November i, 1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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= Legal proceedings have been instituted by the interests now 

 in control of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. against 

 parties formerly in the company, or in constituent companies, 

 to compel the latter to take up certain unmarketable securities 

 which now figure in the assets of the Rubber Goods company. 

 The securities are reported to be second mortgage bonds of the 

 Park Row Syndicate building, in New York, amounting to 

 $900,000. While interest has been paid regularly on these 

 bonds, there has been no market in which they could be sold at 

 par. The opinion has been expressed in the trade that these 

 bonds will be taken out of the hands of the company without 

 the proposed suits being brought to trial. 



=The Pure Gum Specialty Co. (Barberton, Ohio) are forging 

 ahead and are expanding at a very gratifying rate. They have 

 recently added new machinery and new boilers, and more im- 

 provements and additions are being planned. They have a 

 line trade in some of their patented specialties, besides their 

 regular line of standard dipped goods. 



=The coal strike did not inconvenience the rubber factories 

 at Akron, as most of them had a pretty good supply. A prom- 

 inent manufacturer said one day that he had on hand a supply 

 for 30 days, and as the railroads had only about the same he 

 was not worrying over the strike, for if the roads could not haul 

 the goods there would be no object in making them. 



=The Excelsior Hard Rubber Co. (Mineral City, Ohio) havs 

 started their factory and are now in full swing. They are mak- 

 ing a high grade line of specialties and are doing very nicely. 

 They employabout 25 people and expect to increase their force 

 shortly. 



= S. G. Rigdon, manager of the tire department at the Good- 

 year Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), has resigned and ac- 

 cepted a position with the International Wheel, Tire and Rub- 

 ber Co. William Dean, manager of the Chicago office of the 

 Goodyear company, has taken his place. 



= Edward H. Garcin, vice president of the Trenton Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., and his associates, have purchased for 

 $270,100 in cash the shares of the Pennsylvania Furnace Co. of 

 Philadelphia. At the annual meeting, on October 14, the 

 treasurer's report stated that the furnace output for the year 

 had been 76,263 tons and the net profit $3877. 



= Hamilton M. Lockwood, formerly of the Stoughton Rubber 

 Co., has accepted a position with the Clifton Manufacturing 

 Co., of Boston. 



=The National India Rubber Co. (Bristol, Rhode Island) are 

 reported, in view of the scarcity and high price of fuel, to have 

 furnished to their employes 400 tons of bituminous coal at cost. 



=The Pneumatic Mattress and Cushion Co. (New York), 

 have a very notable exhibit of their goods at the fair now being 

 held at the buildings of the Charitable Mechanics Association 

 in Boston. This exhibit is probably the most complete that has 

 ever been given of pneumatic cushions, embracing the finished 

 cushions and beds of all types, and has something to attract the 

 interest of the passer-by. Skilled workmen are shown making 

 up the goods preparatory to vulcanization. 



= The Apsley Rubber Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts) are man- 

 ufacturing three grades of rubber footwear this season — the 

 " Apsley," " Hudson," and " Middlesex " lines. 



^The Mount Vernon and Woodbury Cotton Duck Co. have 

 closed the Greenwoods mills, at New Hartford, Connecticut, 

 and the machinery is being moved South. A few months ago 

 700 employes were at work in the mills. 



= W. C. Coleman, of Boston, reports a transaction in high 

 grade miscellaneous rubber scrap, amounting to between $24,- 

 000 and $25,000, deliveries to be made to an Eastern mill in 

 weekly shipments for the next three months. 



= The partnership between Lewis S. Hoyt and Benjamin E. 

 Phillips, Jr., under the firm name of Hoyt Rubber Co., at No. 

 280 Dover street, Boston, was dissolved on October 17. The 

 accounts of the firm will be settled by Mr. Phillips, who will 

 continue the business at the same address. 



= The electric department of the Brookline Gas Light Co. 

 (Allston, Massachusetts) has placed an order for a 250 H. p. 

 boiler with the Hazelton Boiler Co. (Rutherford, New Jer- 

 sey.) This makes a total of 1000 h. p. at this plant. A 400 

 H. p. Hazelton boiler has been ordered by the Apsley Rubber 

 Co. (Hudson, Massachusetts.) 



= The Bowers Rubber Co. (San Francisco, California), make 

 a type of hose they call " Sun Proof." The cover of the hose is 

 of a special compound of a bright orange hue, and it has the 

 faculty of resisting sunlight so that the hose lasts wonderfully 

 well. The company are having a large and increasing sale in it. 



= The business of manufacturing bleaching, dyeing, drying, 

 printing and finishing machinery, heretofore conducted by the 

 separate firms of the Granger Foundry and Machine Co., The 

 Thomas Phillips Co., of Providence, Rhode Island, and The 

 Rusden Machine Co., of Warren, Rhode Island, will, after 

 October i, 1902, be conducted by The Textile-Finishing Ma- 

 chinery Co., of Providence, which company has purchased all 

 the interests in the above lines, including patterns, patents, 

 tools, good will, etc., formerly possessed by these concerns. 



= Since 1895 every foot of fire hose used by the fire depart- 

 ment of the city of San Francisco, California, has been manufac- 

 tured by the Bowers Rubber Co., of that city. It speaks well 

 for the life of the goods when one notes that in all that time not 

 one length has failed during service. 



=The office of The Fossil Flour Co. has been returned to 

 New York, at the former location. No. 229 Pearl street, where 

 orders and remittances should be sent to insure prompt atten- 

 tion. 



•=The Bowers Rubber Co. (San Francisco, California) have 

 opened a distributing depot for their goods at No. 44 South 

 Clinton street, Chicago. The Chicago business will be in 

 charge of S. M. Engs. 



= It is reported that the British patents for Bailey's " Good 

 Samaritan " hot water bottles have been acquired by the 

 Charles Macintosh & Co., Limited, of Manchester, England. 

 The Canadian patents have been acquired by Leeming, Miles 

 & Co., of Montreal. 



= The New York Commercial has an article on the comple- 

 tion of the Granby Consolidated Power and Smelting Co., at 

 Grand Forks, British Columbia. It says that the output of the 

 Granby mines now aggregates about 532,000 tons of ore, all of 

 which has been treated at the company's own smelting works. 

 This company, by the way, is controlled by Mr. S. H. C. Miner, 

 president of the Granby Rubber Co., at Granby, Quebec. 



= A dividend of i per cent, on the common stock of the 

 American Chicle Co. has been declared, payable November 10. 



= William T. Baird, for twenty-nine years connected with 

 the New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, and for sev- 

 eral years past treasurer of the company, will probably leave 

 that position to become connected in an important way with 

 the Rubber Trading Co. of New York, which, incorporated 

 last March to buy and sell crude rubber, has already made for 

 itself an important position in the rubber trade. 



= A new company in which two Akron men are leading 

 spirits is about to be organized to manufacture rubber dipped 

 goods at Mas? illon, Ohio. 



= The Chicago branch of the Empire Rubber Manufacturing 

 Co. (Trenton, N. J.) has been removed to No. 20 La Salle 

 Street, and Mr. Walter F. Taylor placed in charge. 



