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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1905. 



NEWS OF THE AMERICAN RUBBER TRADE. 



THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. — INCREASE OF CAPITAL. 



THt-: B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron Rubber Works) on July 

 13 filed with the secretary of state of Ohio a certilicats 

 of increase of capital stock, from $5,000,000 to $10,000,- 

 000. The additional shares have been all taken by the 

 former shareholders of the company. The increase has been 

 made necessary partly by the growth of the regular business of 

 the company and partly by their establishment of a boot and 

 shoe department. The building for the new department is rap- 

 idly nearing completion, and the company hope to be operat- 

 ing in it sometime in September. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. — DIVIDEND. 

 The board of directors of the United States Rubber Co. on 

 July 6 declared a regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, 

 upon the preferred stock from the net earnings of the company 

 and its subsidiary companies for the first three months of the 

 fiscal year beginning April i, 1905. The net earnings for the 

 first quarter of the year (June partially estimated) are reported 

 to be $966,751.21. The net earnings for the corresponding 

 period last year were $866,510 32. showing an increase in the 

 earnings this year over last of $100,240,89. The amount re- 

 quired for this dividend is $470,510. 



NATIONAL INDIA RUBBER CO. (BRISTOL, R. I.) 



Lk Baron C. Colt, who was appointed agent of the above 

 named company in January last, has been appointed to the ad- 

 ditional position of superintendent of the factory, in which ca- 

 pacity he will have two assistants, Elwyn C. Fish, and James 

 \V. Franklin. Mr. Fish has been assistant superintendent for 

 some time past, and Mr. Franklin had been foreman of the 

 stitching and packing departments of the factory. The daily 

 output of rubber footwear at this factory at latest reports was 

 about 30,000 pairs, and tiiere were enough orders in hand for 

 rubber goods of various kinds to insure the operation of the 

 factory at its present capacity for several months to come, 

 making work for about 2000 emplo)es. 



HARBURG AND VIENNA INDIA-RUBBER CO. 

 Mr. C. H. Tavlok, one of the managers of the New York 

 agency of the V'ereinigte Gummiwaaren-Fabriken, Harburg- 

 Wien, has lately returned from Europe, where he spent several 

 weeks visiting the various factories of the company. He re- 

 ports the rubber industry in a good condition on the conti- 

 nent, the business of the company named being greater this 

 year than at any former period. The company's American 

 business in red rubber toys and rubber balls is increasing, and 

 they are about to introduce in this country their new motor 

 lires. 



CONSOLIDATED COTTON DUCK CO. 

 [Sec TnK India Ruhhrr World, July i, igo^ — page 348.] 



Plans are reported to be under way for improvements in the 

 large mills of this company around Baltimore. Based upon 

 the recommendations of experts who have been studying the 

 situation for some time past, improvements to cost $1,000,000 

 or more, and which will require at least a year for their com- 

 pletion, have been decided upon for the mills at Hampden, 

 Woodberry, Mount Vernon, and Mount Washington. Old ma- 

 chinery is to be replaced with up to date equipment, and while 

 the number of spindles is not to be increased materially, a 

 larger output is anticipated, with a considerable reduction in 

 the cost of manufacture.' -^ The new company has been organ- 



ized by the election of S. Davies Warfield, chairman of the 

 board; C. K. Oliver, president; D. H. Carroll, vice president 

 and treasurer; H. L. Smith, assistant treasurer; and C. S. 

 Green, assistant secretary 



AMERICAN PRODUCTION CO. (PITTSBURGH) 



[See TnK India Rni.iii-:K World, July i, 1905 — pape 354. ] 



The Denver (Colorado) Republican of July 26 having re- 

 ferred to this company as being interested in the insulation of 

 wire by a special process, in which the Colorado rubber can be 

 utilized. President M. G. Leslie, of the company, replies to an 

 inquiry from The India Rubber World that they are not 

 now prepared to make any statement. " When the matter is 

 fully developed," he says, " we will give you any information 

 that we may have for publication." 



ANOTHER GOl.F BALL PATENT SUIT. 



Suit for alleged infringement of patent has been brought 

 by the Haskell Golf Ball Co. against the Seaman Manufactur- 

 ing Co., of Milwaukee, a corporation of Wisconsin, in the United 

 States circuit court for the eastern district of Wisconsin, the 

 bill of complaint having been filed May 4, 1905. The defendant 

 company manufacture what they call the " Bogey " ball under 

 United States patent No. 730,303, granted to Alonzo D. Sea- 

 man. In its construction small rubber rings are stretched by 

 special machines over a non elastic center until the core has 

 acquired the proper size, when a Gutta-percha cover is ap- 

 plied. The Seaman company announce to the trade their in- 

 tention to " fight the suit to a finish. ' 



ALABAMA RUBBER AND SUPPLY CO. 



This is the style of a jobbing house established at Birming- 

 ham, Alabama, to represent in that state the Mechanical Rub- 

 ber Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. There is carried in stock a full 

 line of the belting, packing, hose, tubing, and plumbers' sup- 

 plies made by that company. The furnace, mine, and mill 

 trade not only of Birmingham but throughout Alabama is so- 

 licited by this house. There is also marketed a line of vehicle 

 tires manufactured for the house and under its brand by the 

 (i jodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio). 



COLORADO RUBBER ITEMS. 



The board of trade of Salida, Colorado, has sent an exhibit, 

 prepared by Secretary O. J. Kennedy, to the Lewis and Clark 

 fair, at Portland, Oregon, for the purpose not only of advertis- 

 ing the city, but of bringing into greater prominence the Colo- 

 rado rubber plant and its product. 



= Articles of incorporation were filed July 8, 1905, with the 

 secretary of state at Lansing, Michigan, by the P. F. U. Rubber 

 Co., with $250,000 capital, the stated object being: "The ex- 

 traction, manufacture, and sale of rubber like gum and the 

 manufacture and sale of articles made therefrom." The opera- 

 tions of the new company are to be carried on at Buena Vista, 

 Colorado. The common stock ($175,000) is represented by a 

 license to Edward C. Dunbar from the American Crude Rub- 

 ber Co., dated May 17, 1905, to extract rubber from the Colo- 

 rado plant by methods covered by patents owned by the Amer- 

 ican company. The company takes its name from the botan- 

 ical term I'tcradenia floribunda iitih's. 



AMERICAN CHICLE CO. — ANNUAL MEETING. 

 A r the annual meeting in Jersey City, New Jersey, on July 

 iS, of the shareholders of the American Chicle Co., the report 

 presented showed that after paying dividends during the year 



