February i, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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UNITED STATES RUBBEB CO.'S SHAr.ES. 



Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange for five 

 weeks, ending January 23 : 



Common Stock. 



Week December 26 Sales 3,645 shares High 35 '/4 Low 3lJ<t 



Week January 2 Sales 4.000 sliares High 36 Low 34 



Week January 9 Sales 1.500 shares High 34 }4 Low 33% 



Week January 16 Sales 2.100 shares High 331/2 Low 32 



Week January 23 Sales 4,540 shares High 341/2 Low 31 



For ilic year— High, 34"^, Jan. 2; Low, Jan. 22. 



First Preferred Stock. 



Week December 26 Sales 780 shares High 10.6 Low 105 



Week January 2 Sales 1.400 shares High 106^ Low 105 



Week January 9 Sales 2,655 shares High lo67s Low 105 



Week January l6 Sales 3,450 shares High 107 Low 104^4 



Week January 23 Sales 2,750 shares High 104^ Low' loo"-:^ 



For the year — High, 107, Jan. 12; Low, 100}^. Jan. 23. 



Second Preferred Stock. 



Week December 26 Sales .... shares High . . Low . . 



Week January 2 Sales 800 shares High 73 Low 73 



Week January 9 Sales 700 shares High 73^ Low 73;4 



Week January 16 Sales 600 shares High 72 Low 71 



Week January 23 Sales 300 shares High 72 Low 69 



For th2 year — High, 73^4. Jan. 5; Low, 69, Jan. 22. 



Co^tMON Stock. $25,000,000. 

 Last Dividend, April 30, 1900 — 1%. 



• 903. I9<'4- '905- 1906. 5907. 1908. 



Shares sold . 80.800 285,819 723,66,1; 607,800 175.277 191.200 

 Ilighe.st price. lo'/4 34/2 58V2 S9'A i^Vz 37'/2 



Lowest price.. 7 10^2 isVi 38 ,13^ 17K 



Highest, 1908. August 7: Lowest, February 26: Closing, 34. 



First Preferred Stock, $36,263,000. 



Last Dividend, January 30, 1909 — 2%. 



1903. 1004. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 



Shares sold . 62,343 182,443 200,497 123,760 120,108 94,400 



Highest price. 58 100 i'-8'/$ its 109^ 108 



Lowest price. 3oY\ 4t 98H I04>4 , 61 14 76 



Highest, 1008, ])ecembcr 2; Lowest, February 19: Closing, io6J4. 



Second Prf.ferred Stock, $9,965,000. 



Last Dividend, January 30, 1909 — Ij4%. 



1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 



Shares sold 21,550 59,845 31,203 21,131 



Highest price 831^ 87^^ yi/t, ys/i 



Lowest price 75 75 39 42 



Highest, 1908, November 27: Lowest, February 21; Closing, 73. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New York) 

 have been awarded contracts for S,000 feet of 2V3-inch and 

 1,000 feet 3V2-inch "Eureka" fire hose for Buffalo, New York, 

 and 1950 feet 2j/2-inch "Eureka" hose for Jersey City, New 

 Jersey — all 4-ply, manufactured for the new high-pressure 

 pipe line service. 



A suit brought by Lewis D. Parker, who for several years 

 prior to June 7, 1904, was president and general manager of 

 the Hartford Rubber Works Co., to recover under an alleged 

 contract with the company to run until a considerably later 

 date, is stated to hafe been settled amicably out of court. 

 Mr. Parker was connected with the Hartford company, all 

 told, some 13 years, becoming widely acquainted in the tire 

 trade, and subsequently became interested in the manufacture 

 of hardware and tools. 



Mr. Joseph S. Capen, who is treasurer of the new Con- 

 verse Rubber Shoe Co. [see The Lnuia RcBnER World, Jan- 

 uary I, 1909, page 150], was connected for 15 years with L. 

 Candee & Co., and latterly with The Beacon Falls Rubber 

 Shoe Co. 



The Flexible Rubber Goods Co. (Winsted, Connecticut;, 

 the capital stock of which was increased recently from 

 $10,000 to $35,000, have leased larger premises, with the 

 privilege of buying. They make rubber brushes and other 

 toilet articles and a "sucker" sole for athletic shoes. 



