April i 1905] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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— Notices were posted recently at the two factories of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co., that they would be closed on Wed- 

 nesday, March 29, for two weeks, for the annual stock taking 

 and repairs. 



= The factory of the National India Rubber Co. was to be 

 closed for two weeks, beginning March 31, for stock taking and 

 repairs. There were 1718 names on the payroll at last accounts, 

 and in view of the amount of business in sight, it is expected 

 that the factory will be operated continuously during the sum- 

 mer. 



= The Linthicum Rubber Co., jobbers of rubber footwear at 

 Baltimore, Maryland, have become established in a new fire- 

 proof warehouse and offices at No. 26 South Hanover street, 

 immediately opposite where they were burned out in Febru- 

 ary last year. They advise The India Rubber World: 

 " While there are finishing touches to be put on our new store, 

 we think that when it is completed we will have the most up 

 to date building that has been erected here since the fire." 

 They have removed to the new store the stock of their tempo- 

 rary warehouse in Baltimore, and also that at York, Pennsyl- 

 vania, which they were obliged to open after the great fire on 

 account of the lack of suitable accommodations in Baltimore. 

 The York warehouse has been permanently closed. 



= The Commercial Club of Olaihe, Kansas, was addressed 

 on the evening of March 9 by C. S. Heller, of Akron, Ohio, 

 who proposed, if properly encouraged, to erect there a $15°.- 

 000 rubber reclaiming plant, in which would be employed cer- 

 tain secret processes. A further meeting was arranged for. 



= The factory of the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. has con- 

 tinued busy all winter, and at the middle of March was making 

 a daily " ticket " of 10,000 pairs. 



=The Fall River Rubber Co. (Fall River, Massachusetts), 

 have been awarded a contract for 200 pairs of rubber boots for 

 the naval training station, and a ton of rubber matting for the 

 naval hospital, at Newport. 



= The Joseph Stokes Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) have 

 removed the location of their western branch, in Chicago, to 

 No. 40 Dearborn street. 



= The Imperial Rubber Co. (Beach City, Ohio), the organiza- 

 tion of which was reported in these pages a short time ago, in- 

 form The India Rubber World that they have not yet got 

 out a catalogue, but that they are making a full line of seam- 

 less water bottles, fountain syringes, household and surgeon's 

 gloves, ice bags, and the like, besides hard rubber harness 

 mountings, and also vehicle tires. 



= The demand in Canada for the " Everstick " rubber foot- 

 wear, the control of the Canadian patents for which has been 

 secured by the Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, as reported 

 in The India Rubber World of December last, has been 

 phenomenal. In proportion to the population, the sale prom- 

 ises to be greater than in the United States, which may be due 

 in part to the aggressive advertising methods of Canadian 

 company, as this feature of their business is looked after very 

 thoroughly. 



=The directors of the United States Cotton Duck Corpora- 

 tion declared a dividend of 3 per cent, on the preferred capita! 

 stock, out of the net earnings for the year ending December 31, 

 1904, payable on March 25. 



= The trustee of the North American Rubber Co. (in bank- 

 ruptcy) has petitioned for leave to offer at private sale certain 

 assets of the company, and a hearing thereon has been set for 

 April 4, at 2 p. m., at the office of the referee in bankruptcy, 

 William H. Willis, No. 1 15 Broadway, New York. At the same 

 hour there will be a hearing on a petition of the trustee for 

 leave to bring suit against the Birmingham Iron Foundry, 



whose connection with the bankrupt company appears to be 

 confined to their having supplied it with machinery. 



=James C. Manchester, who for 30 years was employed by 

 the National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island), and 

 foreman of the shoe department for 8 years past, retiring re- 

 cently to enter another business, was presented on his fifty- 

 seventh birthday with a beautiful hall clock, by the employes 

 of the shoe department. 



= The factory of the Merchants Rubber Co., Limited (Berlin, 

 Ontario), was visited on February 15 by a party of Toronto 

 business men, mainly in the retail shoe trade, on the invitation 

 of Mr. George E. Boulter, manager of the company's Toronto 

 branch, who chartered a special railway car for their use. The 

 object was to show the factory in operation, and the visitors 

 found all hands at work, and witnessed all the processes of 

 converting crude rubber into finished rubber boots and shoes. 

 The company's guests were entertained at dinner at one of the 

 Berlin hotels before their return, upon which occasion Mr. 

 James Acton, of The Canadian Shoe and Leather Journal, acted 

 as chairman. 



= The rubber manufacturers' committee on rubber stealing 

 has had placed before it a case reported by a western rubber 

 manufacturer, who had had oflFered to him a lot of medium 

 and coarse Para rubber, by a person claiming to have secured 

 it from the estate of his father in New Orleans, a year or more 

 ago. On investigation the rubber proved to be quite new and 

 green, and the manufacturer, under the impression that the 

 rubber had been stolen, probably from an Akron rubber fac- 

 tory, declined to purchase. 



= The qualified electors of the town of Bowmanville, Onta- 

 rio, on March 13, voted by a large majority in favor of a by law 

 Limited, the same to be repaid in 20 yearly instalments o($75o, 

 authorizing the loan of $15,000 to The Durham Rubber Co., 

 without interest, the consideration being that the company 

 shall buy a specified amount of land in a designated location, 

 and erect certain buildings and install therein the machinery 

 now used in their Bowmanville factory and additional machin- 

 ery of a certain minimum value, and provide for the employ- 

 ment of a certain number of persons, with a yearly payroll of 

 $25,000 or more, said conditions to hold for 20 years. The 

 town corporation is to be protected by a mortgage on the rub- 

 ber plant, which shall also be kept adequately insured. The 

 rubber company is to be exempt for 20 years from all taxation 

 except for school purposes. 



=The cargo of the steamer Pequot, of the Providence line, 

 which arrived in Providence from New York on March 17, is 

 reported to have been the most valuable that ever reached that 

 port on a Sound steamer. It included over $200,000 worth of 

 crude rubber, destined for the factories of the Woonsocket Rub- 

 ber Co., Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., National India Rubber 

 Co., and the American Wringer Co. A local newspaper men- 

 tions that the Woonsocket Rubber Co. nearly always keep in 

 stock at their mills $200,000 worth of raw rubber. 



=The National India Rubber Co. have been granted the 

 right, by the town council of Bristol, Rhode Island, to build a 

 freight trolley line connecting their factory with the freight 

 station of the Consolidated railroad, which is desired as a 

 means of facilitating shipments to and from the factory. 



=The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) 

 were reported recently to be making 30,000 pairs daily of rubber 

 shoes, arctics, and tennis goods, this being the largest "ticket" 

 in the history of the factory. A number of changes are planned 

 in the equipment and location of some of the departments, and 

 machinery is being removed from and repairs made in some of 

 the rooms involved. 



