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Sheldon explained to The India Rubber World: " In the 

 way o( an explanation for making this change I would state 

 that for the past two years we have been abandoning our 

 branch house system for the purpose of dealing directly with 

 the jobbers. Formerly our branch houses sold quite an amount 

 of rubber goods; this led us into the manufacturing of same 

 ourselves so that, doing away with the branch houses, there is 

 no necessity for us to manufacture these goods as in times 

 past. Another reason is that we are confining our manufac- 

 ture to a line of machinists' supplies to a large extent and 

 as you will readily see the rubber business is quite foreign to 

 this line of goods." Mr. Sheldon asserted thai the change was 

 not due to any idea that there was no longer money to be made 

 in the rubber industry. The Whitman & Barnes company estab- 

 lished their rubber plant at Akron about eight years ago, and 

 W. G. Brown, who had been with the Cleveland Rubber Works 

 ten years, entered their employ at the beginning of 1902. 

 THE VOORHEES RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 VoORHEES Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Jersey City, New 

 Jersey) have consolidated their New York sales office, hitherto 

 at No. 150 Nassau street, and their vehicle tire department, at 

 No. 303 West 54th street, in a new location. No. 54 Dey street, 

 where, in larger premises than they have before occupied, they 

 have opened a store with a complete stock of hose, belting, 

 packings, valves, mats, and mattings, tubing, etc., and where 

 they carry and apply the Voorhees solid rubber tire. 

 "ELASTIC COMPOUND." 



William H. Scheel, No. 159 Maiden lane. New York, an 

 importer of high grade rubber substitutes, antimonies, colors, 

 fillers, and the like, for rubber workers' use, has recently intro- 

 duced what he calls an Elastic Compound, a high grade hydro- 

 carbon, designed to be used by makers of mechanical goods, 

 footwear, etc. It is a high grade product, uniform in quality. 

 Formulas for the application of Elastic Compound and other 

 products may be obtained by manufacturers upon request. Mr_ 

 Scheel has added gilsonile and mineral rubber to the list of 

 goods supplied by him. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



M. AND S. Tire Co., April 12, 1905, under Massachusetts 

 laws; authorized capital, $200,000. Incorporators: Franklin 

 G. Saylor, Franklin ; Horace N. Smith, Salem ; and George H. 

 Blake, Concord — all of Massachusetts. 



= The Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co., April 8, 1905, 

 under Ohio laws, to manufacture rubber goods ; capital, $250,- 

 000. Incorporators: W. G. Brown, S. D. Baldwin, Fred. A. 

 Geier, J. M. Crawford, James A. Green. 



= International Manufacturing Co., April 19, under Connec- 

 ticut laws, to make and deal in rubber goods ; capital (stated 

 to be full paid). .$75,000. Incorporators: Lucius F. Robinson 

 and Ralph O. Wells, of Hartford, and William B. Reid, New 

 York city. The holders of the shares are : Lewis D. Parker, 

 West Hartford, 187; Arthur S. Hyde. Hartford, 1S7 ; S. Terry 

 Pollak, Mexico city, 187; W. B. Reid, 186; E. B. Redfield, L. 

 S. Robinson, R. O. Wells, all of Hartford, i each. L. D. Par- 

 ker is president and treasurer, and A. S. Hyde vice president 

 and secretary. All the shareholders named are directors. Lewis 

 D. Parker was for a number of years connected with the Hart- 

 ford Rubber Works Co., of which he ceased to be president at 

 the annual meeting on June 7, 1904. The Hartford newspapers 

 have since reported the intention of Mr. Parker to sue that 

 company for alleged abrogation of contract without cause. 



= Amsterdam Rubber Co. (Nos. 105 107 Reade street, New 

 York), March 30, 1905, under New York laws; capital, §25,000. 

 Incorporators: Edward R. Rice, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Walter S. 

 Ballou, Providence, R. I.; Charles W. Barnes, New York. Ob- 



ject, to handle the products of The Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. 

 in New York city and the surrounding territory. The Banigan 

 Rubber Co. of Buffalo, the incorporation of which was reported 

 last month, will handle the Banigan products in the territory 

 of which Buffalo, New York, is the center. 



= Case Chicle Co. (Rochester, N. Y.), April 7, 1905, under 

 New York laws, to manufacture chewing gum; capital, $200,- 

 000. Directors : Charles V. Case, William Horcheler, and 

 Louis L. Williams — all of Rochester. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



At the annual meeting of shareholders of The Gutta Percha 

 and Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), on April 5, the 

 retiring board of directors was reelected, and subsequently the 

 officers of the company were also reelected. No other busi- 

 ness was transacted. 



= The annual meeting of shareholders of the Manufactured 

 Rubber Co. will be held at the registered offices of the com- 

 pany, in Camden, New Jersey, on Wednesday, May 10. 



=The Republic Rubber Co. (Youngstown, Ohio), have filed 

 a certificate with the secretary of state of Ohio, of the increase 

 of their capital stock from $400,000 to $1,000,000, this increase 

 having been rendered desirable by the recent growth of their 

 business. 



=The Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) at last 

 accounts were very busy in the footwear department, increasing 

 the daily ticket of shoes and reemploying the boot makers who 

 were recently laid off. 



= The Fisk Rubber Co.'s factory (Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts) was closed for only a day and a half for the annual in- 

 ventory, at the beginning of April. 



= Iroquois Rubber Co. — F. C. Howlett, president — jobbers of 

 rubber footwear and clothing, Nos. 4345 Pearl street, Buffalo, 

 New York, advise The India Rubber World : " The reports 

 of the newspapers with reference to our having sustained loss 

 by fire [on April i] are erroneous. We have a very close call, 

 but fortunately were not damaged at all. The fire started in 

 the wholesale boot and shoe house of G. E. Thing & Co., two 

 doors from us, but the firemen were able to control same before 

 it reached us." 



= The Globe Mills Rubber Co. (Lawrence, Massachusetts) 

 have taken title to the property known as the Globe Worsted 

 Mills from Leonard C. Moore, treasurer of the corporation, who 

 recently purchased the same from the American Woolen Co. 

 There are i J3 acres of land ; the principal mill building of brick, 

 200 X 50 feet, part two and part three stories ; a smaller wooden 

 building, and water power rights. It is understood that the 

 first production will be tennis shoes, and that the making of rub- 

 ber shoes will be begun in time to figure in next winter's trade. 



= At a meeting of the Central Labor Union of Lawrence, 

 Massachusetts, on the evening of April 12, communications 

 were received from the various local labor organizations re- 

 questing the central body to see to it that the factory of the 

 newly organized Globe Mills Rubber Co. was made a union 

 shop. 



= The uniformed base ball team of George Borgfeldt & Co. 

 (New York) are ready for challenges. This team lost but one 

 game during the entire season last year. Challenges may be 

 addressed to Manager C. H. Norton, No. 48 West Fourth street, 

 New York. 



= H. B. Camp, president of The Faultless Rubber Co., is in- 

 terested in the National Fireproofing Co., who are erecting a 

 plant at Independence, Ohio, for the manufacture of under- 

 ground electrical conduits, for which it is understood that a 

 number of advance orders have been received, especially for 

 exports to Europe. 



