May 1, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



297 



AFFAIHS OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. 



The directors 01 tlic United States Rubber Co. on April i 

 declared from net profits the regular quarterly dividends of 

 2 per cent, on the first preferred stock and of lYz per cent, 

 on the second preferred stock, payable on April 15, without clos- 

 ing of the transfer books. 



The annual meeting of shareholders of the United States 

 Rubber Co., 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 registered office of the company, in 

 New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tuesday, May 18, at 12 o'clock 

 noon. Under the laws of New Jersey no shares of stock may be 

 voted which shall have been transferred after April 27. 



HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS CO.— CHANGES. 

 The resignation of Henry Plow from the position of treasurer 

 of the Hartford Rubber Works Co., which he had held for two 

 years past, to become connected with the Mitchell Motor Car Co. 

 (Racine, Wisconsin), has been followed by the election as 

 treasurer of James P. Krogh, who has been with the Hartford 

 company for 13 years. D. W. Pinney, who has been Mr. Krogn'i 

 assistant in the credit department, has been appointed assistant 

 treasurer, and Franklin Kesser, lately sales manager, has been 

 made assistant secretary. 



MORGAN & WRIGHT (DETROIT). 



Wii.Li.xM McM.^HON has been appointed superintendent of this 

 company's factory at Detroit, Michigan. A. A. Templeton, who 

 formerly was their superintendent, is now general factory mai.- 

 ager, succeeding George A. Burnham, who died in November 

 last. 



TO MAKE RUBBER TIRES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Rubber Steps Manufacturing Co. (Exeter, New Hampshire) 

 are adding to their present plant, devoted hitherto to the manu- 

 facture of rubber-covered carriage steps, sill plates and car and 

 stair treads, an outfit for making automobile tires and repairs of 

 the same, together with plant for working their own rubber 

 stock. They have issued a list of tire-repairing prices, and ex- 

 pect soon to begin to make tires. The company will continue the 

 rubber step business. Later they intend reorganizing the com- 

 pany, with a change of name and increased capital. The Rubber 

 Step company have been located at Exeter since 1892, when the 

 business was removed from Boston. Mr. Daniel Gilman has been 

 owner and manager all the while. 



GUTTA-PERCHA AND RUBBER OF TORONTO. 



On account of the death of Mr. Harry D. Warren, president 

 of the Gutta-Percha and Rubber JManufacturing Co. of Toronto, 

 Limited, reported in our last issue, a new official list is an- 

 nounced. S. T. Warren (Mrs. H, D. Warren) has been elected 

 president and Trumbull Warren treasurer. Charles N. Candee 

 secretary, assumes the additional title of general manager. 



THE CANADIAN ASBESTOS MONOPOLY. 



The Amalgamated Asbestos Corporation, Limited [see The 

 India Rubber Woki.d, April i, 1909 — page 263] has been in- 

 corporated under the laws of the Dominion and is proceeding to 

 acquire the principal asbestos producing properties in the 

 province of Quebec, which are estimated now to supply about 

 90 per cent, of all the asbestos used in the world. The capital is 

 $10,000,000 besides an authorized indebtedness of $15,000,000, in 5 

 per cent, bonds, one-half of which amount is to be issued at 

 once. The directors include capitalists of Canada and also of 

 Boston, Philadelphia, New York and other American cities, in- 

 cluding Dr. Richard V. Mattison, president of Keasbey & Mat- 

 tison Co. (.Ambler, Pennsylvania), manufacturers of asbestos and 

 rubber packings. The properties to be merged, controlling about 

 80 per cent, of the Canadian production, are now making net 

 earnings of $556,000 annually. The Canadian asbestos output 

 was estimated at 700 tons in 1878, since which time the yearly 

 output has grown to upwards of 60,000 tons. The total produc- 

 tion to date in Quebec has been over 400,000 tons, having an 



aggregate value of $18,000,000. The principal mines are con- 

 sidered practically inexhaustible, and many known deposits re- 

 main to be developed. 



"NOW SILENT RUBBER FACTORY." 



The Providence (Rhode Island) Jonrnal in a recent issue de- 

 voted a half page to a story of travel of one of its reporters in 

 search of the suburb of South Elmwood. The conclusion he 

 reached was that the people who live in South Elmwood know 

 where it is, but this knowledge is not shared by many other 

 residents of Providence. The story on the whole is meant to be 

 facetious, but a serious paragraph in it relates to a "now silent 

 rubber factory"— that of the defunct Atlantic Rubber Shoe. Co. 

 It is suggested that if this plant should be sold and a new 

 manufacturing concern established, there might come a "boom," 

 and an increase in the population of South Elmwood. It ;s 

 stated that "people have been out to look at the factory," but as, 

 yet no definite offer for it has been made. 



AN EMERGENCY ORDER FOR FIRE HOSE. 



The Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co. (New York), on 

 April 13, following the large fire at Rochester, N. Y., received a 

 telephone message from that city ordering 5,000 feet of their 

 "Paragon" fire hose. This message was received at 5.05 p. m., 

 and the order was filled before midnight. The express train on 

 the New York Central and Hudson River railroad leaving New 

 York at n.45 p. m. carried the hose referred to, although it had 

 been necessary, at the Eureka company's factory, at Jersey City, 

 New Jersey, to thread 100 sets of couplings, attach them to the 

 hose, and then haul the hose from Jersey City to the railway 

 station in New York. The Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing 

 Co. suggest : "A universal thread adopted by all fire departments 

 would be a great thing, as with the volume of business we are 

 doing, we could carry several thousand sets on hand, and would 

 be able to ship a very large quantity of hose in case of an 

 emergency in a few hours after receipt of order." 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Cawn Mining and Manufacturing Co. (Canton, Ohio) 

 state that their advertisement in The India Rubber World 

 already has attracted attention to their product, Aluminite, abroad 

 as well as at home, and brought them a number of inquiries re- 

 garding it from Europe. 



Mr. E. B. Southworth has retired from the superintendency 

 of the Stoughton Rubber Co. (Stoughton, Massachusetts) -o 

 accept the position of manager of the George E. Belcher Last 

 Co. As he was leaving the Stoughton Company Mr. Southworth 

 was invited into one of the large workrooms in which the em- 

 ployes had gathered, when President Burnham, in their behalf, 

 tendered him a valuable and handsome present, accompanied by a 

 speech expressing their appreciation of him. 



The United Indurated Fibre Co. (Lockport, New York) have 

 passed under the control of the H. W. Johns-Manville Co., the 

 asbestos manufacturers. 



The Wire and Telephone Co. of America (Rome, New York) 

 have discontinued their western sales agencies and concentrated 

 their selling department at the home office. 



The Western Electrical Co., dealers in electrical supplies at 

 Omaha, Nebraska, to avoid confusion of their name with that 

 of the Western Electric Co. (Chicago), who lately opened a 

 branch in Omaha, have adopted the name Johnston Electric Co. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Jones, having retired as secretary-treasurer of 

 The Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, Limited, this office has 

 been taken over by Mr. Leonard D. Shaw. 



The National India Rubber Co. finished recently a government 

 order for 5,000 army blankets. About 1,500 employes art now «t 

 work in the factory. 



The Fisk Rubber Co.'s mechanically fastened on tires are re- 

 ported to have been adopted for the equipment of their fire de- 

 partment apparatus by the Robinson Fire Apparatus Manufac- 

 turing Co. (St. Louis) and La France Engine Co. (Elmira, New 

 York). 



