June i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= The Banner Rubber Co. (St. Louis) have been making some 

 extensive changes in and additions to their factory, involving 

 the installation of new machinery purchased by Superintendent 

 Ernest C. Clark on a recent visit to the East. 



= Mr. Eben H. Paine, manager of sales of the United States 

 Rubber Co., sailed for Europe on May 19. He is to be gone 

 about six weeks, visiting Great Britain, France, and Germany 

 in the interest of his company. 



=rThe treasury department at Washington announces that on 

 the exportation of imported rubber tires known as the " Conti- 

 nental " tires, imported by the Continental Caoutchouc Co. 

 (New York), to which valves of domestic manufacture have 

 been fitted by said company in accordance with their sworn 

 statement, dated April 5, 1905, a drawback will be allowed 

 equal in amount to the duty paid on the imported tires, less 

 the legal deduction of i per cent. 



^^Application for articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the St. Louis Rubber and Leather Belting Co., to have $3,000 

 capital, full paid. Incorporators; Harry W. Huthsing 28 

 shares; Ford W. Thompson and Amelia E. Leusser one share 

 each. 



= B. G. V'olger Rubber Stamp Ink Pad Co. have completed 

 their new mill at Passaic, New Jersey, and removed the ma- 

 chinery from the old to the new building. 



= The Falcon Rubber Co. (New Haven), incorporated in 1904 

 to manufacture rubber druggists' sundries, have filed with the 

 secretary of state of Connecticut a certificate of increase of 

 capital stock from §60,000 to §90,000. 



=The rubber goods required by the bureau of engraving and 

 printing of the Treasury department at Washington for the 

 fiscal year beginning July i, 1905, embrace 1000 yards of rubber 

 cloth 45 inches wide, 400 yards 36 inches wide 24 printers' 

 blankets iS X 26 inches, 300 pounds rubber bands for truck 

 wheels, and 175 pairs of rubber boots. Bids for supplying such 

 goods were opened on March 20. 



= Mr. Fred. Hall Jones, for some twenty years connected 

 with the selling department of the Tyer Rubber Co. ( Andover, 

 Massachusetts), has been elected general manager of that com- 

 pany. This appointment is one that the whole trade will feel 

 is a fitting tribute to the marked business ability that Mr. Jones 

 has shown. 



= The Vulcanized Rubber Co. have inaugurated a fire drill 

 among the operatives of their factory at Morrisville, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



= Rubber Balloon Co. of America (Newark, New Jersey) on 

 the night of May 9 suffered a damage to their factory, by fire 

 from an unknown cause, estimated at §7000. The company ad- 

 vised The India Ri;bber World that they hoped to resume 

 business on May 29. They added ; " Within a lew days after 

 that date we will be operating with a larger output than im- 

 mediately previous to the fire." 



= Marion Insulated Wire and Rubber Co. (Marion, Indiana) 

 are reported to have had a recent visit from two representatives 

 of the Japanese government, who left an important order for 

 insulated wire, to be shipped as soon as the same can be manu- 

 factured. 



= A St. Louis court having, some time ago, fined W. E. Hem- 

 enover, as manager of the Banner Rubber Co. for a violation of 

 the dense smoke ordinance, the company appealed the case on 

 the plea that Mr. Hemenover was not " manager " but the sec- 

 retary of the company. The higher court aflirmed the decis- 

 ion, finding that Mr. Hemenover had some supervision over 

 the company's plant, and therefore was responsible. The court 

 said that if Hemenover was not " manager " in the meaning of 

 the law, then all that the company would have to do to escape 



responsibility would be to decline to name any person as man- 

 ager. 



=The members of the fire companies at College Point. Long 

 Island, will celebrate on June 10 the fourtieth anniversary of 

 the Eagle Hook and Ladder Co., of that place. The parade 

 will include the Exempt Volunteer Firemen's Association, who 

 will turn out with the old " Goose-neck " engine which was the 

 first fire apparatus to be used in College Point, by the Enter- 

 prise Hose Co., composed of employes of the old ICnterprise 

 Rubber Works. The Enterprise Rubber Works are now oper- 

 ated by the American Hard Rubber Co., who still own the en- 

 gine referred to. 



= The Suffolk Rubber Co. (Setauket, New York), incorpo- 

 rated in February last, advise The India Ruuber World 

 that their factory will be in operation in the early part of June 

 and that they will make a full line of rubber footwear, includ- 

 ing arctics and snow excluders. Franz S. Cutler, secretary and 

 treasurer of the corporation, is in charge of the management. 



= Mr. Charles H. Arnold, of the rubber importing house of 

 Poel & Arnold (New York and Boston), sails for Europe June 

 2 on a business trip that will last some six weeks. 



=James E. Odell, No. 186 Devonshire street, Boston, has 

 accepted the representation for the New England states of F. 

 R. Miiller & Co., India-rubber and Gutta-percha importers and 

 merchants, of London and Glasgow. 



= The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Consolida- 

 ted Rubber Tire Co. was held on May i at the registered offices 

 at Jersey City, New Jersey, when the retiring board of direc- 

 tors was reelected. The general offices of the company have 

 been removed from No. 40 Wall street to No. 39 Pine street. 

 New York. 



= F. H. Appleton it Son will erect an addition 15 X 100 feet 

 to their rubber reclaiming p'ant at Franklin, Massachusetts. 



= Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. will pay a semi annual 

 dividend of $3 per share on their preferred stock on June 15. 



^The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. have been reducing the num- 

 ber of boot makers in their employ, for the reason that the de- 

 mand for rubber boots is not as great as formerly. Six boot 

 makers discharged recently will be pensioned for life at $25 per 

 month, on account of having been in the employ of the com- 

 pany for 30 years or more. The others discharged recently 

 will receive a sum of money as a gratuity, and the company will 

 endeavor to secure new positions for them. 



^George M. McCallar, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States district 

 court, admitting liabilities of $20,234.70 and no assets. His lia- 

 bilitiesconsist largely of paper endorsed forthe Highland Rub- 

 ber Co. (Reading, Massachusetts), in liquidation, and to a small 

 amount of paper endorsed for the Eastern Rubber Co. (Read- 

 ing), which was incorporated in 1898, and had a brief career. 



= Certain suits having been brought in the courts at Logans- 

 port, Indiana, against William D. Owen, in connection with 

 the affairs of the Ubero plantation companies, counsel for Owen 

 appeared and asserted that he is no longer a resident of that 

 state. As Owen has been in Europe for some time it would 

 thus appear that he has nowhere a legal residence within the 

 jurisdiction of any American court. 



=tThe Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co. lately organ- 

 ized to acquire the rubber plant of the Whitman & Barnes 

 Manufacturing Co. at Akron, Ohio, have purchased 5 acres of 

 land at Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati and awarded contracts 

 for the necessary building. The company hope to be ready for 

 business in their new location by August. 



= Poel & Arnold, crude rubber merchants, have removed 

 their New York offices to No. 277 Broadway. 



