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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1909. 



RUBBER GOODS JtiNUFACTUKING CO.— ANNUAL. 



Thk annual meeting of shareholders of the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co. (New York"), for the election of directors and 

 the transaction of any other business which may properly be 

 brought before the meeting, will be held at the principal office of 

 the company, No. 15 Exchange place, Jersey City, New Jersey, 

 on Thursday, April 8, at 12 o'clock noon. Under the New Jersey 

 corporation law no share of stock may be voted at this meet- 

 ing which shall have been transferred after March 19. 



OBITUARY— WILLIAM H. WHALEN. 



\\'iLLi.\M H. W'haien died at bis home. No. 325 Central Park 

 West, in New York, on March 2. The trouble was uraemia, of 

 which he had been ill for nearly a year. Mr. Whalen was born 

 in Boston on February 5, 1851, and at an early age his tastes led 

 him to find employment in a railroad office — that of the Old 

 Colony road. 

 O n reaching 

 his twenty-first 

 year Mr. Wha- 

 l.en went to 

 Chicago to ac- 

 cept a position 

 with what is 

 now the Chi- 

 cago, Rock Is- 

 land & Pacific 

 Railway Co., of 

 which he be- 

 came assistant 

 purchasing 

 agent. In 1899 

 he returned to 

 the East, this 

 time as pur- 

 chasing agent 

 for the Dela- 

 ware, Lacka- 

 wanna & West- 

 e r n railroad. 

 At this time he 

 made liis home 

 in the Oranges, 

 in New Jersey. 



In 1903 Mr. 

 Whalen became general purchasing agent for the Rubber Goods 

 Manufacturing Co. (New York), -which position he held at the 

 time of his death. Mr. Whalen had under his charge a large 

 volume of business detail, including at one time the buying of 

 crude rubber for the factories operated by the Rubber Goods 

 company in connection with which it was at times necessary to 

 go abroad. Apart from his business connections, he was promi- 

 nent in Masonic circles, being past high priest of Normal Chap- 

 ter, Royal Arch Masons, of Chicago, and holding various other 

 positions. He is survived by a widow and one daughter. Funeral 

 services were held at his late home, and the interment was at 

 East Orange, New Jersey. 



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George C. Houghton, for some years past secretary-treasurer 

 of the National Shoe Wholesalers' Association of the United 

 States, and secretary of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club, with 

 offices at No. 166 Essex street, Boston, died on March 5 at his 

 home in Lynn, Massachusetts, in his sixty-fourth year. 



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RoBERT A. Perkins, whose death was reported recently, was 

 personal attendant to the late Hon. E. S. Converse after that 

 gentleman had become blind, after which he was in the employ 

 of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and still l.ilcr dial of the iltic.T 

 Rubber Co., of LUica, New York. 



The Late William Henry Whalen. 



[Purchasing Agent of tlie Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co.] 



IRArE NEWS NOTES. 



Thk old Pope Manufacturing Co. — the New Jersey corpora- 

 tion — have been formally dissolved by a decree signed by Vice 

 Chancellor Howell, of New Jersey. In the petition for the 

 decree it was stated that all claims against the company had 

 been paid. The Pope Manufacturing Co. organized under the 

 laws of Connecticut have taken over from the receivers all the 

 property of the old company, and is now the only Pope Manu- 

 facturing Co. doing business. 



The treasury department at Washington has issued an ordei' 

 allowing a drawback upon exports of hose supporters manu- 

 factured by I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co. (New York), with the 

 use of iiTiported elastic webbing, equal to the duty paid on the 

 imported material, less i per cent. 



The only feature of the mechanical goods situation is the con- 

 tinued heavy demand for rubber tires, which is estimated by 

 some authorities to take up fully 20 per cent, of the country's 

 consumption of crude rubber. 



The factory of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. at 

 Plymouth, Massachusetts, is being provided with better protec- 

 tion against fire, through the installation of a large water main 

 from the mill pond, connected with hydrants about the premises. 



.\n action has been brought against Sears, Roebuck & Co. 

 (Chicago) by the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., seeking a 

 perpetual injunction restraining the Chicago firm from using the 

 name of the latter in their catalogues or other publications. 

 Sears, Roebuck & Co. are a mail order house, and the rubber 

 company state that they do not sell in that trade. 



Mr. Gove S. Taylor has been appointed general sales agent 

 of the Combination Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Bloomfield, 

 New Jersey), and the marketing of this company's goods will 

 in future be through their New York office, No. 13 Park row. 

 Mr. Taylor was formerly manager of the Peerless Rubber Man- 

 ufacturing Co. 



Rubbertex Cloth and Paper Co., a corporation formed under 

 the laws of Indiana in 1905, have qualified to transact business 

 in Illinois, and the principal offices have been removed from 

 Logansport, Indiana, to Chicago. 



Gladiator Packing and Rubber Co., No. iiS East Third street, 

 Los Angeles, California, carry a special line — "Gladiator" brands 

 — of mechanicals and molded goods, together with asbestos and 

 other engine room supplies. Sydney L. Plant is president ; 

 C. R. Chase, vice-president and manager; A. G. Wright, secre- 

 tary ; and Citizens' National Bank, treasurer. 



William Seward, Jr., some time secretary of the Hartford 

 Rubber works Co. and later with the Seward Rubber Co., has 

 become connected with the sales department of the Michelin 

 Tire Co. 



The BergdoU Co., operating 30 taxicabs in Philadelphia, have 

 closed a contract for the equipment of their cabs hereafter with 

 tires made by The Fisk Rubber Co. 



Pope Manufacturing Co. (Hartford. Connecticut), issue for 

 the 1909 trade a handsome catalogue of their "Columbia" and 

 "Hartford" bicycles. These wheels are equipped with the same 

 tires that were formerly made by the Pope coinpany themselves, 

 when they owned the Hartford Rubber Works. Their standard 

 equipment is "Hartford" tires with "G & J" clincher as an option 

 and Dunlop tires for export trade. 



TO PLANT RUBBER IN THE UNITED STATES (»). 



There was registered in Itngland, on February 22, a com- 

 pany styled Myakka, Limited, with an authorized capital of 

 ^240,000, to acquire lands in the state of Florida, on the Gulf 

 of Mexico side, in the neighborhood of Tampa bay, and to 

 carry on the business of planters and manufacturers of and 

 dealers in cotton, oils, and fiber, india-rubber, gutta-percha, and 

 other gums. The registered office is at 70 Queen Victoria street,- 

 E. C, London. 



