celebrate the Saint's 

 day of Czar Nicholas, Mr. Charles R. Flint was presented, on 

 behalf of the Czar, with a "charka" — a rock crystal goblet set 

 with rubies and diamonds, the same being a token of his 

 Majesty's friendship and appreciation of the work done by Mr. 

 Flint in behalf of Russia during the war between that country 

 and Japan. Mr. Flint was helpful to Russia in the matter of 

 .supplying submarine boats, and he and Mrs. Flint were enter- 

 tained frequently at St. Petersburg. Mr. Flint will be remem- 

 bered in the rubber trade as the chief organizer of the United 

 States Rubber Co., and the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 



Mr. George Louis Richards, so long connected with the Boston 

 Rubber Shoe Co., has been re-elected to the office of mayor of the 

 city of Maiden, Massachusetts. He has been connected with the 

 municipal government there since 1890, in which year he was 

 first elected a member of the common council. 



Mr. Arthur W. Stedman, of George Alden & Co., sailed 

 from Boston for Europe on December 29. 



Mr. Leo. F. Nadeau, of La Nueva Providcncia Rubber Co. 

 (Providence, Rhode Island), spent the past month in Guate- 

 mala, where the company's plantations are located. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Ground was broken on December 21 for the projected factory 

 of the Converse Rubber Shoe Co., a hew company, the incorpora- 

 tion of which is reported in another column. The location is 

 Maiden, Massachusetts, on Pearl street, near the Edgeworth 

 station, and the plans call for a three-story concrete building, 

 with steel skeleton and brick trimmings, 170 x 60 feet. Tlie fac- 

 tory is expected to be in operation about March I. 



The factory of the National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, R. I.,) 

 was reported recently to be busy in all departments, including 

 lawn tennis goods, insulated wire, druggists' sundries, and the 

 mechanical fabric department. Manager Le Baron C. Colt was 

 quoted as looking for a prosperous winter at the factory. 



The rubber footwear manufactories generally announced a shut 

 down of two days for the Christmas holidays, closing Thursday 

 night until Monday morning. 



Theodore Hofeller & Co. (Buffalo, New York), in consequence 

 of the necessity for larger quarters for their scrap rubber trade, 

 has removed to their new offices and warehouses, at Nos. 206-220 

 Scott street. 



Boston Belting Co. send to their friends a New Year's greeting 

 in the shape of a representation of an old candle, flickering down 

 in its socket, emblematical of the old year, together with another 

 candle, to substitute for it, to introduce 1909. 



Mr. Harry T. Dunn, president of The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chico- 

 pee Falls, Massachusetts), after a visit to the West as far as 

 Kansas City, reports a healthful condition of the tire business in 

 that region, and a great demand for removable rims. 



