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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 



1905. 



Wilfred DuPuy and Herbert DuPuy, Pittsburgh ; Wilmer 

 Dunbar, Akron, Ohio. The principal office of the company is 

 stated to be at Grapeville, Pa. 



= Central Rubber Co., May 17, 1905, under Maine laws ; capi- 

 tal, $300,000. II. M. Heath is named as president and W. S. 

 Lee treasurer — both of Augusta, Maine. This is understood 

 to be the company formed to exploit the rubber reclaiming 

 process of C. S. Heller, of Akron, Ohio, who has been active of 

 late in trying to get the citizens of Olathe, Kansas, to offer a 

 bonus for the location of a factory at that place. Cassius M. 

 Gilbert, of Kansas City, Missouri, is active in the development 

 of the company. 



= Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. of Boston, May 12, 1905, 

 under Massachusetts laws; capital, S5000. The object is to 

 carry on the business of the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. 

 (New York) in Boston and its vicinity. James A. Dodd (New 

 York) is president and Frederick A. Seaman (Madison, N.J.) 

 treasurer. 



= The Luzerne Rubber Co., April 29, 1905. under New Jersey 

 laws; to make hard rubber goods and mechanical rubber 

 goods ; capital, $5o,ooo. Incorporators: Bruce Bedford, Charles 

 D. Wilson, and Joseph L. Bartine — all of Trenton. Bruce Bed- 

 ford has been elected president, J. L. Bartine vice president, 

 and C. Dudley Wilson secretary and treasurer. Registered 

 agen'. ; J. L. Bartine, No. 4 East State street, Trenton, N. J. 



.= Wm. F. Mayo & Co., May 3, 1905, under New York laws; 

 capital $5000 ; to carry on the business in New York city and its 

 vicinity of Wm. F. Mayo & Co., Boston wholesalers of rubber 

 footwear. Officeis: George H. Mayo (Boston), president; 

 William H. Mayo (Boston), secretary; James H. Kirkland 

 (New York), treasurer and manager. Mr. Kirkland has repre- 

 sented the Messrs Mayo for sometime as salesman in New York 

 city, and last summer a store was opened at No. 105 Reade 

 street, in his charge, so as to be more convenient for the New 

 York trade, which will now be carried on by the New York cor- 

 poration. It is in a way a branch of the Boston store, and will 

 handle goods from the Mayo stocks exclusively. 



= Para Recovery Co. (Jersey City), May 20, 1905, under New 

 Jersey laws ; capital §100,000, of which $50,000 has been paid 

 in. Incorporators: Louis B. Dailey, Thomas F.Barrett, and 

 H. O. Coughlan, all of Jersey City. The object of the company 

 is to reclaim rubber under processes of George E. Heyl-Dia. 



= The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., May 17, 1905, un- 

 der Ohio laws; capital, §150,000. Incorporators: J. C. Hooven, 

 C. C. Hooven, E. P. Hooven, Charles P. Heiser (president of 

 the Second National Bank of Dayton), and C. O. Richter. 

 The object is to acquire and operate the factory which was 

 erected last year by the Dayton Rubber Co. now in liquidation. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Home Rubber Co. (Trenton, New Jersey) have removed 

 their Chicago branch to Nos. 54-60 South Canal street, where 

 they have opened an office and warehouse fitted with all the 

 modern appliances, and where a large stock of goods is carried. 

 Mr. William J. M. Weaver is manager. 



= The Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Passaic, N. J.) 

 supplied the equipment of conveyor belting for the new 2,000,- 

 000 bushel grain elevator of the New York Central and Hudson 

 River railroad, at Weehawken, New Jersey, the total length of 

 belts, of various types, being approximately 2}. miles. 



= Robinson & Tallman, crude rubber merchants, have re- 

 moved their offices from No. 64 Stone street to No. 140 Pearl 

 street. New York. The firm now have a New England repre- 

 seutative in Mr. Frederick Higginson, of Thomas F. Edmunds 

 iV' Co., with headquarters at No. 70 Kilby street, Boston. 



=The Fulton Rubber Type Co., (No. 544 Broadway, New 

 York) will remove their factory to Elizabeth, New Jersey, hav- 

 ing leased the old Eugene Munsell stove foundry in that city 

 for a term of years. Their factory lately has been on Frank- 

 fort street. New York. This is a large concern of its class, in- 

 cluding in its business an extensive export trade, and will give 

 employment at Elizabeth to 75 persons. 



= Henry A. Gould Co., crude rubber merchants. New York, 

 announce that, owing to the intended demolition of the prem- 

 ises lately occupied by them, they have removed to No. 227 

 Fulton street, corner of Greenwich. 



= The works of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. (Trenton, N. 

 J.) are referred to as drawing steel wire of a diameter of only 

 i-iooo of an inch. One pound of the wire will reach nearly 70 

 miles. The wire is made from steel, the commercial value of 

 which, in the billet, is about $50 a ton. The expense of draw- 

 ing is so great that a ton of the finished wire would be worth 

 more than $80,000. 



= The principal offices of the Pope Manufacturing Co., man- 

 ufacturers of automobiles and bicycles, have been removed 

 from New York to their factory, at Hartford, Connecticut. 

 Hereafter Pope interests in New York will be cared for at the 

 Pope garage, where Elliott Mason (who has been a Pope repre- 

 sentative for more than 20 years) and Robert E. Fulton are in 

 charge. 



=The Editor of The India Rubber World is pleased to 

 acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to the ninth annual 

 picnic of the Peerless Mutual Aid Association — composed of 

 employes of the Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. — to be 

 held on June 10, at Union Hill, New Jersey. The last preced- 

 ing entertainment of this successful association was reported 

 in the March issue of this Journal (page 2o8j. 



= Notice is given of the dissolution by mutual consent of 

 the partnership heretofore existing between Henry P. Rinds- 

 kopf and Abraham T. Rindskopf, under the style of Rindskopf 

 Brothers, No. 397 Sumner avenue, Brooklyn, New York. The 

 business will be continued by Henry P. Rindskopf. The busi- 

 ness is the manufacture of rubber goods marketed under the 

 names Brooklyn Rubber Co., Brooklyn Hard Rubber Co., and 

 Brooklyn Shield Co. 



= Mr. J. Del Grego, foreman since 1890 of the cutting depart- 

 ment of the Banner Rubber Co. (St. Louis), on resigning re- 

 cently to become connected with another business, was pre- 

 sented by the employes of his department with a handsome 

 gold headed cane. 



= The Des Moines Rubber Co., rubber shoe jobbers of Des 

 Moines, lowa.at theannual meeting on April 18, voted to amend 

 the bylaws to provide that, beginning in 1906, the shareholders 

 should meet on Wednesday after the first Tuesday in April of 

 each year. Mr. A. B. George is president of the company. 



= The Akron Dental Rubber Co. (Akron) have filed with the 

 secretary of state of Ohio a certificate of reduction of capital 

 from $125,000 to $25,000. 



= Mr. George W. Richardson, of the Richardson & Erlin Co. 

 (San Francisco), representatives on the Pacific coast of the 

 Hardman Rubber Co. (Belleville, N. J.), was a recent visitor to 

 the East, favoring The India Rubber World offices with a 

 call. 



= Indianapolis Rubber Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana) advise 

 The India Rubber World that the fire on their premises on 

 the night of May 12 was confined to a small building in the rear 

 of their factory, used for storing rubber scrap. The fire was dis- 

 covered by some of their employes who were at work near by, 

 and extinguished without difficulty, with a loss not to exceed 

 Si 000. 



