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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1909. 



BOSTON BELTING CO.— ANNUAL. 



At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Boston Belt- 

 ing Co., held November 28, 1908, the board of directors [see 

 The India Rubber World, January i, 1908 — page 126] was 

 re-elected without change. The officers also were re-elected : 

 James Bennett Forsyth, president and general manager; 

 J. H. D. Smith, treasurer and clerk. The balance sheet, as 

 of September 30, 1908, stood as follows: 



ASSETS. 



Real estate — Land 1113,235.10 



Real estate — Buildings 79.734-67 



Machinery 240,736.60 



Tools and fixtures 89,184.92 



Furniture and fixtures 7,141.81 



Cash 79,057.07 



Investment account 621,489.52 



Notes receivable 3,111.48 



Bonds receivable 79,645.48 



Accounts receivable 37.507-79 



Merchandise 964,750.25 



Tappan stocks 50.00 



Trade marks 100.00 



Colorado real estate 500.00 



Portsmouth Forge, Bond and Stock account 250.00 



Total $2,316,494.69 



LIABILITIES. 



Capital stock $1,000,000.00 



Reserve fund 800,000.00 



Profit and loss 376,494.69 



Notes payable 140,000.00 



Total $2,316,494.69 



EMPLOYES' CLUB IN A RUBBER FACTORY. 



A ROOM in the factory of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber 

 Co., at Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been assigned for a club 

 room for the carrying out of plans for the benefit of the em- 

 ployes, resulting from a conference between committees of fore- 

 men of the company and of the Cambridge Young Men's Christian 

 Association. The room, 60 feet square, has been appropriately 

 furnished and provided with reading matter under an arrange- 

 ment with the public library. The assembly room is frequented 

 by the employes at the daily noon hour, while on certain evenings 

 of the week lectures are given. Besides, provision is made for 

 games and music, and in two adjacent rooms lessons in English 

 are given at certain hours to the non-English-speaking employes. 

 The new institution has met with the approval of both employer 

 and employes, and one advantage is that it lacks the feature of 

 being promoted by the company for the men, the whole work 

 being under the management of a committee chosen by the latter 

 from their own ranks. 



THE SNOW MAN BACKWARD THIS YEAR. 



The weather in recent years has proved almost as uncertain 

 as the prices of crude rubber as a subject for discussion in a 

 trade paper. The reference to the tardy approach of "rubber" 

 weather in the last India Rubber World was' in type before 

 the snowfall of several inches, just before Christmas, which in- 

 cluded New York city within its scope. That made real "rubber 

 weather'' for a day, but its effect upon the trade was soon lost. 

 The present article is not a record of weather in general, not 

 even of snow, but it may be mentioned here that the first 

 United States government snow map for the new year — dated 

 January 5 — shows about the scantiest supply of snow that has 

 ever appeared in a publication of this kind at such a date. 

 There was snow reported, other than "traces," in only 17 of the 

 48 states and territories in the Union, and in most cases only 

 in very limited quantities. Eleven inches of snow at Cornish, 

 Maine, 10 inches at Koepenick, Wisconsin, or 21 at Mancelona, 

 Michigan, may sound well, but these are not centers of the 

 trade in rubber footwear, A snow map which leaves out New 

 York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston — and practically every other 

 town of importance m the country — cannot be very pleasing to 



anyone whose profits in business depend upon the sale of rub- 

 ber boots and shoes. 



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Later. — There has been some real snow already, and summer 

 is still to come, 



THE TRADE IN HOSE RACES. 



W. D. Allen Manufacturing Co. (Chicago), manufacturers 

 of the Bowes hose rack, report contracts during the month 

 of January for a number of important buildings, among them 

 the office buildings of the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives in Washington, and the Fifth Avenue building, which 

 occupies the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York 

 City. They report that the Bowes rack is popular on the 

 Pacific coast, and good contracts from that territory are 

 frequent. 



NEW rubber factory IN OHIO. 



A NEW company under the style The L. & M. Rubber Co. 

 have begun the manufacture of druggists' sundries and me- 

 chanical goods at Canton, Ohio, succeeding to the business of 

 The L. & M. Rubber Works, lately of Carrollton, Ohio. The 

 manager is Mr. John J. Lee, who was with the former 

 company. 



trade news NOTES, 



The Boston house of the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. 

 is now under the management of Daniel E. Gray, who has 

 been connected with the company for several years. 



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

 recently renovated their entire plant, having, among other im- 

 provements, put in an entire new hose equipment and a new 

 electric liglit anil power plant. TRe company have also added a 

 lead press for the manufacture of lead encased cables. The wire 

 plant, which has been working nights since early fall, has been 

 enlarged very greatly in the last three years. 



Mead F'ountain Pen Co. (No. 107 John street. New York) has 

 been organized to manufacture fountain pens patented by Jacob 

 J. Mead, who is president of the company. Albert J. Deubel is 

 secretary and treasurer, and E. A. Tredwell assistant secretary. 

 Mr. Mead has been engaged in this line for a number of years, 

 being a practical rubber man. 



The Massachusetts Chemical Co. announce the removal of 

 their New York office from No. 237 Broadway to the Hudson 

 Terminal building, No. 30 Church street, which will be the 

 headquarters hereafter of Mr. A. G. Cozzens, sales agent. The 

 offices are on the third floor, just at the bridge connecting the 

 two halves of the building. 



The Converse Rubber Shoe Co., recently organized, have 

 placed a rush contract with the Aberthaw Construction Co. (of 

 Boston) for the building of their fireproof building at Maiden, 

 Massachusetts. The new building will be erected next the Bos- 

 ton and Maine Western division tracks, near Edge worth station. 

 The floors and interior coKimns and thg stairs will be of rein- 

 forced concrete. The exterior columns and roof trusses will 

 be of steel, and the walls of brick. The building will be fire- 

 proof and generally up to date. 



Mr. E. W. Harrall, president of the Fairfield Rubber Co. (Fair- 

 field, Connecticut), is interested in the fine new hotel, the "Strat- 

 field," that has just been opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He 

 writes that it is the largest and best hotel between New York 

 and Boston, and he certainly knows big and good hotels. May 

 it be as prosperous as is the Fairfield company. 



Alfred C. Adler, of Somerville, Massachusetts, appeared for 

 trial in the Walthani court on January I, on a charge of obtaining 

 money under false pretenses, and was acquitted. The complain- 

 ant had bought through Adler shares in La Victoria and El 

 Triunpho rubber plantations, in Nicaragua. The court sym- 

 pathized with any investor who had failed to profit, but could not 

 find anything in the evidence to indicate false pretenses on 

 the part of the accused who was promptly released. 



