Ai.(;i:si I, 1909.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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NEW IMCORFOBATIONS. 



Central City Rldber Co., July ij. 1909, under the laws of 

 \cw York, capital $50,ocx). Incorporators: David A. Gould (Xo. 

 ]j() East Water street), John R. Graham, George II. Lyold, A. 

 Park Sager. and Daniel A. Pierce, all of Syracuse, New York. 



Mechanical Rubber and Cable Co., July 23, 1909, under the 

 laws of Connecticut; capital, $30,000. Incorporators: William J. 

 Brown, R. Frederic Dunham, and Peter A. Sharp, all of Bridge- 

 port, Connecticut. 



I'nited Rubber Co., June 26, 1909, under the laws of Ohio; 

 authorized capital, $200,000. Incorporators: James Christy, W. 

 W. Wildman, M. S. Long, J. W. Miller, and Will Christy, all of 

 Akron, Ohio. James Christy has been elected president, J. W. 

 Miller vice-president, S. E. Conner secretary and treasurer, and 

 W. W. Wildman general manager. The company expect to en 

 gage in the rubber reclaiming business on a large scale, succeed- 

 ing the Aladdin Rubber Co. 



McTernen Rubber Co., June 24, 1909, under the laws of 

 Maine ; capital, $1,500,000. Incorporators : William H. Gulliver, 

 William E. Cullinan, C. F. Tennant, and Clarence E. Burdin, all 

 of Portland, Maine. Clarence E. Eaton is mentioned as presi- 

 dent, C. F. Tennant, treasurer, and W. H. Gulliver clerk. 



Colonial Rubber Works, July 13, 1909, under the laws of Illi- 

 nois; capital, $7,coo. Directors: Henry Xyhcrg, Everett McCon- 

 nell, and Emerson McConncll. Principal oflice : No. 2436 Michi- 

 gan avenue, Chicago. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



'1'he Hartford Rubber Works Co. have adi>i)tcil the Dow- 

 standard demountable rim, which they will market in connection 

 with their Hartford Automobile tires. This rim is extremely neat 

 in appearance and is operated by a key which loosens the rim 

 from the felloe, when the tire and rim can be lifted off w-ithoul 

 difficulty. 



While the bulk of the estate of the late Robert D. Evans 

 was bequeathed to his widow, provision was made for his nephew, 

 Rene Evans Paine, who for many years acted as Mr. Evans's 

 private secretary. 



The manufacturers of rubber tires have issued revised lists of 

 prices, which took effect on July 16. The advance ranges from 

 15 to 25 per cent. 



Mr. H. G. XichoUs, for several years assistant general man- 

 ager of the Canadian General Electric Co., has resigned that 

 position in order to go into business for himself. He has organ- 

 ized a company called Factory Products, Limited, in Toronto, for 

 the purpose nf acting as Canadian selling agents for rcprc>cnta- 

 tive manufacturers. 



The Consolidated Canadian Rubber Co., Limited, arc 

 authoritatively stated to have done particularly well during the 

 half year ended June 30, with earnings at the rate of 30 per 

 cent on the common stock, after providing for all expenses, 

 tixcd charges, and preferred dividends. 



Mr. Henry H. Holland, manager of the London office of the 

 United States Rubber Co., was on a visit to the United States 

 during July. He reports the outlook of the companj-'s busi- 

 ness in Europe for the coming season as very bright. 



The only rubber company whose exhibit at the First 

 World's Shoe and Leather Fair, in Boston, was ready at the 

 opening was the Hood Rubber Co. This display was com- 

 plete and fully lighted when the exhibition building was 

 opened to the public on the evening of July i. 



The Kensington Association Institute, of Philadelphia, an- 

 nounces the opening in October of the School of Industry 

 and Chemistry. The lectures and laboratory work will In- 

 limited to organized chemistry, and will be carried on in 

 four departments, one of which is the chemistry of rubber 

 and forest products. The work in this department will in- 

 clude the study of the raw materials, and process and prod- 

 ucts characteristic of the rubber industry. TIic instruction 



will consist, in the main, of laboratory work supplemented 

 by reading and lectures, with the aid of the best German 

 and American text books. Further information can be ob- 

 tained by applying to the director, Dr. Frederic Danneth, 

 No. 204 Walnut Place, Philadelphia. 