A point indicative nf the increasing consumptifin of rubber in 

 balloons is the fact that lists of scraps of rubber are beginning 

 to include waste balloon fabric. 



THE NEWEST "G00DRI3H GIRL." 



It is hard to say it better tlian 'Ihc B. F. Goodrich Co. say 

 it, and harder to do it better. "Adele, the Girl from Goodrich," 

 is this year's beauty. She is "A rare, wistful, restful com- 

 panion — just the sort for a man to take into his confidence. 

 Heartease is her flower ; sweet complacency her dowry ; Good- 

 rich Goods her prayer." 



CONSUMZES' RUBBER CO. 



Thk Consumers' Rubber Co.. Inc. 1 Bristnl, Rliode Island), are 

 understood to be turning out weekly 1,000,000 feet of rubber in- 

 sulated wire, requiring the operation of tliree connecting mills. 

 The company have about completed the installation of a rubber 

 shoe manufacturing equipment and as the president. Mr. Ter- 

 rence McCarthy, has had an extensive experience in llu- trade, a 

 new brand of McCarthy footwear in the near future need not 

 cause surprise in the trade. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



The Consolidated Rubber Co., of New Haven, January 5. 

 1909. under the laws of Connecticut; capital authorized, 

 $250,000; beginning business with $5,000. Incorporators: 

 William H. Hull, John Semon and Homer H. Shepard, all 

 of New Haven. The India RcnnF.R World is advised that 

 no details can yet be given out for publication, but the articles 

 of incorporation indicate the object of the companj' to be 

 to deal in rubber and rubber products and the stocks or 

 property of siinilar companies. 



The Bradley Tire Protector Co., November 21, 1908, under 

 the laws of Texas; capital, $20,000; to manufacture steel tire 

 protectors. Incorporators: H. M. Bradley and Carrie T. 

 Douglass, Fort Worth, and E. M. Bradley, Houston, Texas. 



The Bridgeport Webbing Co., January 12, 1909, under the 

 laws of Connecticut; capital $5,000. Incorporators: William 

 Boyd Spencer, Nelson H. Downs and .'X. 11. Raymond, all 

 of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The president is Mr. Spencer, who 

 also is president and treasurer of the Bridgeport Elastic Fabric 

 Co., and the treasurer is Mr. Dovv-ns. The new company will 

 occupy quarters with the Bridgeport Elastic Fabric Co., and 

 for the present manufacture a line of goods similar to theirs, 

 though intending later to develop a business along other 

 lines. The Bridgeport Elastic Fabric Co., incorporated in 

 June, 1902, with $8,000 capital, have increased this to $50,000 

 without the introduction of any outside interest. Mr. Spencer 

 has been president since 1907. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Thic Maumee Rubber Co. (Nos. 224-226 Superior street, 

 Toledo,, Ohio), the incorporation of which was reported in 

 The India Rubber World November i. 1908 (page 77), is a 

 new branch store of the United States Rubber Co., which will 

 have the exclusive agency in that territory for the "Wales- 

 Goodyear" and "Connecticut" rubber footwear brands. The 

 president and treasurer is Albert D. Wentz, who after having 

 been a handler of United States Rubber Co. brands for some 

 years, became for awhile selling agent in Chicago of The 

 Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. 



The cost of the highest priced diving apparatus offered by 

 a leading firm in the trade is $812.50, of which $500 is re- 

 quired for the pumping and air supplying feature. The prin- 

 cipal rubber items are two rubber diving dresses, at $40 each; 

 hose. $57; and several minor items, $12.75. 



Kansas City Rubber and Belting Co. (Kansas City, Mo.) are 

 distributing to their customers some handsome advertising 

 cards, to which attention is certain to be attracted by the flower 

 girl, which is a prominent feature. 



The Birmingham Iron Foundry (Derby, Connecticut) remem- 

 bered their friends at New Year's by sending out handsome 

 meinorandum books which doubtless will be treasured as souve- 

 nirs by all who received them. 



