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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1904. 



companies, and it is understood that the trip bears a relation 

 to the extension of their trade in crude rubber. Mr. Benedict 

 informed The India Rubber World that it had not been 

 fully decided who would compose the party. 



MORE COMMERCIAL PACIFIC CABLl-, CAHTAL. 



The stockholders of the Commercial Cable Co. were notified 

 on October 5 that §1,000.000 unissued capital of the company 

 would be offered to them. The money will be used to complete 

 the Commercial Pacific cable between Manila and Shanghai. 

 Application was made recently to the New York Stock Ex- 

 change to list the securities of the Mackay companies. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 

 The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Mass.), September 30, 

 1904; under Massachusetts laws; capital authorized, $600,000. 

 Incorporators: Alfred N. Mayo, Harry G. Fisk, and Harry T. 

 Dunn- all ol Springfield, Mass. Further details are given in 

 another column. 



= A certificate purporting to incorporate, under the laws of 

 the District of Columbia, the Catasauqua Rubber Co., was 

 filed in the office of the recorder of deeds at Washington, July 

 21, 1904, the capital stock being stated therein to be $500,000, 

 divided into an equal number o( preferred and common shares, 

 of the par value of $10. Local newspapers report the purchase 

 by Philadelphia parties, from the receiver ol the Wolfe Engbert 

 Composite Metal Co., of their large plant at East Catasauqua, 

 Pennsylvania, the same to be used for the manufacture of rub- 

 ber tires, carriage cloth, and waterproof clothing. The officers 

 of the rubber company are stated to be: James Regnery, Eas- 

 ton. Pa., president ; William MacDonald, Allentown, Pa., vice 

 president; the Hon. Hugh E. Crilly, Allentown, secretary and 

 treasurer; J. W. Kenevel, Philadelphia, superintendent. 



= The Brantford Felt and Rubber Co., Limited, announced 

 in the Ontario Gazette, Octobers, 1904; capital, $100,000. Pro- 

 visional directors: John F. Martin, John Percival Bell, Fred- 

 erick W. Frank, Joseph Henry Hum, and Robert E. Ryerson. 

 The object is to manufacture rubber and felt footwear. Brant- 

 ford is well adapted for manufacturing purposes, and is located 

 in Ontario, westward from the port of Hamilton. 

 TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 The Milford Rubber Co. (Milford, Massachusetts) have re- 

 ceived and are installing the calender which was mentioned in 

 The India Rijbuer World for July— the latest Birmingham 

 make, three roll, 6o"X22". They are now in a position to 

 handle all kinds of heavy and light drills and sheetings, and 

 will make a specialty of bellows and melodeon cloths. 



= The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio), have re- 

 cently opened in Cincinnati a branch house to handle exclus- 

 ively their product in solid rubber carriage tires. It will be in 

 charge of Melville Ritchie, who is well known to the carriage 

 trade throughout the West. The store is located at No. 856 

 West Sixth street, where will be carried a large stock of tires 

 to supply the trade in Cincinnati and adjacent territory. 



=The Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York) desire to have pub- 

 lished a denial of a rumor relative to a change in the agency of 

 the company at Chicago. They announce that " Messrs. W. 

 H. Salisbury & Co. who have handled the product of the 

 Eureka Fire Hose Co. for so many years with marked success, 

 will continue to be their only representatives at Chicago, and 

 it is hoped, will remain indefinitely in control." 



= Bowers Rubber Co. (San Francisco) have been awarded a 

 contract for supplying the city of Fresno, California, with 2000 

 feet of ^yi inch rubber lined cotton fire hose, for which bids 

 were opened on September 19. 



=:The Gorham Rubber Co. (San Francisco) have installed at 



their Los Angeles branch — No. 326 Main street — a complete 

 vulcanizing plant for repair work on automobile tires, involving 

 the latest improvements in this line. The Gorham company 

 are Pacific coast managers for The B. F. Goodrich Co., and 

 carry a stock of the latter's tires. 



= The factory of the Goodyear Rubber Co. at Middletown, 

 Connecticut, has been running overtime ol late, an"d it is re- 

 ported that at no past date has there been so much business in 

 hand as now. 



=James F. Grady, of New Haven, Connecticut, for some 

 years past connected with the Edward Malley Co., of that city, 

 will go to Chicago as manager of the Seamless Rubber Co.'s 

 branch there. 



= Mr. Samuel H. Cable has accepted a position with the Ne- 

 ponset Rubber Co. (Hyde Park, Massachusetts) and will have 

 charge of the manufacture ol carriage cloth bearing the " Cable " 

 brand. 



= The local newspapers report that times were never before 

 so good as at present at the Woonsocket and Millville factories 

 of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. There are 1400 employes at 

 work at the former and 800 at the latter plant. 



= George H. Edwards has resigned as superintendant of the 

 insulated wire department of the National Indi^i Rubber Co. 

 (Bristol, Rhode Island), to accept a position with Ostby & Bar- 

 ton, jewelers, of Providence. 



= Edward Z. Jefferson — No. 7 Wood street, Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania — announces to the trade that he has become con- 

 nected with the Quaker City Rubber Co. (Philadelphia), as 

 manager of their Railroad department. 



= Suit for $10,000 damages has been brought against the 

 Western Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana) by Harvey Stork, a 

 former employe, for injuries to both hands sustained while at 

 work in the company's factory. 



= Basil S. Courtney, general sales manager, at No. 1679 

 Broadway. New York, for the tires of The Fawkes Rubber Co. 

 (Denver, Colorado), has taken, in addition, the agency for the 

 tire and mechanical goods products of The Milwaukee Rubber 

 Works Co. (Cudahy, Wisconsin). The latter company are now 

 manufacturing the Fawkes tires. 



= The report printed in this department in the last issue of 

 The India Rubber World, to the effect that W. H. Salisbury 

 & Co. (Chicago) had taken on the account of the Pennsylvania 

 Rubber Co., though reaching us through a supposedly reliab'e 

 source, proves to have been incorrect, and its publication is re- 

 gretted. 



= The Independent Rubber Co., No. 129 East Columbia 

 street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, wholesalers of rubber boots and 

 shoes, carry exclusively the Hood Rubber Co.'s brands. A 

 force of ten is employed in the house, together with an equal 

 number of travelers in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. The 

 business has been established three years and is owned by Isi- 

 dor Lehman and Sol Karn — two energetic young men, supplied 

 with ample capital. 



= Mr. W. C. Coleman, of W. C. Coleman Co. (Setauket, Long 

 Island) spent the first part of the month at the World's Fair, at 

 St. Louis. While the company were damaged by the recent 

 fire at Setauket, no interruption to business will result. Some 

 of their machinery was destroyed, but the stock of scrap rub- 

 ber happened to be stored in a warehouse isolated from the 

 factory plant — one of the few structures on the ground not 

 burned. 



= The first snowfall of the season in northern New York — 

 reported from Albany, Schenectady, Glens Falls, Saratoga, and 

 Catskill, on October 12 — occurred earlier than usual, which is 

 an encouraging indication for the rubber shoe trade. 



