OcrouER I, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



23 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



DAVIDSON RUBBER CO. INCORPORATED. 



THE long established druggists' sundries firm, the David- 

 son Rubber Co. (Boston), have become a corporation, 

 under Massachusetts laws, with $200,000 capital. The 

 directors are Rhodes Lockwood, president and treasurer; 

 Rhodes G. Lockwood, assistant treasurer; William N. Lock- 

 wood, and Francis Gray. The corporation has taken title to 

 the extensive manufacturing property, in the Charlestown dis- 

 trict, hitherto occupied by the business. The following state- 

 ment of condition is supplied in connection with the incorpo- 

 ration of the business, it being understood that the same is 

 based upon a very conservative valuation : 



ASSETS. LIABII.ITIliS. 



Plant $84,000 Capital. .. $200,000 



Merchandise 130.000 Bills payable 68,100 



Hills receivable 39, 100 



Cash 15,000 



Total 1268,100 Total $268,100 



The company owes its name to Dr. Herman E. Davidson 

 (1815-1890), who, although he was the inventor of the David- 

 son syringe, would never accept any pecuniary benefit from it, 

 holding that it was against the ethics of his profession to en- 

 gage in the sale of any patented articles used in the practice of 

 medicine. The syringe was perfected by his brother, Charles 

 H. Davidson, who patented it and began its manufacture. In 

 i860 the latter died, after having sold to his nephew, Hamilton 

 D. Lockwood, his patents, tools, and materials, which were 

 utilized in carrying on the manufacture under the name David- 

 son Rubber Co. In 186S Mr. Lockwood took into partnership 

 his brother Rhodes Lockwood, and died in 1875, leaving the 

 latter sole proprietor of the business, but on January i, 1876 

 another brother, Philip C. Lockwood became interested, under 

 the firm name R. & P. C. Lockwood. Nineteen years later 

 Philip retired, selling his interest to his brother Rhodes, who 

 took his son William N. into partnership with him, another 

 son, Rhodes G., being admitted to the firm later. The firm 

 name Rhodes Lockwood & Co. was adopted, for the ownership 

 of the property, though during the whole time the manufac- 

 turing and selling business has been conducted under the name 

 of the Davidson Rubber Co. Now that a corporation has been 

 formed, it has taken title to the property, as above stated. It 

 might be mentioned that Rhodes Lockwood's first connection 

 with the business really was in 1858, when for awhile he was 

 employed in the office of his uncle Charles H. Davidson. 



The production of this company has been extended until it 

 embraces a wide line of druggists', surgical, and stationers' 

 goods, in soft and hard rubber, for which a high reputation 

 has been maintained. It is stated that nine-tenths of the crude 

 rubber bought for cousumption by this company is of the finest 

 Para grades. 



HARRISON-WILLIAMS RUBBER CO. 



The Williams Rubber Co. (Los Angeles, California), incor- 

 porated in April, 1903, has changed its name to The Harrison- 

 Williams Rubber Co. H. O. Harrison, who has been connected 

 with the business from the beginning, becomes president of the 

 company, with T. J. Williams vice president, and W. G. Wil- 

 liams secretary and treasurer. They are large dealers in tires, 

 handling the Goodrich, Diamond, G & J, Fisk, and Dunlop 

 makes, in southern California and Arizona, and maintaining an 

 extensive tire repair shop, with vulcanizers, molds, etc., to enable 



them to repair any of the leading brands of tires. In this re- 

 spect, they probably have the most complete shop in the 

 United States. The company also handle mechanical rubber 

 goods to a certain extent. 



BOWERS RUBBER CO. PLANNING NEW FACTORY. 

 The Bowers Rubber Co. (San Francisco), manufacturers of 

 mechanical rubber goods, have purchased a tract of 12 acres at 

 the junction of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, near 

 Oakland, California, on which they purpose building a new 

 factory. It is stated to be a most desirable site, and building 

 plans are being prepared. 



THE IMPERIAL RUBBER CO. TBEACH CITY, OHIO.) 



This new company, succeeding two older concerns, as re- 

 ported recently in The India Ruisber World, have just com- 

 pleted a new building for office use and stock room, and are in 

 position to engage actively in the manufacture of seamless rub- 

 ber gloves— red, white, and black, of all sizes; seamless water 

 bottles, syringes, ice bags, finger cots, face masks, etc. They 

 are also prepared to make vehicle tires, besides continuing the 

 manufacture of hard rubber harness mountings, which were a 

 specialty of the Canton Hard Rubber Co., one of the concerns 

 ucceeded by the new company. 



REMOVAL OF MULCONROY & CO. 

 MuLCONROY Co., Incorporated (Philadelphia), on Oc- 

 tober I removed from Market street to No. 722 Arch street 

 Prior to removal they had a clearance sale of their retail sun- 

 dries stock, and hereafter will devote their attention solely to 

 mechanical rubber goods and the manufacture of their exten- 

 sive line of piston packings. 



TRIBUTE OF EMPLOYES TO MR. CONVERSE. 

 A HANDSOME bronze tablet in memory of the late Hon. 

 Elisha S. Converse, founder of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., at 

 Maiden, Massachusetts, has been placed in the office of the com- 

 pany's Edgeworth factory. The money for the tablet was 

 raised by subscription among the employes in all branches of 

 the factories. The tablet is inscribed : " This tablet is erected 

 in the memory of Elisha S. Converse by the emplo)es of 

 Factory i of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company. June, 1904." 

 W. H. Johnson, E. A. Rhoades, and A. Copelin, overseers in 

 the factory, were the committee in charge of its installation. 



RUBBER GOODS AT CANADIAN FAIRS. 

 The Gutta-Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Cu. of Toron- 

 to, Limited, was well represented by displays of theirproducts at 

 two recent exhibitions of importance — the Canadian National 

 Exhibition, at Toronto, and the Dominion Exposition, held this 

 year at Winnipeg. The latter town, which thirty years ago was 

 only a trading station of the Hudson Bay Co., has now a pop- 

 ulation of 75,000, and the fair there was a large one and liberal- 

 ly attended. The rubber exhibit referred to was installed by 

 The Winnipeg Rubber Co., Limited, who are the Western rep- 

 resentatives of the Toronto company above named. The dis- 

 play received one of the two gold medals offered for premium 

 honors in the Winnipeg Manufactures building. The district 

 of which Winnipeg is the center is rapidly filling up with settlers 

 from the United States, who last year numbered 49,000. The 

 wheat crop this year is expected to yield 75,000,000 bushels, 

 and the region already affords an important market for manu- 

 factures. 



