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time no meetings were called, it being thought advisable not to 

 convene a session of creditors until the objections of the 

 trustees were thoroughly gone over and an opinion given as to 

 whether these objections should be sustained. In the mean- 

 time, no dividends have been paid and no action taken for the 

 benefit of the creditors. A meeting has now been called for 

 the tirst week in October, when it is thought something definite 

 may be done. 



THE "open shop" IN CHICAGO. 



After having been shut down for two weeks the Chicago 

 facto- ies of the Mechanical Rubber Co. and Morgan & Wright 

 resumed work on September 12, without a renewal of the agree- 

 ment with the Rubber Workers' Union which expired on Au- 

 gust 31. On the expiration of the old agreement the two 

 concerns declined to enter into further contract relations with 

 the union, claiming that the union had pernvitted its members 

 to go on strike four times during the life of the agreement. 

 After the shutdown the companies wrote to their former em- 

 ployes, ollering to reinstate them as individuiils, but not as 

 members of the union. The first answer to this course was the 

 declining of a strike by the union, but finally enough of the 

 former employes applied for work to enable the factories to be 

 reopened at the time stated. Meanwhile extensive repairs had 

 been made at the factories. 



A PLEASANT OUTING OF RUBBER MEN. 



THii foremen and clerks and executive staff of the Passaic 

 factory of the New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, 

 had their seventh annual clambake, on September 3, at Don- 

 nelly's Grove, College Point, Long Island, and it proved a 

 most enjoyable occasion for the 150 or more, including guests, 

 who participated. The party arrived at College Point about 

 1 1 A. M, and left for the return home at 6 p. m. A chowder 

 breakfast was served upon their arrival at the grove, and the 

 clambake was ready at 2 o'clock. Breakfast was followed by a 

 baseball game between a team from the hose room and another 

 representing the rest of the factory; five innings were played 

 and the factory team won by a score of 9 to 8. Other sports 

 during the day were: One hundred yard dash, sack race, putt- 

 ing the shot, and throwing the hammer. A number of the 

 party went bathing. Among those present were Mayor Green- 

 lie, of Passaic ; City Attorney Sullivan, Collector A. T. Zabris- 

 kie, and Councilman James King, and Robert G. Bremmer, 

 editor of the Passaic Herald. The latter experienced, while 

 bathing, what is asserted to be his second narrow escape from 

 drowning this year. Everybody in the party wore a silk badge 

 on which was mounted a photograph of E. J. Coughlin, the 

 general factory manager, as an evidence of the high esteem in 

 which he is held by the company's employes. The committees 

 in charge of the outing were liberally complimented upon its 

 success. They were : 



On Arrangements. — E. J. Coughlin and I. P. Blackman, ex-ojffiiio ; 

 Joseph Spitz, chairman ; E. C. Gruehl, treasurer ; R. Robertson, J. 

 Ring, F. Abele, G. McNiflf. 



On Games. — V . Abele, chairman; Richard Banks, William Troutwelle; 

 The Editor of The India Rubber World regrets that 

 pressing business at a distance made impossible his acceptance 

 of a complimentary invitation to the clambake. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Davidson Rubber Co. (Boston), August 31, 1904, under 

 Massachusetts laws; capital, $200,000. Further details in 

 another column. 



= The Columbia Rubber Co., July 12, 1904. under the laws of 

 the District of Columbia ; capital authorized, $500,000. Incor- 

 porators: William McDonald, Simon Hamburger, E. W. Mc- 

 Cormick, E. M. Freeman, B. E. T. Kretschmann. A Washing- 



ton corporation agency advises The India Kuuber World: 

 "The Columbia Rubber Co. does not expect to do any business, 

 the parties interested having discontinued soon after securing 

 the charter." 



=The Pacific Rubber Stamp Co. (Los Angeles), August 22, 

 1904, under California laws; capital, $10,000. Incorporators: 

 C. D. Hudson, George S. Greene, F. B. Kitts, O. L. Olshausen, 

 and I. M. Hutchinson. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 The Boston Belting Co. announce that they have concluded 

 arrangements with the Jewell Belting Co. (Nos. 175-177 Lake 

 street, Chicago), to act as their exclusive Chicago selling 

 agents. The Jewell Belting Co. were established in 1848 as 

 manufacturers of leather belting, their main office now being at 

 Hartford, Connecticut. They are also large handlers of rub- 

 ber belting, of which line their Chicago store is an important 

 distributing center. They will carry a full line of the Boston 

 Belting Co.'s mechanical rubber goods. 



= A further meeting of the manufacturers of mechanical 

 goods, whose first step toward the organization of an associa- 

 tion was mentioned in the last India Rubber World, is 

 scheduled for the evening of October 6, at the Waldorf-Astoria, 

 New York. 



=The managers of branch stores of the United States Rub- 

 ber Co., who meet for consultation twice a year, held their fall 

 conference about the middle of September in St. Louis. Not 

 only was this a convenient point, but the managers had an op- 

 portunity to see the World's Fair. 



= The La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La Crosse, Wisconsin)', 

 have ordered considerable new machinery, with a view to ex- 

 tending their plant and taking on the manufacture of tires and 

 some mechanical rubber goods. It is understood that for the 

 present no enlargement of the factory building is intended. 



= Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts) have de- 

 cided to establish at Chicago a Western department, in charge 

 of Frank C. Riggs, to handle their trade west of Buffalo. The 

 Chicago local branch, at No. 54 State street, will remain in 

 charge of Ben Pratt, as manager. 



=Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. have been awarded 

 a contract for supplying the city of Cleveland, Ohio, with 5000 

 feet of T.yz inch rubber lined cotton fire hose, for which bids 

 were opened on August 26. 



= The foundry of A. Adamson, at Akron, Ohio, has lately 

 closed a contract with the La Crosse Rubber Mills Co. (La 

 Crosse, Wis.), including six hydraulic presses, one being a 44" 

 X 44" multiple; also, a \" tubing machine. The Adamson 

 foundry is very busy in all departments, with the outlook good 

 for business throughout the winter. 



= The foremen of the various departments of the rubber 

 factory of L. Candee & Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), to the 

 number of 51, dined at Savin Rock on the evening of Septem- 

 ber 10, having as guests of honor Messrs. J. H. Pearce and G. 

 E. Bailey, respectively superintendent of the factory and 

 treasurer of the company. The occasion was a thoroughly en- 

 joyable one. 



=The Joseph Banigan Rubber Co.'s Buffalo agency will 

 carry a stock of " Banigan " and " Woonasquatucket " goods at 

 Mansfield, Ohio, during the sizing season, in order that more 

 prompt deliveries may be made in that territory, when the sea- 

 son is on, that it is possible to make from Buffalo. The stock 

 will be in charge of Charles A. Eldridge, at No. 217 North 

 Main street, Mansfield. 



= The Preston Hose and Rubber Co. are removing their fac- 

 tory equipment, which has not been active for some time past, 

 from Marlboro to Woodville, Massachusetts. 



