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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1902. 



Works have the unusual record of running the last four years 

 without a day's shutdown for repairs, or because of lack of 

 orders. In fact, during part of the time they were obliged to 

 work nights. 



C. EDWARD MURRAY. 



Somewhere back in 1883 General William H. Skirm, of 

 Trenton, New Jersey, furnished capital for a young man to 

 start in the rubber reclaiming business. In this he made no 

 mistake, for almost from the start the business was successful 



and the advances 

 that he made were 

 all repaid with in- 

 terest. Ouite re- 

 cently the young 

 man who is the 

 subject of this 

 sketch had it in 

 his power to se- 

 cure capital and 

 protect General 

 Skirm's stock- 

 holdings in an- 

 other rubber fac- 

 tory, this in a mea- 

 sure repaying the 

 help given by the 

 general at an earli- 

 er date. C. Ed- 

 ward Murray is 

 perhaps as well known as any man in New Jersey to day, both 

 in manufacturing and political circles. In the latter he is, and 

 has been since 1894, clerk of the City. He was also for some 

 time on the staff of General Skirm, being paymaster of the Sev- 

 enth Regiment of the National Guard of New Jersey. He is 

 the founder and a large stockholder in the Crescent Belting 

 and Packing Co., a prosperous concern in Trenton, manufac- 

 turing mechanical rubber goods, and also of the Crescent In- 

 sulated Wire and Rubber Co., which does a large business in 

 wire covering. He has also recently become treasurer of the 

 Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co.. in which General Skirm is 

 a prominent figure. 



THE TRADE IN RUBBER FOOTWEAR. 

 A PUBLISHED statement credited to an otTicial of the United 

 States Rubber Co. is to the effect that their shipments of rub- 

 ber footwear so far this year have been in excess of the corre- 

 sponding period of 1901, although last year a special discount 

 of 5 per cent, had been offered to induce early orders. This 

 means that this year's business has been secured at full prices 

 without any extra inducements and this fact, in connection 

 with the lower prices of crude rubber than prevailed last year, 

 is mentioned as an indication that a better showing of profits 

 will appear in the next annual balance sheet. 



WHAT RUBBER COMPANY IS THIS ? 



London, September 21. — An American company will open 

 a factory at Glasgow tomorrow with 200 employes, to supply 

 British golfers with American golf balls. In a month the 

 company expects to be turning out 12,000 balls daily. 



Glasgow, September 23. — Operations have been commenced 

 on the factory of The Diamond Rubber Co., to be built here. 

 American machinery is to be installed. Among those mter- 

 ested in the project in England is W. Alexander Smith, vice 

 president of the Diamond Match Co. 



Akron, Ohio, September 24.— Both Mr. Miller and Mr. 

 Noah, of The Diamond Rubber Co., inform The India Rub- 



ber World's correspondent that they know nothing about a 

 new rubber factory in Scotland, and that their company have 

 none such in contemplation. They are at a loss to know how 

 such a report could have arisen. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president ol the United States 

 Rubber Co., has returned from his vacation trip to Europe, and 

 is again to be found at the New York offices of the company. 

 While abroad he began some important negotiations looking 

 to direct importations of crude rubber by his company, further 

 details of which appear on another page. 



= Mr. Frank Cazenove Jones, president of The Manhattan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), has entirely recovered 

 his health and is back again at the head of his prosperous con- 

 cern. 



= Mr. John P. Lyons, advertising manager of the United 

 States Rubber Co., is one of the busiest men in New York to- 

 day, planning a most aggressive advertising campaign for the 

 coming year. 



= Mr. W. F. Bowers, president of the Bowers Rubber Co., 

 San Francisco, California, is on a visit to the Atlantic coast. 



= Mr. Arthur F. Townsend, vice president of the Manhattan 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), has just returned from 

 a brief trip to St. Louis. 



= Mr. J. Edwin Davis, acting manager of the Republic Rub- 

 ber Co. (Yourgstown, Ohio), was a recent visitor to New York 

 and Boston. 



= Mr. Reuben Allerton, a cousin of George M. Allerton, 

 treasurer of the Seamless Rubber Co. (New Haven), has just 

 returned from some years' residence abroad, with some exceed- 

 ingly interesting specialties and inventions in the line of rub- 

 ber. 



= Mr. F. C. Hood, treasurer of the Hood Rubber Co. (Bos- 

 ton), has just returned from a three months' pleasure trip 

 abroad. 



= Mr. Arthur W. Stedman, of the firm ol George A. Alden & 

 Co. (Boston), has just returned from Vermont, where he was 

 the guest of the well-known author, Winston Churchill, at his 

 beautiful home at Windsor. While there he was invited to 

 join a hunting party on the magnificent 55 000 acre game pre- 

 serve of the late Austin Corbin, and incidentally was one of 

 those who welcomed President Roosevelt as he passed through 

 the Green Mountain state. 



= Mrs. Emma Tyree Banigan, widow of the late William B. 

 Banigan, of the rubber trade, was mairied to Mr. Timothy L. 

 O'Connor, of Providence, Rhode Island, on September 9. 



= A number of first and second prizes, at the fall exhibition 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at Boston, were 

 awarded for flowers and plants from the conservatories of the 



Hon. E. S. Converse, president of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. 



* * * 



A corporation has been formed under the style J. H. Sted- 

 man & Co., Inc., with a Massachusetts charter, to continue the 

 business of J. H. Stedman & Co., buyers and sellers of domes- 

 tic and foreign rubber scrap, at No. 200 Summer street, Bos- 

 ton. James H. Stedman is president, George H. Stedman 

 secretary, and Selden W.Tyler, a business man of Lynn, Mass., 

 treasurer. Date of organization, September 17. 



= The address of the New England selling agency of The 

 Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton) was erroneously 

 given in the last India Rubber World. The selling agent, 

 W. M. Farwell, retains the location which he has occupied for 

 ten years in the rubber business— No. 276 Devonshire street, 

 Boston. A. P. Spear, formerly with the Boston Woven Hose 

 and Rubber Co., has become connected with this agency. 



