September i, 1905.] 



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=:The directors of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. 

 have declared the twenty-sixth regularquarterly dividend of i }t 

 per cent, on the preferred shares of the company, out of earn- 

 ings, payable on September 15 to shareholders of record at the 

 close of business on September 5. Checks will be mailed to reg- 

 istered addresses. 



=The Falcon Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut) have 

 been undergoing a reorganization, following the resignation of 

 C. E. Longden as superintendent and Dennis B. Martin as head 

 of the sales department. It has been understood that Adam 

 Best, formerly connected with the Newton Rubber Works, will 

 succeed Mr. Ldngden. The Falcon Rubber Co. was incorpo- 

 rated February 29 1904. with $60,000 capital authorized and has 

 been at work since September last until within a few weeks 

 manufacturing druggists' sundries. 



= The factory of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. resumed 

 work on August 21 after a summer shutdown of one week. 



^The tennis shoe department of the National India Rubber 

 Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) was closed on August 26 for a period 

 which it was reported would last 10 days. 



= The two factories of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. resumed 

 work on August 22. after the usual summer shutdown. 



= At the fourth annual meeting of the National Cycle Asso- 

 ciation, held at the Astor House, July 25-26, Mr. J. W. Bow- 

 man, of The Fisk Rubber Co. (Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts) 

 was one of the committee appointed to report on the advisa- 

 bility of restricted prices and the formation of an association of 

 manufacturers. 



= The Sibley Sandstone Brick Co. (Sibley, Michigan) is re- 

 ported to have a contract to supply 2.500,000 brick to be used 

 in the construction of the factory of Morgan & Wright, at De- 

 troit. 



= Beginning with the middle of August the factories of the 

 I. B. Kleinert Rubber Co. (College Point, New York) closed 

 for two weeks for the making of needed repairs and the instal- 

 lation of an electric power plant. 



= The B. F. Goodrich Co. (Akron, Ohio) are reported to 

 have purchased, in conjunction with the Young Women's 

 Christian Association, a $10,000 residence property in Akron 

 for the purpose of providing a factory girls' home. 



= The American Hard Rubber Co. are reported to be install- 

 ing a new system of water mains for fire purposes at their fac- 

 tory at College Point, New York. The old gas holders from 

 which the village was supplied by gas prior to the consolida- 

 tion with New York city will serve as reservoirs, the water be- 

 ing derived from artesian wells. 



= Dlckinson Hard Rubber Co. (Springfield, Massachusetts) 

 on August 3 made an assignment for the benefit of cred- 

 itors to Robert C. Cooley, a lawyer of Springfield. The com- 

 pany have not been engaged in manufacturing rubber goods 

 for several years, but made a specialty of twittons made of a 

 compound. Carl D. Stickney is president and P. M. Taylor 

 treasurer. The capital stock is §40,000. It is stated that cer- 

 tain mortgages interfered with the conversion of the profits 

 into assets. The business will be continued for the present by 

 the assignee. The liabilities are stated at $62,282.04 and the 

 assets at $43,079.21. 



= Merchants' Rubber Co. — William Morse, president (New 

 York), who were burned out in March last, have returned to 

 their former quarters. No. 139 Duane street, after having been 

 temporarily installed on the opposite side of the street. 



=The two factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. resumed 

 work on August 13, after the summer shutdown. It is under- 

 stood that the ticket is the same as when the shops closed, 

 about three-quarters time. 



=The fire brigade of the Hood Rubber Co. did j; ■ : k on 

 the afternoon of August 11, in connection with the town iire 

 department, in putting out a fire which, without the prompt at- 

 tention it received, might have caused much damage. As it 

 was, the loss did not exceed $1500, and was covered by insur- 

 ance. 



= The annual shutdown of the factory of L. Candee & Co. 

 (New Haven, Connecticut) began with the close of the week 

 ending August 19, and, it is reported, will continue six weeks. 



= William Hodgkinson, whose resignation as superintendent 

 of the National India Rubber Co. was reported in these pages 

 on July I, has been appointed as superintendent of manufac- 

 turing by the Electric Hose and Rubber Co. (Wilmington, 

 Delaware), and entered upon his new post. Mr. Hodgkinson 

 was connected with the National India-Rubber Co. for 12 years. 

 = For many years a member of the Conant Rubber Co., Mr. 

 Herbert I. Conant has definitely abandoned the manufacture 

 of rubber goods and gone into insurance. He now represents 

 the New York Life Insurance Co., with an office at No. 60 

 State street, Boston, to which address all of his friends are 

 cordially bidden. 



= Charles A. Emerson, purchasing agent of the United States 

 Rubber Co., might properly be classed among the great Amer- 

 ican travelers. Every week he spends three days at the New 

 York offices of the company, and the rest of the time is devoted 

 to visiting its factories. He visits most of the mills, in New 

 England at least, every week. Purchasing supplies for eight 

 or ten factories, each with a daily output of from 15,000 to 

 50,000 pairs of rubber footwear, might be called a fairly im- 

 portant position, without the additional effort involved In 

 travel. 



THE CINCINNATI RUBBER MANUFACTURING CO. 

 This new company reports greater progress than had been 

 expected, the buildings having been practically completed, the 

 Whitman & Barnes plant at Akron dismantled, and much of 

 the machinery in place in the new location. It is now ex- 

 pected that the factory will be at least in partial operation be- 

 fore the middle of this month. Manager W. G. Brown says : 

 " We propose to confine our operations just as largely to the 

 jobbing interests in connection with large concerns as possible, 

 keeping away from the small trade and allowing our jobbing 

 connections to handle them. We have an admirable location, 

 the best of shipping facilities, a good steady labor market, and 

 there is no reason why the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. should not show the same degree of progress as have sev- 

 eral of the older companies that are to day without an equal. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



The Hon. L. D. Apsley, president of the Apsley Rubber Co. 

 (Hudson, Massachusetts), during his recent vacation at Swamp- 

 scott, Mass., won a reputation as an expert angler. 



= Mr. Frederick T. Ryder, assistant general manager of the 

 Boston Rubber Shoe Co., has been spending his summer va- 

 cation on Lake Sunapee, in New Hampshire. 



= Mr. R. L. Chipman of the firm of George A. Alden & Co. 

 (Boston) is constantly reaping honors in golf. One of his latest 

 triumphs was the winning of the first prize at the Invitation 

 Tournament between the Hatherly and Allston Golf Clubs. 

 There were 52 starters, Chipman's net score being 72. 



= Mr. R. H. Pease, of the Goodyear Rubber Co. (San Fran- 

 cisco and Portland), accompanied by his wife and son, R. H. 

 Pease, Jr., have been spending the summer months in Portland, 

 as has been their custom for several years. The daughter of 

 the family, a favorite in Portland society, having been married 

 recently, is spending the season abroad. 