Parker R. Bradley, of No. 51 Johnson street, Nc\vark, 

 Xew Jersey, who was formerly a manufacturer of imitation 

 leathers, is now- devoting himself to the manufacture of 

 leather from hides. 



The Essex Rubber Co. (Trenton, Xew Jersey) are erecting 

 a two-story addition to their plant on May and Beakes streets — 

 of brick and iron construction, 30x85 feet. 



The American .\sphaltum and Rubber Co. have purchased a 

 large amount of real estate in Chicago lately — a tract 137 x 1,026 

 feet, on which is a brick factory, and a vacant lot 137 x 121 feet. 



Mr. Lucius L. Torrey, president of the Pennsylvania Rubber 

 Co.. of San Francisco, made a visit to the east during July, which 

 he extended as far as Massachusetts. 



Mr. Carl P. Cartmell, connected for some time past with the 

 Derby Rubber Co., and widely known in the trade, has joined the 

 sales department of the Victor Rubber Co. (Springfield, Ohio). 



In the matter of Pneu I'Electric Co. (Xew York), bankrupt 

 [see The India Rubber World, April i, 1909 — page 256], the 

 referee in bankruptcy announces the declaration of the first divi- 

 dend out of the estate, of 5 per cent, upon claims proved and 

 allowed. 



CHARLES E. FLINT AND THE NEW YORK MAYORALTY. 



An interview with Justice Gildersleeve, of the New York 

 Supreme Court, who is spending a vacation in London, cabled to 

 the X'ew \"ork Times, relates to municipal politics in New York. 

 Speaking of the mayoralty, he is quoted as saying: 



"Cliarles R. Flint is another good man for the mayoralty [he 

 had previously mentioned J. Picrpont Morgan], possessing broad 

 ideas, great business experience and excellent ability in linance. 

 He is practical, aggressive and honest, of the right age, writes 

 ably on economics, and would make a fine mayor. He is wealthy 

 and could afford to make the material sacrifice which the fulfill- 

 ment of ilic duties of the office would involve." 



GEORGE C. SANBORN. 



CiEORCE C. Sanborn, who died in Chicago on June 28, had been 

 for a numlK-r of \cars interested in rubber culture in Mexico. 

 The organization of the Mexican .Mutual Planters' Co. was due 

 chieriy to his interest and confidence in the future of the rubber 

 supply, and he was its president and a director from the begin- 

 ning. The company formed and now owns the plantation "La 

 Junta," in Vera Cruz, one of the most important rubber un- 

 dertakings in Mexico. 



PERSONAL MENTION, 



Mr. Hans Angell Kopp, who is in business with liis father, 

 Julius Kopp, dealer in india-rubber goods at Copenhagen, Den- 

 mark, with branches in other Skandinavian cities, was a visitor 

 to tin- United States during the past month. Julius Kopp once 

 lived in Xew Y'ork and became an American citizen, afterward 

 serving as lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth New York Volun- 

 teers during the civil war. The house of Kopp since 1882 have 

 represented the Goodyear's India-Rubber Glove Manufacturing 

 Co. in Denmark. Another son of Mr. Kopp is an electrical 

 engineer who has made some inventions of importance in wire- 

 less telepliony, and is now connected with the Collins Wireless 

 Telephone Co. (Newark, New Jersey). 



Rekerrinc to the contention of soine rubber planters that the 

 expense of clean weeding can be avoided by encouraging the 

 growth of certain weeds which keep other and less desirable 

 growths in subjection, the Tropical Agriculturist suggests: 

 "More water evaporates from a soil covered with plants than 

 from a naked tilled soil, so that in dry places the clean weeding 

 is probably the better." 



