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THb. INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Deckmber I, 1904. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



MECHANICAL RUBBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION. 



A REGULAR meeting of the Mechanical Rubber Manufac- 

 turers" Association of the United States will be held 

 on Thursday, December i, at 10 30 A. M., in the Astor 

 dining room of the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, 

 The by laws provide for regular meetings on the first Thurs- 

 days of October, December, February. April, and June of each 

 year. The details of the plan of organization were reported 

 in the last issue of The India Rubber World, on page 59. 



THE NEW FACTORY AT JAMESTOWN. 

 The Amazon Rubber Co. (Jamestown, New York), the in- 

 corporation of which was reported in this Journal on Septem- 

 ber I (p<ge 429), reported recently that they were progressing 

 well with the installation of their machinery, and hoped to be- 

 gin manufacturing by December i. It is their intention to 

 make solid, cushion, and pneumatic tires ; mats, matting, tiling, 

 and other mechanical goods. Charles H. Walters is general 

 manager of the company. 



ELECTRIC RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 The incorporation of this company, with $1,000,000 capital, 

 under New Jersey laws, was reported in The India Rubber 

 World November i, 1903 (page 59). The company on October 

 II, 1904. filed at Trenton amended articles of incorporation, by 

 the terms of which $200,000 of the capital stock is to be 7 per 

 cent, cumulative preferred shares of $100 each, and the remain- 

 ing $800,000 in common shares of $100. The registered offices 

 are at No. i Montgomery street. New Jersey. James H. George 

 is president and Charles H. George secretary, but neither of 

 these has been identified with the rubber business. Under 

 date of November the secretary wrote : " The purpose of the 

 company is to manufacture rubber specialties, but it has not 

 yet finished its experiments. Our experiments may take six 

 months more." 



A SOUTHERN DRUGGISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE. 

 DURIN<; the past year the Baltimore firm of Miller Brothers, 

 jobbers of rubber druggists' sundries, have added several lines, 

 and are now importing tooth brushes, hair brushes, glassware, 

 etc. Their trade is with druggists and hospitals, over the 

 southern states, as far as and including Florida. Their stock 

 is not excelled, in respect to extent or variety, by that of any 

 druggists' supply house south of New York, as one may be 

 convinced by an examination of the new catalogue which they 

 are circulating in the trade. The firm was established in Jan- 

 uary, 1892, and is composed of Joseph C. and L. Dudley Miller, 

 the former of whom was sometime manager of the druggists' 

 sundries department of the Baltimore Rubber Co. After the 

 recent great fire in Baltimore Miller Brothers secured a new lo- 

 cation, No. 209 West Camden street. 



BISHOP GUTTA-PERCHA CO. (NEW YORK.) 

 It has not been generally known that H. E, Blitz, named as 

 president of the Bishop Gutta Percha Co. (New York), on the 

 letterheads of that company, was Mrs. Helen E, Blitz. Atten- 

 tion was called to the fact, however, by the death of this lady 

 at her home in Westfield, New Jeisey. on October 22. She 

 was a relative of the wife of the late Samuel C. Bishop who 

 gave his name to the company in 1857, and in i860 established 

 its factory at the present location in East Twenty-fifth street. 

 New York. After the death of Mr. Bishop, in 1872, the busi- 

 ness was continued under the direction of his widow, with the 



assistance of Mrs. Blitz, who also had become a widow. Upon 

 the death of Mrs. Bishop in 1881, Mrs. Blitz, by the collateral 

 wills of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, who had no direct heirs, inherited 

 one quarter of their estate, including the Bishop Gutta-Percha 

 works, and upon the organization of the present Bishop'Gutta- 

 Percha Co., in 1885, she was elected a director. She became 

 its president in 1894, and held that office until her death. The 

 remaining directors of the company are Amos A. Browning, 

 Ellen I. Anderson, William Boardman Reed, and Henry A. 

 Reed. William Boardman Reed, the vice president, will, under 

 the company's by laws, act as president until the annual meet- 

 ing in January. The secretary and treasurer of the company is 

 Henry A. Reed, who has been in active charge of the com- 

 pany's affairs for the past seventeen years, succeeding William 

 W. Marks, who had been superintendent of the factory for 40 

 years, having been connected with Stephen T. Armstrong in 

 the manufacture of the first Gutta-percha goods made in 

 America. The present superintendent of the factory is Harry 

 D. Reed. 



THE TORONTO GUTTA PERCHA COMPANY. 



The Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of To- 

 ronto, Limited, following the destruction of their warehouses 

 by fire in April last, were forced, through inability to lease 

 satisfactory warehouse property in the city, to try the experi- 

 ment of shipping goods direct from their factory. This change 

 led to the transfer of their shipping stafi from the city office. 

 The new arrrngement has worked so well that the company 

 have decided to make it permanent, and with this in view are 

 erecting a new warehouse on lands recently bought adjacent to 

 the factory. A new building, to comprise four stories and 

 basement, is to have a frontage of 180 feet on O'Hara ave- 

 nue, and width of 52 feet, with an extension 132 X 52 feet, 

 standing at right angles. The triangle between these two 

 wings will be occupied by a one story and basement shipping 

 building, and a special railway siding. Mill construction will 

 be used, and there are to be two elevators, two staircases, large 

 vaults, etc., all outside of the buildidgs proper. In the mean- 

 time, for office purposes the company have brought three free- 

 holds on the southeast corner of Yonge and Wellington streets, 

 Toronto, giving them a frontage of 60 feet on Yonge and 90 

 feet on Wellington. These properties have been rebuilt, and 

 the company are about to occupy for offices and salesrooms the 

 corner and Wellington street frontage. The building is gray 

 stone, with five stories and basement. The balance of the 

 property the company will not occupy for the present, and it 

 probably will be leased until such time as it may be required 

 by the growth of their business. The company have also 

 bought recently ten brick houses near the factories as the 

 nucleus of a settlement for their operatives The company 



have engaged a New York concern, who use a sandblast pro- 

 cess, to clean the walls of the stone structure mentioned above 

 as having been secured for their offices at Yonge and Welling- 

 ton streets. 



A NEW SINGER CORPORATION. 



The Singer Sewing Machine Co. has filed articles of incor- 

 poration with the county clerk at Elizabeth, New Jersey, with 

 capital stock of S'. 000,000. The incorporators are Douglas 

 Alexander and Thomas E. Hardenburgh, of New York, and 

 CharlesColeman, of Englewood. The Singer Sewing Machine Co. 

 istobethe distributing agent for the Singer Manufacturing Co. 



