February i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= The New York Credit Men's Association is doing a good 

 work, in which it deserves the support of the merchants and 

 manufacturers of the state. At the recent annual meeting in 

 New York some addresses were made on bankruptcy legislation 

 which should prove of great interest to business men, and in 

 regard to which the secretary of the association writes to The 

 India Rubber World : " We have a limited number of copies 

 that you might distribute to such of your patrons as will write 

 for one to our office. No. 320 Broadway (New York)." 



= Bernard J. McLoughlin, hitherto shipping foreman for the 

 Woonsocket Kubber Co.'s Millvllle factory, has succeeded Rol- 

 lin E. Woodworth, lately shipping foreman at the "Alice" mill, 

 and will have charge hereafter of the shipping from both facto- 

 ries. 



=Judge Holt of the United States district court in New York, 

 has appointed Benjamin li. Blydenburgh receiver in bank- 

 ruptcy for the assets of Wilkomir& Lasker, who did business 

 as the Bedford Rubber Co., waterproof manufacturers, at No- 

 138 Prince street. New York, on the application of Thomas F. 

 McCarthy, creditor for §1,233. The assets are estimated at 

 $3,000. Mr. Lasker started the business in April, 1901, being 

 joined by Mr. Wilkomir a year later. 



= A suit has been filed against the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. 

 (Jeannette, Pa.), for alleged infringement of the G & J 

 "clincher " tire patents. A similar suit has been pending for 

 some time against the United Stales Agency Michelin Tiie 

 Co. (New York ). 



= Mr. Kirk Brown, who for some years was at the head of 

 the American Dunlop Tire Co., and is now general manager of 

 the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. — the " Yale " lock com- 

 pany — was a visitor to the Madison Square automobile show. 

 Connected with The Hartford Rubber Works Co.'s exhibit at 

 the show was Mr. Alexander O. Holroyd, who has been con- 

 tinuously identified with the exploitation of the Dunlop tire 

 since its first introduction in America, having been previously 

 associated with Dr. John B. Dunlop, the tire inventor. 



= The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have filed a 

 motion for a new trial in the suit for damages of Addison Mc- 

 Clurg, a former employe who sought to recover for the loss of 

 a hand while working for the company, alleging negligence on 

 the part of the latter. McClurg won on the first trial, but a 

 higher court reversed the verdict. [See The India Rubber 

 World, June i, 1904 — page 317.] A second trial resulted, dur- 

 ing the past month, in another verdict for McClurg, and the 

 company's motion for still another trial is based upon a count 

 of alleged errors. 



= Messrs. John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersey) are send- 

 ing to their friends this year, as usual, a handsome pocket 

 memorandum book, with spaces for every day in the year, a 

 calendar, and data useful for reference, not forgetting a men- 

 tion of the machinery which they produce for the rubber and 

 other industries. 



=The Philadelphia address of The B. F. Goodrich Co. has 

 been changed from No. 922 to No. 909 Arch street. 



= The Pennsylvania Rubber Co. (Jeannette, Pa.) have be- 

 come engaged very extensively in the manufacture of floor 

 tiling. In addition to making tiling on designs of their own, 

 they have acquired from the Alden Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), 

 the patent (No. 680,468 — August 13,1901) granted to Joseph K. 

 Sierer, covering what has become known in the trade as the 

 " Master Key " tiling. 



= Messrs. James Boyd & Brother, dealers in mechanical rub- 

 ber goods, No. 14 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, as usual 

 have distributed to their friends in the trade a calendar for the 

 year, arranged with space for daily memoranda, one leaf for 



each week. There are also facts and figures of use lor perma- 

 nent reference. 



= An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against 

 the Highland Rubber Co. (Reading. Massachusetts), on Janu- 

 ary 17, by three creditors whose claims aggregate $5,007.92. 

 This is a New Hampshire corporation, organized in 1900 with 

 $100,000 capital authorized, and has been engaged in the manu- 

 facture of small rubber specialties on the premises occupied at 

 one time by the Chauncey Rubber Co. and later by the Eastern 

 Rubber Co. 



=J. H. Stedman is: Co., Inc. (Boston), scrap rubber mer- 

 chants, have sent us a very handsome wall calendar for 1905. 



= The Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Co. at the begin- 

 ning of the year distributed from their Chicago office a calen- 

 dar for 1905, the ornamental feature of which, as last year, was 

 a copy of the famous painting by the Scotch artist Watson, en- 

 titled "Sheep in the Highlands, " and now in possession of the 

 company. The demand for these calenders was so great that 

 the supply has already been exhausted. 



= Mr. Park Matthewson, who has been connected for six or 

 seven years with various rubber manufacturing companies in 

 an important capacity, including of late the International A. & 

 V. Tire Co., has severed his connection with that line to be- 

 come New York manager and special representative of the In- 

 ternational Lumber and Development Co. ( Philadelphia), a cor- 

 poration with $6,000,000 capital authorized, owing and opera- 

 ting an estate of 300,000 acres in Mexico, from which they 

 are already exporting mahogany and other hard woods, and 

 are planning to market rubber from the wild trees on the es- 

 tate and also from planted trees now under cultivation. 



= A. Adamson, manufacturer of rubber machinery (Akron, 

 Ohio), has distributed to his customers a calendar for the year, 

 the central feature of which is an attractive half tone lands- 

 cape view, the whole mounted on a card 11x14 inches. 



= The Hurd & Fitz Gerald Shoe Co. (Utica, New York) have 

 been incorporated, under New York laws, with $75,000 capital, 

 to continue the wholesale business in boots and shoes and rub- 

 bers conducted since 1892 under the firm name D. C. Hurd & 

 Fitz Gerald. The business has grown to important propor- 

 tions, and one object of the change is to provide for the ad- 

 mission to a share in the profits of several valued employes. 

 The officers are : D. C. Hurd, president and treasurer; M. J. 

 Fitz Gerald, vice president; Hugh R. Joner. (who has been 

 with the house for seven years), secretary and assistant treas- 

 urer. The company now occupy 18,000 square feet of fioor 

 space at Nos. 8-12 Catherine street, Utica. 



=:A handsome little calendar for 1905, for the desk or office 

 wall, one leaf for each month, is distributed by the Stamford 

 Rubber Supply Co. (Stamford, Connecticut). 



= A news paragraph having been printed recently to the ef- 

 fect that the factory of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. at St. 

 Jerome, Canada, had been sold. The India Rubber World 

 is requested to mention that there is but one Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., and its factories are located at Maiden, Massachu- 

 setts. It may be added that there is a rubber factory at St. 

 Jerome, which at one time manufactured rubber footwear 

 stamped " Boston Rubber Co.," and this factory, after having 

 been idle for a year or more, is reported to have changed hands. 



= The factory of the Atlantic Rubber Shoe Co. (Providence, 

 Rhode Island) has been closed indefinitely while the directors 

 are considering a policy to control the future management of 

 the company's business. 



= Mr. Robert P. Parker, formerly manager of the New York 

 branch of The Hartford Rubber Works Co., is now connected 

 with the Apperson Brothers Automobile Co. (Kokomo, Indi- 



