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sioners o( Jersey City. The Eureka company was represented 

 by Vice President Benjamin L. Stowe, Treasurer George A. 

 Wies, Secretary Isaac B. Markey, and W. H. Payne, the com- 

 pany's representative at Atlanta, Georgia. A fine collation was 

 served and the entertainment was in every way successful. 



MADISON SaUARE AUTOMOBILE SHOW. 

 The fifth annual automobile show, under the auspices of The 

 Automobile Club of America and the National Association of 

 Automobile Manufacturers, at Madison Square Garden, New 

 York, will open on Saturday night, January 14. and continue 

 for one week. On December 17. James C. Young, manager of 

 the Garden, reported that " every available inch of space" had 

 already been taken. Enough applications had been received, 

 he said, to occupy a building three times the size, but manufac- 

 turers had to be content with the allotment made by the com- 

 mittee of arrangements. About 250 concerns will exhibit auto- 

 mobiles or accessories, including, as usual, the leading manu- 

 facturers of rubber tires. A number of foreign cars will be ex- 

 hibited in the Garden, notwithstanding the special exhibit to 

 be made at the same time, at Herald Square, by the importers 

 of foreign vehicles. 



THOM.VS TAYLOR & SONS (HUDSON, MASS.) 



Thomas Taylor, Jr., died at his home in Hudson, Massa- 

 chusetts, on December 13. aged 28 years. He was associated 

 with his father, Thomas Taylor, and his brother, Frank Taylor, 

 in the firm Thomas Taylor & Sons, manufacturers of elastic 

 shoe goring and elastic webbing. On account of the death of 

 Mr. Taylor the firm name may be changed, though this ques- 

 tion has not been decided. The business has been located in 

 Hudson since 1889. after having been conducted at Easthamp- 

 ton, Mass. The senior member of the firm formerly owned and 

 operated the Vale Mills, Derby, England, in the same business, 

 in which he has over 40 years' experience. 



SaUlRES's DENTAL RUBBER. 



Arthur C. Squires (Akron, Ohio) has entered into a con- 

 tract with The B. F. Goodrich Co. ior the manufacture of his 

 " Quick Curing " dental rubbers, during the tenure of the pat- 

 ent on the same. He has also made a contract with Lee S. 

 Smith & Son (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), who become sole 

 agents for these goods, for the same length of time. The 

 parties who projected the Akron Dental Rubber Manufactur- 

 ing Co., for the purpose of manufacturing Mr. Squiies's com- 

 pound, have abandoned the same, not having been able to secure 

 the capital which they expected. 



GOOD WEATHER FOR THE TRADE IN RUBBERS. 



Two weeks ago it was stated that " two-thirds of the average 

 winter snowfall in New York we have already had since the 

 present winter began." The record for the remainder of the 

 snow belt of the United States also shows more than the usual 

 precipitation to date, which is a most favorable indication for 

 the rubber footwear trade. The assertion often has been heard 

 in former years, that a given depth of snowfall before January 

 I was worth as much to the rubber shoe industry as twice the 

 amount later in the winter. It would seem that no occasion 

 exists for complaint on this score this season, besides which, 

 apparently a greater proportion of New Yorkers are wearing 

 rubbers this year than at any time formerly. Evidently the 

 various substitutes for rubber footwear — such as " waterproof " 

 leather shoes -have not justified the promises made for them. 

 A DEMAND FOR CLEANER CHICLE. 



John Colgan, president of the Colgan Gum Co. (Louisville, 

 Kentucky), has made a complaint to the customs authorities in 

 that city that the gum Chicle on which he pays an import duty 

 of 10 cents a pound includes a large percentage of bark, stones. 



and other entirely worthless material, and requested that the 

 matter be referred to the secretary of the treasury in Washing- 

 ton, in order that some provision may be made for cleaning the 

 Chicle before the duty is levied. Another chewing gum fattory 

 in Louisville is owned by the American Chicle Co., which has 

 also a factory in Canada, and a local newspaper mentions that 

 much of the Chicle bought by the American Chicle Co. is first 

 received in Canada and cleaned before it arrives in the United 

 States. At present there is no provision in the United States 

 customs regulations for making allowance for the adulteration 

 of Chicle before levying duties. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. 



United States Rubber Co. : 



DATES. 



Week ending Nov. 26 

 Week ending Dec. 3 

 Week ending Dec. 10 

 Week ending Dec. 17 

 Weekending Dec. 23 



Common. 



Sales. 



12.050 

 5,100 



I4 550 

 5.050 

 1.300 



High. 



34j.^ 

 34% 

 33% 

 32^ 

 32?a 



Low. 



32j^ 



33 



2lH 



32X 



Prbprrred. 



Sales. 



8,105 

 8.040 

 4.400 

 4,600 

 3,500 



High. 



giM" 

 93 



93^^ 

 93^ 

 94K 



Low. 



38 



91 



89 



90^4" 



93 



Preferred Stock. $23,525,500. 



Last Dividend, December 15, 1904 — 1%%. 

 1900. Igoi. 1902. 



Highest price 10434' 85 64 



Lowest price 775^ 47 49^ 



Common Stock. $23,666,000. 



Last Dividend, April ^o, 1900 — 1%. 

 1900. igoi. jgo2 



Highest price 44 34 19.3^ 



Lowest price ... 21 i2j^ 14 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



1903. 



58 



30V 



■903- 



■904 ■ 



94j^ 

 4"J^ 



1904. 



loM 



Preferred Stock, 18.051,400. 



Last Dividend, December 15. 1904 — 1^4%. 



1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 



Highest price 90 74 64}^ g8 



Lowest price 65 63 60 72^ 



Common Stock, $16, 94 1,700. 



Last Dividend. July 15, 1901—1^. 



1901. 1902 1903. 1904. 



Highest price 38J^ 25fi 30 2^Ji 



Lowest price 18 I7j^ 12 I4j^ 



SKIRM V. EMPIRE RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 The jury in re William H. Skirm, Jr., v. Empire Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., in the United States court at Trenton. New 

 Jersey, on December 14, returned a verdict in favor of the 

 plaintilT for $419.14, the amount of salary claimed to be due 

 and unpaid, but denied the claim of Skirm for something like 

 Sio.ooo, in respect of certain stock in the company and the 

 dividends accruing thereon. The claim for salary due was not 

 contested by the company. Further details regarding the suit 

 appeared in The India Rubber World, August i, 1904 — 

 page 394. .'Vt the trial, counsel for the Empire company argued 

 that when the present owners of the company came into con- 

 trol, not knowing of a certain contract which existed with Ed- 

 ward F. O'Brien, the plaintiflf, who had been an oflicer of the 

 corporation, admitted fault in making the contract, and agreed 



