February i, 1905.] 



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scale, and gradually rebuild the plant. The work done here 

 has been washing rubber for the trade and making goK balls 

 and dress shields. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. 

 United States Rubber Co. : 



Preferred' Stock, $23,525,500. 

 Last Dividend, December 15, 1904— iJ^iC. 



1900. iQoi. 1902. 1903. 1904 



Shares sold 90-924 132-278 104.202 62,343 182,443 



Highest price 104 J.^ 85 64 58 100 



Lowest price 77 j^ 47 49^ 3°'4 41 



Common Stock, $23,666,000. 



Last Dividend, April jo, 1900 — 1%. 



1900. X901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 



Shares sold 502.377 318,038 53.356 8o,8qo 285,8ig 



Highest price 44 34 '9fs i<)K 3*H 



Lowest price 2[ 12}^ 14 7 10}^ 



RiTBBER Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



Preferred Stock, 18.051,400. 



Last Dividend, December 15, 1904— i?a^. 



1901. igo2. 1903. 1904 



Shares sold 18,541 39.582 55.28o 25,864 



Highest price go 74 64^2 98 



Lowest price 65 63 60 74% 



Common Stock, |;i6,g4:,7oo. 



Last Dividend, July 15, 1901 — 1$. 



1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 



Shares sold 172,631 339.895 276, 78g 369.347 



Highest price 38^^ 255/3 3° 2gJ^ 



Lowest price 18 17X 12 143I 



TROUBLES OF THE CHICAGO RUBBER WORKERS' UNION. 



The courts have been called upon to settle the affairs of the 

 Chicago rubber workers' union — Local No. i of the Amalga- 

 mated Rubber VV^orkers' Union of America — for the assets of 

 which a receiver has been appointed. After the failure of the 

 strikes in which the union was involved last year the member- 

 ship rapidly declined from about 1400 to almost nothing. The 

 charter provides for the disbanding of the organization when 

 the membership no longer exceeds nine, any funds to be divi- 

 ded among the members. There are alleged to be $2500 

 belonging to the Chicago union, the possession of which 

 apparently has led to a bitter fight among the few members 

 remaining. Thomas Richards, the recording secretary, was 

 arraigned on a charge of larceny as bailee of the union's rec- 

 ords, and a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of William 

 V^elton, the treasurer, on a charge of embezzlement. The 

 complainant is William Lawrence, representing the element in 

 the union who want to prevent any disposition of the funds 

 until the five members under indictment in the criminal court 

 for assaulting non union men at the Morgan & Wright and 



Mechanical Rubber Co. factories have had their trials. Mean- 

 time it is understood that efforts have been made to interest 

 the rubber workers in Chicago in another union but the organ- 

 izer has met with little encouragement. The experience of the 

 workers with the old union has not tended to inspire enthusi- 

 asm in this direction and the employes of the various plants 

 appear to be satisfied with their present treatment. Mr. T. S. 

 Blanchard, of the Mechanical Rubber Co., said to The India 

 Rubber World correspondent that so far as he had learned 

 there had been no effort to organize a new union, and that the 

 old union was entirely dead. 



THE WESTERN SHOE JOBBERS' ANNUAL MEETING. 

 At the seventh annual meeting of the Western Association 

 of Shoe Wholesalers, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, on 

 January 6, a resolution was adopted, protesting against the 

 tariff on hides, on the ground that it is injurious to both the 

 manufacturer and the consumer of leather goods. The resolu- 

 tion was presented by Mr. H. J. Macfarland, of M. D. Wells & 

 Co., shoe jobbers of Chicago. This was regarded as the most 

 important action of the convention, which was largely attended. 

 There appears to have been no special action taken in regard 

 to rubber footwear. Mr. Orlando C. Smith, of the Smith-Wal- 

 lace Shoe Co. (Chicago), who had held the position of presi- 

 dent of the association for six years, having expressed a wish to 

 retire, the position was filled for the ensuing year by the elec- 

 tion of Mr. Charles W. Durrell, of Durrell Brothers (Cincin- 

 nati). Mr. S. W. Campbell, also of the Smith- Wallace Shoe 

 Co., who has been the secretary-treasurer for six years, was 

 reelected. Mr. I. H. Sawyer, of the Brown Shoe Co. (St. 

 Louis), was elected first vice president. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Anchor Tile Co., December 19, 1904, under New Jersey 

 laws; capital, $200,000. The object is to manufacture and sell 

 " Anchor" rubber floor tiling, which is covered by patents. 

 Incorporators : John A. Sloan, Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., and 

 Horace T.Sloan. The company have an office at No. 137 East 

 State street, Trenton, New Jersey — the address of the Mercer 

 Rubber Co., who will make the tiling. 



=The Diamond Rubber Co. of New York, January 9, 1905, 

 under the laws of New York ; capital, $10,000. Incorporators 

 and directors for one year : J. T. Smith and E. B. Root. New 

 York city, and ]. W. Ingram, Nyack, New York. 



= Michelin Tire American Agency, Inc., January 9, 1905, un- 

 der New York laws; capital, $3500. Incorporators: E. D. Wi- 

 nans, George W. Wilder, and C. D. Wilder. This is the new 

 agency in America of Messrs. Michelin & Cie., the French tire 

 manufacturers. Their office is at No. 6 West Twenty-ninth 

 street. New York. 



= Pneumatic Horse Collar Co., December 22, 1904, under 

 Maine laws ; capital authorized, $500,000. Directors : I. L. Fair- 

 banks (president and treasurer) and L. A. Burleigh, Augusta, 

 Maine ; A. L. Norman, New York city ; L. R. Downs, Saratoga, 

 N. Y. 



=The New Process Rubber Co., December 27, 1904, under 

 the laws of the District of Columbia; capital, $1,000,000. In- 

 corporators: Lawrence Hufty, John P. Lang, and Thomas G. 

 Miller. The Washington address is given as No. 416 Fifth 

 street, and the executive offices as Room 1609, Railway Ex- 

 change. Chicago, Illinois. Applications for details at the latter 

 office was met with the statement that the company were not 

 yet prepared to make any announcement regarding their plans. 

 This address, by the way, is that of The Vulcalose Co., inter- 

 ested in "vulcanized cellulose products." 



= Hewitt Rubber Co. (Buffalo, New York), December 29, 

 1904, under New York laws; capital, $500,000. Directors: 



