July i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



347 



NKWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



THE Nl.W RUBBF.R FACTORY AT DAYTON, OHIO. 

 '^J ^ H E Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., nieniioned in 



I the last issue o( this Journal as having been incorpo- 

 rated to acquire the factory of the Dayton Rubber Co., 

 which went into liquidation without having begun to 

 make goods, have been organized by the election of the follow- 

 ing officers : 



Prfsii/ftiZ—E. P. HoovEN, Xenia, Ohio. 



KiV<- Presidtnl — J. C. Hooven, Hamilton, Ohio. 



Sect etary ami T>r-a]iirf>:—CLAVD¥.C. IIoovKN, Dayton, Ohio. 



AJMlioiial /Hirclors. — C. E. 1I^•.I^KK and C. O. Kn htek. 



J. C. Hooven is president and C. (). Richter secretary of The 

 Hooven, Owens. Renischler Co., of Hamilton. Mr. Heiser, 

 another director, is president of the Second National Hank of 

 Hamilton. The new company are capitalized at $150,000, 

 of which $100,000 is understood to be paid in. The company 

 expect to begin operations by July i, making a general line of 

 mechanical rubber goods. Some additions will be made to the 

 plant just acquired, besides which a reclaiming plant will be es- 

 tablished. 



A NEW RUBBER RECLAIMING COMPANY. 



Application for a charter under the laws of Pennsylvania 

 has been made by The S. &. L. Rubber Co., who have acquired 

 premises at Chester, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of reclaim- 

 ing rubber from old boots and shoes, and expect to be able to 

 begin supplying their product by the end of the present month. 

 The only subscribers to the capital stock of the company are 

 James M. Stotesbury and Joel H. Leeds. Mr. Stotesbury has 

 been identified with rubber reclaiming for a number of years. 

 In 1881 the acid process of reclaiming was taken up by his firm 

 of J. M. Stotesbury & Co., which subsequently became the 

 Philadelphia Rubber Works. Mr. Leeds was until recently 

 superintendent of the Philadelphia Rubber Works, which po- 

 sition he tilled for 18 years. Mr. Leeds is an expert manufact- 

 urer, and Mr. Stotesbury widely known in the trade in connec- 

 tion with the marketing of reclaimed rubber. 



THE CINCINNATI RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 TiiK officials of this new company, formed to acquire the 

 rubber department of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing 

 Co. (Akron, Ohio), hope to be able to occupy early in August 

 the model plant now being erected in Norwood, a manufactur- 

 ing siburb of Cincinnati, on thelineofthe I^alli more and Ohio 

 Southwestern railroad. The factory, which is of modern mill 

 construction, will consist of 8 separate buildings, arranged in 

 the form of the letter L and contain a floor area of 90,000 

 square feet. Plans have been prepared with a view to the ad- 

 dition later of another wing. The power equipment embraces 

 a battery of boilers of 800 HP. The mill room is to be driven 

 by a direct type Corliss engine of 400 Hi'. One 150 kilowatt 

 electric generator is to be driven by a 200 HP. Corliss engine. 

 A portion of the plant will be run by small individual motors. 

 As soon as the buildings are ready for occupancy the manufac- 

 turing plant now in operation at Akron will be moved to Nor- 

 wood. The general management, as already reported, will de- 

 volve upon Mr. W. G. Brown, who has been connected for some 

 years past with Messrs. Whitman & Barnes. The president of 

 the company and one of the largest shareholders is Dr. J. M. 

 Crawford, who represented the United States as consul general 

 at St. Petersburg for 10 years, ending in 1S96, and wrote a book 

 on Russia, having made a close study of the people and the 



economic and political conditions there. Later he went into 

 business in Cincinnati, and is now president of the Smith & 

 Nixon Piano Manufacturing Co.. three banks, and a coal min- 

 ing company, in addition to being a director in several other 

 financial and industrial enterprises and vice president of the 

 Cincinnati Business Men's Club. 



A REMOVAL IN THE CHICAGO TRADE. 



The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. report that the 

 increase in their business in the territory of which Chicago is 

 the center has rendered it necessary to have more space. They 

 have, therefore, moved their Chicago headquarters to Nos. 

 14.5- 149 West Lake street, where they occupy the entire build- 

 ing of three floors and a basement, comprising about 20,000 

 square feet of floor area. The building is entirely new, having 

 been finished with special reference to its present use, and is 

 held under a long lease. The location with reference to in- 

 coming and outgoing carload shipments is particularly desira- 

 ble, and the move is one which the company are already very 

 much pleased with. Mr. K. H, Huxley is in charge as man- 

 ager. 



THE CANADIAN RUBBF.R CO. OF MONTREAL, LIMITED. 



When the work already commenced on the new factories of 

 this company at I'apineau avenue and Notre Dame street has 

 been completed, this latest addition to the already notable 

 plant of the company will form a distinct ornament to Papi- 

 neau avenue, as several buildings now on the premises will be 

 torn down to make room for new buildings of more modern 

 design and improved appearance. New roofs will be placed 

 over the existing factory buildings, and other marked im- 

 provements made. All the contemplated improvements, it is 

 anticipated, will be completed by the end of 1906. 



CATASAUQUA RUBBER CO. OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



The India Rubbf.r World is advised that the company 

 above named, operating at Catasauqua, Pa., are in no way af- 

 fected by the appointment of a receiver by the United States 

 courts for the Catasauqua Rubber Co., incorporated July 21, 

 1904, under the laws of the District of Columbia, said receiver 

 being appointed on the application of William MacDonald, a 

 share holder in the last named corporation. The business was 

 reorganized some months ago and a Pennsylvania charter ob- 

 tained, under date of February 16, 1905, the assets of the old 

 company being acquired by the new. 



UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION. 



Articles of incorporation of the above named company 

 were filed in the office of the secretary of state of New Jersey 

 on May2,byJohn Reynolds, William Berdan,and Frank Bled- 

 hill, all giving Paterson. N. J., as their address. The author- 

 ized capital stock is $50.000,000— in $25 shares, of which S15,- 

 000,000 shall be preferred and $35 000,000 common stock. The 

 declared purpose is to make and deal in all forms and classes 

 of machinery and implements used in the manufacture of 

 boots, shoes, and other footwear, either in leather or rubber 

 goods. A circular issued by the new corporation offers to pur- 

 chase all outstanding shares of the United Shoe Machinery 

 Co. (lioston), which is also a New Jersey corporation, that shall 

 on or before June 29, 1905, be deposited with certain named 

 trust companies, the authorized capital stock of the new com- 

 pany not required for the purposes of this olTer to be reserved 

 for future issue for the acquisition of additional properties and 



