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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1904. 



Van Derbeck, Hackensack, N. J. ; Francis Y. Dobbins, Rahway, 

 N. J.; Albert Bruns, Brooklyn, New York. The company will 

 exploit the Snyder Health Vibrator, described in The India 

 RuBHER World, May i, 1904 (page 279). Registered office ; 

 Hackensack, New Jersey. 



= The Oxford Co. (New York), November 3. 1904, under New 

 York laws; capital, S'ooo- Directors: T. B. Graham, VV. W. 

 Adams, M. A. Peters, all of New \ork city. The stated object 

 is to deal in rubber goods. 



TRADE NEW.S NOTES. 



The Milwaukee Rubber Works Co. (Cudahy, Wisconsin) are 

 building an addition to their factory, in the shape of a two story 

 brick building, 125 X 48 feet. The lower floor will be used en- 

 tirely for their solid vehicle tire work, and the management 

 eel that when it is fully equipped they will have one of the 

 finest vehicle departments in the country. They are also add- 

 ing a two story building, 30 >; 42 feet, to be used as a shipping 

 room and storeroom. The building of these additions has been 

 rendered necessary in order to enable the company properly to 

 take care of their increasing business. 



= At a meeting of the board of directors of the India- Rubber 

 and Gutta-Percha Insulating Co. (Yonkers, New York), held 

 October 19, 1904, a dividend of 2% per cent, on the capital 

 stock was declared, was payable November i. The last pre- 

 ceding dividend was tor 2% per cent., payable July 1 1, 1904, 



=The Fisk Rubber Co. have removed their branch house at 

 Buffalo, New York, to No. 893 Main street, in that city, where 

 Mr. D. T. Keenan will continue in charge as manager. 



= The Buffalo (New York) branch house of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co. — James How, manager — has been removed 

 to No. 688 Main street. 



= G & J Tire Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana) issue a series of 

 views of automobiles, of leading makes, which have won in re- 

 cent notable racing contests, the same having been equipped 

 with the company's new "Thread Fabric" tire, described m 

 another column of this Journal. 



= The control of the patents for the manufacture and sale of 

 the " Everstick " rubber footwear m the Dominion of Canada 

 has been acquired by the Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal. 

 The Adams & Ford Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) control these pat- 

 ents lor the United States. These rubbers were described in 

 The India Rubber World, June i, 1904 (page 31 1). 



= The Manufactured Rubber Co. (Philadelphia) are reported 

 to be very busy at their rubber reclaiming plant at Metuchen, 

 New Jersey, which of late has been running day and night. 



= The Goodyear Rubber Co.'s branch house at Portland, 

 Oregon, has been removed to a new building, at Fourth and 

 Pine streets. The Portland Oregouian says: "This to-day is 

 one of the most important of Portland's great wholesale houses. 

 It is one of the largest and best arranged jobbing houses for 

 sale and distribution in the United States." 



= Mr. Lloyd L. Libby, for several years connected with the 

 executive offices of the Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, has 

 gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to manage the same company's 

 extensive sales branch at that place. The territory covered 

 extends from Campellton, New Brunswick, to the Atlantic 

 Coast, including Newfoundland. 



= The factory of the Trenton Oilcloth and Linoleum Co. 

 (Trenton, New Jersey) was damaged by tire on the evening of 

 November 2 to an extent reported at $40,000, which loss is un- 

 derstood to be fully covered by insurance. The president of 

 the company is George R. Cook, who is also treasurer and gen- 

 eral manager of the Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. of 

 Trenton, N. ]. 



=The sale is reported of the premises occupied by the Con- 

 cord Rubber Co. (Concord Junction, Massachusetts), while that 

 company was in existence, to Charles L. Hill, but the dispo- 

 sition to be made of the property is not stated. 



= The board of trade of Lawrence, Massachusetts, has ap- 

 pointed a committee to consider a proposition from Loring M. 

 Monk, of Sharon, Mass., to establish a rubber shoe factory in 

 Lawrence, in the event of a certain amount of local capital be- 

 ing subscribed. Mr. Monk, who was associated formerly with 

 W. L. Sage & Co., jobbers of rubber footwear in Boston, is re- 

 ported to have secured an option on unused factory premises 

 in Lawrence owned by the American Woolen Co. 



= A review of local trade in the Omaha (Nebraska) .5« of 

 November 13 says : " The rubber goods trade boomed last week 

 owing to the colder weather and snow that visited many sec- 

 tions in the west. Orders came in by mail, telephone, and tele- 

 graph, and jobbers were obliged to work their men overtime to 

 get their orders filled promptly, as all of them were marked 

 ■ rush '." 



= Referring to the Catasauqua Rubber Co. (East Catasauqua, 

 Pennsylvania), mentioned in the last India Rubber World, 

 local newspapers report the installation of a steam power plant 

 in the premises to be occupied as a factory. 



= The factories of the United States Rubber Co. were closed 

 from Wednesday evening, November 23. until Monday morning 

 November 28, to permit their employes to observe the Thanks- 

 giving holidays, many of them thus having an opportunity to 

 visit relatives at distant places. 



= C. J. Biiley & Co. (Boston) have licensed the following 

 firms to manufacture the Bailey " Won't Slip " automobile tires, 

 in "clincher'' and single tube patterns: The B. F.Goodrich 

 Co., The Diamond Rubber Co., and The Fisk Rubber Co. 



= The Hood Rubber Co. (Boston) have issued a series of five 

 panel pictures which are excellent artistic advertising. Three 

 of them pertain to boots and impress separate views of a deep- 

 water fisherman, a postman, and a farmer; one illustrates the 

 " Pilgrim " heel on a ladies' rubber through the presentment of 

 an attractive young lady, and another shows the Plymouth 

 school shoes on the feet of a typical schoolboy. 



= A contract for the supply of 5000 pairs of rubber boots, for 

 the United States army, has been awarded, under a bid received 

 November 15, at the Boston depot of the Quartermaster's de- 

 partment, at $274 per pair. 



= Mr. James Morris Carroll, known in Australia, West 

 Africa, and the Far East, has become manager of systems and 

 advertising of the Canadian Rubber Co., of Montreal, and sec- 

 retary to Mr. D. Lome McGibbon, general manager of that 

 company. " Morris " Carroll crossed Siberia from St. Peters- 

 burg to Port Arthur soon after the Transsiberian railway was 

 completed, and ten years ago was one of the first 500 men to 

 reach Coolgardie, the center of the great West Australian gold 

 rush, where he spent some three years. He has visited Japan 

 twice, and strongly believes that the future of the East as a 

 market for Canadian and American manufactures is one of the 

 coming " good things." 



= One of the features of the B. F. Sturtevant Co.'s new office 

 building at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, is the lunch room locat- 

 ed in the basement of the building. Arrangements were first 

 made with a caterer to furnish lunches, but the desire for home 

 lunches became so prevalent that the company now hires the 

 help and furnishes lunches at cost. 



^Worcester Rubber Co. (Worcester, Massachusetts) were 

 mentioned in the local newspapers as having been damaged by 

 a recent extensive fire in that town. Mr. A. H. Bloss, proprie- 

 tor of the business, informs The India Rubber World that 



