May I, X905.] 



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is equal to 7.7 per cent, on §23,666,000 of common stock, on 

 which the last dividend was paid April 30, 1900. The earnings 

 applicable to dividends for the preceding fiscal year were 



$1. 575.641- 



The annual meeting of shareholders for the election of direc- 

 tors and for the transaction of any other business which may 

 properly be brought before the meeting will be held at the reg- 

 istered offices of the company, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 

 on Tuesday, May 16, at 12 m. The transfer books were closed 

 on April 25 and will be reopened at 10 A. M. on the day follow- 

 ing the annual meeting. 



AFFAIRS OF THE GOSHEN RUBBER WORKS. 

 THEaction of a creditor of the Goshen Rubber Works (Goshen, 

 Indiana), petitioning this concern into involuntary bankruptcy, 

 reported in The India Rubber World [April i — page 248], 

 proves to have been, in view of the circumstances, unwarranted. 

 Albert G. Harlin, who was appointed receiver, was discharged 

 at the first hearing before the United States circuit court, it re- 

 quiring but 17 minutes to have the case dismissed. The India 

 Rubber World is advised that the company are solvent and 

 always have been, and they claim that the controversy with the 

 Chicago creditor could have been adjusted easily had the latter 

 shown a spirit of fairness. The company appear to have been 

 somewhat handicapped recently through a lack of working cap- 

 ital, but this has been supplied by an issue of $80,000 in bonds, 

 all of which was subscribed for by the shareholders. The com- 

 pany begin their new year without a, dollar of indebtedness, 

 and report good prospects for business. Mr. Arrah J. Whisler, 

 formerly of the Kokomo Rubber Co., has been employed as 

 superintendent, and the company's sales department has been 

 reorganized and strengthened. 



THE MANHATTAN RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 Dating from May i the general offices of this company will 

 be located at the factory (Passaic, New Jersey), in order to fa- 

 cilitate the handling of their business. The company request 

 that all correspondence to be addressed to them at Passaic. A 

 stock of rubber goods will be kept on hand at No 1 8 Vesey street. 

 New York, which premises will be retained as an important and 

 fully equipped selling branch. 



FIRE IN A BOSTON RUBBER STORE. 



A FIRE which resulted from an unknown cause on the even- 

 ing of April 7, in the rear of the rubber store of Prescott & Co., 

 No. 27 Dock square, Boston, caused a loss of $15,000. The 

 damage was confined, however, to goods stored away for the 

 summer trade and not now in demand, so that the firm were 

 able to do business in seasonable goods the next morning, and 

 by April 11 were in such shape that visitors to the store who 

 had not heard of the fire saw no reason to suppose that one had 

 occurred. The firm of Prescott & Co. was formed early in 

 1896 to deal in mechanical rubber goods, clothes wringers, car- 

 pet sweepers, and oil and gas stoves. 



FIRE IN A BUFFALO RUBBER STORE. 



The firm of G. E. Thing & Co., wholesalers of boots, shoes, 

 and rubbers, occupying a six story building, Nos. 37-39 Pearl 

 street, Buffalo, New Vork, were burned out on the morning of 

 April I. The cause of the fire which started in the rear of the 

 fourth floor has not been learned, and the delay in discovering 

 it rendered it impossible to save anything in the building, 

 though the firemen were able to prevent the spread of the flames 

 to the neighboring buildings. The losses have been adjusted 

 on the stock and on the building, which is under lease for a 

 number of years, so that the firm hope to be ready for business 

 in June. Meanwhile the business is taken care of through the 



Rochester house of Lewis P. Ross, of which the Buffalo busi- 

 ness is a branch. The firm is composed of G. E. Thing (who 

 has been associated with Mr. Ross for 27 years), G. G. Ford, 

 and L. P. Ross. The firm began business May i, 1904. succeed- 

 ing E. N. NefT, at the same location. Messrs. Thing & Co. are 

 jobbers of the " Goodyear Glove" rubber footwear for Buffalo 

 and vicinity, and having added the " Boston " and " Bay State" 

 brands this season, they are in a shape to do a larger business 

 than ever before. The company's loss has been estimated as 

 high as $200,000, the greater part being covered by insurance. 

 FIRE AT BEACON FALLS. 



A FIRE broke out in the office of The Beacon Falls Rubber 

 Shoe Co. about 1.30 o'clock on the morning of April 8, and 

 was extinguished after two hours of hard fighting by the fac- 

 tory fire brigade. The office building is situated within a few 

 feet of the mill, and the fire could very easily have done serious 

 damage. The office will have to be practically rebuilt, with 

 the exception of the outside walls. The loss is estimated at 

 about $9000, and is fully covered by insurance. The cause of 

 the fire is unknown. 



A RUBBER company's PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE. 

 A FIRE which broke out in the varnish house of the Canadian 

 Rubber Co. of Montreal — located in the center of the group of 

 buildings comprising their extensive factory — about 9 a. m. on 

 April 1 1, wasextinguished by the company's fire brigade before 

 the city firemen arrived with their engines. But for the prompt 

 extinguishing of the flames the factory might have been very 

 seriously damaged ; as it was, however, the loss was slight. 

 The Canadian Rubber Co. maintain two companies of well 

 trained firemen chosen from their employes, and all the other 

 male employes are instructed what to do in case of fire. Three 

 fire reels, containing about 4000 feet of hose, are distributed 

 about the plant, and an engine which pumps water direct from 

 the river is kept constantly with steam up in order to be ready 

 for use at a moment's notice. The rubber company's fire brig- 

 ade has several times rendered valuable assistance at fires out- 

 side of the establishment. 



THE RECENT FIRE AT MILLTOWN. NEW JERSEY. 

 Referring to the fire on the premises of the International 

 Automobile Tire and Vehicle Co. (Milltown, N. J.), on March 

 21, reported in The India Rubber World [April i — page 

 244], it may be added that the building destroyed was not, as 

 reported in some of the newspapers, the original factory built 

 and operated by the late Christopher Meyer. The original 

 Meyer building was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the building 

 burned in March was that erected immediately afterward and 

 subsequently used by Mr. Meyer's company. A portion of 

 the building recently burned was leased by the International 

 company to the Jersey Rubber Specialty Co., manufacturers of 

 seamless rubber goods, who advise The India Rubber 

 World: "Our factory burned out completely, and it will be 

 some time before we will be in a position to fill orders. We 

 expect, however, to be in the market within the next 60 days 

 with a complete line of seamless rubber goods, such as toy bal- 

 loons, rubber gloves, finger cots, nipples, and the like. We have 

 not definitely decided as to the location for our plant, but the 

 indications are that it will be in Milltown." 



THE WIRE AND CABLE CO. (MONTREAL). 



This company is engaged in the manufacture of bare cop- 

 per wire, and weatherproof and insulated wires and cables, in- 

 volving work in paper, lead, and rubber insulation. The com- 

 pany has hitherto purchased its rubber compound from the 

 rubber factories in the Dominion, but has recently installed an 

 equipment of washers, calenders, etc., for making insulating 



